Department of Diagnostic & Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77054, USA.
Center for Craniofacial Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77054, USA.
Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Feb 23;22(4):2202. doi: 10.3390/ijms22042202.
Amelogenesis imperfecta is a congenital form of enamel hypoplasia. Although a number of genetic mutations have been reported in humans, the regulatory network of these genes remains mostly unclear. To identify signatures of biological pathways in amelogenesis imperfecta, we conducted bioinformatic analyses on genes associated with the condition in humans. Through an extensive search of the main biomedical databases, we found 56 genes in which mutations and/or association/linkage were reported in individuals with amelogenesis imperfecta. These candidate genes were further grouped by function, pathway, protein-protein interaction, and tissue-specific expression patterns using various bioinformatic tools. The bioinformatic analyses highlighted a group of genes essential for extracellular matrix formation. Furthermore, advanced bioinformatic analyses for microRNAs (miRNAs), which are short non-coding RNAs that suppress target genes at the post-transcriptional level, predicted 37 candidates that may be involved in amelogenesis imperfecta. To validate the miRNA-gene regulation association, we analyzed the target gene expression of the top seven candidate miRNAs: miR-3195, miR-382-5p, miR-1306-5p, miR-4683, miR-6716-3p, miR-3914, and miR-3935. Among them, miR-1306-5p, miR-3195, and miR-3914 were confirmed to regulate ameloblast differentiation through the regulation of genes associated with amelogenesis imperfecta in AM-1 cells, a human ameloblastoma cell line. Taken together, our study suggests a potential role for miRNAs in amelogenesis imperfecta.
釉质发育不全是一种先天性釉质发育不全。尽管在人类中已经报道了许多基因突变,但这些基因的调控网络在很大程度上仍不清楚。为了确定釉质发育不全中生物途径的特征,我们对与人类釉质发育不全相关的基因进行了生物信息学分析。通过广泛搜索主要的生物医学数据库,我们在釉质发育不全患者中发现了 56 个基因突变和/或关联/连锁的基因。使用各种生物信息学工具,这些候选基因进一步按功能、途径、蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用和组织特异性表达模式进行分组。生物信息学分析突出了一组对细胞外基质形成至关重要的基因。此外,对microRNA(miRNA)的高级生物信息学分析,miRNA 是一种短的非编码 RNA,在转录后水平抑制靶基因,预测了 37 个可能参与釉质发育不全的候选 miRNA。为了验证 miRNA-基因调控的关联,我们分析了前 7 个候选 miRNA 的靶基因表达:miR-3195、miR-382-5p、miR-1306-5p、miR-4683、miR-6716-3p、miR-3914 和 miR-3935。其中,miR-1306-5p、miR-3195 和 miR-3914 通过调节与 AM-1 细胞(人成釉细胞瘤细胞系)中釉质发育不全相关的基因,被证实调节成釉细胞分化。总之,我们的研究表明 miRNA 在釉质发育不全中可能起作用。
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