Overexpressed miR-9 promotes tumor metastasis via targeting E-cadherin in serous ovarian cancer

Abstract MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play critical roles in the development and progression in various cancers. Dysfunctional miR-9 expression remains ambiguous, and no consensus on the metastatic progression of ovarian cancer has been reached. In this study, results from the bioinformatics analysis show that the 3′-UTR of the E-cadherin mRNA was directly regulated by miR-9. Luciferase reporter assay results confirmed that miR-9 could directly target this 3′-UTR. miR-9 and E-cadherin expression in ovarian cancer tissue was quantified by qRT-PCR. Migration and invasion were detected by wound healing and Transwell system assay in SKOV3 and A2780. qRT-PCR and Western blot were performed to detect the epithelial‒mesenchymal transition-associated mRNA and proteins. Immunofluorescence technique was used to analyze the expression and subcellular localization of E-cadherin, N-cadherin, and vimentin. The results showed that miR-9 was frequently upregulated in metastatic serous ovarian cancer tissue compared with paired primary ones. Upregulation of miR-9 could downregulate the expression of E-cadherin but upregulate the expression of mesenchymal markers (N-cadherin and vimentin). Overexpression of miR-9 could promote the cell migration and invasion in ovarian cancer, and these processes could be effectively inhibited via miR-9 inhibitor. Thus, our study demonstrates that miR-9 may promote ovarian cancer metastasis via targeting E-cadherin and a novel potential therapeutic approach to control metastasis of ovarian cancer..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers of medicine - 11(2017), 2 vom: 04. Mai, Seite 214-222

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhou, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Hongbin [VerfasserIn]
Xia, Meng [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Chaoyang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Na [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Ensong [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Lili [VerfasserIn]
Shan, Wanying [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Yifan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Degui [VerfasserIn]
Weng, Danhui [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Li [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Junbo [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Ding [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Gang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Kezhen [VerfasserIn]

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BKL:

44.00 / Medizin: Allgemeines / Medizin: Allgemeines

Themen:

E-cadherin
Metastasis
MiR-9
Ovarian cancer

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© Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2017

doi:

10.1007/s11684-017-0518-7

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OLC2088591176