Title:In Silico Identification of Human miR 3654 and its Targets Revealed its Involvement in Prostate Cancer Progression
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Author(s): Subramanian Saravanan, Villianur I.H. Islam, Krishnaraj Thirugnanasambantham and Durairaj Sekar
Affiliation:
Keywords:
Biomarker, ESTs, LNCaP, microRNAs, prostate cancer, q-PCR.
Abstract: Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNAs known to control a broad range
of biological functions such as cellular proliferation, differentiation and programmed cell death. Recent
reports showed that miRNAs can act as oncogenes or tumor suppressors, thereby, playing an important
role in cancer initiation and progression. Moreover, we know that Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are
random single pass sequence reads, which displays the condition/tissue specific transcripts (coding and
non-coding) of an organism.
Methods: In the present study, we have applied the bioinformatics approach to identify miRNA from
prostate cancer using EST resource and its expressions were analyzed by quantitative reverse transcription
PCR (qRT-PCR).
Results: Analysis of transcriptomics resource from the LNCaP cells revealed the presence of an EST
encoding hsa-miR-3654. Presence of the premature candidate of miR-3654, demonstrates its expression
in LNCaP cells. We further indentified that the expression level (Fold Induction) of miR-3654 in
LNCaP was higher than the normal and androgen insensitive prostate cancer cell lines (PNT1A, PC-3).
Conclusion: we have identified the miR-3654 involved in prostate cancer progression using computational
approach and hypothesized that the down regulation of miR-3654 could be responsible for a solid
tumor to get cancer stem-like cell phenotype. Further studies are required to investigate the molecular
mechanisms behind the STAT3 mediated miR-3654 repression and the associated metastasis.
