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BIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES ONLINE
Volume 20, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12575-018-0081-x
Keywords
HER3; miRNA-replacement therapy; Functional cooperation; HER2; Breast cancer
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA [1 R01CA201011]
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Background: The HER3 receptor functions as a major cause of drug resistance in cancer treatment It is believed that therapeutic targeting of HER3 is required to improve patient outcomes. It is not clear whether a novel strategy with two functional cooperative miRNAs would effectively inhibit erbB3 expression and potentiate the antiproliferative/anti-survival effects of a HER2-targeted therapy (trastuzumab) and chemotherapy (paclitaxel) on HER2-overexpressing breast cancer cells. Results: Combination of miR-125a and miR-205, as compared to either miRNA alone, potently inhibited expression of HER3 in HER2 overexpressing breast cancer BT474 cells. Co-expression of the two miRNAs not only reduced the levels of phosphorylated erbB3 (P-erbB3), Akt (P-Akt), and Src (P-Src), it also inhibited cell proliferation and increased cells at G1 phase. A multi-miRNA lentiviral vector - the cluster of miR-125a and miR-205 - was constructed to simultaneously express the two miRNAs in HER2-overexpressing breast cancer cells. Concurrent expression of miR-125a arid miR 205 via the miRNA cluster transfection significantly enhanced trastuzumab-mediated growth inhibition arid cell cycle G1 arrest in BT474 cells and markedly increased paclitaxel-induced apoptosis in another HER2 overexpressing breast cancer cell line HCC1954. Conclusions: Here, we showed that functional cooperative miRNAs effectively suppressed erbB3 expression. This novel approach targeting of HER3 was able to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of trastuzumab and paclitaxel against HER2-overexpressing breast cancer.
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