| Several evidences support the idea that a small population of tumour cells representing
self‐renewal potential are involved in initiation, maintenance, metastasis, and
outcomes of cancer therapy. Elucidation of microRNAs/genes regulatory networks
activated in cancer stem cells (CSCs) is necessary for the identification of new targets
for cancer therapy. The aim of the present study was to predict the miRNAs
pattern, which can target both metastasis and self‐renewal pathways using integration
of literature and data mining. For this purpose, mammospheres derived from
MCF‐7, MDA‐MB231, and MDA‐MB468 were used as breast CSCs model. They
had higher migration, invasion, and colony formation potential, with increasing in
stemness‐ and EMT‐related genes expression. Our results determined that miR‐204,
‐200c, ‐34a, and ‐10b contemporarily could target both self‐renewal and EMT pathways.
This core regulatory of miRNAs could increase the survival rate of breast
invasive carcinoma via up‐regulation of OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, c‐MYC, NOTCH1, SNAI1,
ZEB1, and CDH2 and down‐regulation of CDH1. The majority of those target genes
were involved in the regulation of pluripotency, MAPK, WNT, Hedgehog, p53, and
transforming growth factor β pathways. Hence, this study provides novel insights
for targeting core regulatory of miRNAs in breast CSCs to target both self‐renewal
and metastasis potential and eradication of breast cancer. |