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MicroRNA-378-5p suppresses cell proliferation and induces apoptosis in colorectal cancer cells by targeting BRAF

Overview of attention for article published in Cancer Cell International, April 2015
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Title
MicroRNA-378-5p suppresses cell proliferation and induces apoptosis in colorectal cancer cells by targeting BRAF
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Cancer Cell International, April 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12935-015-0192-2
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Zhenlei Wang, Bin Ma, Xiaopin Ji, Yang Deng, Tao Zhang, Xiaojian Zhang, Haoji Gao, Hanxing Sun, Haoxuan Wu, Xianze Chen, Ren Zhao

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a group of small non-coding RNA molecules that potentially play a critical role in tumorigenesis. Increasing evidences indicate that miR-378-5p is dysregulated in numerous human cancers including colorectal cancer (CRC) which hypothesizes that miR-378-5p may play an important role in tumorigenesis. However, its role in CRC carcinogenesis remains poorly defined because of lacking target genes information. In the present study, it was demonstrated that the expression of miR-378-5p was down-regulated in CRC tissues and cell lines as determined by quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). Furthermore, overexpression of miR-378-5p suppressed cell proliferation, as indicated by CCK-8 assay. Flow cytometric analysis demonstrated that overexpression of miR-378-5p induced cell cycle arrest and promoted apoptosis in CRC cells. A luciferase reporter assay indicated that BRAF was a direct target of miR-378-5p. Western blot and qRT-PCR analysis indicated that BRAF was significantly down-regulated by miR-378-5p in CRC cells. Moreover, miR-378-5p was negatively associated with BRAF in CRC tissues compared to adjacent non-tumor tissues. These results demonstrate that down-regulation of miR-378-5p promotes CRC cells growth by targeting BRAF and restoration of their levels is a potentially promising therapeutic in CRC.

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Country Count As %
Austria 1 5%
Unknown 21 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 32%
Student > Master 4 18%
Student > Bachelor 2 9%
Researcher 2 9%
Professor 1 5%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 3 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 41%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 14%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 5%
Psychology 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 3 14%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 15 November 2022.
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#4,685,895
of 24,811,594 outputs
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#745
of 2,070 outputs
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#54,995
of 269,137 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cancer Cell International
#5
of 20 outputs
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