The CLEC3B inhibits cellular proliferation and metastasis of cholangiocarcinoma through Wnt/β-catenin pathway

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Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology

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Introduction

Materials & Methods

Identification of the CLEC3B gene

CCA tissue samples and ethics statement

Quantitative real-time PCR analysis

Cell lines and cell culture

Cell transfection and lentiviral transduction

Cell viability and colony formation assay

Wound healing assays

Invasion and migration assays

Vertebrate animal study methods

Xenograft tumor formation model

Western blotting

Statistical analysis

Results

The CLEC3B was decreased in cholangiocarcinoma

CLEC3B inhibits the proliferation of CCA cells in vitro

The CLEC3B inhibits cell migration and invasion of bile duct cancer

The Ca2+ promotes the biological function of CLEC3B

CLEC3B regulates cell proliferation and metastasis through Wnt/β-Catenin signaling pathway

The CLEC3B inhibits tumor formation in vivo

Discussion

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

30 Tumor tissue PCR and generation analysis

30 Original PCR data of human tumor tissue were generated to generate original data and original statistical map for analysis.

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CCK8 assay of QBC939 cells, NC OE raw data, and original statistical map

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QBC939 CCK8 NC SI raw data

CCK8 assay of QBC939 cells, NC OE raw data, and original statistical map.

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Western blot raw data

Western blot original strip, quantitative gray value and statistical map.

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Four pairs of fresh human tissue, verified by western blot

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The survival analyses of genes in Fig. 1B and other genes not included in Fig. 1 and their raw data

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TCGA raw data and images in Fig. 1A

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The expression effect of clec3b transfected was verified

The original strips of western blot that validated the transfection efficiency of CLEC3B (Fig.2).

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Raw tumor data of nude mice

The raw images of tumor size in nude mice, western blot strips of tumor tissue, and corresponding statistical maps.

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HUCCT1 and QBC939 cck8 nc oe +Ca2+ raw images and data

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Original pictures and data of functional experiments of HUCCT1 (Fig. 4) (Ca2+)

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Original pictures and data of functional experiments of QBC939 (Fig. 4) (Ca2+)

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Original pictures of HUCCT1 functional experiments (common overexpression group and control group, common knockdown rent and control group) as well as raw data and statistical charts

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Original pictures of QBC939 functional experiments (common overexpression group and control group, common knockdown rent and control group) as well as raw data and statistical charts

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Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Shengze Wu conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, writing–original draft, Formal analysis, and approved the final draft.

Guangfeng Wang conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, make changes to the article, and approved the final draft.

Yuwei Xie analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, tabular analysis, and approved the final draft.

Tingting Wu analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, animal experimental design, and approved the final draft.

Fangqian Du performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, writing–review,editing, Formal analysis, and approved the final draft.

Chen Jin performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, writing–original draft, Data curation, and approved the final draft.

Bingzi Dong conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, formal analysis, and approved the final draft.

Chengzhan Zhu conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, and approved the final draft.

Human Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University approved research in its facilities (Ethical Application Ref: QYFY WZLL 28817)

Animal Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

All animal experiments were conducted in the pathogen-free medical animal laboratory of the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University and were approved by the Animal Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University (Ethics review number: AHQU-MAL20210210)

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw measurements are available in the Supplementary File.

Funding

The study was supported by the Taishan Scholars Program of Shandong Province (grant number 2019010668 and NO. tsqn202312382), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (grant number ZR2021MH171, ZR2023MH243), and the Shandong Higher Education Young Science and Technology Support Program (grant number 2020KJL005 and 2023KJ224). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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