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BIOMEDICINE & PHARMACOTHERAPY
卷 94, 期 -, 页码 55-62出版社
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2017.07.025
关键词
Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma; PCAT1; MiR-122; WNT1; Wnt-signaling pathway
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81602088]
- Health and Family Planning Commission Research Project of Heilongjiang Province [2016-049]
Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ECC) is a deadly disease that often responds poorly to conventional chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in human cancers, including ECC, and recent studies indicated that the lncRNA prostate cancer-associated transcript 1 (nonprotein coding) (PCAT1) is involved in multiple cancers. However, the role of PCAT1 in ECC is unclear. Previously, we showed that PCAT1 is up-regulated in both ECC tissue samples and cell lines. Here, we showed that downregulation of PCAT1 following transfection with silencing RNA reduced ECC cell growth and increased cell apoptosis. Additionally, PCAT1 suppression inhibited ECC cell migration and invasion as determined by transwell assay. Furthermore, we determined that PCAT1 is a competing endogenous for microRNA (miR)-122, with bioinformatics analysis and luciferase-reporter assay results demonstrating that PCAT1 regulated WNT1 expression via miR-122. Moreover, PCAT1 downregulation increased levels of glycogen synthase kinase beta b and significantly decreased beta-catenin levels in whole cell lysates and nuclear fractions, indicating that PCAT1 silencing inhibited the Wnt/beta-catenin-signaling pathway. We also observed that exogenous expression of WNT1 reversed PCAT1-silencing-induced inhibition of ECC cell growth inhibition. These results indicated that PCAT1 silencing inhibited ECC progression by reducing Wnt/beta-catenin signaling through miR-122 repression and WNT1 expression. Our findings revealed an important role of PCAT1 in ECC and suggested that PCAT1 might be a potential ECC-related therapeutic target. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
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