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MicroRNA‑150 suppresses the growth and malignant behavior of papillary thyroid carcinoma cells via downregulation of MUC4

  • Authors:
    • Zhenzhong Fa
    • Zhenyu Min
    • Jianjun Tang
    • Chuanlei Liu
    • Guodu Yan
    • Jianbo Xi
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  • Published online on: May 18, 2018     https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2018.6197
  • Pages: 45-52
  • Copyright: © Fa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

Previous studies have revealed that microRNA (miR)-150 can act as an oncomiR or a tumor suppressor in numerous types of hematological malignancy and solid tumor. However, the function of miR‑150 in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) remains elusive. The present study aimed to investigate the function of miR‑150 in PTC and its underlying molecular mechanism. The expression of miR‑150 was identified to be significantly downregulated, whereas that of mucin (MUC)4 was significantly upregulated in PTC tissues and cell lines compared with corresponding controls. Further experiments demonstrated that MUC4 is a direct target of miR‑150. PTC cell proliferation and capacity for migration and invasion decreased following miR‑150 overexpression. It was also demonstrated that miR‑150‑mediated MUC4 downregulation was associated with an accompanying decrease in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, as well as its phosphorylated form, resulting in suppressed activation of downstream signaling. In conclusion, the present study demonstrated that miR‑150 may serve a key function in suppressing the malignant growth and aggressive behavior of PTC cells through the downregulation of MUC4. These findings may provide a novel approach for diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for PTC.

Introduction

Thyroid cancer, which represents 2% of all malignant disease cases and almost 90% of neuroendocrine cancer cases, is the most common endocrine malignant tumor (1,2). Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common thyroid malignancy, with a faster increase in incidence over the past three decades (3,4). The survival rate of patients with PTC is considered to be relatively favorable following complete thyroidectomy and treatment with levothyroxine and radioactive iodine (5). However, 10–15% of patients with PTC develop recurrence and distant metastases (6,7). Therefore, there is a need for improved therapeutic strategies for PTC. Previous studies have implicated genetics in the pathogenesis of PTC, including activation of oncogenes and silencing of tumor-suppressor genes (8,9). However, more efforts are required to identify key molecules that may be involved in the development of PTC and that may serve as potential therapeutic targets.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a series of small non-coding RNAs, 19–25 nucleotides in length (10), that regulate post-transcriptional gene expression by binding to the 3′-untranslated region (3′-UTR) of target mRNAs (11). miRNAs serve key functions in cell proliferation, apoptosis and other biological processes in cancer (12). Aberrant expression and dysregulation of miRNAs has been observed in patients with pancreatic cancer (PC), as well as in cancer cell lines (8,1315), indicating the potential value of miRNA profiles as cancer biomarkers and in the development of novel drugs.

miRNA (miR)-150 was first identified due to its crucial regulatory role in normal hematopoiesis (16). However, in recent years, researchers have demonstrated that aberrant expression and dysregulation of miR-150 is closely associated with various types of hematological malignancy (17) and solid tumor (18). miR-150 may act as an oncomiR or a tumor suppressor, depending on the targeted mRNA (17). Srivastava et al (19) observed downregulation of miR-150 in malignant pancreatic tissues and demonstrated the role of miR-150 in the regulation of mucin (MUC)4 and tumor suppression in PC. The authors hypothesized that restoring miR-150 levels may be of therapeutic value in PC. Wu et al (20) revealed that miR-150 accelerated the spread of gastric cancer by downregulating the pro-apoptotic gene, early growth response 2. In addition, Wang et al (21) highlighted a novel function for cyclin-dependent kinase 3 (CDK3) in myoblast cell proliferation and confirmed CDK3 as a key target that further enhances the tumor suppressor function of miR-150. However, the expression profile of miR-150 and its direct target in PTC remain elusive.

Based on previous reports (1921), it was hypothesized that miR-150 may be differentially expressed in PTC and associated with the biological functions of PTC cells. Therefore, in the present study, the miR-150 expression profile was evaluated in PTC tissues and cell lines through reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) and western blotting. Through bioinformatics analysis, the potential targets of miR-150 were identified and the results were further confirmed by luciferase reporter assay. Cell viability, migration and invasion rates were also investigated in PTC cell lines.

Materials and methods

Cell lines and thyroid tissue specimens

The human PTC cell line TPC-1 and the normal thyroid cell line Nthy-ori 3-1 were purchased from (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany). The cells were cultured and maintained in RPMI-1640 medium (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) and penicillin-streptomycin (1:100; Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA) according to a previous study (22) in an incubator with 5% CO2 at 37°C.

Thyroid tumor tissue and adjacent normal thyroid tissue samples were obtained from 30 patients (age range, 34–65 years; median age, 46; 12 males and 18 females) with PTC from May 2015 to July 2016 at Wujin Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University (Changzhou, China). All experiments involving human tissues were reviewed and approved by the Committee for Ethical Review of Research Involving Human Subjects at Wujin Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University. All patients provided written informed consent for the use of their tissues.

Cell transfection

miR-150 mimics (5′-UCUCCCAACCCUUGUACCAGUG-3′) and negative control miR sequences (5′-CCGAAACCUCGGUUGAUUGCGG-3′) were purchased from Shanghai GenePharma Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) was used to perform TPC-1 cell transfection, according to the manufacturer's protocol. The cells were then cultured for 24 h at 37°C and 5% CO2 for further analysis.

MTT assay

An MTT assay kit (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, Shanghai, China) was used to measure TPC-1 cell viability at 24, 48 and 72 h after transfection, according to the manufacturer's protocol. TPC-1 cells (5×104 per well) were cultured in 96-well plates and incubated for 24, 48 and 72 h at 37°C. A total of 10 µl MTT in PBS (5 mg/ml) was then added to each well and incubated at 37°C for 4 h. Subsequently, the medium was removed and formazan crystals were dissolved using dimethyl sulfoxide (150 µl/well) for 30 min at 37°C. The absorbance was measured at a wavelength of 450 nm, using a Bio-Rad iMark plate reader (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA, USA).

Cell migration and invasion assays

Wound healing and Transwell invasion experiments were used to evaluate cell migration and invasion, respectively. For the wound-healing assay, confluent monolayers of TPC-1 cells cultured in 24-well plates were mechanically wounded using a 10-µl pipette tip. The wells were washed to remove cellular debris and the cells were allowed to migrate for 24 h. Representative images were captured at ×100 magnification under an inverted microscope (Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, Japan). The experiments were repeated at least three times. This assay was performed 24 h after transfection.

For Transwell invasion experiments, TPC-1 cells were cultured in 200 µl RPMI-1640 medium in suspension (5×105 cells/ml) and seeded into the upper chamber of a Transwell insert with an 8-mm pore size membrane and a Matrigel-coated membrane matrix. RPMI-1640 medium with 10% FBS was added to the lower chamber as a chemoattractant. After incubation for 24 h, non-migrated cells were removed with a cotton swab in the upper chamber of the Transwell insert and the migrated cells on the underside of the filter membrane were fixed in 100% methanol for 15 min at room temperature and stained with 0.1% crystal violet for 30 min at 37°C (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA) The migrated cells were counted and photographed (×100 magnification) in five randomly selected microscopic fields under an inverted microscope.

RNA isolation and RT-qPCR

TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) was used to extract total RNA from TPC-1 cells and thyroid tumor tissue and was then converted into cDNA using a Reverse Transcription kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) according to the manufacturer's protocol. The expression of miR-150 was determined with the bulge-loop™ miRNA qPCR Primer Set (Guangzhou RiboBio Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, China) and a SYBR-Green qPCR kit (Takara Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Dalian, China). U6 served as an internal control. The expression of MUC4 mRNA was analyzed by qPCR with the SYBR Premix Ex Taq™ kit (Takara Biotechnology, Co., Ltd.). GAPDH was used as an endogenous control. The primers for qPCR were obtained from GenScript (Piscataway, NJ, USA). The primer sequences as follows: MUC4, forward: 5′-GGACCAGAGCGAAAGCATTTGCC-3′, reverse: 5′-TCAATCTCGGGTGGCTGAACGC-3′; GAPDH, forward: 5′-CTGGGCTACACTGAGCACC-3′, reverse: 5′-AAGTGGTCGTTGAGGGCAATG-3′; miR-150, forward: 5′-CTCAACTGGTGTCGTGGAGTCGGCAATTCAGTTGAGCACTGGTA-3′, reverse: 5′-ACACTCCAGCTGGGTCTCCCAACCCTTGTA-3′; U6, forward: 5′-CTCGCTTCGGCAGCACA-3′, Reverse: 5′-AACGCTTCACGAATTTGCGT-3′. All experiments were performed according to the manufacturer's protocols. The thermocycling conditions for qPCR were as follows: 95°C for 5 min, followed by 40 cycles of denaturation at 95°C for 15 sec and annealing/elongation at 60°C for 30 sec. The 2−ΔΔCq method (23) was used to calculate the relative quantities of each gene. Data were obtained from three independent experiments.

Western blot analysis

Total protein was extracted from TPC-1 cells using RIPA lysis buffer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) and then quantified using a BCA protein assay kit (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology) Total protein (50 µg/lane) was then separated on 10% SDS-PAGE and transferred to polyvinylidene fluoride membranes (EMD Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA). The membranes were then blocked with 5% skimmed milk for 2 h and incubated overnight at 4°C with the following primary antibodies at 1:1,000 dilution: Anti-MUC4 (catalog no. ab60720), anti-human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2; catalog no. ab16901), anti-p-HER2 (catalog no. ab53290), anti-focal adhesion kinase (FAK; catalog no. ab40794), anti-p-FAK (catalog no. ab81298), anti-extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK; catalog no. ab196883), anti-p-ERK (catalog no. ab4819), anti-GAPDH (catalog no. ab8245) (all Abcam, Cambridge, UK). The membranes were then washed and incubated with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies (catalog nos. ab191866 and ab218695; dilution rate, 1:1,000; Abcam) for 1 h at room temperature. Immunoreactive bands were detected using the ChemiDoc XRS+ system (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.) and an ECL Plus kit (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology). Data were analyzed by densitometry using Image Pro Plus v.6.0 software (Media Cybernetics, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA). GAPDH served as an internal control for all experiments.

Bioinformatics prediction and Dual-luciferase reporter assay

Targetscan (www.targetscan.org/vert_71) and miRWalk (http://zmf.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/zmf/mirwalk/micrornapredictedtarget.html) were used to predicate the putative target genes of miR-150. To investigate the direct effect of miR-150 on the expression of MUC4, a miRNA target luciferase reporter assay was performed using a pEZX-MT01 target reporter plasmid containing the MUC4 3′-UTR region (GeneCopoeia, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA). Additionally, a mutant MUC4 3′ UTR (MUT-MUC4 3′ UTR) reporter construct was generated by site-directed mutagenesis in the putative target site of miR-150 in the wild-type (WT) MUC4 3′-UTR using the Quickchange XL site-directed mutagenesis kit (Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA). The reporter plasmids were co-transfected into cells with miR-150 mimics or the control vector using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) in 24-well plates. The Dual-Luciferase Reporter Assay system (Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA) was used to perform luciferase activity 48 h following transfection, according to the manufacturer's protocol. Renilla luciferase activity was normalized to firefly luciferase activity. The results were obtained from three independent experiments.

Statistical analysis

All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 19.0 software (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). Data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation. Differences between groups were analyzed using the two-tailed Student's t-test. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

Downregulation of miR-150 and upregulation of MUC4 in PTC

The expression level of miR-150 in PTC specimens and adjacent normal thyroid tissues was initially determined by RT-qPCR analysis. The results revealed that miR-150 levels in PTC were significantly lower compared with those in matched normal tissues (Fig. 1A). The expression level of MUC4 in PTC specimens and adjacent normal thyroid tissues was also determined and the results suggested that MUC4 was significantly upregulated in PTC compared with adjacent normal tissues (Fig. 1B-D). The expression patterns of miRNA-150 in TPC-1 human PTC cells and the normal thyroid cell line Nthy-ori 3-1 were analyzed to confirm the aforementioned findings. As indicated in Fig. 2A, the expression of miR-150 was significantly downregulated in PTC cells. The expression level of MUC4 in PTC cells and normal thyroid cells was then measured by RT-qPCR and western blotting. The mRNA and protein levels of MUC4 were significantly higher in PTC cells compared with normal thyroid cells (Fig. 2B-D).

Upregulation of miR-150 suppresses human PTC cell proliferation and metastasis

To investigate the biological functions of miR-150 in the proliferation and invasion of human PTC cells, which are closely associated with tumorigenesis, gain-of function experiments were performed by transfection of miR-150 mimics in TPC-1 cells. The level of miR-150 in the treated cells was assessed by RT-qPCR. The results revealed that the expression level of miR-150 was significantly increased in cells transfected with miR-150 mimics compared with the negative control (Fig. 3A). This result suggested that the transfection of miR-150 mimics in TPC-1 cells was successful. Thus, in the following experiments, the level of miR-150 was manipulated by transfection with miR-150 mimics, in order to investigate the potential role of miR-150 in the proliferation and invasion of human PTC cells.

The effect of miR-150 on cell proliferation was examined using an MTT assay. The results demonstrated that upregulation of miR-150 significantly inhibited cell proliferation at 72 h following transfection with the miR-150 mimic compared with the control group (Fig. 3B). This is important, since metastasis in late-stage disease adds to the difficulties of cancer treatment (24). Thus, wound-healing and Transwell invasion assays were performed to evaluate the effect of miR-150 on cell migration and invasion, respectively. As indicated in Fig. 3C-F, upregulation of miR-150 significantly suppressed cancer cell migration and invasion.

MUC4 is a direct target of miR-150 in PTC cells

Through bioinformatics analysis via the Targetscan (www.targetscan.org/vert_71) and miRWalk (http://zmf.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/zmf/mirwalk/micrornapredictedtarget.html) websites, MUC4 was identified to be a potential target of miR-150. As indicated in Fig. 4A, a putative binding site for miR-150 was identified in MUC4 3′-UTR. To determine whether MUC4 expression was mediated by miR-150, a dual-luciferase reporter assay was performed. The 3′-UTR of MUC4 mRNA, including the putative miR-150 binding sequence (WT 3′-UTR) or the mutant sequence (MUT 3′-UTR), was subcloned into luciferase reporter plasmids. TPC-1 cells were then co-transfected with the WT or MUT 3′-UTR of MUC4 and miR-150 mimics or controls. The luciferase results indicated that overexpression of miR-150 in TPC-1 cells co-transfected with MUC4 WT led to a significant reduction of luciferase activity, while there was no such reduction in the TPC-1 cells co-transfected with MUC4 MUT (Fig. 4B). These results suggested that MUC4 was the direct target of miR-150. The luciferase activity of miR-150-transfected cells was markedly decreased compared with the controls (Fig. 4B). The effects of miR-150 upregulation on MUC4 mRNA and protein expression in TPC-1 cells were also analyzed. Compared with cells transfected with negative control sequences, cells transfected with miR-150 mimics exhibited significantly decreased mRNA and protein levels of MUC4 (Fig. 4C-E).

Effect of miR-150 on HER2 and FAK/ERK downstream signaling

To elucidate the molecular mechanism of miR-150, HER2, an interacting partner of MUC4 and downstream FAK/ERK signaling were investigated in TPC-1 cells. As indicated in Fig. 5, the expression of HER2 and p-HER2 was significantly decreased following transfection of miR-150 mimics in TPC-1 cells as compared with the control. A significant decrease in p-FAK and p-ERK was also observed in miR-150-transfected cells compared with the control, whereas no significant changes in the expression levels of total FAK and ERK were observed. The results suggested a critical role for MUC4 in the expression of HER2 and p-HER2 and the phosphorylation of FAK and ERK, key cancer survival molecules. In addition, the activation of HER2 and FAK/ ERK signaling was indicated to be attenuated by the upregulation of miR-150 in PTC.

Discussion

miRNAs not only serve critical functions in regulating numerous fundamental cellular processes, but may also act as oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes in a variety of human cancer types, including PTC (25). Over the past few years, an increasing number of studies have been focused on the role of miRNA expression in PTC (26,27). It has been reported that miRNA dysregulation is associated with pathological processes in PTC, as reflected by the extent of extrathyroidal invasion, tumor size and the presence of lymph node metastases (8). miRNA-146, −222 and −221 are the most common miRNAs involved in these processes and they are closely associated with tumor cell proliferation, differentiation, migration and apoptosis (8). Clearly identifying the unique expression profiles of cancer-specific miRNAs and their targets is crucial for elucidating their role in tumorigenesis and miRNAs have demonstrated potential in the development of cancer biomarkers and novel therapeutic drugs (8). It has been reported that miR-150 is up- or downregulated in a variety of solid cancer types, including cervical, breast, lung, colorectal, gastric, liver, pancreatic and esophageal cancer (1921,2830). However, the role of miR-150 in human PTC has not been fully elucidated.

In the present study, it was observed that miR-150 was decreased in PTC tissues and downregulated in human PTC cell lines. Thus, PTC cells were transfected with miR-150 mimics to upregulate the expression of miR-150. The transfection rate was satisfactory, which was confirmed by RT-qPCR assay. The biological effect of miR-150 on human PTC cells was then examined and the results demonstrated that overexpression of miR-150 significantly suppressed human PTC cell proliferation at 72 h following transfection with the miR-150 mimic. In addition, the overexpression of miR-150 significantly suppressed human PTC cell metastasis. Further experiments were performed to determine the potential underlying molecular mechanism of miR-150.

By means of bioinformatics analysis, a search for target genes of miR-150 was performed and MUC4 was identified as a potential target. MUC4 is a high molecular weight type I transmembrane protein and alterations of MUC4 are often associated with carcinomas (31). Upregulation of MUC4 has been demonstrated in several cancer types, including PTC (32). In a study of 98 patients by Nam et al (33), the gene expression of MUC4 increased by ~78-fold in PTC and the protein staining scores of MUC4 also increased markedly in PTC compared with normal thyroid tissue. The results indicated that high MUC4 expression was associated with small tumor size and the papillary thyroid microcarcinoma subtype. MUC4 may serve a key function in the early oncogenesis of PTC. However, the functional role of MUC4 in PTC and its dysregulation has not been clearly determined. In the present study, the mRNA and protein levels of MUC4 were identified to be significantly higher in PTC cells compared with normal thyroid cells, whereas miR-150 mimics significantly decreased the level of MUC4. Furthermore, the dual-luciferase reporter system suggested that MUC4 was the direct target of miR-150. Since there are numerous target genes of miR-150, rescue experiments are required to further investigate miR-150 function as a tumor suppressor via MUC4 in PTC. An in-depth study will be conducted in the future.

The majority of cancer-associated cases of mortality are attributed to metastasis (34). Cancer cell metastasis involves a complicated series of phenotypic and biochemical processes and events, including cell migration and invasion (35). FAK serves a vital function in tumor cell proliferation, survival and migration. FAK deficiency results in reduced cell motility and enhanced focal adhesion contact formation compared with control cells (36). FAK interactions with HER2 promote tumorigenesis and micrometastatic cells express activated/p-FAK and HER2, suggesting a role for HER2-FAK activation in malignant and invasive growth (37). ERK is a member of the mitogen-activated protein kinase family that is involved in a broad range of cell functions and physiological processes (38). ERK is a well-known downstream signaling molecule of FAK and serves as a key regulatory component in cell motility (39). In the present study, decreased expression of HER2 and p-HER2 was identified in miR-150-overexpressing PTC cells. A similar decrease in p-FAK and p-ERK was also observed in miR-150-transfected cells, indicating that MUC4 serves a key role in the activation of these cancer-associated molecules and this effect may be partly modulated through the alteration of miR-150 in PTC.

In summary, the findings of the present revealed that miR-150 possesses antitumor properties and suppresses the growth and malignant behavior of PTC cells, at least in part via regulation of the downstream target MUC4. These findings may provide a novel insight into diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for PTC. However, the present study was limited by the fact that only one tumor cell line was investigated, thus in-depth studies will be conducted in the future in order to validate these results.

Acknowledgements

The authors are would like to thank Professor Caiping Huang of Head and Neck Surgery Department in Shanghai Cancer Hospital for his kind surgery advice. In addition, the authors appreciate the help provided by Dr Zhixin Xue of Changzhou Wujin People's Hospital in collecting tissue samples.

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Fa Z, Min Z, Tang J, Liu C, Yan G and Xi J: MicroRNA‑150 suppresses the growth and malignant behavior of papillary thyroid carcinoma cells via downregulation of MUC4. Exp Ther Med 16: 45-52, 2018.
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Fa, Z., Min, Z., Tang, J., Liu, C., Yan, G., & Xi, J. (2018). MicroRNA‑150 suppresses the growth and malignant behavior of papillary thyroid carcinoma cells via downregulation of MUC4. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 16, 45-52. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2018.6197
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Fa, Z., Min, Z., Tang, J., Liu, C., Yan, G., Xi, J."MicroRNA‑150 suppresses the growth and malignant behavior of papillary thyroid carcinoma cells via downregulation of MUC4". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 16.1 (2018): 45-52.
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Fa, Z., Min, Z., Tang, J., Liu, C., Yan, G., Xi, J."MicroRNA‑150 suppresses the growth and malignant behavior of papillary thyroid carcinoma cells via downregulation of MUC4". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 16, no. 1 (2018): 45-52. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2018.6197