Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Inhibition of miR-1307 Reverses Resistance to Cisplatin in Drug-Resistant Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
doi: 10.64898/2026.04.06.709730
Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Volcano plot representing significant genes (Log2FC ± 2 and p-value<0.05) identified in anti-miR-1307-5p vs SC from a total of 16211 genes. Red dots indicate significantly upregulated genes, blue dots indicate significantly downregulated genes, and grey dots represent non-significant genes (based on thresholds). (b) Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) network of significantly altered genes, with key hub genes highlighted in green (bold) indicate their central role in regulatory signaling. (c) Expression levels (Log2FC) of genes regulating the proliferation, cell-cycle progression, apoptosis resistance, EMT and angiogenesis regulators including E-CAD, N-CAD, VIM, VEGF-A, CD44, AKT, YAP1 and PI3K following miR-1307-5p inhibition. Expression levels were normalised against β-actin values, and relative quantification was performed using the ΔΔCt method. (d) Bar plot illustrating the log2 fold change (Log2FC) of selected genes (CCN2, SNAI1, and TGFB1) in the SC and anti-miR-1307-5p-treated cohort, along with their concordance with the TCGA HNSCC dataset. (e) Schematic representation of the proposed molecular mechanism. miR-1307-5p knockdown modulates key signaling pathways including TGF-β, AKT, YAP1 and MEK/ERK, leading to regulation of EMT/CSC traits, proliferation, angiogenesis, and apoptosis. This ultimately contributes to reversal of chemoresistance. Error bars represent mean ± SD of three independent experiments. The statistical significance is indicated as: (*p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001).
Article Snippet: The cells were stained, were suspended in 1 ml 1X PBS and stained with 5 μl of PE anti-human CD44 antibody (Miltenyi Biotec, USA) for 20 minutes in dark, washed with 1X PBS and resuspended in 100 μl 1X PBS.
Techniques: Expressing, Inhibition, Quantitative Proteomics, Knockdown, Protein-Protein interactions