1. Department of Gastrointestinal and Gland Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China;
2. Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China
AIM: To evaluate the correlation between microRNA-1284 (miR-1284) and gastric cancer, and to investigate the underlying mechanism. METHODS: The expression of miR-1284 was examined by real-time PCR in 63 gastric cancer (GC) tissue samples and 63 non-malignant adjacent tissue samples. The correlation between miR-1284 and the clinicopathological feature of GC was analyzed. Lentiviral vector containing miR-1284 was constructed and transfected into GC SGC-7901 cells. After transfection, the expression of miR-1284 was examined by real-time PCR. The cell activity was evaluated by CCK-8 assay. The cell cycle and apoptosis were determined by flow cytometry. The ability of cell migration was measured by wound-healing assay. The potential target gene of miR-1284 was predicted by online bioinformatic softwares. The expression of JAG1 mRNA was examined by real-time PCR. The protein levels of JAG1, Notch1 and NF-κB were analyzed by Western blotting. RESULTS: Compared with non-malignant adjacent tissue samples, the results of real-time PCR showed significant downregulation of miR-1284 in 42 GC tissue samples (P<0.05). The expression level of miR-1284 was not significantly associated with age and gender of the patients, tumor size, TNM staging and lymph node metastases (P>0.05), but significantly associated with histologic grading (P<0.05). Compared with LV-NC-GFP group and control group, after transfection of miR-1284 in LV-miR-1284 group, the expression of miR-1284 was significantly increased (P<0.05), the percentages of apoptotic cells and the cells in G0/G1 phase were significantly increased (P<0.05), the cells activity and ability of migration were significantly decreased (P<0.05), and the expression of JAG1, Notch1 and NF-κB was significantly decreased (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: The inhibitory effect of miR-1284 on gastric cancer may be associated with the regulation of its targeting gene JAG1.
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