(1. School of Medicine, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang Jiangsu 212013; 2. Department of General Surgery, Kunshan Hospital, Affiliated to Jiangsu University, Kunshan Jiangsu 215300; 3. Department of General Surgery, the Affiliated People′s Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang Jiangsu 212002, China)
Abstract:[Abstract]Objective: To investigate the expression of circular RNA hsa_circ_0001947(circ_0001947) in gastric cancer cells and tissues and its effect on proliferation and apoptosis of gastric cancer cells. Methods: Five kinds of circular RNA, differentially expressed in 5 cases of gastric carcinoma and paracancerous tissues, were screened by high throughput sequencing. The most obvious circ_0001947 was selected for subsequent study. Realtime fluorescence quantitative reverse transcription PCR was used to detect the expression of circ_0001947 in 75 cases of clinical gastric carcinoma, paracancerous tissues, human gastric cancer BGC-823, HGC-27, MGC-803, SGC-7901 cell lines and normal gastric epithelial GES-1 cell line. The cell lines BGC823 and SGC7901 were divided into two groups:si-circ_0001947 group(transfected with si-RNA) and si-NC group (transfected with irrelevant sequence). Cell viability was determined by CCK8 assay after 0, 12, 24, 48, 72 h of cell culture. Cloning test was used to determine cell proliferation; the cell apoptosis was determined by flow cytometry, Western blotting was used to determine the expression levels of apoptosis-related proteins Cleaved-caspase-3, Bcl-2 and bax. Results: The differentially expressed cyclic RNA in gastric adenocarcinoma tissues screened by high throughput sequencing were hsa_circ_0000033, hsa_circ_0000038, hsa_circ_0004916, hsa_circ_0058092 and hsa_circ_0001947. The expression of circ_0001947 in gastric carcinoma was significantly higher than that in paracancerous tissue (P<0.01). The expression of circ_0001947 in human gastric cancer cell lines BGC-823, HGC-27, MGC-803, SGC-7901 was significantly higher than that in normal gastric epithelial GES1 cell(P<0.05). si-RNA could significantly inhibit the expression of circ_0001947 in BGC-823 and SGC-7901 cells. The absorbance of the BGC823 and SGC7901 cells in the si-circ_0001947 group was significantly lower than that of the si-NC group (P<0.01). The clone formation rate of BGC823 and SGC7901 cells in si-circ_0001947 group was remarkably lower than that in si-NC group (P<0.01). The results of flow cytometry showed that the apoptosis rate of BGC823 and SGC-7901 cells in si-circ_0001947 group was remarkably higher than that in si-NC group(P<0.01). Compared with siNC group, the expression of Cleaved-caspase-3and Bax in BGC-823, SGC-7901 cells of si-circ_0001947 group was significantly upregulated, while the expression of Bcl2 was significantly down-regulated(P<0.05). Conclusion: circ_0001947 was highly expressed in human gastric cancer cells and tissues. Knockdown of circ_0001947 expression could inhibit the proliferation and induce apoptosis of gastric cancer cells.
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