Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Excessive miR-25-3p maturation via N 6-methyladenosine stimulated by cigarette smoke promotes pancreatic cancer progression

  • Jialiang Zhang,
  • Ruihong Bai,
  • Mei Li,
  • Huilin Ye,
  • Chen Wu,
  • Chengfeng Wang,
  • Shengping Li,
  • Liping Tan,
  • Dongmei Mai,
  • Guolin Li,
  • Ling Pan,
  • Yanfen Zheng,
  • Jiachun Su,
  • Ying Ye,
  • Zhiqiang Fu,
  • Shangyou Zheng,
  • Zhixiang Zuo,
  • Zexian Liu,
  • Qi Zhao,
  • Xu Che,
  • Dan Xie,
  • Weihua Jia,
  • Mu-Sheng Zeng,
  • Wen Tan,
  • Rufu Chen,
  • Rui-Hua Xu,
  • Jian Zheng,
  • Dongxin Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09712-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Cigarette smoke induces microRNA dysregulation in cancers. Here, the authors show that cigarette smoke promotes the maturation of oncogenic primary miR-25 due to METTL3 hypomethylation, and mature miR-25 suppresses PH domain leucine-rich repeat protein phosphatase 2, resulting in oncogenic AKT activation in pancreatic cancer.