Abstract

Considering the role of glycolysis inhibition as a novel therapeutic strategy for cancer, including breast cancer (BC), we wondered whether glycolysis could affect BC progression by regulating transmembrane O-mannosyltransferase-targeting cadherins 3 (TMTC3). Following the intervention, lactic acid production in BC cells was monitored, and viability, proliferation, and apoptosis assays were performed. The expressions of TMTC3 and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress- and apoptosis-related factors Caspase-12, C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP), glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78), B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2), and Bcl-2 associated X (Bax) were quantified. TMTC3 was lowly expressed in BC tissue and cell. The promotion of glycolysis via glucose represses TMTC3 expression and apoptosis yet enhances lactic acid production and growth of BC cell, along with promoted levels of Caspase-12, CHOP, GRP78, and Bcl-2 yet repressed level of Bax, while the contrary results were evidenced after 2-deoxyglycouse intervention. Overexpressed TMTC3 additionally abrogated the effects of glycolysis on increasing the viability and proliferation yet inhibiting the apoptosis of BC cells, with the increased expressions of Caspase-12, CHOP, and GRP78, and Bcl-2 yet decreased level of Bax. Collectively, inhibiting glycolysis restrained the growth and attenuated the ER stress of BC cell by regulating TMTC3.

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