miRNA Role in invasion/metastasis Cancer type Target
miR-9 metastasis colon, melanoma, head, neck REST, COREST
miR-10a promotion pancreatic HOXB1, HOXB4
miR-10b promotion breast, glioblastoma, esophageal, nasoparyngeal HOXD10, KLF4, LMP1, BCL2L11/Bim TFAP2C/AP-2g, CDKN1A/p21, CDKN2A/p16
miR-15a suppression prostate BCL-2
miR16 suppression prostate CDK1, CDK2
miR17-92 promotion breast, coloreactal CTGF, TSP1
miR21 promotion breast, colorectal, gastric, lung, pancreatic, prostate, bladder, ovarian , hepatocellular PDCD4, PTEN, CDC25A, RHOB, TIAMI, TPM1, TPM1, MARCKS, NF1B, SPRY2
miR-22 suppression breast CDK6, SIRT1, SP1
miR-25 promotion   BIM, BAX and CASPASE-3
miR-27a promotion breast APC, FOXO1
miR-31 suppression breast RHOA, RDX, ITGA5
miR-34a suppression gastric SIRT1-p53 pathway
miR34b and miR34c metastasis many different tumor types TCL1
miR-122 suppression hepatocellular ADAM17, RHOA, RAC1
miR-124a suppression colon, gastric, haematological SCP1, PTBP1
miR-126 suppression breast, lung CRK, VEGF
miR-129-2 suppression colon, endometrical, gastric CDK4, SOX4, GALNT1, APC, RAB11, EIF2C3, CAMTA1
miR-137 suppression colon, head and neck LSD1, CDK6, CDC42, MITF
miR-141 promotion colon, breast, lung, ovary p38a
miR-146a/b suppression breast, pancreatic, glioma, prostate, gastric EGFR, ROCK1, IRAK1, NFKB1
miR148a metastasis colon, melanoma, breast BCL-2
miR-151 metastasis hepatocellular carcinoma RHOGDIA
miR-194 suppression liver CDH2, DNMT3A, HBEGF
miR-196b dual roles (suppression/promotion) gastric, leukemia HOXA9/MEIS1, FAS
miR-200c suppression colon, breast, lung ZEB1, ZEB2
miR-205 suppression bladder , breast, prostate ERBB3, E2F1, E2F5, VEGF-A, IL24, IL32, ZEB1, ZEB2
miR-206 suppression breast, rhabdomyosarcoma ESR1, MET
miR-214 promotion or suppression melanoma TFAP2C, MAP2K3, MAPK8
miR-335 suppression gastric, breast BCL2L2, SP1, SOX4, TNC
miR-373 metastasis breast, testicular germ cell CD44, LAST2
miR-378 promotion breast, glioblastoma SUFU, FUS-1
miR-517c/miR520g promotion neuroectodermal brain tumor WNT upregulation
miR-520c metastasis/invasion breast CD44
Table 1: miRNAs involved in tumor invasion and metastasis.