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ArticleScientific reports2020

Screening of potential miRNA therapeutics for the prevention of multi-drug resistance in cancer cells.

Zdravka Medarova, Pamela Pantazopoulos, Byunghee Yoo

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. MiRNAs: main players of cancer drug resistance target ABC transporters.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025
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  18. MicroRNA-Based Therapeutics for Drug-Resistant Colorectal Cancer.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zdravka MedarovaMGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02129, USA. zmedarova@partners.org.
Pamela PantazopoulosMGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02129, USA.
Byunghee YooMGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02129, USA. byoo@mgh.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

Therapy for Metastatic breast cancer based on micro RNA silencingR01CA221771 · NCI · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MOORE, ANNA · 2018 to 2022
$2.9M
500 MHz NMR Spectrometer for Molecular Imaging ApplicationsS10RR023385 · NCRR · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ROSEN, BRUCE R · 2007 to 2007
$500k
IVIS Spectrum Imaging SystemS10RR025504 · NCRR · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MOORE, ANNA · 2009 to 2009
$341k
In vivo methodology for the discovery and validation of miRNA biomarkers in cancer R56CA214464 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MEDAROVA, ZDRAVKA O · 2018 to 2018
$297k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA221771NCI NIH HHS R56 CA214464NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR023385NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR025504
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemotherapy, a major cancer treatment approach, suffers seriously from multidrug resistance (MDR), generally caused by innate DNA repair proteins that reverse the DNA modification by anti-cancer therapeutics or trans-membrane efflux proteins that pump anti-cancer therapeutics out of the cytosol. This project focused on finding microRNAs that can regulate MDR proteins by managing corresponding mRNA levels through post-transcriptional regulation based on nucleotide sequence matching. Screening was done with bioinformatics databases for unpublished/unexplored microRNAs with high nucleotide sequence correspondence to two representative MDR proteins, MGMT (a DNA repair protein) and ABCB1 (an efflux protein), revealing microRNA-4539 and microRNA-4261 respectively. To investigate the enhancement of chemotherapeutics in cancer cells, high MGMT expressing glioblastoma (T98G) and a high ABCB1 expressing triple-negative breast cancer cell line (MDA-MB-231-luc) were treated with varying concentrations of chemotherapeutics and corresponding miRNAs. Newly identified MDR-related miRNAs (MDRmiRs) enhanced the response to anti-cancer therapeutics and resulted in effective cell death. In this study, we demonstrated that therapeutic miRNAs could be identified based on the nucleotide sequence matching of miRNAs to targeted mRNA and the same approach could be employed for the screening of therapeutic candidates to regulate specific target proteins in diverse diseases.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily BCell Line, TumorCell SurvivalComputational BiologyDNA RepairDrug Resistance, MultipleDrug Resistance, NeoplasmDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMicroRNAsNeoplasmsOligonucleotidesATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily BMicroRNAsOligonucleotides

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PMID32029822
PMCPMC7005303
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