PMID: 30787983Feb 23, 2019Paper

MT1JP inhibits tumorigenesis and enhances cisplatin sensitivity of breast cancer cells through competitively binding to miR-24-3p

American Journal of Translational Research
Donglei ZhuChunyan Dong

Abstract

Accumulating evidence indicates that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a key role in the development of many human cancers. MT1JP is a lncRNA that is reportedly involved in gastric cancer development, but a biological role and mechanism for MT1JP in breast cancer is unknown. Here, we found that MT1JP expression was significantly down-regulated in breast cancer tissues and cell lines, and that decreased MT1JP expression was associated with breast cancer progression and poor survival of breast cancer patients. Additionally, we found that overexpression of MT1JP in breast cancer cells significantly inhibited cell proliferation and invasion, and also enhanced the cisplatin sensitivity of breast cancer cells. We then investigated a possible mechanism for these results, finding that MT1JP binds to and negatively regulates miR-24-3p, which is known to be an oncogene in some human cancers. Our rescue experiments showed that the tumor suppressive and cisplatin-sensitizing functions of MT1JP were mediated by negative regulation of miR-24-3p. Finally, western blot results showed that MT1JP inhibited the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. Collectively, our data indicate that MT1JP functions as an anti-tumor lncRNA, enhances cisplatin sensi...Continue Reading

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