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ONCOTARGETS AND THERAPY
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages 2377-2388Publisher
DOVE MEDICAL PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.2147/OTT.S130055
Keywords
curcumin; nasopharyngeal cancer; miR-7; Skp2; proliferation
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC 81572936]
- priority academic program development of Jiangsu higher education institutions
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Curcumin, a natural polyphenol compound, exhibits tumor suppressive activity in a wide spectrum of cancers, including nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells. However, the exact molecular mechanisms governing this tumor suppressive activity remain elusive. Multiple studies have revealed that miRNAs are critically involved in tumorigenesis, indicating that targeting miRNAs could be a therapeutic strategy for treating human cancer. In the current study, we set out to determine whether curcumin regulates miR-7 expression in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells. We found that curcumin inhibited cell growth, induced apoptosis, retarded cell migration and invasion, and triggered cell cycle arrest in the human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell lines CNE1 and CNE2. Importantly, we observed that curcumin upregulated the expression of miR-7 and subsequently inhibited Skp2, a direct miR-7 target. Our results identified that upregulation of miR-7 by curcumin could benefit nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients.
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