In silico identification of potential miRNAs -mRNA inflammatory networks implicated in the pathogenesis of COVID-19

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COVID-19 has been found to affect the expression profile of several mRNAs and miRNAs, leading to dysregulation of a number of signaling pathways, particularly those related to inflammatory responses. In the current study, a systematic biology procedure was used for the analysis of high-throughput expression data from blood specimens of COVID-19 and healthy individuals. Differentially expressed miRNAs in blood specimens of COVID-19 vs. healthy specimens were then identified to construct and analyze miRNA-mRNA networks and predict key miRNAs and genes in inflammatory pathways. Our results showed that 171 miRNAs were expressed as outliers in box plot and located in the critical areas according to our statistical analysis. Among them, 8 miRNAs, namely miR-1275, miR-4429, miR-4489, miR-6721-5p, miR-5010-5p, miR-7110-5p, miR-6804-5p and miR-6881-3p were found to affect expression of key genes in NF-KB, JAK/STAT and MAPK signaling pathways implicated in COVID-19 pathogenesis. In addition, our results predicted that 25 genes involved in above-mentioned inflammatory pathways were targeted not only by these 8 miRNAs but also by other obtained miRNAs (163 miRNAs). The results of the current in silico study represent candidate targets for further studies in COVID-19.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Human gene (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 36(2023) vom: 26. Mai, Seite 201172

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hashemi Sheikhshabani, Somayeh [VerfasserIn]
Amini-Farsani, Zeinab [VerfasserIn]
Modarres, Parastoo [VerfasserIn]
Amini-Farsani, Zahra [VerfasserIn]
Khazaei Feyzabad, Sharareh [VerfasserIn]
Shaygan, Nasibeh [VerfasserIn]
Hussen, Bashdar Mahmud [VerfasserIn]
Omrani, Mir Davood [VerfasserIn]
Ghafouri-Fard, Soudeh [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Inflammation
JAK-STAT
Journal Article
MAPK
MicroRNA (miRNA)
NF-κB

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Date Revised 01.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status Publisher

doi:

10.1016/j.humgen.2023.201172

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36020189X