Proteome of silenced minichromosome maintenance protein 2 with siRNA on non-small cell lung cancer H1299 cells

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. The two main lung cancer types are small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-SCLC (NSCLC), where NSCLC comprises about 80-85% of all lung cancer. Despite the introduction of improved treatments, the overall survival rate of lung cancer patients remains low. Further elucidation of the regulatory network perturbations between cancer-related genes and proteins is one promising route to alter this mortality trend. The deregulation of the DNA replication, cell cycle, proliferation and migration are the common factors that are involved in cancer development and progression, and therefore logical targets for analysis. Minichromosome maintenance 2(MCM2) is a DNA replication licensing factor, which belongs to the heterohexameric MCM2-7 complex. MCM2 has been proposed as an excellent proliferation marker in many types of cancer. Our study will establish a global functional distribution of identified proteins in silenced-MCM2 in H1299 NSCLC by the means of iTRAQ. Understanding the molecular basis of MCM2 in lung cancer cells enables us to discover alternative target for lung cancer therapy.