Journal: Clinical and Translational Medicine

Article Title: Androgen receptor decreases the renal cell carcinoma bone metastases via suppressing the osteolytic formation through altering a novel circEXOC7 regulatory axis

doi: 10.1002/ctm2.353

Figure Lengend Snippet: CircRNA microarray and screening process. Results from circRNA microarray and bioinformatics analysis from five paired human RCC vs. RBM tissues were summarized in (A‐D). (A) Box plot demonstrated no significant differences in the distribution of intensity across 10 clinical samples. (B) Scatter plot displayed circRNAs expression correlation between RCC and RBM group. (C) Heat map generated from circRNAs microarray data reflecting circRNAs expression values in RCC and RBM groups. (D) Volcano plot showing DERs data. The red points indicate points‐of‐interest that display both large magnitude fold‐changes (x‐axis) and high statistical significance (‐log10 of p ‐value, y‐axis). The green line shows points above the line having p < 0.05 and points below the line having p > 0.05. This plot is colored such that those points having a fold‐change less than 2 (log2 = 1) are shown in gray. (E) The qRT‐PCR was performed to show 32 selected candidate circRNAs expression levels in cells. (F) The qRT‐PCR was performed on SW839 cells to show effects of manipulating efficiency of selected candidate circRNAs, ciR4#, ciR6#, ciR19#, and ciR26#. (G‐J) Interruption assays revealed that suppressing (G) ciR‐4# (hsa_circ_0001275), (H) ciR‐6# (hsa_circRNA_405974), expression cannot reverse/block the knocked‐down AR‐increased osteolytic formation in SW839 cells (scale bars, 200 μm), increasing (I) ciR‐19# (hsa_circ_0091743) expression, and (J) increasing ciR‐26# hsa_circ_0075303 expression cannot reverse/block the AR‐suppressed osteolytic formation in SW839 cell line (scale bars, 200 μm). For (E‐J), quantitation is at the right, and data are presented as Mean ± SD, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001, **** p < 0.0001. Abbreviation: N.S., not significant

Article Snippet: In the current study, five human RCC and five RCC bone metastasis tissues were deeply sequenced using Arraystar human circRNA V2.0 microarray.

Techniques: Microarray, Expressing, Generated, Quantitative RT-PCR, Blocking Assay, Quantitation Assay

Journal: Clinical and Translational Medicine

Article Title: Androgen receptor decreases the renal cell carcinoma bone metastases via suppressing the osteolytic formation through altering a novel circEXOC7 regulatory axis

doi: 10.1002/ctm2.353

Figure Lengend Snippet: The expression of circEXOC7 is regulated by DHX9. (A) The qRT‐PCR was performed on SW839 and OS‐RC‐2 cell lines to show correlation between AR and four genes related to circRNA biogenesis. Among them, ADAR2 and DHX9 have a positive correlation with AR mRNA expression. (B and C) The qRT‐qPCR was performed to show (B) knocking down DHX9, and not (C) ADAR2 gene, led to increased circEXOC7 expression in SW839 cells. (D) WB was performed on SW839 and OS‐RC‐2 cells to show that modulated AR expression also altered DHX9 expression. (E) Predicted AR binding sites on the DHX9 promoter region using website http://jaspar.genereg.net/ . (F) ChIP assay showing AR could bind to the No. 2 potential ARE on the DHX9 5′‐promoter region. (G) The wild type and mutant pGL3‐DHX9 promoter reporter constructs. (H and I) Luciferase activity after transfection of wild type or mutant DHX9 promoter reporter constructs in OS‐RC‐2 cells (H) transfected with AR‐cDNA or pWPI and SW839 cells (I) transfected with AR‐shRNA or pLKO. For (B and C), (H and I), data are presented as Mean ± SD, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001. Abbreviation: N.S., not significant

Article Snippet: In the current study, five human RCC and five RCC bone metastasis tissues were deeply sequenced using Arraystar human circRNA V2.0 microarray.

Techniques: Expressing, Quantitative RT-PCR, Binding Assay, Mutagenesis, Construct, Luciferase, Activity Assay, Transfection, shRNA

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