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Bioinformatics ; 39(1)2023 01 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36477791

RESUMO

MOTIVATION: DNA methylation within gene body and promoters in cancer cells is well documented. An increasing number of studies showed that cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) sites falling within other regulatory elements could also regulate target gene activation, mainly by affecting transcription factors (TFs) binding in human cancers. This led to the urgent need for comprehensively and effectively collecting distinct cis-regulatory elements and TF-binding sites (TFBS) to annotate DNA methylation regulation. RESULTS: We developed a database (CanMethdb, http://meth.liclab.net/CanMethdb/) that focused on the upstream and downstream annotations for CpG-genes in cancers. This included upstream cis-regulatory elements, especially those involving distal regions to genes, and TFBS annotations for the CpGs and downstream functional annotations for the target genes, computed through integrating abundant DNA methylation and gene expression profiles in diverse cancers. Users could inquire CpG-target gene pairs for a cancer type through inputting a genomic region, a CpG, a gene name, or select hypo/hypermethylated CpG sets. The current version of CanMethdb documented a total of 38 986 060 CpG-target gene pairs (with 6 769 130 unique pairs), involving 385 217 CpGs and 18 044 target genes, abundant cis-regulatory elements and TFs for 33 TCGA cancer types. CanMethdb might help biologists perform in-depth studies of target gene regulations based on DNA methylations in cancer. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The main program is available at https://github.com/chunquanlipathway/CanMethdb. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


Assuntos
Metilação de DNA , Neoplasias , Humanos , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo , Genoma , Sequências Reguladoras de Ácido Nucleico , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Neoplasias/genética , DNA/metabolismo , Ilhas de CpG
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Cell Commun Signal ; 22(1): 328, 2024 Jun 13.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38872145

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BACKGROUND: Kawasaki disease (KD) is an immune vasculitis of unknown origin, characterized by transient inflammation. The activation of the cGAS-STING pathway, triggered by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) release, has been implicated in the onset of KD. However, its specific role in the progression of inflammation during KD's acute phase remains unclear. METHODS: We measured mtDNA and 2'3'-cGAMP expression in KD patient serum using RT-qPCR and ELISA. A murine model of KD was induced by injecting Lactobacillus casei cell wall extract (LCWE), after which cGAS-STING pathway activation and inflammatory markers were assessed via immunohistochemistry, western blot, and RT-qPCR. Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were treated with KD serum and modulators of the cGAS-STING pathway for comparative analysis. Mitochondrial function was evaluated using Mitosox staining, mPTP opening was quantified by fluorescence microscopy, and mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) was determined with JC-1 staining. RESULTS: KD patient serum exhibited increased mtDNA and 2'3'-cGAMP expression, with elevated levels of pathway-related proteins and inflammatory markers observed in both in vivo and in vitro models. TEM confirmed mitochondrial damage, and further studies demonstrated that inhibition of mPTP opening reduced mtDNA release, abrogated cGAS-STING pathway activation, and mitigated inflammation. CONCLUSION: These findings indicate that mtDNA released through the mPTP is a critical activator of the cGAS-STING pathway, contributing significantly to KD-associated inflammation. Targeting mtDNA release or the cGAS-STING pathway may offer novel therapeutic approaches for KD management.


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DNA Mitocondrial , Inflamação , Proteínas de Membrana , Poro de Transição de Permeabilidade Mitocondrial , Síndrome de Linfonodos Mucocutâneos , Nucleotidiltransferases , Transdução de Sinais , Síndrome de Linfonodos Mucocutâneos/metabolismo , Síndrome de Linfonodos Mucocutâneos/patologia , Síndrome de Linfonodos Mucocutâneos/genética , DNA Mitocondrial/genética , DNA Mitocondrial/metabolismo , Nucleotidiltransferases/metabolismo , Nucleotidiltransferases/genética , Humanos , Proteínas de Membrana/metabolismo , Proteínas de Membrana/genética , Inflamação/patologia , Inflamação/metabolismo , Inflamação/genética , Animais , Poro de Transição de Permeabilidade Mitocondrial/metabolismo , Masculino , Camundongos , Células Endoteliais da Veia Umbilical Humana/metabolismo , Feminino , Doença Aguda , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Pré-Escolar
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Foodborne Pathog Dis ; 21(2): 109-118, 2024 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38011665

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Pork products were the most common media of Salmonella in China, breaded pork products as a very popular meat presently, whose Salmonella risk should be drawn to attention. Given that quantitative risk assessment is a more scientific method for risk evaluation, a quantitative risk assessment model of Salmonella in breaded pork products was first constructed from processing to consumption, and was used for assessing the risk and the effective interventions in this study. The data of Salmonella contamination in breaded pork products during processing were obtained from the actual detection data of samples from a representative meat processing plant. With combining the predictive microbial modeling and dose-response relationship, the risk of Salmonella in breaded pork products was charactered, and the probability of Salmonella infection per meal was found to be 5.585 × 10-9. Based on the results of sensitivity analysis, the curing and seasoning process was found to be the key control point for Salmonella contamination during the processing, and consumer behavior was the key control point affecting the probability of Salmonella infection from processing to consumption. The model was also applied for assessing the effectiveness of risk interventions, and among the nine interventions given, control of thawing temperature before cooking such as microwave thawing could reduce the risk of infection by 30.969-fold, while cooking the products thoroughly, Salmonella would not pose a pathogenic hazard to consumers. The model and the assessed results in this study may provide guidance on microbial control in producing process and safety consumption of breaded pork products.


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Produtos da Carne , Carne Vermelha , Infecções por Salmonella , Animais , Suínos , Carne Vermelha/análise , Contaminação de Alimentos/análise , Microbiologia de Alimentos , Manipulação de Alimentos/métodos , Salmonella , Medição de Risco/métodos
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BMC Oral Health ; 24(1): 1155, 2024 Sep 29.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39343917

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BACKGROUND: Shortening retention time and minimizing relapse rates are ongoing challenges in orthodontics. This study investigated the effects of natural fulvic acids (FAs) and low-level laser therapy (LLLT) on orthodontic retention in rats. METHODS: Seventy-two male Sprague-Dawley rats underwent mesial movement of the left maxillary first molar using a 50 g force via a nickel-titanium tension spring. After three weeks of movement, the rats entered the retention phase with retainer wires and were divided into four groups: Control (no intervention), FAs (80 mg/kg orally daily), LLLT (808 nm laser twice weekly), and FAs + LLLT (both treatments). Retainers were removed on days 7, 14, and 21 for a 3-day relapse assessment. Maxillary impressions were analyzed for relapse rates using 3Shape software, alongside histological and immunohistochemical evaluations of bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) expression in periodontal tissues, with differences among groups analyzed using an ordinary two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). RESULTS: The relapse rate decreased over time, particularly at 10, 17, and 24 days (p < 0.001). The FAs group did not significantly affect relapse rates compared to the control group (p = 0.084). In contrast, both the LLLT and FAs + LLLT groups significantly reduced relapse rate (p < 0.001), with no significant difference between these groups (p = 0.555). Histological examination revealed active osteoclasts on day 10, decreasing by days 17 and 24. The LLLT and FAs + LLLT groups showed less local cementum resorption and better periodontal fiber arrangement. All treatment groups significantly increased BMP-2 expression (P < 0.05) compared to controls. with LLLT and FAs + LLLT differing significantly from FAs (P < 0.001), though no difference was observed between LLLT and FAs + LLLT (P = 0.578). CONCLUSIONS: FAs did not significantly reduce relapse rate with retainers, while LLLT effectively reduced relapse rates, showing no additional benefit from combining FAs with LLLT. Both FAs and LLLT increased BMP-2 expression in PDL fibroblasts but with no synergistic effect.


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Benzopiranos , Proteína Morfogenética Óssea 2 , Terapia com Luz de Baixa Intensidade , Ratos Sprague-Dawley , Técnicas de Movimentação Dentária , Animais , Ratos , Masculino , Terapia com Luz de Baixa Intensidade/métodos , Técnicas de Movimentação Dentária/métodos , Benzopiranos/uso terapêutico , Benzopiranos/farmacologia , Contenções Ortodônticas , Fios Ortodônticos , Ligamento Periodontal/efeitos da radiação , Ligamento Periodontal/patologia , Dente Molar
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Brief Bioinform ; 22(2): 1929-1939, 2021 03 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32047897

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Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been proven to play important roles in transcriptional processes and biological functions. With the increasing study of human diseases and biological processes, information in human H3K27ac ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq and DNase-seq datasets is accumulating rapidly, resulting in an urgent need to collect and process data to identify transcriptional regulatory regions of lncRNAs. We therefore developed a comprehensive database for human regulatory information of lncRNAs (TRlnc, http://bio.licpathway.net/TRlnc), which aimed to collect available resources of transcriptional regulatory regions of lncRNAs and to annotate and illustrate their potential roles in the regulation of lncRNAs in a cell type-specific manner. The current version of TRlnc contains 8 683 028 typical enhancers/super-enhancers and 32 348 244 chromatin accessibility regions associated with 91 906 human lncRNAs. These regions are identified from over 900 human H3K27ac ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq and DNase-seq samples. Furthermore, TRlnc provides the detailed genetic and epigenetic annotation information within transcriptional regulatory regions (promoter, enhancer/super-enhancer and chromatin accessibility regions) of lncRNAs, including common SNPs, risk SNPs, eQTLs, linkage disequilibrium SNPs, transcription factors, methylation sites, histone modifications and 3D chromatin interactions. It is anticipated that the use of TRlnc will help users to gain in-depth and useful insights into the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms of lncRNAs.


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Bases de Dados Genéticas , RNA Longo não Codificante/genética , Sequências Reguladoras de Ácido Nucleico , Transcrição Gênica , Imunoprecipitação da Cromatina , Elementos Facilitadores Genéticos , Humanos , Desequilíbrio de Ligação , Metilação , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Locos de Características Quantitativas
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 49(D1): D969-D980, 2021 01 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33045741

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Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been proven to play important roles in transcriptional processes and various biological functions. Establishing a comprehensive collection of human lncRNA sets is urgent work at present. Using reference lncRNA sets, enrichment analyses will be useful for analyzing lncRNA lists of interest submitted by users. Therefore, we developed a human lncRNA sets database, called LncSEA, which aimed to document a large number of available resources for human lncRNA sets and provide annotation and enrichment analyses for lncRNAs. LncSEA supports >40 000 lncRNA reference sets across 18 categories and 66 sub-categories, and covers over 50 000 lncRNAs. We not only collected lncRNA sets based on downstream regulatory data sources, but also identified a large number of lncRNA sets regulated by upstream transcription factors (TFs) and DNA regulatory elements by integrating TF ChIP-seq, DNase-seq, ATAC-seq and H3K27ac ChIP-seq data. Importantly, LncSEA provides annotation and enrichment analyses of lncRNA sets associated with upstream regulators and downstream targets. In summary, LncSEA is a powerful platform that provides a variety of types of lncRNA sets for users, and supports lncRNA annotations and enrichment analyses. The LncSEA database is freely accessible at http://bio.liclab.net/LncSEA/index.php.


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Biologia Computacional/métodos , Bases de Dados Genéticas , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , RNA Longo não Codificante/genética , Sequências Reguladoras de Ácido Nucleico/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Mineração de Dados/métodos , Humanos , Internet , Anotação de Sequência Molecular/métodos , Análise de Sequência de RNA/métodos , Interface Usuário-Computador
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Zhongguo Dang Dai Er Ke Za Zhi ; 25(6): 579-586, 2023 Jun 15.
Artigo em Zh | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37382126

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OBJECTIVES: To study the role and mechanism of platelet-derived growth factor BB (PDGF-BB) on platelet production in Kawasaki disease (KD) mice and human megakaryocytic Dami cells through in vitro and invivo experiments. METHODS: ELISA was used to measure the expression of PDGF in the serum of 40 children with KD and 40 healthy children. C57BL/6 mice were used to establish a model of KD and were then randomly divided into a normal group, a KD group, and an imatinib group (30 mice in each group). Routine blood test was performed for each group, and the expression of PDGF-BB, megakaryocyte colony forming unit (CFU-MK), and the megakaryocyte marker CD41 were measured. CCK-8, flow cytometry, quantitative real-time PCR, and Western blot were used to analyze the role and mechanism of PDGF-BB in platelet production in Dami cells. RESULTS: PDGF-BB was highly expressed in the serum of KD children (P<0.001). The KD group had a higher expression level of PDGF-BB in serum (P<0.05) and significant increases in the expression of CFU-MK and CD41 (P<0.001), and the imatinib group had significant reductions in the expression of CFU-MK and CD41 (P<0.001). In vitro experiments showed that PDGF-BB promoted Dami cell proliferation, platelet production, mRNA expression of PDGFR-ß, and protein expression of p-Akt (P<0.05). Compared with the PDGF-BB group, the combination group (PDGF-BB 25 ng/mL + imatinib 20 µmol/L) had significantly lower levels of platelet production, mRNA expression of PDGFR-ß, and protein expression of p-Akt (P<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: PDGF-BB may promote megakaryocyte proliferation, differentiation, and platelet production by binding to PDGFR-ß and activating the PI3K/Akt pathway, and the PDGFR-ß inhibitor imatinib can reduce platelet production, which provides a new strategy for the treatment of thrombocytosis in KD.


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Síndrome de Linfonodos Mucocutâneos , Trombocitose , Criança , Humanos , Animais , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Becaplermina , Mesilato de Imatinib/farmacologia , Mesilato de Imatinib/uso terapêutico , Síndrome de Linfonodos Mucocutâneos/tratamento farmacológico , Fosfatidilinositol 3-Quinases , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-akt , Trombocitose/tratamento farmacológico , Trombocitose/etiologia , RNA Mensageiro
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Brief Bioinform ; 21(4): 1411-1424, 2020 07 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31350847

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With the increasing awareness of heterogeneity in cancers, better prediction of cancer prognosis is much needed for more personalized treatment. Recently, extensive efforts have been made to explore the variations in gene expression for better prognosis. However, the prognostic gene signatures predicted by most existing methods have little robustness among different datasets of the same cancer. To improve the robustness of the gene signatures, we propose a novel high-frequency sub-pathways mining approach (HiFreSP), integrating a randomization strategy with gene interaction pathways. We identified a six-gene signature (CCND1, CSF3R, E2F2, JUP, RARA and TCF7) in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) by HiFreSP. This signature displayed a strong ability to predict the clinical outcome of ESCC patients in two independent datasets (log-rank test, P = 0.0045 and 0.0087). To further show the predictive performance of HiFreSP, we applied it to two other cancers: pancreatic adenocarcinoma and breast cancer. The identified signatures show high predictive power in all testing datasets of the two cancers. Furthermore, compared with the two popular prognosis signature predicting methods, the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator penalized Cox proportional hazards model and the random survival forest, HiFreSP showed better predictive accuracy and generalization across all testing datasets of the above three cancers. Lastly, we applied HiFreSP to 8137 patients involving 20 cancer types in the TCGA database and found high-frequency prognosis-associated pathways in many cancers. Taken together, HiFreSP shows higher prognostic capability and greater robustness, and the identified signatures provide clinical guidance for cancer prognosis. HiFreSP is freely available via GitHub: https://github.com/chunquanlipathway/HiFreSP.


Assuntos
Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Neoplasias/genética , Algoritmos , Humanos , Prognóstico
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Exp Cell Res ; 409(2): 112941, 2021 12 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34822812

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OBJECTIVE: The objective was to evaluate the expression levels of CD31+CD54+ and CD31+CD105+ endothelial microparticles (EMPs) before and after intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) treatment of Kawasaki disease (KD). To explore the role of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hucMSCs) in inhibiting endothelial inflammation in KD, the effects of hucMSCs on the expression of CD54 and CD105 in endothelial cells in KD were analyzed in vivo and in vitro. METHODS: The concentrations of IL-1ß and VEGF in the peripheral blood of KD or healthy children were detected, and the distributions of CD31+CD54+ and CD31+CD105+ EMPs in platelet-poor plasma (PPP) were analyzed by flow cytometry. Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were first cocultured with the patients' peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Next, HUVECs were cocultured with hucMSCs after stimulation with inactivated serum from patients. Cell proliferation and migration activities were assessed, and the expression of CD54, CD105 and IL-1ß was analyzed. In an in vivo study, hucMSCs were transplanted into KD mice. The locations and expression levels of CD54, CD105 and IL-1ß in the heart tissues of mice were analyzed. RESULTS: The levels of IL-1ß and CD31+CD54+ EMPs were significantly higher before IVIG treatment and 2 weeks after treatment in KD patients (P < 0.01). However, the levels of VEGF and CD31+CD105+ EMPs increased significantly in KD only after IVIG treatment (P < 0.01). KD-inactivated serum stimulation combined with cocultivation of PBMCs can activate inflammation in HUVECs, leading to reduced cell proliferation and migration activities. Cocultivation also increased the expression of CD54 and decreased the expression of CD105 (P < 0.001). Cocultivation with hucMSCs can reverse these changes. Additionally, hucMSC transplantation downregulated the expression of IL-1ß and CD54 and significantly upregulated the expression of CD105 in KD mice. CONCLUSION: The expression levels of CD31+CD54+ and CD31+CD105+ EMPs showed inconsistent changes at different KD statuses, providing potential markers for clinical application. HucMSCs suppress inflammation and regulate the expression levels of CD54 and CD105 in vascular endothelial cells in KD, possibly providing a new basis for stem cell therapy for KD.


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Endoglina/metabolismo , Células Endoteliais da Veia Umbilical Humana/metabolismo , Molécula 1 de Adesão Intercelular/metabolismo , Transplante de Células-Tronco Mesenquimais/métodos , Células-Tronco Mesenquimais/citologia , Síndrome de Linfonodos Mucocutâneos/terapia , Cordão Umbilical/citologia , Vasculite/prevenção & controle , Animais , Biomarcadores/metabolismo , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Diferenciação Celular , Pré-Escolar , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Feminino , Células Endoteliais da Veia Umbilical Humana/imunologia , Humanos , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Síndrome de Linfonodos Mucocutâneos/complicações , Síndrome de Linfonodos Mucocutâneos/metabolismo , Síndrome de Linfonodos Mucocutâneos/patologia , Prognóstico , Vasculite/etiologia , Vasculite/patologia
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Molecules ; 27(22)2022 Nov 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36431773

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To better guide microbial risk management and control, growth kinetic models of Salmonella with the coexistence of two other dominant background bacteria in pork were constructed. Sterilized pork cutlets were inoculated with a cocktail of Salmonella Derby (S. Derby), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa), and Escherichia coli (E. coli), and incubated at various temperatures (4-37 °C). The predictive growth models were developed based on the observed growth data. By comparing R2 of primary models, Baranyi models were preferred to fit the growth curves of S. Derby and P. aeruginosa, while the Huang model was preferred for E. coli (all R2 ≥ 0.997). The secondary Ratkowsky square root model can well describe the relationship between temperature and µmax (all R2 ≥ 0.97) or Lag (all R2 ≥ 0.98). Growth models were validated by the actual test values, with Bf and Af close to 1, and MSE around 0.001. The time for S. Derby to reach a pathogenic dose (105 CFU/g) at each temperature in pork was predicted accordingly and found to be earlier than the time when the pork began to be judged nearly fresh according to the sensory indicators. Therefore, the predictive microbiology model can be applied to more accurately predict the shelf life of pork to secure its quality and safety.


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Carne de Porco , Carne Vermelha , Animais , Suínos , Microbiologia de Alimentos , Carne Vermelha/microbiologia , Escherichia coli , Modelos Biológicos , Salmonella
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Cancer Sci ; 112(4): 1457-1470, 2021 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33511729

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Resident adipocytes under a hypoxic tumor microenvironment exert an increasingly important role in cell growth, proliferation, and invasion in cancers. However, the communication between adipocytes and cancer cells during nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) progression is poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that hypoxic adipocyte-derived exosomes are key information carriers that transfer low expression of miR-433-3p into NPC cells. In addition, luciferase reporter assays detected that hypoxia inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) induced miR-433-3p transcription through five binding sites at its promoter region. Concordantly, the low expression of miR-433-3p promoted proliferation, migration, and lipid accumulation in NPC cells via targeting stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) are suggested by functional studies. Consistent with these findings, in tumor-bearing mice, NPC cells with low HIF-1α expression, high miR-433-3p expression, and low SCD1 expression were equally endowed with remarkably reduced potential of tumorigenesis. Collectively, our study highlights the critical role of the HIF-1α-miR-433-3p-SCD1 axis in NPC progression, which can serve as a mechanism-based potential therapeutic approach.


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Adipócitos/patologia , Regulação para Baixo/genética , Exossomos/genética , Subunidade alfa do Fator 1 Induzível por Hipóxia/genética , MicroRNAs/genética , Carcinoma Nasofaríngeo/genética , Neoplasias Nasofaríngeas/genética , Estearoil-CoA Dessaturase/genética , Animais , Movimento Celular/genética , Proliferação de Células/genética , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica/genética , Humanos , Hipóxia/genética , Hipóxia/patologia , Metabolismo dos Lipídeos/genética , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Camundongos Nus , Carcinoma Nasofaríngeo/patologia , Neoplasias Nasofaríngeas/patologia , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética
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Brief Bioinform ; 20(6): 2327-2333, 2019 11 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30184150

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In recent years, high-throughput genomic technologies like chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIp-seq) and transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) have been becoming both more refined and less expensive, making them more accessible. Many circular RNAs (circRNAs) that originate from back-spliced exons have been identified in various cell lines across different species. However, the regulatory mechanism for transcription of circRNAs remains unclear. Therefore, there is an urgent need to construct a database detailing the transcriptional regulation of circRNAs. TRCirc (http://www.licpathway.net/TRCirc) provides a resource for efficient retrieval, browsing and visualization of transcriptional regulation information of circRNAs. The current version of TRCirc documents 92 375 circRNAs and 161 transcription factors (TFs) from more than 100 cell types and together represent more than 765 000 TF-circRNA regulatory relationships. Furthermore, TRCirc provides other regulatory information about transcription of circRNAs, including their expression, methylation levels, H3K27ac signals in regulation regions and super-enhancers associated with circRNAs. TRCirc provides a convenient, user-friendly interface to search, browse and visualize detailed information about these circRNAs.


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Regulação da Expressão Gênica , RNA Circular/genética , Transcrição Gênica , Bases de Dados Genéticas , Humanos , Armazenamento e Recuperação da Informação
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 47(W1): W248-W255, 2019 07 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31028388

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Super-enhancers (SEs) have prominent roles in biological and pathological processes through their unique transcriptional regulatory capability. To date, several SE databases have been developed by us and others. However, these existing databases do not provide downstream or upstream regulatory analyses of SEs. Pathways, transcription factors (TFs), SEs, and SE-associated genes form complex regulatory networks. Therefore, we designed a novel web server, SEanalysis, which provides comprehensive SE-associated regulatory network analyses. SEanalysis characterizes SE-associated genes, TFs binding to target SEs, and their upstream pathways. The current version of SEanalysis contains more than 330 000 SEs from more than 540 types of cells/tissues, 5042 TF ChIP-seq data generated from these cells/tissues, DNA-binding sequence motifs for ∼700 human TFs and 2880 pathways from 10 databases. SEanalysis supports searching by either SEs, samples, TFs, pathways or genes. The complex regulatory networks formed by these factors can be interactively visualized. In addition, we developed a customizable genome browser containing >6000 customizable tracks for visualization. The server is freely available at http://licpathway.net/SEanalysis.


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Bases de Dados Genéticas , Elementos Facilitadores Genéticos/genética , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/genética , Redes Reguladoras de Genes/genética , Software , Sítios de Ligação/genética , Humanos , Internet , Fatores de Transcrição/genética
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Microb Pathog ; 147: 104385, 2020 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32659314

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In order to investigate enterobacteria presence involved in the secondary infections in Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) pigs with different viral co-infections, we identified enterobacteria for guiding clinical treatment. Twenty-one diseased pigs were diagnosed with the PRRS virus (PRRSV) and other 7 virus primers by PCR/RT-PCR in the lung and spleen samples. Enterobacteria were isolated using MacConkey agar from 5 visceral samples of PRRS pigs, and identified by 16S rDNA sequencing. PRRSV was positive in 100% of the lung samples and 81.0% of the spleen samples. Seven diseased pigs were diagnosed with only PRRSV infection (33.3%), 7 pigs with PRRSV and 1 or 2 other viruses (33.3%) and 7 pigs with PRRSV and more than 2 types of other viruses (33.3%). PRRSV was more inclined to co-infect pigs with porcine group A rotavirus (PARV) with the co-infection rate of 52.4% (11/21). Approximately 13 types of bacteria were successfully isolated from lung, spleen, liver, kidney and lymph node samples of different PRRS pigs. Enterobacteria were isolated in 100% of lung, liver and lymph samples from pigs infected with PRRSV alone. However, the isolation rates were significantly decreased in the more than 3 viruses co-infection group. Escherichia coli was the most prevalent bacterium, followed by Morganella, Proteus, Shigella, Salmonella, Klebsiella and Aeromonas. Most of the isolated enterobacteria were opportunistic pathogens. Therefore, timely combination with antimicrobial agents is necessary for effective treatment of PRRS-infected pigs.


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Coinfecção , Síndrome Respiratória e Reprodutiva Suína , Vírus da Síndrome Respiratória e Reprodutiva Suína , Animais , Coinfecção/veterinária , Enterobacteriaceae , Vírus da Síndrome Respiratória e Reprodutiva Suína/genética , Suínos , Vísceras
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Arch Microbiol ; 202(8): 2263-2268, 2020 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32535789

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Salmonella developed drug-resistance under durative antibiotic pressures pressure. The widespread prevalence of Salmonella has been associated with not only drug-resistance but also pathogenicity. Outer membrane porin proteins (OMPs) are critical for the drug resistance of bacteria. Virulence genes in Salmonella pathogenicity islands (SPIs) play key roles in the virulence of bacteria. In this study, we analyzed the expression levels of three critical genes in ciprofloxacin-resistant strains and ciprofloxacin-susceptible strains of Salmonella, including outer membrane porin protein F (ompF), virulence genes invA and invE. In the clinical ciprofloxacin-resistant strains of Salmonella, the expression level of ompF was decreased. Meanwhile, the expression levels of invA and invE were decreased except for only one strain, indicating generally decreased virulence. These results were also verified with ciprofloxacin-induced resistant strains. Thus, it was informative for understanding the drug-resistance in Salmonella. Monitoring drug-resistance and virulence relevant genes would be significant in the prevention and control of salmonellosis.


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Resistência Microbiana a Medicamentos/genética , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , RNA Mensageiro/genética , Salmonella/genética , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Ciprofloxacina/farmacologia , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Porinas/genética , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Salmonella/efeitos dos fármacos
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Dermatol Ther ; 33(6): e14287, 2020 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32897611

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Acne is a kind of chronic inflammatory skin disease, which is common in the hair follicle and sebaceous gland of teenagers. It often recurs and affects the quality of life of patients. Acne itself can cause the damage of skin barrier function. On the other hand, common acne treatment methods, such as external drugs, systemic drugs, physical, and chemical treatment, can also lead to the damage of skin barrier function and affect the treatment effect. The application of skin care in the adjuvant treatment of acne has been widely concerned. Due to their high safety, good tolerance, and the effect of improving the damaged skin barrier, medical skin care products are a hot spot in the treatment of cosmetic skin diseases in recent years. It can not only increase the curative effect, reduce the side effects, but also increase the compliance of patients when combined with conventional acne treatment. In this article, skin care products and their application in acne treatment were reviewed.


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Acne Vulgar , Qualidade de Vida , Acne Vulgar/diagnóstico , Acne Vulgar/tratamento farmacológico , Adolescente , Folículo Piloso , Humanos , Glândulas Sebáceas , Higiene da Pele
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J Cell Mol Med ; 23(2): 967-984, 2019 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30421585

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Competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) represent a novel mechanism of gene regulation that may mediate key subpathway regions and contribute to the altered activities of pathways. However, the classical methods used to identify pathways fail to specifically consider ceRNAs within the pathways and key regions impacted by them. We proposed a powerful strategy named ce-Subpathway for the identification of ceRNA-mediated functional subpathways. It provided an effective level of pathway analysis via integrating ceRNAs, differentially expressed (DE) genes and their key regions within the given pathways. We respectively analysed one pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and one myocardial infarction (MI) data sets and demonstrated that ce-Subpathway could identify many subpathways whose corresponding entire pathways were ignored by those non-ceRNA-mediated pathway identification methods. And these pathways have been well reported to be associated with PAH/MI-related cardiovascular diseases. Further evidence showed reliability of ceRNA interactions and robustness/reproducibility of the ce-Subpathway strategy by several data sets of different cancers, including breast cancer, oesophageal cancer and colon cancer. Survival analysis was finally applied to illustrate the clinical application value of the ceRNA-mediated functional subpathways using another data sets of pancreatic cancer. Comprehensive analyses have shown the power of a joint ceRNAs/DE genes and subpathway strategy based on their topologies.


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RNA/genética , Transdução de Sinais/genética , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica/genética , Humanos , Infarto do Miocárdio/genética , Neoplasias/genética , Hipertensão Arterial Pulmonar/genética , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes
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J Cell Mol Med ; 22(2): 892-903, 2018 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29154475

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Cardiac hypertrophy (CH) is a common disease that originates from long-term heart pressure overload and finally leads to heart failure. Recently, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have attracted attention because they have broad and crucial functions in regulating complex biological processes. Some studies had found that lncRNAs play vital roles in complex cardiovascular diseases. However, the function and mechanism of lncRNAs in CH have not been elucidated. In our study, to investigate the potential roles of lncRNAs in CH, the Cardiac Hypertrophy-associated LncRNAs-Protein coding genes Network (CHLPN) was constructed by integrating gene microarray re-annotation and subpathway enrichment analyses. After performing random walking with restart in CHLPN, we predicted 21 significant risk lncRNAs, of which 7 (Kis2, 1700110K17Rik, Gm17501, E330017L17Rik, C630043F03Rik, Gm9866 and Ube4bos1) formed a close module with their co-expressed protein-coding genes (PCGs). We found that the module might play crucial roles in the development of CH. In particular, 44 PCGs that were co-expressed with six lncRNAs were enriched in CH-related biological processes and pathways. We also found that some lncRNAs participated in the competitive endogenous RNA cross-talk that might be involved in CH. These results indicate that the functional lncRNAs are related to post-transcriptional regulation and could shed light on a new molecular diagnostic target of CH.


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Cardiomegalia/genética , RNA Longo não Codificante/genética , Animais , Análise por Conglomerados , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Redes Reguladoras de Genes , Camundongos , RNA Longo não Codificante/metabolismo , RNA Mensageiro/genética , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo
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Cell Mol Neurobiol ; 36(5): 755-65, 2016 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26340948

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Karyopherin α2 (KPNA2) plays a central role in nucleocytoplasmic transport. It is involved in controlling the flow of genetic information and the modulation of diverse cellular activities. Here we explored the KPNA2's roles during the pathophysiological processes of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). An ICH rat model was built and evaluated according to behavioral testing. Using Western blot, immunohistochemistry, and immunofluorescence, significant upregulation of KPNA2 was found in neurons in brain areas surrounding the hematoma following ICH. Increasing KPNA2 level was found to be accompanied by the upregulation of active caspase-3, Bax, and decreased expression of Bcl-2. Besides, KPNA2 co-localized well with active caspase-3 in neurons, indicating its potential role in neuronal apoptosis. What's more, knocking down KPNA2 by RNA-interference in PC12 cells reduced active caspase-3 expression. Thus, KPNA2 may play a role in promoting the brain secondary damage following ICH.


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Apoptose/fisiologia , Hemorragia Cerebral/metabolismo , Neurônios/metabolismo , alfa Carioferinas/metabolismo , Envelhecimento , Animais , Caspase 3/metabolismo , Hematoma/metabolismo , Masculino , Neurônios/citologia , Células PC12 , Ratos , Ratos Sprague-Dawley , Ativação Transcricional/fisiologia , Regulação para Cima
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Regul Toxicol Pharmacol ; 81: 480-488, 2016 Nov.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27664319

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Arsenic is a widely distributed toxic metalloid in around the world. Inorganic arsenic species are deemed to affect astrocytes functions and to cause neuron apoptosis. Microglia are the key cell type involved in innate immune responses in CNS, and microglia activation has been linked to inflammation and neurotoxicity. In this study, using ELISA and reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR), we showed that Arsenic trioxide up-regulated the expression and secretion of IL-6 in a dose-dependent manner and a time-dependent manner in cultured HAPI microglia cells. These pro-inflammatory responses were inhibited by the Akt blocker, LY294002. Further, Arsenic trioxide exposure could induce phospho rylationand degradation of IкBα, and the translocation of NF-κB p65 from the cytosol to the nucleus in this HAPI microglia cell line. Thus, the NF-кB signaling pathway can be activated after Arsenic trioxide treatment. Besides, Akt blocker LY294002 also obviously attenuated NF-кB activation and transnuclear induced by Arsenic trioxide. In concert with these results, we highlighted that the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokine and NF-кB activation induced by Arsenic trioxide can be mediated by elevation of p-Akt in HAPI microglia cells.


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Arsênio/toxicidade , Inflamação/metabolismo , Interleucina-6/metabolismo , Microglia/efeitos dos fármacos , NF-kappa B/metabolismo , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-akt/metabolismo , Animais , Células Cultivadas , Inflamação/imunologia , Inflamação/patologia , Interleucina-6/imunologia , Microglia/imunologia , Microglia/metabolismo , Microglia/patologia , Ratos , Transdução de Sinais/efeitos dos fármacos
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