Expression and mechanism of action of miR-196a in epithelial ovarian cancer
Journal Title: Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine - Year 2016, Vol 9, Issue 11
Abstract
Objective: To explore the expression, biological function and possible mechanism of action of microRNA molecular-196a (miR-196a) in epithelial ovarian cancer. Methods: RT-PCR was used to detect the expression quantities of epithelial ovarian tissue, benign ovarian tissue, normal ovary epithelial tissue, ovarian cancer cell lines and miR-196a in normal ovarian epithelial cells to analyze the relationship between the expression of miR- 196a and the clinical pathologic parameters of ovarian cancer.Among those cell lines, the cell line of which miR-196a expressed the most or least was selected and transfected the ovarian cancer cell line by using negative control plasma and miR-196a inhibitor. After transfection, RT-PCR was used to test the expression quantity of miR-196a, Transwell chamber method was applied to determine the migration and invasion abilities of ovarian carcinoma cells and Western blot was employed to detect the expression of HOXA10 protein. Results: The relative expression quantities of miR-196a in ovarian cancer tissue and benign ovarian tissue were significantly higher than that in normal ovarian epithelial tissue, and the expression quantity of miR-196a in ovarian cancer tissuewas distinctively higher than that in benign ovarian tissue (P<0.05).Among 78 cases of epithelial ovarian cancer, the expression quantities of miR-196a in patients with low differentiation were all significantly higher than those in patients with high differentiation (P<0.05). The expression of miR-196a showed no significant relation with age, clinical stage and whether CA125 was positive or not in patients (P > 0.05). Compared with normal ovarian epithelial cell line IOSE80, the expression quantities of miR-196a of all ovarian cancer cell lines increased obviously and differences were statistically significant (P <0.05).Among them, the expression of miR-196a of ovarian cancer cell line SKOV3 was the highest, while it decreased significantly (4.678 ± 0.785 vs. 2.131 ± 0.345, t = 2.938, P < 0.05) after the ovarian cancer cell line SKOV3 was transfected by miR-196a inhibitor. The results of Transwell chamber method showed that the migration and invasion abilities of ovarian cancer cells SKOV3 were declined significantly after the expression of miR-196a was down-regulated and the difference showed statistical significance (P < 0.05). The results of Western blot revealed that the relative expression of HOXA10 decreased distinctly after the expression of miR-196a was down-regulated and also the difference showed statistical significance (P < 0.05). Conclusions: The miR-196a might serve as a cancer-promoting gene to promote the migration and invasion of epithelial ovarian cancer by downstream target gene HOXA10.
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Bo Yang
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