Department of Medical Physics, Mariam Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, 1649-028, Portugal.
Acta Pharmacol Sin. 2018 Jul;39(7):1085-1099. doi: 10.1038/aps.2018.35. Epub 2018 Jun 7.
Pervasive transcription of the human genome is responsible for the production of a myriad of non-coding RNA molecules (ncRNAs) some of them with regulatory functions. The pivotal role of ncRNAs in cardiovascular biology has been unveiled in the last decade, starting from the characterization of the involvement of micro-RNAs in cardiovascular development and function, and followed by the use of circulating ncRNAs as biomarkers of cardiovascular diseases. The human non-coding secretome is composed by several RNA species that circulate in body fluids and could be used as biomarkers for diagnosis and outcome prediction. In cardiovascular diseases, secreted ncRNAs have been described as biomarkers of several conditions including myocardial infarction, cardiac failure, and atrial fibrillation. Among circulating ncRNAs, micro-RNAs (miRNAs), long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) and circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been proposed as biomarkers in different cardiovascular diseases. In comparison with standard biomarkers, the biochemical nature of ncRNAs offers better stability and flexible storage conditions of the samples, and increased sensitivity and specificity. In this review we describe the current trends and future prospects of the use of the ncRNA secretome components as biomarkers of cardiovascular diseases, including the opening questions related with their secretion mechanisms and regulatory actions.
人类基因组的普遍转录负责产生无数的非编码 RNA 分子(ncRNAs),其中一些具有调节功能。ncRNAs 在心血管生物学中的关键作用在过去十年中得到了揭示,从微 RNA 在心血管发育和功能中的作用的特征开始,随后将循环 ncRNAs 用作心血管疾病的生物标志物。人类非编码分泌组由几种在体液中循环的 RNA 组成,可作为诊断和预后预测的生物标志物。在心血管疾病中,分泌的 ncRNAs 已被描述为多种疾病的生物标志物,包括心肌梗死、心力衰竭和心房颤动。在循环 ncRNAs 中,微 RNA(miRNA)、长非编码 RNA(lncRNA)和环状 RNA(circRNA)已被提出作为不同心血管疾病的生物标志物。与标准生物标志物相比,ncRNA 的生化性质提供了更好的稳定性和灵活的样本储存条件,以及更高的敏感性和特异性。在这篇综述中,我们描述了将 ncRNA 分泌组成分用作心血管疾病生物标志物的当前趋势和未来前景,包括与它们的分泌机制和调节作用相关的开放性问题。