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  2. miR32-5p promoted vascular smooth muscle cell calcification by upregulating TNFα in the microenvironment

miR32-5p promoted vascular smooth muscle cell calcification by upregulating TNFα in the microenvironment

  • BMC Immunol. 2020 Jan 17;21(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s12865-019-0324-x.
Jingsong Cao 1 Ling Chen 1 Xiaoling Zhong 1 Yingying Shen 1 Yan Gao 1 Qian Chen 1 Xuyu Zu 2 Jianghua Liu 3 4
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Affiliations

  • 1 Institute of Clinical Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of South China, Hengyang City, 421000, Hunan Province, China.
  • 2 Institute of Clinical Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of South China, Hengyang City, 421000, Hunan Province, China. zuxuyu0108@hotmail.com.
  • 3 Institute of Clinical Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of South China, Hengyang City, 421000, Hunan Province, China. jianghua990@126.com.
  • 4 Department of Metabolism and Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of South China, Hengyang, China. jianghua990@126.com.
Abstract

Background: Vascular calcification is often associated with chronic inflammation and is a risk factor for brain arterial stiffness. Our previous results showed that miR32-5p was positively correlated with vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) calcification, but it is unclear whether miR32-5p promoted VSMC calcification by regulating inflammatory factor production.

Results: In this study, bioinformatics analysis was used to select tumour necrosis factor α (TNFα) as a candidate inflammatory factor associated with calcification. Moreover, alizarin red staining and qRT-PCR analysis revealed that TNFα produced by BV2 cells was the key promoting factor of VSMC calcification. Interestingly, the expression of TNFα was significantly increased at the mRNA and protein levels after miR32-5p mimic treatment but significantly decreased after miR32-5p antagomir treatment. To explore the mechanism of the regulation of TNFα expression by miR32-5p, bioinformatics analysis indicated that PIKfyve was a candidate target gene of miR32-5p, and luciferase assays verified that the expression of PIKfyve was significantly repressed by miR32-5p mimics. Importantly, rescue experiments showed that the expression of TNFα in BV2 cells treated with miR32-5p antagomir and the PIKfyve Inhibitor YM201636 was significantly increased.

Conclusions: The production of TNFα in microglia could be affected by miR32-5p targeting PIKfyve, and these results will be beneficial to reveal the mechanism of brain arterial calcification.

Keywords

Microenvironment; PIKfyve; TNFα; VSMC calcification; miR32-5p.

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