The high metastasis and recurrence rate is one of the most important causes of the high mortality in patients with liver cancer. We first discovered that miR-484 can induce hepatocellular malignant transformation and promote the formation of precancerous lesions and tumorigenesis. In our previous studies, we accidentally found that over-expression of miR-484 promotes liver cancer cells migration and invasion, and miR-484 is up-regulated in the higher potential metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Further, in the mouse liver cancer model, we observed that the number of lung metastases of miR-484 deletion mice was significantly less than the wild mice. Therefore, we propose the following hypothesis: MiR-484 plays different biological roles in the initiation and progression of HCC, which not only promotes the tumorigenesis of liver, but also plays as an important regulator in the progression of HCC. The project will reveal the roles and mechanisms of miR-484 in the progression of HCC, expound the relationship between miR-484 and metastasis/prognosis of patients with HCC. We expect that this study can open a new window for the treatment and prognosis of liver cancer.
转移复发是导致肝癌患者死亡率高的重要原因之一。既往研究我们发现组蛋白H3K27Ac修饰介导的miR-484表达可诱导正常肝细胞恶性转化、促进肝癌发生,该部分内容2016年发表于Gut杂志(第一作者), 然而其对肝癌进展、侵袭转移的影响尚未见报道。最近我们发现miR-484在高侵袭肝癌样本中异常高表达,并具有促进肝癌细胞侵袭转移的潜能。基于此,本项目拟首先通过体内外实验明确miR-484在肝癌转移过程中的生物学功能,进一步通过cas9和RIP等试验筛选介导miR-484调控肝癌侵袭转移的分子靶点及作用机制,并结合在体实验和敲除小鼠探讨干预miR-484及下游通路抑制肝癌侵袭转移的可行性;同时明确组蛋白或甲基化修饰调控miR-484表达的分子机理;最后通过临床样本及预后随访,明确miR-484相关通路与肝癌复发转移及预后之间的关系,从而为肝癌患者预后评价及进展干预提供新靶标和新思路。
肝癌居中国肿瘤致死率第二位,转移、复发率高是导致患者死亡的重要原因之一。我们前期研究发现miR-484可诱导正常肝细胞恶性转化、促进肝脏癌前病变形成和肝癌发生。在本项目研究过程中,我们发现高侵袭性的肝细胞癌组织中miR-484表达水平异常增高,并通过体外细胞实验及体内动物实验研究发现过表达miR-484可以促进肝癌细胞的侵袭和转移,而下调miR-484则抑制肝癌细胞的侵袭转移能力;在机制研究方面,我们初步完成了miR-484下游靶基因及上游调节因子探索,发现ASPN是miR-484调控肝细胞癌侵袭转移的潜在靶基因。通过本项目研究,我们进一步证实miR-484不仅在肝细胞癌发生过程中发挥重要的调控作用,在肝癌进展尤其是肝癌侵袭转移方面同样具有促癌因子的作用,其可作为肝癌早诊早治的一个潜在靶基因。
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