纳米孔长读RNA测序揭示了人类血管光滑肌细胞中的功能替代拼接变体
Hao Wu1,2, Yicheng Lu2, Zhenzhen Duan2
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Communications biology
|November 1, 2023
概括
这项研究揭示了使用长读RNA测序对血管光滑肌细胞 (VSMC) 可塑性的新见解. 我们确定了许多影响VSMC表型切换的未注释的转录,这对于理解心血管疾病至关重要.
科学领域:
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
- 心血管研究研究心血管研究
背景情况:
- 血管光滑肌细胞 (VSMCs) 表现出对于血管修复和重塑至关重要的表型可塑性.
- 对VSMC可塑性的调节失调与心血管疾病有关.
- 替代拼接在VSMC可塑性中的作用仍然不完全理解.
研究的目的:
- 系统地描述人类大动脉光滑肌细胞 (HASMCs) 中长时间读取的转录组和替代拼接.
- 研究生长因子和microRNA对HASMC转录重编程的影响.
- 识别和验证涉及VSMC表型调制的新型转录.
主要方法:
- 在HASMC上使用牛津纳米孔技术进行长读RNA测序.
- 用血小板衍生生长因子,转化生长因子和hsa-miR-221-3P治疗HASMC.
- 转录组数据的生物信息分析,以识别替代拼接事件和未注释的转录.
- 试验验证一个新的成绩单 (CISD1-u).
主要成果:
- 在HASMC中识别频繁的替代拼接事件和数千个未注释的转录.
- 通过不同的治疗调节的HASMCs中明显的转录重编程.
- 没有注释的成绩单可以生成替代的开放阅读框架.
- 实验验证CISD1-u,一个没有注释的转录,影响HASMC表型切换.
结论:
- 长读转录组分析为HASMC可塑性提供了新的见解.
- 替代拼接和未注释的转录在调节VSMC表型方面发挥着重要作用.
- 这些发现有助于理解和潜在地操纵心血管疾病中的HASMC可塑性.
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