Accession PRJCA024161
Title N4-acetylcytidine modifes primary microRNAs for processing in cancer cells
Relevance Medical
Data types Epigenomics
Transcriptome or Gene expression
Organisms Homo sapiens
Description N4-acetylcytidine (ac4C) modifcation mainly occurs on tRNA, rRNA, and mRNA, playing an important role in the expression of genetic information. However, it is still unclear whether microRNAs have undergone ac4C modifcation and their potential physiological and pathological functions. In this study, we identifed that NAT10/THUMPD1 acetylates pri-miRNAs with ac4C modifcation.Knockdown of NAT10 suppresses and augments the expression levels of mature miRNAs and pri-miRNAs, respectively. Molecular mechanism studies found that pri-miRNA ac4C promotes the processing of pri-miRNA into precursor miRNA (pre-miRNA) by enhancing the interaction of pri-miRNA and DGCR8, thereby increasing the biogenesis of mature miRNA. Knockdown of NAT10 attenuates the oncogenic characters of lung cancer cells by regulating miRNA production in cancers. Moreover, NAT10 is highly expressed in various clinical cancers and negatively correlated with poor prognosis. Thus, our results reveal that NAT10 plays a crucial role in cancer initiation and progression by modulating pri-miRNA ac4C to afect miRNA production, which would provide an attractive therapeutic strategy for cancers.
Sample scope Monoisolate
Release date 2024-03-08
Publication
PubMed ID Article title Journal name DOI Year
38308713
Grants
Agency program Grant ID Grant title
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST) 2019YFE0110600
Submitter jianxiu Yu (jianxiu.yu@gmail.com)
Organization Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Submission date 2024-03-08

Project Data

Resource name Description
BioSample (4) -
SAMC3437748 shNAT10-3
SAMC3437747 shNAT10-2
SAMC3437746 pLKO.1
SAMC3437745 wild type