Jiaxin Ge, Ji Dai, Haoqiang Ji, Jie Guo, Xiaoban Shen, Desen Sun, Qiang Chen, Pan Chen, Guoliang Ye, Junming Guo, Shuangshuang Zhang
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Abstract
Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common malignancies with a poor prognosis. The development of novel biomarkers is of utmost importance to screen patients with GC. Molecular mechanism study of GC may provide a research basis for the development of targeted drugs. We identified tRF-29-79MP9P9NH525 (tRF-29) as a GC-associated tRNA-derived fragment (tRF). The specific hair-pin structure reverse primer and amplification primers were first designed and then applied for tRF-29 quantification. Receiver operator characteristic curve, Kaplan-Meier survival curve, and multivariate Cox analysis were applied to analyze the diagnostic and prognostic values of tRF-29 in GC. Ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine, cell cloning, Transwell assay, and flow cytometry were used to detect the effects of tRF-29 on proliferation, migration, and cell cycle distribution of GC cells. Xenograft tumor formation in NOD-SCID mice was applied in determining tRF-29's effects on tumor growth. Fluorescence in situ hybridization, dual luciferase reporter assay, Western blot, immunohistochemistry, and RNA-binding protein immunoprecipitation were conducted to explore the molecular mechanism underlying tRF-29 regulating GC development. It was found that tissue tRF-29 showed effective diagnostic efficiency in GC and could discriminate different gastric mucosa. Besides, plasma tRF-29 improved GC diagnostic values of common tumor markers and had prognostic values in GC. tRF-29 was found to suppress proliferation and cell cycle progression. tRF-29 inhibited the growth of xenograft tumors. Mechanically, tRF-29 exerted Kinesin family member 14 (KIF14) mRNA destabilization by combining with argonaute 2 (Ago2) and regulated AKT/P27 pathway. In conclusion, tRF-29 inhibited GC progression by combining with Ago2 and regulated AKT/P27 pathway by silencing KIF14 expression. In normal cells, tRF-29, derived from tRNA-ValACC, targets the 3'UTR region of KIF14 mRNA by forming RNA silencing complex with Ago2. Reduced KIF14 results in less phospholation of AKT. Subsequently, the expression of P27 is increased, while the expression of MMP-2 is decreased. Finally, the cell cycle is arrested, and the cell proliferation is suppressed, as well as the metastasis is inhibited. In gastric cancer cells, due to the downregulated of tRF-29, the expression of KIF14 is increased, thus the cell proliferation and metastasis are promoted via AKT pathway.
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Cell Death Discovery is a multidisciplinary, international, online-only, open access journal, dedicated to publishing research at the intersection of medicine with biochemistry, pharmacology, immunology, cell biology and cell death, provided it is scientifically sound. The unrestricted access to research findings in Cell Death Discovery will foster a dynamic and highly productive dialogue between basic scientists and clinicians, as well as researchers in industry with a focus on cancer, neurobiology and inflammation research. As an official journal of the Cell Death Differentiation Association (ADMC), Cell Death Discovery will build upon the success of Cell Death & Differentiation and Cell Death & Disease in publishing important peer-reviewed original research, timely reviews and editorial commentary.
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