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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 24, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms24065916
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cancer stem cell; epithelial cell; mesenchymal transition; microRNA targeting; ZEB1
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) possess self-renewal ability and contribute to tumor heterogeneity, leading to chemotherapy resistance and cancer relapse. This study used two methods, ALDH and CD44/CD117/CD133, to isolate CSCs and found that ALDH cells had higher expression of ZEB1 microRNA compared to CD44/CD117/CD133 triple-positive cells. The inhibition of ZEB1 was driven by miR-101-3p, miR-139-5p, miR-144-3p, miR-199b-5p, and miR-200c-3p, which also affected CSC-related genes. Overall, this study improves our understanding of the role of ZEB1-suppressed miRNAs in CSC biology.
Cancer biologists have focused on studying cancer stem cells (CSCs) because of their ability to self-renew and recapitulate tumor heterogeneity, which increases their resistance to chemotherapy and is associated with cancer relapse. Here, we used two approaches to isolate CSCs: the first involved the metabolic enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase ALDH, and the second involved the three cell surface markers CD44, CD117, and CD133. ALDH cells showed a higher zinc finger E-box binding homeobox 1 (ZEB1) microRNA (miRNA) expression than CD44/CD117/133 triple-positive cells, which overexpressed miRNA 200c-3p: a well-known microRNA ZEB1 inhibitor. We found that ZEB1 inhibition was driven by miR-101-3p, miR-139-5p, miR-144-3p, miR-199b-5p, and miR-200c-3p and that the FaDu Cell Line inhibition occurred at the mRNA level, whereas HN13 did not affect mRNA expression but decreased protein levels. Furthermore, we demonstrated the ability of the ZEB1 inhibitor miRNAs to modulate CSC-related genes, such as TrkB, ALDH, NANOG, and HIF1A, using transfection technology. We showed that ALDH was upregulated upon ZEB1-suppressed miRNA transfection (Mann-Whitney ** p(101) = 0.009, t-test ** p(139) = 0.009, t-test ** p(144) = 0.002, and t-test *** p(199) = 0.0006). Overall, our study enabled an improved understanding of the role of ZEB1-suppressed miRNAs in CSC biology.
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