Angiogenesis is a crucial process for organ morphogenesis and growth during development, and it is especially relevant during the repair of wounded tissue in adults. The effect of gap junctionmediated transfer of mir200b on. Angiogenesis is essential for tumor growth and metastasis. In the first study of this type, weidner et al 36 showed a direct correlation between the vascular density number of vessels per highpowered field and the likelihood of metastasis in human breast cancer patients. However, in vitro and functional studies have yielded conflicting. Next, we used this model system to better understand the pattern of expression and the impact of mir 200 family members in the regulation of the epithelial state of pancreatic tumors, and the expression of zeb1zeb2 epithelial gene transcriptional repressors in vivo. Breast tumour angiogenesis breast cancer research full text. Micrornas in regulation of triplenegative breast cancer. Vascular endothelial growth factor vegf signaling plays an important role in angiogenesis. Among the mir 200 family members, mir 200abc and mir 429 have been reported to inhibit angiogenesis. Tumour angiogenesis regulation by the mir200 family nature.
A multilayer posttranscriptional gene regulatory program fuels cancer angiogenesis and metastasis. Micrornas contribute to modulating the expression levels of specific proteins based on sequence complementarity. Micrornas are one class of small, endogenous, noncoding rnas that are approximately 22 nucleotides in length. Using several experimental models, we demonstrate the therapeutic potential of mir 200 delivery in ovarian, lung, renal and basallike breast cancers by inhibiting angiogenesis. Mir 378 and mir 1827 regulate lung cancer metastasis via emt. Also, regulatory functions of mir 200 s in tumour angiogenesis have been recently described 14. Expression of the transcription factor snail is required for normal vasculogenesis in the developing mouse embryo.
The ability of the mir 200 family to target several important cancer pathways, such as emt and angiogenesis, is highly attractive. Angiogenesis is a fundamental hallmark of cancer and is critical to the multistep progression of cancer 1, 2. However, the role of mir 141 in angiogenesis remains elusive, as contradicting results have been found in different cancer types and tumor models. Metastasis is regulated via microrna200zeb1 axis control of. Expression and role of micrornas from the mir200 family in. A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the angiogenic activity of ecs may help us develop new strategies for. Micrornas mirnas are small noncoding rnas that function in diverse biological processes via posttranscriptional regulation. Chung as, lee j, ferrara n 2010 targeting the tumor vasculature.
In this study, we first detected that the expression of mir 155 and cmyb was negatively correlated in gc and that cmyb was a direct target of mir 155. Expression of mir200c in claudinlow breast cancer alters stem cell. The met in du145ln4 cells was accompanied by increased expression of the mir 200 family and antimirs to mir 200c and mir 141 induced an emt. It is the primary cause of cancer morbidity and mortality, and represent a major clinical problem, where it is estimated. In our study, we identified the mir 200 family as suppressors of emt through direct targeting of zeb1 and zeb2, which are wellknown transcriptional repressors of ecadherin. Consistent with the above results, we demonstrated that overexpression of mir 211 suppressed gbm angiogenesis by targeting klf5 3. Fourteen mirnas were differentially expressed in the cecs of all three patients analyzed, among which the roles for mir182, mir183, mir192, mir194, the mir 200 family, mir203, mir27a, mir375 and mir92a1 in regulating tumor angiogenesis have been reported 16,2232. We first investigated whether the expression of these candidate genes was. Sep 10, 20 the microrna 200 family members have a role in regulating tumour angiogenesis but the underlying mechanism is unclear. It is coordinated by an equilibrium of pro and antiangiogenic factors. Ecs, reverse permeability and leakiness of tumor blood vessels, and. Clinical outcomes of mir200 expression vary across cancers. Subsequent qpcr analysis of mir 200b, mir 182, mir 9 and mir.
Microrna200c affects bladder cancer angiogenesis by. The importance of this association is supported by evidence that restoration of mir 200 expression is sufficient to reverse the transition ie, mesenchymal to epithelial in a kidneyderived cell line. Mir 200 family members perform tumour suppressor functions, and their expression is frequently suppressed in cancer cells. Tumour angiogenesis regulation by the mir 200 family. Activity of mcpip1 rnase in tumor associated processes. Manel esteller, director of the cancer epigenetics and biology program pebcidibell, dr.
Similarly, expression of mir 200 in breast cancers is positively correlated with concentrations of ecadherin. We have thus far demonstrated that mir 378 could induce invasion and angiogenesis while mir 1827 could suppress migration and angiogenesis of lung cancer cells in vitro. The idibell cancer conference icc on metastasis and angiogenesis was held in barcelona, spain, on may 2627, 2011. Angiogenesis, the growth of new capillary blood vessels, is central to the growth of cancer.
These mirnas regulate emt by targeting zeb1 and zeb2, transcriptional repressors of ecadherin. The regulatory roles of noncoding rnas in angiogenesis. A mirna signature associated with human metastatic medullary. In cervical cancer, mir 211 inhibits the invasion and epithelialtomesenchymal transition emt of cancer cells by targeting muc4 3. The role of mir 200 in blocking cancer angiogenesis in a cancer dependent context defines its utility as a potential therapeutic agent. Subsequent qpcr analysis of mir200b, mir182, mir9 and mir. In this study, pecot et monstrate that mir 200 affects angiogenesis by. Tumor angiogenesis and the vegf pathway biooncology. The proangiogenesis activity of the cluster was firstly discovered trough work at mir175p, mir18a and mir19a suarez et al. Here we showed that gastric cancer gc cellderived exosomes can function as vehicles to deliver mir 155 to promote angiogenesis in gc. Akt2mtor was considered a regulator of vascular endothelial growth factor vegf and hypoxiainducible factor 1. We used taqman qrtpcr to compare expression of the.
The mir200 family determines the epithelial phenotype of. Fraisl p, mazzone m, schmidt t, carmeliet p 2009 regulation of angiogenesis by oxygen and metabolism. Microrna497 suppresses angiogenesis by targeting vascular. Dec 27, 2017 the microrna 200 family includes mir200a, 200b, 200c, 141 and 429. Extensive studies have revealed two important regulatory roles of mirnas in tumor angiogenesis. The matrixassociated vegf isoforms serve for the cell as a peculiar depot of this growth factor and, when necessary, they are able to be released rather quickly due. Members of the microrna200 family are promising therapeutic. This chapter is focused on certain general principles of tumor angiogenesis.
By evaluating the expression of 207 micrornas mirnas in the 60 cell lines of the drug screening panel maintained by the nation cancer institute, we identified the mir 200 mirna family as an extraordinary marker for cells that express ecadherin but lack expression of vimentin. Although the relationship between snail and vasculogenesis has been noted, no mechanistic analysis has been elucidated. An understanding of the cellular and molecular basis of tumor angiogenesis is therefore important for clinicians who diagnose and treat cancer by whatever modalities. Understanding the regulation of tumor angiogenesis has become increasingly important. Pecot et al, 20 mir200 family zeb1, zeb2, il8, cxcl1. Drosophila mir8 is the sole homologue of the human mir 200 family, which includes. Available data suggest that specific microrna clusters might play an important role in biology of tnbc, understanding of which should assist disease prognostication and therapy. Research article open access circulating mir200c and mir141. While emt is considered as an early stage in tumor metastasis, we aimed to examine the effects of mir 378 and mir.
In most tumors, mir200 family members, as well as mir205, which. However, the role of mir141 in angiogenesis remains elusive, as contradicting results have been found in different cancer types and tumor models. Pdf angiogenesis is an important hallmark of cancer serving a key role in. Family communication in pediatric palliative care in korea 07012018 through 06302020. Expression and role of micrornas from the mir200 family in the. Regulation of epithelial plasticity by mir424 and mir200. The mir 200 family members are among the most well studied mirnas in cancer, and have been shown to play vital roles in cancer angiogenesis and metastasis. New insights into the regulatory role of microrna in tumor. Recently, a group of micrornas mirnas, the mir 200 family mir200s has been found to be deregulated in multiple types of cancers, in which this family of mirnas was demonstrated to play a pivotal role in tumor initiation, maintenance, malignant metastasis and chemotherapy resistance. Decreased expression of mirna 200 family members leads to upregulation of zeb1zeb2 expression, promoting the mesenchymallike. Thus, the expression of vash2 is augmented when the expression of mir200b declines.
Tissue factor, the primary initiator of the coagulation cascade, maintains vascular integrity in response to injury. Overall, mir 200 acts as a master regulator of several cancer cell signaling pathways, and targeting this mirna could be an important strategy for cancer treatment. Vash1 and vash2 are highly conserved between species, and their roles in the regulation of angiogenesis are distinct and perhaps contradictory. In the vegf signaling pathway, the key components are vegf and its receptors, flt1 and kdr. Metastasis is the process by which cancer cells spread from the primary tumor to surrounding tissues and to distant organs. Publication tumour angiogenesis regulation by the mir. In addition, tumors expressing snail have been associated with a more malignant phenotype, with both increased invasive properties and angiogenesis. A family of pleiotropically acting micrornas in cancer. The mir200 family contains mir 200a, mir 200b, mir 200c, mir 141, and mir 429. A hypothesis on the regulation of tumor angiogenesis suggests that tumor angiogenesis involves the use of preexisting blood vessels cooption as well as vascular regression and neovascularization 9. In this study, we hypothesized that zoledronic acid inhibits ovarian cancer angiogenesis by preventing the activation of rac1. Snail promotes the cellautonomous generation of flk1. Recently, several mirnas have been reported to either promote or suppress ovarian cancer angiogenesis, including mir378, the mir 200 family, mir484 and mir27a.
We demonstrated the functional involvement of mir 200 in emt and tumour invasion in mtc as well as direct regulation of zeb1 and zeb2 by mir 200. Publication tumour angiogenesis regulation by the mir200. Targeting notch signalling by the conserved mir8200. The tumour microenvironment since 1989, and following the description of the seed and soil theory hypothesis by stephen paget, increasing attention has been paid to the association between cancer and the tme 21, 22, and the tme was deemed the. The mir 8 microrna precursor homologous to mir 141, mir 200, mir 236, is a short noncoding rna gene involved in gene regulation. More recently, a number of micrornas mirnas are identified as a class of regulators for broad control of hmgb1mediated biological actions in eukaryotic cells. Mir23 and mir27 enhance angiogenesis by targeting sprouty2 and sema6a proteins, which exert antiangiogenic activity. The mir 200 family comprises five members, mir 200a, 200b, 200c, mir 429 and mir 141, which regulate the emt, and all appear to regulate tumor angiogenesis by targeting and repressing the. However, the mechanism by which mir 200c regulates bladder cancer angiogenesis. Lately, a growing body of evidence is indicating that noncoding rnas ncrnas, such as mirnas. The microrna 200 family members have a role in regulating tumour angiogenesis but the underlying mechanism is unclear.
Jun 19, 2018 dysregulation of mir10b, mir21, mir29, mir145, mir 200 family, mir203, mir221222 was reported of prognostic value in tnbc patients. Particularly, the effect of mir141 in vascular endothelial cells has not been defined. Similarly, mir 5b was shown to facilitate angiogenesis in gc, which was proved by a tumorimplanted mouse model. Subsequently, the conditioned media were collected. In this study, we show that transfection of synthetic mir 200b reduced protein levels of vegf, flt1. Tumor angiogenesis an overview sciencedirect topics. The ability to reverse this process has been repeatedly demonstrated in vitro with mir 200 restoration. Surprisingly, however, although forced mir 200 expression can inhibit the formation of distant metastasis in lung cancer, it can enhance metastasis in. Mir146a enhances angiogenic activity of endothelial cells.
The role of the mir200 family on the tumor suppressor. Downregulation of ecadherin cdh1 expression leading to loss of. Improving vascular maturation using noncoding rnas. Quaking orchestrates a posttranscriptional regulatory network of endothelial cell cycle progression critical to angiogenesis and metastasis. Mapk pathway activity decreased, as measured by reduced erk 12 phosphorylation and reduced cell proliferation in a dukes c ht29 crc cell line following inhibition of mir 200 family members. A substantial number of mirnas are implicated in the regulation of angiogenesis via effects on vegf. Initially, tumors coopt or use existing blood vessels within an organ for their nutrient blood supply.
Jun 29, 2016 forming efficient vasculature network, also known as tumor angiogenesis, is a critical hallmark in tumor development. Tumour angiogenesis regulation by the mir200 family. Vegf also known as vegfa, but commonly referred to simply as vegf stands for vascular endothelial growth factor. C3g attenuates the angiogenesis induced by breast cancer cells via up. Loss of mir8 causes adult lethality associated with neurodegeneration. These results combined with ours demonstrate that mir497, as a tumor suppressor, could be considered as an antiangiogenic factor for ovarian cancer. Microrna 200c mir 200c has been considered a regulator of tumour angiogenesis. As angiogenesis is regulated by the balance of proangiogenic and antiangiogenic factors 29,38, these findings place the mir 200 family as novel, endogenous angiogenesis inhibitors. The mir200 family, especially mir200c, has been shown to be implicated in the.
We verified that mir 5b carried by exosomes promotes angiogenesis in gc using a coculture of sgc7901 exosomes and human umbilical vein endothelial cells huvecs. Pecot, rajesha rupaimoole, da yang, rehan akbani, cristina ivan, chunhua lu, sherry wu, hee dong han, maitri yogen shah, cristian rodriguezaguayo. Understanding the regulation of tumor angiogenesis has become increasingly. The mir 200 family, mir27, and mir205 inhibit zeb1 and zeb2, which are repressors of ecadherin expression. Similarly, in breast cancer cells, mir 497 downregulates vegf and hif1. The previously unrecognized role of mir 200 in angiogenesis regulation, by direct and indirect effects on tumour endothelium, substantially broadens the breadth of biologic and therapeutic implications of this mirna family. The microrna mir 200 family is downregulated in ipf, but its effect on human ipf atii cells remains unproven. Tumour angiogenesis regulation by the mir200 family md.
Quaking as a novel target of mir 200b to regulate tumor cell cycle progression mediated angiogenesis and metastasis tumor growth is mediated by several factors including metabolic function, intracellular signaling, evasion of apoptosis, tissue invasion and metastasis, and angiogenesis. In connection with this expression pattern of vash2, recently, vash2 is found as the target of mir 200. Researchers are now favoring a combination of strategies, which target different stages of angiogenesis in order to prevent tumor growth and expansion. Quaking as a novel target of mir200b to regulate tumor. Tumour angiogenesis regulation by the mir200 family ncbi nih. In molecular biology, the mir200 microrna is a short rna molecule. Micrornas function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by binding and cleaving mrnas or inhibiting translation. The end result of altered protein abundance may include a direct antitranslational mirna effect on cytoplasmic vegf mrna. We have demonstrated that mir 200 influences angiogenesis indirectly via downregulation of cxcl1 and il8, which are major cytokines in the tumor microenvironment. These findings demonstrate a novel association of the mir 200 family, the tumor suppressor rassf2, and the mapk signaling pathway in crc.
Beyond its effects on tumor expansion, perhaps the most important way in which angiogenesis can facilitate tu. The implication of this angiogenesis and tumor metastasis 409. The central importance of tumour neovascularization has been emphasized by clinical trials using antiangiogenic therapy in breast cancer. Tissue factor, angiogenesis and tumour progression. Angiogenesis is the generation of new blood vessels from. Members of this precursor family have now been predicted or. Highmobility group box 1 hmgb1 is a potential therapeutic target and novel biomarker in a variety of malignant tumors, including hepatocellular carcinoma hcc. It is now recognised that, in addition to the role as a procoagulant activator, tissue factor participates in many tumour related processes that contribute to malignant disease progression. In colorectal cancer, mir 497 targets vegfa, leading to blockade of the vegfaerkmmp9 signaling pathway and the attenuation of tumor angiogenesis, invasion, and metastasis. Endothelial cells ecs play a key role in this process by proliferating, migrating and lining the lumen of blood vessels 1. Exosome mir155 derived from gastric carcinoma promotes. Quaking as a novel target of mir200b to regulate tumor cell. A multilayer posttranscriptional gene regulatory program.
Delivery of mir 200 members into the tumour endothelium resulted in marked reductions in metastasis and angiogenesis, and induced vascular normalization. Similarly, expression of mir 200 in breast cancers is positively. Particularly, the effect of mir 141 in vascular endothelial cells has not been defined. Regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor signaling. Insights into the regulation of tumor angiogenesis by. Fourteen mirnas were differentially expressed in the cecs of all three patients analyzed, among which the roles for mir 182, mir 183, mir 192, mir 194, the mir 200 family, mir 203, mir 27a, mir 375 and mir 92a1 in regulating tumor angiogenesis have been reported 16,2232. The mir 200 family consists of five members divided into two groups that differ by 1 nucleotide in their seed sequences, therefore having both overlapping and nonoverlapping targets. Recently, a group of micrornas mirnas, the mir 200 family mir 200s has been found to be deregulated in multiple types of cancers, in which this family of mirnas was demonstrated to play a pivotal role in tumor initiation, maintenance, malignant metastasis and chemotherapy resistance. Numerous studies have indicated that members of the mir 200 family play an important role in glioma development and metastasis. There is a cluster of mir200bc429 binding sites in the 3 untranslated region of vash2 mrna, and mir200b silences the expression of vash2.
Idibell cancer conference on metastasis and angiogenesis. Pdf microenvironmental regulation of tumour angiogenesis. Thus, upregulation of angiogenesis is a key step in sustained tumor growth and may also be critical for tumor metastasis. Rac1, a member of the rho gtpase family, plays a central role in angiogenesis through the regulation of endothelial cell migration, tube formation, adhesion, invasion, and proliferation. The mir 200 family has been shown to potently inhibit the epithelialmesenchymal transition emt by downregulating zeb1 and zeb2. Mechanisms of angiogenesis 753 biochemistry moscow vol. Adams rh, alitalo k 2007 molecular regulation of angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis. Rac1pak1p38mmp2 axis regulates angiogenesis in ovarian.
The mir 200 family comprises five members, mir200a, 200b, 200c, mir429 and mir141, which regulate the emt, and all appear to regulate tumor angiogenesis by targeting and repressing the. There is growing evidence to suggest that mir200 micrornas are involved in cancer metastasis. Vash1 is mainly expressed in ecs for the termination of angiogenesis, whereas vash2 is expressed in infiltrating mncs or cancer cells to stimulate angiogenesis. Breast tumour angiogenesis breast cancer research full. We wanted to 1 evaluate the characteristics and transdifferentiating ability of ipf atii cells, and 2 test whether mir 200 family members can rescue the regenerative potential of fibrotic atii cells.