1  3868 158 JMJD6 EXERTS FUNCTION IN NEUROPATHIC PAIN BY REGULATING NF?KAPPAB FOLLOWING PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY IN RATS. TREATMENT OF NEUROPATHIC PAIN (NPP) CONTINUES TO BE A MAJOR CHALLENGE, AND THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS REMAIN TO BE ELUCIDATED. PREVIOUS STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT HISTONE METHYLATION IS IMPORTANT IN SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND MAY AFFECT NUCLEAR FACTOR?KAPPAB (NF?KAPPAB) SIGNALING THROUGH EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS. THE PRESENT STUDY AIMED TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF JUMONJI C DOMAIN 6 (JMJD6), A HISTONE DEMETHYLASE, IN A CHRONIC CONSTRICTION INJURY (CCI) MODEL OF NPP. ON THE THIRD DAY POST?CCI SURGERY, A JMJD6 OVEREXPRESSING LENTIVIRAL VECTOR (LV?JMJD6) WAS INTRATHECALLY INJECTED IN THE RATS. MECHANICAL WITHDRAWAL THRESHOLD AND THERMAL WITHDRAWAL LATENCY WERE ASSESSED PRIOR SURGERY AND ON DAYS 3, 7, 10 AND 14 POST?CCI. THE RESULTS SHOWED THAT INTRATHECAL INJECTION WITH THE LV?JMJD6 ATTENUATED CCI?INDUCED PAIN FACILITATION. THE EXPRESSION OF JMJD6 WAS LOWER FOLLOWING CCI SURGERY, AND ITS EXPRESSION WAS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED FOLLOWING INTRATHECAL INJECTION WITH LV?JMJD6, COMPARED WITH LEVELS IN NORMAL SALINE (NS)? AND NEGATIVE CONTROL LENTIVIRAL VECTOR (NC)?TREATED RATS. THE EXPRESSION OF SPINAL NF?KAPPAB PHOSPHORYLATED (P?)P65 SUBUNIT AND ITS DOWNSTREAM PAIN?ASSOCIATED EFFECTORS, INCLUDING INTERLEUKIN 1BETA (IL?1BETA), TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR?ALPHA (TNF?ALPHA) AND VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF), WERE INCREASED FOLLOWING CCI SURGERY. INTRATHECAL INJECTION WITH LV?JMJD6 SUPPRESSED ACTIVATION OF THE P?P65 SUBUNIT IN CCI RATS. IN ADDITION, EXPRESSION LEVELS OF ITS DOWNSTREAM EFFECTORS IL?1BETA, TNF?ALPHA AND VEGF WERE ATTENUATED BY INTRATHECAL TREATMENT WITH LV?JMJD6, COMPARED WITH THOSE IN THE NS? AND NC?TREATED CCI RATS. FURTHERMORE, THE JMJD6? AND P65?IMMUNOREACTIVE CELLS OVERLAPPED IN THE SPINAL DORSAL HORN, HOWEVER, CO?IMMUNOPRECIPITATION SHOWED THAT JMJD6 AND THE NF?KAPPAB P65 SUBUNIT DID NOT DIRECTLY INTERACT, INDICATING OTHER FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIONS MAY EXIST BETWEEN THESE FACTORS FOLLOWING CCI SURGERY. COLLECTIVELY, THESE FINDINGS INDICATED AN IMPORTANT MECHANISM UNDERLYING THE PATHOGENESIS OF NPP. JMJD6 MAY EXERT ITS THERAPEUTIC FUNCTION IN NPP BY REGULATING NF?KAPPAB FOLLOWING CCI.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
2  2326  37 EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF HOTAIR IN ADVANCED CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA. PURPOSE: CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA (CML) ACCOUNTS FOR ~10% OF LEUKEMIA CASES, AND ITS PROGRESSION INVOLVES EPIGENETIC GENE REGULATION. THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF HOTAIR AND ITS TARGET MICRORNA, MIR-143, IN ADVANCED CML. PATIENTS AND METHODS: WE FIRST ISOLATED BONE MARROW MONONUCLEAR CELLS FROM 70 PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT PHASES OF CML AND FROM HEALTHY DONORS AS NORMAL CONTROL; WE ALSO CULTURED K562 AND KCL22 CELLS, TREATED WITH DEMETHYLATION DRUG; MTT ASSAY, FLOW CYTOMETRY, QUANTITATIVE REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (QPCR), METHYLATION-SPECIFIC POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (MSP), WESTERN BLOT, LUCIFERASE ASSAY, RNA PULL-DOWN ASSAY AND RNA-BINDING PROTEIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION (RIP) ASSAY WERE PERFORMED. RESULT: AS MEASURED BY QPCR, HOTAIR EXPRESSION IN K562 CELLS, KCL22 CELLS, AND SAMPLES FROM CASES OF ADVANCED-STAGE CML INCREASED WITH LEVELS OF SEVERAL DNA METHYLTRANSFERASES AND HISTONE DEACETYLATES, INCLUDING DNMT1, DNMT3A, HDAC1, EZH2, AND LSD1, AND MIR-143 LEVELS WERE DECREASED AND HOTAIR LEVELS WERE INCREASED. TREATMENT WITH 5-AZACYTIDINE, A DNA METHYLATION INHIBITOR, DECREASED DNMT1, DNMT3A, HDAC1, EZH2, LSD1 MRNA, PROTEIN LEVELS, AND HOTAIR MRNA LEVELS BUT INCREASED MIR-143 LEVELS. HOTAIR KNOCKDOWN AND MIR-143 OVEREXPRESSION BOTH INHIBITED PROLIFERATION AND PROMOTED APOPTOSIS IN KCL22 AND K562 CELLS THROUGH THE PI3K/AKT PATHWAY. RNA PULL-DOWN, MASS SPECTROMETRY, AND RIP ASSAYS SHOWED THAT HOTAIR INTERACTED WITH EZH2 AND LSD1. A DUAL-LUCIFERASE ASSAY DEMONSTRATED THAT HOTAIR INTERACTED WITH MIR-143. CONCLUSION: OUR FINDINGS DEMONSTRATE THE KEY EPIGENETIC INTERACTIONS OF HOTAIR RELATED TO CML PROGRESSION AND SUGGEST HOTAIR AS A POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC TARGET FOR ADVANCED CML. FURTHERMORE, OUR RESULTS SUPPORT THE USE OF DEMETHYLATION DRUGS AS A CML TREATMENT STRATEGY.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
3  4366  41 MIRNA-23A/CXCR4 REGULATES NEUROPATHIC PAIN VIA DIRECTLY TARGETING TXNIP/NLRP3 INFLAMMASOME AXIS. BACKGROUND: CHEMOKINE CXC RECEPTOR 4 (CXCR4) IN SPINAL GLIAL CELLS HAS BEEN IMPLICATED IN NEUROPATHIC PAIN. HOWEVER, THE REGULATORY CASCADES OF CXCR4 IN NEUROPATHIC PAIN REMAIN ELUSIVE. HERE, WE INVESTIGATED THE FUNCTIONAL REGULATORY ROLE OF MIRNAS IN THE PAIN PROCESS AND ITS INTERPLAY WITH CXCR4 AND ITS DOWNSTREAM SIGNALING. METHODS: MIRNAS AND CXCR4 AND ITS DOWNSTREAM SIGNALING MOLECULES WERE MEASURED IN THE SPINAL CORDS OF MICE WITH SCIATIC NERVE INJURY VIA PARTIAL SCIATIC NERVE LIGATION (PSNL). IMMUNOBLOTTING, IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE, IMMUNOPRECIPITATION, AND MAMMAL TWO-HYBRID AND BEHAVIORAL TESTS WERE USED TO EXPLORE THE DOWNSTREAM CXCR4-DEPENDENT SIGNALING PATHWAY. RESULTS: CXCR4 EXPRESSION INCREASED IN SPINAL GLIAL CELLS OF MICE WITH PSNL-INDUCED NEUROPATHIC PAIN. BLOCKING CXCR4 ALLEVIATED THE PAIN BEHAVIOR; CONTRARILY, OVEREXPRESSING CXCR4 INDUCED PAIN HYPERSENSITIVITY. MICRORNA-23A-3P (MIR-23A) DIRECTLY BOUNDS TO 3' UTR OF CXCR4 MRNA. PSNL-INDUCED NEUROPATHIC PAIN SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED MRNA EXPRESSION OF MIR-23A. OVEREXPRESSION OF MIR-23A BY INTRATHECAL INJECTION OF MIR-23A MIMICS OR LENTIVIRUS REDUCED SPINAL CXCR4 AND PREVENTED PSNL-INDUCED NEUROPATHIC PAIN. IN CONTRAST, KNOCKDOWN OF MIR-23A BY INTRATHECAL INJECTION OF MIR-23A INHIBITOR OR LENTIVIRUS INDUCED PAIN-LIKE BEHAVIOR, WHICH WAS REDUCED BY CXCR4 INHIBITION. ADDITIONALLY, MIR-23A KNOCKDOWN OR CXCR4 OVEREXPRESSION IN NAIVE MICE COULD INCREASE THE THIOREDOXIN-INTERACTING PROTEIN (TXNIP), WHICH WAS ASSOCIATED WITH INDUCTION OF NOD-LIKE RECEPTOR PROTEIN 3 (NLRP3) INFLAMMASOME. INDEED, CXCR4 AND TXNIP WERE CO-EXPRESSED. THE MAMMAL TWO-HYBRID ASSAY REVEALED THE DIRECT INTERACTION BETWEEN CXCR4 AND TXNIP, WHICH WAS INCREASED IN THE SPINAL CORD OF PSNL MICE. IN PARTICULAR, INHIBITION OF TXNIP REVERSED PAIN BEHAVIOR ELICITED BY PSNL, MIR-23A KNOCKDOWN, OR CXCR4 OVEREXPRESSION. MOREOVER, MIR-23A OVEREXPRESSION OR CXCR4 KNOCKDOWN INHIBITED THE INCREASE OF TXNIP AND NLRP3 INFLAMMASOME IN PSNL MICE. CONCLUSIONS: MIR-23A, BY DIRECTLY TARGETING CXCR4, REGULATES NEUROPATHIC PAIN VIA TXNIP/NLRP3 INFLAMMASOME AXIS IN SPINAL GLIAL CELLS. EPIGENETIC INTERVENTIONS AGAINST MIR-23A, CXCR4, OR TXNIP MAY POTENTIALLY SERVE AS NOVEL THERAPEUTIC AVENUES IN TREATING PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY-INDUCED NOCICEPTIVE HYPERSENSITIVITY.	2018	
                                                                       
4   574  30 BCR/ABL INCREASES EZH2 LEVELS WHICH REGULATES XIAP EXPRESSION VIA MIRNA-219 IN CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA CELLS. IN THIS STUDY, WE SHOWED THAT THE LEVELS OF EZH2 IN BONE MARROW MONONUCLEAR CELLS (BMMNCS) ISOLATED FROM INDIVIDUALS WITH CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA (CML) (N=12) WERE SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER THAN THOSE IN BMMNCS ISOLATED FROM HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS (N=6) AS WELL AS INDIVIDUALS WITH PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME-NEGATIVE MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASMS. LENTIVIRAL TRANSDUCTION OF THE BCR/ABL GENE IN BA/F3 CELLS INCREASED EZH2 LEVELS IN PARALLEL WITH PHOSPHORYLATION OF STAT5. NOTABLY, CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION ASSAYS SHOWED THAT STAT5A BOUND TO A PROMOTER REGION OF THE EZH2 GENE, RESULTING IN AN INCREASE IN THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVITY OF EZH2 IN LEUKEMIA CELLS. IMPORTANTLY, DOWNREGULATION OF EZH2 BY SHORT HAIRPIN RNAS (SHRNAS) INHIBITED THE EXPRESSION OF XIAP AND INCREASED THE MIR-219 LEVELS ASSOCIATED WITH A DECREASE IN HYPERMETHYLATION OF MIR-219-1 CPG ISLANDS. MOREOVER, OVEREXPRESSION OF MIR-219 DECREASED THE LEVELS OF XIAP IN CML CELLS. SINCE THE 3'-UNTRANSLATED REGION (3'-UTR) OF XIAP CONTAINS MIR219-5P-COMPLEMENTARY BINDING SITE, MIR-219 MIGHT MODULATE THE EXPRESSION OF XIAP THROUGH BINDING OF MIR-219 ON THE 3'-UTR OF XIAP. TAKEN TOGETHER, BCR/ABL POSITIVELY REGULATES THE EXPRESSION OF EZH2 VIA STAT5 SIGNALING. EZH2 MODULATES EPIGENETIC CHANGES AT DNA METHYLATED REGIONS ENCODING MIR-219 AND DOWNREGULATES THE LEVEL OF MIR-219, RESULTING IN UPREGULATION OF XIAP.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
5  5459  35 RESEARCH ON THE EPIGENETIC REGULATION MECHANISM OF THE PTPN6 GENE IN ADVANCED CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKAEMIA. PTPN6, A TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE PROTEIN, PLAYS A NEGATIVE ROLE IN CELL SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION AND IS NEGATIVELY CORRELATED WITH TUMOUR FORMATION AND GROWTH. HOWEVER, EPIGENETIC REGULATION MECHANISM OF THE PTPN6 GENE IN ADVANCED CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKAEMIA (CML) REMAINS UNCLEAR. THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED BONE MARROW OR BLOOD SAMPLES FROM 44 CML PATIENTS AND 10 HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS. KCL22 AND K562 CELLS WERE CULTURED AND TREATED WITH DEMETHYLATION DRUGS AND HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS. REAL TIME QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (QPCR), METHYLATION-SPECIFIC PCR, BISULFITE SEQUENCING PCR, WESTERN BLOTTING, CO-IMMUNOPRECIPITATION AND CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION (CHIP) WAS PERFORMED. PTPN6 WAS DOWN-REGULATED IN CELL LINES AND PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED PHASE CML, WHEREAS DNMT1, DNMT3A, MECP2, MBD2 AND HDAC1 WERE UP-REGULATED. TREATMENT WITH 5-AZACYTIDINE, DECITABINE, SODIUM VALPROATE AND LBH589 INCREASED PTPN6 EXPRESSION, BUT DECREASED THAT OF DNMT1, DNMT3A, MECP2, MBD2 AND HDAC1. IMMUNOPRECIPITATION AND MASS SPECTROMETRY SHOWED THAT HDAC1 COMBINED DIRECTLY WITH PTPN6. CHIP-SEQ SHOWED THAT HDAC1 DID NOT COMBINE WITH THE PROMOTER REGION OF PTPN6, WHILE MAPK, AKT, STAT5, JAK2 AND MYC PROMOTER REGIONS ALL COMBINED WITH HDAC1. PTPN6 IS ASSOCIATED WITH PROGRESSION OF CML. LOW EXPRESSION LEVEL OF PTPN6 WAS ASSOCIATED WITH DNA METHYLATION AND REGULATED BY HISTONE ACETYLATION. HDAC1 PARTICIPATES IN THE REGULATION OF PTPN6.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
6  5458  38 RESEARCH ON EPIGENETIC MECHANISM OF SFRP2 IN ADVANCED CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA. SECRETED FRIZZLED-RELATED PROTEIN 2 (SFRP2) HAS BEEN REPORTED TO ACT AS A TUMOR SUPPRESSORS. THIS STUDY AIMS TO DETECT THE BIOLOGICAL ROLE OF SFRP2 IN ADVANCED CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA (CML). IN THIS STUDY WE EXAMINED BONE MARROW SAMPLES FROM 45 CML PATIENTS AND 10 HEALTHY DONORS. K562 AND KCL22 CELLS WERE CULTURED AND TREATED WITH DEMETHYLATION DRUG AND HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR (HDACI). KCL22 AND K562 CELLS WERE TRANSFECTED WITH LENTIVIRAL VECTOR (LV)-SFRP2, LV-CONTROL. THE CELLS WERE THEN SUBJECTED TO PROLIFERATION AND APOPTOSIS ASSAYS, REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR), METHYLATION-SPECIFIC PCR (MSP), WESTERN BLOTTING, CO-IMMUNOPRECIPITATION (COIP) AND CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION (CHIP), WE FOUND THAT SFRP2 WAS DOWN-REGULATED IN THE ACCELERATED AND BLAST PHASE OF CML, WHEREAS, THE LEVELS OF WNT1, WNT3 AND WNT5A WERE UP-REGULATED IN THE ACCELERATED AND BLAST PHASE OF CML. OVEREXPRESSION SFRP2 INHIBITED PROLIFERATION, PROMOTED APOPTOSIS AND ACTIVATED THE WNT PATHWAY. COIP-MS RESULTS SHOWED THAT SFRP2 INTERACTED WITH WNT1 AND WNT5A. CHIP-SEQ RESULT INDICATED THAT THE PROMOTER OF H3K4ME3 AND H3K27ME3 WERE ABLE TO INTERACT WITH SFRP2. IN CONCLUSION, OUR FINDINGS DEMONSTRATED THE SFRP2 ACT AS A POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC TARGET FOR ADVANCED CML. FURTHERMORE, OUR RESULTS SUPPORT THE USE OF DEMETHYLATION DRUGS AND HDACI AS A POTENTIAL CML TREATMENT STRATEGY.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
7  5479  36 RESVERATROL ATTENUATES CIGARETTE SMOKE EXTRACT INDUCED CELLULAR SENESCENCE IN HUMAN AIRWAY EPITHELIAL CELLS BY REGULATING THE MIR-34A/SIRT1/NF-KAPPAB PATHWAY. CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) IS CHARACTERIZED BY ACCELERATED LUNG AGING. SMOKING IS THE CRITICAL RISK FACTOR FOR COPD. CELLULAR SENESCENCE OF AIRWAY EPITHELIAL CELLS IS THE CYTOLOGICAL BASIS OF ACCELERATED LUNG AGING IN COPD, AND THE REGULATION OF MICRORNAS (MIRNAS) IS THE CENTRAL EPIGENETIC MECHANISM OF CELLULAR SENESCENCE. RESVERATROL (RES) IS A POLYPHENOL WITH ANTI-AGING PROPERTIES. THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED WHETHER RES ATTENUATES CIGARETTE SMOKE EXTRACT (CSE)-INDUCED CELLULAR SENESCENCE IN HUMAN AIRWAY EPITHELIAL CELLS (BEAS-2B) THROUGH THE MIR-34A/SIRT1/NUCLEAR FACTOR-KAPPAB (NF-KAPPAB) PATHWAY. BEAS-2B CELLS WERE TREATED WITH RES, CSE AND TRANSFECTED WITH MIR-34A-5P MIMICS. CELLULAR SENESCENCE WAS EVALUATED BY SENESCENCE -RELATED BETA-GALACTOSIDASE (SA-BETA-GAL) STAINING AND EXPRESSION OF SENESCENCE-RELATED GENES (P16, P21, AND P53). THE EXPRESSIONS OF MIR-34A-5P, SIRT1, AND NF-KAPPAB P65 WERE EXAMINED USING QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION AND WESTERN BLOTTING. THE SENESCENCE-ASSOCIATED SECRETORY PHENOTYPE (SASP) CYTOKINES (IL-1BETA, IL-6, IL-8, TNF-ALPHA) WERE ASSESSED BY ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY. THE BINDING BETWEEN MIR-34A-5P AND SIRT1 WAS CONFIRMED BY DUAL-LUCIFERASE REPORTER ASSAY. THE RESULTS SHOWED THAT CSE DOSE-DEPENDENTLY DECREASED CELL VIABILITY AND ELEVATED CELLULAR SENESCENCE, CHARACTERIZED BY INCREASED SA-BETA-GAL STAINING AND SENESCENCE-RELATED GENE EXPRESSIONS (P16, P21, AND P53). FURTHER, CSE DOSE-DEPENDENTLY INCREASED THE EXPRESSION OF MIR-34A-5P AND SASP CYTOKINES (IL-1BETA, IL-6, IL-8, TNF-ALPHA) IN BEAS-2B CELLS. PRETREATMENT WITH RES INHIBITED CSE-INDUCED CELLULAR SENESCENCE AND SECRETION OF SASP CYTOKINES (IL-1BETA, IL-6, IL-8, TNF-ALPHA) IN A DOSE-DEPENDENT MANNER. MOREOVER, RES REVERSED THE CSE-INDUCED DOWN-REGULATION OF SIRT1 AND UP-REGULATION OF MIR-34A-5P AND NF-KAPPAB P65. SIRT1 IS A TARGET OF MIR-34A-5P. OVEREXPRESSION OF MIR-34A-5P VIA TRANSFECTION WITH MIR-34A-5P MIMIC IN BEAS-2B CELLS ATTENUATED THE INHIBITORY EFFECT OF RES ON CELLULAR SENESCENCE, ACCOMPANIED BY REVERSING THE EXPRESSION OF SIRT1 AND NF-KAPPAB P65. IN CONCLUSION, RES ATTENUATED CSE-INDUCED CELLULAR SENESCENCE IN BEAS-2B CELLS BY REGULATING THE MIR-34A/SIRT1/NF-KAPPAB PATHWAY, WHICH MAY PROVIDE A NEW APPROACH FOR COPD TREATMENT.	2022	

8  6918  62 [WNT3A SIGNALING PATHWAY PLAYS A ROLE IN NEUROPATHIC PAIN THROUGH EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION OF JMJD6]. TO EXPLORE WHETHER WNT3A EXERTS A ROLE IN NEUROPATHIC PAIN THROUGH JUMONJI C DOMAIN 6 (JMJD6)-ASSOCIATED EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION. METHODS: SD RATS WERE DIVIDED INTO 4 GROUPS: A SHAM GROUP, A CHRONIC CONSTRICTION INJURY (CCI) GROUP, A CCI+NEGATIVE LENTIVIRAL EXPRESSION VECTOR (LV-NC) GROUP AND A CCI+LENTIVIRAL OVEREXPRESSION VECTOR (LV-JMJD6) GROUP. THE SCIATIC NERVE CCI MODEL OF SD RAT AND JMJD6 LENTIVIRAL EXPRESSION VECTOR WERE CONSTRUCTED. ON THE THIRD DAY AFTER CCI, THE INTRATHECAL CATHETER WAS PREPARED, AND 20 MUL OF NORMAL SALINE AND LENTIVIRUS-CONTAINING REAGENT (VIRUS TITER 1X108 TU/ML) WERE ADMINISTERED. THE RATS' PAW WITHDRAWAL MECHANICAL THRESHOLD (PWMT) AND PAW WITHDRAWAL THERMAL LATENCY (PWTL) WERE MONITORED, AND WESTERN BLOTTING WAS USED TO DETECT THE EXPRESSION OF WNT3A AND NR2B PROTEIN IN THE SPINAL CORD. CO-IMMUNOPRECIPITATION WAS APPLIED TO DETECT THE INTERACTION BETWEEN JMJD6 AND WNT3A. RESULTS: COMPARED WITH THE SHAM GROUP, THE PWMT OF THE RATS IN EACH GROUP AFTER CCI WAS SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASED AND THE PWTL WAS SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTENED (P<0.05). COMPARED WITH THE CCI GROUP AND THE CCI+LV-NC GROUP, PWMT IN THE CCI+LV-JMJD6 GROUP WAS INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY ON THE 10TH DAY AND THE 14TH DAY AFTER CCI, AND THE PWTL WAS SIGNIFICANTLY PROLONGED ON THE 14TH DAY AFTER CCI (P<0.05). ON THE 14TH DAY AFTER CCI, THE EXPRESSION LEVELS OF WNT3A AND NR2B IN THE CCI GROUP AND THE CCI+LV-NC GROUP WERE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN THOSE IN THE SHAM GROUP. AFTER INTRATHECAL INJECTION OF LENTIVIRAL VECTOR, WNT3A AND NR2B PROTEIN EXPRESSION LEVELS IN THE CCI+LV-JMJD6 GROUP WERE LOWER COMPARED WITH THE CCI+LV-NC GROUP (P<0.05). THE RESULTS OF CO-IMMUNOPRECIPITATION SHOWED NO DIRECT INTERACTION BETWEEN WNT3A AND JMJD6. CONCLUSION: WNT3A IS INVOLVED IN MEDIATING NEUROPATHIC PAIN, AND ITS EFFECT MAY BE RELATED TO THE EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION OF JMJD6, WHICH IS LIKELY REGULATED THROUGH INDIRECT INTERACTION.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
9  3832  44 INVOLVEMENT OF SPINAL SIRT1 IN DEVELOPMENT OF CHRONIC CONSTRICTION INJURY INDUCED NEUROPATHIC PAIN IN RATS. IT IS KNOWN THAT THE EPIGENETIC PROCESS OF HISTONE ACETYLATION IS INVOLVED IN THE NEUROPATHIC PAIN. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER SIRTUIN TYPE 1 (SIRT1), AN NAD(+) DEPENDENT DEACETYLASE, AFFECTED ALLODYNIA AND HYPERALGESIA IN NEUROPATHIC PAIN. THE NEUROPATHIC PAIN MODEL WAS ESTABLISHED BY LIGATURE OF THE RIGHT SCIATIC NERVE TO INDUCE CHRONIC CONSTRICTION INJURY (CCI) IN RATS. HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE (HAT) ACTIVITY WAS INCREASED AND, AND HISTONE DEACETYLASE (HDAC) ACTIVITY WAS DECLINED IN TISSUE OF THE SPINAL DORSA HORN IN CCI RATES BY MEANS OF ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY (ELISA). THE PERSISTENT HYPERALGESIA AND ALLODYNIA CAUSED BY CCI WERE ASSOCIATED WITH DOWNREGULATION OF SIRT1 AND UPREGULATION OF ACETYLATED-H3 (AC-H3) IN TISSUE OF THE SPINAL CORD BY WESTERN BLOT ASSAY, WHICH WAS REVERSED AFTER INTRATHECAL INJECTION OF SIRT1 AGONIST SRT1720. SRT1720 TREATMENT ACHIEVED ANALGESIC THROUGH INHIBITING THE ACETYLATION OF NUCLEAR FACTOR KAPPA B (NF-KAPPAB) AND BLOCKING THE RELEASES OF THE INFLAMMATORY FACTORS INCLUDING TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA (TNF-ALPHA) AND INTERLEUKIN (IL)-6 BY MEANS OF WESTERN BLOT AND REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR (RT-PCR), RESPECTIVELY. TAKEN TOGETHER, THESE DATA SUGGEST THAT SIRT1 IN THE SPINAL CORD PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE NEUROPATHIC PAIN IN THE RAT MODEL.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
10  4699  42 NFATC2-DEPENDENT EPIGENETIC UPREGULATION OF CXCL14 IS INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEUROPATHIC PAIN INDUCED BY PACLITAXEL. BACKGROUND: THE MAJOR DOSE-LIMITING TOXICITY OF PACLITAXEL, ONE OF THE MOST COMMONLY USED DRUGS TO TREAT SOLID TUMOR, IS PAINFUL NEUROPATHY. HOWEVER, THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING PACLITAXEL-INDUCED PAINFUL NEUROPATHY ARE LARGELY UNCLARIFIED. METHODS: PAW WITHDRAWAL THRESHOLD WAS MEASURED IN THE RATS FOLLOWING INTRAPERITONEAL INJECTION OF PACLITAXEL. THE QPCR, WESTERN BLOTTING, PROTEIN OR CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION, CHIP-SEQ IDENTIFICATION OF NFATC2 BINDING SITES, AND MICROARRAY ANALYSIS WERE PERFORMED TO EXPLORE THE MOLECULAR MECHANISM. RESULTS: WE FOUND THAT PACLITAXEL TREATMENT INCREASED THE NUCLEAR EXPRESSION OF NFATC2 IN THE SPINAL DORSAL HORN, AND KNOCKDOWN OF NFATC2 WITH NFATC2 SIRNA SIGNIFICANTLY ATTENUATED THE MECHANICAL ALLODYNIA INDUCED BY PACLITAXEL. FURTHER BINDING SITE ANALYSIS UTILIZING CHIP-SEQ ASSAY COMBINING WITH GENE EXPRESSION PROFILE REVEALED A SHIFT OF NFATC2 BINDING SITE CLOSER TO TTS OF TARGET GENES IN DORSAL HORN AFTER PACLITAXEL TREATMENT. WE FURTHER FOUND THAT NFATC2 OCCUPANCY MAY DIRECTLY UPREGULATE THE CHEMOKINE CXCL14 EXPRESSION IN DORSAL HORN, WHICH WAS MEDIATED BY ENHANCED INTERACTION BETWEEN NFATC2 AND P300 AND CONSEQUENTLY INCREASED ACETYLATION OF HISTONE H4 IN CXCL14 PROMOTER REGION. ALSO, KNOCKDOWN OF CXCL14 IN DORSAL HORN SIGNIFICANTLY ATTENUATED MECHANICAL ALLODYNIA INDUCED BY PACLITAXEL. CONCLUSION: THESE RESULTS SUGGESTED THAT ENHANCED INTERACTION BETWEEN P300 AND NFATC2 MEDIATED THE EPIGENETIC UPREGULATION OF CXCL14 IN THE SPINAL DORSAL HORN, WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC PACLITAXEL-INDUCED CHRONIC PAIN.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
11  2426  31 EPIGENETIC SILENCING OF LONG NON-CODING RNA BM742401 IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA: IMPACT ON PROGNOSIS AND MYELOMA DISSEMINATION. BACKGROUND: LONG NON-CODING RNA (LNCRNA) BM742401 IS A TUMOR SUPPRESSOR IN GASTRIC CANCER AND CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA. AS THE PROMOTER AND CODING REGION OF BM742401 ARE FULLY EMBEDDED IN A CPG ISLAND, WE HYPOTHESIZED THAT BM742401 IS A TUMOR SUPPRESSOR LNCRNA EPIGENETICALLY SILENCED BY PROMOTER DNA METHYLATION IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA. METHODS: METHYLATION-SPECIFIC PCR AND QUANTITATIVE BISULFITE PYROSEQUENCING WERE PERFORMED TO DETECT THE METHYLATION OF BM742401 IN NORMAL PLASMA CELLS, MYELOMA CELL LINES AND PRIMARY MYELOMA SAMPLES. THE EXPRESSION OF BM742401 WAS MEASURED BY QRT-PCR. THE FUNCTION OF BM742401 IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA CELLS WAS ANALYZED BY LENTIVIRUS TRANSDUCTION FOLLOWED BY MIGRATION ASSAY. RESULTS: BM742401 METHYLATION WAS DETECTED IN 10 (66.7%) MYELOMA CELL LINES BUT NOT NORMAL PLASMA CELLS, AND INVERSELY CORRELATED WITH EXPRESSION OF BM742401. IN PRIMARY SAMPLES, BM742401 METHYLATION WAS DETECTED IN 3 (12.5%) MONOCLONAL GAMMOPATHY OF UNDETERMINED SIGNIFICANCE, 9 (15.8%) MYELOMA AT DIAGNOSIS AND 8 (17.0%) MYELOMA AT RELAPSE/PROGRESSION. MOREOVER, BM742401 METHYLATION AT DIAGNOSIS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH INFERIOR OVERALL SURVIVAL (MEDIAN OS: 25 VS. 39 MONTHS; P = 0.0496). IN MYELOMA CELL LINE JJN-3, STABLE OVEREXPRESSION OF BM742401 BY LENTIVIRUS TRANSDUCTION RESULTED IN REDUCED CELL MIGRATION (P = 0.0001) BUT NOT IMPACTING CELL DEATH OR PROLIFERATION. CONCLUSIONS: THIS IS THE FIRST REPORT OF TUMOR-SPECIFIC METHYLATION-MEDIATED SILENCING OF BM742401 IN MYELOMA, WHICH IS LIKELY AN EARLY EVENT IN MYELOMAGENESIS WITH ADVERSE IMPACT ON OVERALL SURVIVAL. MOREOVER, BM742401 IS A TUMOR SUPPRESSOR LNCRNA BY INHIBITING MYELOMA CELL MIGRATION, HENCE IMPLICATED IN MYELOMA PLASMA CELL HOMING, METASTASIS AND DISEASE PROGRESSION.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
12  1613  32 DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1 MEDIATED ABERRANT METHYLATION AND SILENCING OF SHP-1 GENE IN CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA CELLS. INTRODUCTION: EXTENSIVE STUDIES ON SHP-1 PROTEIN AND SHP-1 MRNA REVEALED THAT THE DIMINISHMENT OR ABOLISHMENT OF THE EXPRESSION OF SHP-1 IN LEUKEMIAS/LYMPHOMAS WAS DUE TO ABERRANT PROMOTER METHYLATION. THUS FAR, THE MECHANISM OF EPIGENETIC SILENCING OF THE SHP-1 TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE GENE THAT OCCURS IN CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA CELLS REMAINS POORLY UNDERSTOOD. METHODS: THE EXPRESSIONS OF THE TARGET MOLECULES WERE DETERMINED BY QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR AND WESTERN BLOT, RESPECTIVELY. BISULFITE SEQUENCING PCR WAS USED TO DETECT METHYLATION STATUS OF DNA CPG. THE LENTIVIRAL VECTORS WERE APPLIED TO MODIFY GENE EXPRESSION. RESULTS: IN THE PRESENT STUDY, WE FOUND THAT THE PROMOTER 2 OF SHP-1 GENE IS LOCATED BETWEEN POSITIONS FROM -577BP TO +300BP, AND 22 CPG SITES CONTAINED IN POSITIONS -353BP APPROXIMATELY +182BP ARE ABERRANTLY METHYLATED IN K562 CELLS. IN VITRO, WE DEMONSTRATED THAT DNMT1 SILENCING INDUCED DEMETHYLATION OF THE 22 CPG SITES LOCATED IN THE SHP-1 PROMOTER AND RE-EXPRESSION OF SHP-1 GENE IN K562 CELLS. MOREOVER, WE PROVED THAT THE EXPRESSION LEVELS OF DNMT1 AND SHP-1 MRNA AND PROTEIN WERE NEGATIVELY CORRELATED IN K562 CELLS AND BM ASPIRATES MONONUCLEAR CELLS FROM CML PATIENTS. CONCLUSION: COLLECTIVELY, THESE RESULTS INDICATE THAT DNMT1 MEDIATES ABERRANT METHYLATION AND SILENCING OF SHP-1 GENE IN CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA CELLS, AND PROVIDE A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC TARGET FOR CML.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
13  3373  37 HISTONE MODULATION BLOCKS TREG-INDUCED FOXP3 BINDING TO THE IL-2 PROMOTER OF VIRUS-SPECIFIC CD8(+) T CELLS FROM FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS-INFECTED CATS. CD8(+) T CELLS ARE CRITICAL FOR CONTROLLING HIV INFECTION. DURING THE CHRONIC PHASE OF LENTIVIRAL INFECTION, CD8(+) T CELLS LOSE THEIR PROLIFERATIVE CAPACITY AND EXHIBIT IMPAIRED ANTIVIRAL FUNCTION. THIS LOSS OF CD8(+) T CELL FUNCTION IS DUE, IN PART, TO CD4(+)CD25(+) T REGULATORY (TREG) CELL-MEDIATED SUPPRESSION. OUR RESEARCH GROUP HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT LENTIVIRUS-ACTIVATED CD4(+)CD25(+) TREG CELLS INDUCE THE REPRESSIVE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FORKHEAD BOX P3 (FOXP3) IN AUTOLOGOUS CD8(+) T CELLS FOLLOWING CO-CULTURE. WE HAVE RECENTLY REPORTED THAT TREG-INDUCED FOXP3 BINDS THE INTERLEUKIN-2 (IL-2), INTERFERON-GAMMA (IFN- GAMMA), AND TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA (TNF-ALPHA) PROMOTERS IN VIRUS-SPECIFIC CD8(+) T CELLS. THESE DATA SUGGEST AN IMPORTANT ROLE OF FOXP3-MEDIATED CD8(+) T CELL DYSFUNCTION IN LENTIVIRAL INFECTION. TO ELUCIDATE THE MECHANISM OF THIS SUPPRESSION, WE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THAT DECREASED METHYLATION FACILITATES FOXP3 BINDING IN MITOGEN-ACTIVATED CD8(+) T CELLS FROM FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (FIV)-INFECTED CATS. WE DEMONSTRATED THE REDUCED BINDING OF FOXP3 TO THE IL-2 PROMOTER BY INCREASING METHYLATION OF CD8(+) T CELLS. IN THE STUDIES PRESENTED HERE, WE ASK IF ANOTHER FORM OF EPIGENETIC MODULATION MIGHT ALLEVIATE FOXP3-MEDIATED SUPPRESSION IN CD8(+) T CELLS. WE HYPOTHESIZED THAT DECREASING HISTONE ACETYLATION IN VIRUS-SPECIFIC CD8(+) T CELLS WOULD DECREASE TREG-INDUCED FOXP3 BINDING TO THE IL-2 PROMOTER. INDEED, USING ANACARDIC ACID (AA), A KNOWN HISTONE ACETYL TRANSFERASE (HAT) INHIBITOR, WE DEMONSTRATE A REDUCTION IN FOXP3 BINDING TO THE IL-2 PROMOTER IN VIRUS-SPECIFIC CD8(+) T CELLS CO-CULTURED WITH AUTOLOGOUS TREG CELLS. THESE DATA IDENTIFY A NOVEL MECHANISM OF FOXP3-MEDIATED CD8(+) T CELL DYSFUNCTION DURING LENTIVIRAL INFECTION.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
14  3809  40 INTRAPERITONEAL 5-AZACYTIDINE ALLEVIATES NERVE INJURY-INDUCED PAIN IN RATS BY MODULATING DNA METHYLATION. TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF DNA METHYLATION IN MODULATING CHRONIC NEUROPATHIC PAIN (NPP), IDENTIFY POSSIBLE TARGET GENES OF DNA METHYLATION INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS, AND PRELIMINARILY CONFIRM THE MEDICINAL VALUE OF THE DNA METHYLTRANSFERASES (DNMTS) INHIBITOR 5-AZACYTIDINE (5-AZA) IN NPP BY TARGETING GENE METHYLATION. TWO RAT NPP MODELS, CHRONIC CONSTRICTION INJURY (CCI) AND SPINAL NERVE LIGATION (SNL), WERE USED. THE DNA METHYLATION PROFILES IN THE LUMBAR SPINAL CORD WERE ASSAYED USING AN ARRAYSTAR RAT REFSEQ PROMOTER ARRAY. THE UNDERLYING GENES WITH DIFFERENTIAL METHYLATION WERE THEN IDENTIFIED AND SUBMITTED TO GENE ONTOLOGY AND PATHWAY ANALYSIS. METHYL-DNA IMMUNOPRECIPITATION QUANTITATIVE PCR (MEDIP-QPCR) AND QUANTITATIVE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION-PCR (RT-QPCR) WERE USED TO CONFIRM GENE METHYLATION AND EXPRESSION. THE PROTECTIVE FUNCTION OF 5-AZA IN NPP AND GENE EXPRESSION WERE EVALUATED VIA BEHAVIORAL ASSAYS AND RT-QPCR, RESPECTIVELY. ANALYSIS OF THE DNA METHYLATION PATTERNS IN THE LUMBAR SPINAL CORD INDICATED THAT 1205 DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED FRAGMENTS IN CCI RATS WERE LOCATED WITHIN DNA PROMOTER REGIONS, INCLUDING 638 HYPERMETHYLATED FRAGMENTS AND 567 HYPOMETHYLATED FRAGMENTS. THE METHYLATION LEVELS OF GRM4, HTR4, ADRB2, KCNF1, GAD2, AND PPARG, WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH LONG-TERM POTENTIATION (LTP) AND GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE PATHWAYS, WERE INCREASED WITH A CORRESPONDING DECREASE IN THEIR MRNA EXPRESSION, IN THE SPINAL CORDS OF CCI RATS. MOREOVER, WE FOUND THAT THE INTRAPERITONEAL INJECTION OF 5-AZA (4 MG/KG) ATTENUATED CCI- OR SNL-INDUCED MECHANICAL ALLODYNIA AND THERMAL HYPERALGESIA. FINALLY, THE MRNA EXPRESSION OF HYPERMETHYLATED GENES SUCH AS GRM4, HTR4, ADRB2, KCNF1, AND GAD2 WAS REVERSED AFTER 5-AZA TREATMENT. CCI INDUCED WIDESPREAD METHYLATION CHANGES IN THE DNA PROMOTER REGIONS IN THE LUMBAR SPINAL CORD. INTRAPERITONEAL 5-AZA ALLEVIATED HYPERALGESIA IN CCI AND SNL RATS, AN EFFECT ACCOMPANIED BY THE REVERSED EXPRESSION OF HYPERMETHYLATED GENES. THUS, DNA METHYLATION INHIBITION REPRESENTS A PROMISING EPIGENETIC STRATEGY FOR PROTECTION AGAINST CHRONIC NPP FOLLOWING NERVE INJURY. OUR STUDY LAYS A THEORETICAL FOUNDATION FOR 5-AZA TO BECOME A CLINICAL TARGETED DRUG.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                           
15  2197  31 EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION OF BDNF MEDIATES NEUROPATHIC PAIN VIA MIR-30A-3P/EP300 AXIS IN CCI RATS. RECENT INVESTIGATION OF MICRORNAS ON CHRONIC PAIN HAS DEVELOPED A BREAKTHROUGH IN NEUROPATHIC PAIN MANAGEMENT. IN THE PRESENT STUDY, DECREASED EXPRESSION OF MIR-30A-3P WAS REPORTED USING QRT-PCR ANALYSIS AND LOSS OF MIR-30A-3P PROMOTED NEUROPATHIC PAIN PROGRESSION IN SCIATIC NERVE CHRONIC CONSTRICTIVE INJURY RATS THROUGH DETERMINING THE PAIN THRESHOLD. WE PREDICTED MIR-30A-3P COULD TARGET E-CADHERIN TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATOR (EP300) VIA BIOINFORMATICS ANALYSIS. MEANWHILE, WE FOUND THAT BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR (BDNF) IS INVOLVED IN NEUROPATHIC PAIN. HERE, WE EXHIBITED THAT EP300 EPIGENETICALLY UP-REGULATED BDNF VIA ENHANCING ACETYLATED HISTONE H3 AND H4 ON THE PROMOTER. FOR ANOTHER, MIR-30A-3P WAS ABLE TO MODIFY THE LEVEL OF BDNF AND ACETYLATED HISTONE H3 AND H4. LOSS OF MIR-30A-3P ENHANCED EP300 AND BDNF COLOCALIZATION IN CCI RATS. SUBSEQUENTLY, IT WAS SHOWN THAT INCREASED EP300 INDUCED NEUROPATHIC PAIN BY AN ENHANCEMENT OF NEURONAL BDNF LEVEL IN VIVO. TO SUM UP, IT WAS REVEALED THAT EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION OF BDNF PROMOTED NEUROPATHIC PAIN VIA EP300 INDUCED BY MIR-30A-3P IN CCI RATS.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
16  2440  31 EPIGENETIC SILENCING OF TUMOR SUPPRESSOR LONG NON-CODING RNA BM742401 IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA. BM742401 IS A TUMOR SUPPRESSOR LNCRNA DOWNREGULATED IN GASTRIC CANCER. AS THE PROMOTER REGION AND THE ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT ARE EMBEDDED IN A CPG ISLAND, WE POSTULATED THAT BM742401 IS A TUMOR SUPPRESSOR LNCRNA INACTIVATED BY DNA METHYLATION IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL). THE PROMOTER OF BM742401 WAS UNMETHYLATED IN NORMAL CONTROLS INCLUDING THREE EACH OF NORMAL BONE MARROW, PERIPHERAL BLOOD BUFFY COATS, AND CD19-SORTED PERIPHERAL B-CELLS, BUT METHYLATED IN FOUR (57.1%) CLL CELL LINES. METHYLATION OF BM742401 CORRELATED INVERSELY WITH EXPRESSION. IN THE COMPLETELY METHYLATED WAC3CD5+ CLL CELLS, 5-AZA-2'-DEOXYCYTIDINE TREATMENT LED TO PROMOTER DEMETHYLATION AND RE-EXPRESSION OF BM742401 TRANSCRIPT. FUNCTIONALLY, STABLE OVEREXPRESSION OF BM742401 RESULTED IN INHIBITION OF CELLULAR PROLIFERATION AND ENHANCED APOPTOSIS THROUGH CASPASE-9-DEPENDENT INTRINSIC BUT NOT CASPASE-8-DEPENDENT EXTRINSIC APOPTOSIS PATHWAY, SUGGESTING A TUMOR SUPPRESSOR ROLE OF BM742401 IN CLL. IN PRIMARY CLL SAMPLES, METHYLATION OF BM742401 WAS DETECTED IN 43/98 (43.9%) OF PATIENTS. MOREOVER, AMONG CLL PATIENTS WITH STANDARD-RISK CYTOGENETIC ABERRATIONS, METHYLATION OF BM742401 CORRELATED WITH ADVANCED RAI STAGE (>/= STAGE 2)(P = 0.002). FURTHERMORE, BM742401 METHYLATION WAS ASSOCIATED WITH MIR-129-2 METHYLATION (P = 0.05). BM742401 IS A TUMOR SUPPRESSOR LNCRNA FREQUENTLY METHYLATED IN CLL. THE MECHANISM OF BM742401 AS A TUMOR SUPPRESSOR WARRANTS FURTHER STUDIES.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
17  6231  36 THE LONG NONCODING RNA MEG3 AND ITS TARGET MIR-147 REGULATE JAK/STAT PATHWAY IN ADVANCED CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA. BACKGROUND: LONG NON-CODING (LNC) RNAS PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA (CML). IN THIS STUDY, WE AIMED TO UNCOVER THE MECHANISM OF THE LNCRNA MATERNALLY EXPRESSED 3 (MEG3) AND ITS TARGET MICRORNA-147 (MIR-147) IN CML. METHODS: SIXTY CML PATIENTS AND 10 HEALTHY DONORS WERE INCLUDED IN THE STUDY. THE METHYLATION OF MEG3 AND MIR-147 PROMOTER WAS DETERMINED BY METHYLATION-SPECIFIC PCR. THE RELATIONSHIP OF MEG3 AND MIR-147 WAS EXPLORED BY LUCIFERASE ASSAY. THE INTERACTIONS OF PROTEINS WERE STUDIED BY RNA PULL-DOWN ASSAY, RNA IMMUNOPRECIPITATION AND CO-IMMUNOPRECIPITATION. FINDINGS: PATIENTS IN ACCELERATED PHASE CML (CML-AP) AND BLAST PHASE CML (CML-BP) SHOWED LOWER EXPRESSIONS OF MEG3 AND MIR-147 AND HIGHER EXPRESSIONS OF DNMT1, DNMT3B, MBD2, MECP2 AND HDAC1 COMPARED TO THE CONTROLS. THESE PATIENTS ALSO SHOWED A HIGHER DEGREE OF METHYLATION OF MEG3 AND MIR-147 WHILE THERE WAS A REDUCTION AFTER CHIDAMIDE TREATMENT. FURTHERMORE, THE OVEREXPRESSION OF MEG3 AND MIR-147 INHIBITED CELL PROLIFERATION BOTH IN VIVO AND IN VITRO, PROMOTED APOPTOSIS AND DECREASED THE EXPRESSIONS OF DNMT1, DNMT3A, DNMT3B, MBD2, HDAC1 AND MECP2. WE ALSO FOUND MEG3 INTERACTED WITH DNMT1, JAK2, STAT3, HDAC1, AND TYK2, AND JAK2 WAS BOUND TO STAT3, STAT5 AND MYC. MORE INTERESTINGLY, JAK2 WAS BOUND TO TYK2 BY THE BRIDGE OF MEG3. INTERPRETATION: LNCRNA MEG3 AND ITS TARGET MIR-147 MAY SERVE AS A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC TARGET FOR CML BLAST CRISIS, AND CHIDAMIDE MIGHT HAVE A POTENTIAL CLINICAL APPLICATION IN TREATING CML BLAST CRISIS.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
18  3947  32 LNCRNA UCA1 INDUCES AUTOPHAGIC GENE EXPRESSION VIA EPIGENETIC REGULATION MEDIATED BY ATG16L1 AND MIR-132-3P IN SH-SY5Y CELLS TREATED WITH RETINOIC ACID. OBJECTIVE: EPILEPSY IS A CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE WITH RECURRENT SEIZURES. AUTOPHAGY PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE PROGRESSION OF EPILEPSY. THIS STUDY AIMED TO EXPLORE THE FUNCTION AND INTRINSIC MECHANISM OF THE LONG NON-CODING RNA (LNCRNA) UCA1/MIR-132-3P/ATG16L1 AXIS IN EPILEPSY VIA REGULATION OF AUTOPHAGY. METHODS: THE EXPRESSION OF LNCRNA UCA1, MIR-132-3P AND ATG16L1 WAS MEASURED IN SERUM FROM EPILEPTIC PATIENTS BY QUANTITATIVE RT-PCR. A SH-SY5Y CELL MODEL WAS FURTHER CONSTRUCTED USING RETINOIC ACID TO INVESTIGATE THE UCA1/ MIR-132-3P/ATG16L1 AXIS BY QUANTITATIVE RT-PCR, WESTERN BLOTTING, FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDISATION, RNA IMMUNOPRECIPITATION, CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION, AND A DUAL-LUCIFERASE REPORTER GENE ASSAY. RESULTS: IN THE SERUM OF EPILEPTIC PATIENTS, THE LEVEL OF LNCRNA UCA1 AND ATG16L1 WAS REDUCED AND MIR-132-3P ELEVATED, COMPARED TO CONTROLS. SIMILARLY, IN THE SH-SY5Y CELL MODEL, THE LEVEL OF LNCRNA UCA1 AND ATG16L1 WAS REDUCED AND MIR-132-3P ELEVATED IN RETINOIC ACID-TREATED CELLS; LNCRNA UCA1 WAS MAINLY LOCATED IN THE CYTOPLASM. LNCRNA UCA1 OVEREXPRESSION WAS SHOWN TO PROMOTE AUTOPHAGIC GENE EXPRESSION, WHICH WAS REVERSED BY MIR-132-3P OVEREXPRESSION. MOREOVER, AUTOPHAGIC GENE EXPRESSION INDUCED BY MIR-132-3P KNOCKDOWN WAS REVERSED BY ATG16L1 KNOCKDOWN. BASED ON PRECIPITATION ASSAYS, LNCRNA UCA1 AND MIR-132-3P WERE SHOWN TO FORM A COMPLEX WITH THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, EZH2, AND MIR-132-3P WAS SHOWN TO INTERACT WITH ATG16L1 BASED ON A LUCIFERASE ASSAY. FINALLY, LNCRNA UCA1 WAS SHOWN TO NEGATIVELY REGULATE MIR-132-3P EXPRESSION, AND MIR-132-3P WAS SHOWN TO NEGATIVELY REGULATE ATG16L1. SIGNIFICANCE: IN THIS CELL MODEL, LNCRNA UCA1 PROMOTES AUTOPHAGIC GENE EXPRESSION VIA EPIGENETIC REGULATION MEDIATED BY ATG16L1 AND MIR-132-3P.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
19  4579  39 N(6)-METHYLADENOSINE METHYLASE METTL3 CONTRIBUTES TO NEUROPATHIC PAIN BY EPIGENETIC SILENCING OF MU OPIOID RECEPTOR. WE AIMED AT EXPLORING THE ROLE AND MECHANISM OF METTL3-MEDIATED M(6)A MODIFICATION IN NEUROPATHIC PAIN. MALE SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS WERE RANDOMLY DIVIDED INTO FOUR GROUPS: SHAM OPERATION GROUP (SHAM GROUP), CHRONIC CONSTRICTION INJURY (CCI) OF THE SCIATIC NERVE MODEL GROUP (NPP GROUP), INTRATHECAL INJECTION OF VIRUS DOWN-REGULATED METTL3 + CCI MODEL GROUP (M3 + NPP GROUP) AND INTRATHECAL INJECTION OF NEGATIVE CONTROL VIRUS + CCI MODEL GROUP (SCR + NPP GROUP). THE M3 + NPP GROUP AND THE SCR + NPP GROUP WERE INTRATHECALLY INJECTED WITH VIRUS NINETEEN DAYS BEFORE OPERATION. THE PAW WITHDRAWAL MECHANICAL THRESHOLDS AND PAW WITHDRAWAL LATENCY WERE RESPECTIVELY RECORDED ONE DAY BEFORE OPERATION, THREE DAYS, FIVE DAYS AND SEVEN DAYS AFTER OPERATION. THE RATS WERE SACRIFICED ON THE SEVENTH DAY AFTER OPERATION, AND THEIR SPINAL CORD TISSUES WERE TAKEN. THE FROZEN SECTIONS OF RATS WERE PERFORMED TO OBSERVE THE EXPRESSION OF GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN OF THE VIRUS. THE METHYLATION LEVEL OF RNA, THE PROTEIN EXPRESSION OF M(6)A-RELATED ENZYME (METTL3) AND MU OPIOID RECEPTOR (MOR) IN SPINAL CORD TISSUES OF THE FOUR GROUPS WERE MEASURED. DOWNREGULATION OF METTL3 HAD NO EFFECT ON THE OVERALL METHYLATION LEVEL OF THE SPINAL CORD, BUT IT COULD REGULATE THE METHYLATION LEVEL OF THE OPRM1 GENE RNA ENCODING MOR, PARTIALLY RESTORE THE EXPRESSION OF MOR, AND RELIEVE PAIN IN RATS. IN THE PROCESS OF NPP, METTL3 MAY INHIBIT THE EXPRESSION OF MOR BY REGULATING THE METHYLATION LEVEL OF OPRM1 GENE RNA ENCODING MOR, AND ULTIMATELY PROMOTE THE OCCURRENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF NPP.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
20  1632  32 DNMTS ARE INVOLVED IN TGF-BETA1-INDUCED EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITIONS IN AIRWAY EPITHELIAL CELLS. CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS (CRS) PATHOGENESIS IS CLOSELY RELATED TO TISSUE REMODELING, INCLUDING EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION (EMT). EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS PLAY KEY ROLES IN EMT. DNA METHYLATION, MEDIATED BY DNA METHYLTRANSFERASES (DNMTS), IS AN EPIGENETIC MARKER THAT IS CRITICAL TO EMT. THE GOAL OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER DNMTS WERE INVOLVED IN TGF-BETA1-INDUCED EMT AND ELUCIDATE THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS IN NASAL EPITHELIAL CELLS AND AIR-LIQUID INTERFACE CULTURES. GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION AND DNMT ACTIVITY WERE QUANTIFIED. DNMT EXPRESSION WAS MEASURED USING REAL-TIME PCR (QRT-PCR) IN HUMAN CRS TISSUES. MRNA AND PROTEIN LEVELS OF DNMTS, E-CADHERIN, VIMENTIN, ALPHA-SMA, AND FIBRONECTIN WERE DETERMINED USING RT-PCR AND WESTERN BLOTTING, RESPECTIVELY. DNMT1, DNMT3A, AND DNMT3B GENE EXPRESSION WERE KNOCKED DOWN USING SIRNA TRANSFECTION. MAPK PHOSPHORYLATION AND EMT-RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LEVELS WERE DETERMINED USING WESTERN BLOTTING. SIGNALING PATHWAYS WERE ANALYZED USING SPECIFIC INHIBITORS OF MAPK. WE DEMONSTRATED THESE DATA IN PRIMARY NASAL EPITHELIAL CELLS AND AIR-LIQUID INTERFACE CULTURES. GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION, DNMT ACTIVITY, AND DNMT EXPRESSION INCREASED IN CRS TISSUES. DNMT EXPRESSION WAS POSITIVELY CORRELATED WITH LUND-MCKAY CT SCORES. TGF-BETA1 DOSE-DEPENDENTLY INDUCED DNMT EXPRESSION. FURTHER, 5-AZA INHIBITED TGF-BETA1-INDUCED DNMT, SNAIL, AND SLUG EXPRESSION RELATED TO EMT, AS WELL AS P38 AND JNK PHOSPHORYLATION IN A549 CELLS AND TGF-BETA1-INDUCED DNMT EXPRESSION AND EMT IN PRIMARY NASAL EPITHELIAL CELLS AND AIR-LIQUID INTERFACE CULTURES. TGF-BETA1-INDUCED DNMT EXPRESSION LEADS TO DNA METHYLATION AND EMT VIA P38, JNK, SNAIL, AND SLUG SIGNALING PATHWAYS. INHIBITION OF DNMT SUPPRESSED THE EMT PROCESS AND THEREFORE IS POTENTIALLY A CRS THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY.	2022