Inhibition of malignant phenotypes of human osteosarcoma cells by a gene silencer, a pyrrole-imidazole polyamide, which targets an E-box motif

Masashi Taniguchi, Kyoko Fujiwara, Yuji Nakai, Toshinori Ozaki, Nobuko Koshikawa, Kojima Toshio, Motoaki Kataba, Asako Oguni, Hiroyuki Matsuda, Yukihiro Yoshida, Yasuaki Tokuhashi, Noboru Fukuda, Takahiro Ueno, Masayoshi Soma, Hiroki Nagase

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Abstract

Gene amplification and/or overexpression of the transcription factor c-MYC, which binds to the E-box sequence (5'-CACGTG-3'), has been observed in many human tumors. In this study, we have designed 5 pyrrole-imidazole (PI) polyamides recognizing E-box, and found that, among them, Myc-6 significantly suppresses malignant phenotypes of human osteosarcoma MG63 cells both in vitro and in vivo. Intriguingly, knockdown of the putative Myc-6 target MALAT1 encoding long noncoding RNA remarkably impaired cell growth of MG63 cells. Collectively, our present findings strongly suggest that Myc-6 exerts its tumor-suppressive ability at least in part through the specific down-regulation of MALAT1.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)328-334
Number of pages7
JournalFEBS Open Bio
Volume4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Keywords

  • E-box
  • MALAT1
  • MG63 cells
  • Osteosarcoma
  • Pyrrole-imidazole polyamide
  • c-MYC

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