Human haematological and epithelial tumor-derived cell lines express distinct patterns of onco-microRNAs.

In this study, we analysed differences in miRNA expression profile between haematological and epithelial tumor-derived cell lines and explored their role in definying different cancer cells phenotypes. Cancer Focus microRNA PCR Panel was used to analyze eighty-four oncomiRNAs in two human haematological (K562 and HL-60) and in two epithelial (H460 and MCF-7) cancer cell lines. Bioinformatic tools were used to identify miRNA-specific signatures and to discover potentially deregulated pathways. Our analysis led to the identification of i) a large repertoire of miRNAs commonly expressed in the four cell lines, including two equally highly expressed (UPmiRs) and four equally low expressed (DNmiRs); ii) two miRNAs signatures, one associated with the haematological and one with the epithelial cell lines; iii) miRNA signatures specific for the acute or for the chronic myeloid leukemic cells; iv) miRNA signatures specific for the lung or for the breast carcinoma cells. As a whole, these results strengthen the significance of miRNAs profiling in human cancer subtyping, providing the ground for the identification of novel potential biomarkers for specific cancer cell phenotypes. PMID: 29208177 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Cellular and Molecular Biology - Category: Molecular Biology Tags: Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) Source Type: research