Single-nucleotide polymorphisms inside microRNA target sites influence tumor susceptibility.
Single-nucleotide polymorphisms inside microRNA target sites influence tumor susceptibility.
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DOI:
10.1158/0008-5472.can-09-3541
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发表时间:
2010-04-01
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影响因子:
11.2
通讯作者:
Calin GA
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作者:
Nicoloso MS;Sun H;Spizzo R;Kim H;Wickramasinghe P;Shimizu M;Wojcik SE;Ferdin J;Kunej T;Xiao L;Manoukian S;Secreto G;Ravagnani F;Wang X;Radice P;Croce CM;Davuluri RV;Calin GA
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with polygenetic disorders, such as breast cancer (BC), can create, destroy or modify microRNA (miRNA) binding sites; however, the extent to which SNPs interfere with miRNA gene regulation and affect cancer susceptibility remains largely unknown. We hypothesize that disruption of miRNA target binding by SNPsis a widespread mechanism relevant to cancer susceptibility. In order to test this, we analyzed SNPs known to be associated with BC risk, in silico and in vitro, for their ability to modify miRNA binding sites and miRNA gene regulation and referred to these as target SNPs. We identified rs1982073-TGFB1 and rs1799782-XRCC1 as target SNPs, whose alleles could modulate gene expression by differential interaction with miR-187 and miR-138, respectively. Genome-wide bioinformatics analysis predicted approximately 64% of transcribed SNPs as target SNPs that can modify (increase/decrease) the binding energy of putative miRNA::mRNA duplexes by over 90%. To assess whether target SNPs are implicated in BC susceptibility, we conducted a case-control population study and observed that germline occurrence of rs799917-BRCA1 and rs334348-TGFR1, significantly varies among populations with different risks of developing BC. Luciferase activity of target SNPs allelic variants and protein levels in cancer cell lines with different genotypes showed differential regulation of target genes following over-expression of the two interacting miRNAs (miR-638 and miR-628-5p). Therefore, we propose that transcribed target SNPs alter miRNA gene regulation and consequently protein expression, contributing to the likelihood of cancer susceptibility, by a novel mechanism of subtle gene regulation.