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Elevated CELSR3 expression is associated with hepatocarcinogenesis and poor prognosis

  • Authors:
    • Xiwu Ouyang
    • Zhiming Wang
    • Lei Yao
    • Gewen Zhang
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  • Published online on: May 22, 2020     https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2020.11671
  • Pages: 1083-1092
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Abstract

Cadherin EGF LAG seven‑pass G-type receptor 3 (CELSR3) has been reported to exhibit a cancer-specific pattern. The present study aimed to investigate the clinical value and functional role of CELSR3 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and determine the underlying molecular mechanism in patients with HCC. CELSR3 expression in tumor and paracancerous HCC tissues was obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas. Differential expression analysis was performed using the edgeR package. Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation between methylation and mRNA levels of CELSR3. Pathways affected by aberrant CELSR3 expression were identified through Gene Set Enrichment Analysis. The results demonstrated that CELSR3 was highly expressed in the early stage of cancer and was present throughout the entire cancer process, which suggested that CELSR3 may serve a key role in the carcinogenesis of HCC. In addition, upregulation of CELSR3 was associated with its methylation level; high CELSR3 expression indicated a shorter overall survival time. Multiple candidate genes were screened by integrating differentially expressed (DE) mRNAs and target genes of DE microRNAs (miRs). Subsequent pathway enrichment analysis demonstrated that the upregulated genes were predominantly enriched in the ‘Neuroactive ligand‑receptor interaction’ and ‘Cell cycle’ pathways, whereas the downregulated genes were primarily enriched in ‘Cytokine‑cytokine receptor interaction’ and ‘Metabolic pathways’. CELSR3 and its connected nodes and edges were initially removed from the miRNA‑mRNA regulatory network in order to prevent bias and compared with the network containing CELSR3 alone. The frequently dysregulated miRNAs were identified as miR‑181 family members, and the results suggested that miR‑181 and the Wnt/β‑catenin signaling pathway influenced CELSR3 expression.

Introduction

Liver cancer is the third most common cause of cancer-associated mortality in humans worldwide, with a 5-year mortality rate <30% in 2018 (1), and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver carcinoma (2,3). Hepatitis B virus (HBV), HCV, alcoholic and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis are the most frequent causes of chronic liver disease, which remain high risk factors of HCC (4). The diagnosis, treatment and 5-year survival rate (5–9%) of HCC has improved over the past three decades (5). Particularly, the 5-year survival rate has been reported increase to 69% following early diagnosis and curative resection (6). However, the lack of diagnostic markers for early detection means the tumor is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage, which prevents curative therapies, including surgical resection and liver transplantation (7). In addition, the underlying molecular mechanism involved in the development and progression of HCC is not yet fully understood, which allows HCC to continue inducing a devastating effect on human health. Thus, further studies on the molecular pathological investigation and therapeutic intervention with high efficacy are required.

The Cadherin EGF LAG seven-pass G-type (CELSR) family derives from the cadherin EGF LAG seven-pass G-type receptor and is classified as a special subgroup of adhesion G-protein-coupled receptor due to cadherin repeating at the far N-terminal (8). CELSR receptor 3 (CELSR3) contains nine cadherin domains, which act as homophilic binding regions, and seven EGF-like domains involved in receptor-ligand interactions and cell adhesion, and is considered to serve a key role in cell-cell contacts (9,10). Dysregulation of CELSR3 DNA methylation is associated with several types of cancer, including pancreatic, hepatic, bladder and renal carcinomas (1114). It has been reported that CELSR3 displays a cancer-specific pattern, and a 3.04-fold increase in its expression has been reported in tumor-associated stellate cells compared with inflammation-associated stellate cells (14).

These previous findings suggest that CELSR3 functions as an anticancer target in the aforementioned types of cancer. However, to the best of our knowledge, the clinicopathological significance and functional roles of upregulated CELSR3 in HCC have not yet been determined. Although CELSR3 has been demonstrated to act as an oncogene in several types of human cancer, previous studies have only focused on the dysregulation of its methylation and differential expression in cancer tissues (1517), whereas limited focus has been placed on its function in tumorigenesis. Thus, further studies are required to understand the high expression molecular mechanism of CELSR3 in tumors.

microRNAs (miRNA) are a class of small, evolutionarily conserved, single-stranded non-coding RNA molecules, which are ~22 nucleotides long and regulate gene expression by binding to the 3′-untranslated regions of target mRNAs (18,19). This results in silencing and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression (20,21). Dysregulation of miRNA has been associated with HCC progression, including evasion of cell apoptosis, irregular cell proliferation, angiogenesis, invasion and metastasis by targeting protein-coding genes (22,23).

The present study hypothesized that the upregulated CELSR3 expression may be partially due to upstream dysregulation of miRNAs, and therefore aimed to demonstrate the expression pattern of CELSR3 in HCC and determine its clinical significance, in order to improve the understanding of HCC and to provide a basis for future experimental and clinical research.

Materials and methods

Data collection

HCC-associated data from the liver hepatocellular carcinoma dataset (TCGA-LIHC) (24) were downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database (https://cancergenome.nih.gov), which included 370 HCC tissues (survival time information was available) and 48 normal adjacent liver tissues. A total of 346 tumor samples were selected based on the availability of HCC progression from stages I–IV.

Identification of differentially expressed genes (DEGs)

Genes with an average count number <10 were excluded from the study. Patients were divided into low- and high-expression groups based on the median CELSR3 expression value of 7.32. ‘EdgeR’ v3.28.1 package (25) was used to identify DEGs between the two groups. DEGs were selected based on the following criteria: |log2[fold change (FC)]|>1, P<0.05 and false discovery rate (FDR)<0.05.

Identification of differentially expressed miRNAs (DEMs)

The online GEO2R tool (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/geo2r) was used within the R software v3.4.3 package (https://www.r-project.org/) to identify DEMs between HCC tissues and normal adjacent tissues. miRNAs with an average count number <10 were excluded from the study. Samples were divided into two groups based on the median CELSR3 mRNA level of 7.32 as follows: High expression (>7.32) or low expression (<7.32). The ‘EdgeR’ package was used to identify DEMs between the two groups. DEMs were selected based on the following criteria: |log2(FC)|>1 and FDR<0.05. Heatmaps illustrating the expression levels of DEMs in samples were plotted using the ‘pheatmap’ R Bioconductor package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pheatmap). Volcano plots showing the differential expression status were generated using R v3.4.3 platform (https://www.r-project.org/).

Identifying target genes by inverse correlation and target prediction

Pearson's correlation analysis was applied to the DEMs and DEGs. Since miRNAs act as negative regulators (26), upregulated miRNAs resulted in downregulated target mRNAs, and vice versa. The prediction criterion was that the target gene must be identified in >2 of the following prediction databases: miRDB (27), miRTarBase (28) and TargetScan (29). Subsequently, target genes were combined with DEGs to select DEM-differentially expressed target gene pairs. Pearson's correlation analysis was used for DEM-differentially expressed target gene pairs, and pairs with r≤-0.4 were used to construct the miRNA-mRNA negative regulatory network using Cytoscape software v3.2.0 (https://cytoscape.org/) (30).

Copy number variation (CNV) and methylation analysis

The present study analyzed the association between CELSR3 expression and CNVs, as well as the methylation levels in HCC samples. Copy numbers ≤-1 or ≥1 confirmed the presence of CNV. Associations were estimated by Pearson correlation between CNV/methylation levels and CELSR3 mRNA level.

Gene set enrichment analysis

Gene set enrichment analysis of miRNA target genes was performed using KOBAS online tool v2.0 (http://kobas.cbi.pku.edu.cn/) (31), followed by Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analysis (https://www.genome.jp/kegg/). P<0.05 was considered to indicate significantly enriched pathways.

Cell culture

SK-Hep-1 cells were purchased from Nanjing KeyGen Biotech Co., Ltd. and incubated in MEM supplemented with 10% FBS (Gibco, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.), at 37°C in 5% CO2. In addition, 0.25% EDTA-trypsin and PBS were purchased from Gibco (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) and used for cell dissociation and washes, respectively.

Cell transfection

Specific siRNA oligonucleotides of β-catenin and miR-181 inhibitor were designed by Qiagen GmbH. The oligonucleotide sequences were as follows: β-catenin, 5′-GGATGTGGATACCTCCCAAGT-3′; β-catenin siNC, 5′-UUCUCCGAACGUGUCACGUTT-3′; miR-181 inhibitor, 5′-ACUCACCGACAGCGUUGAAUGUU-3′; and NC inhibitor 5′-UUCUCCGAACGUGUCACGUTT-3′. SK-Hep-1 cells were seeded into 6-well plates at 70–90% confluence and transfected with Lipofectamine® 3000 (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) and siRNA (ratio, 1:1). Transfected cells were harvested after 72 h of transfection for RNA extraction. The siRNA concentration was 75 pmol/well.

Reverse transcription-quantitative (RT-q)PCR

Total RNA was extracted from SK-Hep-1 cells using the miRNeasy Mini kit (Qiagen GmbH) according to the manufacturer's protocol. Total RNA was measured using a NanoDrop 2000 spectrophotometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) and reverse-transcribed into cDNA using the miScript II RT kit (Qiagen GmbH). The generated cDNA was used as a template for quantification of mRNA and miRNA, respectively. The following primer sequences were used for qPCR: miR-181 forward, 5′-AACATTCAACGCTGTCGGTGAGT-3′ and reverse, 5′-CAGTGCAGGGTCCGAGGT-3′; U6 forward, 5′-CTCGCTTCGGCAGCACA-3′ and reverse, 5′-AACGCTTCACGAATTTGCGT-3′; β-catenin forward, 5′-GCCACAAGATTACAAGAAACG-3′ and reverse, 5′-ATCAACTGGATAGTCAGCACC-3′; CELSR3 forward, 5′-CTACAGACAGCGAATCGGAGCA-3′ and reverse, 5′-CCACGCACATTGGACTTGAGG-3′; and β-actin forward, 5′-GACGTGGACATCCGCAAAGAC-3′ and reverse, 5′-CTGCTGGAAGGTGGACAGTGAG-3′. qPCR amplification was performed using the SYBR Premix Ex Taq kit (Roche Diagnostics), according to the manufacturer's protocol, using the ABI 7500 Sequence Detection system (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). The following thermocycling conditions were used for qPCR of mRNA: 95°C for 1 min, followed by 40 cycles of 95°C for 10 sec and 60°C for 30 sec. The following thermocycling conditions were used for qPCR of miRNA: 95°C for 10 min, followed by 40 cycles of 94°C for 10 sec, 55°C for 30 sec, and 70°C for 30 sec. Relative mRNAs and miRNAs expression levels were measured using the 2−ΔΔCq method (32) and normalized to the internal reference genes β-actin and RUN6, respectively. All experiments were performed in triplicate.

Statistical analysis

Data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation (n=3). All statistical analyses were performed using R v3.4.3 (https://www.r-project.org/). Univariate analysis was performed using the χ2 test to assess the association between CELSR3 expression and clinicopathological characteristics in patients with HCC. The difference in CELSR3 expression between cancer tissues and adjacent normal tissues was analyzed using a paired two-sided Student's t-test. ANOVA followed by LSD post hoc test were also used to compare CELSR3 expression levels among multiple groups with distinct gene copy numbers. The prognostic value of CELSR3 in HCC was assessed using the Kaplan-Meier online database (http://kmplot.com/analysis). Pearson's correlation coefficient analysis was performed using expression values of DEGs and the methylation levels in HCC data obtained from TCGA in order to construct the miRNA-mRNA negative regulatory network. Significant differences among RT-qPCR data were assessed using one-way ANOVA with Tukey's post hoc analysis. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

CELSR3 is associated with clinicopathological characteristics in patients with HCC

HCC samples were divided into two groups, with the median CELSR3 mRNA levels used as the threshold. The χ2 test and two-sided Student's t-test were used to determine whether age, sex, pathological stage and OS status were associated with CELSR3 expression, the results of which are presented in Table I. The results demonstrated that age was significantly associated with CELSR3 expression, as high CELSR3 expression was observed in elderly patients (P=0.020). In addition, CELSR3 was identified as a clinical stage-associated gene (P=0.011). However, univariate analysis revealed that CELSR3 expression was not associated with sex (P=0.406) or OS status (P=0.159) (data not shown).

Table I.

Association between CELSR3 expression and the demographic and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with HCC.

Table I.

Association between CELSR3 expression and the demographic and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with HCC.

CELSR3 expression

CharacteristicHigh, n=209Low, n=209χ2P-value
Age, mean ± SD63.22±12.7261.09±14.64 0.020a
Sex 0.68980.406
  Female6574
  Male144135
Pathologic stage 6.40340.011a
  I–II137121
  III–V6127
  NA1161
Overall survival status 1.98000.159
  Dead8873
  Alive121136

a P<0.05. NA, not available.

CELSR3 expression is high in HCC

Information obtained from TCGA data portal on age, sex and clinical stage demonstrated higher CELSR3 expression in HCC tissues compared with in normal liver tissues (P<0.001; Fig. 1). Additionally, CELSR3 expression was significantly elevated in HBV- (P=0.038) or HCV-infected (P=0.007) HCC samples compared with those without any infections (Fig. S1). Overall, the present results suggested that CELSR3 may serve a key role in the carcinogenesis of HCC.

Association between CNV/methylation and CELSR3 mRNA level

HCC samples exhibited decreased copy numbers through homozygous deletions, whereas CELSR3 expression did not decrease with copy number loss (P=0.089; Fig. 2B). In addition, CELSR3 expression was poorly negatively correlated with the methylation level of CELSR3 based on Pearson's correlation coefficient (P=0.059; r=−0.095; Fig. 2A).

High CELSR3 expression is associated with poor HCC prognosis

HCC samples were divided into low and high expression groups, with the median CELSR3 mRNA levels set as the threshold. A significantly shorter overall survival time was observed in patients with high CELSR3 expression compared with those in the low CELSR3 expression group (P=0.024; Fig. 3A). No significant effect on OS was demonstrated between CELSR3 expression and sex (P=0.090; Fig. 3B), indicating that CELSR3 affected HCC prognosis independently of sex.

Analysis of DEGs and DEMs

miRNA expression in HCC samples with low CELSR3 expression was compared with that in samples with high CELSR3 expression, which identified 5 downregulated and 74 upregulated miRNAs. A heatmap and volcano plot of the DEMs were generated using the R v3.4.3 platform (Fig. 4A). The aforementioned downregulated and upregulated miRNAs corresponded to 3,602 and 17,514 target genes, respectively. The same analysis procedure was applied for the DEGs, which identified 625 downregulated and 2,077 upregulated genes. A heatmap and volcano plot of the DEGs were generated (Fig. 4B). KEGG pathway analysis was subsequently performed on 175 upregulated and 411 downregulated common genes between the DEGs and the target genes of DEMs, and the top 20 pathways with the highest enrichment were selected for plotting (Fig. 5A and B).

In order to further investigate the molecular mechanisms, five target genes of the downregulated miRNAs were paired with the upregulated genes, and 74 target genes of the upregulated miRNAs were paired with the downregulated genes to identify overlapping genes. Subsequently, a miRNA-mRNA regulatory network was constructed based on the regulatory association between miRNAs and mRNAs. In order to prevent bias, CELSR3 and its connected nodes and edges were initially removed from the miRNA-mRNA regulatory network (Fig. 6A). This was subsequently compared with the miRNA-mRNA regulatory network containing CELSR3 alone (Fig. 6B), which identified miR-181 family members, suggesting that miR-181 downregulated CELSR3 gene expression in HCC.

Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway upregulates CELSR3 expression by downregulating miRNA-181 expression

The present study performed RT-qPCR in SK-Hep-1 cells transfected with β-catenin siRNA or miR-181 inhibitor to determine the associations between the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, miR-181 and CELSR3 expression in HCC progression. β-catenin expression was significantly decreased following transfection with β-catenin siRNA (Fig. 7A). In addition, β-catenin knockdown significantly decreased miR-181 expression (Fig. 7B), whereas CELSR3 expression was significantly upregulated following transfection with β-catenin siRNA compared with the control siRNA group (Fig. 7C). miR-181 expression significantly decreased following transfection with miR-181 inhibitor (Fig. 7D). Notably, miR-181 inhibition did not affect β-catenin expression (Fig. 7E), whereas CELSR3 expression was significantly upregulated following transfection with miR-181 inhibitor compared with the control group (Fig. 7F). Overall, these results demonstrated that inhibiting the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway upregulated CELSR3 expression by downregulating miR-181 expression.

Discussion

CELSR3 has been reported to display a cancer-specific pattern (15,16). A 3.04-fold increase in CALSR3 expression has been reported in tumor-associated stellate cells compared with inflammation-associated stellate cells (14). However, the clinicopathological significance and functional role of CELSR3 upregulation in HCC has not yet been fully determined. The present study aimed to investigate the biological function of CELSR3 and determine its underlying molecular mechanism in HCC based on information obtained from TCGA database. The results demonstrated that CELSR3 was highly expressed in the early stages of cancer and throughout the cancer process. CNVs have been used to determine prognosis and subsequent treatment strategies for different types of cancer (33). Methylation of DNA cytosine residues at the carbon 5 position in cytosine-guanine dinucleotides is a common epigenetic mechanism in eukaryotic DNA, which serves a key role in regulating gene activities (34,35). Furthermore, CELSR3 expression was not correlated with the DNA methylation level of HCC. High CELSR3 expression was predictive of poor overall survival time in patients with liver cancer. Taken together, these results suggested that CELSR3 may serve a key role in HCC tumorigenesis and prognosis, which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been reported in previous studies.

In the present study, multiple candidate genes were screened following integration of DEGs and target genes of DEMs, which identified 175 upregulated and 411 downregulated genes. Subsequent pathway enrichment analysis demonstrated that the upregulated genes were predominantly enriched in ‘Neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction’ and ‘Cell cycle’, whereas the downregulated genes were primarily enriched in pathways of ‘Cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction’ and ‘Metabolic pathways’. Neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction may be associated with HCC, since genes expressed in human liver were previously reported to be involved in neuroactive ligand receptor interaction pathways (36). In addition, a previous study has demonstrated that neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction is observed in each stage of HCC (37). Thus, this pathway appears to serve a key role in HCC progression. C-kit is a receptor of the stem cell factor, the activation of which is considered crucial for cell proliferation and migration (38). Of note, the activation of c-kit has been reported to attribute to the cell proliferation and cirrhosis of HCC (39).

miRNA and mRNA expression profiling analyses were performed in the present study using the data obtained from TCGA. A total of five target genes of the downregulated miRNAs were paired with the upregulated genes, and 74 target genes of the upregulated miRNA were paired with the downregulated genes to identify overlapping genes. This was combined with the integration analysis between DEMs and DEGs to construct a miRNA-mRNA regulatory network. In order to prevent bias, CELSR3, along with its connected nodes and edges were initially removed from the miRNA-mRNA regulatory network. This was subsequently compared with the miRNA-mRNA regulatory network containing CELSR3 alone, which identified miR-181 family members as the most common dysregulated miRNAs. The results of the present study identified a novel association between miR-181 and CELSR3 gene expression in HCC. The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway has been demonstrated to directly regulate miR-181 expression in HCC (40).

Although an integrated in silico analysis was performed and a potential miRNA-mRNA regulatory network was constructed, a number of limitations exist in the present study. For example, implementing the median CELSR3 mRNA expression levels as the cut-off values to divide high- and low-risk patients is an arbitrary method, which makes it difficult to set a threshold for prognostic marker detection (4143). Furthermore, the sample size of TCGA dataset included in the present study was too small to demonstrate effective outcomes; thus, future studies will aim to increase the patient sample size to validate the respective findings.

In conclusion, the results of the present study demonstrated that aberrant CELSR3 expression served an important role in the pathogenesis and prognosis of HCC. In addition, CELSR3 expression was not correlated with the DNA methylation level of HCC. Notably, a novel association was identified between miR-181 and CELSR3 mRNA expression in HCC, suggesting that the miR-181-CELSR3 pair may regulate HCC progression. Upregulation of CELSR3 may provide a potential therapeutic target for HCC, since the protein encoded by this gene is located at the plasma membrane and has intriguing signaling capabilities (44). Based on their known biological functions, it is worth further investigating the association between miR-181 and CELSR3 expression, their molecular mechanism and therapeutic value.

Supplementary Material

Supporting Data

Acknowledgements

Not applicable.

Funding

The present study was funded by the Science Foundation of the Hunan Province, Key Development Program (grant no. 2017SK2054).

Availability of data and materials

The datasets used and/or analyzed during the present study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. The TCGA-LIHC dataset is available from TCGA database (https://cancergenome.nih.gov).

Authors' contributions

ZW and XO contributed to the design of the study, wrote the manuscript and analysed the data. ZW revised the manuscript. GZ acquired, analysed and interpreted the data. LY made substantial contributions to the conception and design of the present study and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

Not applicable.

Patient consent for publication

Not applicable.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Ouyang X, Wang Z, Yao L and Zhang G: Elevated CELSR3 expression is associated with hepatocarcinogenesis and poor prognosis. Oncol Lett 20: 1083-1092, 2020
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Ouyang, X., Wang, Z., Yao, L., & Zhang, G. (2020). Elevated CELSR3 expression is associated with hepatocarcinogenesis and poor prognosis. Oncology Letters, 20, 1083-1092. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2020.11671
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Ouyang, X., Wang, Z., Yao, L., Zhang, G."Elevated CELSR3 expression is associated with hepatocarcinogenesis and poor prognosis". Oncology Letters 20.2 (2020): 1083-1092.
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Ouyang, X., Wang, Z., Yao, L., Zhang, G."Elevated CELSR3 expression is associated with hepatocarcinogenesis and poor prognosis". Oncology Letters 20, no. 2 (2020): 1083-1092. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2020.11671