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Hepatitis B virus x protein induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition of hepatocellular carcinoma cells by regulating long non-coding RNA

Overview of attention for article published in Virology Journal, December 2017
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Title
Hepatitis B virus x protein induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition of hepatocellular carcinoma cells by regulating long non-coding RNA
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Virology Journal, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12985-017-0903-5
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Yinji Jin, Di Wu, Weiwei Yang, Mingjiao Weng, Yafei Li, Xuefei Wang, Xiao Zhang, Xiaoming Jin, Tianzhen Wang

Abstract

It has been widely accepted that hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx) plays an important role in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This study aimed to explore the function of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) induced by HBx. The association between HBx and EMT markers was detected using immunohistochemistry in HCC tissues. The effect of HBx on HCC EMT was assessed through morphological analysis, transwell assay, metastatic in vivo study and detection of EMT markers. LncRNA microarray was used to screen the differently expressed lncRNAs. Small interfering RNA and Western blot were used to analyse the function and mechanism of the locked lncRNA. HBx was negatively correlated with the epithelial marker E-cadherin but positively correlated with the mesenchymal marker vimentin in HCC tissues. HBx induced the mesenchymal phenotype and improved the metastatic ability of HCC cells. Meanwhile, HBx down-regulated E-cadherin, whereas it up-regulated vimentin. In HCC cells, HBx altered the expression of 2002 lncRNAs by more than 2-fold. One of them was ZEB2-AS1. Inhibition of ZEB2-AS1 can compensate for the EMT phenotype and reverse the expression of EMT markers regulated by HBx. Additionally, HBx affected the Wnt signalling pathway. HBx promotes HCC cell metastasis by inducing EMT, which is at least partly mediated by lncRNAs.

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Unknown 27 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 19%
Other 3 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Researcher 2 7%
Student > Master 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 11 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 37%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 15%
Mathematics 1 4%
Unspecified 1 4%
Unknown 11 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 December 2017.
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#14,307,981
of 23,012,811 outputs
Outputs from Virology Journal
#1,593
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#237,193
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Outputs of similar age from Virology Journal
#25
of 56 outputs
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