Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China.
Hubei Key Laboratory of Biological Targeted Therapy, Tongji Medical College, Union Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China.
BMC Genomics. 2023 Jul 25;24(1):419. doi: 10.1186/s12864-023-09441-y.
BACKGROUND: Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is a common valve disease with an increasing incidence, but no effective drugs as of yet. With the development of sequencing technology, non-coding RNAs have been found to play roles in many diseases as well as CAVD, but no circRNA/lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA interaction axis has been established. Moreover, valve interstitial cells (VICs) and valvular endothelial cells (VECs) play important roles in CAVD, and CAVD differed between leaflet phenotypes and genders. This work aims to explore the mechanism of circRNA/lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA network in CAVD, and perform subgroup analysis on the important characteristics of CAVD, such as key cells, leaflet phenotypes and genders. RESULTS: We identified 158 differentially expressed circRNAs (DEcircRNAs), 397 DElncRNAs, 45 DEmiRNAs and 167 DEmRNAs, and constructed a hsa-circ-0073813/hsa-circ-0027587-hsa-miR-525-5p-SPP1/HMOX1/CD28 network in CAVD after qRT-PCR verification. Additionally, 17 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in VICs, 9 DEGs in VECs, 7 DEGs between different leaflet phenotypes and 24 DEGs between different genders were identified. Enrichment analysis suggested the potentially important pathways in inflammation and fibro-calcification during the pathogenesis of CAVD, and immune cell patterns in CAVD suggest that M0 macrophages and memory B cells memory were significantly increased, and many genes in immune cells were also differently expressed. CONCLUSIONS: The circRNA/lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA interaction axis constructed in this work and the DEGs identified between different characteristics of CAVD provide a direction for a deeper understanding of CAVD and provide possible diagnostic markers and treatment targets for CAVD in the future.
背景:钙化性主动脉瓣疾病(CAVD)是一种常见的瓣膜疾病,发病率不断增加,但目前尚无有效的药物。随着测序技术的发展,非编码 RNA 已被发现参与许多疾病以及 CAVD 的发生,但尚未建立环状 RNA/长链非编码 RNA-miRNA-mRNA 相互作用轴。此外,瓣膜间质细胞(VICs)和瓣膜内皮细胞(VECs)在 CAVD 中发挥重要作用,并且 CAVD 在瓣叶表型和性别之间存在差异。本研究旨在探讨环状 RNA/长链非编码 RNA-miRNA-mRNA 网络在 CAVD 中的作用机制,并对 CAVD 的重要特征(如关键细胞、瓣叶表型和性别)进行亚组分析。
结果:通过 qRT-PCR 验证,我们鉴定出 158 个差异表达的环状 RNA(DEcircRNAs)、397 个差异表达的长链非编码 RNA(DElncRNAs)、45 个差异表达的 microRNA(DEmiRNAs)和 167 个差异表达的信使 RNA(DEmRNAs),并构建了 CAVD 中的 hsa-circ-0073813/hsa-circ-0027587-hsa-miR-525-5p-SPP1/HMOX1/CD28 网络。此外,还鉴定出 VICs 中的 17 个差异表达基因(DEGs)、VECs 中的 9 个 DEGs、不同瓣叶表型之间的 7 个 DEGs 和不同性别之间的 24 个 DEGs。富集分析表明,在 CAVD 的发病机制中存在炎症和纤维钙化相关的重要途径,以及 CAVD 中的免疫细胞模式表明 M0 巨噬细胞和记忆 B 细胞记忆显著增加,并且免疫细胞中的许多基因也有不同的表达。
结论:本研究构建的环状 RNA/长链非编码 RNA-miRNA-mRNA 相互作用轴以及不同 CAVD 特征之间鉴定出的 DEGs,为深入了解 CAVD 提供了方向,并为未来 CAVD 的诊断标志物和治疗靶点提供了可能。
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