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EXPERIMENTAL AND THERAPEUTIC MEDICINE
卷 22, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2021.10503
关键词
microRNA-18a-5; hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha; chronic myelogenous leukemia
资金
- Joint Special Fund of Yunnan Province [2017FE468]
- Health Science and Technology Program of Yunnan Province [2016NS047, 2018NS0129]
The Warburg effect, involved in drug resistance and recurrence of cancer, presents a challenge for CML treatment. MiR-18a-5p targeting HIF-1 alpha may suppress the Warburg effect by inhibiting aerobic glycolysis, suggesting a potential therapeutic strategy for CML.
The Warburg effect is involved in drug resistance and recurrence of cancer, and poses a challenge for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha (HIF-1 alpha) plays a key role in the Warburg effect. microRNAs (miRs) targeting HIF-1 alpha have potential of regulating such aberrant metabolic process. The present study demonstrated that miR-18a-5p was expressed at a low level in K562/ADM cells via reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). The results of the luciferase reporter assay indicated that miR-18a-5p could specifically bind the 3'-untranslated region of HIF-1 alpha. Through RT-qPCR and western blotting, it was revealed that miR-18a-5p downregulated the expression of HIF-1 alpha. By inhibiting HIF-1 alpha, miR-18a-5p suppressed aerobic glycolysis in K562/ADM cells, according to the results produced by glucose uptake, lactate production, pyruvate level and ATP synthesis measurement, along with the results obtained from extracellular acidification rate and oxygen consumption rate assays. These results provided new evidence that miR-18a-5p may suppress the Warburg effect by targeting HIF-1 alpha. Furthermore, via CCK-8 and flow cytometry assays, cells transfected with miR-18a-5p mimics were more sensitive to Adriamycin (AMD) compared with AMD group. Reversing the Warburg effect by miR-30a-5p might provide a potential therapeutic strategy for CML.
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