Abstract
Epigenetic changes have emerged as key causes in the development and progression of multiple myeloma (MM). In this study, global microRNA (miRNA) expression profiling were performed for 27 MM (19 specimens and 8 cell lines) and 3 normal controls by microarray. miRNA-targets were identified by integrating the miRNA expression profiles with mRNA expression profiles of the matched samples (unpublished data). Two miRNAs were selected for verification by RT-qPCR (miR-150-5p and miR-4430). A total of 1791 and 8 miRNAs were over-expressed and under-expressed, respectively in MM compared to the controls (fold change ≥2.0; p < 0.05). The miRNA-mRNA integrative analysis revealed inverse correlation between 5 putative target genes (RAD54L, CCNA2, CYSLTR2, RASGRF2 and HKDC1) and 15 miRNAs (p < 0.05). Most of the differentially expressed miRNAs are involved in survival, proliferation, migration, invasion and drug resistance in MM. Some have never been described in association with MM (miR-33a, miR-9 and miR-211). Interestingly, our results revealed 2 miRNAs, which are closely related to B cell differentiation (miR-150 and miR-125b). For the first time, we suggest that miR-150 might be potential negative regulator for two critical cell cycle control genes, RAD54L and CCNA2, whereas miR-125b potentially target RAS and CysLT signaling proteins, namely RASGRF2 and CYSLTR2, respectively. This study has enhanced our understanding on the pathobiology of MM and opens up new avenues for future research in myelomagenesis.
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Introduction
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a malignancy of B lymphocytes, characterised by clonal expansion of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow and over-production of intact monoclonal immunoglobulin of a single type (M-protein) (Eslick and Talaulikar 2013). It is the second most common haematological malignancy in the world (De Mel et al. 2014). Despite central role of genomic changes, epigenetic changes such as DNA methylations, histone modifications and non-coding RNAs arise as crucial factors in the transformation and progression of this malignancy.
microRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of ~20–25 nucleotides small non-coding, double-stranded RNA molecules. The mature miRNAs bind to their targets (usually at the 3′ untranslated region) and regulate the target gene expression by translation repression or mRNA degradation (Bi and Chng 2014). miRNAs are important in regulating the gene expression essential for normal cellular functions, aberrant expression of miRNAs has been implicated in many human diseases and phenotypic variations including MM (Lorio and Crose 2012; Bi and Chng 2014). In cancer, miRNAs function as regulatory molecules that can act as either an oncomiR or a tumour suppressor (Bi and Chng 2014). Their abnormal expression causes tumour formation by disrupting mechanisms that controlling apoptosis, angiogenesis, cell proliferation, invasion, and other critical signaling pathways (Dimopoulos et al. 2014).
miRNA expression profiles have been shown to be a powerful tool in the identification of novel biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of MM. To date, the number of miRNA studies in MM is still limited and insufficient to delineate the actual molecular events underlying the pathogenesis of MM. In this study, global miRNA expression profiling was performed to identify potential miRNAs in the molecular pathogenesis of MM. Moreover, miRNA-targets were also examined by integrating the miRNA expression profiles with previously performed mRNA expression profiles of the matched samples (unpublished data) by databases prediction and inverse correlation analysis. This study has enhanced our understanding on the pathobiology of MM and opens up new avenues for future research in MM.
Materials and methods
Patients
Bone marrow aspirates or blood were collected from patients and healthy donors. Nineteen MM samples (MM1-MM19) and 3 healthy controls were recruited in this study (N1, N2 and N3). The age of these patients ranged between 28 and 74 years with a mean and median age of 57 and 61, respectively. Seventeen out of 19 patients were newly diagnosed MM cases while the remaining 2 were relapsed cases. Samples for new cases were collected from the patients before treatment. Only patients with plasma cell infiltration >10% were included in this study.
Cell lines
Eight myeloma cell lines were used in this study. The RPMI-8226, U-266, MM.1S, and IM-9 MM cells were purchased from American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, USA). Myeloma cell lines KMS-28-BM, KMS-20, KMS-12-BM, and KMS-21-BM were obtained from Japanese Collection of Research Bioresources (JCRB) cell bank. Cells were cultured with RPMI1640 medium (ATCC) supplemented with 10–15% fetal bovine serum (Lonza) in an incubator at 37 °C with humidified 5% CO2. Cells were passaged every 3–4 days.
Total RNA extraction
Total RNAs were extracted from samples by using Qiagen RNeasy mini kit following manufacturer’s protocol. On-column DNase digestion was performed with the RNase-free DNase set to eliminate DNA contamination during RNA purification (Qiagen DNase I). The quality of total RNAs was assessed using RNA Nano Chip in Agilent’s 2100 Bioanalyser. The RNA integrity number (RIN) was >8.0 for all the samples included in this study. The purity of the RNA samples (A260 nm/ A280 nm) was within the range of 1.80–2.10 as measured by NanoDrop ND-1000 UV–VIS spectrophotometer.
miRNA microarray assay
Briefly, 100 ng of total RNAs were labeled using Agilent miRNA Complete Labeling and Hyb Kit (Agilent Technologies) following manufacturer’s standard processing recommendations. Labeled RNAs were purified with MicroBioSpin 6 Column (Bio-Rad) to wash off unincorporated dyes. Purified labeled RNAs were dried in a vacuum concentrator at low heat. Pellet containing labeled miRNAs were resuspended in hybridisation cocktails and hybridised to SurePrint Human miRNA Microarray, release 19.0, 8 × 60 K (Agilent Technologies), which contained probes for 2006 human miRNAs for 20 h at 55 °C with rotation. After incubation, microarray slide was washed and scanned with Agilent array scanner G2505C. Image was then analysed with Agilent Feature Extraction Software Version 10.7.3.1.
Arrays that passed QC criteria were proceeded for further analysis. All the miRNA profiles were analysed by GeneSpring software version 13.0. All the miRNA data were thresholded to 1 and normalised to 75th percentile. The entities were then filtered where at least 1 sample out of 30 samples have ‘present’ flag. Differentially expressed miRNAs in MM samples compared to the controls were determined by unpaired unequal variance t test. The Benjamin Hochberg false discovery rate multiple testing correction was applied. Entities were filtered at p-value cut-off 0.05 and fold change ≥2.0.
miRNA-target prediction and inverse correlation analysis
Identification of miRNA-targets was carried out by integrating the miRNA expression profiles with previously performed mRNA expression profiles of the matched samples (unpublished data) using GeneSpring software version 13.0. Putative target genes of differentially expressed miRNAs were predicted by TargetScan at p < 0.05.
Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR (RT-qPCR)
Due to limitation of samples, RT-qPCR was performed to verify the expression of 2 differentially expressed miRNAs (miR-150-5p and miR-4430). The cDNA synthesis was carried out using miScript Reverse Transcription Kit (Qiagen) in a final volume of 20 µl containing 1× miScript HiSpec Buffer, 1× miScript Nucleic Mix, miScript Reverse Transcriptase Mix and 500 ng of RNA template according to manufacturer’s instructions. miRNA specific primers, which were miR-150-5p (Cat. No.: HmiRQP0210) and miR-4430 (Cat. No.: HmiRQP2054) and internal control miRNA, RNU6 (Cat. No.: HmiRQP9001) were purchased from GeneCopoeia (USA). Quantification of miRNA expression levels were performed by using miScript SYBR Green PCR Kit (Qiagen) in Rotor-Gene Q 2-Plex (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) according to manufacturer’s protocols.
The expression levels of the miRNAs were verified in 20–25 MM samples depending on the availability of the samples. Two normal controls were used in each assay. All the RT-qPCR reactions were carried out in duplicates. The Ct values were normalised against internal controls and the fold difference of expression levels were calculated through relative quantification using \({{2}^{-\Delta \Delta {{\text{C}}_{\text{t}}}}}\) method. The significance level of MM and control groups was determined by student’s t-test.
Data availability
The miRNA microarray data generated in this study are available in the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) as series accession identifier GSE73048.
Results
Differentially expressed miRNAs in MM
A total of 1799 miRNAs were differentially expressed by ≥2.0 fold change in MM samples compared to controls at p < 0.05. Out of 1799 miRNAs, 1791 and 8 miRNAs were over-expressed and under-expressed, respectively in MM. The miRNAs were more frequently up-regulated rather than down-regulated in MM, which is consistent with microarray findings reported by Yusnita et al. (2012), Zhou et al. (2010) and Chi et al. (2011). The 8 under-expressed miRNAs were identified as miR-342-5p (−9.18), miR-151a-3p (−5.40), miR-361-3p (−4.30), miR-4298 (−3.88), miR-150-5p (−3.52), miR-199a-5p (−3.48), miR-374a-5p (−2.96) and miR-342-3p (−2.86). The top 100 significantly up-regulated miRNAs were listed in Online Resource 1. Only the top 100 dysregulated miRNAs were discussed in this study.
Prediction of miRNA-targets in MM
Integrative analysis of significant differentially expressed miRNAs and mRNAs revealed 11 significantly expressed targeted genes (p < 0.05). They were PCOLCE2, ASPM, CKAP2L, CCNA2, SHCBP1, RAD54L, NUF22, CTNNAL1, HKDC1, CYSLTR2, and RASGRF2. When we associated the 11 targeted genes with the top 100 most significant dysregulated miRNAs, 5 putative target genes and 15 anti-correlated miRNAs were identified (Table 1). Theoretically, miRNAs are negative regulators for gene expression, the expression of a target mRNA is expected to be anti-correlated with miRNA expression (Lionetti et al. 2009). Therefore, only negative correlated miRNA-mRNA targets were discussed in this study.
Verification of microarray results by RT-qPCR
Both miRNAs (miRNA-150-5p and miR-4430) were expressed at similar patterns as detected in microarray (p < 0.001) (Fig. 1).
Discussion
miRNA expression profiling
Previous studied showed that miRNA biogenesis in B cell malignancies are different with T cell malignancies in a way that the B-cell malignancies are more likely associated with a global increase in miRNA expression whereas T-cell malignancies with decrease in overall miRNA expression (Lawrie et al. 2008, 2009a, b; Zhang et al. 2009; Zhou et al. 2010). This is also true in our case. The vast majority of differentially expressed miRNAs identified in this study were over-expressed in MM compared to the controls. Several aberrant miRNAs, which play critical roles in survival, proliferation, migration, invasion and drug resistance in MM were revealed. A more detail summary of aberrant miRNAs and their function, target and clinical relevance in oncogenesis are listed in Table 2.
Two important miRNAs involved in the IL6/STAT3 pathway were over-expressed in MM compared to the controls. They were miR-21 and miR-20a. The up-regulation of miR-21 is shown to facilitate the activation of IL6-JAK-STAT pathway and STAT3, which is a major mediator of growth, proliferation and survival of myeloma cells conferred by bone marrow microenvironment. The IL6/STAT3 activation enhances myeloma cell survival through the activation of anti-apoptotic genes, Mcl-1, Bcl-XL and c-Myc oncogene (Manier et al. 2012). It suggests that aberration in miR-21 contributes in the early onset of MM (Chi et al. 2011). Apart from that, miR-20a is a member of the miR-17-92 cluster—one of the well characterised class of oncogenic miRNAs. Its over-expression in MM is shown to inactivate apoptotic genes, BIM and SOCS-1, a negative regulator of IL-6/STAT3 pathway (Pichiorri et al. 2008).
Deletion/ mutation of p53 gene play an important role in the oncogenesis of MM. The p53 gene is deleted in only 5–10% of newly diagnosed MM cases but 40% of advanced MM (Gozzetti et al. 2014). The incidence of deletion/ mutation of p53 increases as the stage of disease advances suggesting its critical role in disease progression (Gozzetti et al. 2014). Therefore, p53 abnormality is associated with poor prognosis and lower survival rate in MM (Drach et al. 1998; Chng et al. 2007; Lodé et al. 2010). Apart from that, patient with p53 abnormality has decreased sensitivity to standard therapy (Teoh and Chng 2014). Under normal condition, p53 is expressed at low amount due to its continuous degradation by its negative regulator MDM2 (Herrero et al. 2016). The MDM2 is over-expressed in response to a variety of stress such as DNA damage, ribonucleotide depletion, nutritional starvation, hypoxia, and oncogene activation (Liu et al. 2014). Under stress condition, p53 is stabilised through interruption of the MDM2-p53 interaction by mechanisms such as phosphorylation, acetylation, redistribution of protein complexes and modifications in the subcellular localisation, which resulted in p53 pathway activation (Feng and Levine 2010; Vousden and Prives 2009). Activation of p53 pathway mediated tumour suppressive mechanisms in its downstream signaling. The loss of p53 protein turning off the activity of p53 networks, and resulted in suppression of cell cycle arrest genes (p21, GADD45A and 14-3-3σ), apoptosis genes (Bax, PUMA, Noxa and Bid) and senescence (p21) (Sax et al. 2002; Herrero et al. 2016). Loss of p53 function also promotes angiogenesis (TSP1 and maspin) (Herrero et al. 2016). Besides that, p53 disruption also affects cell metabolism, autophagy, necrosis, anti-oxidant defense and microRNA expression (Hager and Gu 2014; Liu et al. 2014). Altogether, they facilitate the proliferation and pro-longed survival of MM cells. The miR-125b, miR-194 and miR-215 are potential therapeutic targets in MM, which are related to p53 pathway (Pichiorri et al. 2010). These miRNAs are transcriptionally activated by p53 and able to form positive feedback loop with p53 to help to activate the gene under stress condition (Bi and Chng 2014). The miR-125b, miR-194 and miR-215 also capable of inhibit cancer cell proliferation through promoting the p53-mediated apoptosis, cell cycle arrest and senescence (Zhang et al. 2015). These miRNAs are commonly down-regulated in MM (Pichiorri et al. 2010). However, instead of under-expressed, they were over-expressed in this study. This could be explained by the complexity of regulations and functions of miRNAs in cancers. Research found that a single miRNA can act as oncomir or tumour suppressor simultaneously (Li et al. 2012). For example, miR-196b can target either tumour suppressor, FAS or oncogene, HOXA9/MEIS1 in leukaemia (Li et al. 2012). When miR-196b was over-expressed in leukaemia cells, it represses the function of FAS and at the same time promotes cell proliferation and inhibits apoptosis via increases expression of HOXA9/MEIS1. Apart from that, miRNAs regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level and at the same time their expression are regulated by transcription factors (Wang et al. 2010). Moreover, other studied showed that the expression of miRNAs is not only regulated at transcriptional level but also at the post-transcriptional level during the downstream processing stages (Siomi and Siomi 2010). All of these findings imply that the expression of the miRNA in oncogenesis is varied depending on the potential influences of the different biological and cellular contexts (Nam et al. 2014).
miRNA-target prediction
The miRNA-mRNA enrichment analysis revealed that CCNA2, CYSLTR2, RASGRF2 and HKDC1 were targeted by more than one miRNAs (except for RAD54L) (Table 1). Out of 15 putative miRNAs identified in this study, only a few of them are concomitant with cancers. They are miR-150, miR-125b, miR-33a, miR-9 and miR-211. Interestingly, miR-150 and miR-125b are closely related to B cell differentiation and therefore highlighted their critical roles in myelomagenesis. The c-Myb, Mucin 4, TAMs and survivin/BIRC5 are a few potential targets of miR-150 (Xiao et al. 2007; Fernando et al. 2012; Grammatikakis et al. 2013; Liu et al. 2013; Undi et al. 2013). So far, there is no evidence showing the biological relationship between miR-150 and RAD54L or CCNA2. For the first time, our findings exhibited the possible roles of miR-150 in regulating two important cell cycle associated genes, RAD54L and CCNA2. The RAD54L is involved in DNA double strand break repair and chromatin remodeling in G1/ S-transition via homologous recombination (Mjelle et al. 2015). Its misrepaired would cause various mutations, deletions and oncogenic translocations in human cells (Agarwal et al. 2011; Mjelle et al. 2015). Elevated expression of RAD54L was identified in colon and breast cancer, lymphoma and meningioma (Leone et al. 2003). We revealed for the first time that RAD54L was over-expressed in MM and its aberrant expression might be caused by down-regulation of miR-150. Another putative target of miR-150, the CCNA2 gene is a well-established cell cycle control gene, which is a genetic marker for prognostic and outcome prediction in MM and other cancers (García-Escudero et al. 2010).
Aberrant expression of miR-125b was implicated in various cancers such as colon, prostate, and lymphoma (Jacinto et al. 2007; Mahapatra et al. 2012). The IRF4, Blimp1 and p53 were identified as its possible targets (Table 2). Our integrative analysis of miRNA-mRNA expression data predicted new potential targets of miR-125b, namely RASGRF2 and CYSLTR2. Low expression of RASGRF2 has been described in lymphoma, lung cancer, cancer cell lines and primary tumour but not in MM (Chen et al. 2006). The RASGRF2 is a RAS signaling protein involved in regulating conversion of active or inactive forms of RAS protein (Chen et al. 2006). RAS protein is an important component in signal transduction pathway as it activates intracellular pathways that affect the biological processes related to cell proliferation, survival, and motility (Agarwal et al. 2011). We suggests that disruption of normal signaling pathways through under-expression of RASGRF2 might facilitate cancerous cell growth and invasion. Besides RASGRF2, CYSLTR2 is another potential target of miR-125b identified in this study. The role of CYSLTR2 in myelomagenesis is still unknown although its dysregulation has been shown to facilitate cell proliferation and migration of colon cancer cells via CysLT signaling (Bengtsson et al. 2013).
Other potential miRNAs such as dysregulation of miR-33a, miR-9 and miR-211 have never been reported in association with MM transformation and disease progression. However, they have been shown to play crucial roles in other cancers such as breast, ovarian, melanoma, and glioblastoma (Ibrahim et al. 2011; Blandino et al. 2012; Wang et al. 2013; Xia et al. 2015).
This study has limitation due to the used of small sample size. In addition, CD138+ plasma cells enrichment was not performed due to the limited capacity of bone marrow samples received from the patients. Our future study aims to confirm the microarray findings with larger sample size, possibly with CD138+ purified plasma cells from the patients. Besides that, the miRNA-targets identified in this study is predicted based on the integrative analysis of miRNA and mRNA expression profiles of the matched samples, the biological relevance of the miRNA-targets need to be further verified by using dual-luciferase reporter assay system.
Conclusions
Our present study revealed potential miRNAs and miRNA-target underlying the molecular pathogenesis of MM. One of the most significant findings are the identification of new possible targets for two B cell related miRNAs, miR-150 and miR-125b. Our findings predicted that miR-150 might be negative regulator for two critical cell cycle control genes, RAD54L and CCNA2, whereas miR-125b potentially target RAS and CysLT signaling proteins, namely RASGRF2 and CYSLTR2. The miRNA and miRNA-target identified in this study might be important therapeutic markers in MM, which is worthy for further investigation.
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This study was supported by research funding from the Ministry of Health, Malaysia (JPP-IMR: 12-035). The authors would also like to thank the Director General of Health, Malaysia for his permission to publish the research findings and the Director of the Institute for Medical Research for support in the writing of this paper.
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Bong, I.P.N., Ng, C.C., Baharuddin, P. et al. MicroRNA expression patterns and target prediction in multiple myeloma development and malignancy. Genes Genom 39, 533–540 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13258-017-0518-7
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