miR-338 inhibits the metastasis of lung cancer by targeting integrin β3

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    • Xiao Chen
    • Li Wei
    • Song Zhao
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  • Published online on: July 11, 2016     https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2016.4928
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Abstract

miR-338 as an intronic miRNA from apoptosis-associated tyrosine kinase (AATK) is involved in tumor proliferation and apoptosis, but its function and regulatory mechanism in lung cancer is still obscure. In the present study, we found that miR-338 was strikingly downregulated in 115 lung cancer tissues and 5 lung cancer cell lines. Besides, low level of miR-338 was associated with tumor emboli, TNM stage, tumor recurrence and poor survival. Regaining the expression of miR-338 in lung cancer cell lines significantly impaired cellular adhesion, migration, invasion and lung tumor formation in nude mice. Furthermore, we also identified a metastasis related protein, integrin β3 (ITGB3), as a novel target gene of miR-338. Our results reveal a new regulatory mechanism of miR-338 which may help us better understand the metastasis of lung cancer.

Introduction

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer associated death all over the world (1). Tumor metastasis as the major cause for high mortality of lung cancer has attracted a great deal of research interest. During the past decades, many metastasis related processes had been identified, such as genetic mutation (2), angiogenesis (3), drug resistance (4), inflammation (5), cancer stem cells (6) and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) (7). In addition, understanding the molecular mechanism of metastatic lung cancer has greatly improved patient survival.

ITGB3 is a receptor of various proteins such as fibronectin, laminin, matrix metalloproteinase-2, osteomodulin and vitronectin (8). Highly elevated expression of ITGB3 has been observed in various kinds of malignant carcinoma. In leukemia, ITGB3 plays a crucial role in leukemogenesis, making ITGB3 be a potential therapeutic target in AML (9). Another study confirmed that ITGB3 was an important regulator in reactive oxygene species induced migration and invasion of colorectal cancer cells (10). In breast cancer, mRNA profile array revealed that several angiogenesis related proteins including ITGB3 were significantly upregulated in metastatic tumor cells (11). Moreover, a recent study proved that let-7c, which is downregulated in lung cancer, inhibited the migration and invasion of lung cancer cells by targeting ITGB3 (12).

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNA, 20–22-nucleotides in length and can regulate gene expression by repressing gene translation or promoting mRNA degradation (13). Disordered expression of miRNAs play an important role in tumor initiation, progression and recurrence. Some miRNAs such as miR-92b (14), miR-9 (15), miR-224 (16) and miR-183 (17) act as oncogenes and drive tumor metastasis in lung cancer. While, miR-101 (18), miR-133a (19) and miR-141 (20) which are downregulated in lung cancer could significantly suppresses tumor metastasis. Besides, some exosomal miRNAs play a key role in lung carcinogenesis, making miRNAs new tumor biomarkers (21).

miR-338 was firstly identified as an intronic miRNA of its host gene AATK and was also functionally antagonistic to AATK (22). Recently, miR-338 was proved downregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma (23), oral carcinoma and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (24). In gastric cancer, overexpressing miR-338 inhibited cell proliferation and promoted apoptosis (25). Restoring miR-338 level in hepatocarcinoma sensitized cells to sorafenib (26). Although one study had proved that miR-338 was able to inhibit colorectal cancer cell invasion and migration by targeting Smoothened (27). The mechanism of miR-338 in tumor metastasis is still unclear. In the present study, we assessed the expression of miR-338 in 115 pairs of lung cancer by real-time PCR assay. We also attempted to clarify the function and molecular mechanism of miR-338 in lung cancer metastasis.

Materials and methods

Cell culture and patients samples

Five lung tumor cell lines A549, NCI-H292, NCI-H460, NCI-H446, NCI-H1299 and one human lung fibroblast cell MRC-5 were purchased from the Cell Bank of Shanghai. All cells were maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's media (DMEM) or RPMI-1640 medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA), 100 U/ml penicillin and 100 U/ml streptomycin. A549 or NCI-H292 miR-338 overexpressing cell lines were constructed by lentivirus assay (Shanghai Genechem, Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China). Human lung cancer and adjacent normal tissues were obtained from 115 patients in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University. All samples were obtained with written patient informed consent and the study was approved by the Medical Ethics and Human Clinical Trial Committee.

RNA isolation and real-time quantitative PCR

Total RNA from 115 pairs of lung cancer tissues or cell lines were extracted with TRIzol (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA USA) and the small non-coding miRNAs were isolated by mirVana miRNA Isolation kit (Ambion, Austin, TX, USA) according to the manufacturer's instruction. A total of 1 µg miRNAs were reverse transcripted with Mir-X™ miRNA First-Strand Synthesis kit (Takara Bio, Beijing, China) and the expression of mR-338 was detected with Mir-X™ miRNA qRT-PCR SYBR kit (Takara Bio). Primers for miR-338 and U6 snRNA were also purchased from Takara Bio.

CCK-8 proliferation assay

In order to examine the effect of miR-338 on cellular proliferation, miR-338 overexpressing or miR-control cells were seeded on 96-well plates (2,000/well). Then, 10 µl Cell Counting kit-8 (CCK-8) was added for 1 h at 37°C. The absorbance of OD450 was measured by micro-plate reader (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA), with OD630 as a reference wavelength. All the experiments were repeated three time in triplicate.

Cell adhesion assay

Cell adhesion assay was performed to assess the effect of miR-338 on cellular adhesion. Firstly, the 24-well plates (Corning, Inc., Corning, NY, USA) were coated with matrix gel (1:50 dilution; BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA) overnight at 4°C. Then, 1×105 miR-338/miR-control stable infected cells were seeded on the plates, and incubated for 30 min at 37°C. The suspended cells were washed out with PBS twice, and adhesion cells were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde. Finally, cells were stained with 0.4% typan blue, photographed and counted under a microscope.

Transwell migration and invasion assay

Transwell migration assays were performed with 24-well Transwell plates (Corning). Lung cancer cells (5×104) suspended in 100 µl serum-free medium were added into the upper chamber of plates, and 500 µl medium with 10% FBS was added into the lower chamber. After 12 h, the upper chamber was fixed, cells on the inner layer were removed with a cotton swabs, stained with 0.4% typan blue and counted at ×100 magnification. For invasion assay, 1×105 cells were seeded on matrix gel (BD Biosciences) pre-coated Transwell chamber, then following the procedure of migration assay.

Xenograf tumor model

Six pairs of 5-weeks old femal BALB/c nude mice (Vital River Laboratory Animal Technology, Co., Ltd., Beijing, China) were implanted with 1×106 NCI-H292 miR-control or miR-338 cells in 100 µl PBS by lateral tail vein injection. Two months later, all animals were sacrificed and the lung were dissected and fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde. Then the tissues were sectioned and stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E). Furthermore, the number of tumor clones in the lungs were counted.

Dual-luciferase activity assay

Lung cancer cells (1×104) seeded in 24-well plates were co-transfected with 50 ng ITGB3 wild-type 3′UTR (ITGB3-3′UTR-WT)/ITGB3 mutant 3′UTR (ITGB3-3′UTR-MUT) (GeneCopoeia, Guangzhou, China), 100 nM miRNA control/miR-338 mimics (Shanghai GenePharma, Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China), and 10 ng Renilla luciferase vector (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) with Lipofectamine 3000 (Life Technologies). Cells were harvested for luciferase activity assay at 48 h after transfection using Dual-luciferase reporter assay kit (Promega). All experiments were performed independently in triplicate.

Western blot analysis

Cells were lysed in RIPA lysis buffer (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, Haimen, China) supplemented with protease inhibitor mix (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN, USA). Equal amount of protein was separated by 8% SDS-PAGE and then transferred to PVDF membranes (Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA). Membranes were blocked by 5% non-fat milk for 1 h, incubated with ITGB3 antibody (Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA) or β-actin antibody (Zhongshan Bio, Co., Ltd., Zhongshan, China) overnight, then incubated with HRP-conjugated secondary antibody and detected by Pierce™ ECL Plus western blotting substrate kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA).

Statistical analysis

Data were analyzed and presented as the mean ± standard deviation (mean ± SD) using SPSS 13.0. Difference between two group were estimated with Paired-samples t-test. The association between miR-338 expression and clinicopathological factors were analyzed with one-way ANOVA and survival curves were plotted according to the Kaplan-Meier method using log-rank test. Difference between groups were considered statistically significant at P<0.05.

Results

miR-338 was downregulated in lung cancer cell lines

We firstly analyzed the gene location of miR-338 in Gene Database. As shown in Fig. 1A, miR-338 was located in the seventh intron of AATK gene which was an adjacent gene of Brain specific angiogenesis inhibitor-associated protein 2 (BAIAP2). Studies had demonstrated BAIAP2 was an important adaptor protein that links Rho-family small GTPases, and was involved in cell motility and the reorganization of actin cytoskeleton (2830). Considering adjacent genes often has similar or reverse function (31,32), we inferred that miR-338 may participate in the progress of angiogenesis or cell motility.

Then, we analyzed miR-338 expression in normal human lung fibroblast MRC-5 and five lung cancer cell lines. From the results we found that miR-338 was evidently repressed in all lung cancer cell lines compared with MRC cells (Fig. 1B).

The expression and clinical significance of miR-338 in lung cancer tissues

In order to further confirm the level of miR-338 in lung cancer, we assessed the expression of miR-338 in 115 pairs of lung cancer using real-time quantitative PCR. Results demonstrated that miR-338 was significantly downregulated in tumor tissues (Fig. 2A). Moreover, patients with tumor emboli and recurrence had a lower expression of miR-338. Decreased miR-338 level was also associated with TNM stage, while there were no obviously difference about gender, age, smoking history, tumor size and lymph node metastasis (Table I). As shown in Fig. 2B, the 5-year overall survival rate of low miR-338 expressing group was significantly lower than that of the high miR-338 expressing group (P=0.001).

Table I

The expression of miR-338 and clinocopathological factors in lung cancer.

Table I

The expression of miR-338 and clinocopathological factors in lung cancer.

FactorsNRelative expressionP-valuea
Gender
 Male87−2.72±3.580.236
 Female28−3.68±3.99
Age (years)
 <5545−2.74±3.300.618
 ≥5570−3.09±3.93
Smoking
 Yes93−2.84±3.720.507
 No22−3.43±3.58
Tumor size (cm)
 ≤360−2.45±3.690.129
 >355−3.50±3.64
Tumor emboli
 Yes26−4.82±4.350.005b
 No89−2.44±3.44
Lymph node metastasis
 Yes39−3.28±3.520.496
 No76−2.78±3.78
Tumor recurrence
 Yes27−4.72±4.230.004b
 No88−2.41±3.35
TNM
 I–II65−2.11±3.160.025b
 III–IV50−4.01±4.03

a The difference between two groups were analyzed by one-way ANOVA.

b P<0.05.

miR-338 inhibits the proliferation and adhesion of lung cancer cells

To investigate the function of miR-338 in the progress of lung cancer miR-338 overexpressing stable cell lines were constructed, and miR-338 RNA level was confirmed by real-time PCR assay (Fig. 2C and D). CCK-8 proliferation assay was performed to assess the effect of miR-338 on tumor growth. As shown in Fig. 3A and B, upregulation of miR-338 inhibited the proliferation rate. Furthermore, we decided to check whether miR-338 could affect cellular adhesion. Adhesion assay results revealed that overexpression of miR-338 in lung cancer cells obviously impaired the ability of adhesion (Fig. 3C and D).

miR-338 suppresses tumor migration and invasion

To explore the effect of miR-338 on cellular migration and invasion, Transwell assays were performed. Fig. 4A shows that elevating the expression of miR-338 in A549 and NCI-H292 cell lines markedly weakened the migration ability. This effect was also observed in the invasion assay (Fig. 4B).

miR-338 abated lung cancer metastasis in vivo

To further investigate whether miR-338 is sufficient to lighten tumor metastasis in vivo, miR-338 overexpressing and miR-control NCI-H292 cell lines were injected into the tail vein of BALB/c nude mice. Results shown that the miR-338 group had fewer tumor metastatic lesions compared with the control group (Fig. 5A). The tumor foci in lung tissues were confirmed by pathological section, and the tumor clone number was counted by microscope (Fig. 5B).

ITGB3 was a novel target gene of miR-338

To uncover the molecular mechanism by which miR-338 performed a suppressor role in cancer metastasis. The target genes were analyzed by software including StarBase, TargetScan and microRNA.org. Finally, we identified ITGB3 which was involved in tumor angiogenesis, cellular adhesion and cytoskeleton rearrangement as a potential target gene of miR-338 (Fig. 6A). Furthermore, we analyzed the correlation between miR-338 expression and ITGB3 mRNA expression in 441 lung cancer tissues from TCGA database. As shown in Fig. 6B, ITGB3 was negatively associated with miR-338 in lung cancer (P=0.0037).

To confirm this hypothesis, protein expression of ITGB3 in A549 and NCI-H292 miR-338 overexpressing stable cell lines were detected by western blot assay. The results revealed that exogenous transfection with miR-338 markedly suppressed ITGB3 expression (Fig. 6C). In order to examine whether ITGB3 was a direct target of miR-338, ITGB3-3′UTR-WT and ITGB3-3′UTR-MUT were constructed. Dual-luciferase activity assay revealed that the luciferase activity was significantly reduced in miR-338 mimics overexpressing group compared with the control group. However, this change was abrogated when the binding seed region was mutant (Fig. 6D and E).

Discussion

The role of miRNAs in the regulation of tumor metastasis has been widely recognized in the recent years. The progress on systemic delivery as well as applications for miRNAs as therapeutic agents have witnessed the advancement of miR-34a in liver cancer or metastatic cancer with liver involvement (33). Studies have proved that recovering some tumor suppressor miRNAs such as miR-204, miR-145, miR-21 significantly abrogated the metastasis of human lung cancer in vitro and in vivo (3436). Moreover, some plasma miRNAs including miR-486, miR-150, miR-152 and let-7c have been identified as biomarkers for lung cancer (37,38). In the present study, we found that miR-338 was downregulated in lung cancer cell lines. We also validated that miR-338 was obviously impaired in lung cancer tissues. Lower expression of miR-338 was associated with tumor emboli and recurrence, indicating miR-338 may be a vital negative regulator of metastatic lung cancer.

AATK is a brain apoptosis-associated tyrosine kinase, and is a necessary pre-requisite for the induction of growth arrest, apoptosis and neuronal differentiation. Similar to host gene, miR-338 also displays its ability to regulate neurocyte differentiation or apoptosis (3941). In carcinoma, miR-338 suppresses the proliferation of liver tumor cells by targeting foxp4, and induces gastric cancer apoptosis by targeting SSX2IP. The anti-proliferation effect of miR-338 was also confirmed in the present study. BAIAP2 as an adjacent gene of AATK is involved in neuronal growth-cone guidance, formation of stress fibers and cytokinesis. As studies have validated that adjacent genes usually share similar or related function (42) besides AATK has also been identified as a regulator of neurite outgrowth (43). These findings hint that miR-338 may participate in cellular migration or invasion. Our further results validated that restoring the expression of miR-338 markedly impeded lung cancer cells metastasis and adhesion.

ITGB3 as a receptor of various extracellular matrix protein, and plays an important role in number of physiological and pathological progress such as bone resorption, angiogenesis, adhesion, tumor invasion and metastasis (44). Elevated expression of ITGB3 is closely correlated with the metastatic potential of colorectal cancer (10). In lung cancer, high expression of ITGB3 promotes tumor metastasis and vascular invasion (45). Studies have proven that some miRNAs including let-7a, let-7c and miR-320 inhibit tumor metastasis by targeting ITGB3 (12,46,47). In this study, we identified that ITGB3 was a potential target gene of miR-338 through bioinformatics analysis. This was further confirmed by western blot assay and Dual-luciferase activity assay. We also found that ITGB3 was negatively correlated with miR-338 in 441 lung cancer tissues by analysing data from TCGA database.

In conclusion, our results show that miR-338 was downregulated in lung cancer and associated with tumor metastasis and recurrence. We also identified ITGB3, a tumor metastasis-related gene, as a novel target gene of miR-338, suggesting that miR-338 is a potential target for lung cancer therapy.

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