Research Paper Volume 11, Issue 20 pp 8745—8759
Long noncoding RNA GAS5 inhibits cell proliferation and fibrosis in diabetic nephropathy by sponging miR-221 and modulating SIRT1 expression
- 1 Department of Endocrinology, Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
- 2 Department of Geriatrics, Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
- 3 Department of Family Medicine, Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
Received: May 19, 2019 Accepted: September 2, 2019 Published: October 20, 2019
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102249How to Cite
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Abstract
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the leading causes of end-stage renal diseases worldwide. This study is designed to investigate the underlying function and mechanism of a novel lncRNA GAS5 in the progression of DN. We found that lncRNA GAS5 expression level was decreased in type 2 diabetes (T2D) with DN compared with that in patients without DN. Moreover, lncRNA GAS5 expression level was negatively associated with the severity of DN-related complications. lncRNA GAS5 inhibited MCs proliferation and caused G0/1 phase arrest. lncRNA GAS5 overexpression alleviated the expression of fibrosis-related protein in mesangial cells (MCs). The dual-luciferase reporter assay and RNA binding protein immunoprecipitation (RIP) assay results revealed that lncRNA GAS5 functions as an endogenous sponge for miR-221 via both the directly targeting way and Ago2-dependent manner. Furthermore, SIRT1 was confirmed as a target gene of miR-221. lncRNA GAS5 upregulated SIRT1 expression and inhibited MCs proliferation and fibrosis by acting as an miR-221 sponge. Finally, we found that lncRNA GSA5 suppressed the development of DN in vivo. Thus, lncRNA GAS5 was involved in the progression of DN by sponging miR-221 and contributed to lncRNA-directed diagnostics and therapeutics in DN.
Abbreviations
DN: Diabetic nephropathy; FISH: Fluorescence in situ hybridization; CCK-8: Cell Counting Kit-8; qPCR: Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; ceRNA: Competing endogenous RNA; EdU: Ethynyl-2-deoxyuridine; lncRNA: Long non-coding RNA; EMT: epithelial-mesenchymal transition; MCs: mesangial cells.