Circulating Plasma miRNA Homologs in Mice and Humans Reflect Familial Cerebral Cavernous Malformation Disease

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Patients with familial cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) inherit germline loss of function mutations and are susceptible to progressive development of brain lesions and neurological sequelae during their lifetime. To date, no homologous circulating molecules have been identified that can reflect the presence of germ line pathogenetic CCM mutations, either in animal models or patients. We hypothesize that homologous differentially expressed (DE) plasma miRNAs can reflect the CCM germline mutation in preclinical murine models and patients. Herein, homologous DE plasma miRNAs with mechanistic putative gene targets within the transcriptome of preclinical and human CCM lesions were identified. Several of these gene targets were additionally found to be associated with CCM-enriched pathways identified using the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes. DE miRNAs were also identified in familial-CCM patients who developed new brain lesions within the year following blood sample collection. The miRNome results were then validated in an independent cohort of human subjects with real-time-qPCR quantification, a technique facilitating plasma assays. Finally, a Bayesian-informed machine learning approach showed that a combination of plasma levels of miRNAs and circulating proteins improves the association with familial-CCM disease in human subjects to 95% accuracy. These findings act as an important proof of concept for the future development of translatable circulating biomarkers to be tested in preclinical studies and human trials aimed at monitoring and restoring gene function in CCM and other diseases.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Translational stroke research - 14(2023), 4 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 513-529

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Romanos, Sharbel G [VerfasserIn]
Srinath, Abhinav [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Bingqing [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Chang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Moore, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Bi, Dehua [VerfasserIn]
Sone, Je Yeong [VerfasserIn]
Lightle, Rhonda [VerfasserIn]
Hobson, Nick [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Dongdong [VerfasserIn]
Koskimäki, Janne [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Le [VerfasserIn]
McCurdy, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Catherine Chinhchu [VerfasserIn]
Stadnik, Agnieszka [VerfasserIn]
Piedad, Kristina [VerfasserIn]
Carrión-Penagos, Julián [VerfasserIn]
Shkoukani, Abdallah [VerfasserIn]
Snellings, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Shenkar, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Sulakhe, Dinanath [VerfasserIn]
Ji, Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Lopez-Ramirez, Miguel A [VerfasserIn]
Kahn, Mark L [VerfasserIn]
Marchuk, Douglas A [VerfasserIn]
Ginsberg, Mark H [VerfasserIn]
Girard, Romuald [VerfasserIn]
Awad, Issam A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cerebral cavernous malformations
Circulating MicroRNA
Genotype
Journal Article
KRIT1 Protein
Machine learning
MicroRNA
MicroRNAs
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 29.06.2023

Date Revised 20.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s12975-022-01050-3

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM34236877X