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Circulating miR-21 as an independent predictive biomarker for chemoresistance in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.


ABSTRACT: Only a few studies indentified the significance of circulating microRNAs in blood as a predictive biomarker for chemoresistance in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). In this study, we tested whether oncogenic miR-21 promoted chemoresistance in ESCC and served as a biomarker for predicting chemoresistance in plasma of patients with ESCC. All consecutive patients underwent the preoperative chemotherapy regimen (JCOG9907 trial) with cisplatin plus 5-fluorouracil. As a result, pretreatment plasma concentrations of miR-21 were significantly higher in ESCC patients with a low histopathological response than in those with a high histopathological response (P = 0.0416). Multivariate analysis revealed that a high pretreatment plasma concentration of miR-21 was an independent risk factor of chemoresistance (p = 0.0150; Odds Ratio 9.95 (range: 1.56-63.4)). The expression of miR-21 was also significantly higher in pretreatment ESCC tissues with a low histopathological response than in those with a high histopathological response (P = 0.0409). In vitro, although the growth of KYSE 170 ESCC cells transfected with the control mimics was markedly inhibited by the 5-fluorouracil or cisplatin treatment, the inhibitory effects of 5-FU (P < 0.05) or cisplatin (P < 0.05) were significantly reduced in KYSE170 cells that overexpressed miR-21. Taken together, the overexpression of miR-21 contributed to chemoresistance and circulating miR-21 in plasma of patients with ESCC could be a useful biomarker for predicting chemoresistance.

SUBMITTER: Komatsu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4969400 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Circulating miR-21 as an independent predictive biomarker for chemoresistance in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Komatsu Shuhei S   Ichikawa Daisuke D   Kawaguchi Tsutomu T   Miyamae Mahito M   Okajima Wataru W   Ohashi Takuma T   Imamura Taisuke T   Kiuchi Jun J   Konishi Hirotaka H   Shiozaki Atsushi A   Fujiwara Hitoshi H   Okamoto Kazuma K   Otsuji Eigo E  

American journal of cancer research 20160701 7


Only a few studies indentified the significance of circulating microRNAs in blood as a predictive biomarker for chemoresistance in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). In this study, we tested whether oncogenic miR-21 promoted chemoresistance in ESCC and served as a biomarker for predicting chemoresistance in plasma of patients with ESCC. All consecutive patients underwent the preoperative chemotherapy regimen (JCOG9907 trial) with cisplatin plus 5-fluorouracil. As a result, pretreatment p  ...[more]

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