Pkr And Jagged1 Associated With Lymph Node Metastasis In Lung Cancer

In the current study, we analyzed the association between lymph node metastasis and over 50 biomarkers in 319 NSCLC patients. We observed that tumor location and the protein expressions of Jagged1 and RNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR) have significantly association with the lymph node metastasis. We further investigated the mechanism of interaction between Jagged1 and PKR, and demonstrated that induction of PKR promotes Jagged1 protein degradation through proteasome system in lung cancer cells. We also found that combination of Jagged1 with PKR improved prognostic value in all stages NSCLC patients. However, combination of Jagged1 with PKR did not improve lymph node metastatic value. Taken together, our data suggest that PKR and Jagged1 are independent markers for predicting lymph node metastasis, and PKR may reduce lymph node metastasis partly by promote Jagged1 proteins degradation in NSCLC patients. Citation Format: Apar Pataer, Chuncheng Hao, Arlene M. Correa, Annikka Weissferdt, Carmen Behrens, Ignacio I. Wistuba, Stephen G. Swisher. PKR and Jagged1 associated with lymph node metastasis in lung cancer. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2016 Apr 16-20; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2016;76(14 Suppl):Abstract nr 2261.