Nanoformulated quinacrine regulates NECTIN-4 domain specific functions in cervical cancer stem cells.

Eur J Pharmacol

Cancer Biology Division, School of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University, Campus-11, Patia, Bhubaneswar- 751024, Odisha, India. Electronic address:

Published: September 2020

NECTIN-4 [a poliovirus receptor-related-4 (PVRL-4) encoded gene] has vital roles in cancer proliferation, metastasis and angiogenesis. It possesses three different domains and it is predicted that they have different roles in cancer but the structure-function relationship is still unknown and hence carrying out a detailed study to elucidate the domain-specific functions of NECTIN-4 in cancer is necessary. Using 5-Fluouracil-resistant cervical cancer stem cells (PEMT-5FU-R-MC) and different NECTIN-4 domain-specific constructs, different domains of NECTIN-4 were over-expressed in PEMT-5FU-R-MC cells. Biochemical assays like comet, γ-H2AX immunofluorescence, western blot, in vitro tube formation, gelatin zymography, in ovo CAM assay, etc. were used to delineate the function of each domain of NECTIN-4 in cancer and their regulation by nano-formulated quinacrine (NQC). Endo-domain (lacking extracellular region corresponding to aa 30-347) and ecto-domain (lacking signal peptide and cytoplasmic region corresponding to aa 1-29 and 348-509, respectively) of NECTIN-4 were largely overexpressed in nucleus and cytoplasm, respectively. Endo-domain translocates into nucleus by physically interacting with IMPORTIN-α2, activates the DNA repair and enhances cell growth, whereas ecto-domain specifically activates angiogenesis by modulating representative angiogenic markers, inducing in vitro tube formation and in ovo blood vessel formation. Full-length NECTIN-4 (aa 1-509) was overexpressed in both nucleus and cytoplasm and modulated both DNA repair and angiogenesis. NQC down-regulated these phenomena by modulating the endo-domain and ecto-domain of NECTIN-4. Thus, current study suggested that endo-domain of NECTIN-4 translocated into nucleus and increased the DNA repair and ecto-domain of NECTIN-4 enhanced the angiogenesis, whereas NQC inhibits these processes.

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