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J Cancer 2018; 9(1):100-107. doi:10.7150/jca.21785 This issue Cite

Review

NcRNAs and Cholangiocarcinoma

Zheng Wangyang, Ji Daolin, Xu yi, Li Zhenglong, Huang Lining, Cui Yunfu , Jiang Xingming

Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University

✉ Corresponding authors: Jiang Xingming, email: xmjiangedu.cn and Cui Yunfu, email: yfcui777com

Abstract

Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is the most common primary biliary malignancy with poor prognosis. Less understanding of its etiology and pathogenesis makes the diagnosis and therapy difficult. Recently, accumulating evidences have demonstrated that deregulated expression of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) is closely associated with the etiopathogenesis of CCA. NcRNAs which lack open reading frame are a heterogeneous class of transcribed RNA molecules, including microRNAs, long non-coding RNAs and circular RNAs. Several studies have shown ncRNAs dysregulation is a common central event occurring in CCA and has the potential of being therapy targets. Moreover, ncRNAs can be easily detected in cancer tissues and biofluids, representing valuable tools for diagnosis. In this review, we illustrate the role of ncRNA in the CCA and discuss their potential clinical value.

Keywords: Cholangiocarcinoma, Non-noncoding RNAs, Circular RNAs, Biomarkers, Therapeutic targets.

Introduction

As the first most common primary biliary malignancy and the second most common primary hepatic malignancy, CCA accounts for 3% of gastrointestinal tumors ^[1]. Cholangiocarcinoma can be separated into three distinct tumor types by anatomical locations: intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA), perihilar cholangiocarcinoma (pCCA) and distal cholangiocarcinoma (dCCA). Despite common association with the biliary tract, each type of CCA is differ in clinical presentation ^[2]. So indistinguishable and aggressive the CCA is, patients suffered from it have a bad clinical outcome with median survival time less than 24 months ^[3]. Despite recent improvement in medicine, the surgical extirpation or liver transplantation is still the only therapy which can cure the patients at early stages. As no specific biomarker or special clinical manifestation, CCA is typically characterized by advanced diagnosis. Molecular targeting agents do nothing in the CCA management, which largely result from the poor illustration of CCA molecular mechanism ^[4]. For solving these problems, elucidating the molecular pathogenesis of CCA may be crucial.

NcRNAs are a heterogeneous class of RNA molecules, which account for 98% human RNAs ^[5]. Despite lacking the Open reading frame, ncRNAs have risen to prominence in gene expression. Accumulating evidences suggest that ncRNAs involved in numerous biological processes in cancers. NcRNAs can largely divided into miRNAs (microRNAs), lncRNAs (long non-coding RNAs) and circRNAs (circular RNAs). The majority studies about CCA are mainly on miRNAs, which length are less than 200nt ^[10-43]. They can directly regulate gene expression through “ceRNA” manner at post transcriptional level ^[6]. Interacted with miRNAs, some lncRNAs like H19 or HULC can influence CCA biological processes ^[68-70]. Although no circRNA has been proved to be associated with CCA pathogenesis so far. Bioinformatics had shown that was possible. This review article provides the understanding of ncRNAs which were specifically associated with CCA and discusses the potential utility in clinic.

The short NcRNAs-MicroRNAs deregulation in CCA

MicroRNAs are endogenous, short, highly conserved non-coding single-stranded RNAs of about 18-25nt in length. By binding to 3' untranslated region (3' -UTR) of targeted mRNAs, the miRNAs are incorporated into miRNA-associated RNA-induced silencing complex (miRISC) and play acritical role in gene expression at posttranscriptional level ^[7]. This interaction causing either degradation (perfect matches) or repression (imperfect target duplexes) of the translation ^{[8, 9]}. Due to the imperfect matches, a single miRNA can target hundreds of potential messenger RNAs (mRNA) targets and a single mRNA can converge on more than one miRNAs (Figure 1). That is why one particular miRNA can regulate many genes and influence multiple cell progresses.

Cell cycle, proliferation and apoptosis

The first article in this area is by Meng et al. Using q-PCR, they found that miR-21, miR-141, and miR-200b were highly overexpressed in malignant cells compared with normal cholangiocytes ^[10]. Downregulated miR-141 reduced the CCA cell proliferation, which means it could be a potential therapy target. Mir-29b was found to be downregulated in malignant KMCH CCA cell lines ^[11]. By suppressing antiapoptotic member Mcl-1, mir-29b significantly sensitized the cells to TNF (tumor necrosis factor) and induced cells apoptosis. Mcl-1 is an anti-apoptotic protein of Bcl-2 family. Its overexpressed was commonly observed in cancers including cholangiocarcinoma ^[12-13]. The following study of the same group showed the c-Myc, Hedgehog and NF-kappaB may be responsible for miR-29 dysregulation ^[14].

 Figure 1 

The perfect matches and imperfect matches of miRNAs

Another study by Selaru et al identified miR-494 level was low in CCA tissues and up-regulated expression of miR-494 decreased cell proliferation. Furthermore, miR-494 could reduce CDK6, CDK4, CCND1, CCNE2 and HDAC1 levels, resulting in G1/S arrest ^[15]. After that, miR-494 was shown also can induce G2/M cell cycle arrest as well ^[16]. MiR-494 modulated six G2 /M transitional genes, including Polo-like Kinase 1 (PLK1), pituitary tumor-transforming gene 1 (PTT G1), Cyclin B1 (CCNB1), cell-division cycle 2 (CDC2), cell-division cycle 20 (CDC20) and topoisomerase II α (TOP 2A). Those two researches confirmed that miR-494 plays a global regulatory role in cell proliferation and the miR-494 based therapies may have an extraordinary effect in CCA treatment. Wang et al compared the miRNA levels in CCA samples with normal bile duct and identified miR-138 was downregulated ^[17]. The dual luciferase reporter assay showed that RhoC was a direct target of miR-138. Treatment with miR-138 mimics significant decreased Rhoc expression and resulted in decreased proliferation and migration in CCA cells. Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) was an important nuclear receptor in cell proliferation and migration. And it had been reported that FXR could act as a tumor suppressor in many tumors ^[18-19]. Zhong et al demonstrated FXR expression was lower in tumor tissues than normal tissues, while miR-421 was up-regulated. Moreover, they confirmed that miR-421 can suppress FXR expression both in mRNA and protein levels and result in promoting proliferation in CCA cell finally ^[20]. Encoded by the MEN1, Menin is a tumor-suppressor protein. Ehrlich et al found that Menin's expression was decreased in CCA, negative regulated by miR-24. Moreover, a negative feedback loop was formed by these two molecules to fulfill their antitumor functions ^[21].

As mentioned above, there is a strong relationship between miRNAs and CCA molecular pathogenesis. But most studies focused on a single time point of CCA. Using real-time miRNA activity monitoring and activity technology, Chen et al examined dynamic activity of six miRNAs. The date showed that those six miRNAs' function was temporal and the expression levels varied over time ^[22]. Although some limits in this research, it takes us a new angle in CCA pathogenesis study.

Migration and Invasion

Chusorn et al. found miR-21 to be markedly overexpressed in CCA tissues compared with normal tissues ^[23]. Knockout of miR-21 decreased the metastatic potential of CCA cells through the regulation of PDCD4 and TIMP3. TIMP3 is a member of Matrix metalloproteinases, which play a crucial role in cancer invasion and metastasis ^[24]. The sensitivity and specificity of the miR-21 in diagnosis were evaluated as 95% and 100% respectively, which means it could be a potential biomarker. Moreover, another study showed that RECK was also a target of miR-21 ^[25]. Ars2 is a protein that was essential for microRNA biogenesis. Ars2 and miR-21 were both found overexpressed in CCAs. Knockdown Ars2 blocker decreased miR-21 levels, result in tumor formation suppression. But, overexpressed Ars2 could not increase miR-21 level and get tumor formation promoted ^[26]. This study indicated that there must be some unknown complexity multifactorial processes in CCA molecular pathogenesis.

The phenomenon that epithelial cells converse into mesenchymal-like cells calls EMT (epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition). EMT is pivotal in cancer invasion and metastasis. It has been reported that many miRNAs may prompt cell migration and invasion by assisting EMT progress. In 2012, Oishi et al examined the miR-200c in 23 ICC samples and cell lines. MiR-200c was downregulated in tumor tissues. Activated MiR-200c targeted NCAM1 and reduced ICC cells EMT progress ^[27]. Liu et al. demonstrated that miR-21 contributed to EMT activation by suppressing E-cadherin, N-cadherin and Vimentin ^[28]. In agreement with Liu's result, another team found that miR-21 conjunction with KLF4 could also contribute to EMT activation by Akt/ERK1/2 pathway^[29] . Down-regulation of miR-204 has been observed in ICC by Qiu et al ^[30]. Its overexpression suppressed ICC cell EMT process, as well as the migration and invasion. The direct target was Slug. Employing the TCGA database, Canu et al also found that miR-204 was essential in CCA pathogenesis^[31] . Then, they validated it in CC cell lines. A group of 25 patients with extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (EHCC) exhibited higher level of miR-221 than mean value ^[32]. Overexpressed miR-221 prompted cell migration and invasion. Moreover, the miR-221/β-catenin formed a positive feedback loop which get PTEN reinforced, resulting in the maintenance of EMT.

Inflammation

Inflammation is a causative factor in the evolution of CCA. A variety of cytokines, growth factors, tyrosine kinases are believed to contribute to cholangiocarcinogenesis under conditions of inflammation. Among them, interleukin-6 (IL-6) is an essential one. It can promote cell survival and provide mitogenic signals in autocrine or paracrine way. Meng et al demonstrated that IL-6 was overexpressed in CCA ^[33]. And so was the let-7a. let-7a enforced IL-6 activity by promoting Stat-3 phosphorylation. The target was neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) gene, which encode the tumor suppressor gene merlin. This is the first study explored the role of miRNA in chronic inflammation and malignancy. After that, the same group identified that IL-6 could contribute to tumor growth by targeting miR-370^[34]. Using allelic loss technology, An et al confirmed this result ^[35]. The let-7c/miR-99a/miR-125b cluster was found downregulated in CCA. Elevated level of let-7c/miR-99a/miR-125b inhibited CCA cell migration and invasion in vivo and vitro. The cluster reduced the IL-6/STAT3 inflammatory pathway by suppressing IL-6, IL-6R and IGF1R ^[36]. COX-2 which plays a pivotal role in prostacyclin formation was another essential inflammation factor. Zhang et al reported that miR-101 was decreased in CCA specimens. Overexpression of it suppressed tumor growth in xenograft model. Their dates suggested that miR-101 reduced VEGF and COX-2 levels, resulting in decreasing vascular density. Lack of blood supply killed tumor cells ^[37]. Lu et al found that miR-21 promote CCA cell growth and invasion in vitro ^[38]. Furthermore, they identify that miR-21 directly targeted 15-PGDH (15-Hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase), which was vital for COX-2 based PGE 2 (prostaglandin E2) conversion. Moreover, the PGE2 could further stimulate miR-21 expression, which formed a positive feedback loop. Thus, miR-21/COX2/PGE2 signaling blocking may provide a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment of CCA.

The molecular clock regulates cells behavioral and physiological processes over the 24 hours. Many studies have shown that cell's transcriptome and proteome perform a circadian manner ^[39-40]. The proteins BMAL1 and CLOCK and NPAS2 are found to be responsible for circadian regulation. The disorder of cellular circadian rhythm may contribute to cancer carcinogenesis ^[41]. In this regard, Meng et al predicted that miRNA-141 which was overexpressed in iCCA targets CLOCK gene directly by bioinformatics technology ^[42]. Han et al found miR-34a was expressed rhythmically in CCA cells ^[43]. Suppression of miR-34a reduce CCA cell proliferation, migration and invasion by increasing Per1(Period) level. The Per1 proteins inhibited the transcription of CLOCK and BMAL1, having a negative effect on autonomous oscillation ^[44].

Chemoresistance

Remarkable multidrug resistance of CCA is a multifactorial process which resulted from numerous genetic and epigenetic processes on survival/apoptosis balance. Overexpressed miRNA-21 and miRNA-200b were contribute to the gemcitabine chemoresistance of CCA. Those two miRNAs appeared to be mediated by activation of PI3k/PTEN signaling ^[10]. Using microRNA array, Okamoto et al identified that miR-29b, miR-205, miR-221 was downregulated in CCA. Enforcement of three miRNAs restored gemcitabine sensitivity in CCA cell lines. Using bioinformatics, they predicted that miR-29b and miR-221 targets PIK3R1, while miR-205 suppresses MMP-2 ^[44]. Meng et al found that miRNA-let7a could increase gemcitabine toxicity by targeting NF2 in vivo and vitro ^[33]. Peng et al reported that miR-200b/c was downregulated in CCA tissues. Elevated miR-200b/c level got CCA cell sensitivity to 5-fluorouracil. The target was SUZ12/ROCK2^[45]. Li et al demonstrated that the miR-199a-3p played an important role in CCA cell lines cisplatin sensitivity. Overexpressed miR-199a-3p could increase apoptosis of CCA cells under cisplatin condition and vice versa. Further study identified that mTOR was the direct target ^[46]. Asukai et al found that miR130a-3p was upregulated in CCA cell lines ^[47]. Reduced miR130a-3p Expression restored Gemcitabine Resistance in cell lines. PPARG was the direct target (Table 1).

The long NcRNAs-Long non-coding RNAs deregulation in CCA

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a subgroup of non-coding RNA with size larger than 200 nucleotides. Transcribed by RNA polymerase II, lncRNAs are 5' capped and 3' adenylated ^[69]. According to their association with mRNA, lncRNAs can be divided into five categories: (1) sense (2) antisense (3) intronic (4) intergenic (5) bidirectional ^[70]. LncRNAs can regulate gene expression via many ways, including epigenetic regulation, transcriptional activation and posttranscriptional modification of mRNA ^[71]. Moreover, recent reports have demonstrated that lncRNAs could sponge miRNAs, result in their targeting proteins alteration post-transcriptionally ^[72]. On account of those mechanisms, the potential regulatory scenario of lncRNAs is enormous. Thus, lncRNAs have been valued by scholars and garnered intense research in recent years. By now, although the functions of some lncRNAs have been clearly illustrated, most of them remain unknown.

Wang et al in 2014 examined the lncRNAs profile in 77 ICC tissues. Microarray studies found that 2773 lncRNAs were upregulated in ICC tissues, while 2392 lncRNAs were downregulated. Using bioinformatics, they built 4 lncRNA -mRNA pairs in ICC: RNA43085 and SULF1, RNA47504 and KDM8, RNA58630 and PCSK6, and RNA40057 and CYP2D6. Moreover, the CYP2D6 and PCSK6 were negatively correlated with overall survival rate, while CYP2D6 and RNA40057 were positively ^[73]. In 2015, Ma et al focused on abnormally genes and lncRNAs in ICC and found that CPS1 (Carbamoyl‑phosphate synthase 1) and its lncRNA CPS1‑IT1 (CPS1 intronic transcript 1) were upregulated in ICC. Knockdown of CPS1 and CPS1‑IT1 resulted in diminished proliferation and promoted apoptosis of ICC cells. Moreover, their levels were positively correlation with poor liver function and lymphatic invasion, which resulted in bad clinic outcome ^[74]. Thus, CPS1 and CPS1‑IT1 may have the potential to be biomarker for ICC. In investigating the role of inflammation and oxidative stress in the development of CCA, Wang et al demonstrated that the H19 and HULC levels were elevated under the hypoxic or inflammatory condition. Inhibition of those two lncRNAs in CCA cells suppressed their migration and invasion potential, whereas increased expression had the opposite effect. By ponging let-7a/let-7b and miR-372/miR-373, H19 and HULC activate the IL-6, CXCR4 pathway may be responsible for this procedure ^[75]. Mutations of BRCA-1 associated protein-1 (BAP1) was frequent in ICC. Parasramka et al found high level of BAP1 could make CCA cell resistance to gemcitabine. The direct target was lncRNA NEAT-1^[76]. NEAT-1 interruption significantly restored cell response to gemcitabine, which means it could be a potential sensitizer. Actin filament associated protein 1 antisense RNA1 (AFAP1-AS1) was another important lncRNA in CCA pathogenesis. Both Shi et al and Lu et al found it was up-regulated in CCA cell. AFAP1-AS1 knockdown inhibited G0/G1 cell cycle arrest and S-G2/M transition, by increasing AFAP1 and interrupting cell stress filament formation ^[77]. Lu et al demonstrated that AFAP1-AS1 could inhibit cell proliferation by regulating C-myc and Cycling D1^[78]. Moreover, it also could downregulate C-myc and Cycling D1, resulted in cell migration blocking. Thus, AFAP1-AS1 may have the potential to be therapeutic target for ICC. The fact that lncRNA MALAT1 prompt CCA cell proliferation and migration have been confirmed by Tan et al ^[79] and Wang et al^[80]. The pathways were MALAT1/miR-204/CXCR4 and PI3K/Akt pathway. Our team found lncRNA PANDAR ^[81], CCAT1^[82], TUG1^[83], PCAT1^[84] and H19^[85] were upregulated in CCA cells. These five lncRNAs were all correlated with poor prognosis in CCA, such as more frequent lymph node invasion, advanced TNM stage and more postoperative recurrence. Moreover, Obstruction of PANDAR or TUG1 induced cell apoptosis and erased EMT progress. Silencing of H19 inhibited cell proliferation and promoted cell apoptosis. PCAT1 induces cell proliferation and apoptosis by miR-122/Wnt/β-catenin-signaling pathway. In conclusion, current study suggests that these lncRNAs might serve as prognostic therapy targets for CCA patients (Figure 2).

 Figure 2 

The Dysregulation of lncRNAs in CCA

The Novel NcRNAs-Circular RNAs deregulation in CCA

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) represent a novel class of ncRNA molecules They are a kind of single-stranded RNA ring without 5' capping and 3' polyadenylation. Seemingly the product of mistaken RNA splicing, circRNAs have not be recognized until 1979 ^[86]. Due to the covalently closed loop, circRNAs are more stable, and confer high resistance to RNase. CircRNAs are specific expression in tissues and much higher abundance than their linear transcripts in some genes ^[77]. Several studies indicated that circRNAs can regulate gene expression by competing with endogenous RNA (ceRNA) at multiple levels ^[88-89]. For instance, CDR1as (cerebellum degeneration-related antigen 1 antisense) is abundance in human and mice brain. It harbors 74 conventional miR-7 binding sites ^[90]. By sponging miR-7, CDR1as plays profound roles in diseases, including colorectal cancer ^[91], hepatocellular carcinoma ^[92] and diabetes ^[93]. Although there is still no research reported the relationship between circRNAs and CCA. Using bioinformatics, Kulcheski et al predicted that ciR-SRY/miR-138/RhoC pathway may be essential for CCA pathology ^[94]. So, it is reasonable to speculate that circRNAs can operate as a chief regulator of CCA.

Conclusions

CCA carcinogenesis is result from disorders of numerous oncogenes, tumor-suppressor genes and the related molecules. Revealing the molecular mechanisms underlying it may contribute to searching the effective therapy targets and biomarkers. Thus, the ncRNAs become a research hotspot gradually. In this review, we overviewed ncRNA biogenesis and their specific regulatory mechanisms in CCA. The ncRNA therapeutic may affect many aspects of the tumors by targeting hundreds of transcripts accurately and effectivity. The liver first pass effect may also be benefit for this therapy ^[95]. Many ncRNAs can be steady in extracellular vesicles. Thus, extracellular vesicles may be reconstructed to deliver the tumor-targeting drug ^[96]. There has been a initial attempt in rat model. And the result was quite inspired ^[97]. Moreover, the detection of ncRNAs will provide an accurate technology for early detection and diagnosis of CCAs. As biliary drainage widely used in patients with obstructive jaundice, it is easy to get bile from the CCA penitents. Li et al reported that the technology of detecting bile will be more sensitive than blood ^[98]. However, the exploration on ncRNAs is still in its infancy. More investigations are required to solve many problems if we want to translate ncRNAs into clinical use.

Acknowledgements

This study was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81602088), Health and Family Planning Commission Research Project of Heilongjiang Province (Grant No. 2016-049), Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. LBH-Z16096) and Innovative Science Foundation of Harbin Medical University (Grant No. 2016LCZX09).

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.

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Corresponding authors: Jiang Xingming, email: xmjiangedu.cn and Cui Yunfu, email: yfcui777com

Received 2017-7-5
Accepted 2017-10-18
Published 2018-1-1

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