Table 2.
Clinically important up-regulated miRNAs in OS

? of miRNAs Analysis of samples withrespect to OS tissue and celllines Putative function Chromosomenumber Targets ofmiRNA Techniques used forvalidation References
miR-17 92(miRNA-17,miRNA-18a,miRNA-19a,miRNA-19b,miRNA-20a,and miRNA-92) Normal tissue samples vspatients and (Saos2, U2OS vsNormal cells 3 UTR of cMYC contained bindingsites for any of the 14q32-associatedmiRNAs and miR-17-92 andinduced c-MYC regulation. 13,14q32(C13Orf25) cMYC FACS, Bluefuse microarraysoftware, Cell invasion andmigration assay, Arraycomparative genomehybridization, Osteoblastdifferentiation assay, Westernblot. Luciferase reporterassays, qRT-PCR,Nucleofection of miRNAmimics Thayanithy et al.(2012);Shimada,(2013)
miR-33a OS patients samples, Saos-2 ,MG-63 vs normal tissue, celllines miR-33a is up regulated inchemoresistant OS which inhibitsthe TWIST-3 untranslated regionluciferasereporter activity and alterthe TWIST expression 22 TWIST miRNA microarray analysis,qRT-PCR, Western blotanalysis, Luciferase assay,Measurement of apoptosis byTUNEL assay Zhou et al. (2014)
miR-362 Gastric cancer tissues and celllines vs normal tissue and celllines Induced nuclear translocation of p65and inversely regulate the CYLDexpression by binding its 3untranslated region. Xp11.23 CYLD andp65 Colony assay, flow cytometry,TUNEL assay, luciferasereporter assay, fluorescentimmunostaining, Westernblotting and qRT-PCR Xia et al. (2014)
MiR-125a andmiR-125b HCT116, OS and Humankeratinocyte cell lines vsHEK293 cell lines MicroRNA-125b Up-regulationPromotes Cell Survival byTargeting p38α 14q32 p38α,TNFAIP3,and A20 Immunoblotting, LuciferaseAssay, EMSA, ChIP and CellSurvival Assay Kim et al. (2012);Tan et al. (2012)
miR-150, miR-199b-5p,miR-451 and solexa-578-1915 ES97, HS3.T, SJSA-1, andMG63 and patients tissuesamples vs normal cells miRNAs inhibitor showed a changein expression of Notch downstreamtargets 9 Notch1, Dll1,JAG1, HES1,Dtx1 qRT-PCR, microarrayanalysis Won et al. (2013)