Iwaya Chihiro, Suzuki Akiko, Jun Goo, Iwata Junichi
Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Cells. 2025 Jul 11;14(14):1068. doi: 10.3390/cells14141068.
Any failure in frontonasal development can lead to malformations at the middle facial region, such as frontonasal dysplasia, midfacial clefts, and hyper/hypotelorism. Various environmental factors influence morphogenesis through epigenetic regulations, including the action of noncoding microRNAs (miRNAs). However, it remains unclear how miRNAs are involved in the frontonasal development. In our analysis of publicly available miRNA-seq and RNA-seq datasets, we found that miR-28a-5p, miR-302a-3p, miR-302b-3p, and miR-302d-3p were differentially expressed in the frontonasal process during embryonic days 10.5 to 13.5 (E10.5-E13.5) in mice. Overexpression of these miRNAs led to a suppression of cell proliferation in cultured mouse embryonic frontonasal mesenchymal (MEFM) cells as well as in O9-1 cells, a cranial neural crest cell line. Through advanced bioinformatic analyses and miRNA-gene regulation assays, we identified that miR-28a-5p regulated a total of 25 genes, miR-302a-3p regulated 23 genes, miR-302b-3p regulated 22 genes, and miR-302d-3p regulated 20 genes. Notably, the expression of miR-302a/b/d-3p-unlike miR-28a-5p-was significantly upregulated by excessive exposure to retinoic acid (RA) that induces craniofacial malformations. Inhibition of these miRNAs restored the reduced cell proliferation caused by RA by normalizing the expression of target genes associated with frontonasal anomalies. Therefore, our findings suggest that miR-302a/b/d-3p plays a crucial role in the development of frontonasal malformations.
额鼻发育过程中的任何缺陷都可能导致面部中部区域出现畸形,如额鼻发育异常、面中部裂以及眼距增宽/变窄。多种环境因素通过表观遗传调控影响形态发生,包括非编码微小RNA(miRNA)的作用。然而,miRNA如何参与额鼻发育仍不清楚。在我们对公开可用的miRNA测序和RNA测序数据集的分析中,我们发现miR-28a-5p、miR-302a-3p、miR-302b-3p和miR-302d-3p在小鼠胚胎第10.5至13.5天(E10.5-E13.5)的额鼻突中差异表达。这些miRNA的过表达导致培养的小鼠胚胎额鼻间充质(MEFM)细胞以及颅神经嵴细胞系O9-1细胞中的细胞增殖受到抑制。通过先进的生物信息学分析和miRNA-基因调控测定,我们确定miR-28a-5p共调控25个基因,miR-302a-3p调控23个基因,miR-302b-3p调控22个基因,miR-302d-3p调控20个基因。值得注意的是,与miR-28a-5p不同,miR-302a/b/d-3p的表达在过度暴露于诱导颅面畸形的视黄酸(RA)后显著上调。抑制这些miRNA可通过使与额鼻异常相关的靶基因表达正常化来恢复由RA引起的细胞增殖减少。因此,我们的研究结果表明miR-302a/b/d-3p在额鼻畸形的发生发展中起关键作用。
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