Project description:miR-223 is step-wise increasingly up-regulated in the normal esophagus - Barrett's esophagus -esophageal adenocarcinoma carcinoma sequence. In this study, we aimed to determine the function of miR-223 in esophageal adenocarcinoma carcinogenesis.
Project description:miR-223 is step-wise increasingly up-regulated in the normal esophagus - Barrett's esophagus -esophageal adenocarcinoma carcinoma sequence. In this study, we aimed to determine the function of miR-223 in esophageal adenocarcinoma carcinogenesis. miR-223 was transfected in OE33 cells using 10nM pre-miR hsa-miR-223 miRNA precursor (Ambion, Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY) and lipofectamin 2000 (OE33_223_1 and OE33_223_2). Mock control OE33 cells were transfected with a negative control pre-miR miRNA (OE33_NEG_1 and OE33_NEG_2). HumanHT-12 v4 Expression BeadChip arrays (Illumina, San Diego, CA) were used for microarray hybridizations to examine the global gene expression of two biological replicated experiments (four samples in total). The array targets more than 25,000 annotated genes with 47,323 unique probes derived from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Reference Sequence (RefSeq) Release 38 and UniGene (Build 199) databases.
Project description:Identifying biomarkers predictive for early esophageal cancer detection is critical considering the dismal survival rates. We investigated the involvement of microRNAs (miRNAs), their utility as biomarkers, and their association with survival in esophageal cancer, including Barrett’s associated and sporadic adenocarcinoma (ADC), and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). MiRNA expression was measured in cancerous and adjacent non-cancerous tissue pairs collected from 76 US and Japanese patients enrolled in 3 distinct cohorts. In ADC patients, miR-21, miR-194, miR-293, and miR-223 expression was elevated, while miR-375 and miR-203 expression was reduced in cancerous tissue compared to non-cancerous tissue. Increased levels of miR-192 and miR-194 were observed in Barrett’s associated compared to sporadic ADC cancerous tissue. In SCC patients, miR-21, miR-181b, miR-155, and miR-146b expression was elevated while miR-375 and miR-203 levels were reduced in cancerous tissue compared to non-cancerous tissue. Significantly, elevated mir-21 expression in non-cancerous tissue was strongly associated with worse prognosis, independent of nodal status and age. Sample classification using miRNA expression yielded accuracies as high as 86% for diagnosis and 78% for Barrett’s esophagus status. Our results highlight that miRNAs are deregulated in esophageal carcinogenesis and Barrett’s esophagus, and that their expression is associated with survival in cancer patients. Sample classification using miRNA expression demonstrates their potential utility as biomarkers for esophageal carcinoma diagnosis.
Project description:Identifying biomarkers predictive for early esophageal cancer detection is critical considering the dismal survival rates. We investigated the involvement of microRNAs (miRNAs), their utility as biomarkers, and their association with survival in esophageal cancer, including Barrett’s associated and sporadic adenocarcinoma (ADC), and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). MiRNA expression was measured in cancerous and adjacent non-cancerous tissue pairs collected from 76 US and Japanese patients enrolled in 3 distinct cohorts. In ADC patients, miR-21, miR-194, miR-293, and miR-223 expression was elevated, while miR-375 and miR-203 expression was reduced in cancerous tissue compared to non-cancerous tissue. Increased levels of miR-192 and miR-194 were observed in Barrett’s associated compared to sporadic ADC cancerous tissue. In SCC patients, miR-21, miR-181b, miR-155, and miR-146b expression was elevated while miR-375 and miR-203 levels were reduced in cancerous tissue compared to non-cancerous tissue. Significantly, elevated mir-21 expression in non-cancerous tissue was strongly associated with worse prognosis, independent of nodal status and age. Sample classification using miRNA expression yielded accuracies as high as 86% for diagnosis and 78% for Barrett’s esophagus status. Our results highlight that miRNAs are deregulated in esophageal carcinogenesis and Barrett’s esophagus, and that their expression is associated with survival in cancer patients. Sample classification using miRNA expression demonstrates their potential utility as biomarkers for esophageal carcinoma diagnosis. MiRNA microarray expression was measured using miRNA microarray chips version 3 (Ohio State University) in 44 SCC cases and 32 ADC cases, of which 18 were also diagnosed with Barrett’s esophagus.
Project description:We investigated the biomolecular activity of miR-29a-3p/miR-223-3p in human lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) by performing transcriptome profiling of H2023 (LUAD) cell line upon modulation of miR-29a-3p/miR-223-3p by mimic (QIAGEN) (OE) or antisense microRNA (KD).