Overexpression of long non-coding RNA TUG1 predicts poor prognosis and promotes cancer cell proliferation and migration in high-grade muscle-invasive bladder cancer

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ILIEV Robert KLEINOVÁ Renata JURÁČEK Jaroslav DOLEZEL Jan OŽANOVÁ Zuzana FEDORKO Michal PACÍK Dalibor SVOBODA Marek STANIK Michal SLABÝ Ondřej

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Tumor Biology
MU Faculty or unit

Central European Institute of Technology

Citation
Web http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13277-016-5177-9
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13277-016-5177-9
Field Oncology and hematology
Keywords Muscle-invasive bladder cancer; Prognosis; Long non-coding RNA; TUG1; Migration; Proliferation
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Description Long non-coding RNA TUG1 is involved in the development and progression of a variety of tumors. Little is known about TUG1 function in high-grade muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). The aims of our study were to determine expression levels of long non-coding RNA TUG1 in tumor tissue, to evaluate its relationship with clinico-pathological features of high-grade MIBC, and to describe its function in MIBC cells in vitro. TUG1 expression levels were determined in paired tumor and adjacent non-tumor bladder tissues of 47 patients with high-grade MIBC using real-time PCR. Cell line T-24 and siRNA silencing were used to study the TUG1 function in vitro. We observed significantly increased levels of TUG1 in tumor tissue in comparison to adjacent non-tumor bladder tissue (P < 0.0001). TUG1 levels were significantly increased in metastatic tumors (P = 0.0147) and were associated with shorter overall survival of MIBC patients (P = 0.0241). TUG1 silencing in vitro led to 34 % decrease in cancer cell proliferation (P = 0.0004) and 23 % reduction in migration capacity of cancer cells (P < 0.0001). We did not observe any significant effects of TUG1 silencing on cell cycle distribution and number of apoptotic cells. Our study confirmed overexpression of TUG1 in MIBC tumor tissue and described its association with worse overall survival in high-grade MIBC patients. Together with in vitro observations, these data suggest an oncogenic role of TUG1 and its potential usage as biomarker or therapeutic target in MIBC.
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