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#5 High throughput sequencing reveals circadian rhythm gene
RORα is cooperatively suppressed by multiple microRNAs in

oral squamous cell carcinoma

Monday, 25th June - 00:00 - Poster Session Available from 25th (16:30- 18:30) -26th (18:30-20:30) June 2018 -
Bayshore Ballroom D-F - Poster - Abstract ID: 54

Prof. Jiali Zhang (Oral Histopathology Department, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China), Dr.
Xueqing Zheng (The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei_MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral
Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China), Dr. Yanan Sun (The State
Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei_MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of
Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China), Dr. Yuemei Pan (The State Key Laboratory
Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei_MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School &
Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China)

Objectives: To explore the differentially expressed mRNAs and miRNAs in OSCC tissues, and identify the interaction
network between miRNAs and trascription factors (TFs). Among them, the regulatory network of miRNAs - circadian
gene RORα on proliferation in OSCC was further elucidated.
Findings: RNA-seq and microRNA-seq analyses show that upregulation of microRNA in OSCC samples significantly
contribute to the globally down-regulated transcription factors (TFs) in OSCC. Circadian rhythms genes including
three members of retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor family (RORα, RORβ and RORγ) and CLOCK were
among the down-regulated TFs. RORα was predicted to be targeted by 25 co-upregulated miRNAs, of which, miR-503-
5p, miR-450b-5p, miR-27a-3p, miR-181a-5p and miR-183-5p were further testified to directly target RORα, resulting in
a more stronger effect on RORα suppression by mixing together. In addition, we showed that RORα was significantly
decreased in most OSCC samples (37 of 44, 84%), and significantly suppressed the proliferation of OSCC cells in vitro
and in vivo. Attenuated RORα decreased p53 protein expression and suppressed p53 phosphorylation activity.
Conclusions: The abnormal miRNAs-mediated TFs network could play important role in OSCC tumorigenesis.
Among those TFs, circadian gene RORα acted as a tumor suppressor in OSCC by inhibiting tumor proliferation and
could be negatively regulated by miR-503-5p, miR-450b-5p, miR-27a-3p, miR-181a-5p and miR-183-5p cooperatively,
which provides clues to understand the clinical link between circadian rhythms and cancer therapy.

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