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ONCOTARGET
卷 6, 期 15, 页码 13658-13670出版社
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.3700
关键词
hepatocellular carcinoma; miR-200 family; cytoskeletal reorganization; Rho/ROCK signaling pathway; cancer metastasis
资金
- Hong Kong Research Grants Council [HKU 1/06C, HKU 7/CRG/09, HKU 775811, HKU 782411]
- SK Yee Medical Research Fund
- Lee Shiu Family Foundation
MiR-200 family is an important regulator of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and has been implicated in human carcinogenesis. However, their expression and functions in human cancers remain controversial. In the work presented here, we showed that miR-200 family members were frequently down-regulated in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Although all five members of miR-200 family inhibited ZEB1/2 expression in HCC cell lines, we showed that overexpression only of the miR-200b/200c/429 subfamily, but not the miR-200a/141 subfamily, resulted in impeded HCC cell migration. Further investigations led to the identification of RhoA and ROCK2 as specific down-stream targets of the miR-200b/200c/429 subfamily. We demonstrated that the miR-200b/200c/429 subfamily inhibited HCC cell migration through modulating Rho/ROCK mediated cell cytoskeletal reorganization and cell-substratum adhesion. Re-expression of miR-200b significantly suppressed lung metastasis of HCC cells in an orthotopic liver implantation model in vivo. In conclusion, our findings identified the miR-200b/200c/429 subfamily as metastasis suppressor microRNAs in human HCC and highlighted the functional discrepancy among miR-200 family members.
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