Zeng Fanchun, Zhao Chunrong, Wang Rujie, Ren Lingyan, Qiu Hao, Zou Zhi, Ding Haibin, Sun Zhongyi, Li Jianmei, Dong Shiwu
Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Vascular Implants, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China.
Department of Biomedical Materials Science, Army Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China.
Genes Dis. 2022 Jul 30;10(4):1626-1640. doi: 10.1016/j.gendis.2022.06.007. eCollection 2023 Jul.
More than 50% of prostate cancer (PCa) patients have bone metastasis with osteoblastic lesions. MiR-18a-5p is associated with the development and metastasis of PCa, but it remains unclear whether it is involved in osteoblastic lesions. We first found that miR-18a-5p was highly expressed in the bone microenvironment of patients with PCa bone metastases. To address how miR-18a-5p affects PCa osteoblastic lesions, antagonizing miR-18a-5p in PCa cells or pre-osteoblasts inhibited osteoblast differentiation . Moreover, injection of PCa cells with miR-18a-5p inhibition improved bone biomechanical properties and bone mineral mass . Furthermore, miR-18a-5p was transferred to osteoblasts by exosomes derived from PCa cells and targeted the gene, resulting in Ctnnb1 up-regulation in the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. Translationally, antagomir-18a-5p significantly improved bone biomechanical properties and alleviated sclerotic lesions from osteoblastic metastases in BALB/c nude mice. These data suggest that inhibition of exosome-delivered miR-18a-5p ameliorates PCa-induced osteoblastic lesions.
超过50%的前列腺癌(PCa)患者会发生伴有成骨病变的骨转移。MiR-18a-5p与PCa的发生和转移相关,但它是否参与成骨病变尚不清楚。我们首先发现,miR-18a-5p在PCa骨转移患者的骨微环境中高表达。为了探究miR-18a-5p如何影响PCa成骨病变,在PCa细胞或前成骨细胞中拮抗miR-18a-5p可抑制成骨细胞分化。此外,向PCa细胞中注射miR-18a-5p抑制剂可改善骨生物力学性能和骨矿物质含量。此外,miR-18a-5p通过PCa细胞来源的外泌体转移至成骨细胞,并靶向该基因,导致Wnt/β-连环蛋白信号通路中的Ctnnb1上调。在转化研究中,抗miR-18a-5p显著改善了BALB/c裸鼠的骨生物力学性能,并减轻了成骨转移引起的硬化性病变。这些数据表明,抑制外泌体传递的miR-18a-5p可改善PCa诱导的成骨病变。