HCC tissues; adjacent normal tissues; tumor tissues; adjacent non-cancerous tissues; xenograft tumor samples
Huh7; HepG2; HCCLM3; Hep3B; L02
cell line-derived xenograft
ceRNA regulation (promotes); proliferation (inhibits); invasion (inhibits); angiogenesis (inhibits); EMT (inhibits); metastasis (inhibits); Hippo/YAP (other)
RT-qPCR; RNase R Treatment; Actinomycin D / DRB Stability Assay; Nuclear-Cytoplasmic Fractionation; Bioinformatics Analysis; Luciferase Reporter Assay; RNA Pull-Down; RIP (RNA Immunoprecipitation); Transfection; CCK8; Colony Formation Assay; Transwell Assay; Tube Formation Assay; Western Blot; In Vivo Animal Model; IHC (Immunohistochemistry); Clinical Sample Validation; Cohort Study; Survival Analysis
Reduced circSNX14 expression was associated with poorer overall survival and with TNM stage and distal node metastasis; circSNX14 may be a prognostic marker.
circSNX14 is down-regulated in HCC tissues and cell lines, and lower expression is associated with poorer overall survival and more aggressive clinicopathological features. Functionally, circSNX14 suppresses HCC cell proliferation, invasion, angiogenesis, EMT features, and xenograft tumor growth. Mechanistically, it sponges miR-562 and promotes LATS2 expression through the circSNX14/miR-562/LATS2 axis.
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The circSNX14 functions as a tumor suppressor via the miR-562/ LATS2 pathway in hepatocellular carcinoma cells.
combined biological and clinical study