MicroRNA‑1271 inhibits cellular proliferation of hepatocellular carcinoma

  • Authors:
    • Andong Qin
    • Jiehua Zhu
    • Xingxiang Liu
    • Dongxiao Zeng
    • Maolin Gu
    • Chun Lv
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  • Published online on: September 25, 2017     https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2017.7052
  • Pages: 6783-6788
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Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common causes of cancer‑associated mortality worldwide, particularly in China. MicroRNAs (miRs) serve important roles in the pathogenesis of HCC. The present study investigated the function of miR‑1271 in HCC. The miR‑1271 levels were analyzed by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Cells growth was examined by MTT assay. Bioinformatics algorithms from TargetScanHuman were used to predict the target genes of miR‑1271. The protein level was assayed by western blotting. miR‑1271 demonstrated a lower expression level in HCC tissues. Upregulation of miR‑1271 suppressed the growth of HepG‑2 and Huh‑7 cells and induced apoptosis of cells. Forkhead box Q1 (FOXQ1) was targeted by miR‑1271. In conclusion, miR‑1271 is a novel tumor suppressor that inhibits HCC proliferation and induces cellular apoptosis by targeting FOXQ1 in HCC. The results of the present study may provide a novel therapeutic target of HCC.

Introduction

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounts for ~80% of all liver cancer cases, and is one of the most common causes of cancer-associated mortality worldwide (1,2). The prevalence rate of HCC in China is particularly high, but continues to increase in numerous western countries (1,3). Despite HCC being was one of the first cancers to be linked epidemiologically to a definite risk factor, the underlying mechanisms of HCC pathogenesis remain unclear (4). The risk factors for HCC vary by location. In China, Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C virus infections are the main risk factors (5). The survival rate of patients with HCC has been extended due to progress in liver transplantation and other treatments; however, the insensitivity of chemotherapeutic drugs, cancer recurrence and metastasis continue to contribute to a poor prognosis (6). Thus, the identification of therapeutic targets and translation of molecular studies of HCC into clinical practice is urgently required.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs, which are ~22 nucleotides in length (79). A number of miRNAs have been revealed to be involved in the pathogenesis of HCC (1026). The roles of miR-1271 in numerous types of cancers have previously been investigated. For example, in gastric cancer, miR-1271 inhibited cell proliferation, invasion and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) by targeting forkhead box Q1 (FOXQ1) (27). Additionally, in oral squamous cell carcinoma, miR-1271 inhibited cell growth and metastasis by targeting anaplastic lymphoma receptor tyrosine kinase (28). In HCC, a previous study demonstrated that miR-96, miR-129-1-3p, miR-1291, miR-1303 and miR-1271 differentially regulated Glypican-3 (GPC3) expression levels in HCC cells and that the upregulation of GPC3 was associated with a concomitant downregulation of its repressor miR-1271 (29). However, the roles served by miR-1271 in HCC remain unclear.

The present study analyzed the expression level of miR-1271 in HCC tissues and determined the in vitro function of miR-1271. The aim of the study was to provide useful evidence and suggestions for additional investigations.

Patients and methods

Patients

A total of 22 HCC tissue specimens were collected from the Institute of Liver Disease (The Fourth Hospital of Huaian City, Huaian, China). Tissue samples were immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen following isolation. Written informed consent was obtained from each patient prior to enrollment in the present study. The present study was approved by the Ethics Committee of The Fourth Hospital of Huaian. The specimens were processed using a hematoxylin and eosin staining protocol (30). Senior pathologists of The Fourth Hospital of Huaian (Huaian, China) evaluated the histological features of the specimens using LED microscopy at magnifications, ×100 and ×400 (DM300 Microscope, Leica Microsystems GmbH, Wetzlar, Germany).

Cell culture and antibodies

HCC Huh7 and HepG2 cells were purchased from the Cell Store of Shanghai Jiaotong University (Shanghai, China). The Huh7 cell line was maintained in RPMI-1640 medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; PAA Laboratories; GE Healthcare Life Sciences, Chalfont, UK). The human HCC HepG2 cell line was maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium supplemented with 10% FBS (PAA Laboratories; GE Healthcare Life Sciences). Antibodies specific to FOXQ1 (Anti-FOXQ1 antibody; cat. no., ab51340, working concentration: 2.5 µg/ml) and β-actin (Anti-β-Actin antibody; cat. no., ab8226, working concentration: 0.05 µg/ml) were supplied by Abcam (Cambridge, UK).

Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR)

Total RNA was isolated using TRIzol® reagent (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA), was transcribed to cDNA using an EasyScript First-Strand cDNA Synthesis SuperMix kit (TransGen Biotech, Inc., Beijing, China) according to the manufacturer's protocol. The qPCR was carried out to detect the expression of miR-1271 and FOXQ1 mRNA by using SYBR-Green qPCR SuperMix-UDG with ROX (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). The mRNA and miRNA primers were synthesized by Shanghai Genepharma Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China). U6 and GAPDH were used as the references for detecting the expression of miR-1271 or FOXQ1, respectively. The primers used were as follows: miR-1271-forward (F), 5′-CAGCACTTGGCACCTAGCA-3′, miR-1271-reverse (R), 5′-TATGGTTGTTCTCCTCTCTGTCTC-3′; FOXQ1-F, 5′-GTGATTTCTTGCTATTGACCGATG-3′, FOXQ1-R, 5′-GCCCAAGGAGACCACAGTTAGA-3′; U6-F, 5′-AGAGCCTGTGGTGTCCG-3′, U6-R, 5′-CATCTTCAAAGCACTTCCCT-3′; and GAPDH-F, 5′-CATCACCATCTTCCAGGAGCG-3′, GAPDH-R, 5′-TGACCTTGCCCACAGCCTTG-3′. Relative expression levels were calculated by the 2−ΔΔCt method (3133). This experiment was repeated at least three times.

miR mimics and miR-antisense-oligonucleotides (AOS)

miR-1271 mimics, miR-1271 antisense oligonucleotides and the negative control (NC) were purchased from Qiagen, Inc. (Valencia, CA, USA). miR-ASOs, miR mimics and the respective NC were transfected into cells at a concentration of 50 nM using Lipofectamine® 2000 transfection reagent (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) at 37°C for 30 min, according to the manufacturer's protocol. After transfection, the cells were maintained at 37°C for 48 h for additional experiments.

MTT assays

After 24 h of transfection of miR-1271 mimics and anti-miR-940, MDA-MB-231 and BT-549 cells (5×103/well) were seeded into 96-well plates. Then, MTT experiments were performed as described previously (34).

Apoptosis assay for flow cytometry

Huh7 and HepG2 cells were seeded at a density of 0.3×106 overnight, then these cells were harvested and washed with PBS three times. The Fc receptor was blocked by 3% fetal bovine albumin at room temperature for 30 min. Cells were stained with Anti-Annexin V antibody (1:500, cat. no., ab63556; Abcam) at room temperature for 20 min.

Bioinformatics methods

The miR-1271 targets predicted by algorithms were acquired from the Target Scan Human database (http://www.targetscan.org/vert_61/) (3538).

FOXQ1 3′untranslated region (UTR) reporter analysis

The reporter genes analysis was performed by Chengdu Technology & Market Co., Ltd. (Chengdu, China). Briefly, the 3′UTR of FOXQ1 was amplified and cloned into the downstream FOXQ1 3′UTR reporter plasmids (pRL-FOXQ1), using the following primers: FOXQ1-3′UTR-HF, 5′-AATTCTAGGCGATCGCTCGAGGACTACTGTTTGGGGTTTCTGG-3′; FOXQ1-3′UTR-HR, 5′-GCGGCCGCTCTAGGTTTAAACACACTTGCTTTCAAGGCAGTGG-3′. The thermocycler conditions were as follows: 95°C for 3 min, then 95°C for 30 sec, 53°C for 30 sec and 72°C for 30 sec for 28 cycles, followed by 72°C for 2 min. Mutants of FOXQ1 3′UTR were generated using the Site-Directed Mutagenesis kit (Shanghai Shengong Biotechnology Company, Shanghai, China). For the luciferase reporter assay, the cells were co-transfected with miR-1271 mimics, control and reporter plasmid or the mutant 3′UTR, together with the controls using Lipofectamine® 2000 at 37°C for 30 min. At 48 h following transfection, cells were analyzed using the Dual Luciferase reporter assay system (Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA) as described previously (39).

Western blot analysis

Cells (5×106 cells) were lysed using 50 µl M-PER protein extraction reagent (Pierce; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) supplemented with 10 µl protease inhibitor cocktail (EMD Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA) on ice for 45 min (40). Protein quantification was evaluated using a BCA assay and absorbance at 280 nm (Pierce; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). Protein (20 µg) was separated using 10% SDS-PAGE gels, then electrophoretically transferred onto nitrocellulose membranes (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA, USA). The membranes were blocked with 5% milk/TBS Tween-20 at 4°C overnight, and then incubated with antibodies specific to FOXQ1 (Anti-FOXQ1 antibody; cat. no., ab51340, working concentration, 2.5 µg/ml) at 4°C overnight, followed by incubation with a horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibody (goat anti-rabbit IgG H&L, cat. no., ab6721, 1:1,000) at room temperature for 2 h (Abcam, Cambridge, United Kingdom). The membranes were washed with TBS three times and then images were visualized by chemiluminescence and LabWorks Image Acquisition and Analysis Software 2 (UVP LLC, Upland, CA, USA).

Statistical analysis

Statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS version 18 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation from three experimental repeats. Two-tailed Student's t-test was used to analyze the difference between two groups. One-way ANOVA was used to analyze the difference between three groups. Multiple comparison between the groups was performed using the Student Newman Keuls method. The Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed rank test was used to determine the difference between the expression level of miR-1271 in HCC tissues and the matched controls. Kaplan-Meier analysis was used to evaluate the overall survival rate of patients with HCC according to the expression level of miR-1271 in HCC tissues. The correlation analysis was performed by two-tailed Pearson's correlation coefficient analysis. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

miR-1271 is frequently downregulated in HCC tissues

Initially, miR-1271 expression levels in tumor tissues and the matched adjacent normal tissues of 22 patients with HCC were evaluated by RT-qPCR. The results indicated that in 22 patients with HCC, compared with the matched non-tumorous tissues, the majority of HCC tissues exhibited lower miR-1271 expression levels compared with the corresponding tumor-adjacent normal tissues (Fig. 1A). Furthermore, the 22 HCC tissues demonstrated a lower mean expression level of miR-1271 compared with in normal tissues (Fig. 1B). These results indicated that miR-1271 may serve an important role in HCC.

Overexpression of miR-1271 inhibited cell growth and promoted apoptosis of cells

The miR-1271 expression levels in HCC cell lines, HepG-2 and Huh-7, were analyzed by RT-qPCR. The results indicated that there were lower expression levels of miR-1271 in HepG-2 and Huh-7 cells compared with normal liver tissue (Fig. 2A). The present study subsequently overexpressed miR-1271 by performing miR-1271 mimic transfection. Following 48 h, the miR-1271 expression levels in HepG-2 and Huh-7 cells were evaluated by RT-qPCR. It was revealed that miR-1271 mimic transfection upregulated miR-1271 levels in HepG-2 and Huh-7 cells (Fig. 2B). Following the transfection, cellular proliferation rate was determined by MTT analysis. The results suggested that transfection of miR-1271 mimics inhibited HepG-2 and Huh-7 cell growth (Fig. 2C). A total of 48 h subsequent to transfection, cells were prepared for apoptosis analysis and it was demonstrated that transfection of miR-1271 mimics induced an increase in the levels of cellular apoptosis (Fig. 2D).

Downregulation of miR-1271 promoted cell growth and inhibited apoptosis

The present study downregulated miR-1271 expression levels by transfection of miR-1271 ASO. Following 48 h, the miR-1271 expression levels in HepG-2 and Huh-7 cells were determined by RT-qPCR and it was revealed that miR-1271 ASO transfection downregulated the miR-1271 levels in HepG-2 and Huh-7 cells (Fig. 3A). Following the transfection, cellular proliferation rate was evaluated by MTT analysis. The present study demonstrated that transfection of miR-1271 mimics promoted HepG-2 and Huh-7 cell growth (Fig. 3B). Following a 48 h transfection, cells were prepared for apoptosis analysis and the results revealed that transfection of miR-1271 mimics inhibited apoptosis (Fig. 3C).

miR-1271 targets FOXQ1 in HCC cells

In order to investigate mechanism underlying miR-1271 in HCC, the present study predicted the potential target genes of miR-1271 using bioinformatics algorithms. Numerous genes were predicted (data not shown), including FOXQ1. FOXQ1 is a member of the forkhead transcription factor family (41). A previous study revealed that FOXQ1 is a modulator of TWIST-1 mediated metastatic phenotypes and a biomarker of metastasis (42). FOXQ1 served a key role in regulating EMT and aggressiveness of human cancer (43). Therefore, FOXQ1 was selected for additional investigation. The binding sites with miR-1271 and the mutant sequence were listed (Fig. 4A). Following the construction of luciferase reporter plasmids with 3′UTR of FOXQ1 or mutant, miR-1271 mimics and reporter plasmids were co-transfected into HepG-2 cells: This revealed that overexpression of miR-1271 reduced the luciferase activity of wild type 3′UTR reporter; however, in the mutated 3′UTR reporter, miR-1271 demonstrated less effect (Fig. 4B). Next, HepG-2 cells were transfected with miR-1271 mimics. After 48 h, western blot analysis was performed to determine the expression level of FOXQ1 protein, and it was identified that the transfection of miR-1271 mimics inhibited the FOXQ1 protein expression in HepG-2 cells (Fig. 4C). Finally, the FOXQ1 mRNA expression levels in 11 HCC tissues were examined by PCR. It was demonstrated that the FOXQ1 mRNA expression levels and miR-1271 expression levels were negatively correlated (Fig. 4D).

Discussion

The present study determined the function of miR-1271 by alteration of miR-1271 expression levels in HCC cells. HCC tissues revealed a lower expression level of miR-1271. Overexpression of miR-1271 inhibited cell growth and promoted apoptosis, and downregulation of miR-1271 promoted cell growth and inhibited apoptosis. miR-1271 targeted FOXQ1. The downregulation of miR-1271 in HCC has been demonstrated in a previous study (29). The results of the present study revealed a clear role of miR-1271 in HCC.

The present study demonstrated that FOXQ1 was targeted by miR-1271. It has previously been revealed that FOXQ1 is overexpressed in various types of human cancer, including colorectal (44), breast (45) and lung cancer (45) and HCC (46,47). Notably, high FOXQ1 expression levels were independent prognostic factors of HCC (46). As FOXQ1 was targeted by miR-1271, the present study suggested that miR-1271 may be a prognostic factor of HCC.

In addition, FOXQ1 has been reported to be a target of TGF-β signaling in breast cancer (48) and a novel target of the Wnt-β-catenin signaling pathway in colorectal cancer (49). miR-124 suppressed tumor growth and metastasis by targeting FOXQ1 in nasopharyngeal cancer (50). An additional previous study suggested that there was a double-negative feedback loop between miR-422a and its targeted gene, FOXQ1, in HCC (51). To the best of our knowledge, the present study demonstrated for the first time that FOXQ1 was directly downregulated by miR-1271 in HCC.

In conclusion, the present study identified miR-1271 as a novel tumor suppressor that inhibits HCC cell growth and induces cellular apoptosis by targeting FOXQ1 in HCC. These results indicated that miR-1271 could be potential molecular target for additional investigation.

Acknowledgements

The present study was supported by the Key Project of Research and Development of Huai'an (grant no., HAS2014007)

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