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The Long Non-Coding RNA TP73-AS1 Interacted With miR-142 to Modulate Brain Glioma Growth Through HMGB1/RAGE Pathway
Rong Zhang1, Hekun Jin1, Fan Lou1
1Hunan Cancer Hospital and the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Abstract:
P73 antisense RNA 1T (non-protein coding), also known as TP73-AS1 or PDAM, is a long non-coding RNA which may regulate apoptosis via regulation of p53-dependent anti-apoptotic genes. An abnormal change of TP73-AS1 expression was noticed in cancers. The effects of TP73-AS1 in brain glioma growth and the underlying mechanism remain unclear so far. In the present study, TP73-AS1 was specifically upregulated in brain glioma tissues and cell lines, and was associated with poorer prognosis in patients with glioma. TP73-AS1 knocking down suppressed human brain glioma cell proliferation and invasion in vitro, as well as HMGB1 protein. MiR-142 has been reported to play a pivotal role in cancers; here we observed that TP73-AS1 and miR-142 could negatively regulate each other. Results from luciferase assays suggested that TP73-AS1 might compete with HMGB1 for miR-142 binding. Further, HMGB1/RAGE was involved in TP73-AS1/miR-142 regulation of glioma cell proliferation and invasion. In glioma tissues, TP73-AS1 and HMGB1 expression was up-regulated, whereas miR-142 expression was down-regulated. Data from the present study revealed that TP73-AS1 promoted the brain glioma growth and invasion through acting as a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) to promote HMGB1 expression by sponging miR-142. In conclusion, we regarded TP73-AS1 as an oncogenic lncRNA promoting brain glioma proliferation and invasion, and a potential target for human brain glioma treatment. J. Cell. Biochem. 119: 3007-3016, 2018. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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