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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 6, Pages 1875-1882Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2013.1896
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microRNA; cell proliferation; apoptosis; miR-193; ovarian cancer cell
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- New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23580141] Funding Source: KAKEN
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a small class of non-coding RNAs that negatively regulate gene expression, and are considered as new therapeutic targets for treating cancer. In this study, we performed a gain-of-function screen using miRNA mimic library (319 miRNA species) to identify those affecting cell proliferation in human epithelial ovarian cancer cells (A2780). We discovered a number of miRNAs that increased or decreased the cell viability of A2780 cells. Pro-proliferative and anti-proliferative miRNAs include oncogenic miR-372 and miR-373, and tumor suppressive miR-124a, miR-7, miR-192 and miR-193a, respectively. We found that overexpression of miR-124a, miR-192, miR-193a and miR-193b inhibited BrdU incorporation in A2780 cells, indicating that these miRNAs affected the cell cycle. Overexpression of miR-193a and miR-193b induced an activation of caspase 3/7, and resulted in apoptotic cell death in A2780 cells. A genome-wide gene expression analysis with miR-193a-transfected A2780 cells led to identification of ARHGAP19, CCND1, ERBB4, KRAS and MCL1 as potential miR-193a targets. We demonstrated that miR-193a decreased the amount of MCL1 protein by binding 3'UTR of its mRNA. Our study suggests the potential of miRNA screens to discover miRNAs as therapeutic tools to treat ovarian cancer.
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