关键词: 前列腺癌, miR-221, 细胞增殖

Abstract: Objective To investigate miR-221 expression in prostate cancer cells and its influence on prostate cancer cell proliferation. Methods miR-221 expressions in prostate normal cell lines and cancer cell lines were measured by qRT-PCR. Overexpression of the miR-221 in LNCaP and DU145 cell lines used by cell transfection. Effects of the depletion on cell proliferation were assessed in vitro with CCK8. Results qRT-PCR showed miR-221 was lower expressed in PC3, LNCaP and DU145 than in PrEC(F=254.197, P<0.001), in which pairwise comparison also had significant differences. qRT-PCR showed miR-221 expression rose significantly in LNCaP and DU145 cell lines whose miR-221 was overexpression with cell transfection(LNCaP, Fold Change=2.24,t=3.46,P<0.001;Du145, Fold Change=2.24,t=4.29,P<0.001). Cell proliferation assay showed that growth of LNCaP(P<0.001) and DU145(P<0.001) cells whose miR-221 was overexpression was slower than the control group. Conclusion This study demonstrates miR-221 overexpression can inhibited the proliferation of prostate cancer cells for the first time, it also suggests that miR-221 has the potential to serve as a biomarker for PCa therapy.

Key words: Prostate cancer, miR-221, Cell proliferation