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JAPANESE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 1, Pages 13-21Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyt181
Keywords
colorectal carcinoma; Hsa-miR-338-3p; smoothened; invasion; migration
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81101896]
- National Research Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20124433110010]
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To investigate the regulative effect of microRNA-338-3p on colorectal carcinoma cell invasion and migration. The microRNA-338-3p expression pattern of colorectal carcinoma tissues and cell lines was detected by real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. The protein level of smoothened was detected by western blot analysis. Furthermore, colorectal carcinoma cells were pretreated with or without anti-smoothened-small interfering ribonucleic acid prior to the addition of pre-microRNA-338-3p or anti-microRNA-338-3p. The status of colorectal carcinoma cell invasion and that of migration were detected by transwell assay and wound healing assay, respectively. The expression of microRNA-338-3p was significantly down-regulated in colorectal carcinoma tissues in comparison with those in the adjacent non-tumorous tissues, and the value was negatively related to advanced tumor, node, metastasis stage and local invasion. The expression of microRNA-338-3p in colorectal carcinoma cells transfected with pre-microRNA-338-3p p was significantly increased. Furthermore, over-expression of microRNA-338-3p inhibited the expression of smoothened protein in colorectal carcinoma cells, which showed obviously suppressed invasion and migration ability. The expression of microRNA-338-3p in colorectal carcinoma cells transfected with anti-microRNA-338-3p was significantly decreased. Moreover, the down-regulated expression of microRNA-338-3p caused the up-regulated expression of smoothened protein in colorectal carcinoma cells, which showed significantly enhanced invasion and migration ability. However, anti-smoothened-small interfering ribonucleic acid largely, but not completely, reversed the effects induced by blockage of microRNA-338-3p, suggesting that the regulative effect of microRNA-338-3p on colorectal carcinoma cell invasion and migration was indeed mediated by smoothened. Additionally, smoothened was identified as a direct target of microRNA-338-3p by luciferase assay. MicroRNA-338-3p could inhibit colorectal carcinoma cell invasion and migration by inhibiting smoothened expression.
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