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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-12-28
pubmed:abstractText
The role of miR-26a in carcinogenesis appears to be a complicated one, in the sense that both oncogenic and tumor suppressive effects were reported in cancers such as glioblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma, respectively. Here, we report for the first time that miR-26a is downregulated in breast cancer specimens and cell lines and its transient transfection initiates apoptosis of breast cancer cell line MCF7 cells. Furthermore, retrovirus-delivered miR-26a impairs the in vitro colony forming and in vivo tumor-loading ability of MCF7 cells. Subsequently, MTDH and EZH2 are identified as two direct targets of miR-26a and they are significantly upregulated in breast cancer. MCF7 xenografts with exogenous miR-26a show that a decrease in expression of both MTDH and EZH2 is accompanied by an increase in apoptosis. Moreover, knockdown of MTDH causes apoptosis while reexpression of MTDH partially reverses the proapoptotic effect of miR-26a in MCF7 cells. Our findings suggest that miR-26a functionally antagonizes human breast carcinogenesis by targeting MTDH and EZH2.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1460-2180
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Breast Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Cell Adhesion Molecules, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-DNA Fragmentation, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Mice, Nude, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-MicroRNAs, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:20952513-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Pathologically decreased miR-26a antagonizes apoptosis and facilitates carcinogenesis by targeting MTDH and EZH2 in breast cancer.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathophysiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't