MicroRNA-455 regulates migration and invasion of human hepatocellular carcinoma by targeting Runx2

  • Authors:
    • Le Qin
    • Yu Zhang
    • Jie Lin
    • Yangping Shentu
    • Xiaoxiao Xie
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  • Published online on: September 30, 2016     https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2016.5139
  • Pages: 3325-3332
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Abstract

MicroRNA-455 (miR-455) has been considered as a novel cancer-related miRNA and dysregulated expression frequently occurs in various human types of cancer. However, its clinical significance, its biological function and the underlying molecular signaling involved in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remain to be elucidated. In the present study, we found that the expression level of miR-455 was significantly downregulated in both HCC tissues and cell lines. Low expression of miR-455 was significantly associated with poor prognostic features including multiple tumor nodes, high Edmondson‑Steiner grading, advanced tumor-node‑metastasis (TNM) stage and venous infiltration. In addition, our data revealed that miR-455 was a novel prognostic indicator for predicting the 5-year overall and disease-free survival of HCC patients. The gain- and loss-of-function studies revealed that miR-455 significantly suppressed migration and invasion of HCC cells in vitro. miR-455 was inversely correlated with runt-related transcription factor 2 (Runx2) expression in HCC samples. Moreover, we identified that miR-455 inversely regulated Runx2 expression in HCC cells. In this investigation, Runx2 was found to be a direct downstream target of miR-455. Evidently, alteration in Runx2 expression suppressed the effect of miR-455 on HCC cell migration and invasion. In conclusion, our data demonstrated that miR-455 promotes HCC growth by targeting Runx2 and can potentially be regarded as a novel prognostic indicator and valuable therapeutic strategy for HCC.

Introduction

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of non-coding highly conserved RNAs that suppress protein expression through binding to the 3′-untranslated region (3-UTR) of target mRNAs, and function as post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression (1). Increasing evidence has confirmed that miRNAs participate in diverse biological events such as differentiation, disease, cell proliferation, apoptosis, migration and invasion (2,3). Previous studies revealed that miRNAs play important roles in human types of cancer and suggest that the aberrant behavior of miRNAs contribute to the development and progression of human types of cancer by modulating the expression of oncogenes or tumor suppressors (46).

miR-455 has been shown to be significantly dysregulated in different human tumors (711). For instance, it was markedly downregulated in basal cell, glioblastoma and colorectal carcinoma and in gastric and non-small cell lung cancer (1217). It inhibited the proliferation, migration and invasion of lung cancer by directly modulating ZEB1 (18). Moreover, miR-455 inhibited proliferation and invasion of colorectal carcinoma cells by adjusting RAF proto-oncogene serine/threonine-protein kinase (RAF1) and could be a prognostic marker for colorectal cancer patients (19). Furthermore, miR-455 was a predictor of chemoresistance in colon adenocarcinoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients (20). These studies revealed that miR-455 serves as a suppressor miRNA in tumors. However, the functional role of miR-455 and the underlying signaling mechanism by which miR-455 regulates the development and progression of HCC have not been established.

The present research aimed to identify the biological function of miR-455 in HCC. We demonstrated that miR-455 was downregulated in HCC samples with an aggressive phenotype. Downregulation of miR-455 was found to be correlated with adverse prognostic characteristics and reduced 5-year overall and disease-free survival of HCC patients. Gain- and loss-of-function experiments demonstrated that miR-455 inhibited HCC migration and invasion in vitro. Moreover, runt-related transcription factor 2 (Runx2) was confirmed as a direct target of miR-455. Our results elucidate the underlying mechanism involved through which miR-455 suppresses HCC and propose the use of miR-455 as a potential therapeutic strategy for HCC.

Materials and methods

Clinical specimens and data

One-hundred and four HCC specimens were obtained from patients undergoing curative resection of their primary HCC at the First and Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, from January 2006 to December 2008, with a median follow-up time of 40 months. The clinicopathological data were collected and are summarized in Table I. Informed consent was obtained and signed by all patients. Patients did not receive preoperative chemotherapy or embolization.

Table I.

Correlation between the clinicopathological characteristics and miR-455 expression in the HCC cases (n=104).

Table I.

Correlation between the clinicopathological characteristics and miR-455 expression in the HCC cases (n=104).

Expression level

Clinical parametersCases (n) miR-455high (n=48)miR-455low (n=56)P-value (aP<0.05)
Age (years) 0.451
  <65321319
  ≥65723537
Gender 0.834
  Male884147
  Female1679
Tumor size (cm) 0.716
  <5502426
  ≥5542430
Tumor no. 0.025a
  Solitary864442
  Multiple18414
Edmondson 0.001a
  I+II352411
  III+IV692445
TNM stage 0.008a
  I+II814338
  III+IV23518
Venous infiltration 0.021a
  Present21516
  Absent834340
AFP (ng/ml) 0.544
  <400291217
  ≥400753639
HBsAg 0.966
  Positive894148
  Negative1578

a Statistically significant. HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis; AFP, α-fetoprotein; HBsAg, hepatitis B surface antigen.

Cell line culture and treatment

The HCC cell lines (HepG2, Hep3B, SMMC-7721, MHCC-97H and Bel-7402) and the normal hepatocyte cell line L02 were purchased from the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China) and were maintained in Dulbeccos modified Eagles medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; both from Gibco, Grand Island, NY, USA) in a 5% CO2 humidified atmosphere at 37°C.

The miRNA expression vectors, including the miR-455 expression vector (HmiR0148-MR03), the control vector (CmiR0001-MR04), miR-455 inhibitor (HmiR-AN0516) and the negative control (CmiR-AN0001-AM04) and Runx2 overexpression plasmid (LPP-H5215-lv101) were obtained from Genecopoeia (Guangzhou, China). The specific siRNA against Runx2, with sequence 5′-UAACAGCAGAGGCAUUUCGUAGCUC-3′ and a scramble siRNA were produced by Sangon Biotech Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). Cells were transfected with the aforementioned vectors using Lipofectamine 2000 reagent (Invitrogen Life Technologies) in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.

Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR)

Total cellular RNA was isolated from the cultured cells or clinical tissues using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen Life Technologies). RNA was reverse-transcribed using a TaqMan human miRNA assay kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) and cDNA was then amplified with a SYBR® Premix Ex Taq™ II (Perfect Real-Time) kit (Takara Bio Inc., Shiga, Japan). Hsa-miR-455 primer (HmiRQP0516), snRNA U6 qPCR Primer (HmiRQP9001), Runx2 (HQP016478) and GAPDH (HQP006940) were purchased from Genecopoeia.

Western blot analysis

Cultured cells and clinical tissues were collected and lysed and then the protein concentration was determined using a BCA Protein Assay kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Rockford, IL, USA). Thirty micrograms of denatured protein was subjected to 10% SDS-PAGE and transferred to a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane (Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA). The membranes were incubated with respective primary antibodies: Runx2 and GAPDH (1:1,000; Cell Signaling Technology, Inc.) at 4°C overnight. Then the membranes were washed three times with TBST and incubated with the appropriate HRP-conjugated secondary antibody for 2 h at room temperature (ZSGB-BIO Co., Ltd., Beijing, China). Protein bands were developed using an enhanced chemiluminescence kit (Amersham/GE Healthcare Life Sciences, Little Chalfont, UK).

Immunohistochemistry

Paraffin-embedded sections were subjected to immunohistochemical staining. Runx2 (1:300; Cell Signaling Technology, Inc.) antibody was applied as the primary antibody using a streptavidin peroxidase-conjugated (SP-IHC) method. The percentage of positive cells was expressed as: 0 for <10%; 1 for 10–30%; 2 for 31–50%; 3 for >50%.

Transwell assays

Transwell migration and invasion assays were carried out using 8-µm pore-sized Transwell inserts (Nalge Nunc International Corp., Naperville, IL, USA). A cell suspension with a density of 2.5×105 cells/ml in serum-free DMEM was prepared and 200 µl of this cell suspension was loaded into the top chamber, and 750 µl DMEM with 10% FBS was placed in the bottom chamber. After a 24-h incubation, cells were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde for 15 min and stained with 0.3% crystal violet dye for 15 min. The cells remaining in the top layer were swabbed carefully. The BioCoat Matrigel invasion chamber (Becton Dickinson Labware) was used to perform the Transwell invasion assay as previously described above.

Dual-luciferase reporter gene assay

The predicted Runx2 3′-UTR sequence and the corresponding mutated sequence of the sites were produced and embedded into the pRL-TK control vector (Promega, Corp., Madison, WI, USA). MHCC-97H cells which achieved 90% confluency were seeded in a 96-well plate. For the reporter assay, 120 ng miR-455 inhibitor or negative control was co-transfected with 30 ng of the wild-type (wt) or mutant (mt) 3′-UTR of Runx2 mRNA using 0.45 µl of FuGene® (Promega) and then were transfected into the MHCC-97H cells. Following 48 h of transfection, the luciferase activity was measured according to the manufacturers instructions (Dual-Luciferase assay system; Promega). The assays were repeated independently in triplicate.

Statistical analysis

Data are presented as the mean ± SD and performed with at least three independent replicates. SPSS software, 16.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) and GraphPad Prism 6.0 (GraphPad Software, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA) were used with a two-tailed Students t-test, Pearson's correlation analysis, the Kaplan-Meier method and the log-rank test to evaluate the statistical significance. Significant differences were defined as P<0.05.

Results

miR-455 expression is downregulated in HCC tissues and cell lines

We investigated the expression of miR-455 compared to an endogenous control (U6 RNA) in 104 pairs of HCC tissues and the corresponding non-tumor tissues. We found that miR-455 expression in HCC tissues was significantly lower than levels noted in the corresponding adjacent non-tumor tissues (P<0.05, Fig. 1A). Furthermore, we analyzed miR-455 expression in a non-transformed hepatic cell line (L02) and five HCC cell lines (HepG2, Hep3B, SMCC-7721, Bel-7402 and MHCC-97H). Notably, our results revealed that the relative expression of miR-455 was evidently downregulated in the HCC cell lines when compared with the L02 cells (P<0.05, Fig. 1B). These data suggest that the downregulated expression of miR-455 potentially correlates with the development and progression of HCC.

Clinical significance of the downregulation of miR-455 expression in HCC samples

We defined two different miR-455 expression groups according to the mean expression level of miR-455 in order to investigate the association between miR-455 expression levels and the clinical characteristics and prognosis of the HCC patients. As shown in Table I, low expression of miR-455 was clearly correlated with multiple tumor nodes (P=0.025), venous infiltration (P=0.021), high Edmondson-Steiner grading (P=0.001) and advanced tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) tumor stage (P=0.008). Hence, these findings revealed that the reduced expression of miR-455 was correlated with adverse prognostic characteristics of HCC. Furthermore, Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed that high expression of miR-455 was significantly correlated with a prolonged overall survival (P=0.0001, Fig. 2A) and disease-free survival of the HCC patients (P=0.0001, Fig. 2B). Moreover, miR-455 expression was found to be a novel independent factor for predicting both the 5-year overall and disease-free survival in HCC patients (P=0.018 and 0.011, respectively; Table II). Our results suggest that miR-455 could serve as a valuable biomarker for predicting the outcome of HCC patients.

Table II.

Multivariate Cox regression analysis of the 5-year overall and disease-free survival of the 104 HCC patients.

Table II.

Multivariate Cox regression analysis of the 5-year overall and disease-free survival of the 104 HCC patients.

Overall survivalDisease-free survival


VariablesHR95% CIP-valueHR95% CIP-value
miR-455 expression2.1791.113–4.2490.018a3.6021.113–4.7940.011a
Edmondson grade1.2130.713–1.9830.2301.1230.694–1.8690.347
TNM stage2.8121.355–5.8130.007a2.1941.020–4.6490.009a
No. of tumor nodules1.6940.894–3.0240.0681.6740.999–2.8150.056
Venous infiltration3.2532.108–5.9830.001a3.5212.238–6.3720.001a

a Statistically significant. HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.

miR-455 suppresses HCC cell migration and invasion

To identify the biological function of miR-455 in HCC, we transduced HCC cell lines with the miR-455 expression vector or anti-miR-455 vector with different endogenous miR-455 levels. As determined by qRT-PCR, the miR-455 vector obviously increased the expression level of miR-455 in the MHCC-97H cells (P<0.01, Fig. 3A), while the anti-miR-455 vector significantly reduced the expression level of miR-455 in the Hep3B cells (P<0.01, Fig. 3C). Transwell migration and invasion assays showed that increased expression of miR-455 in the MHCC-97H cells (MHCC-97H-miR-455) resulted in an obvious decrease in cell migration and invasion (P<0.05, Fig. 3B), while downregulation of miR-455 in Hep3B cells (Hep3B-anti-miR-455) showed a marked increase in the number of migrated and invaded cells (P<0.05, Fig. 3D). Collectively, miR-455 may function as an anti-metastatic molecule in HCC.

Runx2 is a direct target of miR-455 in HCC

To further confirm the mechanism involved in the miR-455 regulation in HCC cells, we explored the candidate target genes of miR-455 by searching the publically available databases TargetScan 6.2 and miRanda. As shown in Fig. 4A, we demonstrated that 3′-UTR of Runx2 contained the highly conserved complementary sequence of miR-455. Moreover, Zhang et al reported that Runx2 is a target of miR-455 in chondrogenic differentiation (13). To confirm this prospect, we first investigated the relationship between miR-455 and Runx2 in the HCC cases. Our data revealed that both the Runx2 mRNA and protein levels in the miR-455 high-expressing tumor tissues were obviously lower than those in the miR-455 low-expressing tumors (P<0.05, Fig. 4B and C). In addition, the expression level of miR-455 was inversely associated with the expression level of Runx2 mRNA in the HCC tissues (r=0.669, P<0.0001, Fig. 4D). Similarily, as determined by the IHC results, the protein expression level of Runx2 was significantly decreased in patients with a high level of miR-455 (P<0.05, Fig. 4E). Furthermore, the expression levels of the Runx2 mRNA and protein were prominently inhibited by the overexpression of miR-455 in the MHCC-97H cells (P<0.05, respectively, Fig. 5A and B). By contrast, the downregulation of miR-455 prominently promoted the mRNA and protein expression levels of Runx2 in the Hep3B cells (P<0.05, respectively, Fig. 5A and B). In addition, the overexpression of miR-455 clearly suppressed the luciferase activity of Runx2 containing a wt 3′-UTR but did not inhibit the activity of mt Runx2 (P<0.001, Fig. 5C). Suppression of miR-455 increased the luciferase activity of wt Runx2-3′-UTR (P<0.001, Fig. 5C). However, with the mt Runx2-3′-UTR vectors, there was no relative increase in activity. Collectively, these data strongly suggest that Runx2 is a downstream target of miR-455 in HCC.

Alteration of Runx2 expression levels affect the functional effects of miR-455 in HCC cells

To explore that Runx2 is a functional target of miR-455, we restored the Runx2 expression in MHCC-97H-miR-455 cells by transfecting them with a Runx2 plasmid (P<0.05, Fig. 6A). We found that restoration of Runx2 expression in the MHCC-97H-miR-455 cells partially suppressed the effect of exogenous miR-455, resulting in a prominent increase in cell migration and invasion (P<0.05, Fig. 6B). Similarly, silencing of Runx2 in Hep3B-anti-miR-455 cells partially suppressed the effect of anti-miR-455 on migration and invasion (P<0.05, Fig. 6C and D). These data demonstrate that Runx2 is a downstream mediator in the function of miR-455 in HCC.

Discussion

Increasing research has reported the critical roles of miRNAs in the initiation and progression of various human types of cancer (5). Exploration of cancer-specific miRNAs and their functional molecular mechanism contributes to the identification of novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for human types of cancer (6). In this study, we identified that the mean expression level of miR-455 was obviously decreased in HCC tissues compared with that observed in the corresponding tumor-adjacent tissues. Consistently, we also observed that miR-455 was decreased in HCC cell lines vs. a normal hepatic cell line. These data suggest that miR-455 may be a novel tumor suppressor in HCC. Furthermore, low expression of miR-455 was significantly correlated with multiple tumor nodes, venous infiltration, high Edmondson-Steiner grading and advanced TNM tumor stage. These data indicate that the downregulated expression of miR-455 is associated with adverse prognostic characteristics in HCC. Moreover, we confirmed that increased expression of miR-455 predicted a significant better 5-year survival for HCC patients. Multivariate Cox repression analysis demonstrated that miR-455 is a novel independent prognostic indicator for predicting the survival of HCC patients. Collectively, these data reveal that miR-455 is critical for the prognostic outcome in HCC patients.

Previous studies have confirmed miR-455 as a suppressor in human types of cancer. Functionally, miR-455 exerts anticancer functions by inhibiting tumor growth and metastasis (21). Moreover, miR-455 suppressed epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in NSCLC by targeting ZEB1 (18). These results were consistent with the observations we performed in our experiments. In the present study, we demonstrated that miR-455 overexpression clearly reduced the number of migrated and invaded MHCC-97H cells and miR-455 knockdown significantly promoted Hep3B cell migration and invasion. Furthermore, we identified that miR-455 suppressed migration and invasion, at least in part, by targeting Runx2. miR-455 was inversely associated with the expression levels of both Runx2 mRNA and protein in HCC tissues. miR-455 negatively regulated Runx2 accumulation in HCC cells. Moreover, the complementary sequence of miR-455 was confirmed in the 3′-UTR of Runx2 mRNA. Knockdown of miR-455 increased the luciferase reporter activity of wt 3′-UTR but not mt 3′-UTR of Runx2. Conversely, the overexpression of miR-455 inhibited the luciferase activity of wt 3′-UTR but not mt 3′-UTR of Runx2. The function of miR-455 alteration on migration and invasion of HCC cells was also dissipated by Runx2 modulation. In addition, Runx2 has been reported to be a direct downstream target of miR-455 in early chondrogenic differentiation (13). Collectively, our results support Runx2 as a downstream mediator of miR-455 function in HCC.

Previous studies have demonstrated that Runx2 regulates tumor progression, invasion and metastasis and its function in migration and invasion has been documented in different tumor cell types (2226). Furthermore, Runx2 overexpression upregulated transcription factors (SOX9, SNAI2 and SMAD3) that participate in the process of EMT (2729) and whose features include increased motility and invasion potential. Moreover, Runx2 was found to directly regulate the expression levels of MMP9 and MMP13 and mediate the invasion of human breast cancer cell lines (30). It has been shown that Runx2 plays a critical role in hepatocarcinogenesis. This mechanism may account for the effects of miR-455 in HCC.

In conclusion, the data revealed that the expression of miR-455 was downregulated in HCC tissues and cell lines and its low expression is related to malignant clinicopathological characteristics. We confirmed that miR-455 is an independent prognostic marker for predicting the 5-year survival of HCC patients. In vitro, studies demonstrated that miR-455 suppressed HCC cell migration and invasion. Mechanistically, its tumor-suppressive effects are mediated by Runx2. Collectively, the downregulation of miR-455 may play a critical role in tumor migration and invasion and may be a novel prognostic factor and of potential use in therapeutic strategies for HCC.

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