Dysregulated miRNAs modulate tumor microenvironment associated signaling networks in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the West China School of Medicine & West China Hospital of Sichuan University..

The desmoplastic and complex tumor microenvironment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has presented tremendous challenges for developing effective therapeutic strategies. Strategies targeting tumor stroma, albeit with great potential, have met with limited success due to the lack of knowledge on the molecular dynamics within the tumor microenvironment (TME). In pursuit of a better understanding of the influence of miRNAs on TME reprogramming and to explore circulating miRNAs as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for PDAC, using RNA-seq, miRNA-seq, and single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq), we investigated the dysregulated signaling pathways in PDAC TME modulated by miRNAs from plasma and tumor tissue. Our bulk RNA-seq in PDAC tumor tissue identified 1445 significantly differentially expressed genes with extracellular matrix and structure organization as the top enriched pathways. Our miRNA-seq identified 322 and 49 abnormally expressed miRNAs in PDAC patient plasma and tumor tissue, respectively. We found many of the TME signaling pathways were targeted by those dysregulated miRNAs in PDAC plasma. Combined with scRNA-seq from patient PDAC tumor, our results revealed that these dysregulated miRNAs were closely associated with extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling, cell-ECM communication, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, as well as immunosuppression orchestrated by different cellular components of TME. The findings of this study could assist the development of miRNA-based stromal targeting biomarkers or therapy for PDAC patients.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:6

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Precision clinical medicine - 6(2023), 1 vom: 15. März, Seite pbad004

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liu, Tiantian [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Zhong [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Wanqiu [VerfasserIn]
Evans, Ryan [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Jane [VerfasserIn]
Reeves, Mark E [VerfasserIn]
de Vera, Michael E [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Charles [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
MiRNA-seq
Pancreatic cancer
RNA-seq
Single-cell RNA-sequencing
Tumor microenvironment

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Date Revised 04.04.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/pcmedi/pbad004

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM355125765