Therapeutic potential for reversing miR-634-mediated cytoprotective processes to improve the efficacy of chemotherapy against oral squamous cell carcinoma
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ABSTRACT: For advanced oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), increasing sensitivity to chemotherapy is a major challenge in improving treatment outcomes, and targeting cytoprotective processes that lead to the chemotherapy resistance of cancer cells may be therapeutically promising. Tumor-suppressive microRNAs (miRs) can target multiple cancer-promoting genes concurrently, and are thus expected to be useful seeds for cancer therapeutics. We revealed that miR-634-meditated targeting of multiple cytoprotective process-related genes, including cellular inhibitor of apoptosis proteins 1 (cIAP1), can effectively increase cisplatin (CDDP)-induced cytotoxicity and overcome CDDP resistance in OSCC cells. The combination of topical treatment with miR-634 ointment and administration of CDDP was synergistically effective against OSCC-tumor growth in a xenograft mouse model. Furthermore, the expression of miR-634 target genes is frequently upregulated in primary OSCC tumors. Our study suggests that reversing miR-634-mediated cytoprotective processes activated in cancer cells is a potentially useful strategy to improve CDDP efficacy against advanced OSCC.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE194269 | GEO | 2022/05/25
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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