School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Front Immunol. 2021 Oct 4;12:722816. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.722816. eCollection 2021.
During labor, a variety of coordinated physiological and biochemical events cause the myometrium to transition from a quiescent to contractile state; the molecular mechanisms responsible for this transition, however, remain unclear. To better understand this transition at a molecular level, the global transcriptome and proteome of human myometrial samples in labor and those not in labor were investigated through RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and quantitative liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) data-independent acquisition (DIA) and parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) methods. Furthermore, an integrated proteotranscriptomic analysis was performed to explore biological processes and pathway alterations during labor; this analysis identified 1,626 differentially expressed mRNAs (1,101 upregulated, 525 downregulated) and 135 differentially expressed proteins (97 upregulated, 38 downregulated) in myometrium between nonlabor and in labor groups. The comprehensive results of these analyses showed that the upregulated mRNAs and proteins increased inflammation under hypoxia stress in the myometrium under labor, and related proteins and cytokines were validated by PRM and Luminex assays. Our study confirmed the biological process of inflammation and hypoxia in laboring myometrium at the transcriptome and proteome levels and provided recourse to discover new molecular and biological changes during labor.
在分娩过程中,各种协调的生理和生化事件导致子宫肌从静止状态转变为收缩状态;然而,负责这种转变的分子机制仍不清楚。为了在分子水平上更好地理解这种转变,通过 RNA 测序 (RNA-seq) 和定量液相色谱-串联质谱 (LC-MS/MS) 数据非依赖性采集 (DIA) 和平行反应监测 (PRM) 方法,研究了分娩和未分娩的人子宫肌样本的全转录组和蛋白质组。此外,进行了综合的蛋白质组学分析,以探索分娩过程中的生物学过程和途径改变;该分析确定了非分娩和分娩组之间子宫肌中 1,626 个差异表达的 mRNA(1,101 个上调,525 个下调)和 135 个差异表达的蛋白质(97 个上调,38 个下调)。这些分析的综合结果表明,在分娩时子宫肌缺氧应激下,上调的 mRNA 和蛋白质增加了炎症,通过 PRM 和 Luminex 测定验证了相关蛋白质和细胞因子。我们的研究在转录组和蛋白质组水平上证实了分娩子宫肌的炎症和缺氧的生物学过程,并为发现分娩过程中的新的分子和生物学变化提供了资源。