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RETRACTED: A Pleiotropically Acting MicroRNA, miR-31, Inhibits Breast Cancer Metastasis

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Valastyan, Scott, Reinhardt, Ferenc, Benaich, Nathan, Calogrias, Diana, Szász, Attila M., Wang, Zhigang C., Brock, Jane E., Richardson, Andrea L., Weinberg, Robert A.·2009·Cell

Abstract

SUMMARY MicroRNAs are well-suited to regulate tumor metastasis due to their capacity to coordinately repress numerous target genes, thereby potentially enabling their intervention at multiple steps of the invasion-metastasis cascade. We identify a microRNA exemplifying these attributes, miR-31, whose expression correlates inversely with metastasis in human breast cancer patients. Overexpression of miR-31 in otherwise-aggressive breast tumor cells suppresses metastasis. We deploy a stable microRNA sponge strategy to stably inhibit miR-31 in vivo; this allows otherwise-non-aggressive breast cancer cells to metastasize. These phenotypes do not involve confounding influences on primary tumor development and are specifically attributable to miR-31-mediated inhibition of several steps of metastasis, including local invasion, extravasation or initial survival at a distant site, and metastatic colonization. Such pleiotropy is achieved via coordinate repression of a cohort of metastasis-promoting genes, including RhoA. Indeed, RhoA re-expression partially reverses miR-31-imposed metastasis-suppression. These findings indicate that miR-31 uses multiple mechanisms to oppose metastasis.

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Authors
Valastyan, S., Reinhardt, F., Benaich, N., Calogrias, D., Szász, A. M., Wang, Z. C., Brock, J. E., Richardson, A. L., & Weinberg, R. A.
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-06
Volume
137
Issue
6
Pages
1032-1046
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
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W1978944350
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820
References
9
FWCI
31.47
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Valastyan, S., Reinhardt, F., Benaich, N., Calogrias, D., Szász, A. M., Wang, Z. C., Brock, J. E., Richardson, A. L., & Weinberg, R. A. (2009). RETRACTED: A Pleiotropically Acting MicroRNA, miR-31, Inhibits Breast Cancer Metastasis. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2009.03.047

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