Journal
PROTEOMICS
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages 1557-1572Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200900646
Keywords
Biomedicine; Cell cycle; Hepatocellular carcinoma; MicroRNA; miR-34a
Funding
- National ST Major Project [2008ZX10002-026]
- Zhejiang Province Natural Science Foundation [Y207465]
- Ministry of Education of China [20080431295]
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MicroRNAs are small non-coding RNA molecules that play essential roles in biological processes ranging from cell cycle to cell migration and invasion. Accumulating evidence suggests that miR-34a, as a key mediator of p53 tumor suppression, is aberrantly expressed in human cancers. In the present study, we aimed to explore the precise biological role of miR-34a and the global protein changes in HCC cell line HepG2 cells transiently transfected with miR-34a. Transfection of miR-34a into HepG2 cells caused suppression of cell proliferation, inhibition of cell migration and invasion. It also induced an accumulation of HepG2 cells in Cl phase. Among 116 protein spots with differential expression separated by 2-DE method, 34 proteins were successfully identified by MALDI-TOF/TOF analysis. Of these, 15 down-regulated proteins may be downstream targets of miR-34a. Bioinformatics analysis produced a protein-protein interaction network, which revealed that the p53 signaling pathway and cell cycle pathway were two major hubs containing most of the proteins regulated by miR-34a. Cytoskeletal proteins such as LMNA, GFAP, MACF1, ALDH2, and LOC100129335 are potential targets of miR-34a. In conclusion, abrogation of miR-34a function could cause downstream molecules to switch on or off, leading to HCC development.
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