Project description:To further development of our gene expression approach to biodosimetry, We through the detection of circular RNA (circRNA) using expression profiling chips, we searched for circRNAs related to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and explored their relationship and possible mechanisms with AMI. The study subjects included 3 AMI patients and 3 controls, and circRNA expression profiling analysis was performed using a microarray gene chip to identify circRNAs with large differences in expression between groups and to construct a circRNA-microRNA (circRNA-miRNA) network.
Project description:Analysis of peripheral blood specimens from patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Results provide insight into molecular mechanisms associated with AMI.
Project description:In this study we aim to evaluate the diagnostic value of miRNAs for in the detection of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We used microRNA microarray to screen differentially expressed microRNAs (miRNAs) in rat myocardial infarcted tissues compared with healthy control tissues. Then the expression of these miRNAs was further verified by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in rat myocardial infarcted tissues and plasma. Finally, the diagnostic value of these circulating miRNAs was explored in 44 patients with AMI, 53 with coronary heart disease (CHD) and 56 healthy controls.
Project description:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) involves complex molecular events, including alterations in protein phosphorylation. In this study, we performed a comparative phosphoproteomic analysis of serum samples from AMI patients and healthy controls to identify AMI-associated phosphorylation signatures. Serum samples from eight AMI patients and two pooled controls underwent high-abundance protein depletion, enzymatic digestion with Trypsin/Lys-C, and phosphopeptide enrichment using Fe-NTA spin columns. Enriched phosphopeptides were analyzed by LC-MS/MS using a Q Exactive™ HF-X Orbitrap system.
Project description:Despite the significant reduction in the overall burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) over the past decade, CVD still accounts for a third of all deaths in the United States and worldwide each year. While efforts to identify and reduce risk factors for atherosclerotic heart disease (i.e. hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, cigarette smoking, inactivity) remain the focus of primary prevention, the inability to accurately and temporally predict acute myocardial infarction (AMI) impairs our ability to further improve patient outcomes. Our diagnostic evaluation for the presence of coronary artery disease relies on functional testing, which detects flow-limiting coronary stenosis, but we have known for decades that most lesions underlying AMI are only of mild to moderate luminal narrowings, not obstructing coronary blood flow. Accordingly, there is a dire need of improved diagnostics for underlying arterial plaque dynamics, fissure and rupture. Here we describe the designation of a specific gene expression pattern acting as a molecular signature for acute myocardial infarction present in whole blood of patients that was determined using microarray analysis of enriched circulating endothelial cells (CEC). We isolated circulating endothelial cells from patients experience acute myocardial infartion and healthy cohorts, and measured gene expression using the HG-133U_PLUS_2 microarray Circulating endothelial cells were isolated from patients experiencing acute myocardial infarction (n=49) and from healthy cohorts (n=50). The patients were separated into a discovery cohort (n=43) for biomarker discovery and model training; and into a validation cohort (n=56) for biomarker validation and model testing.
Project description:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is primarily due to coronary atherosclerotic plaque rupture and subsequent thrombus formation. Platelets play a key role in the genesis and progression of both atherosclerosis and thrombosis. Since platelets are anuclear cells that inherit their mRNA from megakaryocyte precursors and maintain it unchanged during their life span, gene expression (GE) profiling at the time of an AMI provides information concerning the platelet GE preceding the coronary event. In ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), a gene-by-gene analysis of the platelet GE identified five differentially expressed genes (DEGs): FKBP5, S100P, SAMSN1, CLEC4E and S100A12. The logistic regression model used to combine the GE in a STEMI vs healthy donors score showed an AUC of 0.95. The same five DEGs were externally validated using platelet GE data from patients with coronary atherosclerosis but without thrombosis. Early signals of an imminent AMI are likely to be found by platelet GE profiling before the infarction occurs.
Project description:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) shape the transcript repertoire and control cellular functions. Imprecise cleavage of miRNA hairpins during biogenesis and downstream enzymatic processing alters mature miRNA arm abundance. Using small and total RNA sequencing, miRNA temporal dynamics and regulatory effects were studied in four cell types of the heart upon myocardial infarction. We define differentially processed miRNAs, which have changes in their arm ratios and have effects on target gene regulation. The identified miRNA subsets are enriched in templated isomiR modifications and show associations with RNA binding proteins, biogenesis and other processing factors. Our analysis reveals antagonistic functions co-regulated by the processed miRNA arms, beyond known pathways involved in cardiac regeneration. This study highlights novel insights into disease mechanisms controlled by dysregulated microRNA processing concerning acute damage response as well as long-time adaptation after AMI.
Project description:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) shape the transcript repertoire and control cellular functions. Imprecise cleavage of miRNA hairpins during biogenesis and downstream enzymatic processing alters mature miRNA arm abundance. Using small and total RNA sequencing, miRNA temporal dynamics and regulatory effects were studied in four cell types of the heart upon myocardial infarction. We define differentially processed miRNAs, which have changes in their arm ratios and have effects on target gene regulation. The identified miRNA subsets are enriched in templated isomiR modifications and show associations with RNA binding proteins, biogenesis and other processing factors. Our analysis reveals antagonistic functions co-regulated by the processed miRNA arms, beyond known pathways involved in cardiac regeneration. This study highlights novel insights into disease mechanisms controlled by dysregulated microRNA processing concerning acute damage response as well as long-time adaptation after AMI.
Project description:CircRNAs are a new class of noncoding RNA and play regulatory roles in a variety of human diseases. However, the clinical significance of circRNAs in early-onset acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remains unknown. Therefore, we sought to explore the expression profile of circRNAs in early-onset AMI. Microarray was used to screen differentially expressed circRNAs between early-onset AMI patients and matched healthy controls.