State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China.
Laboratory of Genetics, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Kyoto, Japan.
Elife. 2022 Oct 12;11:e77340. doi: 10.7554/eLife.77340.
JNK signaling plays a critical role in both tumor promotion and tumor suppression. Here, we identified clustered microRNAs (miRNAs) miR-306 and miR-79 as novel tumor-suppressor miRNAs that specifically eliminate JNK-activated tumors in . While showing only a slight effect on normal tissue growth, miR-306 and miR-79 strongly suppressed growth of multiple tumor models, including malignant tumors caused by Ras activation and cell polarity defects. Mechanistically, these miRNAs commonly target the mRNA of an E3 ubiquitin ligase ring finger protein 146 (RNF146). We found that RNF146 promotes degradation of tankyrase (Tnks), an ADP-ribose polymerase that promotes JNK activation in a noncanonical manner. Thus, downregulation of RNF146 by miR-306 and miR-79 leads to hyper-enhancement of JNK activation. Our data show that, while JNK activity is essential for tumor growth, elevation of miR-306 or miR-79 overactivate JNK signaling to the lethal level via noncanonical JNK pathway and thus eliminate tumors, providing a new miRNA-based strategy against cancer.
JNK 信号通路在肿瘤促进和肿瘤抑制中都起着至关重要的作用。在这里,我们鉴定了簇集 microRNA(miRNA)miR-306 和 miR-79 作为新型肿瘤抑制 miRNA,可特异性消除 中的 JNK 激活肿瘤。虽然它们对正常组织生长只有轻微影响,但 miR-306 和 miR-79 强烈抑制多种肿瘤模型的生长,包括由 Ras 激活和细胞极性缺陷引起的恶性肿瘤。从机制上讲,这些 miRNA 通常靶向 E3 泛素连接酶环指蛋白 146(RNF146)的 mRNA。我们发现 RNF146 促进了 Tankyrase(Tnks)的降解,Tnks 是一种 ADP-核糖基聚合酶,以非典型方式促进 JNK 的激活。因此,miR-306 和 miR-79 下调 RNF146 会导致 JNK 激活的过度增强。我们的数据表明,虽然 JNK 活性对肿瘤生长至关重要,但 miR-306 或 miR-79 的升高通过非典型 JNK 途径过度激活 JNK 信号,从而导致致命水平,从而消除肿瘤,为癌症提供了一种新的 miRNA 治疗策略。