Journal: Scientific Reports
Article Title: A risk progression breast epithelial 3D culture model reveals Cx43/hsa_circ_0077755/miR-182 as a biomarker axis for heightened risk of breast cancer initiation
doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-82057-y
Figure Lengend Snippet: Selection of one validated mRNA-circRNA-miRNA breast cancer initiation risk-assessment axis. ( a ) Comparative flow chart representing the dysregulation patterns of the validated circRNAs and that of their target miRNAs, based on (i) miRNA sequencing in Cx43-KO-S1 cells compared to S1 cells (shown in Fig. ) and (ii) tumor-associated miRNAs from microarrays of early-stage Lebanese breast cancer patient cohort as reported in Nassar et al. (shown in Table ). Only Cx43/has_circ_0077755/miR-182 axis exhibits the expected inverse dysregulation pattern between circRNA and their target miRNAs in both cells and patients (when circRNA is down-regulated, its MRE should be up-regulated, and vice versa). ( b ) RT-qPCR further confirmed the upregulation of miR-182 in four samples of Cx43-KO-S1 cells as compared to S1 counterparts using RNU6B as an endogenous control. * denotes a p.value < 0.05 for Cx43-KO-S1 versus S1 cells using one-tailed unpaired T-test. ( c ) Using METABRIC breast cancer miRNA dataset in the Kaplan–Meier Plotter , the survival analysis for miR-182 in 460 patients with grade II breast tumors was plotted. miR-182 seems to associate with poor prognosis when up-regulated in grade II breast tumors. ( d ) Using all breast cancer mRNA datasets in the Kaplan–Meier Plotter , , the survival analysis for Cx43 in 901 patients with grade II breast tumors was plotted. Cx43 seems to associate with poor prognosis when down-regulated . The same was performed for Grade III breast tumors and presented in (Supplementary Fig. a,b), where down-regulation of miR-182 and up-regulation of Cx43 seem to associate with poor prognosis in Grade III breast tumors.
Article Snippet: To identify circRNA expression profile specific to the loss of Cx43, microarrays for circRNAs (Arraystar Human circRNA Array V2) were performed.
Techniques: Selection, Sequencing, Quantitative RT-PCR, Control, One-tailed Test