miR‑671‑3p is downregulated in non‑small cell lung cancer and inhibits cancer progression by directly targeting CCND2
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- Published online on: January 15, 2019 https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2019.9858
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Abstract
Introduction
Lung cancer is one of the most prevalent and aggressive types of cancer worldwide, with an extremely high mortality rate (1). Regardless of the advances in surgical techniques and chemotherapy, the outcomes of patients with lung cancer remain poor, and the 5-year survival rate is only ~15% (2). Metastasis is the most important risk for cancer-associated mortality in lung cancer (3). Among all cases, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for almost 85% (4). Therefore, to improve the therapy available to patients, exploration of the molecular mechanisms underlying NSCLC development and progression is urgently required.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a type of short noncoding RNAs measuring 19–22 nucleotides long, which function by recognizing specific complementary sites in the 3′-untranslated region (3′-UTR) of target mRNAs (5). Through directing the degradation of target mRNAs, miRNAs are involved in the regulation of gene expression. Accumulating evidence has indicated that miRNAs serve crucial functions in multiple biological processes, including proliferation, migration, development and survival (6). In previous decades, miRNAs have been demonstrated to participate in tumorigenesis and an increasing number of previous studies have suggested that dysregulation of miRNAs is associated with the pathogenesis of cancer (7). Furthermore, a previous study has indicated that miRNAs exert vital roles in NSCLC occurrence and progression (8). For example, miR-520a-3p inhibits cell growth and metastasis of non-small cell lung cancer through the phosphoinositide 3′-kinase/protein kinase B (AKT)/mechanistic target of rapamycin signaling pathway (9). miR-224 enhances invasion and metastasis by targeting homeobox D10 in non-small cell lung cancer cells (10). Therefore, the identification of important miRNAs in NSCLC will contribute to understanding of the pathogenesis and novel drug identification.
A recent study indicated that miR-671-3p inhibits the development of breast cancer (11). The role of miR-671-3p in NSCLC remains largely unknown. The present study aimed to investigate the biological function of miR-671-3p in NSCLC progression. It was identified that miR-671-3p was significantly upregulated in NSCLC tissues compared with adjacent normal tissues. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that miR-671-3p inhibited NSCLC cell proliferation and invasion via directly targeting cyclin D2 (CCND2). In conclusion, the present study demonstrated that miR-671-3p exerts tumor-suppressive roles in NSCLC, suggesting miR-671-3p may be a promising therapeutic target.
Materials and methods
Patient samples
A total of 43 NSCLC cancer and corresponding adjacent tissue specimens were obtained from patients with NSCLC who underwent curative resection at Ningbo No. 2 Hospital (Ningbo, China). No patients had undergone chemotherapy or radiotherapy prior to surgery. Fresh samples were collected at the time of surgery, and were rapidly frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at −80°C until use. The clinicopathological characteristics of the patients with NSCLC are summarized in Table I. Informed consent was signed by each patient. The present study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Ningbo No. 2 Hospital.
![]() | Table I.Associations between miR-671-3p expression and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with non-small cell lung cancer. |
Cell culture
Human NSCLC A549, H1299, H1650 and H1975 cell lines and the non-tumorigenic human bronchial epithelial NL20 cell line were purchased from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA, USA). All the cells were cultured in RPMI-1640 (Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) supplemented with penicillin (100 U/ml), streptomycin (100 U/ml) (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany), and 10% fetal bovine serum (Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) at 37°C in 5% CO2.
miRNA transfection
miR-671-3p mimics, miR-671-3p negative control (miR-NC), miR-671-3p inhibitors and miR-671-3p inhibitor negative control (anti-miR-NC) were purchased from Guangzhou RiboBio Co., Ltd. (Guangzhou, China). These were individually and transiently transfected with A549 cells at a final concentration of 100 nM using Lipofectamine® 2000 reagent (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). The miR-671-3p inhibitors were modified antisense oligonucleotides designed specifically to bind to and inhibit endogenous miR-671-3p with a rare off-target effect: miR-NC: 5′-ACAUCUGCGUAAGAUUCGAGUCUA-3′; miR-671-3p mimics: 5′-UCCGGUUCUCAGGGCUCCACC-3′; anti-miR-NC: 5′-GCGTAACTAATACATCGGATTCGT-3′; miR-671-3p inhibitors: 5′-GGUGGAGCCCUGAGAACCGGA-3′. The efficiency was measured 48 h after transfection, by reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) as described below.
RT-qPCR
Total RNA was isolated from tissues or cultured cells using TRIzol® reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). RNA quality and concentration was measured using a Nanodrop 2000 spectrophotometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Wilmington, DE, USA). A total of 1 µg RNA was used for cDNA synthesis using a PrimeScript 1st Strand cDNA Synthesis kit (Takara Bio, Inc., Otsu, Japan). qPCR was performed using the miRNA Q-PCR Detection kit (GeneCopoeia, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA). The PCR thermocycling conditions were: 95°C for 30 sec, followed by 40 cycles of 95°C for 5 sec and 60°C for 34 sec. The RT-qPCR data were analyzed using the 2−∆∆Cq method (12) and relative to the small nuclear RNA U6 or GAPDH levels. RT primers were as follows: GAPDH forward (F), 5′-ACAACTTTGGTATCGTGGAAGG-3′; GAPDH reverse (R), 5′-GCCATCACGCCACAGTTTC-3′; U6 F, 5′-CTCGCTTCGGCAGCACA-3′; U6 R, 5′-AACGCTTCACGAATTTGCGT-3′; miR-671-3p F, 5′-CTGGCTGGACAGAGTTGTCAT-3′; miR-671-3p R, 5′-TCCGGTTCTCAGGGCTCCACC-3′; CCND2 F, 5′-TACCTGGACCGTTTCTTGGC-3′; CCND2 R, 5′-AGGCTTGATGGAGTTGTCGG-3′.
Western blot analysis
Western blot was performed as previously described (13). In brief, tumor cells were lysed with lysis buffer (0.5 mol/l Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, 1.5 mol/l NaCl, 2.5% deoxycholic acid, 10% NP-40 and 10 mmol/l EDTA) in the presence of cocktail protease inhibitors (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). The lysates were collected by centrifugation at 16,000 × g for 20 min at 4°C. Protein concentration was determined by Bio-Rad Protein Assay kit (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA, USA). A total of 50 mg protein/lane was separated by 12% SDS-PAGE and transferred to a polyvinylidene difluoride membrane (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) The membrane was blocked with 5% non-fat dry milk (Yili Group, Beijing, China) for 1 h at room temperature, followed by incubation with primary antibodies for 2 h at room temperature: Anti-Cyclin D2 (1:1,000; cat. no. ab207604; Abcam, Cambridge, MA, USA) and anti-GAPDH (1:1,000; cat. no. ab9485; Abcam). Following washing, the membrane was incubated with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-rabbit secondary antibody (1:5,000; cat. no. ab7090; Abcam) at room temperature for 1 h. An enhanced chemiluminescence kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) was used to perform chemiluminescence detection.
Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) proliferation assays
Each group of A549 cells was collected at 24, 48, 72 and 96 h following transfection. Then, cells were incubated with 10 µl CCK-8 reagent (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, Haimen, China) for 2 h at 37°C. Next, absorbance at 450 nm was measured at each time point using an enzyme immunoassay analyzer. The experiment was conducted in three separate wells for each sample, and performed in triplicate.
Transwell invasion assays
To measure cell invasion, a Transwell invasion chamber coated with Matrigel® (Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY, USA) at 37°C for 30 min was used to determine the cell invasion ability. Following fixation with 4% paraformaldehyde for 1 h at room temperature, the cells that had invaded the membrane were stained with 0.1% crystal violet for 30 min at room temperature and counted. The number of cells that had invaded through the Matrigel was counted in 5 fields of triplicate membranes at magnification, ×100, using an inverted light microscope (Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, Japan).
Luciferase assay
The potential targets and binding sites of miR-671-3p were analyzed using TargetScan7 tool (http://www.targetscan.org/vert_71/). The 3′-UTR of the CCND2 was obtained by gene synthesis, and inserted downstream of the luciferase reporter gene in a pmirGLO vector (Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA). For the luciferase reporter assay, A549 cells (2×104/well) were seeded in a 24-well plate and incubated for 24 h prior to transfection. Next, firefly luciferase constructs containing the 3′-UTR and miR-671-3p mimics or the corresponding negative controls were co-transfected into A549 cells using Lipofectamine® 2000 (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). Cells were collected at 48 h after transfection, and measured using the Dual-Luciferase Reporter System (Promega Corporation), according to manufacturer's protocols. The pRL-TK Renilla luciferase activity was used for normalization.
Statistical analysis
All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 20.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA) and GraphPad Prism v. 6 (GraphPad Software, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA). A Student's t-test and one-way analysis of variance followed by Tukey's post-hoc test were used to analyze two or multiple groups, respectively. Kaplan-Meier curves were used to analyze survival rate and log-rank tests was used to calculate the corresponding P-values. Associations between miR-671-3p expression and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with NSCLC were analyzed using a χ2 test. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.
Results
miR-671-3p is downregulated in NSCLC tissues
In order to explore the function of miR-671-3p in NSCLC progression, the expression of miR-671-3p in 43 pairs of NSCLC tissues and adjacent normal tissues was first analyzed by RT-qPCR. The results demonstrated that miR-671-3p expression was significantly downregulated in NSCLC tissues compared with the adjacent normal tissues (Fig. 1A). Consistently, it was identified that the expression of miR-671-3p was also markedly downregulated in the NSCLC A549, H1975, H1299 and H1650 cell lines compared with the non-tumorigenic human bronchial epithelial NL20 cell line (Fig. 1B). Furthermore, the NSCLC tissues were divided into miR-671-3p high and miR-671-3p low groups using the median value of miR-671-3p level as the cut-off value. pTNM staging designations were made according to the postsurgical pathological staging system according to the 7th edition of the TNM classification of malignant tumors (14). It was observed that the level of miR-671-3p was negatively associated with tumor size, Tumor Node Metastasis stage and metastasis (Table I). Taken together, these results suggested that miR-671-3p may be involved in NSCLC progression.
miR-671-3p overexpression inhibits NSCLC cell proliferation and invasion
To additionally investigate the biological functions of miR-671-3p, miR-671-3p was overexpressed in A549 cells, which exhibited the lowest level of miR-671-3p among all measured cell lines. RT-qPCR analysis indicated that miR-671-3p levels were significantly upregulated following transfection with miR-671-3p mimics in A549 cells (Fig. 2A). Then, CCK-8 and Transwell invasion assays were performed. The results indicated that ectopic expression of miR-671-3p significantly inhibited the proliferation and decreased the invading cell number (Fig. 2B and C), suggesting that miR-671-3p exerts a tumor-suppressive role in NSCLC.
miR-671-3p inhibition promotes NSCLC cell proliferation and invasion
To additionally confirm the role of miR-671-3p in NSCLC, experiments using miR-671-3p inhibitors were performed. As demonstrated by the RT-qPCR assay results, miR-671-3p expression was significantly downregulated in A549 cells following transfection with miR-671-3p inhibitors compared with the negative control (Fig. 3A). The CCK-8 assay revealed that miR-671-3p inhibition led to a decreased proliferation ability in A549 cells (Fig. 3B). Furthermore, knockdown of miR-671-3p significantly inhibited the invasion of A549 cells (Fig. 3C).
CCND2 is a target of miR-671-3p
The present study then aimed to determine the mechanism of miR-671-3p in NSCLC. The potential target of miR-671-3p was identified using TargetScan7. The results implied that CCND2 may be a target of miR-671-3p, as a potential binding site of miR-671-3p in the CCND2 3′-UTR was identified (Fig. 4A). To validate this prediction, a luciferase reporter assay was then performed. It was identified that the overexpression of miR-671-3p significantly repressed the luciferase intensity of CCND2-3′-UTR-wild type in A549 cells (Fig. 4B). Notably, mutation of the predicted site in CCND2 3′-UTR abrogated the effect of miR-671-3p (Fig. 4B), indicating that miR-671-3p interacts with CCND2 mRNA directly. In addition, RT-qPCR and western blot analyses suggested that the overexpression of miR-671-3p markedly decreased the mRNA and protein levels of CCND2 in A549 cells (Fig. 4C and D). The expression levels of CCND2 were also upregulated in NSCLC tissues and cell lines (Fig. 4E and F). Taken together, these results suggested that CCND2 was directly targeted by miR-671-3p in NSCLC cells.
CCND2 restoration rescued the effects of miR-671-3p overexpression
To confirm the role of CCND2 in the process of miR-671-3p-mediated NSCLC progression, rescue experiments were performed. The efficiency of CCND2 overexpression was first validated by RT-qPCR. The results revealed that the CCND2 mRNA level was significantly upregulated in A549 cells following transfection with the pCDNA3-CCND2 vector (Fig. 5A). Then, CCK-8 and Transwell invasion assays were conducted. The results demonstrated that miR-671-3p overexpression significantly inhibited the proliferation and invasion of NSCLC cells (Fig. 5B and C). However, restoration of CCND2 markedly rescued the inhibitory effects of miR-671-3p overexpression in A549 cells (Fig. 5B and C). In conclusion, these results demonstrated that miR-671-3p exerts its roles via directly targeting CCND2 in NSCLC cells.
Discussion
Lung cancer has become a major public health challenge due to its high incidence and mortality (15). Among all lung cancer cases, NSCLC accounts for ~85% (1). Nevertheless, the molecular mechanism underlying lung cancer progression remains poorly understood. In previous decades, with advances in surgical techniques and the development of chemical drug therapies, the outcomes of NSCLC patients have been improved (16). However, the 5-year survival rate of patients with NSCLC is only 15%, even following treatment (17). Therefore, determination of the molecular mechanism and development of novel therapeutic strategies are urgently required. In the present study, the association between miR-671-3p expression and NSCLC progression was demonstrated. It was identified that miR-671-3p expression was significantly downregulated in NSCLC tissues compared with adjacent normal tissues. Overexpression of miR-671-3p significantly suppressed the proliferation and invasion of NSCLC cells, and vice versa. These data suggested that miR-671-3p serves as a tumor suppressor, and implies that miR-671-3p may be a potential target for NSCLC treatment.
An increasing number of miRNAs have been recognized as oncogenes or tumor suppressors, which suggests that miRNAs may be promising targets for cancer intervention (18). For example, miR-30a was significantly downregulated in osteosarcoma, and suppressed osteosarcoma proliferation and metastasis by targeting myocyte enhancer factor 2D (19). miR-12528 was demonstrated to regulate tumorigenesis and metastasis in lung cancer by targeting insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (20). miR-502 mediates esophageal cancer TE1 cell proliferation by promoting AKT phosphorylation (21). Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the association between miRNA and cancer. A previous study indicated that miR-671 promotes prostate cancer cell proliferation by targeting tumor suppressor sex-determining region Y-box 6 (22). A recent study indicated that miR-671-3p suppressed breast cancer progression (11). However, the function of miR-671-3p in NSCLC remains unclear. In the present study, the data demonstrated that miR-671-3p serves as a tumor suppressor. Using CCK-8 and Transwell assays, it was revealed that miR-671-3p inhibited NSCLC cell proliferation and invasion.
miRNAs have been demonstrated to target mRNAs for the regulation of gene expression in cancer (23). Through bioinformatics analysis, the present study identified that miR-671-3p may target CCND2. Using a luciferase reporter assay, the direct interaction between miR-671-3p and CCND2 mRNA was validated. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that miR-671-3p overexpression significantly inhibited the expression of CCND2 in NSCLC tissues. Previous studies imply that CCND2 is a classical oncogene in various types of cancer (24). CCND2 upregulation may lead to proliferation and metastasis of cancer cells: For example, Wang et al (25) indicated that miR-1297 represses the growth and metastasis of colorectal cancer by suppressing CCND2 expression. CCND2 was also demonstrated to participate in NSCLC progression (24). Consistent with these previous studies, the present study also indicated that CCND2 exerts oncogenic roles in NSCLC. It was identified that the restoration of CCND2 expression may significantly attenuate the inhibitory effects of miR-671-3p mimics on NSCLC cell proliferation and invasion. Notably, according to the results of the target prediction, miR-671-3p may also target other genes. Whether other potential genes are involved in this process requires additional investigation.
In conclusion, the present study provided novel evidence to suggest the tumor suppressor role of miR-671-3p in NSCLC. Furthermore, CCND2 was identified as a novel target of miR-671-3p in NSCLC. Future studies will focus on whether miR-671-3p may serve as a biomarker and therapeutic target for NSCLC treatment.
Acknowledgements
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Authors' contributions
YY and XF initiated and designed the study, and analyzed and interpreted the results. YZ performed RT-qPCR analysis. XF wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
For the use of human samples, the protocol for the present study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Ningbo No. 2 Hospital and all enrolled patients provided written informed consent.
Patient consent for publication
All patients within the present study provided consent for the publication of their data.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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