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Transcriptomic landscape of lncRNAs in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

ABSTRACT: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a complex multi-factorial inflammatory disease with Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) being the two most common forms. A number of transcriptional profiling studies have provided compelling evidence that describe the role of protein-coding genes and microRNAs in modulating the immune responses in IBD. In the present study, we performed a genome-wide transcriptome profiling of lncRNAs and protein-coding genes in inflamed and non-inflamed colon pinch biopsies from the IBD patients using expression microarrays platform. In this study, we identified widespread dysregulation of lncRNAs and protein-coding genes in both inflamed and non-inflamed CD and UC compared to the healthy controls. In case of inflamed CD and UC (iCD and iUC), we identified 438 and 745 differentially expressed lncRNAs, respectively, while in case of the non-inflamed CD and UC (niCD and niUC), we identified 12 and 19 differentially expressed lncRNAs, respectively. We also observed significant enrichment (p-value < 0.001, Pearson’s Chi-squared test) for 96 differentially expressed lncRNAs and 154 protein-coding genes within the IBD susceptibility loci. Furthermore, we found strong positive expression correlations for the intersecting and cis-neighboring differentially expressed IBD loci-associated lncRNA-protein-coding gene pairs. The functional annotation analysis of differentially expressed genes revealed that they are involved in immune response, pro-inflammatory cytokine activity and MHC protein complex. The lncRNA expression profiling in both inflamed and non-inflamed CD and UC, successfully stratified IBD patients from the healthy controls. Taken together, the identified lncRNA transcriptional signature along with clinically relevant parameters suggests their potential as biomarkers in IBD. A total of 96 biopsy samples (including 6 samples used as technical replicates) extracted from different colonic locations from 45 patients (CD=13, UC=20, Controls=12) were profiled using Agilent Custom 8x60K format lncRNA expression microarray. In Gencode v15 lncRNA microarray design, each lncRNA transcript is targeted by two probes covering 22,001 lncRNA transcripts corresponding to 12,963 lncRNA genes. In addition, each array contains 17,535 randomly-selected protein-coding targets, of which 15,182 (unique 12,787) correspond to protein-coding genes.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Aashiq Mirza

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-67106 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Project description:Background & Aims: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are clinically manifested as ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s Disease (CD). Novel high throughput technologies revealed new categories of genes, including the long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), which have been involved in the pathogenesis of different human diseases; however the role and function of lncRNAs in the UC pathogenesis has not been evaluated. Methods: The gene expression patterns for both non-coding (lncRNAs) and coding (mRNA) transcripts were profiled in UC (n=8) and control (n=7) patients by ArrayStar assays. The differentially expressed genes were used to develop lncRNA signatures in UC samples. Ingenuity Software Analysis (IPA) program was used to identify the up-stream regulators of IFNG-AS1. Jurkat T cells were activated by PMA/ionomycin and IFNG and TNF protein levels were assessed by ELISA assay. Two anti-sense molecules were designed and used to block IFNG-AS1 expression levels. Colonic tissues from TNBS-treated and IL10-/- mice were used to extract RNA and examine INFG-AS1 expression by real-time PCR. Results: A unique set of lncRNAs was found to be differentially expressed between UC (n=15) and control samples (n=16). Of these, IFNG-AS1 was among the highest statistically significant lncRNAs (fold change: 5.27, p-value: 7.07E-06). Bioinformatic analyses showed that IFNG-AS1 was associated with the IBD susceptibility loci SNP rs7134599 and its genomic location is adjacent to the inflammatory cytokine, interferon-gamma (IFNG). Using the TNBS and IL10-/- mouse models of colitis, we found increased colonic expression of this lncRNA during active colitis. Utilizing the Jurkat T cell model system, we explored the mechanisms of action and found that IFNG-AS1 can positively regulate IFNG expression. Conclusions: Novel lncRNA signatures were identified to differentiate UC patients with active disease, in remission and control subjects. A subset of these lncRNAs was found to be associated with the clinically validated IBD susceptibility loci. IFNG-AS1 was one of these differentially expressed lncRNAs in UC patients and was found to regulate the key inflammatory cytokine, IFNG, in CD4 T cells. Taken together, our study revealed novel lncRNA signatures deregulated in ulcerative colitis and identified IFNG-AS1 as a novel regulator of IFNG inflammatory responses, suggesting the potential importance of non-coding RNA mechanisms on regulation of IBD-related inflammatory responses.

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