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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
21
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-11-2
pubmed:abstractText
MicroRNAs (miRNA) mediate distinct gene regulatory pathways triggered by epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) activation, which occurs commonly in lung cancers with poor prognosis. In this study, we report the discovery and mechanistic characterization of the miRNA miR-7 as an oncogenic "oncomiR" and its role as a key mediator of EGFR signaling in lung cancer cells. EGFR activation or ectopic expression of Ras as well as c-Myc stimulated miR-7 expression in an extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)-dependent manner, suggesting that EGFR induces miR-7 expression through a Ras/ERK/Myc pathway. In support of this likelihood, c-Myc bound to the miR-7 promoter and enhanced its activity. Ectopic miR-7 promoted cell growth and tumor formation in lung cancer cells, significantly increasing the mortality of nude mice hosts, which were orthotopically implanted with lung cancers. Quantitative proteomic analysis revealed that miR-7 decreased levels of the Ets2 transcriptional repression factor ERF, the coding sequence of which was found to contain a miR-7 complementary sequence. Indeed, ectopic miR-7 inhibited production of ERF messages with a wild-type but not a silently mutated coding sequence, and ectopic miR-7 rescued growth arrest produced by wild-type but not mutated ERF. Together, these results identified that ERF is a direct target of miR-7 in lung cancer. Our findings suggest that miR-7 may act as an important modulator of EGFR-mediated oncogenesis, with potential applications as a novel prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target in lung cancer.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/EGFR protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/ERF protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/MIRN7 microRNA, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/MYC protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/MicroRNAs, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/RNA, Messenger, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Repressor Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/ras Proteins
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1538-7445
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
©2010 AACR.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
70
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8822-31
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Adenocarcinoma, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Gene Expression Profiling, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Immunoenzyme Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Lung, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Lung Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-MicroRNAs, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Repressor Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:20978205-ras Proteins
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
EGFR promotes lung tumorigenesis by activating miR-7 through a Ras/ERK/Myc pathway that targets the Ets2 transcriptional repressor ERF.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Biomedical Sciences and NRPGM Core Facilities for Proteomics and Glycomcis and Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't