ABSTRACT
Objective:To study the effects of the overexpression of hsa-miR-202 on the proliferation and molecular mechanism of lung cancer A549 cells. Methods:A sequence of hsa-miR-202 with ppG/miR/eGFP/Blasitidin pasmid was directionally connected and a eukaryotic expression vector pmiR-202 of the target hsa-miR-202 gene was constructed. pmiR-202 was transtected to A549 cell with Lipofectamine 2000. The WST assay was used to detect the cell proliferation rate, and RT-PCR was used to detect the relative gene expression levels. Western blot analysis was used to detect the IL-10 protein expression levels. The interaction between miR-202 and IL-10 was examined using a luciferase reporter assay. Results:The design from the DNA sequencing results shows that a eukaryot-ic expression vector of miR-202 was successfully constructed. The proliferation inhibition rates of A549 cells by Pmir-202 were 12%, 38%, and 52%. The differences in the treatment group compared with the blank control and negative control groups were statistically significant. The RT-PCR results showed that the relative expression levels of miR-202 increased after transfection with pmiR-202. Over-expression of miR-202 can downregulate the relative gene and protein expression levels of IL-10, and the relative levels were 25%and 0.75, respectively. Compared with the blank control and the negative control groups, the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). The fluorescent activity was reduced when transfection was performed with miR-202 mimics, and IL-10-3'UTR plasmid was cloned. Conclusion: pmiR-202 effectively inhibited the proliferation of A549 cells and exhibited a time-effect relationship with miR-202 by targeted combination with IL-10 3'UTR to downregulate IL-10 expression in A549 cells.