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A Yin-Yang 1/miR-30a regulatory circuit modulates autophagy in pancreatic cancer cells

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Title
A Yin-Yang 1/miR-30a regulatory circuit modulates autophagy in pancreatic cancer cells
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Journal of Translational Medicine, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12967-017-1308-3
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Chuang Yang, Jing-Jing Zhang, Yun-Peng Peng, Yi Zhu, Ling-Di Yin, Ji-Shu Wei, Wen-Tao Gao, Kui-Rong Jiang, Yi Miao

Abstract

Autophagy is a highly regulated biological process that mediates the degradation of intracellular components. It is required for tumor cell metabolism and homeostasis. Yin-Yang 1 (YY1) has been reported to be involved in autophagy in several carcinomas. However, its role in autophagy in pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest human malignancies, is unknown. Here, we investigated the function of YY1 in pancreatic cancer cells autophagy and its mechanisms of action. The activity of cells undergoing autophagy was assessed using transmission electron microscopy, immunofluorescence, and Western blotting. A luciferase activity assay, real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) were also used to identify putative downstream targets of YY1. YY1 was confirmed to regulate autophagy in pancreatic cancer cells. It was found to directly regulate the expression of miR-30a, a known modulator of autophagy-associated genes. Furthermore, overexpression of miR-30a attenuated the pro-autophagic effects of YY1. Cumulatively, our data suggest that miR-30a acts in a feedback loop to modulate the pro-autophagic activities of YY1. Thus, autophagy in pancreatic cancer cells may be regulated, in part, by a tightly coordinated YY1/miR-30a regulatory circuit. These findings provide a potential druggable target for the development of treatments for pancreatic cancer.

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Unknown 13 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 31%
Student > Master 3 23%
Student > Bachelor 2 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 8%
Unknown 3 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 23%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 October 2017.
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#14,957,541
of 23,006,268 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Translational Medicine
#1,994
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#193,680
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#20
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