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ONCOTARGET
Volume 7, Issue 45, Pages 73925-73934Publisher
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.12136
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gap junction; connexin; microRNA; tubulogenesis; glioblastoma
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM)
- Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer
- Institut National du Cancer (INCa)
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Extensive invasion and angiogenesis are hallmark features of malignant glioblastomas. Here, we co-cultured U87 human glioblastoma cells and human microvascular endothelial cells (HMEC) to demonstrate the exchange of microRNAs that initially involve the formation of gap junction communications between the two cell types. The functional inhibition of gap junctions by carbenoxolone blocks the transfer of the anti-tumor miR-145-5p from HMEC to U87, and the transfer of the pro-invasive miR-5096 from U87 to HMEC. These two microRNAs exert opposite effects on angiogenesis in vitro. MiR-5096 was observed to promote HMEC tubulogenesis, initially by increasing Cx43 expression and the formation of heterocellular gap junctions, and secondarily through a gap-junction independent pathway. Our results highlight the importance of microRNA exchanges between tumor and endothelial cells that in part involves the formation of functional gap junctions between the two cell types.
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