19:10 - 21:00
Room: Ishikawa Ongakudō Interchange Hall
Poster Session
Niclosamide is a poptential therapeutics for familial adenomatosis polyposis by disrupting Axin-GSK3 interaction
Sung Yong Ahn1, 2, Nam Hee Kim1, Kyungro Lee3, 4, Yong Hoon Cha1, Ji Hye Yang1, So Young Cha1, Eunae Sandra Cho1, Yoonmi Lee1, Hyun Soo Cho4, Yoon Jeon4, Young Su Yuk1, Kyoung Tai No3, 4, Hyun Sil Kim1, Ho Lee5, Jiwon Choi3, Jong In Yook1
1Department of Oral Pathology, Oral Cancer Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), 2Department of Anatomy, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), 3Bioinformatics and molecular Design Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), 4Department of Systems Biology and Division of Life Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), 5Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, Research Institute, National Cancer Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)

The Wnt signaling is an important pathway in the process of development and oncogenesis. Over 90% of colon cancer patients have genetic alteration in Wnt genes such as β-catenin, APC resulting in activation of Wnt signal. While the canonical Wnt signaling has focused on β-catenin-mediated transcriptional regulation, recent studies suggested that Wnt pathway also plays an important role in EMT. The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is implicated in tumorigenesis and cancer progression, and canonical Wnt signaling tightly controls Snail, a key transcriptional repressor of EMT. While the suppression of canonical Wnt signaling molecules reverting Wnt and EMT have not been yet. Meanwhile, the antihelminthic niclosamide has been identified as a potent inhibitor of many oncogenic signaling pathways although its molecular targets have not yet been clearly identified. In this study, we showed that niclosamide directly targets Axin-GSK3 interaction, at least in part, resulting in suppression of Wnt/Snail-mediated EMT. In vitro and in vivo, disruption of Axin-GSK3 complex by niclosamide induced mesenchymal to epithelial reversion at nM concentrations, accompanied with suppression of the tumorigenic potential of colon cancer. Niclosamide treatment successfully attenuated Snail abundance while increasing E-cadherin abundance in xenograft tumor. Notably, oral administration of niclosamide significantly suppressed adenoma formation in an APC-Min (multiple intestinal neoplasia, APC△850) mice model, indicating that niclosamide is an effective therapeutic for familial adenomatosis polyposis (FAP) patients. In this study, we identified small molecule inhibitor for Axin-GSK3 interaction, resulting in attenuation of Wnt pathwy as well as reversion of EMT in colorectal cancer cells. In turn, Axin-GSK3 interaction is the novel therapeutic target of colon cancer, and revealed a repositioned therapeutics for FAP patients.


Reference:
Tu-P14-42
Session:
Poster Session 14 “Cytokines in cancer development and antitumor immune therapy”
Presenter/s:
Sung Yong Ahn
Presentation type:
Poster Presentation
Room:
Ishikawa Ongakudō Interchange Hall
Date:
Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Time:
19:10 - 21:00
Session times:
19:10 - 21:00