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Isolation and Characterization of Human Umbilical Cord-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Preterm and Term Infants
Published on: January 26, 2019
The expression and role of miR-301a in human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells
Fengxia Ma1, Dandan Chen, Ying Chi
1State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Institute of Hematology and Hospital of Blood Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Tianjin, China.
Background Aims:
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are expressed in human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (UC-MSCs), and activation of TLRs plays an important role in proliferation, differentiation and immunoregulatory activity of UC-MSCs. We investigated whether TLRs regulated the expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) in UC-MSCs and the role of miRNAs.
Methods And Results:
With miRNA microarray analysis, we demonstrated that the expression of many miRNAs varied when UC-MSCs were stimulated with the ligand of toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The expression of some miRNAs was verified by polymerase chain reaction. It was found that microRNA-301a (miR-301a) was up-regulated by the ligands of TLR3 and TLR4, LPS and polyinosinic acid:polycytidylic acid poly(I:C). However, the inhibitors of nuclear factor κB NF-κB and interferon regulatory factor 3 IRF3 signal attenuated the effect of LPS and poly(I:C) on miR-301a expression. Over-expression or lower expression of miR-301a affected the cytokine secretion of UC-MSCs.
Conclusions:
The expression of miR-301a in UC-MSCs was regulated by TLRs, and miR-301a affected the cytokine secretion of UC-MSCs.
