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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 249-259Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2011.01291.x
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pre-eclampsia; hypoxia; microRNA; trophoblast cell; transcriptional regulation
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- National Key Technology R&D Program of China [2006BAI05A09]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30901613]
- National Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [09ZR1439100]
- Key Basic Research Program of Shanghai [08JC1405300]
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Pre-eclampsia is a leading cause of maternal and foetal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Insufficient uteroplacental oxygenation is believed to be responsible for the disease. However, what molecular events involve in hypoxic responses and how they affect placental development remain unclear. Recently, miRNAs have emerged as a new class of molecules in response to hypoxia. We show here that the expression of microRNA-210 (mir-210) is up-regulated in patients with pre-eclampsia, as well as in trophoblast cells cultured under hypoxic conditions. Ectopic expression of mir-210 inhibited the migration and invasion capability of trophoblast cells. Ephrin-A3 and Homeobox-A9, which related with cell migration and vascular remodelling, were then experimentally validated as the functional targets of mir-210 both in vivo and in vitro. Using luciferase reporter, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and small interfering RNA (siRNA) experiments, we finally identified a new transcriptional mechanism that the overexpression of mir-210 under hypoxia was regulated by NF-kappa B transcriptional factor p50, apart from the well-known HIF-1 alpha. Taken together, our study implicates an important role for mir-210 in the molecular mechanism of pre-eclampsia.
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