Carcinogenesis, Teratogenesis & Mutagenesis ›› 2017, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (5): 329-334,339.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-616x.2017.05.002

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Effect and mechanism of lentivirus-mediated silencing of TPX2 gene expression on proliferation, migration and cell cycle of HeLa cells

SONG Shufang, CHANG Haiping, YANG Cairong, ZHAO Rongwei, ZHANG Long, REN Jie, ZHENG Jian   

  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical College, Hohhot 010050, Mongolia, China
  • Received:2017-05-31 Revised:2017-08-16 Online:2017-09-30 Published:2017-09-30

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect and mechanism of silencing of TPX2 gene expression by lentivirus on cell proliferation,migration and cell cycle in human cervical cancer HeLa cells. METHODS: Four lentivirus expression vectors carrying TPX2-shRNA1/2/3/4 which target TPX2 gene (named as LV-TPX2-shRNA-1/2/3/4) were constructed,while vector TPX2-NC-shRNA was used as the negative control. The five plasmids were separately transfected into 293T cells to prepare the recombinant lentivirus. The recombinant lentivirus carrying TPX2-shRNA1/2/3/4 and TPX2-NC-shRNA were infected into HeLa cells,respectively. Then,expression levels of TPX2 mRNA and protein in HeLa cells were determined by real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR and Western blotting,respectively. The effect of TPX2 gene silencing on the proliferation of HeLa cells was detected using the CCK-8 method. Cell migration and cell-cycle distribution were detected by transwell migration experiment and flow cytometry,respectively,in each group of HeLa cells. Changes of Ki-67,cyclin B2,P53 and Aurora-A expressions were detected by Western blotting. RESULTS: Compared with the negative control group,expressions of TPX2 mRNA and protein in HeLa cells were significantly inhibited by LV-TPX2-shRNA,especially LV-TPX2-shRNA-1 (P < 0.01). Subsequently,LV-TPX2-shRNA-1 was selected for follow-up experiments. Silencing TPX2 gene expression reduced the proliferation and migration(P < 0.05),increased the percentage of G2 and S phase cell in the cell cycle(P < 0.05),up-regulated the expression of P53,and down-regulated the expression of Ki-67,cyclin B2 and Aurora-A in HeLa cells (all P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Our results show that silencing TPX2 gene expression reduced the proliferation and migration in HeLa cells,which may be related to changes in cell cycle distribution,up-regulating the expression of P53,and down-regulate the expression of Ki-67,cyclin B2 and Aurora-A in HeLa cells.

Key words: cervical cancer, TPX2 gene, lentivirus, cell proliferation, cell cycle

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