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ONCOLOGY REPORTS
Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 1778-1786Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/or.2015.4538
Keywords
microRNA-206; clear cell renal carcinoma; vascular endothelial growth factor A; proliferation; invasion
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30772165]
- Wu Jieping Medical Foundation [320.6750.13257]
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MicroRNA-206 (miR-206) has been discovered to have anticancer properties in different tissues. However, the role of miR-206 on renal carcinoma is still ambiguous. In the present study, we investigated the role of miR-206 on the development of renal carcinoma. The results indicated that miR-206 was significantly downregulated in 69 clear cell renal carcinoma (ccRCC) tissues and low-level of miR-206 related to shorter metastasis-free survival time for patients with ccRCC. The results indicated that vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) was a direct target of miR-206 in renal cancer cells. Further studies revealed that upregulation of miR-206 inhibited renal cancer cell proliferation, invasion and migration, suggesting that miR-206 functioned as a tumor suppressor. RNA interference targeting VEGFA mRNA could mimic the upregulation of miR-206 functions, and also suppressed tumor formation in vivo in nude mice. These results suggest that miR-206 plays an important role in ccRCC tumorigenesis by targeting VEGFA.
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