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CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION
Volume 18, Issue 11, Pages 1702-1710Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2011.28
Keywords
colorectal cancer; miR-148a; apoptosis; Bcl-2
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30770989, 81090421]
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang province [D2080011]
- Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang province [2007C13020]
- Department of Education of Zhejiang Province [Y200908956]
- National Science & Technology Pillar Program during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan Period of China [2006BAI0214, 2009BAI80B00]
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Apoptosis has a vital role in maintaining tissue homeostasis, and dysregulation of the apoptotic pathway is now widely recognized as a key step in tumourigenesis. Increasingly, evidence has demonstrated that microRNA (miRNA) can exert various biological functions in tumours by targeting oncogenes or tumour suppressors. Nevertheless, the role of miRNA in apoptosis remains unclear. Here we show that ectopical expression of miR-148a can induce apoptosis in colorectal cancer cells. In addition, MYB can inhibit miR-148a by directly acting on the transcription factor binding site in miR-148a gene and miR-148a can posttranscriptionally silence Bcl-2. Subsequently, the intrinsic apoptosis pathway is activated by releasing cytochrome c, cleaving caspase 9, caspase 3 and PARP, which eventually induce cancer-cell apoptosis. These findings are part of a hitherto undocumented apoptotic regulatory pathway in which a pleiotropic transcription factor controls the expression of a miRNA and the miRNA inhibits the target, leading to activation of an intrinsic mitochondrial pathway and tumour apoptosis. Cell Death and Differentiation (2011) 18, 1702-1710; doi: 10.1038/cdd.2011.28; published online 1 April 2011
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