Regulation of Cell Proliferation and Migration by miR-203 via GAS41/miR-10b Axis in Human Glioblastoma Cells

PLoS One. 2016 Jul 28;11(7):e0159092. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159092. eCollection 2016.

Abstract

Glioma amplified sequence 41(GAS41) is a potent transcription factor that play a crucial role in cell proliferation and survival. In glioblastoma, the expression of GAS41 at both transcriptional and post transcriptional level needs to be tightly maintained in response to cellular signals. Micro RNAs (miRNA) are small non coding RNA that act as important regulators for modulating the expression of various target genes. Studies have shown that several miRNAs play role in the post-transcriptional regulation of GAS41. Here we identified GAS41 as a novel target for endogenous miR-203 and demonstrate an inverse correlation of miR-203 expression with GAS41 in glioma cell lines (HNGC2 and U87). Over expression of miR-203 negatively regulates GAS41 expression in U87 and HNGC2 cell lines. Moreover, miR-203 restrained miR-10b action by suppressing GAS41. GAS41 is essential for repressing p53 in tumor suppressor pathway during cell proliferation. Enforced expression of GAS41 produced contradictory effect on miR-203 but was able to enhance p53 tumor suppressor pathway associated protein. It was also found that miR-203 maintains the stability of p53 as knock down of p53 expression using siRNA resulted in down regulation of pri-miR and mature miR-203 expression. Conversely reconstitution of miR-203 expression induced apoptosis and inhibited migratory property of glioma cells. Taken together, we show that miR-203 is a key negative regulator of GAS41 and acts as tumor suppressor microRNA in glioma.

MeSH terms

  • Apoptosis
  • Brain Neoplasms / genetics
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cell Proliferation / genetics*
  • Down-Regulation
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
  • Glioblastoma / genetics
  • Glioblastoma / pathology*
  • Humans
  • MicroRNAs / genetics*
  • Neoplasm Metastasis / genetics*
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras) / genetics
  • Transcription Factors / genetics*
  • Transcription, Genetic
  • Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / metabolism

Substances

  • MIRN10 microRNA, human
  • MIRN203 microRNA, human
  • MicroRNAs
  • TP53 protein, human
  • Transcription Factors
  • Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
  • YEATS4 protein, human
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)

Grants and funding

The work was supported by DBT project GAP 0362 to MPB and CSIR Network project BSC 0121 to UB. DP and PS thank CSIR and DM thanks ICMR for their fellowships. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.