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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2020

3'-UTR Shortening Contributes to Subtype-Specific Cancer Growth by Breaking Stable ceRNA Crosstalk of Housekeeping Genes.

Zhenjiang Fan, Soyeon Kim, Yulong Bai, Brenda Diergaarde, Hyun Jung Park

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Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Zhenjiang FanDepartment of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Soyeon KimDepartment of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Yulong BaiDepartment of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Brenda DiergaardeDepartment of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Hyun Jung ParkDepartment of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
University of Pittsburgh · USChildren's Hospital of Pittsburgh · USUPMC Hillman Cancer Center · US

Funding

VECTOR CORE FACILITYP30CA047904 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI JOHN C. BYRD · 1988 to 2026
$158.0M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA047904
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shortening of 3'UTRs (3'US) through alternative polyadenylation is a post-transcriptional mechanism that regulates the expression of hundreds of genes in human cancers. In breast cancer, different subtypes of tumor samples, such as estrogen receptor positive and negative (ER+ and ER-), are characterized by distinct molecular mechanisms, suggesting possible differences in the post-transcriptional regulation between the subtype tumors. In this study, based on the profound tumorigenic role of 3'US interacting with competing-endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network (3'US-ceRNA effect), we hypothesize that the 3'US-ceRNA effect drives subtype-specific tumor growth. However, we found that the subtypes are available in different sample sizes, biasing the ceRNA network size and disabling the fair comparison of the 3'US-ceRNA effect. Using normalized Laplacian matrix eigenvalue distribution, we addressed this bias and built tumor ceRNA networks comparable between the subtypes. Based on the comparison, we identified a novel role of housekeeping (HK) genes as stable and strong miRNA sponges (sponge HK genes) that synchronize the ceRNA networks of normal samples (adjacent to ER+ and ER- tumor samples). We further found that distinct 3'US events in the ER- tumor break the stable sponge effect of HK genes in a subtype-specific fashion, especially in association with the aggressive and metastatic phenotypes. Knockdown of NUDT21 further suggested the role of 3'US-ceRNA effect in repressing HK genes for tumor growth. In this study, we identified 3'US-ceRNA effect on the sponge HK genes for subtype-specific growth of ER- tumors.

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alternative polyadenylation (APA)breast cancer subtypescompeting-endogenous RNAhousekeeping genesRNA regulation

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PMID32411683
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