期刊
ENGINEERING
卷 16, 期 -, 页码 162-175出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.eng.2021.07.020
关键词
Hepatocellular carcinoma; MicroRNA cluster; Exosome; Multi-omics
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China
- [81771713]
- [81721091]
- [LR18H030001]
The study found that miR-516a-3p is highly expressed in HCC and is associated with tumor progression and poor prognosis. They demonstrated that miR-516a-3p promotes malignant behaviors in HCC cells by regulating cellular metabolism and affecting neighboring cells via the exosome delivery system.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains one of the most lethal malignancies. We previously demon-strated that the chromosome 19 microRNA cluster (C19MC) was associated with tumor burden and prog-nosis in patients with HCC. In the current study, we aim to explore the role of miR-516a-3p-an identical mature microRNA (miRNA) co-spliced by four oncogenic pre-miRNAs of C19MC (i.e., mir-516a-1, mir-516a-2, mir-516b-1, and mir-516b-2)-in HCC. In our cohort of HCC patients, miR-516a-3p was highly expressed in HCC tissues in comparison with adjacent non-tumor tissues. High expression of tumor miR-516a-3p significantly correlated with advanced tumor stages, distinguished high HCC recurrence and mortality, and independently predicted poor prognosis. We further found that miR-516a-3p enhanced the proliferation, migration, and invasiveness of HCC cells in vitro and promoted tumor growth and metastasis in vivo. Among cancer cells, miR-516a-3p could be delivered via exosomes or extracellular vesicles and increased the oncogenic activity of recipient cells. Moreover, we performed comprehensive transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics analysis on the potential mechanism underlying miR-516a-3p-promoted oncogenicity. MixOmic DIABLO analysis showed a close correlation and strong cluster consistency between the proteomics and metabolomics datasets. We further confirmed six proteins (i.e., LMBR1, CHST9, RBM3, SLC7A6, PTGFRN, and NOL12) as the direct targets of miR-516a-3p and as central players in miR-516a-3p-mediated metabolism regulation. The integrated multi-omics and co-enriched pathway analysis showed that miR-516a-3p regulates the metabolic pathways of HCC cells, particularly purine and pyrimidine metabolism. In conclusion, our findings suggest that miR-516a-3p promotes malignant behaviors in HCC cells by regulating cellular metabolism and affecting neighboring cells via the exosome delivery system. Thus, we suggest miR-516a-3p as a novel molecular target for HCC therapy.(c) 2021 THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier LTD on behalf of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Higher Education Press Limited Company. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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