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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 121, Issue 3, Pages 2406-2415Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.29463
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ceRNA; COAD; GSEA; Long Noncoding RNA; Methylation
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- National Institutes of Health [R01GM123037]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81371349]
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The long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are associated with tumorigenesis and progression of cancer. While DNA methylation is a common epigenetic regulator of gene expression, the methylation of lncRNAs was rarely studied. To address this gap, we integrated DNA methylation and RNA-seq data to characterize the landscape of lncRNA methylation in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD). We collected and analyzed the lncRNA expression and methylation data from The Cancer Genome Atlas and Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia to identify the epigenetically regulated lncRNAs. We further investigated the biological and clinical relevance of the identified lncRNAs via bioinformatics analysis. We identified 20 epigenetically upregulated lncRNAs in COAD, including several well-studied lncRNAs whose methylation regulation were poorly investigated, such as PVT1 and UCA1. We also revealed several novel tumor-associated lncRNAs in COAD, including GATA2-As1 and CYTOR. Next, we explored their biology function using gene set enrichment analysis and competitive endogenous RNA analysis. We characterized the methylation landscape of lncRNA in COAD and identified 20 epigenetically upregulated lncRNAs. Our findings will shed new light on the epigenetic regulation of lncRNA expression by DNA methylation.
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