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ArticleMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids2021

E2F3 promotes liver cancer progression under the regulation of circ-PRKAR1B.

Guodong Liu, Xiwu Ouyang, Liansheng Gong, Lei Yao, Shiqing Liu, Jiarong Li, Qi Zhang, Yao Xiao

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Article in Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Guodong LiuDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China.
Xiwu OuyangDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China.
Liansheng GongDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China.
Lei YaoDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China.
Shiqing LiuDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410008, China.
Jiarong LiDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China.
Qi ZhangDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China.
Yao XiaoDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China.
Central South University · CNXiangya Hospital Central South University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liver cancer is one of the most lethal malignant tumors in the world. The high recurrence and mortality rate make it urgent for scientists and clinicians to find new targets for better treatment of liver cancer. Here, we found that circ-PRKAR1B expression was increased in the paired intrahepatic metastasis sample through high-throughput sequencing. Further experiments also confirmed its high expression both in carcinoma and metastasis when compared to the paired para-carcinoma and the paired carcinoma, respectively. Mechanism study showed that circ-PRKAR1B could promote liver cancer progression through the miR-432-5p/E2F3 pathway, and microRNA-432-5p could directly target the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of E2F3 mRNA to suppress its translation, thereby influencing liver cancer cell invasion and migration capacities. Clinical data obtained by using online databases based on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) samples and the clinicopathological data of liver cancer patients who underwent surgery in our hospital in the past 2 years also confirmed the significance of circ-PRKAR1B/miR-432-5p/E2F3 signaling in liver cancer progression. Animal experiments also indicated that targeting this newly identified signaling by overexpressing microRNA-432-5p could suppress the progression of liver cancer. Together, our study suggests that circ-PRKAR1B plays an important role in the regulation of liver cancer progression, and targeting this new circ-PRKAR1B/miR-432-5p/E2F3 signaling may help us find new treatment strategies to better suppress liver cancer progression.

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circ-PRKAR1BE2F3invasionliver cancermigrationmiRNAs

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