Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

miR-22 has a potent anti-tumour role with therapeutic potential in acute myeloid leukaemia

  • Xi Jiang,
  • Chao Hu,
  • Stephen Arnovitz,
  • Jason Bugno,
  • Miao Yu,
  • Zhixiang Zuo,
  • Ping Chen,
  • Hao Huang,
  • Bryan Ulrich,
  • Sandeep Gurbuxani,
  • Hengyou Weng,
  • Jennifer Strong,
  • Yungui Wang,
  • Yuanyuan Li,
  • Justin Salat,
  • Shenglai Li,
  • Abdel G. Elkahloun,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Mary Beth Neilly,
  • Richard A. Larson,
  • Michelle M. Le Beau,
  • Tobias Herold,
  • Stefan K. Bohlander,
  • Paul P. Liu,
  • Jiwang Zhang,
  • Zejuan Li,
  • Chuan He,
  • Jie Jin,
  • Seungpyo Hong,
  • Jianjun Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11452
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Mir-22 has been shown to be an oncogenic microRNA in breast cancer and myelodysplastic syndrome. Here, the authors show that mir-22 functions as a tumour suppressor in de novoacute myeloid leukaemia by inhibiting the expression of several oncogenes and that restoring mir-22 expression suppresses AML progression.