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Over-Expressed miR-224 Promotes the Progression of Cervical Cancer via Targeting RASSF8
Cervical cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in women from developing countries. Identification of novel prognostic predictors or therapeutic targets may improve patient prognosis. In the current study, we demonstrated by real-time PCR that miR-224 expression was significantly u...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5023165/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27626930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162378 |
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author | Huang, YongJie Li, Yang Wang, Fen F. Lv, WeiGuo Xie, Xing Cheng, Xiaodong |
author_facet | Huang, YongJie Li, Yang Wang, Fen F. Lv, WeiGuo Xie, Xing Cheng, Xiaodong |
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description | Cervical cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in women from developing countries. Identification of novel prognostic predictors or therapeutic targets may improve patient prognosis. In the current study, we demonstrated by real-time PCR that miR-224 expression was significantly upregulated (1.82-fold, P = 0.0025) in cervical cancer tissues (n = 126) compared with in normal cervical tissues (n = 64). Higher expression of miR-224 was significantly associated with poorer prognostic factors, including advanced FIGO stage, nodal metastasis, larger tumor size, vascular involvement and deep stromal invasion (all P < 0.05). Enforced expression of miR-224 promoted cell proliferation, migration and invasion in SiHa and CaSki cancer cell lines. Bioinformatic analysis indicated that RASSF8 (RAS-association domain family 8) was a potential target of miR-224. Western blot analysis and luciferase reporter assay showed that overexpressed miR-224 inhibited RASSF8 protein expression and decreased the activity of a luciferase reporter containing the 3′ untranslated region (UTR) of RASSF8, respectively. Further, RASSF8 knockdown by specific RNAi showed similar effects in cervical cancer cells transfected with miR-224 mimic. Our findings suggest that miR-224 directly targets RASSF8 and thereby acts as a tumor promoter in cervical cancer progression. |
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spelling | pubmed-50231652016-09-27 Over-Expressed miR-224 Promotes the Progression of Cervical Cancer via Targeting RASSF8 Huang, YongJie Li, Yang Wang, Fen F. Lv, WeiGuo Xie, Xing Cheng, Xiaodong PLoS One Research Article Cervical cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in women from developing countries. Identification of novel prognostic predictors or therapeutic targets may improve patient prognosis. In the current study, we demonstrated by real-time PCR that miR-224 expression was significantly upregulated (1.82-fold, P = 0.0025) in cervical cancer tissues (n = 126) compared with in normal cervical tissues (n = 64). Higher expression of miR-224 was significantly associated with poorer prognostic factors, including advanced FIGO stage, nodal metastasis, larger tumor size, vascular involvement and deep stromal invasion (all P < 0.05). Enforced expression of miR-224 promoted cell proliferation, migration and invasion in SiHa and CaSki cancer cell lines. Bioinformatic analysis indicated that RASSF8 (RAS-association domain family 8) was a potential target of miR-224. Western blot analysis and luciferase reporter assay showed that overexpressed miR-224 inhibited RASSF8 protein expression and decreased the activity of a luciferase reporter containing the 3′ untranslated region (UTR) of RASSF8, respectively. Further, RASSF8 knockdown by specific RNAi showed similar effects in cervical cancer cells transfected with miR-224 mimic. Our findings suggest that miR-224 directly targets RASSF8 and thereby acts as a tumor promoter in cervical cancer progression. Public Library of Science 2016-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5023165/ /pubmed/27626930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162378 Text en © 2016 Huang et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Huang, YongJie Li, Yang Wang, Fen F. Lv, WeiGuo Xie, Xing Cheng, Xiaodong Over-Expressed miR-224 Promotes the Progression of Cervical Cancer via Targeting RASSF8 |
title | Over-Expressed miR-224 Promotes the Progression of Cervical Cancer via Targeting RASSF8 |
title_full | Over-Expressed miR-224 Promotes the Progression of Cervical Cancer via Targeting RASSF8 |
title_fullStr | Over-Expressed miR-224 Promotes the Progression of Cervical Cancer via Targeting RASSF8 |
title_full_unstemmed | Over-Expressed miR-224 Promotes the Progression of Cervical Cancer via Targeting RASSF8 |
title_short | Over-Expressed miR-224 Promotes the Progression of Cervical Cancer via Targeting RASSF8 |
title_sort | over-expressed mir-224 promotes the progression of cervical cancer via targeting rassf8 |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5023165/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27626930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162378 |
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