Lili Xia: Women's Reproductive Health Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China. ORCID
Yongfang Yue: Women's Reproductive Health Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China.
Mingyue Li: Women's Reproductive Health Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China.
Ya-Nan Zhang: Women's Reproductive Health Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China.
Lu Zhao: Women's Reproductive Health Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China.
Weiguo Lu: Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China. lbwg@zju.edu.cn.
Xinyu Wang: Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China. wangxy@zju.edu.cn.
Xing Xie: Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China. xiex@zju.edu.cn.
The prognosis of advanced stage cervical cancer is poorer due to cancer invasion and metastasis. Exploring new factors and signalling pathways associated with invasiveness and metastasis would help to identify new therapeutic targets for advanced cervical cancer. We searched the cancer microarray database, Oncomine, and found elevated calponin 3 (CNN3) mRNA expression in cervical cancer tissues. QRT-PCR verified the increased CNN3 expression in cervical cancer compared to para-cancer tissues. Proliferation, migration and invasion assays showed that overexpressed CNN3 promoted the viability and motility of cervical cancer cells, the opposite was observed in CNN3-knockdown cells. In addition, xenografted tumours, established from SiHa cells with CNN3 knockdown, displayed decreased growth and metastasis in vivo. Furthermore, RNA-sequencing showed that ribosomal protein lateral stalk subunit P1 (RPLP1) was a potential downstream gene. Gene function experiments revealed that RPLP1 had the same biological effects as CNN3 did. Rescue experiments demonstrated that the phenotypes inhibited by CNN3 silencing were partly or completely reversed by RPLP1 overexpression. In conclusion, we verified that CNN3 acts as an oncogene to promote the viability and motility of cervical cancer cells in vitro and accelerate the growth and metastasis of xenografted tumours in vivo, by affecting RPLP1 expression.
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