Identification of miR-338-5p and miR-4776-3p as mediators of articular cartilage degeneration

Autor: Jiaxu Wang, Haixia Li, Jigong Wu, Shibo Huang, Lele Zhang, Xiang Cui, Bo Gao, Xin Guan, Litao Huo, Shuilin Shao
Rok vydání: 2021
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Popis: Purpose Osteoarthritis is one of the most common chronic diseases nowadays, and can cause serious physical illness and economic burden. Cartilage degeneration is one of primary reasons for osteoarthritis, but there were not thorough studies on cartilage lesions. Methods miR-338-5p and miR-4776-3p were overexpressed and knocked down in SW1353 cells. Dual luciferase assay is used to detect the binding of miR-338-5p, miR-4776-3p and SOX6. The expression of MMP13, TNFA, IL6, MCP1, PARP, Runx2, ALP, OPN, WNT4, WNT16, TRACP and CTSK was quantified by qPCR. And the expression of WNT4 at the protein level was quantified by WB. Results In this study, we found miR-338-5p and miR-4776-3p showed significantly high expression on cartilage in osteoarthritis through bioinformatics methods, and verified miR-338-5p and miR-4776-3p can improve catabolism, and trigger biological processes such as inflammation and apoptosis. Meanwhile we validated miR-338-5p and miR-4776-3p may play negative regulation in the process of bone biology. Conclusions Our study showed that miR-338-5p and miR-4776-3p can be regarded as medium of articular cartilage degeneration, and it provided new biomarker of early diagnosis in cartilage disease and osteoarthritis.
Databáze: OpenAIRE