Screening for differentially expressed microRNAs in ectopic endometrial tissue of endometriosis patients
10.3760/cma.j.cn101441-20200515-00284
- VernacularTitle:子宫内膜异位症患者异位内膜组织中差异表达microRNA的筛选
- Author:
Jingjing LI
1
;
Zhixiong HUANG
;
Lin YANG
;
Qingxi CHEN
;
Qionghua CHEN
;
Rongfeng WU
Author Information
1. 厦门大学生命科学学院 361003
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Endometriosis;
MicroRNA;
Ectopic endometrial tissue;
Eutopic endometrial tissue;
Differential expression
- From:
Chinese Journal of Reproduction and Contraception
2021;41(6):512-521
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To investigate the microRNA (miRNA) expression features in ectopic endometrial tissues of endometriosis (EMS) patients.Methods:From April 2018 to October 2019, ectopic endometrial tissues from EMS patients and eutopic endometrial tissues from control women who received treatment in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University were used in subsequent experiments. Differentially expressed miRNAs were screened out in ectopic endometrial tissues by detecting miRNA sequence from Illumina. The potential roles of these differentially expressed miRNAs and their potential targeted genes in pathogenesis of EMS were analyzed by bioinformatics, and the differential expression levels of 6 miRNAs (miR-98-5p, miR-495-3p, let-7c-5p, miR-200b-3p, miR-200c-3p, miR-148b-3p) were validated by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and subsequently used to build the miRNA-gene regulatory network, then we verified its potential target gene.Results:The microarray results showed that 69 miRNAs might be differentially expressed in ectopic endometrial tissues compared with those in eutopic endometrial tissues (fold change>1.5, P<0.05), including 22 up-regulated miRNAs and 47 down-regulated miRNAs. Gene ontology (GO) analysis showed that the target genes of these differentially expressed miRNAs mainly participated in the protein modification, regulation of development, cell metabolism and morphological structure. KEGG pathway analysis showed that these targeted genes were involved in protein function, autophagy, AGE-RAGE and MAPK signaling pathways. The expression levels of miR-98-5p, let-7c-5p, miR-200b-3p and miR-200c-3p were validated to be significantly altered in ectopic endometrial tissues. The miRNA-gene co-expression network revealed the correlation between the 4 miRNAs and their predicted target genes. qRT-PCR validated results showed that the expression of miR-200b-3p and miR-200c-3p were significantly negatively correlated with ZEB2, while miR-98-5p was negatively correlated with PGRMC1, miR-98-5p and let-7c-5p were positively correlated with ADIPOR2. Conclusion:MiR-98-5p, let-7c-5p, miR-200b-3p and miR-200c-3p were significantly differentially expressed in the ectopic endometrial tissues of EMS patients, which may be involved in the development of EMS.
