Identification of RNF213 as a potential suppressor of local invasion in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is a lethal cancer arising from intrahepatic bile ducts in the liver. In the intraductal growth (IDG) type, also referred to as intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct (IPNB), a rare subtype of ICC, cancer cells originating within the bile duct usually invade and infiltrate the nearby liver tissues, resulting in local invasion. IPNB can serve as a good disease model to study the mechanism of local invasion, which is the earliest step of metastasis. Here, we aimed to identify the genes associated with local invasion by comparing the somatic mutations of the matched IPNB tissues with and without local invasion from a set of 11 patients using the Ion AmpliSeq Comprehensive Cancer Panel. Somatic mutation profiling analysis identified RNF213 as a potential candidate gene associated with local invasion in ICC patients. We established stable RNF213-knockdown and shControl cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) cell lines (HuCCT1, YSCCC, and KKU-100). Next, the expression profiling of the RNF213-knockdown and shContol CCA cell lines was analyzed by RNA sequencing.