PMID- 26981838 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20161230 LR - 20220409 IS - 1557-7430 (Electronic) IS - 1044-5498 (Linking) VI - 35 IP - 6 DP - 2016 Jun TI - Long Noncoding RNA Highly Upregulated in Liver Cancer Regulates the Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha-Induced Apoptosis in Human Vascular Endothelial Cells. PG - 296-300 LID - 10.1089/dna.2015.3203 [doi] AB - Atherosclerosis is the major cause of myocardial infarction and stroke, which is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries. During the pathological process of atherosclerosis, inflammation participates in all stages of atherosclerosis. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), one of the most important inflammatory factor, induces apoptosis of endothelial cells, which play a central role in endothelial dysfunction. However, the underlying mechanism involved in long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) remains unclear. In the present study, we demonstrated the role of lncRNA highly upregulated in liver cancer (HULC) in TNF-alpha-induced apoptosis. HULC expression was decreased with TNF-alpha treatment. Restoring HULC expression rescued the apoptosis induced by TNF-alpha. HULC regulated TNF-alpha-induced apoptosis through regulation of miR-9 expression. Furthermore, RNA immunoprecipitation and RNA pull-down assays showed that HULC modulated miR-9 expression through association with DNA methyltransferases and suppression of miR-9 expression. HULC-miR-9 pathway may be a potential target for treating atherosclerosis. FAU - Ma, Yongjiang AU - Ma Y AD - Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army , Beijing, China . FAU - Huang, Dangsheng AU - Huang D AD - Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army , Beijing, China . FAU - Yang, Feifei AU - Yang F AD - Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army , Beijing, China . FAU - Tian, Miao AU - Tian M AD - Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army , Beijing, China . FAU - Wang, Yumei AU - Wang Y AD - Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army , Beijing, China . FAU - Shen, Dong AU - Shen D AD - Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army , Beijing, China . FAU - Wang, Qiushuang AU - Wang Q AD - Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army , Beijing, China . FAU - Chen, Qiang AU - Chen Q AD - Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army , Beijing, China . FAU - Zhang, Liwei AU - Zhang L AD - Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army , Beijing, China . LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20160316 PL - United States TA - DNA Cell Biol JT - DNA and cell biology JID - 9004522 RN - 0 (HULC long non-coding RNA, human) RN - 0 (MIRN92 microRNA, human) RN - 0 (MicroRNAs) RN - 0 (RNA, Long Noncoding) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) SB - IM MH - Apoptosis MH - Atherosclerosis/immunology/*metabolism MH - CpG Islands MH - DNA Methylation MH - Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells MH - Humans MH - MicroRNAs/*genetics MH - Promoter Regions, Genetic MH - RNA, Long Noncoding/*metabolism MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/metabolism EDAT- 2016/03/17 06:00 MHDA- 2016/12/31 06:00 CRDT- 2016/03/17 06:00 PHST- 2016/03/17 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/03/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/12/31 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1089/dna.2015.3203 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - DNA Cell Biol. 2016 Jun;35(6):296-300. doi: 10.1089/dna.2015.3203. Epub 2016 Mar 16.