Journal: Molecular Therapy. Nucleic Acids
Article Title: The circular RNA Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated regulates oxidative stress in smooth muscle cells in expanding abdominal aortic aneurysms
doi: 10.1016/j.omtn.2023.08.017
Figure Lengend Snippet: Circular RNAs are deregulated in human abdominal aortic aneurysm (A) Volcano plot depicting downregulated (51, blue) and upregulated (40, red). Circular RNAs (circRNAs) in human elective human abdominal aortic aneurysm (eAAA, n = 11) vs . control (CTRL, n = 6) aorta specimens, as resulted by array experiments. Log2 fold change and -log10 p value are plotted on the x and y axes, respectively. IDs of circRNAs meant for a first round of validation are highlighted. Statistics: unpaired t test; p values <0.05 are considered significant. (B) Pie chart illustrating the proportion of exonic (89.8%), intronic (5.7%), sense overlapping (3.4%), and antisense (1.1%) array-identified differentially expressed circRNAs. Absolute numbers are further indicated for each group. (C) Real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) validation of hsa_circ_0005660 (c NFIX ), hsa_circ_0003641 (c ATM ), hsa_circ0042103 (c MYOCD ), hsa_circ003218 (c BMPR2 ), hsa_circ0004771 (c NRIP1 ), and hsa_circ0005615 (c NFATC3 ) differential expression in human eAAA (N = 8) and CTRL (N = 4) aortas. 2 –ddCT was calculated by normalizing on RPLPO . Data are represented as mean ± SEM. Statistics: unpaired t test; p values <0.05 are considered significant. NS, not significant; eAAA, elective AAA.
Article Snippet: The resulting labeled cDNA was then purified and 1 μg was fragmented, heated, and subsequently hybridized with an 8 × 15k commercially available array chip displaying 13,617 human circRNAs (Arraystar, no. AS-S-CR-H-V2.0) for 17 h at 65°C in an Agilent Hybridization Oven.
Techniques: Control, Biomarker Discovery, Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Quantitative Proteomics
