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    Increasing evidences demonstrate that miRNAs play an important role in development and progression of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Recent studies indicate that miR-3196 regulates tumorigenesis in breast and lung cancer. However, its role and regulatory mechanism remains unknown in hepatocellular carcinoma. Here, we found that miR-3196 was downregulated in HCC tissues and decreased miR-3196 was correlated with tumor size (P=0.0297) and TNM stage (P=0.034). Forced miR-3196 suppressed HCC cell growth and chemoresistance in vivo and in vitro. Further mechanistic studies revealed that the tumor suppressor p53 transcriptionally upregulated miR-3196 expression by binding to its promoter region in HCC cells. Additional, we also found that FOXP4 was a downstream target of miR-3196 and increased miR-3196 inhibited FOXP4 expression which led to HCC growth suppression and cell apoptosis increase. Collectively, our data shed a new role of miR-3196 in HCC and indicates that p53-dependent, miR-3196-medicated FOXP4 pathway inhibits the tumorigenesis of HCC.
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    // Yang Peng 1, * , Wen Dong 1, 3, * , Tian-xin Lin 1, 3, * , Guang-zheng Zhong 1 , Bei Liao 2 , Bo Wang 1, 3 , Peng Gu 1 , Li Huang 1 , Yun Xie 1 , Fu-ding Lu 1 , Xu Chen 1 , Wei-bin Xie 1 , Wang He 1 , Shao-xu Wu 1 , Jian Huang 1 1 Department of Urology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China 2 Department of Medical Examination Center, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China 3 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, SunYat-Sen Memorial Hospital, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China * These authors have contributed equally to this work Corresponding to: Wen Dong, e-mail: wendong1210@hotmail.com Jian Huang, e-mail: urolhj@sina.com Keywords: microRNA-155, bladder cancer, DMTF1, Arf, cell proliferation Received: November 24, 2014      Accepted: April 6, 2015      Published: April 18, 2015 ABSTRACT MicroRNA-155 (miR-155) is dysregulated in human cancers. In this study, we reported that miR-155 was over-expressed in bladder cancer tissues. We found that miR-155 promoted cell proliferation in vitro and tumorigenesis in vivo . MiR-155 directly reduced the expression of the tumor suppressor DMTF1. The expression of DMTF1 was decreased in bladder cancer tissues. Similar to the restoring miR-155 expression, knockdown of DMTF1 promoted cell growth and cell cycle progression, whereas DMTF1 over-expression rescued the effect of miR-155. Moreover, we investigated DMTF1-Arf-p53 pathway and found that DMTF1 worked in both p53-dependent and p53-independent manners. Taken together, our findings suggested that miR-155 functions as a tumor promoter in bladder cancer, which is partially through repressing DMTF1 expression. The identification of miR-155 and its novel target DMTF1 will be valuable in developing diagnostic markers and therapeutic applications for bladder cancer.
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    The E3 ligase HERC4 is overexpressed in human breast cancer and its expression levels correlated with the prognosis of breast cancer patients. However, the roles of HERC4 in mammary tumorigenesis remain unclear. Here we demonstrate that the knockdown of HERC4 in human breast cancer cells dramatically suppressed their proliferation, survival, migration, and tumor growth in vivo, while the overexpression of HERC4 promoted their aggressive tumorigenic activities. HERC4 is a new E3 ligase for the tumor suppressor LATS1 and destabilizes LATS1 by promoting the ubiquitination of LATS1. miRNA-136-5p and miRNA-1285-5p, expression of which is decreased in human breast cancers and is inversely correlated with the prognosis of breast cancer patients, are directly involved in suppressing the expression of HERC4. In summary, we discover a miRNA-HERC4-LATS1 pathway that plays important roles in the pathogenesis of breast cancer and represents new therapeutic targets for human breast cancer.
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    The paper reviews the data available in the literature on a role of the tumor suppressor ARF in oncogenesis and considers the structure of a gene encoding ARF protein. The p53-dependent and p-53-independent functions of this protein are under many studies. There is evidence for the implication of ARF in angiogenesis. There is more and more information on the role of ARF in the regulation of a cell cycle, apoptosis, and autophagy. The importance of this tumor suppressor in the mechanisms of carcinogenesis is beyond question as the inactivation of ARF suppressor activity leads to the rapid growth of neoplasia. However, the exact mechanisms of ARF action yet remain unclear and require further studies by different specialists at both the molecular genetic and other levels of investigation.
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    Since the discovery of the tumor suppressor p53 and the Ras oncogene, ample data have been accumulated, describing their aberrations in human cancer and their contribution to the multistep process of tumorigenesis. Several studies have also demonstrated that these dysregulated pathways cooperate to promote malignancy. Here we review recent studies on the cooperative molecular mechanisms by which p53 inactivation and oncogenic Ras converge to enhance tumorigenesis.
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    Glioma accounts for the majority of primary malignant brain tumors in adults and is highly aggressive. Although various therapeutic approaches have been applied, outcomes of glioma treatment remain poor. MicroRNAs are a class of small noncoding RNAs that function as regulators of gene expression. Accumulating evidence shows that microRNAs are associated with tumorigenesis and tumor progression. In this study, we found that miR-105 is significantly downregulated in glioma tissues and glioma cell lines. We identified suppressor of Zeste 12 homolog as a novel direct target of miR-105 and showed that suppressor of Zeste 12 homolog protein levels were inversely correlated with the levels of miR-105 expression in clinical specimens. Overexpression of miR-105 inhibited cell proliferation, tumorigenesis, migration, invasion, and drug sensitivity, whereas overexpression of suppressor of Zeste 12 homolog antagonized the tumor-suppressive functions of miR-105. Taken together, our results indicate that miR-105 plays a significant role in tumor behavior and malignant progression, which may provide a novel therapeutic strategy for the treatment of glioma and other cancers.
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    Genetic loss or mutations in tumor suppressor genes promote tumorigenesis. The prospective tumor suppressor tristetraprolin (TTP) has been shown to negatively regulate tumorigenesis through destabilizing the messenger RNAs of critical genes implicated in both tumor onset and tumor progression. Regulation of TTP has therefore emerged as an important issue in tumorigenesis. Similar to other tumor suppressors, TTP expression is frequently downregualted in various human cancers, and its low expression is correlated with poor prognosis. Additionally, disruption in the regulation of TTP by various mechanisms results in the inactivation of TTP protein or altered TTP expression. A recent study showing alleviation of Myc-driven lymphomagenesis by the forced expression of TTP has shed light on new therapeutic avenues for cancer prevention and treatment through the restoration of TTP expression. In this review, we summarize key oncogenes subjected to the TTP-mediated mRNA degradation, and discuss how dysregulation of TTP can contribute to tumorigenesis. In addition, the control mechanism underlying TTP expression at the posttranscriptional and posttranslational levels will be discussed.
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