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Glioma cells enhance angiogenesis and inhibit endothelial cell apoptosis through the release of exosomes that contain long non-coding RNA CCAT2

  • Authors:
    • Hai-Li Lang
    • Guo-Wen Hu
    • Bo Zhang
    • Wei Kuang
    • Yong Chen
    • Lei Wu
    • Guo-Hai Xu
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  • Published online on: June 22, 2017     https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2017.5742
  • Pages: 785-798
  • Copyright: © Lang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

Angiogenesis is a key event in the progression of gliomas. Exosomes, as signaling extracellular organelles, modulate the tumor microenvironment and promote angiogenesis and tumor progression. We previously demonstrated that long intergenic non-coding RNA CCAT2 (linc-CCAT2) was overexpressed in glioma tissues and functioned to promote glioma progression. Therefore, this study aimed to explore an underlying mechanism of glioma cell-affected angiogenesis. First, qRT-PCR was used to determine the expression level of linc-CCAT2 in 4 glioma cell lines and 293T cells, and the results revealed that the U87-MG cells exhibited the highest expression level. Subsequently, the pro-angiogenesis function of exosomes that were derived from negative control shRNA-treated U87-MG cells (ncU87-Exo) and linc-CCAT2 shRNA-treated U87-MG cells (shU87-Exo) was evaluated in vitro and in vivo. We found that ncU87-Exo, which was enriched in linc-CCAT2, could be taken up by HUVECs. ncU87-Exo improved the linc-CCAT2 expression level in HUVECs and more strongly promoted HUVEC migration, proliferation, tubular-like structure formation in vitro and arteriole formation in vivo as well as inhibited HUVEC apoptosis induced by hypoxia. Further mechanistic studies revealed that ncU87-Exo could upregulate VEGFA and TGFβ expression in HUVECs as well as promote Bcl-2 expression and inhibit Bax and caspase-3 expression. Finally, gain-/loss-of-function studies revealed that the overexpression of linc-CCAT2 in HUVECs activated VEGFA and TGFβ, promoted angiogenesis, promoted Bcl-2 expression and inhibited Bax and caspase-3 expression, thus decreasing apoptosis. Downregulation of linc-CCAT2 revealed the opposite effect. Thus, our results revealed a new exosome‑mediated mechanism by which glioma cells could promote angiogenesis through the transfer of linc-CCAT2 by exosomes to endothelial cells. Moreover, we suggest that exosomes and linc-CCAT2 are putative therapeutic targets in glioma.
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Lang H, Hu G, Zhang B, Kuang W, Chen Y, Wu L and Xu G: Glioma cells enhance angiogenesis and inhibit endothelial cell apoptosis through the release of exosomes that contain long non-coding RNA CCAT2. Oncol Rep 38: 785-798, 2017.
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Lang, H., Hu, G., Zhang, B., Kuang, W., Chen, Y., Wu, L., & Xu, G. (2017). Glioma cells enhance angiogenesis and inhibit endothelial cell apoptosis through the release of exosomes that contain long non-coding RNA CCAT2. Oncology Reports, 38, 785-798. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2017.5742
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Lang, H., Hu, G., Zhang, B., Kuang, W., Chen, Y., Wu, L., Xu, G."Glioma cells enhance angiogenesis and inhibit endothelial cell apoptosis through the release of exosomes that contain long non-coding RNA CCAT2". Oncology Reports 38.2 (2017): 785-798.
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Lang, H., Hu, G., Zhang, B., Kuang, W., Chen, Y., Wu, L., Xu, G."Glioma cells enhance angiogenesis and inhibit endothelial cell apoptosis through the release of exosomes that contain long non-coding RNA CCAT2". Oncology Reports 38, no. 2 (2017): 785-798. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2017.5742