The effect of TWIST silencing in metastatic chordoma cells

Authors

ESRA AYDEMİR
EZGİ KAŞIKCI
BURCU COŞKUNÇELEBİ
ÖMER FARUK BAYRAK
FİKRETTİN ŞAHİN

Abstract

Chordoma is a slowly growing and invasive bone tumor with a tendency to metastasize locally in advanced stages. It is essential to discover new therapeutics that target genes involved in the metastasis of chordoma. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) might robustly influence the metastasis of a tumor bulk. To our knowledge, this is the first time to show that EMT might have a role in chordoma metastasis. In this study, we aim to investigate the possible role of Twist, a key player transcription factor of EMT, in chordoma metastasis. The TWIST gene was silenced by short hairpins in chordoma cell line MUG-Chor1 and effects on metastasis were investigated by wound healing/gap closure and invasion assays. Twist-silenced MUG-Chor1 cells were found to be less migratory and less invasive when compared to the negative control. This study indicates that Twist might have a role in metastatic chordoma cells.

DOI

10.3906/biy-1801-17

Keywords

Cancer, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, chordoma, twist

First Page

279

Last Page

285

Recommended Citation

AYDEMİR, ESRA; KAŞIKCI, EZGİ; COŞKUNÇELEBİ, BURCU; BAYRAK, ÖMER FARUK; and ŞAHİN, FİKRETTİN (2018) "The effect of TWIST silencing in metastatic chordoma cells," Turkish Journal of Biology: Vol. 42: No. 4, Article 3. https://doi.org/10.3906/biy-1801-17
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/biology/vol42/iss4/3