microRNA involvement in the regulation of survivin in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from rheumatoid arthritis patients

© 2019 Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd..

AIM: Impaired regulation of immune tolerance results in autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Survivin is an anti-apoptotic protein and can induce cellular mitosis. In the current study, we assessed the transcript level of total survivin (survivin-TS) and its three major variants and evaluated the expression level of important micro RNAs (miRNAs) involved in survivin expression regulation in RA patients.

METHOD: Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated from 50 healthy controls and 50 RA-active patients. RNA extraction was performed and then single-strand complementary DNA was synthesized. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction was used to assess the expression level of survivin-TS and its variants with effective miRNAs in PBMCs.

RESULTS: Overexpression of survivin-2B (fold change = 1.57, P = 0.005), survivn-ΔEx3 (fold change = 1.93, P = 0.009) and downregulation of survivin-WT (fold change = 0.64, P = 0.0002) were found in PBMCs of patients, while messenger RNA (mRNA) expression of survivin-TS had no significant difference between RA patients and controls. Expression levels of miR-335-5p, miR-485-5p, miR-16-5p, miR-150-5p, miR-34a-5p, and miR-203a-3p were significantly increased in PBMCs from patients compared with healthy controls. In a correlation study, dysregulation of these miRNAs were not correlated with mRNA expression level of survivin.

CONCLUSION: While survivin-TS was not differently expressed in RA patients, its variants had altered expression. Although miRNAs were aberrantly expressed in PBMCs from RA subjects, they did not regulate survivin-TS. miRNAs might be involved in RA pathogenesis, but not through controlling survivin.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

International journal of rheumatic diseases - 22(2019), 6 vom: 06. Juni, Seite 1107-1114

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ebrahimiyan, Hamidreza [VerfasserIn]
Rezaei, Nima [VerfasserIn]
Vojdanian, Mahdi [VerfasserIn]
Aslani, Saeed [VerfasserIn]
Jamshidi, Ahmadreza [VerfasserIn]
Mahmoudi, Mahdi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Apoptosis
BIRC5 protein, human
Immune tolerance
Journal Article
MicroRNA
MicroRNAs
RNA, Messenger
Rheumatoid arthritis
Survivin

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 29.01.2020

Date Revised 29.01.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/1756-185X.13520

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM294588558