PMID- 25123132 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150313 LR - 20211021 IS - 1460-2180 (Electronic) IS - 0143-3334 (Print) IS - 0143-3334 (Linking) VI - 35 IP - 11 DP - 2014 Nov TI - Overexpression of miR-146a in basal-like breast cancer cells confers enhanced tumorigenic potential in association with altered p53 status. PG - 2567-75 LID - 10.1093/carcin/bgu175 [doi] AB - The tumor suppressor p53 is the most frequently mutated gene in human cancers, mutated in 25-30% of breast cancers. However, mutation rates differ according to breast cancer subtype, being more prevalent in aggressive estrogen receptor-negative tumors and basal-like and HER2-amplified subtypes. This heterogeneity suggests that p53 may function differently across breast cancer subtypes. We used RNAi-mediated p53 knockdown (KD) and antagomir-mediated KD of microRNAs to study how gene expression and cellular response to p53 loss differ in luminal versus basal-like breast cancer. As expected, p53 loss caused downregulation of established p53 targets (e.g. p21 and miR-34 family) and increased proliferation in both luminal and basal-like cell lines. However, some p53-dependent changes were subtype specific, including expression of miR-134, miR-146a and miR-181b. To study the cellular response to miR-146a upregulation in p53-impaired basal-like lines, antagomir KD of miR-146a was performed. KD of miR-146a caused decreased proliferation and increased apoptosis, effectively ablating the effects of p53 loss. Furthermore, we found that miR-146a upregulation decreased NF-kappaB expression and downregulated the NF-kappaB-dependent extrinsic apoptotic pathway (including tumor necrosis factor, FADD and TRADD) and antagomir-mediated miR-146a KD restored expression of these components, suggesting a plausible mechanism for miR-146a-dependent cellular responses. These findings are relevant to human basal-like tumor progression in vivo, since miR-146a is highly expressed in p53 mutant basal-like breast cancers. These findings suggest that targeting miR-146a expression may have value for altering the aggressiveness of p53 mutant basal-like tumors. CI - (c) The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com. FAU - Sandhu, Rupninder AU - Sandhu R AD - UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. FAU - Rein, Jessica AU - Rein J AD - Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. FAU - D'Arcy, Monica AU - D'Arcy M AD - Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. FAU - Herschkowitz, Jason I AU - Herschkowitz JI AD - Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA and. FAU - Hoadley, Katherine A AU - Hoadley KA AD - UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. FAU - Troester, Melissa A AU - Troester MA AD - UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA troester@unc.edu. LA - eng GR - P30 ES010126/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States GR - R25 CA057726/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - U01-CA-179715/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - U01-ES-019472/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20140814 PL - England TA - Carcinogenesis JT - Carcinogenesis JID - 8008055 RN - 0 (MIRN146 microRNA, human) RN - 0 (MicroRNAs) RN - 0 (NF-kappa B) RN - 0 (TP53 protein, human) RN - 0 (Tumor Suppressor Protein p53) SB - IM MH - Breast Neoplasms/*genetics/pathology MH - Carcinogenesis/*genetics MH - Female MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic MH - Humans MH - MCF-7 Cells MH - MicroRNAs/*biosynthesis/genetics MH - Mutation MH - NF-kappa B/metabolism MH - RNA Interference MH - Signal Transduction/genetics MH - Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/*genetics PMC - PMC4288116 EDAT- 2014/08/16 06:00 MHDA- 2015/03/17 06:00 PMCR- 2015/11/01 CRDT- 2014/08/16 06:00 PHST- 2014/08/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/08/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/03/17 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2015/11/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - bgu175 [pii] AID - 10.1093/carcin/bgu175 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Carcinogenesis. 2014 Nov;35(11):2567-75. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgu175. Epub 2014 Aug 14.