Long noncoding RNA XIST promotes malignancies of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma via regulation of miR-101/EZH2
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The long non-coding RNA XIST is a long non-coding RNA that associates with polycomb repressive complex 2 to regulate X-chromosome inactivation in female mammals. The biological roles as well as the underlying mechanisms of XIST in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma remained yet to be solved. Our data indicated that XIST was significantly upregulated in esophageal squamous cancerous tissues and cancer cell lines, as compared with that in the corresponding non-cancerous tissues and immortalized normal squamous epithelial cells. High XIST expression predicted poor prognosis of esophageal squamous cancer patients. Lentivirus mediated knockdown of XIST inhibited proliferation, migration and invasion of esophageal squamous cancer cells in vitro and suppressed tumor growth in vivo. Knockdown of XIST resulted in elevated expression of miR-101 and decreased expression of EZH2. Further analysis showed that XIST functioned as the competitive endogenous RNA of miR-101 to regulate EZH2 expression. Moreover, enforced expression of EZH2 significantly attenuated the anti-proliferation activity upon XIST knockdown. Conclusively, XIST plays an important role in malignant progression of ESCC via modulation of miR-101/EZH2 axis.
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