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ALPP 通过激活结直肠癌细胞中的 Wnt/β-连环蛋白信号通路诱导上皮间质转化

 

Authors Gao B, Li B , Hu J, Hu X , Su M

Received 9 June 2025

Accepted for publication 23 November 2025

Published 22 December 2025 Volume 2025:17 Pages 3227—3240

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/CMAR.S545808

Checked for plagiarism Yes

Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 2

Editor who approved publication: Professor Lu-Zhe Sun

Bo Gao, Baokun Li, Jitao Hu, Xuhua Hu, Mingming Su

Second Department Surgery, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, 050011, People’s Republic of China

Correspondence: Mingming Su, Second Department Surgery, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, 12 Jiankang Road, Changan District, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, 050000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-13673112014, Email 48601679@hebmu.edu.cn

Purpose: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a prevalent cancer worldwide, with metastasis significantly contributing to its high mortality and poor prognosis. This study focuses on the impact of Alkaline Phosphatase, Placental (ALPP) on epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in colorectal cancer cells and its role in the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway.
Patients and Methods: Differential ALPP expression was first interrogated in metastatic versus non-metastatic CRC samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA-CRC) cohort. Functional validation was subsequently performed in vitro with HT29 and HCT116 cell lines engineered for ALPP overexpression or CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockdown. Proliferation, migration and invasion were quantified by CCK-8, wound-healing and Transwell assays; EMT and Wnt/β-catenin signaling were assessed by Western blot.
Results: Bioinformatics analysis revealed significantly different ALPP expression between metastatic and non-metastatic patients. In vitro experiments further revealed that ALPP overexpression drives proliferation, invasion, migration and, consequently, metastasis of HT29 and HCT116 colorectal cancer cells, whereas ALPP knockdown abolishes these EMT-dependent effects. Increased ALPP expression resulted in increased levels of N-Cadherin, Vimentin, and Snail proteins, along with a decrease in E-cadherin protein expression, in contrast to findings following ALPP knockdown. Furthermore, ALPP overexpression was also associated with Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway activation.
Conclusion: ALPP was found to act as an oncogenic factor in colorectal cancer cell lines HT29 and HCT116, stimulating cell proliferation and facilitating EMT. Abnormal activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway was also found to be linked to increased ALPP expression.

Keywords: alkaline phosphatase, colorectal cancer cells, Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, cell invasion