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MOLECULAR THERAPY
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages 1261-1269Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1038/mt.2012.67
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- National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health [R01CA135096]
- Michelle Theado Memorial Grant from Joan Bisesi Fund for Head and Neck Oncology Research
- Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital
- Richard J. Solove Research Institute, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the sixth most prevalent cancer worldwide with about 600,000 new cases diagnosed in the last year. Our laboratory showed that miR-107 expression is reduced and functions as a tumor suppressor gene in HNSCC suggesting the potential application of miR-107 as a novel anticancer therapeutic. In this study, we determined the efficiency and efficacy of cationic lipid nanoparticles to deliver pre-miR-107 (NP/pre-miR-107) in HNSCC cells in vitro and in vivo. NP/pre-miR-107 increased delivery of miR-107 into HNSCC cells by greater than 80,000-fold compared to free pre-miR-107. Levels of known miR-107 targets, protein kinase C epsilon (PKC epsilon), cyclin-dependent kinase 6 (CDK6), and hypoxia-inducible factor 1-beta (HIF1-beta), decreased following NP/pre-miR-107 treatment. Clonogenic survival, cell invasion, and cell migration of HNSCC cells was inhibited with NP/pre-miR-107. Moreover, NP/pre-miR-107 reduced the cancer-initiating cell (CIC) population and dampened the expression of the core embryonic stem cell transcription factors, Nanog, Oct3/4, and Sox2. In a preclinical mouse model of HNSCC, systemic administration of NP/pre-miR-107 significantly retarded tumor growth by 45.2% compared to NP/pre-miR-control (P < 0.005, n = 7). Kaplan-Meier analysis showed a survival advantage for the NP/pre-miR-107 treatment group (P = 0.017). Our results demonstrate that cationic lipid nanoparticles are an effective carrier approach to deliver therapeutic miRs to HNSCC.
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