ABSTRACT
With the discovery of new chemotherapeutic drugs, chemotherapy becomes increasingly valuable. However, the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapeutic agents significantly limits the effectiveness and causes chemotherapy failure. MicroRNAs have been shown to regulate drug resistance in many types of cancer. In the present study, we measured the chemosensitivity of five bladder cancer (BCa) cell lines to seven commonly used chemotherapeutic drugs by VitaBlue assay. We then identified the most sensitive (5637) and most tolerant cell lines (Hbc) and conducted a multigroup test. This test included expression group analyses of coding and noncoding genes (miRomic and RNAseq). Based on our analyses, we selected miR223p as a target. We then determined its own target gene [neuroepithelial cell transforming 1 (NET1)] by bioinformatic analysis and confirmed this finding by TaqManquantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRTPCR), western blot analysis and luciferase reporter assay. The effect of miR223p on BCa multichemoresistance was also determined by transfecting cells with the miR223pmimic or miR223pantagomiR. We assessed the involvement of NET1 in BCa chemoresistance by siRNAmediated NET1 inhibition or pINDUCER21enhanced green fluorescent proteinNET1mediated overexpression. Plate colony formation and apoptosis assays were conducted to observe the effects of miR223p and NET1 on BCa chemoresistance. In conclusion, our results suggest that miR223p promotes BCa chemoresistance by targeting NET1 and may serve as a new prognostic biomarker for BCa patients.