Inducing oncolytic cell death in human cancer cells by the long non-coding RNA let-A
Birbaumer, T.; Schlumpf, T. B.; Seimiya, M.; Jiang, Y.; Paro, R.
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Long non-coding (lnc) RNAs contain functional elements that play important regulatory roles in a variety of processes during development, normal physiology, as well as disease. We recently discovered a new lncRNA, we named let-A, expressed from the evolutionary conserved let-7-Complex locus in Drosophila. This RNA induces cell death in Drosophila cancer cells. Here we show that ectopic expression of Drosophila let-A is also exerting an oncolytic toxicity in several human cancer cell lines, but shows almost no effect in more differentiated or cell lines derived from normal tissue. We demonstrate that let-A RNA prepared by in vitro transcription and provided in the growth medium is sufficient to induce cell death both in human and Drosophila cancer cells. The activity of in vitro transcribed let-A is most efficient in its full length, but requires prior modification/processing to become active. let-A induces a reduction of nucleolar size in treated cells. We show exo/endocytosis and Toll signaling pathway to be necessary for let-A-induced toxicity. Our findings indicate let-A exhibits an evolutionary conserved anti-cancer function, making it a promising molecule for tumor treatments.
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