MicroRNA-143 as a potential tumor suppressor in cancer: An insight into molecular targets and signaling pathways.

MicroRNAs (MiRNAs), which are highly conserved and small noncoding RNAs, negatively regulate gene expression and influence signaling pathways involved in essential biological activities, including cell proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and cell invasion. MiRNAs have received much attention in the past decade due to their significant roles in cancer development. In particular, microRNA-143 (miR-143) is recognized as a tumor suppressor and is downregulated in most cancers. However, it seems that miR-143 is upregulated in rare cases, such as prostate cancer stem cells, and acts as an oncogene. The present review will outline the current studies illustrating the impact of miR-143 expression levels on cancer progression and discuss its target genes and their relevant signaling pathways to discover a potential therapeutic way for cancer.

A comprehensive insight into effects of resveratrol on molecular mechanism in rheumatoid arthritis: A literature systematic review.

AIM: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease, which is characterized by massive pain and destruction of synovial joints, leads to bone erosion, damage to cartilage, and disability. Several studies suggested that resveratrol supplementation may be effective in the prevention and management of RA. Therefore, a systematic review was conducted to summarize published studies that assess the effect of resveratrol supplementation on the complications of RA. METHODS: A comprehensive search to identify in vitro, animal, and human studies investigating the impact of resveratrol on the complications of RA was performed up to February 2022. Two independent reviewers evaluated studies based on inclusion/exclusion criteria and performed data extraction. RESULTS: All studies examining the effects of resveratrol supplementation on the complications of RA were included. From a total of 571 retrieved articles, 32 studies were eligible for the current systematic review. The evidence reviewed here indicates that resveratrol supplementation may exert beneficial effects on the complications of RA by attenuating inflammation and oxidative stress, modulating the immune response, and down-regulating the messenger RNA expression of genes related to inflammatory pathways. CONCLUSION: Due to the promising therapeutic effects of resveratrol on RA complications and limited number of human studies in this subject, further clinical trials are suggested.

MicroRNA-143 act as a tumor suppressor microRNA in human lung cancer cells by inhibiting cell proliferation, invasion, and migration.

BACKGROUND/AIM: MicroRNAs play crucial roles in controlling cellular biological processes. miR-143 expression is usually downregulated in different cancers. In this study, we focused on exploring the role of miR143 in NSCLC development. METHODS: Bioinformatics analyses were used to detect the expression level of miR-143 in lung tumors. The cells were transfected by pCMV-miR-143 vectors. The efficacy of transfection was verified by Flow cytometry. The influence of miR-143 replacement on NSCLC cells migration, proliferation, and apoptosis was detected using wound-healing assay, MTT assay, and DAPI staining, respectively. RESULTS: MTT assay revealed that overexpression of miR143 inhibited cell growth and proliferation. Scratch assay results demonstrated that restoration of miR143 suppressed cell migration. The qRT-PCR assay was further used to detect the assumed relationship between miR143 and apoptotic and metastatic-related genes. CONCLUSION: The findings showed that miR-143 could reduce cell proliferation, invasion, and migration by reducing CXCR4, Vimentin, MMP-1, Snail-1, C-myc expression level, and increasing E-cadherin expression levels in lung cancer cells and might be a potential target in NSCLC's targeted therapy.

Restoration of miR-143 reduces migration and proliferation of bladder cancer cells by regulating signaling pathways involved in EMT.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of regulatory endogenous short RNAs, are involved in various biological functions by targeting the mRNA of multiple protein-coding genes and influencing their related signaling pathways. In this investigation, we upregulated microRNA-143 (miR-143) expression levels in bladder cancer (BC) EJ138 cells by pCMV-miR-143 vectors. The efficacy of transfection was verified by Flow cytometry. The influence of miR-143 overexpression on BC cells migration, proliferation, and apoptosis was detected using wound-healing assay, MTT assay, and DAPI and Annexin V/PI staining, respectively. The results demonstrated that upregulation of miR-143 in BC EJ138 cells leads to inhibited proliferation and migration. Also, restoration of miR-143 was negatively associated with the expression levels of metastatic, apoptotic, invasion, and EMT-related genes, including C-Myc, CXCR4, MDM2, Vimentin, Snail-1, and MMP-9, along with increased E-Cadherin and TP53 expression. Therefore, miR-143 may be considered a potential therapeutic target for BC.