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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 293, Issue 25, Pages 9570-9579Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA117.000975
Keywords
kidney; cancer biology; microRNA (miRNA); microRNA mechanism; cell proliferation; ANKHD1; ccRCC; clear cell; miR-29a; miRNA-binding
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- Kidney Research UK Fellowship
- Thomas-Berry and Simpson Fellowship
- Cancer Research UK Senior Fellowship
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Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) represents the most common kidney cancer worldwide. Increased cell proliferation associated with abnormal microRNA (miRNA) regulation are hallmarks of carcinogenesis. Ankyrin repeat and single KH domain 1 (ANKHD1) is a highly conserved protein found to interact with core cancer pathways in Drosophila; however, its involvement in RCC is completely unexplored. Quantitative PCR studies coupled with large-scale genomics data sets demonstrated that ANKHD1 is significantly up-regulated in kidneys of RCC patients when compared with healthy controls. Cell cycle analysis revealed that ANKHD1 is an essential factor for RCC cell division. To understand the molecular mechanism(s) utilized by ANKHD1 to drive proliferation, we performed bioinformatics analyses that revealed that ANKHD1 contains a putative miRNA-binding motif. We screened 48 miRNAs with tumor-enhancing or -suppressing activities and found that ANKHD1 binds to and regulates three tumor-suppressing miRNAs (i.e. miR-29a, miR-205, and miR-196a). RNA-immunoprecipitation assays demonstrated that ANKHD1 physically interacts with its target miRNAs via a single K-homology domain, located in the C terminus of the protein. Functionally, we discovered that ANKHD1 positively drives ccRCC cell mitosis via binding to and suppressing mainly miR-29a and to a lesser degree via miR-196a/205, leading to up-regulation in proliferative genes such as CCDN1. Collectively, these data identify ANKHD1 as a new regulator of ccRCC proliferation via specific miRNA interactions.
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