Abstract:
:Treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains a clinical challenge. There is an urgent need to develop novel strategies to enhance survival and improve patient prognosis. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play critical roles as oncogenes or tumor suppressors in the regulation of cancer development and progression. In this study, we demonstrate that low expression of miR-15a is associated with poor prognosis of PDAC patients. miR-15a expression is reduced in PDAC while closely related miR-16 expression remains relatively unchanged. miR-15a suppresses several important targets such as Wee1, Chk1, Yap-1, and BMI-1, causing cell cycle arrest and inhibiting cell proliferation. Ectopic expression of miR-15a sensitizes PDAC cells to gemcitabine reducing the half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) more than 6.5-fold. To investigate the therapeutic potential of miR-15a, we used a modified miR-15a (5-FU-miR-15a) with uracil (U) residues in the guide strand replaced with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). We demonstrated enhanced inhibition of PDAC cell proliferation by 5-FU-miR-15a compared to native miR-15a. In vivo we showed the therapeutic power of 5-FU-miR-15a alone or in combination with gemcitabine with near complete elimination of PDAC lung metastatic tumor growth. These results support the future development of 5-FU-miR-15a as a novel therapeutic agent as well as a prognostic biomarker in the clinical management of PDAC.
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Mol Ther Nucleic Acidsjournal_title
Molecular therapy. Nucleic acidsauthors
Guo S,Fesler A,Huang W,Wang Y,Yang J,Wang X,Zheng Y,Hwang GR,Wang H,Ju Jdoi
10.1016/j.omtn.2019.11.010subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-03-06 00:00:00pages
228-239issn
2162-2531pii
S2162-2531(19)30363-4journal_volume
19pub_type
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