Abstract
Our previous study revealed that microRNA (miR)-224 down-regulation could promote tumor progression of prostate cancer (PCa) and might be associated with poor biochemical recurrence-free survival of patients with this malignancy. However, the underlying mechanisms of miR-224 have not been fully elucidated. In the current study, apelin (APLN) was identified as a target gene of miR-224. Forced expression of miR-224 inhibited PCa cell invasion and migration by suppressing the expression of APLN. In addition, the down-regulation of miR-224 was negatively correlated with the up-regulation of APLN mRNA in PCa tissues. Moreover, miR-224 down-regulation was significantly associated with advanced clinical stage (P = .027) and metastasis (P = .001), whereas APLN up-regulation more frequently occurred in PCa tissues with advanced pathologic stage (P = .003), metastasis (P < .001), and prostate-specific antigen failure (P = .001). Furthermore, patients with PCa in the miR-224-low/APLN-high group more frequently had shorter biochemical recurrence-free survival than those in groups with other expression patterns of the 2 molecules. Taken together, our data strongly confirmed for the first time that the dysregulated miR-224/APLN axis may be associated with tumorigenesis and aggressive progression of PCa. More importantly, miR-224 down-regulation and APLN up-regulation may synergistically predict biochemical recurrence-free survival in patients with PCa.
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