Additionally, a negative correlation between miR‑29a and REV3L mRNA expression levels in tumor tissues from patients with NSCLC was observed; low expression of miR‑29a and high expression of REV3L were closely associated with an advanced tumor‑node‑metastasis classification.
Integrated analyses of microRNA-29 family and the related combination biomarkers demonstrate their widespread influence on risk, recurrence, metastasis and survival outcome in colorectal cancer.
Collectively, dysregulated miR‑29a‑3p expression in gastric cancer cells was associated with malignant properties primarily relevant to migration and metastasis.
We found that miR-29a overexpression increased DNA methylation of suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 (SOCS1) promoter was associated with HCC metastasis in vitro and in vivo.
The results demonstrated that miR-29a was downregulated in NSCLC and the decreased expression level of miR-29a was significantly associated with advanced tumor-node-metastasis classification and metastasis.
Their Normfinder stability values calculated across the primary tumor and metastases subgroup indicate that miR-29a-3p can be considered as the strongest housekeeper in a cohort with mainly samples from primary tumors, whereas miR-16-5p might perform better in a metastatic sample enriched cohort.
Ectopic expression of miR-21 and miR-29a promotes angiogenesis and tumor cell proliferation through the downregulation of anti-angiogenic genes such as Col4a2, Spry1 and Timp3, whereas knockdown of the miRs impedes these processes. miR-21 and miR-29a are expressed in Csf1r+ myeloid cells associated with human metastatic breast cancer, and levels of these miRs in CD115+ non-classical monocytes correlates with metastatic tumor burden in patients.
Increased expression of miR-29a promoted CRC metastasis by regulating MMP2/E-cad through direct targeting KLF4, which highlights the potential of the miR-29a inhibitor as a novel agent against CRC metastasis.
The serum levels of miR-29a and miR-29b in the patients with higher tumor grade (both P = 0.01), positive metastasis (both P = 0.006), and positive recurrence (both P = 0.006) were both markedly higher than those with lower tumor grade, negative metastasis, and negative recurrence.
The aim of this study was to investigate the functional significance of miR-29a in cervical squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and to identify novel miR-29a-regulated cancer pathways and target genes involved in cervical SCC oncogenesis and metastasis.
Among these unique miRNAs, miR-140-3p, miR-29c, and miR-29a were differentially expressed in metastasis versus nonmetastatic samples and had a strong positive correlation with their DNA copy numbers and a negative correlation with the expression of their target genes.