Braconi, C. , Kogure, T., Valeri, N., Huang, N., Nuovo, G., Costinean, S., Negrini, M., Miotto, E., Croce, C.M. and Patel, T. (2011) microRNA-29 can regulate expression of the long non-coding RNA gene MEG3 in hepatocellular cancer. Oncogene, 30(47), pp. 4750-4756. (doi: 10.1038/onc.2011.193) (PMID:21625215) (PMCID:PMC4292930)
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Abstract
The human genome is replete with long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA), many of which are transcribed and likely to have a functional role. Microarray analysis of >23 000 lncRNAs revealed downregulation of 712 (∼3%) lncRNA in malignant hepatocytes, among which maternally expressed gene 3 (MEG3) was downregulated by 210-fold relative to expression in non-malignant hepatocytes. MEG3 expression was markedly reduced in four human hepatocellular cancer (HCC) cell lines compared with normal hepatocytes by real-time PCR. RNA in situ hybridization showed intense cytoplasmic expression of MEG3 in non-neoplastic liver with absent or very weak expression in HCC tissues. Enforced expression of MEG3 in HCC cells significantly decreased both anchorage-dependent and -independent cell growth, and induced apoptosis. MEG3 promoter hypermethylation was identified by methylation-specific PCR and MEG3 expression was increased with inhibition of methylation with either 5-Aza-2-Deoxycytidine, or siRNA to DNA Methyltransferase (DNMT) 1 and 3b in HCC cells. MiRNA-dependent regulation of MEG3 expression was studied by evaluating the involvement of miR-29, which can modulate DNMT 1 and 3. Overexpression of mir-29a increased expression of MEG3. GTL2, the murine homolog of MEG3, was reduced in liver tissues from hepatocyte-specific miR-29a/b1 knock-out mice compared with wild-type controls. These data show that methylation-dependent tissue-specific regulation of the lncRNA MEG3 by miR-29a may contribute to HCC growth and highlight the inter-relationship between two classes of non-coding RNA, miRNAs and lncRNAs, and epigenetic regulation of gene expression.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Valeri, Dr Nicola and Braconi, Professor Chiara |
| Authors: | Braconi, C., Kogure, T., Valeri, N., Huang, N., Nuovo, G., Costinean, S., Negrini, M., Miotto, E., Croce, C.M., and Patel, T. |
| College/School: | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Cancer Sciences |
| Journal Name: | Oncogene |
| Publisher: | Macmillan Publishers |
| ISSN: | 0950-9232 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1476-5594 |
| Published Online: | 30 May 2011 |
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