Cancer stem cells are considered as the cell population which is responsible for chemoresistance and treatment failure in breast cancer patients. Therefore, it is urgent to explore the mechanism by which cancer stem cells survive under the treatment of chemotherapeutic drugs such as cisplatin. In this paper, we demonstrated significant decrease of miR-519d in breast cancer stem cells by quantitative RT-PCR analysis. Furthermore, we found the enforced expression of miR-519d in T-47D-cancer stem cells significantly increased their sensitivity to cisplatin through the apoptosis pathway. In addition, the gene of MCL-1, which is a member of pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family, was found to be the target of miR-519d in T-47D-cancer stem cells. Our date demonstrated that enforced miR-519d expression enhanced the cisplatin-induced apoptosis through the MCL-1 dependent mitochondria pathway in breast cancer stem cells. Taken together, the present study suggests that miR-519d reduces chemoresistance in breast cancer stem cells, and understanding of miR-519d may be helpful for increasing the efficacy of chemotherapy.
MiR-519d impedes cisplatin-resistance in breast cancer stem cells by down-regulating the expression of MCL-1
Qing Xie,Shuai Wang,Yue Zhao,Zhenchao Zhang,Chuan Qin,Xianjun Yang
Published 2017 in OncoTarget
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- Publication year
2017
- Venue
OncoTarget
- Publication date
2017-02-28
- Fields of study
Biology, Medicine
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Semantic Scholar, PubMed
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- apoptosis pathway
A programmed cell-death signaling pathway associated with drug response in the experiments.
- breast cancer stem cells
A breast cancer subpopulation with stem-cell-like properties used as the resistant cell model.
- cisplatin
A platinum-based chemotherapeutic drug used to assess drug sensitivity and apoptosis.
- mcl-1
A Bcl-2 family gene and protein involved in apoptosis regulation and analyzed in the breast cancer stem cell model.
- mir-519d
A microRNA examined for its role in regulating cisplatin response in breast cancer stem cells.
- mitochondria pathway
The mitochondrial apoptosis signaling route implicated in cisplatin-induced cell death.
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