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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
卷 484, 期 1, 页码 27-33出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.01.085
关键词
MicroRNA-939; Coronary collateral circulation; Vascular integrity; Angiogenesis; gamma-catenin
资金
- Science and Technology Development Special Fund of Pudong New Area Health and Family Planning Commission [PW2013A-35]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [14ZR1437200]
- Foundation of Medical Elite Personnel Training Program of Pudong New Area [PWR12010-03]
Coronary collateral circulation (CCC) functions as a natural bypass in the event of coronary obstruction, which markedly improves prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been implicated in multiple physiological and pathological processes, including angiogenesis involved in CCC growth. The roles that miRNA-939 (miR-939) plays in angiogenesis remain largely unknown. We conducted this study to explore the expression of miR-939 in CAD patients and its role in angiogenesis. For the first time, our results indicated that the expression of circulating miR-939 was down-regulated in patients with sufficient CCC compared with patients with poor CCC. Overexpression of miR-939 in primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) significantly inhibited the proliferation, adhesion and tube formation, but promoted the migration of cells. In contrast, miR-939 knockdown exerted reverse effects. We further identified that gamma-catenin was a novel target of miR-939 by translational repression, which could rescue the effects of miR-939 in HUVECs. In summary, this study revealed that the expression of circulating miR-939 was down-regulated in CAD patients with sufficient CCC. MiR-939 abolished vascular integrity and repressed angiogenesis through directly targeting gamma-catenin. It provided a potential biomarker and a therapeutic target for CAD. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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