Large-scale screening of circulating microRNAs in individuals with HIV-1 mono-infections reveals specific liver damage signatures
Autor: | Rosa Maria Morillas, Raquel Pluvinet, Lauro Sumoy, Daniela Buccione, Laia Ramos, Lidia Ruiz, Maria Nevot, Ana Jordan-Paiz, Susanna Aussó, Sandra Franco, Cristina Tural, Miguel Angel Martinez, Beatriz Mothe |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Adult Liver Cirrhosis Male medicine.medical_specialty Hepatitis C virus Inflammation HIV Infections HIV-1 infection medicine.disease_cause Gastroenterology 03 medical and health sciences Liver disease Virology Internal medicine medicine Humans Circulating MicroRNA Aged Pharmacology Liver injury business.industry Liver Diseases Focal nodular hyperplasia virus diseases Middle Aged Viral Load medicine.disease Fold change 030104 developmental biology Liver Circulating microRNAs Toxicity Disease Progression HIV-1 Female medicine.symptom business Transcriptome Biomarkers |
Zdroj: | Antiviral Research r-IGTP. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Germans Trias i Pujol instname |
ISSN: | 0166-3542 |
Popis: | Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-induced inflammation and/or long-term antiretroviral drug toxicity may contribute to the evolution of liver disease. We investigated circulating plasma microRNAs (miRNAs) as potential biomarkers of liver injury in patients mono-infected with HIV-1. We performed large-scale deep sequencing analyses of small RNA level on plasma samples from patients with HIV-1 mono-infection that had elevated or normal levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH). Hepatitis C virus (HCV) mono-infected patients were also studied. Compared to healthy donors, patients with HIV-1 or HCV mono-infections showed significantly altered (fold change >2, adjusted p < 0.05) level of 25 and 70 miRNAs, respectively. Of the 25 altered miRNAs found in patients with HIV-1, 19 were also found in patients mono-infected with HCV. Moreover, 13 of the 14 most up-regulated miRNAs (range: 9.3-3.4-fold increase) in patients with HCV mono-infections were also up-regulated in patients with HIV-1 mono-infections. Importantly, most of these miRNAs significantly and positively correlated with ALT and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels, and liver fibrosis stage (p < 0.05). MiR-122-3p and miR-193b-5p were highly up-regulated HIV-1 mono-infected patients with elevated ALT or FNH, but not in HIV-1 patients with normal levels of ALT. These results reveal that HIV-1 infections impacted liver-related miRNA levels in the absence of an HCV co-infection, which highlights the potential of miRNAs as biomarkers for the progression of liver injury in HIV-1 infected patients. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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