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Xiaoli Sun1, Xinwu Zhang1, Shuo Chen1
1Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, No 157 Xinwu Road, Xi'an, 710004, China.
Background And Aim:
Characterization of genetic aberrations provides novel strategies for diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer. Accumulating evidence has shown the involvement of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) in the pathology of gastric cancer, especially in proliferation and metastasis. The aim of this study was to delineate the role of myosin heavy chain-associated RNA transcripts (MHRT), a heart-specific lncRNA, in gastric cancer and to understand the correlation between MHRT, miR-4529-5p, and ROCK2.
Methods:
To study expression level of MHRT, clinical gastric cancer samples, gastric cancer cell lines, adjacent normal tissues, and gastric epithelial cell lines were used. Additionally, apoptosis, proliferation, and invasion of gastric cancer cells were studied with or without downregulation of MHRT and miR-4529-5p.
Results:
We identified that MHRT was ectopically expressed in gastric cancer tissues and cell lines. Interestingly, similar to the anti-apoptotic role of MHRT in cardiomyocytes, our data illustrated that MHRT inhibits apoptosis of gastric cancer cells. Moreover, we found that MHRT promotes proliferation and invasion of gastric cancer cells in vitro. Importantly, our data revealed that MHRT regulates the expression of miR-4529-5p via direct binding. Additionally, functional experiments illustrated that miR-4529-5p is particularly responsible for MHRT-mediated regulation of apoptosis. Besides, ROCK2 was identified as a downstream target of miR-4529-5p. Additionally, upregulated MHRT promotes the expression of ROCK2 by inhibiting miR-4529-5p.
Conclusion:
Our data illustrated a MHRT/miR-4529-5p/ROCK2 regulatory axis that contributes to the tumorigenesis of gastric cancer and provided potential therapeutic targets for precise gastric cancer treatment.
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