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ArticleTumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine2014

MicroRNA-143 is downregulated in breast cancer and regulates DNA methyltransferases 3A in breast cancer cells.

Enders K O Ng, Rufina Li, Vivian Y Shin, Jennifer M Siu, Edmond S K Ma, Ava Kwong

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Article in Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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46 citing papers in PubMed, 93 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. DNMT3A and DNMT3B in Breast Tumorigenesis and Potential Therapy.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Enders K O NgDepartment of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong.
Rufina Li
Vivian Y Shin
Jennifer M Siu
Edmond S K Ma
Ava Kwong
Chinese University of Hong Kong · CNUniversity of Hong Kong · HKHong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital · HK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-protein-coding RNAs that regulate expression of a wide variety of genes including those involved in cancer development. Here, we investigate the role of miR-143 in breast cancer. In this study, we showed that miR-143 was frequently downregulated in 80% of breast carcinoma tissues compared to their adjacent noncancerous tissues. Ectopic expression of miR-143 inhibited proliferation and soft agar colony formation of breast cancer cells and also downregulated DNA methyltransferase 3A (DNMT3A) expression on both mRNA and protein levels. Restoration of miR-143 expression in breast cancer cells reduces PTEN hypermethylation and increases TNFRSF10C methylation. DNMT3A was demonstrated to be a direct target of miR-143 by luciferase reporter assay. Furthermore, miR-143 expression was observed to be inversely correlated with DNMT3A mRNA and protein expression in breast cancer tissues. Our findings suggest that miR-143 regulates DNMT3A in breast cancer cells. These findings elucidated a tumor-suppressive role of miR-143 in epigenetic aberration of breast cancer, providing a potential development of miRNA-based treatment for breast cancer.

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Blotting, WesternBreast NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationDNA (Cytosine-5-)-MethyltransferasesDNA MethylationDNA Methyltransferase 3ADown-RegulationEpigenesis, GeneticFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMicroRNAsReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionTransfectionDNA (Cytosine-5-)-MethyltransferasesDNA Methyltransferase 3ADNMT3A protein, humanMicroRNAsMIRN143 microRNA, human

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