Journal: Cell Death & Disease

Article Title: Angiotensin II inhibits apoptosis of mouse aortic smooth muscle cells through regulating the circNRG-1/miR-193b-5p/NRG-1 axis

doi: 10.1038/s41419-019-1590-5

Figure Lengend Snippet: a Scatter plots were used to evaluate the difference in the expression of circRNAs between Ang II and control groups. The values plotted on X and Y axes are the averaged normalized signal values of each group (log2 scaled). The circRNAs above the top green line and below the bottom green line indicate >1.5-fold change between the two groups. b Hierarchical clustering analysis showed the differentially expressed circRNAs over 2.0-fold change. Red color indicates high expression level, and blue color indicates low expression level. c Divergent and convergent primers were used to verify whether circNRG-1 was a circRNA. Convergent primers were used to detect NRG-1 mRNA. Divergent primers amplified circNRG-1 in cDNA but not gDNA. GAPDH served as linear control and size marker in base pairs. d Sanger sequencing confirmed head-to-tail junction of circNRG-1. e RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization for circNRG-1 was detected. Nuclei were stained with DAPI. Scale bars = 50 μm. f qRT-PCR detected circNRG-1 expression in MASMCs treated with Ang II (10 −7 M) for the different times. Data represent the means ± SEM of three independent experiments. * P < 0.05, *** P < 0.001 vs . Ang II for 0 h

Article Snippet: Circular RNA expression profiling was performed using Arraystar Mouse circRNA Array V2 analysis (Arraystar, USA).

Techniques: Expressing, Control, Amplification, Marker, Sequencing, Fluorescence, In Situ Hybridization, Staining, Quantitative RT-PCR

Journal: Cell Death & Disease

Article Title: Angiotensin II inhibits apoptosis of mouse aortic smooth muscle cells through regulating the circNRG-1/miR-193b-5p/NRG-1 axis

doi: 10.1038/s41419-019-1590-5

Figure Lengend Snippet: The orange, purple and green nodes represent circRNA, miRNA and mRNA respectively. Markers highlighting staining showed circNRG-1-miR-193b-5p-NRG-1 interactions

Article Snippet: Circular RNA expression profiling was performed using Arraystar Mouse circRNA Array V2 analysis (Arraystar, USA).

Techniques: Staining

Journal: Cell Death & Disease

Article Title: Circ ERCC2 ameliorated intervertebral disc degeneration by regulating mitophagy and apoptosis through miR-182-5p/SIRT1 axis

doi: 10.1038/s41419-019-1978-2

Figure Lengend Snippet: a Volcano plots showed differential expression of circRNAs detected by circRNA microarray in IVDD compared with the control. b Volcano plots showed differential expression of circRNAs in GSE67566. c The 9 downregulated circRNAs in IVDD were identified based on the overlap of circRNA microarray and GSE67566. d Heatmap of 9 circRNAs in circRNA microarray and heatmap of 9 circRNAs in GSE67566. e qRT-PCR analysis confirmed the downregulation of circRNAs in IVDD compared with control. * p < 0.05. f circ ERCC2 is transcribed from 13, 14, and 15 exons of the ERCC2 gene. The expression of circ ERCC2 was lower in NP tissues from IVDD compared with the control detected by FISH. g FISH detection of circ ERCC2 in the cytoplasm of NPCs. In ( f ) and ( g ), blue fluorescence indicated the nucleus and green fluorescence indicated circ ERCC2. Scale bar: 20 μm. h Representative plots of apoptosis detected by flow cytometry. circ ERCC2 inhibited the rate of apoptosis of NPCs. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01. i NPCs were treated by TBHP or/and circ ERCC2, and mitophagy and apoptosis related proteins were detected by Western blot analysis

Article Snippet: Identification of differentially expressed circRNAs was performed by overlapping microarray analysis of human circRNAs (Arraystar, CA, USA) and microarray dataset (GSE67566) obtained from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database.

Techniques: Quantitative Proteomics, Microarray, Control, Quantitative RT-PCR, Expressing, Fluorescence, Flow Cytometry, Western Blot

Journal: Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Article Title: Screening differential circular RNA expression profiles reveals the regulatory role of circMARS in anti‐tuberculosis drug‐induced liver injury

doi: 10.1111/jcmm.17157

Figure Lengend Snippet: Study flow chart. First, the difference of circRNA expression profiles between anti‐tuberculosis drug‐induced liver injury (ADLI) and non‐ADLI patients were explored. Then, a differentially expressed circRNA was selected for verification in a cohort of 300 patients. Finally, the function of this circRNA was verified in a self‐controlled cohort of 35 patients based on the results of the experimental study

Article Snippet: The circRNAs in the discovery cohort were profiled using the CapitalBio Technology CircRNA Human Gene Expression Microarray v2.0 (CapitalBio Technology, Beijing, China).

Techniques: Expressing

Journal: Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Article Title: Screening differential circular RNA expression profiles reveals the regulatory role of circMARS in anti‐tuberculosis drug‐induced liver injury

doi: 10.1111/jcmm.17157

Figure Lengend Snippet: Identification of circRNA expression profiles in ADLI. (A) The scatter plots of circRNAs expression variations in the ADLI patients and in vitro assays. The red and green points in the plot indicate the upregulated and downregulated circRNAs. (B) Venn diagrams of the co‐expression circRNAs in the serum and cells. Two drugs: cells with Isoniazid (INH) + Rifampicin (RFP); three drugs: cells with INH + RFP + Pyrazinamide (PZA)

Article Snippet: The circRNAs in the discovery cohort were profiled using the CapitalBio Technology CircRNA Human Gene Expression Microarray v2.0 (CapitalBio Technology, Beijing, China).

Techniques: Expressing, In Vitro

Journal: Cancer Management and Research

Article Title: Profiles of differentially expressed circRNAs in esophageal and breast cancer

doi: 10.2147/CMAR.S167863

Figure Lengend Snippet: General information of ESCC patients for microarray test

Article Snippet: The RNA was isolated with an RNeasy mini kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) and analyzed using an 8*15K Arraystar human circRNA microarray V2 (Catalog No: AS-CR-H-V2.0).

Techniques: Microarray

Journal: Cancer Management and Research

Article Title: Profiles of differentially expressed circRNAs in esophageal and breast cancer

doi: 10.2147/CMAR.S167863

Figure Lengend Snippet: General information of BC patients for microarray test

Article Snippet: The RNA was isolated with an RNeasy mini kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) and analyzed using an 8*15K Arraystar human circRNA microarray V2 (Catalog No: AS-CR-H-V2.0).

Techniques: Microarray