SGC7901 and SMC7721 cells in vitroCHENG Sinan, MA Ni, XIAO Li, HE Huimin, YANG Qian,LI Jinmei, HOU Yifan, LIU Zheng, HOU Yingchun*
(School of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi′an 710119, Shaanxi, China)
Abstract:
To explore the relationship between FAK expression of cancer cell malignancy, FAK expression was inhibited in SGC7901 and SMC7721 cells.The cell malignancy was checked using MTT, wound healing, Transwell, flow cytometry, laser confocal microscope and electron microscope, and the associated gene expressions were detected using RT-PCR and western blot. The results indicated that down-regulation of FAK decreased the proliferation and motility of SGC7901 and SMMC7721 cells significantly, and the expressions of Src, Ras, Apex1 and Rgnef were markedly inhibited. By the results above, FAK enhances the malignancy of SGC7901 and SMMC7721 cells, and the expressions of Src, Ras, Apex1 and Rgnef. Our results help people to understand FAK roles as a signal player during the oncogenesis and tumor development under the regulation by complicated signal pathways.
KeyWords:
focal adhesion kinase; gastric cancer; hepatocarcinoma; cell malignancy; gene function