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Identification of novel Epstein-Barr Virus miRNA genes from Nasopharyngeal Carcinomas

ABSTRACT: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) represent a conserved class of small non-coding RNAs that are found in all higher eukaryotes as well as some DNA viruses. MiRNAs are 20-25 nucleotides (nt) in length and have important regulatory functions in biological processes such as embryonic development, cell differentiation, hormone secretion or metabolism. Furthermore, miRNAs have been implicated in the pathology of various diseases including cancer. MiRNA expression profiles not only classify different types of cancer but also may even help to characterize distinct tumor stages, therefore constituting a valuable tool for prognosis. Here we report the miRNA profile of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-positive nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) tissue samples characterized by cloning and sequencing. We find that all EBV miRNAs from the BART region are expressed in NPC tissues whereas ebv-miRNAs from the BHRF1 region are not found. Moreover, we identify two novel EBV miRNA genes originating from the BART region that have not been found in other tissues or cell lines before. We also identify three new human miRNAs, which might be specific for nasopharyngeal tissues. We further show that a number of different cellular miRNAs are upor down-regulated in NPC tissues compared to control tissue including miR-15a and miR-16. We find that the tumor suppressor BRCA-1 is a target of miR-15a as well as miR-16 suggesting a miRNA role in NPC pathogenesis. 2 pairs of NPC and control tissues from 2 patients (4 samples in total) were examined.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Gunter Meister

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-14738 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Identification of novel Epstein-Barr virus microRNA genes from nasopharyngeal carcinomas.

Zhu Jia Yun JY Pfuhl Thorsten T Motsch Natalie N Barth Stephanie S Nicholls John J Grässer Friedrich F Meister Gunter G

Journal of virology 20090114 7

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) represent a conserved class of small noncoding RNAs that are found in all higher eukaryotes as well as some DNA viruses. miRNAs are 20 to 25 nucleotides in length and have important regulatory functions in biological processes such as embryonic development, cell differentiation, hormone secretion, and metabolism. Furthermore, miRNAs have been implicated in the pathology of various diseases, including cancer. miRNA expression profiles not only classify different types of cancer ...[more]

PMID: 19144710

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Project description:Comprehensive Profiling of Epstein-Barr Virus-Encoded miRNAome Associated with Specific Latent Type in Tumor Cells Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is an etiological cause of many human lymphocytic and epithelial malignancies. EBV expressed different genes associated with three latent types. So far as many as 44 EBV-encoded miRNA species have been found but their comprehensive and comparative profiling is not well documented in three latent infection states linked to various tumor cells. In this study, we utilized the polyA-tailed quantitative real time RT-PCR procedure to measure the relative abundance of viral miRNA species that linked to individual viral genome locations in combination with microarray evaluation in a subset of representative lymphoid and epithelial tumor cells undergoing various types of EBV latent infection. The results showed that miR-BHRF1 family and miR-BART family are expressed differentially in a tissue-dependent and latency-dependent manner. In particular, in NPC tissue and the only EBV consistently harboring cell line C666-1 with latency type II, there were highly abundant miR-BART family but not miR-BHRF1 family members that accounted for more than 10% of the whole known human miRNA library, implicating their important roles in maintaining EBV latent infection and driving NPC tumorigenesis. In addition, EBV miRNAome-based clustering analysis could classify three distinct EBV latency types, meanwhile, for the first time, we found and subsequently evaluated a novel secret latent switch in BL cell line Daudi from type I to III, which was unable to be identified by traditional latent biomarkers. Together, our data provided an in-depth and comparative profiling of EBV miRNA transcriptome in correspondence with three EBV latent infections, suggesting that different viral miRNA species were involved in divergent host cell carcinogenesis. Finally, EBV miRNAome, as a cluster of novel latency biomarkers expressed variedly in tumor cells, greatly complements and improves the classical typing criteria in conjunction with other latently expressed marker genes. 2 NPC tissue samples and 2 NPC cell lines and 5 lymphocytic cell lines

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Identification of novel Epstein-Barr Virus miRNA genes from Nasopharyngeal Carcinomas

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Identification of novel Epstein-Barr virus microRNA genes from nasopharyngeal carcinomas.

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