Journal
ONCOTARGET
Volume 8, Issue 18, Pages 30288-30304Publisher
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.16327
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microRNA; miR-150; ITGA3; ITGA6; TNC
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- KAKENHI [16K20229, 15K10800, 15K10801, 25462676, 26462596]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26462596, 15K10801, 25462676, 15K10800, 16K11224, 16K20229, 17K11375, 17K16893] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We adopted into RNA-sequencing technologies to construct the microRNA (miRNA) expression signature of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Our signature revealed that a total of 160 miRNAs (44 upregulated and 116 downregulated) were aberrantly expressed in cancer tissues. Expression of miR-150-5p (guide strand miRNA) and miR-150-3p (passenger strand miRNA) were significantly silenced in cancer tissues, suggesting both miRNAs act as antitumor miRNAs in HNSCC cells. Ectopic expression of mature miRNAs, miR-150-5p and miR-150- 3p inhibited cancer cell aggressiveness. Low expression of miR-150-5p and miR-150-3p predicted significantly shorter overall survival in patients with HNSCC (P = 0.0091 and P = 0.0386) by Kaplan-Meier survival curves analyses. We identified that integrin alpha 3 (ITGA3), integrin alpha 6 (ITGA6), and tenascin C (TNC) were coordinately regulated by these miRNAs in HNSCC cells. Knockdown assays using siRNAs showed that ITGA3, ITGA6 and TNC acted as cancer promoting genes in HNSCC cells. Moreover, ITGA3, ITGA6, and TNC alterations were associated with significantly poorer overall survival (P = 0.0177, P = 0.0237, and P = 0.026, respectively). Dual strands of pre-150 (miR-150-5p and miR-150-3p) functioned as antitumor miRNAs based on the miRNA expression signature of HNSCC. Identification of antitumor miR-150-mediated RNA networks may provide novel insights into pathogenesis of HNSCC.
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