ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 28 August 2020 doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.01468 Clinical Significance, Cellular Function, and Potential Molecular Pathways of CCT7 in Endometrial Cancer Liwen Wang 1,2†, Wei Zhou 1†, Hui Li 2,3, Hui Yang 1 and Nianchun Shan 1* 1 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China, 2 Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China, 3 Department of Reproductive, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China Objective: Endometrial cancer (EC) is a common gynecologic malignancy; myometrial Edited by: invasion (MI) is a typical approach of EC spreads and an important index to assess tumor Sarah M. Temkin, metastasis and outcome in EC patients. CCT7 is a member of the TCP1 chaperone Virginia Commonwealth University, family, involved in cytoskeletal protein folding and unfolding. In this study, the role of United States CCT7 in EC development was investigated. Reviewed by: Syed S. Islam, Methods: Clinical data for 87 EC cases and expression of CCT7 were analyzed. CCT7 King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia was knocked out using siRNA-CCT7 in Ishikawa and RL95-2 cells, and their function Elena Gershtein, about proliferation, apoptosis, and invasion was further tested. Bioinformatics methods Russian Cancer Research Center NN were used to predict the potential pathways of CCT7 in EC development. Blokhin, Russia *Correspondence: Results: The rates of CCT7-positive cells in EC and adjacent normal endometrium Nianchun Shan tissues had a significant difference (67.8 vs. 51.4%, p = 0.035), and the expression
[email protected] rate increased from low to high pathological stage (39.7% in the I/II stage, 71.4% in the †These authors have contributed III/IV stage, p = 0.029).