Abstract:
Objective This study was conducted to determine the effect of long-chain non-coding RNA FOXD2-AS1 on the proliferation and migration of ovarian cancer cells.
Methods Tissue specimens were collected from 16 patients with ovarian cancer undergoing surgical resection at Wuhan Children's Hospital between February 2017 and September 2017. The expression of FOXD2-AS1 in tissues, human ovarian cancer cell lines, and human normal ovarian epithelial cell line IOSE80 were detected by quantitative PCR. HO-8910 cells were divided into experimental and control groups and transfected with siRNA-FOXD2-AS1 and negative control RNA, respectively. The effect of low expression of FOXD2-AS1 on the proliferation and cell migration of ovarian cancer HO-8910 cells was detected by cell counting CCK-8 and Transwell migration assays. Bioinformatic methods were used to predict the target genes of FOXD2-AS1; quantitative PCR was used to detect the expression of the target genes, and Western blot was performed to detect the expression of glucoseregulated protein (GRP94) and Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway proteins.
Results The relative expression of FOXD2-AS1 in ovarian cancer tissues (8.56±0.51) was significantly higher than that in normal paracancerous tissues (2.38 ± 0.21) (P < 0.01). FOXD2-AS1 expression was significantly increased in the ovarian cancer cell lines OC3, HO-8910, A2780, and SKOV-3 (P < 0.05). Down-regulation of FOXD2- AS1 significantly inhibited the proliferative activity (P < 0.05) and migration ability (P < 0.01) of ovarian cancer HO-8910 cells. Bioinformatic analysis showed that FOXD2-AS1 can bind miR-150-5p and then target the GRP94 gene. The relative expression levels of miR- 150-5p in the control and experimental groups were 1.01±0.08 and 5.45±0.91, respectively (P < 0.01). The relative expression levels of GRP94 mRNA were 1.02±0.11 and 0.32±0.05, respectively (P < 0.01). The expression of GRP94 and Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway proteins was decreased.
Conclusions FOXD2- AS1 is highly expressed in ovarian cancer tissues and cell lines. Down- regulation of FOXD2-AS1 inhibits the proliferation and migration of ovarian cancer HO-8910 cells by regulating miR-150-5p expression, thereby functioning as a tumor suppressor gene in ovarian cancer.