Identification of circular RNA biomarkers for Pien Tze Huang treatment of CCl4induced liver fibrosis using RNAsequencing.
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ABSTRACT
Pien Tze Huang (PZH), a common hepatoprotective Traditional Chinese Medicine that has been found to be an effective treatment for carbon tetrachlorideinduced hepatic damage, including liver fibrosis. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) serve a crucial role in regulating gene expression levels via circRNA/micro (mi)RNA/mRNA networks in several human diseases and biological processes. However, whether circRNAs are involved in the underlying mechanism of the therapeutic effects of PZH on liver fibrosis remains unclear. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate these effects using circRNA expression profiles from PZHtreated fibrotic livers in model mice. A casecontrol study on >59,476 circRNAs from CCl4induced (control group, n=6) and PZHtreated (case group, n=6) mice was performed using circRNA sequencing in liver tissues. PZH treatment resulted in the differential expression of 91 circRNAs, including 58 upregulated and 33 downregulated circRNAs. Furthermore, the construction of competing endogenous networks also indicated that differentially expressed circRNAs acted as miRNA sponges. Gene Ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway enrichment analysis of miRNA targets demonstrated that PZHaffected circRNAs were mainly involved in biological processes such as 'positive regulation of fibroblast proliferation', 'cellular response to interleukin1' and 'regulation of DNAtemplated transcription in response to stress' and in a number of important pathways, such as 'TNF signaling pathway', 'PI3KAkt signaling pathway', 'IL17 signaling pathway' and 'MAPK signaling pathway'. To further validate the bioinformatics data, reverse transcription-quantitative PCR was performed on seven miRNA targets in a human hepatic stellate LX2 cell model. The results suggested that seven of the miRNAs exhibited regulatory patterns that were consistent with those of the transcriptome sequencing results. KaplanMeier survival analysis demonstrated that the expression levels of dihydrodiol dehydrogenase and solute carrier family 7, member 11 gene were significantly associated with patient survival, 269 patients with liver hepatocellular carcinoma from The Cancer Genome Atlas database. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first study to provide evidence that PZH affects circRNA expression levels, which may serve important roles in PZHtreated fibrotic liver through the regulation of functional gene expression. In conclusion, the present study provided new insights into the mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of liver fibrosis and identified potential novel, efficient, therapeutic targets against liver injury.
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Carcinoma Hepatocelular
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MicroARNs
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Neoplasias Hepáticas
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Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Humans
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Mol Med Rep
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2022
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