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Clinicopathological Analysis of miRNA Expression in Breast Cancer Tissues by Using miRNA In Situ Hybridization
Published on: June 7, 2016
Expression of Treg-associated lncRNAs in breast cancer
Lina Moallemi-Rad1, Amin Ghorbani2, Maryam Dadyar3
1Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Abstract:
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) have important functions in tumor microenvironment, particularly for induction of immune evasion. In order to find the underlying mechanism of dysregulation of Tregs in breast cancer tissues, we designed the current study to appraise expression of five Treg-related long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), namely FLICR (FOXP3 Regulating Long Intergenic Non-Coding RNA), NEST (IFNG-AS1), RMRP (RNA Component of Mitochondrial RNA Processing Endoribonuclease), MAFTRR (MAF Transcriptional Regulator RNA) and TH2-LCR (Th2 Cytokine Locus Control Region) in paired breast cancer and nearby noncancerous tissues. Expression levels of RMRP, TH2-LCR, MAFTRR and GATA3-AS1 were significantly higher in breast cancer samples compared with non-tumoral tissues. The calculated AUC values for GATA3-AS1, TH2-LCR, RMRP and MAFTRR were 0.66, 0.63, 0.63 and 0.60, respectively. There were significant positive associations between expression level of RMRP gene in tumor tissues and nuclear grade, tubule formation and tumor sizes. In addition, there was a significant positive association between expression levels of MAFTRR genes in tumor tissues and nuclear grade. Besides, expression levels of FLICR were different among tumors with different levels of HER2/neu receptor. Taken together, Treg-associated lncRNAs might contribute to the pathogenesis of breast cancer.
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