Loss of miR-200c expression induces an aggressive, invasive, and chemoresistant phenotype in non-small cell lung cancer / Paolo Ceppi, Giridhar Mudduluru, Regalla Kumarswamy, Ida Rapa, Giorgio V. Scagliotti, Mauro Papotti, and Heike Allgayer

The development of metastases is the main reason for cancer-related death in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The initiation of metastasis involves an increase in cell motility mediated by the loss of cell-cell adhesion caused by E-cadherin repression, in a process commonly known as epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. A role for microRNA-200 family members in regulating epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition has recently been indicated but data about their expression in lung tumors is still unavailable. The present study investigated the expression of miR-200c in a panel of NSCLC cell lines (n = 9), and a strong inverse correlation with invasion was detected. Reintroduction of miR-200c into highly invasive/aggressive NSCLC cells induced a loss of the mesenchymal phenotype by restoring E-cadherin and reducing N-cadherin expression, and inhibited in vitro cell invasion as well as in vivo metastasis formation. Moreover, miR-200c overexpression restored the sensitivity of NCI-H1299 cells to cisplatin and cetuximab. Hypermethylation of the promoter region was found to be responsible for the loss of miR-200c in invasive cells, as evaluated by 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine treatment, methylation-specific PCR, and bisulfite sequencing. In primary tumor specimens obtained from 69 patients with consecutively resected NSCLC, lower miR-200c expression levels were found to be associated with a poor grade of differentiation (P = 0.04), a higher propensity to lymph node metastases (P < 0.01), and with a lower E-cadherin expression (P = 0.01). These data indicate that the loss of miR-200c expression induces an aggressive, invasive, and chemoresistant phenotype, and that assessment of its expression could contribute to a better clinicopathologic definition of patients with NSCLC..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

8 September 2010

2010

Erschienen:

8 September 2010

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Molecular cancer research - 8(2010), 9, Seite 1207-1216

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ceppi, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
Mudduluru, Giridhar [VerfasserIn]
Kumarswamy, Regalla [VerfasserIn]
Rapa, Ida [VerfasserIn]
Scagliotti, Giorgio V. [VerfasserIn]
Papotti, Mauro [VerfasserIn]
Allgayer, Heike, 1969- [VerfasserIn]

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Animals
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
Cadherins
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Cell Line, Tumor
Cetuximab
Chick Embryo
Cisplatin
DNA Methylation
Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
Female
Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
Humans
Lung Neoplasms
Lymph Nodes
Male
Mesoderm
MicroRNAs
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Invasiveness
Neoplasm Metastasis
Phenotype
Promoter Regions, Genetic

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Gesehen am 30.01.2023

Umfang:

10

doi:

10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-10-0052

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

1832682315