Abstract 1985: Upregulation of miR-328 contributes to ovarian cancer stem cell maintenance by downregulating DDB2
| Autor: | Lu Liu, Qi-En Wang, Shuri Cai, Selvendiran Karuppalyah, Amit K. Srivastava, Xiaoli Zhang, Altaf A. Wani, Chunhua Han, Tiantian Cui, Ananya Banerjee, Zaibo Li |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Cancer Research. 78:1985-1985 |
| ISSN: | 1538-7445 0008-5472 |
| DOI: | 10.1158/1538-7445.am2018-1985 |
| Popis: | Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are considered to play a central role in the cancer progression, metastasis and the development of drug resistance. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have important roles in regulating CSC properties and are considered to be potential therapeutic targets. Diverse aberrantly expressed miRNAs have been reported in ovarian cancer cells. However, there have been few reports about miRNAs that were associated with stemness and progression of ovarian cancer. In this study, miRNA Nanostring profiling analysis was performed to screen crucial miRNAs associated with characteristics and maintenance of CSCs in ovarian cancer. We found that miR-328-3p was remarkably upregulated in ovarian CSCs isolated from both ovarian cancer cell lines and primary ovarian tumors compared to their corresponding bulk cancer cells. We further demonstrated that enforced expression of miR-328-3p in ovarian cancer cell lines expanded the population of ALDH+ cells, enhanced their sphere formation ability, as well as increased their tumorigenicity. While inhibition of miR-328-3p limited the ALDH+ cell population, reduced their sphere formation capacity, and decreased their tumorigenicity. The orthotopic ovarian xenograft assay also demonstrated that inhibition of miR-328-3p impedes tumor growth and metastasis. The mechanistic investigation revealed that repressed ERK1/2 phosphorylation in ovarian CSCs, mainly due to reduced level of reactive oxygen species (ROS), contributes to the enhanced expression of miR-328-3p, and the maintenance of CSCs. Finally, we identified DDB2 as a direct target of miR-328-3p. Given our previous finding that DDB2 is capable of limiting the CSC population in ovarian cancers, we conclude that highly expressed miR-328-3p in ovarian CSCs, probably due to repressed ERK1/2 activity, inhibits DDB2 expression, resulting in the expansion of these CSCs. Thus, targeting miR-328 could be exploited to a novel strategy to eradicate CSCs in ovarian cancer. Citation Format: Amit K. Srivastava, Tiantian Cui, Chunhua Han, Ananya Banerjee, Shuri Cai, Lu Liu, Xiaoli Zhang, Zaibo Li, Selvendiran Karuppalyah, Altaf A. Wani, Qi-En Wang. Upregulation of miR-328 contributes to ovarian cancer stem cell maintenance by downregulating DDB2 [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 1985. |
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