Journal
CELL CYCLE
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 177-186Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/cc.11.1.18576
Keywords
14q13; miR-365; TTF-1; NKX2-1; TGF beta; HMGA2; lung development; lung cancer
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- NIH CTSA [UL1RR033184]
- NCI [CA127547]
- Uniting Against Lung Cancer foundation, New York
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA127547] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES [UL1TR000127] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES [UL1RR033184] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Thyroid transcription factor 1 (TTF-1 or NKX2-1) is an essential fetal lung developmental factor, which can be recurrently activated by gene amplification in adult lung cancer. We have discovered the first microRNA (i.e., miR-365) that directly regulates TTF-1 by interacting with its 3'-untranslated region. By gene expression profiling, we identified other putative targets of miR-365 and miR-365*. In line with the microRNA/target relationship, the expression patterns of miR-365 and TTF-1 were in an inverse relationship in human lung cancer. Exploration of human lung cancer genomics data uncovered that TTF-1 gene amplification was significantly associated with DNA copy number loss at one of the two genomic loci encoding the precursor RNA of mature miR-365 (i.e., mir-365-1). This implies the existence of genetic selection pressure to lose the repressive miR-365 that would otherwise suppress amplified TTF-1. We detected a signaling loop between transforming growth factor beta TGF beta) and miR-365, and this loop reinforced suppression TTF-1 via miR-365. Mir-365 also targeted an epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-promoting gene, HMGA2. In summary, these data connect the lung transctiptional program to the microRNA network.
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