Global microRNA depletion suppresses tumor angiogenesis
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Chen, Sidi; Xue, Yuan; Le, Cong; Bhutkar, Arjun (AJ); Bell, Eric L.; Zhang, Feng; Langer, Robert; Sharp, Phillip A.; Wu, Xuebing, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wu, Xuebing, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; ... Show more Show less
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MicroRNAs delicately regulate the balance of angiogenesis. Here we show that depletion of all microRNAs suppresses tumor angiogenesis. We generated microRNA-deficient tumors by knocking out Dicer1. These tumors are highly hypoxic but poorly vascularized, suggestive of deficient angiogenesis signaling. Expression profiling revealed that angiogenesis genes were significantly down-regulated as a result of the microRNA deficiency. Factor inhibiting hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1), FIH1, is derepressed under these conditions and suppresses HIF transcription. Knocking out FIH1 using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome engineering reversed the phenotypes of microRNA-deficient cells in HIF transcriptional activity, VEGF production, tumor hypoxia, and tumor angiogenesis. Using multiplexed CRISPR/Cas9, we deleted regions in FIH1 3′ untranslated regions (UTRs) that contain microRNA-binding sites, which derepresses FIH1 protein and represses hypoxia response. These data suggest that microRNAs promote tumor responses to hypoxia and angiogenesis by repressing FIH1.
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2014-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computational and Systems Biology Program; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering; Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MITJournal
Genes & Development
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
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Chen, S., Y. Xue, X. Wu, C. Le, A. Bhutkar, E. L. Bell, F. Zhang, R. Langer, and P. A. Sharp. “Global microRNA Depletion Suppresses Tumor Angiogenesis.” Genes & Development 28, no. 10 (May 15, 2014): 1054–1067.
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0890-9369