Journal of Liver

MiR-22 silenced cyclin A expression in colon and liver cancer cells is regulated by bile acid receptor

2^nd International Conference on Hepatology

May 09-11, 2016 Chicago, USA

Hui Xin Liu, Ying Hu and Yu Jui Yvonne Wan

University of California at Davis Medical Center, USA

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Liver

Abstract:

Due to the significant tumor suppressive role of microRNA-22 (miR-22), the current study was designed to understand the regulation of miR-22 and to identify additional downstream miR-22 targets in liver and colon cells. The data showed miR-22 was transcriptionally regulated by bile acid receptor farnesoid X receptor (FXR) through direct binding to an invert repeat-1 (IR-1) motif located at 1012 to 1025 bp upstream from miR-22. Among the studied primary and secondary bile acids, chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA), which has the highest binding affinity to FXR, induced miR-22 level in both Huh7 liver and HCT116 colon cells in a dose dependent manner. In addition, Cyclin A2 (CCNA2) was identified as a miR-22 novel target in liver and colon cancer cells. The sequence of miR-22, which is conserved in mice, rats, humans and other mammalians, aligns with the sequence of 3�?? UTR of CCNA2. CDCA treatment and miR-22 mimics reduced CCNA2 protein and increased the number of G0/G1 Huh7 and HCT116 cells. In FXR knockout (KO) mice, reduction of miR-22 was accompanied by elevated hepatic and ileal CCNA2 protein as well as increased number of hepatic and colonic Ki-67-positive cells. In humans, the expression levels of miR-22 and CCNA2 are inversely correlated in liver and colon cancers. Taken together, our data showed that bile acid activated FXR stimulates miR-22 silenced CCNA2, a novel pathway for FXR to exert its protective effect in the gastrointestinal tract.

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