Journal
ONCOTARGET
Volume 7, Issue 35, Pages 56422-56430Publisher
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10896
Keywords
ceRNA; APL; Let-7; Myc; PML/RAR alpha
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81270609, 30770909, 81470008]
- Major Science & Technology Project of Fujian Province [2003F003, 2012Y4012]
- Major Science & Technology Project of Fujian Medical University [09ZD008]
- Chinese National Clinical Key Subject Construction Project
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Recent reports have described a new post-transcriptional regulation that RNA transcripts can crosstalk with each other by competing for their common microRNAs. These RNA transcripts termed competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) regulate the distribution of miRNAs on their targets. One corollary from ceRNA interaction is that chromosomal translocation in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) would perturb ceRNA regulation due to altered expression of 3'UTRs. In our study, we demonstrate that expression of PML/RAR alpha, the APL-associated fusion oncogene is repressed by c-Myc mRNA transcript independent of protein-coding function but dependent upon microRNA. Attenuation of c-Myc transcript results in PML/RAR alpha-degraded cellular phenotypes in APL cells, but these Myc reduction-associated cell phenotypes are sufficient to abrogate in a microRNA dependent manner. We also show that let-7 microRNA family members promote differentiation of All-Trans-Retinoic Acid (ATRA)-induced NB4 cells and their activities are affected by expression levels of both c-Myc and PML/RAR alpha through altering miRNA targets. These results indicate that c-Myc mRNA represses PML/RAR alpha expression via altering the distribution of let-7 miRNAs on their targets. Our findings reveal a previously unrecognized role of c-Myc as a potential ceRNA for PML/RAR alpha in APL.
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