Antimicrobial peptide LL-37 participates in the transcriptional regulation of melanoma cells

作者:Munoz Mindy; Craske Madeleine; Severino Patricia; de Lima Thais Martins; Labhart Paul; Chammas Roger; Velasco Irineu Tadeu; Cesar Machado Marcel Cerqueira; Egan Brian; Nakaya Helder I; da Silva Fabiano Pinheiro*
来源:Journal of Cancer, 2016, 7(15): 2341-2345.
DOI:10.7150/jca.16947

摘要

Antimicrobial peptides are an ancient family of molecules that emerged millions of years ago and have been strongly conserved during the evolutionary process of living organisms. Recently, our group described that the human antimicrobial peptide LL-37 migrates to the nucleus, raising the possibility that LL-37 could directly modulate transcription under certain conditions. Here, we showed evidence that LL-37 binds to gene promoter regions, and LL-37 gene silencing changed the transcriptional program of melanoma A375 cells genes associated with histone, metabolism, cellular stress, ubiquitination and mitochondria.

  • 出版日期2016