Background and purpose: BCR-ABL fusion gene is considered to be the molecular pathological basis and an effective indicator for diagnosis

observation

prognosis

and monitoring of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). MiRNA-196b had low expression in acute myeloid leukemia and played an important role in the development of disease. BCR-ABL is the target gene of miRNA-196b in CML

miRNA-196b overexpression leaded to BCR-ABL down-regulation or silencing. Survivin is a downstream gene of BCR-ABL signal pathways. Various studies had showed that survivin and Cox-2 cooperative regulated of cell proliferation and apoptosis in variety of tumors. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of miRNA-196b overexpression on proliferation

apoptosis and surviving

Cox-2 mRNA expression of K562 cells. Methods: Three groups including K562-196b

K562-pLV and K562 control groups were set up in this study. The cell proliferation and apoptosis were measured by CCK-8 assay and Annexin V-PE

respectively. The expression of Cox-2 and survivin genes at the mRNA level were detected by Q-PCR. Results: The proliferation of K562 cells could be significantly inhibited by miRNA-196b overexpression; Compared of the three groups of apoptosis rate

K562-196b group was significantly higher than K562 group (P0.05). The expression of survivin gene in miRNA-196b was donwregulated (P0.05)

but the expression of Cox-2 gene in miRNA-196b group had no significant difference (P0.05). Conclusion: The miRNA-196b plays an important role in K562 cells proliferation inhibition and apoptosis; Overexpression of miRNA-196b can down-regulate survivin gene expression

and provide some basis for miRNA-196b as a therapeutic target for chronic myelogenous leukemia.