Endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced exosomal miR-27a-3p promotes immune escape in breast cancer via regulating PD-L1 expression in macrophages

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Immune escape of breast cancer cells contributes to breast cancer pathogenesis. Tumour microenvironment stresses that disrupt protein homeostasis can produce endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. The miRNA-mediated translational repression of mRNAs has been extensively studied in regulating immune escape and ER stress in human cancers. In this study, we identified a novel microRNA (miR)-27a-3p and investigated its mechanistic role in promoting immune evasion. The binding affinity between miR-27a-3p and MAGI2 was predicted using bioinformatic analysis and verified by dual-luciferase reporter assay. Ectopic expression and inhibition of miR-27a-3p in breast cancer cells were achieved by transduction with mimics and inhibitors. Besides, artificial modulation of MAGI2 and PTEN was done to explore their function in ER stress and immune escape of cancer cells. Of note, exosomes were derived from cancer cells and co-cultured with macrophages for mechanistic studies. The experimental data suggested that ER stress biomarkers including GRP78, PERK, ATF6, IRE1α and PD-L1 were overexpressed in breast cancer tissues relative to paracancerous tissues. Endoplasmic reticulum stress promoted exosome secretion and elevated exosomal miR-27a-3p expression. Elevation of miR-27a-3p and PD-L1 levels in macrophages was observed in response to exosomes-overexpressing miR-27a-3p in vivo and in vitro. miR-27a-3p could target and negatively regulate MAGI2, while MAGI2 down-regulated PD-L1 by up-regulating PTEN to inactivate PI3K/AKT signalling pathway. Less CD4+ , CD8+ T cells and IL-2, and T cells apoptosis were observed in response to co-culture of macrophages and CD3+ T cells. Conjointly, exosomal miR-27a-3p promotes immune evasion by up-regulating PD-L1 via MAGI2/PTEN/PI3K axis in breast cancer.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

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Journal of cellular and molecular medicine - 24(2020), 17 vom: 07. Sept., Seite 9560-9573

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yao, Xiaoli [VerfasserIn]
Tu, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Yulin [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Yueyue [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xinghua [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

B7-H1 Antigen
Biomarkers, Tumor
Breast cancer
CD274 protein, human
Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperone BiP
Endoplasmic reticulum
Exosomes
HSPA5 protein, human
Interleukin-2
Journal Article
MIRN27 microRNA, human
Macrophages
MicroRNA-27a-3p
MicroRNAs
Programmed cell death-Ligand 1
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tumour immune evasion of breast cancer cells

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Date Completed 06.05.2021

Date Revised 04.12.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/jcmm.15367

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312488351