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Song W, Guo Q, Puttabyatappa M, Elangovan VR, Wang J, Li F, Liu F, Bi X, Li H, Fu G, Padmanabhan V, Wu X. FGR-associated placental insufficiency and capillary angiogenesis involves disruptions in human placental miRNAs and mRNAs. Heliyon 2024; 10:e28007. [PMID: 38509973 PMCID: PMC10951647 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2023] [Revised: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024] Open
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Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is one of the most common pregnancy complications culminating in adverse fetal outcome, including preterm birth, neonatal mortality and stillbirth. Compromised placental development and function, especially disruption in angiogenesis and inadequate nutrient supply are contributing factors. Fetal sex also influences placental function. Knowledge of gene expression changes and epigenetic factors contributing to placental dysfunction in FGR pregnancies will help identify biomarkers and help target interventions. This study tested the hypothesis that FGR pregnancies are associated with disruptions in miRNA - an epigenetic factor and mRNAs involving key mediators of angiogenesis and microvessel development. Changes in expression of key genes/proteins involved in placental dysfunction by RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry and miRNA changes by RNA sequencing were undertaken with term placenta from 12 control and 20 FGR pregnancies. Findings showed changes in expression of genes involved in steroidogenesis, steroid action, IGF family members, inflammatory cytokines and angiogenic factors in FGR pregnancies. In addition, upregulation of MIR451A and downregulation of MIR543 in placentas from FGR group with female newborns and upregulation of MIR520G in placentas from FGR group with male newborns were also noted. MIR451A and MIR543 have been implicated in angiogenesis. Consistent with gene changes, CD34, the microvessel angiogenesis marker, also showed reduced staining only in female FGR group. These findings provide evidence that epigentically regulated gene expression changes in angiogenesis and capillary development influence placental impairment in FGR pregnancies. Our preliminary observations also support for these changes to be driven in a sex-specific manner.
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- Wenhui Song
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
- The Fourth Hospital of Shijiazhuang affiliated to Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
- The Fourth Hospital of Shijiazhuang affiliated to Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
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- The Fourth Hospital of Shijiazhuang affiliated to Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
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- The Fourth Hospital of Shijiazhuang affiliated to Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
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- The Fourth Hospital of Shijiazhuang affiliated to Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
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- The Fourth Hospital of Shijiazhuang affiliated to Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
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- The Fourth Hospital of Shijiazhuang affiliated to Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, College for Forensic Medicine, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
- The Fourth Hospital of Shijiazhuang affiliated to Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China
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Kinnear HM, Hashim PH, Dela Cruz C, Chang AL, Rubenstein G, Nimmagadda L, Ramamoorthi Elangovan V, Jones A, Brunette MA, Hannum DF, Li JZ, Padmanabhan V, Moravek MB, Shikanov A. Presence of ovarian stromal aberrations after cessation of testosterone therapy in a transgender mouse model†. Biol Reprod 2023; 108:802-813. [PMID: 36790125 PMCID: PMC10183359 DOI: 10.1093/biolre/ioad019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
Abstract
Some transmasculine individuals may be interested in pausing gender-affirming testosterone therapy and carrying a pregnancy. The ovarian impact of taking and pausing testosterone is not completely understood. The objective of this study was to utilize a mouse model mimicking transmasculine testosterone therapy to characterize the ovarian dynamics following testosterone cessation. We injected postpubertal 9-10-week-old female C57BL/6N mice once weekly with 0.9 mg of testosterone enanthate or a vehicle control for 6 weeks. All testosterone-treated mice stopped cycling and demonstrated persistent diestrus within 1 week of starting testosterone, while control mice cycled regularly. After 6 weeks of testosterone therapy, one group of testosterone-treated mice and age-matched vehicle-treated diestrus controls were sacrificed. Another group of testosterone-treated mice were maintained after stopping testosterone therapy and were sacrificed in diestrus four cycles after the resumption of cyclicity along with age-matched vehicle-treated controls. Ovarian histological analysis revealed stromal changes with clusters of large round cells in the post testosterone group as compared to both age-matched controls and mice at 6 weeks on testosterone. These clusters exhibited periodic acid-Schiff staining, which has been previously reported in multinucleated macrophages in aging mouse ovaries. Notably, many of these cells also demonstrated positive staining for macrophage markers CD68 and CD11b. Ovarian ribonucleic acid-sequencing found upregulation of immune pathways post testosterone as compared to age-matched controls and ovaries at 6 weeks on testosterone. Although functional significance remains unknown, further attention to the ovarian stroma may be relevant for transmasculine people interested in pausing testosterone to carry a pregnancy.
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- Hadrian M Kinnear
- Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Women’s and Gender Studies Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Dou J, Thangaraj SV, Puttabyatappa M, Elangovan VR, Bakulski K, Padmanabhan V. Developmental programming: Adipose depot-specific regulation of non-coding RNAs and their relation to coding RNA expression in prenatal testosterone and prenatal bisphenol-A -treated female sheep. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2023; 564:111868. [PMID: 36708980 PMCID: PMC10069610 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2023.111868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2022] [Revised: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Inappropriate developmental exposure to steroids is linked to metabolic disorders. Prenatal testosterone excess or bisphenol A (BPA, an environmental estrogen mimic) leads to insulin resistance and adipocyte disruptions in female lambs. Adipocytes are key regulators of insulin sensitivity. Metabolic tissue-specific differences in insulin sensitivity coupled with adipose depot-specific changes in key mRNAs, were previously observed with prenatal steroid exposure. We hypothesized that depot-specific changes in the non-coding RNA (ncRNA) - regulators of gene expression would account for the direction of changes seen in mRNAs. Non-coding RNA (lncRNA, miRNA, snoRNA, snRNA) from various adipose depots of prenatal testosterone and BPA-treated animals were sequenced. Adipose depot-specific changes in the ncRNA that are consistent with the depot-specific mRNA expression in terms of directionality of changes and functional implications in insulin resistance, adipocyte differentiation and cardiac hypertrophy were found. Importantly, the adipose depot-specific ncRNA changes were model-specific and mutually exclusive, suggestive of different regulatory entry points in this regulation.
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- John Dou
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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Ramamoorthi Elangovan V, Saadat N, Ghnenis A, Padmanabhan V, Vyas AK. Developmental programming: adverse sexually dimorphic transcriptional programming of gestational testosterone excess in cardiac left ventricle of fetal sheep. Sci Rep 2023; 13:2682. [PMID: 36792653 PMCID: PMC9932081 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-29212-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2022] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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Adverse in-utero insults during fetal life alters offspring's developmental trajectory, including that of the cardiovascular system. Gestational hyperandrogenism is once such adverse in-utero insult. Gestational testosterone (T)-treatment, an environment of gestational hyperandrogenism, manifests as hypertension and pathological left ventricular (LV) remodeling in adult ovine offspring. Furthermore, sexual dimorphism is noted in cardiomyocyte number and morphology in fetal life and at birth. This study investigated transcriptional changes and potential biomarkers of prenatal T excess-induced adverse cardiac programming. Genome-wide coding and non-coding (nc) RNA expression were compared between prenatal T-treated (T propionate 100 mg intramuscular twice weekly from days 30 to 90 of gestation; Term: 147 days) and control ovine LV at day 90 fetus in both sexes. Prenatal T induced differential expression of mRNAs in the LV of female (2 down, 5 up) and male (3 down, 1 up) (FDR < 0.05, absolute log2 fold change > 0.5); pathways analysis demonstrated 205 pathways unique to the female, 382 unique to the male and 23 common pathways. In the male, analysis of ncRNA showed differential regulation of 15 lncRNAs (14 down, 1 up) and 27 snoRNAs (26 down and 1 up). These findings suggest sexual dimorphic modulation of cardiac coding and ncRNA with gestational T excess.
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- College of Medicine, California Northstate University, Elk Grove, CA, USA.
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA.
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Puttabyatappa M, Saadat N, Elangovan VR, Dou J, Bakulski K, Padmanabhan V. Developmental programming: Impact of prenatal bisphenol-A exposure on liver and muscle transcriptome of female sheep. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2022; 451:116161. [PMID: 35817127 PMCID: PMC9618258 DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2022.116161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2022] [Revised: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Gestational Bisphenol A (BPA) exposure leads to peripheral insulin resistance, and hepatic and skeletal muscle oxidative stress and lipotoxicity during adulthood in the female sheep offspring. To investigate transcriptional changes underlying the metabolic outcomes, coding and non-coding (nc) RNA in liver and muscle from 21-month-old control and prenatal BPA-treated (0.5 mg/kg/day from days 30 to 90 of gestation; Term: 147 days) female sheep were sequenced. Prenatal BPA-treatment dysregulated: expression of 194 genes (138 down, 56 up) in liver and 112 genes (32 down, 80 up) in muscle (FDR < 0.05 and abs log2FC > 0.5); 155 common gene pathways including mitochondrial-related genes in both tissues; 1415 gene pathways including oxidative stress and lipid biosynthetic process specifically in the liver (FDR < 0.01); 192 gene pathways including RNA biosynthetic processes in muscle (FDR < 0.01); 77 lncRNA (49 down, 28 up), 14 microRNAs (6 down, 8 up), 127 snoRNAs (63 down, 64 up) and 55 snRNAs (15 down, 40 up) in the liver while upregulating 6 lncRNA and dysregulating 65 snoRNAs (47 down, 18 up) in muscle (FDR < 0.1, abs log2FC > 0.5). Multiple ncRNA correlated with LCORL, MED17 and ZNF41 mRNA in liver but none of them in the muscle. Discriminant analysis identified (p < 0.05) PECAM, RDH11, ABCA6, MIR200B, and MIR30B in liver and CAST, NOS1, FASN, MIR26B, and MIR29A in muscle as gene signatures of gestational BPA exposure. These findings provide mechanistic clues into the development and/or maintenance of the oxidative stress and lipid accumulation and potential for development of mitochondrial and fibrotic defects contributing to the prenatal BPA-induced metabolic dysfunctions.
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- Muraly Puttabyatappa
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America.
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Varshney A, Kyono Y, Elangovan VR, Wang C, Erdos MR, Narisu N, Albanus RD, Orchard P, Stitzel ML, Collins FS, Kitzman JO, Parker SCJ. A Transcription Start Site Map in Human Pancreatic Islets Reveals Functional Regulatory Signatures. Diabetes 2021; 70:1581-1591. [PMID: 33849996 PMCID: PMC8336006 DOI: 10.2337/db20-1087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Identifying the tissue-specific molecular signatures of active regulatory elements is critical to understand gene regulatory mechanisms. Here, we identify transcription start sites (TSS) using cap analysis of gene expression (CAGE) across 57 human pancreatic islet samples. We identify 9,954 reproducible CAGE tag clusters (TCs), ∼20% of which are islet specific and occur mostly distal to known gene TSS. We integrated islet CAGE data with histone modification and chromatin accessibility profiles to identify epigenomic signatures of transcription initiation. Using a massively parallel reporter assay, we validated the transcriptional enhancer activity for 2,279 of 3,378 (∼68%) tested islet CAGE elements (5% false discovery rate). TCs within accessible enhancers show higher enrichment to overlap type 2 diabetes genome-wide association study (GWAS) signals than existing islet annotations, which emphasizes the utility of mapping CAGE profiles in disease-relevant tissue. This work provides a high-resolution map of transcriptional initiation in human pancreatic islets with utility for dissecting active enhancers at GWAS loci.
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- Arushi Varshney
- Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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Elangovan VR, Camp SM, Kelly GT, Desai AA, Adyshev D, Sun X, Black SM, Wang T, Garcia JGN. Endotoxin- and mechanical stress-induced epigenetic changes in the regulation of the nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase promoter. Pulm Circ 2017; 6:539-544. [PMID: 28090296 DOI: 10.1086/688761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Mechanical ventilation, a lifesaving intervention for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), also unfortunately contributes to excessive mechanical stress and impaired lung physiological and structural integrity. We have elsewhere established the pivotal role of increased nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) transcription and secretion as well as its direct binding to the toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) in the progression of this devastating syndrome; however, regulation of this critical gene in ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) is not well characterized. On the basis of an emerging role for epigenetics in enrichment of VILI and CpG sites within the NAMPT promoter and 5'UTR, we hypothesized that NAMPT expression and downstream transcriptional events are influenced by epigenetic mechanisms. Concomitantly, excessive mechanical stress of human pulmonary artery endothelial cells or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treatment led to both reduced DNA methylation levels in the NAMPT promoter and increased gene transcription. Histone deacetylase inhibition by trichostatin A or Sirt-1-silencing RNA attenuates LPS-induced NAMPT expression. Furthermore, recombinant NAMPT administration induced TLR4-dependent global H3K9 hypoacetylation. These studies suggest a complex epigenetic regulatory network of NAMPT in VILI and ARDS and open novel strategies for combating VILI and ARDS.
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- Venkateswaran Ramamoorthi Elangovan
- Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Sun X, Elangovan VR, Mapes B, Camp SM, Sammani S, Saadat L, Ceco E, Ma SF, Flores C, MacDougall MS, Quijada H, Liu B, Kempf CL, Wang T, Chiang ET, Garcia JGN. The NAMPT promoter is regulated by mechanical stress, signal transducer and activator of transcription 5, and acute respiratory distress syndrome-associated genetic variants. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2015; 51:660-7. [PMID: 24821571 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2014-0117oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Increased nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) transcription is mechanistically linked to ventilator-induced inflammatory lung injury (VILI), with VILI severity attenuated by reduced NAMPT bioavailability. The molecular mechanisms of NAMPT promoter regulation in response to excessive mechanical stress remain poorly understood. The objective of this study was to define the contribution of specific transcription factors, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and promoter demethylation to NAMPT transcriptional regulation in response to mechanical stress. In vivo NAMPT protein expression levels were examined in mice exposed to high tidal volume mechanical ventilation. In vitro NAMPT expression levels were examined in human pulmonary artery endothelial cells exposed to 5 or 18% cyclic stretch (CS), with NAMPT promoter activity assessed using NAMPT promoter luciferase reporter constructs with a series of nested deletions. In vitro NAMPT transcriptional regulation was further characterized by measuring luciferase activity, DNA demethylation, and chromatin immunoprecipitation. VILI-challenged mice exhibited significantly increased NAMPT expression in bronchoalveolar lavage leukocytes and in lung endothelium. A mechanical stress-inducible region (MSIR) was identified in the NAMPT promoter from -2,428 to -2,128 bp. This MSIR regulates NAMPT promoter activity, mRNA expression, and signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 (STAT5) binding, which is significantly increased by 18% CS. In addition, NAMPT promoter activity was increased by pharmacologic promoter demethylation and inhibited by STAT5 silencing. ARDS-associated NAMPT promoter SNPs rs59744560 (-948G/T) and rs7789066 (-2,422A/G) each significantly elevated NAMPT promoter activity in response to 18% CS in a STAT5-dependent manner. Our results show that NAMPT is a key novel ARDS therapeutic target and candidate gene with genetic/epigenetic transcriptional regulation in response to excessive mechanical stress.
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Adyshev DM, Elangovan VR, Moldobaeva N, Mapes B, Sun X, Garcia JGN. Mechanical stress induces pre-B-cell colony-enhancing factor/NAMPT expression via epigenetic regulation by miR-374a and miR-568 in human lung endothelium. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2014; 50:409-18. [PMID: 24053186 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2013-0292oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Increased lung vascular permeability and alveolar edema are cardinal features of inflammatory conditions such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). We previously demonstrated that pre-B-cell colony-enhancing factor (PBEF)/NAMPT, the proinflammatory cytokine encoded by NAMPT, participates in ARDS and VILI inflammatory syndromes. The present study evaluated posttranscriptional regulation of PBEF/NAMPT gene expression in human lung endothelium via 3'-untranslated region (UTR) microRNA (miRNA) binding. In silico analysis identified hsa-miR-374a and hsa-miR-568 as potential miRNA candidates. Increased PBEF/NAMPT transcription (by RT-PCR) and expression (by Western blotting) induced by 18% cyclic stretch (CS) (2 h: 3.4 ± 0.06 mRNA fold increase (FI); 10 h: 1.5 ± 0.06 protein FI) and by LPS (4 h: 3.8 ± 0.2 mRNA FI; 48 h: 2.6 ± 0.2 protein FI) were significantly attenuated by transfection with mimics of hsa-miR-374a or hsa-miR-568 (40-60% reductions each). LPS and 18% CS increased the activity of a PBEF/NAMPT 3'-UTR luciferase reporter (2.4-3.25 FI) with induction reduced by mimics of each miRNA (44-60% reduction). Specific miRNA inhibitors (antagomirs) for each PBEF/NAMPT miRNA significantly increased the endogenous PBEF/NAMPT mRNA (1.4-3.4 ± 0.1 FI) and protein levels (1.2-1.4 ± 0.1 FI) and 3'-UTR luciferase activity (1.4-1.7 ± 0.1 FI) compared with negative antagomir controls. Collectively, these data demonstrate that increased PBEF/NAMPT expression induced by bioactive agonists (i.e., excessive mechanical stress, LPS) involves epigenetic regulation with hsa-miR-374a and hsa-miR-568, representing novel therapeutic strategies to reduce inflammatory lung injury.
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- Djanybek M Adyshev
- Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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