Therefore, AEBP1 may become a novel treatment for CRC patients with chemoresistance and may act through the upstream miR-214 to participate in the progression of a tumor.
Strikingly, lncRNA PVT1 acts as a competitive endogenous RNA against microRNA (miR)-214-3p, whereas miR-214-3p targets insulin receptor substrate 1, which draws a comprehensive picture of the potential molecular mechanisms of lncRNA PVT1 in CRC.
High Mobility Group AT-hook 1 (HMGA1) was identified as a target of miR-214 in human cervical and colorectal cancers (CaCx and CRC) in a previous study.
Low expression of miR-214 concurrent with elevated levels of HMGA1 may contribute to cervical and colorectal cancer progression. miR-214-mediated regulation of HMGA1 is a novel mechanism for its tumour-suppressive actions in human cervical and colorectal cancer cells and opens up avenues for novel therapeutic strategies for these two cancers.
Firstly, we validated the suppression of miR-214 in human HCC by real-time quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) in 20 paired tumor and non-tumor liver tissues of HCC patients and 10 histologically normal liver tissues from colorectal cancer patients with liver metastases.