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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 119, Issue 11, Pages 9081-9089Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.27167
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Glioblastoma (GBM); Kruppel-like factor 16 (KLF16); miR-185-5p; retinal noncoding RNA3 (RNCR3)
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Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating and highly aggressive tumor, which is apoptosis resistant and difficult to cure. Recently, long noncoding RNAs have been shown to play a pivotal role in GBM progression. Evidence has suggested that retinal noncoding RNA3 (RNCR3) is a GBM-associated noncoding RNA and is under-expressed in GBM. However, the function and mechanism of RNCR3 on GBM cell growth and apoptosis are still uncertain. In the current study, we found that the level of RNCR3 is decreased in U87, U251, U373, and A172 GBM cell lines when compared with the normal human astrocytes. Elevating long noncoding RNA RNCR3 expression markedly inhibits U87 and U251 cell survival and proliferation. Further studies indicated that RNCR3 overexpression promotes U87 and U251 cell apoptosis and activity caspase-3/7. Moreover, we found that RNCR3 overexpression promotes Kruppel-like factor 16 (KLF16) expression through inhibiting the level of miR-185-5p. We demonstrated that KLF16 is a direct target of miR-185-5p. An increased miR-185-5p level by a miR-185-5p mimic or decreased KLF16 by KLF16 small interfering RNA both reversed the function of RNCR3 overexpression on GBM cell growth and apoptosis. In summary, this study focuses oninvestigating the key molecular mechanisms of RNCR3 involved in GBM cell growth and apoptosis. Our data indicated that RNCR3 overexpression inhibits cell growth and induces its apoptosis through the miR-185-5p/KLF16 axis.
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