Identification of cell and disease specific microRNAs in glomerular pathologies
Müller-Deile J, Dannenberg J, Liu P, Lorenzen J, Nyström J, Thum T, Schiffer M (2019)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2019
Journal
DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.14270
Abstract
MicroRNAs (miRs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression in physiological processes as well as in diseases. Currently miRs are already used to find novel mechanisms involved in diseases and in the future, they might serve as diagnostic markers. To identify miRs that play a role in glomerular diseases urinary miR-screenings are a frequently used tool. However, miRs that are detected in the urine might simply be filtered from the blood stream and could have been produced anywhere in the body, so they might be completely unrelated to the diseases. We performed a combined miR-screening in pooled urine samples from patients with different glomerular diseases as well as in cultured human podocytes, human mesangial cells, human glomerular endothelial cells and human tubular cells. The miR-screening in renal cells was done in untreated conditions and after stimulation with TGF-β. A merge of the detected regulated miRs led us to identify disease-specific, cell type-specific and cell stress-induced miRs. Most miRs were down-regulated following the stimulation with TGF-β in all cell types. Up-regulation of miRs after TGF-β was cell type-specific for most miRs. Furthermore, urinary miRs from patients with different glomerular diseases could be assigned to the different renal cell types. Most miRs were specifically regulated in one disease. Only miR-155 was up-regulated in all disease urines compared to control and therefore seems to be rather unspecific. In conclusion, a combined urinary and cell miR-screening can improve the interpretation of screening results. These data are useful to identify novel miRs potentially involved in glomerular diseases.
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University of Zurich / Universität Zürich (UZH)
Switzerland (CH)
University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs universitet
Sweden (SE)
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) / Hannover Medical School
Germany (DE)
Switzerland (CH)
University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs universitet
Sweden (SE)
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) / Hannover Medical School
Germany (DE)
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APA:
Müller-Deile, J., Dannenberg, J., Liu, P., Lorenzen, J., Nyström, J., Thum, T., & Schiffer, M. (2019). Identification of cell and disease specific microRNAs in glomerular pathologies. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.14270
MLA:
Müller-Deile, Janina, et al. "Identification of cell and disease specific microRNAs in glomerular pathologies." Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (2019).
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