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Aberrant expression of miR‑4728 in patients with non‑small cell lung cancer and its regulatory effects on tumor progression in tumor cells

  • Authors:
    • Ying Hu
    • Xinfang Zhang
    • Cuixue Gong
    • Jianzhao Li
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  • Published online on: August 26, 2020     https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.9141
  • Article Number: 15
  • Copyright: © Hu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

Non‑small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a common malignant tumor with poor prognosis and an increasing number of cases. MicroRNA (miR)‑4728 is related with the progression of various types of cancer, and is dysregulated in NSCLC, which indicates that miR‑4728 may serve as a biomarker for NSCLC. The present study aimed to investigate the clinical significance of miR‑4728 in NSCLC diagnosis and prognosis, and to explore the biological function of miR‑4728 in NSCLC progression. Serum and tissue samples were collected from 122 patients with NSCLC. By conducting reverse transcription‑quantitative PCR, the Cell Counting Kit‑8 assay and Transwell assays, the expression of miR‑4728 and its effect on NSCLC cell proliferation, migration and invasion were investigated. The diagnostic value of miR‑4728 was evaluated by plotting a receiver operating characteristic curve, and Kaplan‑Meier and Cox regression analyses were conducted to assess the prognostic value of miR‑4728. miR‑4728 was significantly downregulated in NSCLC serum and tissue samples compared with healthy controls, with a relatively high diagnostic accuracy and ability to predict poor overall survival time in patients with NSCLC. By conducting gain‑ and loss‑of‑function experiments, the results indicated that miR‑4728 knockdown significantly promoted NSCLC cell proliferation, migration and invasion compared with the inhibitor negative control (NC) group. By contrast, miR‑4728 overexpression displayed the opposite effect on NSCLC cell proliferation, migration and invasion. The present study indicated that miR‑4728 was downregulated in NSCLC and may serve as a candidate diagnostic and prognostic biomarker. NSCLC cell proliferation, migration and invasion were inhibited by miR‑4728 overexpression compared with the mimic NC group, which suggested that miR‑4728 may serve as a therapeutic target for NSCLC.

Introduction

Lung cancer poses §a serious threat to human health and has become a major concern worldwide (1). There are several subtypes of lung cancer, but it is classified into two main groups: Non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) and small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) (2). NSCLC is the major subtype of epithelial lung malignancies, which is responsible for the increase in lung cancer-related deaths (3). Surgery is the most common treatment strategy for NSCLC, but it is only suitable for patients with stage I and II tumors; therefore, the incidence and mortality rate of patients with advanced stage remain poor. As a consequence, there is an urgent need to explore novel biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of NSCLC.

Previous studies have reported a number of genes and signaling pathways that can serve as biomarkers during the progression of NSCLC, such as NF-kB, tumor suppressor candidate 3 and programmed death-ligand 1 (4-6). The role of microRNAs (miRNAs/miRs) in the prognosis and progression of various types of cancer has received increasing attention (7,8). miRNAs are small non-coding RNAs that primarily mediate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level (9,10). In the past decades, hundreds of miRNAs have been identified, among which a number of miRNAs have been determined as key molecules in numerous types of cancer. For example, miR-505 was downregulated in breast cancer and inhibited cell biological functions, which indicated the potential therapeutic target role of miR-505(11). In gastric cancer, miR-574-5p promotes angiogenesis by targeting protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 3(12). In NSCLC, several miRNAs have been reported to exert effects on cancer progression, especially dysregulated miRNAs. For instance, miR-374a serves as a prognostic marker for NSCLC, where its downregulation has been previously associated with poor patient survival (13). In another study, the downregulated miR-449b-3 expression in NSCLC has been reported to regulate epithelial-mesenchymal transition in NSCLC cells by targeting IL-6(14).

miR-4728 is downregulated in NSCLC, which indicates that it may serve as a biomarker for the disease (15,16). The role of miR-4728 has been identified in a number of other types of cancer. miR-4728 is downregulated in papillary thyroid cancer and inhibits the progression of the disease by mediating the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway (17). In breast cancer, miR-4728 may serve as a marker of erb-b2 receptor tyrosine kinase 2 (HER-2), which is an important indicator of breast cancer (18). However, whether dysregulated miR-4728 expression also serves a pivotal role in the progression of NSCLC is not completely understood. The present study aimed to investigated the role of miR-4728 in the diagnosis and prognosis of NSCLC, and to explore the functional role of miR-4728 in tumor progression by assessing its effect on tumor cell proliferation, migration and invasion. The results of the present study may aid with understanding the pathogenesis of NSCLC and identifying a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for NSCLC.

Materials and methods

Patients and tissues

In the present study, 122 patients with NSCLC that underwent surgery at Qilu Hospital Huantai Branch were recruited between April 2011 and March 2013. During the same time period, 58 age- and gender-matched healthy volunteers (age range, 45-78 years; sex, 36 males and 22 females), who had no history of malignancies, were enrolled as healthy controls. All participants provided written informed consent. All patients had not received anti-tumor therapy prior to recruitment. Blood samples (5 ml) were collected before surgery, cancerous tissues and matched adjacent non-cancerous tissues, which were collected at ≥3 cm from the edge of tumor, were collected during surgery. The tissues were histopathologically diagnosed by two experimenced histopathologists according to the diagnosis criteria by World Health Organization (19). Serum samples were isolated from the collected blood using centrifugation at 1,500 x g at 4˚C for 10 min. All clinical samples were stored at -80˚C until further use. Table I presents the demographic and clinicopathologic data of patients. A 5-year follow-up survey was conducted after surgery, and the survival information of patients was obtained via telephone communication. The present study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Qilu Hospital Huantai Branch (approval no. HTh-200145).

Table I

Association between miR-4728 expression levels and the clinicopathologic parameters of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Table I

Association between miR-4728 expression levels and the clinicopathologic parameters of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

 Serum miR-4728 Tissue miR-4728 
ParameterTotal (n=122)Low (n=65)High (n-57)P-valueLow (n=67)High (n=55)P-value
Age   0.796  0.596
     <60522725 3022 
     ≥60703832 3733 
Gender   0.257  0.154
     Male754332 4530 
     Female472225 2225 
Tumour size (cm)   0.043  0.042
     <4632835 2934 
     ≥4593722 3821 
Smoking history   0.596  0.541
     No482721 2820 
     Yes743836 3935 
Differentiation   0.519  0.743
     Well + moderate693534 3732 
     Poor533023 3023 
Lymph node metastasis   0.002  0.002
     Negative723042 3141 
     Positive503515 3614 
TNM stage   0.001  0.001
     I-II712942 3041 
     III-IV523615 3714 

[i] miR, microRNA.

Cell culture and transfection

NSCLC cell lines (A549, HCC827, NCI-H1299 and NCI-H1650) and a normal human lung epithelial cell line (BEAS-2B) were purchased from American Type Culture Collection. Cells were cultured in DMEM (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) supplemented with 10% FBS (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) at 37˚C with 5% CO2. Following overnight incubation in six-well plates, A549 and HCC827 cells (inoculum density of 2x106 cell/well) were cultured to ~80% confluence before they were transfected with 50 nM miR-4728 mimic, 100 nM miR-4728 inhibitor, 50 nM mimic negative control (NC) or 100 nM inhibitor NC using Lipofectamine® 2000 (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.), according to the manufacturer's protocol. The subsequent cell experiments were peformed 48 h post-transfection. All mimics and inhibitors were synthesized by Shanghai GenePharma Co., Ltd. and the sequences were as follows: miR-4728 mimic, 5'-CAUGCUGACCUCCCUCCUGCCCCAG-3'; miR-4728 inhibitor, 5'-CUGGGGCAGGAGGGAGGUCAGCAUG-3'; mimic NC, 5'-UUCUCCGAACGUGUCACGU-3'; inhibitor NC, 5'-CAGUACUUUUGUGUAGUACAA-3'.

RNA extraction and reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR)

Total RNA was extracted from serum samples, tissues and cell lines using TRIzol® (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Total RNA was reverse transcribed into cDNA using a High Capacity cDNA Reverse Transcription kit (Applied Biosystems; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) with the following conditions: 42˚C for 30 min and 85˚C for 5 sec. Subsequently, qPCR was performed using the SYBR-green I Master mix kit (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) in a 7300 Real-Time PCR system (Applied Biosystems; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). The thermocycling conditions were as follows: Initial denaturation at 95˚C for 10 min followed by 40 cycles of denaturation at 95˚C for 30 sec, annealing at 60˚C for 20 sec and elongation at 72˚C for 30 sec, before final extension at 72˚C for 10 min. miRNA expression levels were quantified using the 2-ΔΔCq method (20) and normalized to the internal reference gene U6. The primer sequences used were as follows: miR-4728 forward, 5'-GCCGAGCATGCTGACCTCCC-3' and reverse, 5'-CTCAACTGGTGTCGTGGA-3'; U6 forward, 5'-CTCGCTTCGGCAGCACA-3' and reverse, 5'-AACGCTTCACGAATTTGCGT-3'.

Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) assay

Cell proliferation was assessed using a CCK-8 assay (Dojindo Molecular Technologies, Inc.) according to the manufacturer's protocol. In brief, transfected cells (5x103 cells/well) were seeded into 96-well plates. Following incubation for 0, 24, 48 or 72 h, cell proliferation was assessed by incubating cells with 10 µl CCK-8 reagent for 4 h at 37˚C with 5% CO2. The absorbance of each well was measured at a wavelength of 450 nm using a microplate reader.

Transwell assay

A Transwell assay (Corning, Inc.) was conducted using 8-µm pore membranes to assess NSCLC cell migration and invasion. To assess cell migration, transfected cells (2x105) in serum-free DMEM (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) were seeded into the upper chamber. DMEM supplemented with 5% FBS (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) was added to the lower chamber as a chemoattractant. Following incubation for 24 h, migratory cells were stained with 0.1% crystal violet at room temperature for 10 min and quantified using a light microscope (magnification, x200). For cell invasion, the upper chambers were precoated with Matrigel (BD Biosciences) at 37˚C for 6 h prior to Transwell assay.

Western blotting

Total protein was extracted from A549 cells using RIPA buffer (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology) and quantified using a BCA protein assay kit (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology). Proteins (30 µg/lane) were separated via 10% SDS-PAGE and transferred to PVDF membranes (EMD Millipore), which were blocked with 5% non-fat milk at room temperature for 2 h. Subsequently, the membranes were incubated at 4˚C overnight with the following primary antibodies: Anti-phosphorylated (p)-ERK1/2 (1:1,000; cat. no. ab214362; Abcam), anti-ERK1/2 (1:10,000; cat. no. ab184699; Abcam), anti-Bcl-2 (1:1,000; cat. no. ab32124; Abcam), anti-Bax (1:1,000; cat. no. ab32503; Abcam), anti-β-actin (1:500; cat. no. ab8229; Abcam). Following primary incubation, the membranes were incubated with a horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibody (1:5,000; cat. no. 715-035-151; Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc.) at room temperature for 1 h. Protein bands were visualized using an enhanced chemiluminescent substrate (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.) and ImageLab version 4.1 software (Bio-Rad Laboratries, Inc.). β-actin was used as the loading control.

Statistical analysis

Data are presented as the mean ± SD of triplicate experiments. Differences between groups were analyzed using the χ2 test, t-test or one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's post hoc test. The paired Student's t-test was used to analyze miR-4728 expression between tumor and normal tissues, whilst the unpaired Student's t-test was used to compare the differences in serum miR-4728 expression between patients with NSCLC and healthy individuals. Statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS (version 20.0; IBM Corp.) and GraphPad Prism (version 5.0; GraphPad Software, Inc.) software. A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was plotted to evalute the diagnsotic value of miR-4728. The Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank test were used to plot survival curves and compare the different distributions between the curves, and Cox regression analysis was used to assess the prognostic ability of miR-4728. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

miR-4728 is downregulated in patients with NSCLC and NSCLC cells

The present study evaluated the relative expression of miR-4728 in NSCLC serum samples, tissues and cell lines. Compared with healthy controls, patients with NSCLC displayed significantly decreased miR-4728 serum expression levels (P<0.01; Fig. 1A). The expression of miR-4728 in tumor tissues was also significantly lower compared with adjacent noncancerous tissues (P<0.01; Fig. 1B). In addition, the expression of miR-4728 was decreased in the four NSCLC cell lines compared with normal BEAS-2B cells (all P<0.01; Fig. 1C).

miR-4728 is associated with the TNM stage of patients

The clinicopathological features of patients are presented in Table I. The TNM stages of the pateints were determined based on the criteria set by the American Joint Committee on Cancer classification (21). According to the median expression values (serum expression, 0.642; tissue expression, 0.547), patients were divided into high and low miR-4728 expression level groups. The results indicated that the expression of miR-4728 in serum and tissue samples was significantly associated with tumor size, lymph node metastasis and TNM stage (all P<0.05) in patients with NSCLC, but there was no significant association between miR-4728 expression and other clinicopathological features (all P>0.05; Table I).

Diagnostic performance of serum miR-4728 in patients with NSCLC

By assessing the serum levels of miR-4728, the ROC curve suggested that the area under the curve was 0.813, indicating that miR-4728 was a relatively accurate diagnostic marker in patients with NSCLC (Fig. 2). The diagnosis sensitivity and specificity of miR-4728 were 77.9 and 75.9%, respectively, with a cutoff value of 0.788.

miR-4728 is an independent prognostic factor in patients with NSCLC

Kaplan-Meier curves were plotted based on survival information obtained by conducting a 5-year follow-up survey. Patients with low tissue miR-4728 expression displayed a worse survival time compared with patients with high tissue miR-4728 expression (P=0.013; Fig. 3). The prognosis value of miR-4728 was evaluated by performing Cox regression analysis. The results indicated that the independent prognostic value of miR-4728 expression had a hazard ratio value of 2.030 (95% confidence interval =1.012-4.072; P=0.042; Table II).

Table II

Cox regression analysis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Table II

Cox regression analysis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

VariableHazard ratio95% confidence intervalP-value
MicroRNA-47282.0301.012-4.0720.042
Age1.2490.654-2.3840.500
Gender1.2240.665-2.2520.515
Tumor size1.5040.822-2.7520.186
Smoking history1.4850.728-2.6990.248
Differentiation1.6560.893-3.0720.109
Lymph node metastasis1.5230.807-2.8730.194
TNM stage1.6680.907-3.0660.059
Regulatory effect of miR-4728 on NSCLC cell proliferation

miR-4728 expression was overexpressed and knocked down by transfecting A549 and HCC827 cells with miR-4728 mimic and miR-4728 inhibitor, respectively (P<0.001; Fig. 4A and B). The effect of miR-4728 overexpression or knockdown on A549 and HCC827 cell proliferation was assessed by performing the CCK-8 assay. Compared with that in the corresponding NC groups, cell proliferation was significantly inhibited by miR-4728 overexpression, but significantly enhanced by miR-4728 knockdown, respectively (P<0.05; Fig. 4C and D). To further investigate the regulatory effect of miR-4728 on NSCLC cell viability, the activity of the ERK signaling pathway and apoptosis-related protein expression levels were analyzed in A549 cells. The results indicated that, compared with the corresponding NC groups, miR-4728 overexpression inhibited the ERK signaling pathway, whereas miR-4728 knockdown promoted the ERK signaling pathway, as indicated by alterations to the p-ERK/ERK ratio (P<0.05; Fig. 4E and F). In addition, miR-4728 overexpression significantly increased Bax expression and decreased Bcl-2 expression compared with the mimic NC group (all P<0.05; Fig. 4E). By contrast, miR-4728 knockdown displayed the opposite effects on Bax and Bcl-2 expression levels compared with the inhibitor NC group (all P<0.05; Fig. 4E). The results demonstrated that miR-4728 might suppress NSCLC cell viability.

miR-4728 inhibits NSCLC cell migration and invasion

The effect of miR-4728 on A549 and HCC827 cell migration and invasion was analyzed by performing Transwell assays. miR-4728 overexpression significantly inhibited A549 and HCC827 cell migration compared with the mimic NC group, whereas miR-4728 knockdown significantly promoted A549 and HCC827 cell migration compared with the inhibitor NC group (all P<0.001; Fig. 5A). Similarly, the number of invasive cells was significantly decreased by miR-4728 overexpression compared with the mimic NC group, but significantly increased by miR-4728 knockdown compared with the inhibitor NC group (P<0.001; Fig. 5B).

Discussion

NSCLC is one of the most common malignant tumors that threatens human health, with an increasing number of cases and rising death rate (22). Although therapeutic strategies have been developed in the past few decades, the prognosis of NSCLC remains poor (23-25). Previously, numerous biomarkers have been demonstrated to serve roles in the prognosis and progression of NSCLC, including a variety of miRNAs, especially dysregulated miRNAs. For example, miR-593 was reduced in NSCLC, and inhibited NSCLC cell migration and invasion by targeting snail family transcriptional repressor 2-related signaling pathways (26). miR-449b could inhibit NSCLC cell proliferation and invasion by targeting leucine rich repeat containing G protein-coupled receptor 4(27). Moreover, miR-650 was upregulated and associated with an unfavorable survival rate in lung cancer, which enhanced cell proliferation and invasion (28). Additionally, exploring miRNAs that serve roles in NSCLC is important for the identification of novel therapeutic targets for NSCLC.

miRNAs that are associated with the progression and metastasis of cancer serve as biomarkers in multiple types of cancer and tumors. miR-216b is downregulated in cervical cancer and correlated with poor prognosis, which inhibits cell proliferation, migration and invasion by targeting forkhead box M1(29). miR-153 overexpression is correlated with poor prognosis and key clinical features in patients with prostate cancer, which indicated that miR-153 may serve as a biomarker for prostate cancer (30). miR-4728 has been described as a suppressor of breast cancer by inhibiting MAPK signaling pathway, and the expression of miR-4728 was associated with the status of HER-2 (18,31). miR-4728 also regulates estrogen receptor 1 via a non-canonical internal seed interaction (32). In papillary thyroid cancer, miR-4728 was identified as a therapeutic target for its dysregulation and function during the prognosis and progression of papillary thyroid cancer (17).

In the present study, miR-4728 was downregulated in NSCLC serum samples and tissues compared with healthy controls. miR-4728 expression was also significantly associated with tumor size, lymph node metastasis and TNM stage in patients with NSCLC. Similarly, in NSCLC cell lines, miR-4728 was downregulated compared with BEAS-2B cells. Moreover, miR-4728 knockdown promoted NSCLC cell proliferation, migration and invasion compared with the mimic NC group. The ROC analysis results indicated that serum miR-4728 expression had relatively high diagnostic accuracy in patients with NSCLC, and the survival analysis indicated that decreased miR-4728 expression in patients with NSCLC predicted poor prognosis and might serve as an independent prognostic biomarker. The results indicated the considerable clinical value of miR-4728 in NSCLC and the vital role during the progression of NSCLC, which was consistent with previous studies (15,16).

The present results indicated the role of miR-4728 in the progression of NSCLC, and provided a potential therapeutic target for NSCLC. Although the results indicated that miR-4728 inhibited NSCLC cell proliferation and regulated cell apoptosis-related proteins, the effect of miR-4728 on cell apoptosis was not examined in the present study, which may be a limitation. In addition, the present study overlooked the mechanism underlying the functional role miR-4728, which may aid with understanding the function of miR-4728. Therefore, further studies that comprehensively analyze the biological function of miR-4728 in NSCLC progression and focus on the underlying mechanism should be performed. Furthermore, the majority of the experiments conducted in the present study were performed in vitro, therefore, in vivo experiments need to be conducted to verify the results.

In conclusion, the present study indicated that patients with NSCLC displayed reduced expression levels of miR-4728 in serum and tissue samples compared with healthy controls. Therefore, the results suggested that dysregulated miR-4728 may serve as a candidate diagnostic and prognostic biomarker of NSCLC. Compared with the mimic NC group, miR-4728 overexpression inhibited NSCLC cell proliferation, migration and invasion, which indicated that miR-4728 may be involved in tumor pathogenesis. Therefore, elevating miR-4728 expression levels may serve as a therapeutic strategy for NSCLC.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express gratitude to the two experienced histopathologists Dr Jiansheng Rong and Dr Baohua Zhang (Department of Pathology, Zibo Central Hospital, Zibo, China), who contributed to the histopathologic diagnosis of the tissue samples.

Funding

No funding was recieved.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets used and/or analyzed during the present study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Authors' contributions

YH and JL designed this study and analyzed the expression of miR-4728 in serum and tissue samples, as well as the clinical data. XZ and CG performed the cell experiments and analyzed the corresponding data. YH wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

The present study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Qilu Hospital Huantai Branch (approval no. HTh-200145). Written informed consent was obtained from each participant.

Patient consent for publication

Not applicable.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Hu Y, Zhang X, Gong C and Li J: Aberrant expression of miR‑4728 in patients with non‑small cell lung cancer and its regulatory effects on tumor progression in tumor cells. Exp Ther Med 20: 15, 2020.
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Hu, Y., Zhang, X., Gong, C., & Li, J. (2020). Aberrant expression of miR‑4728 in patients with non‑small cell lung cancer and its regulatory effects on tumor progression in tumor cells. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 20, 15. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.9141
MLA
Hu, Y., Zhang, X., Gong, C., Li, J."Aberrant expression of miR‑4728 in patients with non‑small cell lung cancer and its regulatory effects on tumor progression in tumor cells". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 20.5 (2020): 15.
Chicago
Hu, Y., Zhang, X., Gong, C., Li, J."Aberrant expression of miR‑4728 in patients with non‑small cell lung cancer and its regulatory effects on tumor progression in tumor cells". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 20, no. 5 (2020): 15. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.9141