MiR-497 enhances metastasis of oral squamous cell carcinoma through SMAD7 suppression.
- 15 July 2016
- journal article
- Vol. 8 (7), 3023-31
Abstract
SMAD7 is a key inhibitor of transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) receptor signaling, which regulates the alteration of cancer cell invasiveness through epithelial-mesenchymal cell conversion. Since microRNAs (miRNAs) play a potential role in the tumorigenesis, cancer cell growth and metastases of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), determination of the involved miRNAs that may regulate SMAD7-mediated OSCC cell invasion appears to be one important question. Here, we found that the levels of miR-497 were significantly increased and the levels of SMAD7 were significantly decreased in OSCC specimens, compared to the paired adjacent non-tumor tissue. Moreover, miR-497 and SMAD7 inversely correlated in OSCC specimens. The 5-year survival of the patients with higher miR-497 levels in the resected OSCC was worse than those high miR-497 levels. Bioinformatics analyses showed that miR-497 targeted the 3'-UTR of SMAD7 mRNA to inhibit its translation, which was proved by luciferase reporter assay. Furthermore, miR-497 overexpression increased SMAD7-suppressed cell invasion, while miR-497 depletion decreased SMAD7-suppressed cell invasion in OSCC cells, in both a transwell cell invasion assay and a scratch would healing assay. Together, our data suggest that suppression of miR-497 in OSCC cells may promote cancer cell invasion via suppression of SMAD7, and highlight miR-497 as an intriguing therapeutic target to prevent OSCC metastases.Keywords
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