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Wu X, Niculite CM, Preda MB, Rossi A, Tebaldi T, Butoi E, White MK, Tudoran OM, Petrusca DN, Jannasch AS, Bone WP, Zong X, Fang F, Burlacu A, Paulsen MT, Hancock BA, Sandusky GE, Mitra S, Fishel ML, Buechlein A, Ivan C, Oikonomopoulos S, Gorospe M, Mosley A, Radovich M, Davé UP, Ragoussis J, Nephew KP, Mari B, McIntyre A, Konig H, Ljungman M, Cousminer DL, Macchi P, Ivan M. Regulation of cellular sterol homeostasis by the oxygen responsive noncoding RNA lincNORS. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4755. [PMID: 32958772 PMCID: PMC7505984 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18411-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2018] [Accepted: 08/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
We hereby provide the initial portrait of lincNORS, a spliced lincRNA generated by the MIR193BHG locus, entirely distinct from the previously described miR-193b-365a tandem. While inducible by low O2 in a variety of cells and associated with hypoxia in vivo, our studies show that lincNORS is subject to multiple regulatory inputs, including estrogen signals. Biochemically, this lincRNA fine-tunes cellular sterol/steroid biosynthesis by repressing the expression of multiple pathway components. Mechanistically, the function of lincNORS requires the presence of RALY, an RNA-binding protein recently found to be implicated in cholesterol homeostasis. We also noticed the proximity between this locus and naturally occurring genetic variations highly significant for sterol/steroid-related phenotypes, in particular the age of sexual maturation. An integrative analysis of these variants provided a more formal link between these phenotypes and lincNORS, further strengthening the case for its biological relevance.
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- Xue Wu
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.,Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.,"Victor Babes" National Institute of Pathology, Bucharest, Romania
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- Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology "Nicolae Simionescu", Bucharest, Romania
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology - CIBIO, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology - CIBIO, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,Yale Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology "Nicolae Simionescu", Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- The Oncology Institute "Prof Dr. Ion Chiricuta", Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Metabolite Profiling Facility, Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology "Nicolae Simionescu", Bucharest, Romania
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- Departments of Radiation Oncology and Environmental Health Sciences, Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.,Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Pediatrics, Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Indiana University Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
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- Center for RNA Interference and Non-coding RNAs, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Departments of Radiation Oncology and Environmental Health Sciences, Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.,Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.,Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.,Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.,Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.,Medical Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- CNRS, IPMC, FHU-OncoAge, Université Côte d'Azur, Valbonne, France
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- Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.,Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Departments of Radiation Oncology and Environmental Health Sciences, Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.,Centre for Cancer Sciences, Biodiscovery Institute, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology - CIBIO, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA. .,Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA. .,Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
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Tudoran OM, Soritau O, Balacescu O, Balacescu L, Lindberg S, Berindan-Neagoe I. Abstract C6: Molecular and cellular signaling of PDGFB in cervical cancer cells. Mol Cancer Ther 2013. [DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.targ-13-c6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Abstract
Cervical cancer was reported to be the second most common female cancer worldwide, being the third cause of female cancer mortality annually. Romania ranks first among European countries in cervical cancer incidence and mortality raising the national awareness. Cervical cancer is one of the most aggressive gynecological diseases, mainly is due to rapid development of a functional tumor vascular network.
In solid tumors, PDGF signalling has been showed to participate in processes such as autocrine stimulation of tumor cell growth, recruitment of tumor stroma and stimulation of angiogenesis. PDGF signaling increases the interstitial fluid pressure, an important drawback in drug administration due to loss of active agents before they reach the tumors. Several studies have showed that targeting PDGF pathways have anti-angiogenic and anti-tumor effects, implying that inhibition of PDGF signaling may improve the efficacy of chemotherapies. However, these studies have been focused on effects on tumor vasculature and mural cells, and less on tumor cells. Moreover, the molecular mechanisms of PDGF signaling in tumor cells have yet to be investigated.
Here we report the molecular and cellular effects of PDGFb inhibition of in cervical tumor cells. We used the RNA interference pathway to trigger PDGFb silencing in two HPV16 positive cervical cancer cell lines (Hela, Caski). We investigated the changes in genes expression induced by PDGFb silencing by means of microarray analysis. Transcriptomic analysis revealed 579 genes to be differentially expressed upon PDGFb silencing. Among the top biological functions regulated by these genes are Cell Death and Survival, Cellular Growth and Proliferation, Cardiovascular System Development and Function, Cellular Movement, etc. Cellular investigations on proliferation, apoptosis, and invasion revealed that PDGFb silencing had no effects on cells ability to proliferate nor induced cell death, which suggest that alternative signaling mechanisms are activated to maintain the balance between cell proliferation and apoptosis. This is probably done throughout HPV16 signaling as some of the identified genes are known to be involved in viral infections. We did however observe that PDGFb silencing reduced the invasiveness of cervical cancer cells. Although preliminary, our results could explain the short-term success of antiangiogenic therapies.
Citation Information: Mol Cancer Ther 2013;12(11 Suppl):C6.
Citation Format: Oana M. Tudoran, Olga Soritau, Ovidiu Balacescu, Loredana Balacescu, Staffan Lindberg, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe. Molecular and cellular signaling of PDGFB in cervical cancer cells. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics; 2013 Oct 19-23; Boston, MA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Mol Cancer Ther 2013;12(11 Suppl):Abstract nr C6.
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- 1I. Chiricuta Onclogical Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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