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Xiaojia Huang1, Weige Tan2, Ziteng Liu3
1Department of Breast Surgery, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Colorectal and Pelvic Floor Diseases, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510655, China; Department of Breast Oncology Surgery, Affiliated Cancer Hospital & Institute of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510095, China.
Aims:
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are important regulators in breast cancer progression. However, the underlying mechanism of circRNAs functions in breast cancer remain largely unclear.
Main Methods:
To investigate the circRNAs expression pattern in breast cancer, high-throughput circRNA microarray assay was used. The top up-regulated circRNA, circZFAND6, was submitted to further experiments, including cell counting kit-8 (CCK-8) assay, colony formation assay, transwell assay and mouse xenograft assay. To investigate the underlying mechanism of circZFAND6 function in breast cancer progression, luciferase reporter assay and RNA immunoprecipitation (RIP) assay were conducted.
Key Findings:
We found a novel circRNA, circZFAND6, was up-regulated in breast cancer tissues and cell lines. Inhibition of circZFAND6 reduced proliferation and metastasis of breast cancer. Mechanically, circZFAND6 acted as a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) to sponge miR-647 and increase fatty acid synthase (FASN) expression. And eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A3 (EIF4A3) was found to bind to circZFAND6 pre-mRNA transcript upstream region, leading to the high expression of circZFAND6 in breast cancer. Inhibition of EIF4A3 also suppressed proliferation and metastasis of breast cancer.
Significance:
EIF4A3-induced circZFAND6 up-regulation promoted proliferation and metastasis of breast cancer through the miR-647/FASN axis. Our results uncovered a possible mechanism underlying breast cancer progression and might provide a breast cancer treatment target.
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