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HMGB1 knockdown increases MM cell vulnerability by regulating autophagy and DNA damage repair
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BACKGROUND: With the development of novel therapeutic agents, the survival of multiple myeloma (MM) patients has much improved. However, the disease is incurable due to drug resistance. Previous studies have found that high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) is involved in inflammation, angiogenesis, DNA damage repair, and cancer invasion, progression, metastasis and drug resistance and that high HMGB1 expression is associated with poor MM prognosis, yet the role and mechanism of HMGB1 in MM remains unclear. METHODS: Through gene expression and Oncomine database analyses, we found that HMGB1 is associated with a poor prognosis in MM patients. RNA interference together with gene array analysis, cell proliferation and apoptosis assays, autophagy detection assays, western blotting, and in vivo xenograft models were employed to evaluate the effect of HMGB1 and the mechanism involved in MM drug resistance. RESULTS: MM cell lines and primary MM samples were found to express high levels of HMGB1, which was negatively associated with the 3-year survival of MM patients. HMGB1 knockdown in MM cells enhanced the inhibitory effect of chemotherapy with dexamethasone (Dex) via apoptosis induction. Furthermore, downregulation of HMGB1 activated the mTOR pathway, inhibited autophagy and increased DNA damage induced by Dex by modulating expression of related genes. In vivo, xenograft models showed that after Dex treatment, the tumor burden of HMGB1-knockdown mice was decreased compared with that of control mice. CONCLUSIONS: Our research shows that HMGB1 participates in autophagy and DNA damage repair and that downregulation of HMGB1 enhances the sensitivity of MM cells to Dex, suggesting that HMGB1 may serve as a target for MM treatment.
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“Bortezomib-resistant MM cells also exhibited elevated HMGB1 expression, and MM cells responded better to treatment in vivo when HMGB1 levels were lowered [250].”
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“Bortezomib-resistant MM cells also exhibited elevated HMGB1 expression, and MM cells responded better to treatment in vivo when HMGB1 levels were lowered [250].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Guo, X., He, D., Zhang, E., Chen, J., Chen, Q., Li, Y., Yang, L., Yang, Y., Zhao, Y., Wang, G., He, J., & Cai, Z.
- Affiliations
- First Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University (CN)
- Quzhou City People's Hospital (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Cai, Zhen
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research
- Published
- 2018-08-29
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 205-205
- ISSN
- 0392-9078 (ISSN-L)
- 1756-9966
- PMC
- PMC6114506
- OpenAlex
- W2888919844
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2025: 6 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5
- FWCI
- 2.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (81201868, 81471532, 31311380)
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20120101120100)
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LY16H080001)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Clinical Biochemistry › Advanced Glycation End Products research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Keywords
- HMGB1, multiple myeloma, autophagy, DNA repair, dexamethasone, drug resistance, mTOR signaling, apoptosis, prognosis, therapeutic target
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Autophagy, Dexamethasone, DNA Damage, DNA Repair, Humans, Multiple Myeloma, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Apoptosis, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays, HMGB1 Protein, RNA, Small Interfering, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Proliferation, Mice
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