Effects of microRNA-132 on the proliferation and apoptosis in human pancreatic cancer cells SW1990 / 中华胰腺病杂志

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Objective To observe the effect of miR-132 transfection on proliferation and apoptosis of pancreatic cancer SW1990,and to explore the underlying mechanism.Methods The expression of miR-132 in the pancreatic cancer tissue and the adjacent tissues in 28 pancreatic cancer patients were detected by realtime quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR).miR-132 was transfected into SW1990 cells by using liposome method,untransfected cells and cells with missense miR-132 transfection were used as black control and negative control.The proliferation and apoptosis was detected by CCK-8 assay and DAPI staining.The transfected cells were implanted in nude mice as xenograft tumor,and TUNEL was used to detect the apoptosis; immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expression of Ki-67 and mucin-4 protein in the xenograft tumors and mucin-4,HER-2,p-FAK protein in transfected cells.Results The expression levels of miR-132 in pancreatic cancer tissue and adjacent tissues were 0.46 ± 0.11 and 1.24 ± 0.36,and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P ＜ 0.05).The expression level of miR-132 in transfected SW1990 cells was 2.95 ± 0.46,which were significantly higher than those in negative control (0.84 ± 0.17) ; the survival rate of transfected cells at 48,72,96 h was 56.5％,44.7％,37.4％ of negative control cells.The apoptosis rate in transfected cells was 41.6％,and the corresponding value was 5.7％ in negative control,and the difference was statistically significant (P ＜ 0.05).The expression levels of mucin-4,HER-2,p-FAK in nagative control were 2.94 ± 0.42,1.75 ± 0.37 and 2.74 ± 0.24,and the corresponding values in transfected cells were 0.76 ± 0.14,0.34 ± 0.04 and 0.27 ± 0.03,and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P ＜0.05).In vivo,the growth of xenograft tumors in transfected nude mice was significantly inhibited [(0.23 ± 0.05) vs (0.59 ± 0.13) g,P ＜ 0.05],the apoptosis of xenograft tumor cells was significant increased [(21.7 ± 4.7) ％ vs (5.2 ± 0.7) ％,P ＜0.05].The expressions of mucin-4 and Ki-67 protein in nagative control was 281.34 ± 36.62 and 148.05 ± 21.34,and the corresponding values in transfection group were 64.35 ± 7.16 and 30.75 ± 4.61,and the difference was statistically significant (P ＜0.05).Conclusions miR-132 transfection has an effect of inhibiting proliferation and promoting apoptosis on SW1990 cells,and the mechanism may be down-regulation of mucin-4,HER-2,p-FAK protein rxpression.