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ONCOTARGET
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 537-546Publisher
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.2681
Keywords
Long non-coding RNA; HOTAIR; GBM; Cell cycle; EZH2
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- National High Technology Research and Development Program 863 [2014AA021102, 2012AA02A508]
- China National Natural Scientific Fund [81372703, 81101916]
- Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission [12ZCDZSY17300]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
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The long non-coding RNA Hox transcript antisense intergenic RNA (HOTAIR) was recently implicated in breast cancer metastasis and is predictive of poor prognosis in colorectal and pancreatic cancers. We recently discovered that HOTAIR is a cell cycle-related lncRNA in human glioma, and its expression is closely associated with glioma staging and poor prognosis. Although lysine specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) and polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) have been demonstrated to be functional targets of HOTAIR, how HOTAIR regulates glioma cell cycle progression remains largely unknown. In this study, we found that EZH2 (predominant PRC2 complex component) inhibition blocked cell cycle progression in glioma cells, consistent with the effects elicited by HOTAIR siRNA. However, the inhibition of LSD1 did not affect cell cycle progression in glioma cells. These results suggest that HOTAIR might regulate cell cycle progression through EZH2. Our intracranial mice model also revealed delayed tumor growth in HOTAIR siRNA-and EZH2 inhibitor-treated groups. Moreover, in HOTAIR knock-down cell lines, the expression of the PRC2-binding domain of HOTAIR (5' domain) but not of the LSD1-binding domain of HOTAIR (3' domain) resulted in accelerated cell cycle progression. In conclusion, HOTAIR promotes cell cycle progression in glioma as a result of the binding of its 5' domain to the PRC2 complex.
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