摘要
Recent evidence showed that microRNA-7(miR-7) was an important promising candidate for gene therapy of lung cancer. However, the therapeutic strategy on miR-7-based targeting expression in lung cancer remains to be elucidated. In the present study, we firstly constructed an eukaryotic expression vector of thyroid transcription factor(TTF-1) promoter operating expression of miR-7(termed as p-TTF-1-miR-7). we estimated the potential therapeutic effect of remote hypodermic injection, but not local injection, of p-TTF-1-miR-7 on human lung cancer cells in vivo using a nude mice model. We found that p-TTF-1-miR-7 was enriched in lung, liver and spleen, as well as tumor mass. Interestingly, the expression level of miR-7 remarkedly increased in tumor mass compared with that in other organs and tissues in vivo. Importantly, the growth and weight of tumors, as well as lung metastasis, also decreased significantly in remote hypodermic injection of p-TTF-1-miR-7 group, compared with those in control group. Further study showed that the proliferation of human lung cancer 95 D cells reduced obviously and cell apoptosis increased significantly, accompanied by reduced expression of phosph-Akt and phosph-Erk. Mechanism aspect, global gene expression analysis showed that the expression of NDUFA4, a novel putative target of miR-7, decreased significantly in tumor mass. Notably, we found that overexpression of NDUFA4 also could significantly abrogate the effect of p-TTF-1-miR-7 on the growth and migration of human lung cancer 95 D cells in vitro, accompanied altered transduction of Akt and Erk pathway.In all, our work indicated that TTF-1 promoter operating expression of miR-7 might be a novel useful and safety target therapeutic strategy against lung cancer, which provided novel insight into the implications for miRNA-based target expression therapy against clinical lung cancer.
Recent evidence showed that microRNA-7(miR-7) was an important promising candidate for gene therapy of lung cancer. However, the therapeutic strategy on miR-7-based targeting expression in lung cancer remains to be elucidated. In the present study, we firstly constructed an eukaryotic expression vector of thyroid transcription factor(TTF-1) promoter operating expression of miR-7(termed as p-TTF-1-miR-7). we estimated the potential therapeutic effect of remote hypodermic injection, but not local injection, of p-TTF-1-miR-7 on human lung cancer cells in vivo using a nude mice model. We found that p-TTF-1-miR-7 was enriched in lung, liver and spleen, as well as tumor mass. Interestingly, the expression level of miR-7 remarkedly increased in tumor mass compared with that in other organs and tissues in vivo. Importantly, the growth and weight of tumors, as well as lung metastasis, also decreased significantly in remote hypodermic injection of p-TTF-1-miR-7 group, compared with those in control group. Further study showed that the proliferation of human lung cancer 95 D cells reduced obviously and cell apoptosis increased significantly, accompanied by reduced expression of phosph-Akt and phosph-Erk. Mechanism aspect, global gene expression analysis showed that the expression of NDUFA4, a novel putative target of miR-7, decreased significantly in tumor mass. Notably, we found that overexpression of NDUFA4 also could significantly abrogate the effect of p-TTF-1-miR-7 on the growth and migration of human lung cancer 95 D cells in vitro, accompanied altered transduction of Akt and Erk pathway.In all, our work indicated that TTF-1 promoter operating expression of miR-7 might be a novel useful and safety target therapeutic strategy against lung cancer, which provided novel insight into the implications for miRNA-based target expression therapy against clinical lung cancer.
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