Research Paper Volume 15, Issue 24 pp 14930—14944
LncRNA HAGLROS contribute to papillary thyroid cancer progression by modulating miR-206/HMGA2 expression
- 1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital (The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan Normal University), Changsha 410001, Hunan, China
- 2 Chenzhou First People’s Hospital, Beihu, Chenzhou 423000, Hunan, China
Received: June 16, 2023 Accepted: November 6, 2023 Published: December 18, 2023
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.205321How to Cite
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Abstract
Objective: Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is one of the most serious diseases of the endocrine system. In view of the limited therapeutic effects of current medical methods, this study starts from the molecular level and looks for potential treatments. The interaction between HAGLROS/miR-206/HMGA2 was studied using multi-omics methods, which provided new ideas and methods for future treatments.
Method: Microarray analysis and R language were used for differential analysis to screening experimental targets of lncRNA, miRNA, and mRNA. qRT-PCR was used to detect RNA expression in tissues and cells. Double luciferase reporter assays analyzed and validated binding relationships between different RNAs. Colony formation, flow cytometry, and transwell assays were used to measure the effect of them on cell proliferation, apoptosis, and migration.
Result: Microarray analysis identified lncRNAs, miRNAs, and mRNAs differentially expressed in PTC and normal cells, and selected lncRNA HAGLROS, miR-206, and mRNA HMGA2 as study subjects. LncRNA HAGLROS and mRNA HMGA2 were highly expressed in PTC cells while miR-206 was lowly expressed in PTC cells. LncRNA HAGLROS/HMGA2 can inhibit apoptosis of PTC cells, promote proliferation and migration, and miR-206 promotes the above process. HAGLROS and HMGA2 were negatively correlated with miR-206. shHAGLROS promoted miR-206 expression, inhibited HMGA2 expression and repressed PTC tumor growth in mice.
Conclusions: HAGLROS promotes the growth of PTC by competitively binding to miR-206 to promote HMGA2 expression.
Abbreviations
PTC: Papillary thyroid cancer; HMGA2: High mobility group AT-hook 2; TCGA: The Cancer Genome Atlas; SPLSDA: Stacked Partial Least-Squares Discriminant Analysis; CIM: Cluster image map.