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. 2021 Jan 19;22(2):968. doi: 10.3390/ijms22020968

Table 1.

Jumonji domain-containing protein 3 demethylase regulation in liver, ovarian, and gastric cancers a.

Types of Cancer Up/Down Regulation How? Oncogene/
Tumor
Suppressor
References
Liver Upregulated + EMT
+ Migration
+ Invasion
via slug demethylation
Oncogene [99]
Downregulated by miR-941 in hepato carcinoma cell lines − EMT
− Invasion
− Migration
− Proliferation
Tumor Suppressor [100]
Ovarian - + Cell death
+ Self-renewal
+ Tumor initiation
Oncogene [101]
Upregulated + EMT
+ Migration
+ Invasion
+ Proliferation
+ Metastatic Capacities
via TGF-β1 expression
Oncogene [102]
Upregulated in drug resistant ovarian cancer cells, positively correlated with HER2 expression + HER2 expression Oncogene [103]
Gastric Upregulated − Survival
+ Proliferation
Oncogene [104]
- + p15/p16 when associated with Long noncoding RNAs (ARHGAP27P1) Tumor
suppressor
[105]
Glioblastoma Upregulated + Tumor growth
+ Proliferation
− Apoptosis
+ Migration
+ Invasion
+ EMT (SNAI1 and fibronectin and N-cadherins by regulating CXCL12)
Oncogene [39,40,41,42,43]
+ P53
− Neurosphere formation
− Proliferation
Tumor
suppressor
[46,47,49]
Medulloblastoma Upregulated + Proliferation (+ shh signaling) Oncogene [51]
Downregulated + DNA repair
(+ topoIIβ)
Tumor
suppressor
[52]
Neuroblastoma - + Differentiation
(− MYCN)
+ Apoptosis (p53, PUMA)
+ Cell death (+ reticulo-endoplasmic stress)
Tumor
suppressor
[53,54]
Prostate cancer Upregulated
(Differential expression according to AR status and aggressiveness)
+ Proliferation
+ Senescence
Oncogene [61,66]
− Proliferation
+ DNA repair (+ MGMT)
Tumor
suppressor
[55,57,59,62,65]
T-ALL Upregulated + NOTCH1 target genes
+ Tumor growth
+ AP-1
Oncogene [67,68,69,70]
AML - + Differentiation
+ Cell cycle arrest
+ Cell death
(+ C/EBPβ and RIPK3)
Tumor
suppressor
[71,72]
Upregulated + Proliferation
+ Disease progression
+ HOX
cAMP/PKA
Oncogene [73,74,75]
HV Upregulated JMJD3 activated by LMP1
+ NOTCH2NL
Oncogene [76]
DLBCL Upregulated + Survival (BCR, BCL6, IRF4-NF-kB, BCL2)− Apoptosis (XIAP, MCL1) Oncogene [77,78,79]
ALCL - + p16INK4a/Rb pathway Tumor
suppressor
[80]
- + Proliferation (+ EpCam)
+ Tumor growth
+Migration
(NOTCH1/JMJD3 → +)
Oncogene [85,86]
Colorectal cancer Downregulated JMJD3 activated by Vitamin D active metabolite
− EMT (− SNAI1, − ZEB1, + cell adhesion genes)
− Proliferation
+ Apoptosis
+ P15INK4B
+ Survival (+CXCL9, CXCL10)
Tumor
suppressor
[81,82,83,84]
Breast cancer - − Survival (+ BCL2)
+ Proliferation
+ Pluripotency (Nanog, Sox, Oct4)
+ Tumor growth
+ EMT (JMJD3 activated by TGFβ → + SNAI1)
Oncogene [88,90,91,93]
- − Pluripotency (− Oct4)− Stem-like properties
− EMT (+DICER → − miR-200)
Tumor
suppressor
[89,92,94]
Lung cancer Upregulated + Cell cycle (− p21)
+ EMT (Migration)
+ Metastasis
− Survival
Oncogene [95,96,97,98]

a EMT: Epithelial-mesenchymal transition; CXCL12: C-X-C motif chemokine 12; topoIIβ: Topoisomerase iiβ; SNAI1: Snail homolog 1; ZEB1: Zinc finger E-box-binding homeobox 1; Topoisomerase iiβ; MGMT: O—methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase; NOTCH1: Notch receptor 1; CREB: cAMP response element-binding protein; PKA: Protein kinase A; LMP1: Latent membrane protein-1; NOTCH2NL: Notch homolog 2 N-terminal-like; BCR: B-cell receptor; BCL6: B-cell lymphoma 6 protein; IRF4: Regulatory factor 4 interferon; BCL2: B-cell lymphoma 2 protein; XIAP: X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis; PUMA: p53 upregulated modulator of apoptosis; MCL1: Myeloid cell leukemia 1; EpCam: Epithelial cell adhesion molecule; JMJD3: Jumonji Domain-Containing Protein 3 demethylase.