ABSTRACT
AIM:To study the expression of microRNA (miRNA)-181a in different human lung adenocarcinoma cell lines, and to investigate the effect of miRNA-181a on cell function and its mechanism in human lung adenocarcinoma drug resistant cell A549/DDP.METHODS:Real-time PCR was used to detect the expression of miRNA-181a in BEAS-2B cells, A549 cells and A549/DDP cells.The A549/DDP cells were transfected with pGenesil-miRNA-181a eukaryotic ex-pression plasmid.At the same time, the untransfection group and negative transfection group were also set up .The expres-sion of miRNA-181a, cell viability, cell growth inhibition and apoptosis rate during cis-diamminedichloroplatinum ( DDP) treatment, cell cycle, cell invasion, the protein expression of miRNA-181a target genes bcl-2 and p53 in the A549/DDP cells were determined by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR , MTT assay, flow cytometry, Transwell method and West-ern blot, respectivly.RESULTS:The expression of miRNA-181a in A549 cells and A549/DDP cells was significantly lower than that in BEAS-2B cells, and the lowest expression level was observed in A 549/DDP cells (P<0.05).The expression of miRNA-181a in A549/DDP cells was significantly increased after transfection with pGenesil-miRNA-181a (P<0.05).The cell viability, cell cycle and invasion ability of the A549/DDP cells were inhibited after miRNA-181a transfection (P <0.05).The cell growth inhibition rate and apoptotic rate of the A 549/DDP cells were increased (P<0.05).The expression of Bcl-2 was reduced, but the expression of P53 was increased after transfection with miRNA-181a in A549/DDP cells (P<0.05).CONCLUSION: miRNA-181a may be correlated with the development of human lung adenocarcinoma .miRNA-181a can serve as a new target for treatment of lung cancer .