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Zhang Y, Qu W, Yan R, Liu H, Zhang C, Li Z, Dong G. A reliable and quick method for screening alternative splicing variants for low-abundance genes. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0305201. [PMID: 38935635 PMCID: PMC11210779 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2024] [Indexed: 06/29/2024] Open
Abstract
Alternative splicing (AS) is a universal phenomenon in eukaryotes, and it is still challenging to identify AS events. Several methods have been developed to identify AS events, such as expressed sequence tags (EST), microarrays and RNA-seq. However, EST has limitations in identifying low-abundance genes, while microarray and RNA-seq are high-throughput technologies, and PCR-based technology is needed for validation. To overcome the limitations of EST and shortcomings of high-throughput technologies, we established a method to identify AS events, especially for low-abundance genes, by reverse transcription (RT) PCR with gene-specific primers (GSPs) followed by nested PCR. This process includes two major steps: 1) the use of GSPs to amplify as long as the specific gene segment and 2) multiple rounds of nested PCR to screen the AS and confirm the unknown splicing variants. With this method, we successfully identified three new splicing variants, namely, GenBank Accession No. HM623886 for the bdnf gene (GenBank GeneID: 12064), GenBank Accession No. JF417977 for the trkc gene (GenBank GeneID: 18213) and GenBank Accession No. HM623888 for the glb-18 gene (GenBank GeneID: 172485). In addition to its reliability and simplicity, the method is also cost-effective and labor-intensive. In conclusion, we developed an RT-nested PCR method using gene-specific primers to efficiently identify known and novel AS variants. This approach overcomes the limitations of existing methods for detecting rare transcripts. By enabling the discovery of new isoforms, especially for low-abundance genes, this technique can aid research into aberrant splicing in disease. Future studies can apply this method to uncover AS variants involved in cancer, neurodegeneration, and other splicing-related disorders.
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- Yanchun Zhang
- Department of Blood Transfusion Medicine, The Seventh Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
- Laboratory of Electromagnetic Biological Effects, Beijing Institute of Radiation and Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory of Electromagnetic Biological Effects, Beijing Institute of Radiation and Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory of Electromagnetic Biological Effects, Beijing Institute of Radiation and Medicine, Beijing, China
- College of Life Science, Northwest Agriculture and Forest University, Yangling, China
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- College of Life Science, Northwest Agriculture and Forest University, Yangling, China
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- Laboratory of Electromagnetic Biological Effects, Beijing Institute of Radiation and Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory of Electromagnetic Biological Effects, Beijing Institute of Radiation and Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory of Electromagnetic Biological Effects, Beijing Institute of Radiation and Medicine, Beijing, China
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Westemeier-Rice ES, Winters MT, Rawson TW, Martinez I. More than the SRY: The Non-Coding Landscape of the Y Chromosome and Its Importance in Human Disease. Noncoding RNA 2024; 10:21. [PMID: 38668379 PMCID: PMC11054740 DOI: 10.3390/ncrna10020021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2024] [Revised: 03/31/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 04/29/2024] Open
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Historically, the Y chromosome has presented challenges to classical methodology and philosophy of understanding the differences between males and females. A genetic unsolved puzzle, the Y chromosome was the last chromosome to be fully sequenced. With the advent of the Human Genome Project came a realization that the human genome is more than just genes encoding proteins, and an entire universe of RNA was discovered. This dark matter of biology and the black box surrounding the Y chromosome have collided over the last few years, as increasing numbers of non-coding RNAs have been identified across the length of the Y chromosome, many of which have played significant roles in disease. In this review, we will uncover what is known about the connections between the Y chromosome and the non-coding RNA universe that originates from it, particularly as it relates to long non-coding RNAs, microRNAs and circular RNAs.
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- Emily S. Westemeier-Rice
- West Virginia University Cancer Institute, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA;
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; (M.T.W.); (T.W.R.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; (M.T.W.); (T.W.R.)
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- West Virginia University Cancer Institute, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA;
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; (M.T.W.); (T.W.R.)
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Zhang L, Chen ZY, Wei XX, Li JD, Chen G. What are the changes in the hotspots and frontiers of microRNAs in hepatocellular carcinoma over the past decade? World J Clin Oncol 2024; 15:145-158. [PMID: 38292666 PMCID: PMC10823937 DOI: 10.5306/wjco.v15.i1.145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2023] [Revised: 12/08/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Emerging research suggests that microRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A comprehensive analysis of recent research concerning miRNAs in HCC development could provide researchers with a valuable reference for further studies. AIM To make a comprehensive analysis of recent studies concerning miRNAs in HCC. METHODS All relevant publications were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database. Bibliometrix software, VOSviewer software and CiteSpace software were used to visually analyze the distribution by time, countries, institutions, journals, and authors, as well as the keywords, burst keywords and thematic map. RESULTS A total of 9426 publications on this topic were found worldwide. According to the keywords analysis, we found that the studies of miRNAs focused on their expression level, effects, and mechanisms on the biological behaviour of HCC. Keywords bursting analysis showed that in the early years (2013-2017), "microRNA expression", "gene expression", "expression profile", "functional polymorphism", "circulating microRNA", "susceptibility" and "mir 21" started to attract attention. In the latest phase (2018-2022), the hot topics turned to "sorafenib resistance", "tumor microenvironment" and so on. CONCLUSION This study provides a comprehensive overview of the role of miRNAs in HCC development based on bibliometric analysis. The hotspots in this field focus on miRNAs expression level, effects, and mechanisms on the biological behavior of HCC. The frontiers turned to sorafenib resistance, tumor microenvironment and so on.
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- Lu Zhang
- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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EL-shqnqery HE, Mohamed RH, Samir O, Ayoub I, El-Sayed WM, Sayed AA. miRNome of Child A hepatocellular carcinoma in Egyptian patients. Front Oncol 2023; 13:1137585. [PMID: 37168369 PMCID: PMC10164962 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1137585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023] Open
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Introduction Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has different etiologies that contribute to its heterogeneity. In regards to the number of HCC patients, Egypt ranks third in Africa and fifteenth worldwide. Despite significant advancements in HCC diagnosis and treatment, the precise biology of the tumor is still not fully understood, which has a negative impact on patient outcomes. Methods Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have increased our knowledge of the molecular complexity of HCC. Results & discussion In this research, 16 HCC and 6 tumor adjacent tissues (control) of Child A Egyptian patients were successfully profiled for the expression profile of miRNAs by NGS. Forty-one differentially expressed miRNAs (DEMs) were found by differential expression analysis, with 31 being upregulated and 10 being downregulated. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment analysis was then conducted on these differentially expressed miRNAs revealing that Sensitivity and specificity analysis showed that hsa-miR-4488, hsa-miR-3178, and hsa-miR-3182 were unique miRNAs as they are expressed in HCC tissues only. These miRNAs were all highly involved in AMPK signaling pathways. However, hsa-miR-214-3p was expressed in control tissues about eight times higher than in cancer tissues and was most abundant in "pathways in cancer and PI3K-Akt signaling pathway" KEGG terms. As promising HCC diagnostic markers, we here suggest hsa-miR-4488, hsa-miR-3178, hsa-miR-3182, and hsa-miR-214-3p. We further urge future research to confirm these markers' diagnostic and prognostic potential as well as their roles in the pathophysiology of HCC.
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- Hend E. EL-shqnqery
- Department of Clinical Pathology, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Cairo, Egypt
- Genomics and Epigenomics Program, Department of Basic Research, Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Genomics and Epigenomics Program, Department of Basic Research, Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
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- Department of Hepatopancreato Biliary Surgery, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
- *Correspondence: Ahmed A. Sayed, ; Wael M. El-Sayed, ;
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- Genomics and Epigenomics Program, Department of Basic Research, Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
- *Correspondence: Ahmed A. Sayed, ; Wael M. El-Sayed, ;
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Exosome circRNAs and ceRNA network profiles in different ANA sera. Immunol Res 2022; 70:518-529. [PMID: 35554827 DOI: 10.1007/s12026-022-09282-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Increasing evidences show that circRNAs are associated with some autoimmunity diseases either as a biomarker or therapeutic target. Exosomes containing nucleic acids and proteins are found in sera of series diseases and could serve as either diagnostic or therapeutic target. ANA serves as first common diagnostic test for autoimmunity disease, different ANA staining reflecting different types of autoimmunity disease. Till now, whether different ANA sera exosomes express different circRNAs and relevant ceRNA networks are still shortage of investigation. This study analyzed circRNAs, miRNAs, and their interaction networks in different ANA sera exosomes by high-throughput sequencing. It found no significant difference of total circRNAs and miRNAs amount across different ANA sera exosomes. However, significant differences were found of circRNAs, miRNA constituents, function analysis by KEGG and GO, and their ceRNA networks including miRNA-circRNA and miRNA-mRNA among different ANA sera exosomes, suggesting sera exosome circRNAs as either biomarker or mechanism of autoimmunity diseases.
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Liu ZQ, Cheng M, Fu F, Li R, Han J, Yang X, Deng Q, Li LS, Lei TY, Li DZ, Liao C. Identification of differential microRNAs and messenger RNAs resulting from ASXL transcriptional regulator 3 knockdown during during heart development. Bioengineered 2022; 13:9948-9961. [PMID: 35435106 PMCID: PMC9161854 DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2022.2062525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2022] [Revised: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect. Although ASXL transcriptional regulator 3 (ASXL3) has been reported to cause hereditary CHD, ASXL3-mediated mechanisms in heart development remain unclear. In this study, we used dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to induce differentiation in P19 cells, observed cell morphology using light microscopy after ASXL3 knockdown, and determined the levels of associated myocardial cell markers using reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction and western blotting. Subsequently, we used microRNA sequencing, messenger RNA (mRNA) sequencing, and bioinformatics to initially identify the possible mechanisms through which ASXL3-related microRNAs and mRNAs affect heart development. The results indicated that DMSO induced P19 cell differentiation, which could be inhibited by ASXL3 knockdown. We screened 1214 and 1652 differentially expressed microRNAs and mRNAs, respectively, through ASXL3 knockdown and sequencing; these differentially expressed miRNAs were largely enriched in PI3K-Akt, mitogen-activated protein kinase, and Rap1 signaling pathways. Additionally, 11 miRNAs associated with heart development were selected through a literature review. Our analysis indicated the involvement of mmu-miR-323-3p in P19 cell differentiation through the PI3K-Akt pathway. In conclusion, ASXL3 may be involved in the regulation of heart development. This comprehensive study of differentially expressed microRNAs and mRNAs through ASXL3 knockdown in P19 cells provides new insights that may aid the prevention and treatment of CHD.
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- Ze-Qun Liu
- Department of Prenatal Diagnostic Center, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, GuangzhouGuangdong, China
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- Department of Obstetrics, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, GuangzhouGuangdong, China
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- Department of Prenatal Diagnostic Center, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, GuangzhouGuangdong, China
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- Department of Prenatal Diagnostic Center, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, GuangzhouGuangdong, China
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- Department of Prenatal Diagnostic Center, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, GuangzhouGuangdong, China
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- Department of Prenatal Diagnostic Center, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, GuangzhouGuangdong, China
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- Department of Prenatal Diagnostic Center, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, GuangzhouGuangdong, China
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- Department of Prenatal Diagnostic Center, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, GuangzhouGuangdong, China
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- Department of Prenatal Diagnostic Center, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, GuangzhouGuangdong, China
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- Department of Prenatal Diagnostic Center, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, GuangzhouGuangdong, China
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- Department of Prenatal Diagnostic Center, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, GuangzhouGuangdong, China
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Dat VHX, Nhung BTH, Chau NNB, Cuong PH, Hieu VD, Linh NTM, Quoc NB. Identification of potential microRNA groups for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using microarray datasets and bioinformatics tools. Heliyon 2022; 8:e08987. [PMID: 35243101 PMCID: PMC8873536 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e08987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Revised: 12/19/2021] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver malignancy and the third cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Potential microRNAs have been reported as biomarkers for early detection of HCC as well as novel molecular targets for HCC treatment. Various tissue expression profiles of miRNAs using three microarray datasets from groups in Asia (2), Europe, America (GSE147892, GSE21362, GSE74618, GSE40744) and multiple bioinformatics tools were integrated to determine the most significant miRNA groups to assist in the diagnosis of HCC. Statistical analyses identified at least 30 miRNAs with 17 up-regulated and 13 down-regulated in HCC-related tumor tissues. All the miRNAs also showed relevance to the hallmarks of cancer such as cell proliferation, invasion, metastasis, angiogenesis, metabolism, epithelial-mesenchymal transition and apoptosis. Expression levels of miRNAs observed in the European group showed up-regulation at 5–37% compared to both Asian and American groups. Interestingly, four miRNAs divided into two groups as miR-182-5p/miR-1269a and miR-199a/miR-422a were the most promising for diagnosis of HCC patients from healthy controls, with AUC values of 0.902 and 0.892, respectively. Results provided evidence of the correlation between potential miRNAs and HCC that could be useful for disease diagnosis based on in-depth analyses of large case numbers and cohort studies.
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- Vo Hoang Xuan Dat
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Nong Lam University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Nong Lam University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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- Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital, Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Nong Lam University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.,Research Institute of Biotechnology and Environment, Nong Lam University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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Li G, Niu P, Ge S, Cao D, Sun A. SERS Based Lateral Flow Assay for Rapid and Ultrasensitive Quantification of Dual Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma-Related miRNA Biomarkers in Human Serum Using Pd-Au Core-Shell Nanorods and Catalytic Hairpin Assembly. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 8:813007. [PMID: 35223986 PMCID: PMC8878268 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.813007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Non-invasive early diagnosis is of great significant in disease pathologic development and subsequent medical treatments, and microRNA (miRNA) detection has attracted critical attention in early cancer screening and diagnosis. However, it was still a challenge to report an accurate and sensitive method for the detection of miRNA during cancer development, especially in the presence of its analogs that produce intense background noise. Herein, we developed a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based lateral flow assay (LFA) biosensor, assisted with catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) amplification strategy, for the dynamic monitoring of miR-106b and miR-196b, associated with laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC). In the presence of target miRNAs, two hairpin DNAs could self-assemble into double-stranded DNA, exposing the biotin molecules modified on the surface of palladium (Pd)-gold (Au) core-shell nanorods (Pd-AuNRs). Then, the biotin molecules could be captured by the streptavidin (SA), which was fixed on the test lines (T1 line and T2 line) beforehand. The core-shell spatial structures and aggregation Pd-AuNRs generated abundant active "hot spots" on the T line, significantly amplifying the SERS signals. Using this strategy, the limits of detections were low to aM level, and the selectivity, reproducibility, and uniformity of the proposed SERS-LFA biosensor were satisfactory. Finally, this rapid analysis strategy was successfully applied to quantitatively detect the target miRNAs in clinical serum obtained from healthy subjects and patients with LSCC at different stages. The results were consistent with the quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR). Thus, the CHA-assisted SERS-LFA biosensor would become a promising alternative tool for miRNAs detection, which showed a tremendous clinical application prospect in diagnosing LSCC.
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- Guang Li
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Departments of Otolaryngology, The Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, Qingzhou People’s Hospital, Qingzhou, China
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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Yang H, Li G, Qiu G. Bioinformatics Analysis Using ATAC-seq and RNA-seq for the Identification of 15 Gene Signatures Associated With the Prediction of Prognosis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Front Oncol 2021; 11:726551. [PMID: 34760691 PMCID: PMC8573251 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.726551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Background Gene expression (RNA-seq) and overall survival (OS) in TCGA were combined using chromosome accessibility (ATAC-seq) to search for key molecules affecting liver cancer prognosis. Methods We used the assay for transposase-accessible chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (ATAC-seq) to analyse chromatin accessibility in the promoter regions of whole genes in liver hepatocellular carcinoma (LIHC) and then screened differentially expressed genes (DEGs) at the mRNA level by transcriptome sequencing technology (RNA-seq). We obtained genes significantly associated with overall survival (OS) by a one-way Cox analysis. The three were screened by taking intersection and further using a Kaplan–Meier (KM) for validation. A prognostic model was constructed using the obtained genes by LASSO regression analysis.The expression of these genes in hepatocellular carcinomas was then analysed. The protein expression of these genes was verified using the Human Protein Atlas(HPA) online datasets and immunohistochemistry. Results ATAC-seq, RNA-seq and survival analysis, combined with a LASSO prediction model, identified signatures of 15 genes (PRDX6, GCLM, HTATIP2, SEMA3F, UCK2, NOL10, KIF18A, RAP2A, BOD1, GDI2, ZIC2, GTF3C6 SLC1A5, ERI3 and SAC3D1), all of which were highly expressed in hepatocellular carcinoma. The LASSO prognostic model showed that this risk score had high predictive accuracy for the survival prognosis at 1, 3 and 5 years. A KM curve analysis showed that high expression of all 15 gene signatures was significantly associated with a poor prognosis in LIHC patients. HPA analysis of protein expression showed that PRDX6, GCLM, HTATIP2, NOL10, KIF18A, RAP2A and GDI2 were highly expressed in the hepatocellular carcinoma tissues compared with normal control tissues. Conclusions PRDX6, GCLM, HTATIP2, SEMA3F, UCK2, NOL10, KIF18A, RAP2A, BOD1, GDI2, ZIC2, GTF3C6, SLC1A5, ERI3 and SAC3D1 may affect the prognosis of LIHC.
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- Hui Yang
- Department of Interventional Therapy, Hwa Mei Hospital, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Ningbo, China
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- Department of Interventional Therapy, Hwa Mei Hospital, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Ningbo, China
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- Department of Interventional Therapy, Hwa Mei Hospital, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Ningbo, China
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Liver cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounting for approximately 80% of all liver cancers. The serum concentration of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is the only validated biomarker for HCC diagnosis. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs of 21–30 nucleotides playing a critical role in human carcinogenesis, with types of miRNAs with oncogenic (oncomiRs) or tumor suppressor features. The altered expression of miRNAs in HCC is associated with many pathological processes, such as cancer initiation, tumor growth, apoptosis escape, promotion of migration and invasion. Moreover, circulating miRNAs have been increasingly investigated as non-invasive biomarkers for HCC diagnosis. MiRNAs’ expression patterns are altered in HCC and several single miRNAs or miRNAs panels have been found significantly up or downregulated in HCC with respect to healthy controls or non-oncological patients (cirrhotic or with viral hepatitis). However, any of the investigated miRNAs or miRNAs panels has entered clinical practice so far. This has mostly to do with lack of protocols standardization, small sample size and discrepancies in the measurement techniques. This review summarizes the major findings regarding the diagnostic role of miRNAs in HCC and their possible use together with standard biomarkers in order to obtain an early diagnosis and easier differential diagnosis from non-cancerous liver disease.
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Fujisawa K, Shimo M, Taguchi YH, Ikematsu S, Miyata R. PCA-based unsupervised feature extraction for gene expression analysis of COVID-19 patients. Sci Rep 2021; 11:17351. [PMID: 34456333 PMCID: PMC8403676 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-95698-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is raging worldwide. This potentially fatal infectious disease is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, the complete mechanism of COVID-19 is not well understood. Therefore, we analyzed gene expression profiles of COVID-19 patients to identify disease-related genes through an innovative machine learning method that enables a data-driven strategy for gene selection from a data set with a small number of samples and many candidates. Principal-component-analysis-based unsupervised feature extraction (PCAUFE) was applied to the RNA expression profiles of 16 COVID-19 patients and 18 healthy control subjects. The results identified 123 genes as critical for COVID-19 progression from 60,683 candidate probes, including immune-related genes. The 123 genes were enriched in binding sites for transcription factors NFKB1 and RELA, which are involved in various biological phenomena such as immune response and cell survival: the primary mediator of canonical nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) activity is the heterodimer RelA-p50. The genes were also enriched in histone modification H3K36me3, and they largely overlapped the target genes of NFKB1 and RELA. We found that the overlapping genes were downregulated in COVID-19 patients. These results suggest that canonical NF-κB activity was suppressed by H3K36me3 in COVID-19 patient blood.
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- Kota Fujisawa
- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Engineering and Science, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, 903-0213, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Chuo University, Tokyo, 112-8551, Japan
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- Department of Bioresources Engineering, National Institute of Technology, OkinawaCollege, Okinawa, 905-2192, Japan
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- Faculty of Engineering, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, 903-0213, Japan.
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Gong H, Zhang M, Han Y, Zhang Y, Pang J, Zhao Y, Chen B, Wu W, Qi R, Zhang T. Differential microRNAs expression profiles in liver from three different lifestyle modification mice models. BMC Genomics 2021; 22:196. [PMID: 33740891 PMCID: PMC7977600 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-07507-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background MicroRNAs play an important role in many fundamental biological and pathological processes. Defining the microRNAs profile underlying the processes by beneficial and detrimental lifestyles, including caloric restriction (CR), exercise and high-fat diet (HF), is necessary for understanding both normal physiology and the pathogenesis of metabolic disease. We used the microarray to detect microRNAs expression in livers from CR, EX and HF mice models. After predicted potential target genes of differentially expressed microRNAs with four algorithms, we applied GO and KEGG to analyze the function of predicted microRNA targets. Results We describe the overall microRNAs expression pattern, and identified 84 differentially expressed microRNAs changed by one or two or even all the three lifestyle modifications. The common and different enriched categories of gene function and main biochemical and signal transduction pathways were presented. Conclusions We provided for the first time a comprehensive and thorough comparison of microRNAs expression profiles in liver among these lifestyle modifications. With this knowledge, our findings provide us with an overall vision of microRNAs in the molecular impact of lifestyle on health as well as useful clues for future and thorough research of the role of microRNAs. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12864-021-07507-3.
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- Huan Gong
- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, National Health Commission; Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, People's Republic of China.
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- Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, National Health Commission; Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, People's Republic of China
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- School of Sport Science, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, National Health Commission; Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, National Health Commission; Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, National Health Commission; Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, National Health Commission; Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, National Health Commission; Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, National Health Commission; Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, People's Republic of China.
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Umezu T, Tsuneyama K, Kanekura K, Hayakawa M, Tanahashi T, Kawano M, Taguchi YH, Toyoda H, Tamori A, Kuroda M, Murakami Y. Comprehensive analysis of liver and blood miRNA in precancerous conditions. Sci Rep 2020; 10:21766. [PMID: 33303811 PMCID: PMC7728755 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78500-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Streptozotocin administration to mice (STZ-mice) induces type I diabetes and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We attempted to elucidate the carcinogenic mechanism and the miRNA expression status in the liver and blood during the precancerous state. Serum and liver tissues were collected from STZ-mice and non-treated mice (CTL-mice) at 6, 10, and 12 W. The exosome enriched fraction extracted from serum was used. Hepatic histological examination and hepatic and exosomal miRNA expression analysis were serially performed using next-generation sequencing (NGS). Human miRNA expression analysis of chronic hepatitis liver tissue and exosomes, which were collected before starting the antiviral treatment, were also performed. No inflammation or fibrosis was found in the liver of CTL-mice during the observation period. In STZ-mice, regeneration and inflammation of hepatocytes was found at 6 W and nodules of atypical hepatocytes were found at 10 and 12 W. In the liver tissue, during 6-12 W, the expression levels of let-7f-5p, miR-143-3p, 148a-3p, 191-5p, 192-5p, 21a-5p, 22-3p, 26a-5p, and 92a-3p was significantly increased in STZ-mice, and anti-oncogenes of their target gene candidates were down-regulated. miR-122-5p was also significantly down-regulated in STZ-mice. Fifteen exosomal miRNAs were upregulated in STZ-mice. Six miRNAs (let-7f-5p, miR-10b-5p, 143-3p, 191-5p, 21a-5p, and 26a-5p) were upregulated, similarly to human HCC cases. From the precancerous state, aberrant expression of hepatic miRNAs has already occurred, and then, it can promote carcinogenesis. In exosomes, the expression pattern of common miRNAs between mice and humans before carcinogenesis was observed and can be expected to be developed as a cancer predictive marker.
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- Tomohiro Umezu
- Department of Molecular Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku 6-1-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8402, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku 6-1-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8402, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, 602-0841, Japan
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Contemporary Life Science, Chugokugakuen University, Okayama, 701-0197, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Chuo University, Tokyo, 112-8551, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Ogaki Municipal Hospital, Ogaki, 503-8502, Japan
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- Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, 545-8585, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku 6-1-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8402, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku 6-1-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8402, Japan.
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miR-149 rs2292832 C allele enhances the cytotoxic effect of temozolomide against glioma cells. Neuroreport 2020; 31:498-506. [DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0000000000001440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Wu C, Tang G, Wang X, Zhang J, Chen S, Lu C, Zhang D, Li Y. Micro-RNA-21 rs1292037 A>G polymorphism can predict hepatocellular carcinoma prognosis (HCC), and plays a key role in cell proliferation and ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) in HCC cell model of IRI. Saudi Med J 2020; 41:383-392. [PMID: 32291425 PMCID: PMC7841620 DOI: 10.15537/smj.2020.4.24994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2019] [Accepted: 02/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To assess the predictive function of miR-21 rs1292037 A greater than G polymorphism in survival and ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. METHODS The experiment was carried out between July 2018 and July 2019, whereas the prospective clinical study was carried out between January 2014 and January 2019. In this study, 62 HCC patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV), 17 HCC patients without HBV, and 13 healthy controls were investigated. Micro-RNA-21 levels in the blood were identified using quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and allele specific PCR for miR-21 rs1292037. Partial hepatectomy was performed in all patients, and the tumor development indicators and survival time were evaluated in a subsequent follow-up. Cell-based simulated IRI model of HCC huh7 cell line was used to determine the functions of miR-21 with respect to IRI and proliferation. RESULTS Micro-RNA-21 levels were significantly increased in HCC patients. Furthermore, an miR- 21 rs1292037 A greater than G polymorphism was found to be significantly associated with HCC prognosis and severity of liver injury after hepatectomy. In vitro study revealed that miR-21 might prevent IRI from occurring, and can induce proliferation in HCC huh7 cells. These functions of miR-21 were demonstrated to be triggered by IL-12A inhibition. CONCLUSION Micro-RNA-21 rs1292037 A greater than G polymorphism can predict IRI and tumor progression by regulating the miR-21/IL-12A.axis.
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- Chaoyu Wu
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Linyi Central Hospital, Linyi, China. E-mail.
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Lin T, Gu J, Qu K, Zhang X, Ma X, Miao R, Xiang X, Fu Y, Niu W, She J, Liu C. A new risk score based on twelve hepatocellular carcinoma-specific gene expression can predict the patients' prognosis. Aging (Albany NY) 2019; 10:2480-2497. [PMID: 30243023 PMCID: PMC6188480 DOI: 10.18632/aging.101563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A large panel of molecular biomarkers have been identified to predict the prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), yet with limited clinical application due to difficult extrapolation. We here generated a genetic risk score system comprised of 12 HCC-specific genes to better predict the prognosis of HCC patients. Four genomics profiling datasets (GSE5851, GSE28691, GSE15765 and GSE14323) were searched to seek HCC-specific genes by comparisons between cancer samples and normal liver tissues and between different subtypes of hepatic neoplasms. Univariate survival analysis screened HCC-specific genes associated with overall survival (OS) in the training dataset for next-step risk model construction. The prognostic value of the constructed HCC risk score system was then validated in the TCGA dataset. Stratified analysis indicated this scoring system showed better performance in elderly male patients with HBV infection and preoperative lower levels of creatinine, alpha-fetoprotein and platelet and higher level of albumin. Functional annotation of this risk model in high-risk patients revealed that pathways associated with cell cycle, cell migration and inflammation were significantly enriched. In summary, our constructed HCC-specific gene risk model demonstrated robustness and potentiality in predicting the prognosis of HCC patients, especially among elderly male patients with HBV infection and relatively better general conditions.
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- Ting Lin
- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'a, Shaanxi 710061, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'a, Shaanxi 710061, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'a, Shaanxi 710061, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'a, Shaanxi 710061, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'a, Shaanxi 710061, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'a, Shaanxi 710061, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'a, Shaanxi 710061, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'a, Shaanxi 710061, China
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- Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China
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- Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'a, Shaanxi 710061, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'a, Shaanxi 710061, China
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Taguchi YH, Turki T. Tensor Decomposition-Based Unsupervised Feature Extraction Applied to Single-Cell Gene Expression Analysis. Front Genet 2019; 10:864. [PMID: 31608111 PMCID: PMC6761323 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Although single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology is newly invented and a promising one, but because of lack of enough information that labels individual cells, it is hard to interpret the obtained gene expression of each cell. Because of insufficient information available, unsupervised clustering, for example, t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding and uniform manifold approximation and projection, is usually employed to obtain low-dimensional embedding that can help to understand cell–cell relationship. One possible drawback of this strategy is that the outcome is highly dependent upon genes selected for the usage of clustering. In order to fulfill this requirement, there are many methods that performed unsupervised gene selection. In this study, a tensor decomposition (TD)-based unsupervised feature extraction (FE) was applied to the integration of two scRNA-seq expression profiles that measure human and mouse midbrain development. TD-based unsupervised FE could select not only coincident genes between human and mouse but also biologically reliable genes. Coincidence between two species as well as biological reliability of selected genes is increased compared with that using principal component analysis (PCA)-based FE applied to the same data set in the previous study. Since PCA-based unsupervised FE outperformed the other three popular unsupervised gene selection methods, highly variable genes, bimodal genes, and dpFeature, TD-based unsupervised FE can do so as well. In addition to this, 10 transcription factors (TFs) that might regulate selected genes and might contribute to midbrain development were identified. These 10 TFs, BHLHE40, EGR1, GABPA, IRF3, PPARG, REST, RFX5, STAT3, TCF7L2, and ZBTB33, were previously reported to be related to brain functions and diseases. TD-based unsupervised FE is a promising method to integrate two scRNA-seq profiles effectively.
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- Y-H Taguchi
- Department of Physics, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Computer Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Kong Q, Liang C, Jin Y, Pan Y, Tong D, Kong Q, Zhou J. The lncRNA MIR4435-2HG is upregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma and promotes cancer cell proliferation by upregulating miRNA-487a. Cell Mol Biol Lett 2019; 24:26. [PMID: 30988676 PMCID: PMC6449898 DOI: 10.1186/s11658-019-0148-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Given the high mortality rate and unclear pathogenesis for liver cancer, investigation of its molecular mechanisms is essential. We focused on the long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) MIR4435-2HG, which was recently reported to be oncogenic in lung cancer and the microRNA miRNA-487a, which has been reported to be oncogenic in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Our aim was to determine if the former has a role in HCC, and to further validate the role of the latter. METHODS Samples from 64 patients with HCC were taken at The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University. Cell transfection and PCR were applied. RESULTS We found that MIR4435-2HG and miRNA-487a were upregulated in tumor tissues compared to adjacent healthy tissues from HCC patients. The expression of MIR4435-2HG was significantly affected by tumor size but not by tumor metastasis. Correlation analysis showed that MIR4435-2HG and miRNA-487a were positively correlated in both the tumor tissues and adjacent healthy tissues from HCC patients. Overexpression of MIR4435-2HG led to upregulation of miRNA-487a in the cells of HCC cell lines, while overexpression of miRNA-487a did not significantly affect MIR4435-2HG. Overexpression of MIR4435-2HG and miRNA-487a promoted the proliferation of cells of HCC cell lines, and miRNA-487a knockdown partially attenuated the enhancing effects of MIR4435-2HG overexpression on cancer cell proliferation. CONCLUSION MIR4435-2HG is upregulated in HCC and promotes cancer cell proliferation possibly by upregulating miRNA-487a.
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- Qinglei Kong
- Department of Emergency Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510630 People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510630 People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, No. 600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510630 People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, No. 600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510630 People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, ZhongShan Medical School, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510080 People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, No. 600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510630 People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, No. 600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510630 People’s Republic of China
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Kumar S, Rani R, Karns R, Gandhi CR. Augmenter of liver regeneration protein deficiency promotes hepatic steatosis by inducing oxidative stress and microRNA-540 expression. FASEB J 2019; 33:3825-3840. [PMID: 30540918 PMCID: PMC6404588 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201802015r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Levels of augmenter of liver regeneration (ALR), a multifunctional protein, are reduced in steatohepatitis. ALR depletion from ALR flox/flox/Alb-Cre [ALR-L-knockout (KO)] mouse causes robust steatosis and apoptosis of hepatocytes, and pericellular fibrosis between 1 and 2 wk postbirth. Steatosis regresses by 4 wk upon reappearance of ALR-expressing hepatocytes. We investigated mechanisms of ALR depletion-induced steatosis. ALR-L-KO mice (1-, 2-, and 4 wk old) and Adeno-Cre-transfected ALR flox/flox hepatocytes were used for in vivo and in vitro studies. ALR depletion from hepatocytes in vivo downregulated peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)-α, carnitine palmitoyl transferase I (CPT1)a, peroxisomal membrane protein 70 (PMP70) (modest down-regulation), and acyl-CoA oxidase 1 (ACOX1). The markedly up-regulated (20X) novel microRNA-540 (miR-540) was identified to target PPARα, PMP70, ACOX1, and CPT1a. ALR depletion from primary hepatocytes increased oxidative stress, miR-540 expression, and steatosis and down-regulated PPARα, ACOX1, PMP70, and CPT1a expression. Anti-miR-540 mitigated ALR depletion-induced steatosis and prevented loss of PPARα, ACOX1, PMP70, and CPT1a expression. Antioxidant N-acetylcysteine and recombinant ALR (rALR) both inhibited ALR depletion-induced miR-540 expression and lipid accumulation in hepatocytes. Finally, treatment of ALR-L-KO mice with rALR between 1 and 2 wk prevented miR-540 expression, and arrested steatosis and fibrosis. We conclude that ALR deficiency-mediated oxidative stress induces generation of miR-540, which promotes steatosis by dysregulating peroxisomal and mitochondrial lipid homeostasis.-Kumar, S., Rani, R., Karns, R., Gandhi, C. R. Augmenter of liver regeneration protein deficiency promotes hepatic steatosis by inducing oxidative stress and microRNA-540 expression.
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- Sudhir Kumar
- Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Hashimoto K, Inada M, Ito K. Multiplex Real-Time Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Using an Electrochemical DNA Chip Consisting of a Single Liquid-Flow Channel. Anal Chem 2019; 91:3227-3232. [PMID: 30734558 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b05284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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We developed a multiplex system capable of simultaneously quantifying different target sequences by applying an electrochemical DNA chip that consists of single liquid-flow channel with primers designed for loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP). We applied this system for detecting mature microRNAs (miRNAs). miRNAs extracted from serum were enzymatically lengthened to about 100 base pairs by reverse-transcription and elongation reactions. The LAMP primers for amplifying the lengthened miRNAs were adsorbed and immobilized on the surface of the liquid-flow channel at five different positions. A LAMP solution containing the lengthened miRNAs, Tin DNA polymerase, and ruthenium hexaamine (RuHex) as a redox compound was injected into the DNA chip. The electrochemical reaction of RuHex in the LAMP solution was then measured continuously via linear-sweep voltammetry at 65 °C. The LAMP reaction of the positive control revealed that the cathodic peak current of RuHex increased. Additionally, the initial number of miRNA copies was correlated with the time when the cathodic current began to increase. Five miRNAs were simultaneously detected at 103-106 copies per 50 μL within 2 h. We expect these results will be useful for developing a simple and stable electrochemical-based method for the real-time monitoring of miRNAs, while also facilitating the implementation of electrochemical DNA chips for molecular analyses.
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- Koji Hashimoto
- Corporate Research & Development Center, Research & Development Division , Toshiba Corporation , 1 Komukai-Toshiba-cho , Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki 212-8582 , Japan
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- Corporate Research & Development Center, Research & Development Division , Toshiba Corporation , 1 Komukai-Toshiba-cho , Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki 212-8582 , Japan
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- Corporate Research & Development Center, Research & Development Division , Toshiba Corporation , 1 Komukai-Toshiba-cho , Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki 212-8582 , Japan
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Taguchi YH. Drug candidate identification based on gene expression of treated cells using tensor decomposition-based unsupervised feature extraction for large-scale data. BMC Bioinformatics 2019; 19:388. [PMID: 30717646 PMCID: PMC7394334 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-018-2395-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Background Although in silico drug discovery is necessary for drug development, two major strategies, a structure-based and ligand-based approach, have not been completely successful. Currently, the third approach, inference of drug candidates from gene expression profiles obtained from the cells treated with the compounds under study requires the use of a training dataset. Here, the purpose was to develop a new approach that does not require any pre-existing knowledge about the drug–protein interactions, but these interactions can be inferred by means of an integrated approach using gene expression profiles obtained from the cells treated with the analysed compounds and the existing data describing gene–gene interactions. Results In the present study, using tensor decomposition-based unsupervised feature extraction, which represents an extension of the recently proposed principal-component analysis-based feature extraction, gene sets and compounds with a significant dose-dependent activity were screened without any training datasets. Next, after these results were combined with the data showing perturbations in single-gene expression profiles, genes targeted by the analysed compounds were inferred. The set of target genes thus identified was shown to significantly overlap with known target genes of the compounds under study. Conclusions The method is specifically designed for large-scale datasets (including hundreds of treatments with compounds), not for conventional small-scale datasets. The obtained results indicate that two compounds that have not been extensively studied, WZ-3105 and CGP-60474, represent promising drug candidates targeting multiple cancers, including melanoma, adenocarcinoma, liver carcinoma, and breast, colon, and prostate cancers, which were analysed in this in silico study. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12859-018-2395-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Y-H Taguchi
- Department of Physics, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8551, Japan.
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Principal Component Analysis-Based Unsupervised Feature Extraction Applied to Single-Cell Gene Expression Analysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95933-7_90] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Fang ZQ, Li MC, Zhang YQ, Liu XG. MiR-490-5p inhibits the metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma by down-regulating E2F2 and ECT2. J Cell Biochem 2018; 119:8317-8324. [PMID: 29932246 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.26876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2017] [Accepted: 03/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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We intended to evaluate miR-490-5p expression in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tissues and detect the potential targets of miR-490-5p. In vitro experiments were conducted to further investigate the biological function of miR-490-5p on HCC cell metastasis. We investigated the abnormally expressed miRNAs in HCC tissues, and the miR-490-5p expression level was detected by qRT-PCR. E2F2 and ECT2 were proved to be the potential targets of miR-490-5p by luciferase reporter assay. The expression levels of E2F2 and ECT2 were determined using Western blot. Transwell assay was used to analyse the impact of miR-490-5p on metastasis of HCC cells. Four high-expressed miRNAs, and seven low-expressed miRNAs, including miR-490-5p, were detected in HCC tissues. The expression level of miR-490-5p was connected with the tumor size, tumor node metastasis (TNM) stage, and survival ratio of HCC patients. E2F2 and ECT2 were the targets of miR-490-5p, and miR-490-5p inhibited HCC cell metastasis through down-regulating the expressions of E2F2 and ECT2. The over-expressed miR-490-5p could restrain the metastasis of HCC cells by down-regulating E2F2 and ECT2 expression levels.
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- Zheng-Qing Fang
- School of Nursing, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Medicine, Anhui No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- College of Chinese and Western Medicine (School of Life Science), Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, Anhui, China
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Taguchi YH. Tensor Decomposition-Based Unsupervised Feature Extraction Can Identify the Universal Nature of Sequence-Nonspecific Off-Target Regulation of mRNA Mediated by MicroRNA Transfection. Cells 2018; 7:cells7060054. [PMID: 29867052 PMCID: PMC6025034 DOI: 10.3390/cells7060054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2018] [Revised: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 05/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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MicroRNA (miRNA) transfection is known to degrade target mRNAs and to decrease mRNA expression. In contrast to the notion that most of the gene expression alterations caused by miRNA transfection involve downregulation, they often involve both up- and downregulation; this phenomenon is thought to be, at least partially, mediated by sequence-nonspecific off-target effects. In this study, I used tensor decomposition-based unsupervised feature extraction to identify genes whose expression is likely to be altered by miRNA transfection. These gene sets turned out to largely overlap with one another regardless of the type of miRNA or cell lines used in the experiments. These gene sets also overlap with the gene set associated with altered expression induced by a Dicer knockout. This result suggests that the off-target effect is at least as important as the canonical function of miRNAs that suppress translation. The off-target effect is also suggested to consist of competition for the protein machinery between transfected miRNAs and miRNAs in the cell. Because the identified genes are enriched in various biological terms, these genes are likely to play critical roles in diverse biological processes.
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- Y-H Taguchi
- Department of Physics, Chuo University, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
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Enzyme-free isothermal target-recycled amplification combined with PAGE for direct detection of microRNA-21. Anal Biochem 2018; 550:117-122. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2018.04.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2018] [Revised: 04/19/2018] [Accepted: 04/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Taguchi YH. Tensor decomposition-based and principal-component-analysis-based unsupervised feature extraction applied to the gene expression and methylation profiles in the brains of social insects with multiple castes. BMC Bioinformatics 2018; 19:99. [PMID: 29745827 PMCID: PMC5998888 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-018-2068-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Background Even though coexistence of multiple phenotypes sharing the same genomic background is interesting, it remains incompletely understood. Epigenomic profiles may represent key factors, with unknown contributions to the development of multiple phenotypes, and social-insect castes are a good model for elucidation of the underlying mechanisms. Nonetheless, previous studies have failed to identify genes associated with aberrant gene expression and methylation profiles because of the lack of suitable methodology that can address this problem properly. Methods A recently proposed principal component analysis (PCA)-based and tensor decomposition (TD)-based unsupervised feature extraction (FE) can solve this problem because these two approaches can deal with gene expression and methylation profiles even when a small number of samples is available. Results PCA-based and TD-based unsupervised FE methods were applied to the analysis of gene expression and methylation profiles in the brains of two social insects, Polistes canadensis and Dinoponera quadriceps. Genes associated with differential expression and methylation between castes were identified, and analysis of enrichment of Gene Ontology terms confirmed reliability of the obtained sets of genes from the biological standpoint. Conclusions Biologically relevant genes, shown to be associated with significant differential gene expression and methylation between castes, were identified here for the first time. The identification of these genes may help understand the mechanisms underlying epigenetic control of development of multiple phenotypes under the same genomic conditions. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12859-018-2068-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Y-H Taguchi
- Department of Physics, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8551, Japan.
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Hotta K, Kitamoto T, Kitamoto A, Ogawa Y, Honda Y, Kessoku T, Yoneda M, Imajo K, Tomeno W, Saito S, Nakajima A. Identification of the genomic region under epigenetic regulation during non-alcoholic fatty liver disease progression. Hepatol Res 2018; 48:E320-E334. [PMID: 29059699 DOI: 10.1111/hepr.12992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2017] [Revised: 10/04/2017] [Accepted: 10/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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AIM The progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is affected by epigenetics. We undertook co-methylation and differentially methylated region (DMR) analyses to identify the genomic region that is under epigenetic regulation during NAFLD progression. METHODS We collected liver biopsy specimens from 60 Japanese patients with NAFLD and classified these into mild (fibrosis stages 0-2) or advanced (fibrosis stages 3-4) NAFLD. We carried out a genome-wide DNA methylation analysis and identified the differentially methylated CpGs between mild and advanced NAFLD. Differentially methylated regions with multiple consecutive differentially methylated CpGs between mild and advanced NAFLD were extracted. RESULTS Co-methylation analysis showed that individual differentially methylated CpG sites were clustered into three modules. The CpG sites clustered in one module were hypomethylated in advanced NAFLD and their annotated genes were enriched for "immune system" function. The CpG sites in another module were hypermethylated and their annotated genes were enriched for "mitochondria" or "lipid particle", and "lipid metabolism" or "oxidoreductase activity". Hypomethylated DMRs included tumorigenesis-related genes (FGFR2, PTGFRN, and ZBTB38), the expressions of which are upregulated in advanced NAFLD. Tumor suppressor MGMT had two DMRs and was downregulated. Conversely, FBLIM1 and CYR61, encoding proteins that reduce cell proliferation, showed hypomethylated DMRs and were upregulated. Expression of the antioxidant gene NQO1 was upregulated, with a hypomethylated DMR. The DMR containing cancer-related MIR21 was hypomethylated in advanced NAFLD. CONCLUSIONS Co-methylation and DMR analyses suggest that the NAFLD liver undergoes mitochondrial dysfunction, decreased lipid metabolism, and impaired oxidoreductase activity, and acquires tumorigenic potential at the epigenetic level.
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- Kikuko Hotta
- Department of Medical Innovation, Osaka University Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Pharmacogenomics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.,Advanced Research Facilities and Services, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Pharmacogenomics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.,Advanced Research Facilities and Services, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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Bansal P, Kumar A, Chandna S, Arora M, Bansal R. Targeting miRNA for Therapeutics Using a Micronome Based Method for Identification of miRNA-mRNA Pairs and Validation of Key Regulator miRNA. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1823:185-195. [PMID: 29959682 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8624-8_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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MicroRNAs are 18-22 bp long non-coding sequences and play a critical role in diverse biological processes, through modulation of gene expression at the post-transcriptional level by binding at the 3'-untranslated region of target mRNA. Consequent upon the discovery of structural and functional features of miRNA targeting, several molecular methods have been developed to identify miRNA targets. However, these methods suffer several drawbacks, including technical challenges, requirement of high cell volumes, inability to differentiate between direct and indirect targets, cell/tissue as well as experimental-specificity and imprecise binding site information. Alternatively in silico approach enables the exploration of the potential miRNA-mRNA pairs to investigate signature miRNA and proteins involved in the signaling of various diseases. Here, we describe micronome-based standard method for identification of miRNA-mRNA pairs as well as validation of key regulator miRNA.
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- Parveen Bansal
- University Centre of Excellence in Research, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, Punjab, India
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- Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Division of Natural Radiation Response Mechanisms, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, Timarpur, Delhi, India
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- Multidisciplinary Research Unit, Indian Council of Medical Research, GGSMCH, Faridkot, Punjab, India
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- Department of Microbiology, GGSMCH, Faridkot, Punjab, India.
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Vitsios DM, Kentepozidou E, Quintais L, Benito-Gutiérrez E, van Dongen S, Davis MP, Enright AJ. Mirnovo: genome-free prediction of microRNAs from small RNA sequencing data and single-cells using decision forests. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:e177. [PMID: 29036314 PMCID: PMC5716205 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2017] [Accepted: 09/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) remains an important problem, particularly given the growth of high-throughput sequencing, cell sorting and single cell biology. While a large number of miRNAs have already been annotated, there may well be large numbers of miRNAs that are expressed in very particular cell types and remain elusive. Sequencing allows us to quickly and accurately identify the expression of known miRNAs from small RNA-Seq data. The biogenesis of miRNAs leads to very specific characteristics observed in their sequences. In brief, miRNAs usually have a well-defined 5′ end and a more flexible 3′ end with the possibility of 3′ tailing events, such as uridylation. Previous approaches to the prediction of novel miRNAs usually involve the analysis of structural features of miRNA precursor hairpin sequences obtained from genome sequence. We surmised that it may be possible to identify miRNAs by using these biogenesis features observed directly from sequenced reads, solely or in addition to structural analysis from genome data. To this end, we have developed mirnovo, a machine learning based algorithm, which is able to identify known and novel miRNAs in animals and plants directly from small RNA-Seq data, with or without a reference genome. This method performs comparably to existing tools, however is simpler to use with reduced run time. Its performance and accuracy has been tested on multiple datasets, including species with poorly assembled genomes, RNaseIII (Drosha and/or Dicer) deficient samples and single cells (at both embryonic and adult stage).
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- Dimitrios M Vitsios
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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Taguchi YH. Tensor decomposition-based unsupervised feature extraction identifies candidate genes that induce post-traumatic stress disorder-mediated heart diseases. BMC Med Genomics 2017; 10:67. [PMID: 29322921 PMCID: PMC5763504 DOI: 10.1186/s12920-017-0302-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Background Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is primarily a mental disorder, it can cause additional symptoms that do not seem to be directly related to the central nervous system, which PTSD is assumed to directly affect. PTSD-mediated heart diseases are some of such secondary disorders. In spite of the significant correlations between PTSD and heart diseases, spatial separation between the heart and brain (where PTSD is primarily active) prevents researchers from elucidating the mechanisms that bridge the two disorders. Our purpose was to identify genes linking PTSD and heart diseases. Methods In this study, gene expression profiles of various murine tissues observed under various types of stress or without stress were analyzed in an integrated manner using tensor decomposition (TD). Results Based upon the obtained features, ∼ 400 genes were identified as candidate genes that may mediate heart diseases associated with PTSD. Various gene enrichment analyses supported biological reliability of the identified genes. Ten genes encoding protein-, DNA-, or mRNA-interacting proteins—ILF2, ILF3, ESR1, ESR2, RAD21, HTT, ATF2, NR3C1, TP53, and TP63—were found to be likely to regulate expression of most of these ∼ 400 genes and therefore are candidate primary genes that cause PTSD-mediated heart diseases. Approximately 400 genes in the heart were also found to be strongly affected by various drugs whose known adverse effects are related to heart diseases and/or fear memory conditioning; these data support the reliability of our findings. Conclusions TD-based unsupervised feature extraction turned out to be a useful method for gene selection and successfully identified possible genes causing PTSD-mediated heart diseases. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12920-017-0302-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Y-H Taguchi
- Department of Physics, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8551, Japan.
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Identification of candidate drugs using tensor-decomposition-based unsupervised feature extraction in integrated analysis of gene expression between diseases and DrugMatrix datasets. Sci Rep 2017; 7:13733. [PMID: 29062063 PMCID: PMC5653784 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13003-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2017] [Accepted: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Identifying drug target genes in gene expression profiles is not straightforward. Because a drug targets proteins and not mRNAs, the mRNA expression of drug target genes is not always altered. In addition, the interaction between a drug and protein can be context dependent; this means that simple drug incubation experiments on cell lines do not always reflect the real situation during active disease. In this paper, I applied tensor-decomposition-based unsupervised feature extraction to the integrated analysis using a mathematical product of gene expression in various diseases and gene expression in the DrugMatrix dataset, where comprehensive data on gene expression during various drug treatments of rats are reported. I found that this strategy, in a fully unsupervised manner, enables researchers to identify a combined set of genes and compounds that significantly overlap with gene and drug interactions identified in the past. As an example illustrating the usefulness of this strategy in drug discovery experiments, I considered cirrhosis, for which no effective drugs have ever been proposed. The present strategy identified two promising therapeutic-target genes, CYPOR and HNFA4; for their protein products, bezafibrate was identified as a promising candidate drug, supported by in silico docking analysis.
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Taguchi YH. Tensor decomposition-based unsupervised feature extraction applied to matrix products for multi-view data processing. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0183933. [PMID: 28841719 PMCID: PMC5571984 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2017] [Accepted: 08/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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In the current era of big data, the amount of data available is continuously increasing. Both the number and types of samples, or features, are on the rise. The mixing of distinct features often makes interpretation more difficult. However, separate analysis of individual types requires subsequent integration. A tensor is a useful framework to deal with distinct types of features in an integrated manner without mixing them. On the other hand, tensor data is not easy to obtain since it requires the measurements of huge numbers of combinations of distinct features; if there are m kinds of features, each of which has N dimensions, the number of measurements needed are as many as Nm, which is often too large to measure. In this paper, I propose a new method where a tensor is generated from individual features without combinatorial measurements, and the generated tensor was decomposed back to matrices, by which unsupervised feature extraction was performed. In order to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed strategy, it was applied to synthetic data, as well as three omics datasets. It outperformed other matrix-based methodologies.
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- Y-h. Taguchi
- Department of Physics, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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Li Q, Li H, Zhao X, Wang B, Zhang L, Zhang C, Zhang F. DNA Methylation Mediated Downregulation of miR-449c Controls Osteosarcoma Cell Cycle Progression by Directly Targeting Oncogene c-Myc. Int J Biol Sci 2017; 13:1038-1050. [PMID: 28924385 PMCID: PMC5599909 DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.19476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Accepted: 07/01/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are critical regulators of gene expression, and they have broad roles in the pathogenesis of different diseases including cancer. Limited studies and expression profiles of miRNAs are available in human osteosarcoma cells. By applying a miRNA microarray analysis, we observed a number of miRNAs with abnormal expression in cancerous tissues from osteosarcoma patients. Of particular interest in this study was miR-449c, which was significantly downregulated in osteosarcoma cells and patients, and its expression was negatively correlated with tumor size and tumor MSTS stages. Ectopic expression of miR-449c significantly inhibited osteosarcoma cell proliferation and colony formation ability, and caused cell cycle arrest at the G1 phase. Further analysis identified that miR-449c was able to directly target the oncogene c-Myc and negatively regulated its expression. Overexpression of c-Myc partially reversed miR-449c-mimic-inhibited cell proliferation and colony formation. Moreover, DNA hypermethylation was observed in two CpG islands adjacent to the genomic locus of miR-449c in osteosarcoma cells. Conversely, treatment with the DNA methylation inhibitor AZA caused induction of miR-449c. In conclusion, our results support a model that DNA methylation mediates downregulation of miR-449c, diminishing miR-449c mediated inhibition of c-Myc and thus leading to the activation of downstream targets, eventually contributing to osteosarcoma tumorigenesis.
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- Qing Li
- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan 650032, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan 650032, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan 650032, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan 650032, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan 650032, China
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan 650032, China
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Boo L, Ho WY, Mohd Ali N, Yeap SK, Ky H, Chan KG, Yin WF, Satharasinghe DA, Liew WC, Tan SW, Cheong SK, Ong HK. Phenotypic and microRNA transcriptomic profiling of the MDA-MB-231 spheroid-enriched CSCs with comparison of MCF-7 microRNA profiling dataset. PeerJ 2017; 5:e3551. [PMID: 28717596 PMCID: PMC5511503 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 06/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Breast cancer spheroids have been widely used as in vitro models of cancer stem cells (CSCs), yet little is known about their phenotypic characteristics and microRNAs (miRNAs) expression profiles. The objectives of this research were to evaluate the phenotypic characteristics of MDA-MB-231 spheroid-enriched cells for their CSCs properties and also to determine their miRNAs expression profile. Similar to our previously published MCF-7 spheroid, MDA-MB-231 spheroid also showed typical CSCs characteristics namely self-renewability, expression of putative CSCs-related surface markers and enhancement of drug resistance. From the miRNA profile, miR-15b, miR-34a, miR-148a, miR-628 and miR-196b were shown to be involved in CSCs-associated signalling pathways in both models of spheroids, which highlights the involvement of these miRNAs in maintaining the CSCs features. In addition, unique clusters of miRNAs namely miR-205, miR-181a and miR-204 were found in basal-like spheroid whereas miR-125, miR-760, miR-30c and miR-136 were identified in luminal-like spheroid. Our results highlight the roles of miRNAs as well as novel perspectives of the relevant pathways underlying spheroid-enriched CSCs in breast cancer.
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- Lily Boo
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Cheras, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Cheras, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Cantho University, Cantho, Vietnam
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- Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Central, Sri Lanka
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- Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Cheras, Selangor, Malaysia.,Cryocord Sdn Bhd, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Cheras, Selangor, Malaysia
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Song L, Zhang W, Chang Z, Pan Y, Zong H, Fan Q, Wang L. miR-4417 Targets Tripartite Motif-Containing 35 (TRIM35) and Regulates Pyruvate Kinase Muscle 2 (PKM2) Phosphorylation to Promote Proliferation and Suppress Apoptosis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells. Med Sci Monit 2017; 23:1741-1750. [PMID: 28394882 PMCID: PMC5398329 DOI: 10.12659/msm.900296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2016] [Accepted: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that are strongly involved in various types of carcinogenesis, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This study aimed to clarify whether miR-4417 promotes HCC growth by targeting TRIM35 and regulating PKM2 phosphorylation. MATERIAL AND METHODS Online software, including TargetScan and miRanda, was used to predict the potential target of miR-4417. Real-Time PCR (qRT-PCR) and Western blot assays were performed to detect the expression levels of mRNA and protein, respectively. Cell proliferation was measured by MTT assay and apoptosis in A549 cells was examined by flow cytometry. RESULTS Bioinformatics reveal that TRIM35 mRNA contains 1 conserved target site of miR-4417. High level of miR-4417 and low levels of TRIM35 mRNA and protein were observed in HCC cells compared with a normal liver cell line. Biological function analysis showed that miR-4417 inhibitor inhibits cell proliferation and promotes apoptosis in HCC cells. Furthermore, we verified that TRIM35 is a functional target of miR-4417 by use of luciferase reporter assay, and TRIM35 overexpressing showed an elevation of proliferation and a reduction of apoptosis in HCC cells. We subsequently investigated whether miR-4417 and TRIM35 regulate HCC cell proliferation and apoptosis through PKM2 Y105 phosphorylation, and the results supported our speculation that miR-4417 targets TRIM35 and regulates the Y105 phosphorylation of PKM2 to promote hepatocarcinogenesis. CONCLUSIONS Our findings indicate that miR-4417 may function as an oncogene in HCC and is a potential alternative therapeutic target for this deadly disease.
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- Lijie Song
- Corresponding Authors: Lijie Song, e-mail: , Liuxing Wang, e-mail:
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Ding W, Yang H, Gong S, Shi W, Xiao J, Gu J, Wang Y, He B. Candidate miRNAs and pathogenesis investigation for hepatocellular carcinoma based on bioinformatics analysis. Oncol Lett 2017; 13:3409-3414. [PMID: 28521446 PMCID: PMC5431310 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2017.5913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2015] [Accepted: 01/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The present study aimed to explore the mechanisms behind the development and progression of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and identify information regarding HCC-related microRNAs (miRNAs) or marker genes for the gene therapy of HCC. Gene expression profile of GSE67882, generated from 4 hepatitis B virus infected HCC tissue samples (HCC group) and 8 chronic hepatitis B tissue samples with no fibrosis (control group) were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus database. The differentially expressed miRNAs functional enrichment and pathway analyses of HCC were revealed, followed by transcription factor-miRNA interaction network construction and analyses. A total of 14 upregulated miRNAs and 16 downregulated miRNAs between HCC and control samples were obtained. Differentially expressed miRNAs were mainly involved in biological processes like the regulation of histone H3-K9 methylation, and the KEGG pathways in cancer map05200 demonstrates their involvement in cancer. A total of 3 outstanding regulatory networks of miRNAs: hsa-miR-15a, hsa-miR-125b and hsa-miR-122 were revealed. A total of 11 differentially expressed miRNAs including hsa-miR-146p-5b that regulated the marker genes of HCC were explored. miRNAs such as hsa-miR-15a, hsa-miR-125b, hsa-miR-122 and hsa-miR-146b-5p may be new biomarkers for the gene therapy of HCC. Furthermore, histone H3-K9 methylation and other pathways in cancer observed in the KEGG map05200 may be closely related with the development of HCC.
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- Wenbin Ding
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu 226001, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu 226001, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu 226001, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu 226001, P.R. China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu 226019, P.R. China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Nantong University Medical School, Nantong, Jiangsu 226001, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu 226001, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu 226001, P.R. China
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Taguchi YH. Principal Components Analysis Based Unsupervised Feature Extraction Applied to Gene Expression Analysis of Blood from Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever Patients. Sci Rep 2017; 7:44016. [PMID: 28276456 PMCID: PMC5343617 DOI: 10.1038/srep44016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) sometimes occurs after recovery from the disease caused by Dengue virus (DENV), and is often fatal. However, the mechanism of DHF has not been determined, possibly because no suitable methodologies are available to analyse this disease. Therefore, more innovative methods are required to analyse the gene expression profiles of DENV-infected patients. Principal components analysis (PCA)-based unsupervised feature extraction (FE) was applied to the gene expression profiles of DENV-infected patients, and an integrated analysis of two independent data sets identified 46 genes as critical for DHF progression. PCA using only these 46 genes rendered the two data sets highly consistent. The application of PCA to the 46 genes of an independent third data set successfully predicted the progression of DHF. A fourth in vitro data set confirmed the identification of the 46 genes. These 46 genes included interferon- and heme-biosynthesis-related genes. The former are enriched in binding sites for STAT1, STAT2, and IRF1, which are associated with DHF-promoting antibody-dependent enhancement, whereas the latter are considered to be related to the dysfunction of spliceosomes, which may mediate haemorrhage. These results are outcomes that other type of bioinformatic analysis could hardly achieve.
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- Y-H Taguchi
- Department of Physics, Chuo University, Tokyo, 112-8551, Japan
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Wada T, Toma T, Matsuda Y, Yachie A, Itami S, Taguchi YH, Murakami Y. Microarray analysis of circulating microRNAs in familial Mediterranean fever. Mod Rheumatol 2017; 27:1040-1046. [PMID: 28165838 DOI: 10.1080/14397595.2017.1285845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autoinflammatory disease caused by mutations in MEFV. Mutations in exon 10 are associated with typical FMF phenotypes, whereas the pathogenic role of variants in exons 2 and 3 remains uncertain. Recent evidence suggests that circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) are potentially useful biomarkers in several diseases. Therefore, their expression was assessed in FMF. METHODS The subjects were 24 patients with FMF who were between attacks: eight with exon 10 mutations (group A), eight with exon 3 mutations (group B), and eight without exon 3 or 10 mutations (group C). We also investigated eight cases of PFAPA as disease controls. Exosome-rich fractionated RNA was subjected to miRNA profiling by microarray. RESULTS Using the expression patterns of 26 miRNAs, we classified FMF (groups A, B, and C) and PFAPA with 78.1% accuracy. In FMF patients, groups A and B, A and C, and B and C were distinguished with 93.8, 87.5, and 100% accuracy using 24, 30, and 25 miRNA expression patterns, respectively. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that expression patterns of circulating miRNAs differ among FMF subgroups based on MEFV mutations between FMF episodes. These patterns may serve as a useful biomarker for detecting subgroups of FMF.
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- Taizo Wada
- a Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences , Kanazawa University , Kanazawa , Japan
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- a Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences , Kanazawa University , Kanazawa , Japan
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- a Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences , Kanazawa University , Kanazawa , Japan
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- a Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences , Kanazawa University , Kanazawa , Japan
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- b Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine , Osaka City University , Osaka , Japan
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- c Department of Physics , Chuo University , Tokyo , Japan
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- b Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine , Osaka City University , Osaka , Japan
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Taguchi YH. Identification of Candidate Drugs for Heart Failure Using Tensor Decomposition-Based Unsupervised Feature Extraction Applied to Integrated Analysis of Gene Expression Between Heart Failure and DrugMatrix Datasets. INTELLIGENT COMPUTING THEORIES AND APPLICATION 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63312-1_45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Taguchi YH. Principal component analysis based unsupervised feature extraction applied to publicly available gene expression profiles provides new insights into the mechanisms of action of histone deacetylase inhibitors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nepig.2016.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Christopher AF, Gupta M, Bansal P. Micronome revealed miR-19a/b as key regulator of SOCS3 during cancer related inflammation of oral squamous cell carcinoma. Gene 2016; 594:30-40. [PMID: 27581787 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2016.08.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2016] [Revised: 08/20/2016] [Accepted: 08/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Although significant advances have been established in molecular biology of Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), innovative strategies are still required to further understand detailed molecular mechanisms. Using bioinformatic approach, we aim to explore the potential miRNA-mRNA pairs in cancer related inflammatory response and investigate their potential roles as signature miRNA and proteins in the signaling pathway. Firstly, the differentially expressed genes of OSCC were selected which then underwent gene ontology to identify genes engaged in inflammatory response and its regulation. Validated miRNAs were retrieved and miRNAs with complete complementarily with their targets were visualized for miRNA-mRNA regulatory network. Protein-protein interactions of inflammatory and its regulatory genes were analyzed for interacting genes involved in signaling pathway. Eight universal miRNAs were obtained for inflammation and its regulation. miRNA-19a/b showed significant influence in controlling inflammatory response in OSCC. Therefore, micronome on deregulated genes in inflammation identifies miRNA-mRNA pairs which have high potential to be targeted for diagnostic and treatment applications in OSCC.
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- Ajay Francis Christopher
- Division of Clinical Research, University Centre of Excellence in Research, Baba Farid University of Health Science, Faridkot 151203, Punjab, India
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- Division of Clinical Research, University Centre of Excellence in Research, Baba Farid University of Health Science, Faridkot 151203, Punjab, India
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- Division of Clinical Research, University Centre of Excellence in Research, Baba Farid University of Health Science, Faridkot 151203, Punjab, India.
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Taguchi YH, Iwadate M, Umeyama H. SFRP1 is a possible candidate for epigenetic therapy in non-small cell lung cancer. BMC Med Genomics 2016; 9 Suppl 1:28. [PMID: 27534621 PMCID: PMC4989892 DOI: 10.1186/s12920-016-0196-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Background Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains a lethal disease despite many proposed treatments. Recent studies have indicated that epigenetic therapy, which targets epigenetic effects, might be a new therapeutic methodology for NSCLC. However, it is not clear which objects (e.g., genes) this treatment specifically targets. Secreted frizzled-related proteins (SFRPs) are promising candidates for epigenetic therapy in many cancers, but there have been no reports of SFRPs targeted by epigenetic therapy for NSCLC. Methods This study performed a meta-analysis of reprogrammed NSCLC cell lines instead of the direct examination of epigenetic therapy treatment to identify epigenetic therapy targets. In addition, mRNA expression/promoter methylation profiles were processed by recently proposed principal component analysis based unsupervised feature extraction and categorical regression analysis based feature extraction. Results The Wnt/β-catenin signalling pathway was extensively enriched among 32 genes identified by feature extraction. Among the genes identified, SFRP1 was specifically indicated to target β-catenin, and thus might be targeted by epigenetic therapy in NSCLC cell lines. A histone deacetylase inhibitor might reactivate SFRP1 based upon the re-analysis of a public domain data set. Numerical computation validated the binding of SFRP1 to WNT1 to suppress Wnt signalling pathway activation in NSCLC. Conclusions The meta-analysis of reprogrammed NSCLC cell lines identified SFRP1 as a promising target of epigenetic therapy for NSCLC. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12920-016-0196-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Y-H Taguchi
- Department of Physics, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, 112-8551, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Department of Biological Science, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, 112-8551, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, 112-8551, Tokyo, Japan
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Kong FY, Wei X, Zhou K, Hu W, Kou YB, You HJ, Liu XM, Zheng KY, Tang RX. Bioinformatics Analysis Reveals Distinct Molecular Characteristics of Hepatitis B-Related Hepatocellular Carcinomas from Very Early to Advanced Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer Stages. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0158286. [PMID: 27454179 PMCID: PMC4959694 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)is the fifth most common malignancy associated with high mortality. One of the risk factors for HCC is chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The treatment strategy for the disease is dependent on the stage of HCC, and the Barcelona clinic liver cancer (BCLC) staging system is used in most HCC cases. However, the molecular characteristics of HBV-related HCC in different BCLC stages are still unknown. Using GSE14520 microarray data from HBV-related HCC cases with BCLC stages from 0 (very early stage) to C (advanced stage) in the gene expression omnibus (GEO) database, differentially expressed genes (DEGs), including common DEGs and unique DEGs in different BCLC stages, were identified. These DEGs were located on different chromosomes. The molecular functions and biology pathways of DEGs were identified by gene ontology (GO) analysis and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analysis, and the interactome networks of DEGs were constructed using the NetVenn online tool. The results revealed that both common DEGs and stage-specific DEGs were associated with various molecular functions and were involved in special biological pathways. In addition, several hub genes were found in the interactome networks of DEGs. The identified DEGs and hub genes promote our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the development of HBV-related HCC through the different BCLC stages, and might be used as staging biomarkers or molecular targets for the treatment of HCC with HBV infection.
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- Fan-Yun Kong
- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221004, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221004, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221004, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221004, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221004, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221004, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221004, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221004, China
- * E-mail: (R-XT); (K-YZ)
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221004, China
- * E-mail: (R-XT); (K-YZ)
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Taguchi YH. Principal component analysis based unsupervised feature extraction applied to budding yeast temporally periodic gene expression. BioData Min 2016; 9:22. [PMID: 27366210 PMCID: PMC4928327 DOI: 10.1186/s13040-016-0101-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2015] [Accepted: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Background The recently proposed principal component analysis (PCA) based unsupervised feature extraction (FE) has successfully been applied to various bioinformatics problems ranging from biomarker identification to the screening of disease causing genes using gene expression/epigenetic profiles. However, the conditions required for its successful use and the mechanisms involved in how it outperforms other supervised methods is unknown, because PCA based unsupervised FE has only been applied to challenging (i.e. not well known) problems. Results In this study, PCA based unsupervised FE was applied to an extensively studied organism, i.e., budding yeast. When applied to two gene expression profiles expected to be temporally periodic, yeast metabolic cycle (YMC) and yeast cell division cycle (YCDC), PCA based unsupervised FE outperformed simple but powerful conventional methods, with sinusoidal fitting with regards to several aspects: (i) feasible biological term enrichment without assuming periodicity for YMC; (ii) identification of periodic profiles whose period was half as long as the cell division cycle for YMC; and (iii) the identification of no more than 37 genes associated with the enrichment of biological terms related to cell division cycle for the integrated analysis of seven YCDC profiles, for which sinusoidal fittings failed. The explantation for differences between methods used and the necessary conditions required were determined by comparing PCA based unsupervised FE with fittings to various periodic (artificial, thus pre-defined) profiles. Furthermore, four popular unsupervised clustering algorithms applied to YMC were not as successful as PCA based unsupervised FE. Conclusions PCA based unsupervised FE is a useful and effective unsupervised method to investigate YMC and YCDC. This study identified why the unsupervised method without pre-judged criteria outperformed supervised methods requiring human defined criteria. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13040-016-0101-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Y-H Taguchi
- Department of Physics, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8551 Japan
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Tian J, Hu X, Gao W, Zhang J, Chen M, Zhang X, Ma J, Yuan H. Identification a novel tumor-suppressive hsa-miR-599 regulates cells proliferation, migration and invasion by targeting oncogenic MYC in hepatocellular carcinoma. Am J Transl Res 2016; 8:2575-2584. [PMID: 27398141 PMCID: PMC4931152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2016] [Accepted: 02/29/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Increasing evidences have demonstrated that microRNAs (miRNAs) act an essential role in regulating tumor progression and metastasis. Previous miRNAs microarray data showed that hsa-miR-599 is lower expressed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); however, the function and molecular mechanism of hsa-miR-599 on HCC has not been well illustrated. Here, we first analyzed the expression level of hsa-miR-599 in HCC tissues and cell lines by real-time reverse-transcription PCR (qRT-PCR). Interestingly, we found that hsa-miR-599 was significantly down-regulated in the examined HCC tissues and cell lines. Then cells proliferation, migration and invasion were assessed by MTT, wound-healing and trans-well assay respectively. The results showed that over-expression of hsa-miR-599 resulted in inhibited HCC cells proliferation, migration and invasion in vitro. In addition, dual-luciferase reporter assay, qRT-PCR and Western blot analyzes were used to confirm MYC (v-myc avian myelocytomatosis viral oncogene homolog) as a target gene of hsa-miR-599. MYC expression was up-regulated in HCC tissues and cell lines, and restoration of hsa-miR-599 could remarkably decreased the mRNA and protein levels of MYC. Moreover, over-expression of MYC partly reversed hsa-miR-599-mediated inhibition of HCC cells proliferation, migration and invasion in vitro. Taken together, our data demonstrate that hsa-miR-599 acts as a tumor suppressor and inhibits HCC cells proliferation, migration and invasion by partly targeting oncogenic MYC, which hints that hsa-miR-599 can be a diagnostic and therapeutic biomarker in HCC.
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- Jingjing Tian
- Department of Gastroenterology, NanKai HospitalTianjin 300100, P. R. China
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- First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese MedicineTianjin 300193, P. R. China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, NanKai HospitalTianjin 300100, P. R. China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, NanKai HospitalTianjin 300100, P. R. China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, NanKai HospitalTianjin 300100, P. R. China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, NanKai HospitalTianjin 300100, P. R. China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, NanKai HospitalTianjin 300100, P. R. China
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- Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese MedicineTianjin 300193, P. R. China
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Jin H, Yu M, Lin Y, Hou B, Wu Z, Li Z, Sun J. MiR-502-3P suppresses cell proliferation, migration, and invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma by targeting SET. Onco Targets Ther 2016; 9:3281-9. [PMID: 27330307 PMCID: PMC4898420 DOI: 10.2147/ott.s87183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Background/aim Increasing evidences show that microRNAs are engaged in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of this study was to investigate the role of miR-502-3P in HCC and to identify its underlying mechanism. Methods The expression levels of miR-502-3P were assessed in multiple HCC cell lines and in liver tissues of patients with HCC. We further examined the effects of miR-502-3P on malignant behavior of HCC. The molecular target of miR-502-3P was identified using a computer algorithm and confirmed experimentally. Results Downregulation of miR-502-3P was found in both HCC cell lines and human samples. Overexpression of miR-502-3P dramatically inhibits HCC proliferation, metastasis, invasion, and cell adhesion. We further verify the SET as a novel and direct target of miR-502-3P in HCCs. Conclusion Taken together, overexpression of miR-502-3P or downregulation of SET may prove beneficial as a therapeutic strategy for HCC treatment.
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- Haosheng Jin
- Department of General Surgery, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of General Surgery, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of General Surgery, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of General Surgery, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of General Surgery, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of General Surgery, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of General Surgery, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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Identification of More Feasible MicroRNA-mRNA Interactions within Multiple Cancers Using Principal Component Analysis Based Unsupervised Feature Extraction. Int J Mol Sci 2016; 17:ijms17050696. [PMID: 27171078 PMCID: PMC4881522 DOI: 10.3390/ijms17050696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2016] [Revised: 04/13/2016] [Accepted: 04/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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MicroRNA(miRNA)–mRNA interactions are important for understanding many biological processes, including development, differentiation and disease progression, but their identification is highly context-dependent. When computationally derived from sequence information alone, the identification should be verified by integrated analyses of mRNA and miRNA expression. The drawback of this strategy is the vast number of identified interactions, which prevents an experimental or detailed investigation of each pair. In this paper, we overcome this difficulty by the recently proposed principal component analysis (PCA)-based unsupervised feature extraction (FE), which reduces the number of identified miRNA–mRNA interactions that properly discriminate between patients and healthy controls without losing biological feasibility. The approach is applied to six cancers: hepatocellular carcinoma, non-small cell lung cancer, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, colorectal/colon cancer and breast cancer. In PCA-based unsupervised FE, the significance does not depend on the number of samples (as in the standard case) but on the number of features, which approximates the number of miRNAs/mRNAs. To our knowledge, we have newly identified miRNA–mRNA interactions in multiple cancers based on a single common (universal) criterion. Moreover, the number of identified interactions was sufficiently small to be sequentially curated by literature searches.
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Boo L, Ho WY, Ali NM, Yeap SK, Ky H, Chan KG, Yin WF, Satharasinghe DA, Liew WC, Tan SW, Ong HK, Cheong SK. MiRNA Transcriptome Profiling of Spheroid-Enriched Cells with Cancer Stem Cell Properties in Human Breast MCF-7 Cell Line. Int J Biol Sci 2016; 12:427-45. [PMID: 27019627 PMCID: PMC4807162 DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.12777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2015] [Accepted: 12/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide as most patients often suffer cancer relapse. The reason is often attributed to the presence of cancer stem cells (CSCs). Recent studies revealed that dysregulation of microRNA (miRNA) are closely linked to breast cancer recurrence and metastasis. However, no specific study has comprehensively characterised the CSC characteristic and miRNA transcriptome in spheroid-enriched breast cells. This study described the generation of spheroid MCF-7 cell in serum-free condition and the comprehensive characterisation for their CSC properties. Subsequently, miRNA expression differences between the spheroid-enriched CSC cells and their parental cells were evaluated using next generation sequencing (NGS). Our results showed that the MCF-7 spheroid cells were enriched with CSCs properties, indicated by the ability to self-renew, increased expression of CSCs markers, and increased resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs. Additionally, spheroid-enriched CSCs possessed greater cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and wound healing ability. A total of 134 significantly (p<0.05) differentially expressed miRNAs were identified between spheroids and parental cells using miRNA-NGS. MiRNA-NGS analysis revealed 25 up-regulated and 109 down-regulated miRNAs which includes some miRNAs previously reported in the regulation of breast CSCs. A number of miRNAs (miR-4492, miR-4532, miR-381, miR-4508, miR-4448, miR-1296, and miR-365a) which have not been previously reported in breast cancer were found to show potential association with breast cancer chemoresistance and self-renewal capability. The gene ontology (GO) analysis showed that the predicted genes were enriched in the regulation of metabolic processes, gene expression, DNA binding, and hormone receptor binding. The corresponding pathway analyses inferred from the GO results were closely related to the function of signalling pathway, self-renewability, chemoresistance, tumorigenesis, cytoskeletal proteins, and metastasis in breast cancer. Based on these results, we proposed that certain miRNAs identified in this study could be used as new potential biomarkers for breast cancer stem cell diagnosis and targeted therapy.
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- Lily Boo
- 1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, 43000 Cheras, Malaysia
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- 2. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus), 43500 Semenyih, Malaysia
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- 1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, 43000 Cheras, Malaysia
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- 3. Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia
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- 4. Department of Agriculture Genetics and Breeding, College of Agriculture and Applied Biology, Cantho University, 84071, Vietnam
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- 5. Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- 5. Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- 3. Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia.; 6. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Peradeniya, 20400, Sri Lanka
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- 3. Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia
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- 3. Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia
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- 1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, 43000 Cheras, Malaysia
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- 1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, 43000 Cheras, Malaysia;; 7. Cryocord Sdn Bhd, Persiaran Cyberpoint Selatan, 63000 Cyberjaya, Malaysia
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Taguchi YH. Identification of aberrant gene expression associated with aberrant promoter methylation in primordial germ cells between E13 and E16 rat F3 generation vinclozolin lineage. BMC Bioinformatics 2015; 16 Suppl 18:S16. [PMID: 26677731 PMCID: PMC4682393 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-16-s18-s16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Background Transgenerational epigenetics (TGE) are currently considered important in disease, but the mechanisms involved are not yet fully understood. TGE abnormalities expected to cause disease are likely to be initiated during development and to be mediated by aberrant gene expression associated with aberrant promoter methylation that is heritable between generations. However, because methylation is removed and then re-established during development, it is not easy to identify promoter methylation abnormalities by comparing normal lineages with those expected to exhibit TGE abnormalities. Methods This study applied the recently proposed principal component analysis (PCA)-based unsupervised feature extraction to previously reported and publically available gene expression/promoter methylation profiles of rat primordial germ cells, between E13 and E16 of the F3 generation vinclozolin lineage that are expected to exhibit TGE abnormalities, to identify multiple genes that exhibited aberrant gene expression/promoter methylation during development. Results The biological feasibility of the identified genes were tested via enrichment analyses of various biological concepts including pathway analysis, gene ontology terms and protein-protein interactions. All validations suggested superiority of the proposed method over three conventional and popular supervised methods that employed t test, limma and significance analysis of microarrays, respectively. The identified genes were globally related to tumors, the prostate, kidney, testis and the immune system and were previously reported to be related to various diseases caused by TGE. Conclusions Among the genes reported by PCA-based unsupervised feature extraction, we propose that chemokine signaling pathways and leucine rich repeat proteins are key factors that initiate transgenerational epigenetic-mediated diseases, because multiple genes included in these two categories were identified in this study.
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Xie B, Zhang C, Kang K, Jiang S. miR-599 Inhibits Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Proliferation and Migration by Targeting TGFB2. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0141512. [PMID: 26551255 PMCID: PMC4638351 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Aberrant proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases including coronary heart disease, restenosis and atherosclerosis. MicroRNAs are a class of small, non-coding and endogenous RNAs that play critical roles in VSMCs function. In this study, we showed that PDGF-bb, as a stimulant, promoted VSMCs proliferation and suppressed the expression of miR-599. Moreover, overexpression of miR-599 inhibited VSMCs proliferation and also suppressed the PCNA and ki-67 expression. In addition, we demonstrated that ectopic expression of miR-599 repressed the VSMCs migration. We also showed that miR-599 inhibited type I collagen, type V collagen and proteoglycan expression. Furthermore, we identified TGFb2 as a direct target gene of miR-599 in VSMCs. Overexpression of TGFb2 reversed miR-599-induced inhibition of VSMCs proliferation and type I collagen, type V collagen and proteoglycan expression. In conclusion, our findings suggest miR-599 plays a crucial role in controlling VSMCs proliferation and matrix gene expression by regulating TGFb2 expression.
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- Baodong Xie
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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