Circular RNA hsa_circ_0005218 promotes the early recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma by targeting the
Xiao-Bo Wang1, Tao Luo1, Shao-Long Lu1
1Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China.
Abstract:
Increasing evidence has manifested that circular RNAs (circRNAs) exhibited critical function in regulating various signaling pathways related to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence. However, the role and mechanism of the circRNAs in the HCC early recurrence remain elusive. In this study, high-throughput RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis was conducted to identify the expression profile of circRNAs in HCC tissues and circ_0005218 was identified as one circRNA that significantly up-regulated in early recurrent HCC tissues. And patients with high expression of circ_0005218 showed worsen overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS). Moreover, the promotion effects of circ_0005218 on HCC cells in term of proliferation, invasion and metastasis were confirmed both in vitro and vivo by gain- and loss-of function assays. In addition, dual-luciferase reporter assays showed that circ_0005218 could competitively bind to micro-RNA (miR)-31-5p. Furthermore, we showed that suppression of CDK1 by miR-31-5p could be partially rescued by up-regulating circ_0005218. Taken together, the present study indicates that circ_0005218 absorbed miR-31-5p as a sponge to weaken its suppression on CDK1 expression, and thus boost HCC cell invasion and migration, which would act as a potential biomarker to predict the HCC early recurrence and as a new therapeutic target for treatment of HCC.
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