Altered expression of breast cancer metastasis suppressor 1 (BRMS1), is a tumor suppressor, which is found in many types of cancers, including gastric cancer (GC), but the mechanism by which BRMS1 inhibits invasion and metastasis in GC is unknown.
The overexpression of BRMS1L inhibits EOC cell migration and invasion, and this inhibition is correlated to the inactivation of EMT and Wnt/β-catenin signalling in vitro.
Functional analysis showed that ectopic expression of BRMS1L inhibited cancer cell invasion and migration; knockdown of BRMS1L by siRNA induced the opposite effect.
Specifically, the up‑ and downregulated genes included CCNE2, associated with DNA damage; ID3, associated with cell survival and 146 genes with a >2- to 3-fold change including the TP53INP1 gene, associated with DNA damage; CDC6, CDCA5, TAKMIP2, CDK14, CDK5, CDCA76, CDC25A, CDC5L and SKP2, associated with cell cycle; the CARD6, ID1 and ID2 genes, associated with cell survival and the BRMS1L, associated with cell migration and invasion.
These genes are known to be involved in the regulation of important cancer-related cellular events, such as cell growth regulation and apoptosis (nm23-H1, TIMP-1, TIMP-2, TIMP-3, TIMP-4, TXNIP and CRSP-3), cell-cell communication (BRMS-1), invasion (CRMP-1) and cell adhesion (E-Cad and KiSS1).