Circulating microRNA-194 regulates human melanoma cells via PI3K/AKT/FoxO3a and p53/p21 signaling pathway.

Ming Bai, Mingzi Zhang, Fei Long, Nanze Yu, Ang Zeng, Ru Zhao

Oncology reports 2017 May

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In the present study, we analyzed the role of microRNA-194 circulating regulated human melanoma cell growth. We found that microRNA-194 expression was markedly suppressed in human melanoma patients, compared with negative control group. Next, disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) of high expression in human melanoma patients was higher than those of low expression in human melanoma patients. MicroRNA-194 overexpression inhibited cell proliferation, induced apoptosis, increased caspase-3/-9 activities and promoted Bax/Bcl-2 of human melanoma cells. Furthermore, microRNA-194 overexpression also suppressed PI3K/AKT/FoxO3a signaling pathway and induced p53/p21 signaling pathway. PI3K inhibitor, suppressed PI3K, phosphorylation-AKT, FoxO3a protein expression and increased the effects of microRNA-194 overexpression on cell growth, apoptosis, caspase-3/-9 activities and Bax/Bcl-2 protein expression of human melanoma cells through the induction of p53/p21 signaling pathway. Taken together, these data indicate that circulating microRNA-194 regulated human melanoma cells via PI3K/AKT/FoxO3a and p53/p21 signaling pathway.

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Ming Bai, Mingzi Zhang, Fei Long, Nanze Yu, Ang Zeng, Ru Zhao. Circulating microRNA-194 regulates human melanoma cells via PI3K/AKT/FoxO3a and p53/p21 signaling pathway. Oncology reports. 2017 May;37(5):2702-2710