title: MiR-675-5p supports hypoxia induced epithelial to mesenchymal transition in colon cancer cells.
abstract: The survival rates in colon cancer patients are inversely proportional to the number of lymph node metastases. The hypoxia-induced Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition (EMT), driven by HIF1α, is known to be involved in cancer progression and metastasis. Recently, we have reported that miR-675-5p promotes glioma growth by stabilizing HIF1α; here, by use of the syngeneic cell lines we investigated the role of the miR-675-5p in colon cancer metastasis.Our results show that miR-675-5p, over expressed in metastatic colon cancer cells, participates to tumour progression by regulating HIF1α induced EMT. MiR-675-5p increases Snail transcription by a dual strategy: i) stabilizing the activity of the transcription factor HIF1α and ii) and inhibiting Snail's repressor DDB2 (Damage specific DNA Binding protein 2).Moreover, transcriptional analyses on specimens from colon cancer patients confirmed, in vivo, the correlation between miR-675-5p over-expression and metastasis, thus identifying miR-675-5p as a new marker for colon cancer progression and therefore a putative target for therapeutic strategies.
authors.affiliation: Innovative Technological Platforms for Tissue Engineering, Theranostic and Oncology, Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Viviana
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Alessia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lo Dico
authors.affiliation: Unità Operativa di Anatomia Patologica, Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedali Riuniti "Villa Sofia-Cervello", Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Aroldo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rizzo
authors.affiliation: Unità Operativa di Anatomia Patologica, Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedali Riuniti "Villa Sofia-Cervello", Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rajata
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Cellulari ed Ematologia, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.|National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tripodi
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Biopatologia e Biotecnologie Mediche, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.|Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology (IBIM), National Research Council of Italy, Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Alessandro
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Cellulari ed Ematologia, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Conigliaro
mesh_terms: D015687:Cell Hypoxia / Q000235:genetics; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015536:Down-Regulation; D058750:Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D051795:Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: C117669:DDB2 protein, human; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C497442:HIF1A protein, human; D051795:Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit; C548379:MIRN675 microRNA, human; D035683:MicroRNAs
keywords: CRC; EMT; hypoxia; metastasis; miRNA675