Project description:A number of mediators that have been found to be involved in the pathogenesis of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension, these mediators including mRNA, microRNAs and long noncoding RNAs. Endothelial dysfunction plays a major role in the initiation of pulmonary vascular remodeling and is thought to be a major contributor to this process. However, mRNA and no-coding RNAs expression profiles and their biological functions in pulmonary artery endothelial cells (PAECs) exposed to hypoxia need to be investigated further. Pulmonary artery endothelial cells (PAECs) were exposed to normoxia condition (21% O2, 5% CO2, 74% N2) or hypoxia condition (3% O2, 5% CO2, 92% N2) (n=3 for each group).PAECs were harvested after 24 hours and performed to further analysis.
Project description:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are non-protein coding RNAs regulating gene expression. Although for some lncRNAs a relevant role in hypoxic endothelium has been shown, the regulation and function of lncRNAs is still largely unknown in the vascular physio-pathology. Taking advantage of next-generation sequencing techniques, transcriptomic changes induced by endothelial cell exposure to hypoxia were investigated. Paired-end sequencing of polyadenylated RNA derived from human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) exposed to 1% O2 or normoxia was performed. Bioinformatics analysis identified â 2000 differentially expressed genes, including 122 lncRNAs. Extensive validation was performed by both microarray and qPCR. Among the validated lncRNAs, H19, MIR210HG, MEG9, MALAT1 and MIR22HG were also induced in a mouse model of hindlimb ischemia. To test the functional relevance of lncRNAs in endothelial cells, knockdown of H19 expression was performed. H19 inhibition decreased HUVEC growth, inducing their accumulation in G1 phase of the cell cycle; accordingly, p21 (CDKN1A) expression was increased. Additionally, H19 knockdown also diminished HUVEC ability to form capillary like structures when plated on matrigel. In conclusion, a high-confidence signature of lncRNAs modulated by hypoxia in HUVEC was identified and a significant impact of H19 lncRNA was shown Total RNA was extracted from two independent experiments with different time-points of hypoxia exposure (1% oxygen). HUVEC were exposed to 24h normoxia and 24h hypoxia or to 24h normoxia and 48h hypoxia. Each experiment was performed in duplicate.
Project description:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are non-protein coding RNAs regulating gene expression. Although for some lncRNAs a relevant role in hypoxic endothelium has been shown, the regulation and function of lncRNAs is still largely unknown in the vascular physio-pathology. Taking advantage of next-generation sequencing techniques, transcriptomic changes induced by endothelial cell exposure to hypoxia were investigated. Paired-end sequencing of polyadenylated RNA derived from human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) exposed to 1% O2 or normoxia was performed. Bioinformatics analysis identified â 2000 differentially expressed genes, including 122 lncRNAs. Extensive validation was performed by both microarray and qPCR. Among the validated lncRNAs, H19, MIR210HG, MEG9, MALAT1 and MIR22HG were also induced in a mouse model of hindlimb ischemia. To test the functional relevance of lncRNAs in endothelial cells, knockdown of H19 expression was performed. H19 inhibition decreased HUVEC growth, inducing their accumulation in G1 phase of the cell cycle; accordingly, p21 (CDKN1A) expression was increased. Additionally, H19 knockdown also diminished HUVEC ability to form capillary like structures when plated on matrigel. In conclusion, a high-confidence signature of lncRNAs modulated by hypoxia in HUVEC was identified and a significant impact of H19 lncRNA was shown. HUVEC were exposed to normoxia or 24 and 48 hours of hypoxia (1% oxygen). For each time point and condition was performed in duplicate was produced Total RNAs of six samples were extracted and analysed.
Project description:GM0637 cell were treated with or without DNA damaging agent neocarzinostatin (NCS), and cells were harvested after 4 hours and 8 hours for the microarray analyses of whole-genome long noncoding RNAs. To examine how long noncoding RNAs are regulated in the DNA damage response, we assessed the genome-wide long noncoding RNA expression in GM0637 cells treated with or without DNA damage
Project description:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are non-protein coding RNAs regulating gene expression. Although for some lncRNAs a relevant role in hypoxic endothelium has been shown, the regulation and function of lncRNAs is still largely unknown in the vascular physio-pathology. Taking advantage of next-generation sequencing techniques, transcriptomic changes induced by endothelial cell exposure to hypoxia were investigated. Paired-end sequencing of polyadenylated RNA derived from human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) exposed to 1% O2 or normoxia was performed. Bioinformatics analysis identified â 2000 differentially expressed genes, including 122 lncRNAs. Extensive validation was performed by both microarray and qPCR. Among the validated lncRNAs, H19, MIR210HG, MEG9, MALAT1 and MIR22HG were also induced in a mouse model of hindlimb ischemia. To test the functional relevance of lncRNAs in endothelial cells, knockdown of H19 expression was performed. H19 inhibition decreased HUVEC growth, inducing their accumulation in G1 phase of the cell cycle; accordingly, p21 (CDKN1A) expression was increased. Additionally, H19 knockdown also diminished HUVEC ability to form capillary like structures when plated on matrigel. In conclusion, a high-confidence signature of lncRNAs modulated by hypoxia in HUVEC was identified and a significant impact of H19 lncRNA was shown. For H19 knock-down, 50 nM of antisense LNA⢠GapmeRs customer-designed for H19 or Negative control A (Exiqon) were transfected by siRNA transfection reagent (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) in 40% confluent HAOEC according to the manufacturerâs manual.