PMID- 30756390 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20230202 IS - 1097-4652 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9541 (Linking) VI - 234 IP - 9 DP - 2019 Sep TI - Circular RNA expression profiles during the differentiation of human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells into cardiomyocyte-like cells. PG - 16412-16423 LID - 10.1002/jcp.28310 [doi] AB - So far, there were no reports on circular RNA (circRNA) expression profiles in the differentiation of human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hUCMSCs) into cardiomyocyte-like cells induced by 5-aza. In this study, hUCMSCs were isolated from umbilical cords and induced with 5-aza for 14 days. Immunofluorescence staining, real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and western blot of cardiac troponin I and alpha-sarcomeric actin on hUCMSCs between Days 14 and 0 were performed. The expression profile of circRNAs was analyzed by microarray and validated with RT-PCR. Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes analyses were performed to identify the functions of differentially expressed genes and related pathways. The connections between circRNAs and microRNAs were explored by using Cytoscape. The results showed that a total of 226 circRNAs were calculated as differentially expressed during the differentiation. Among them, 127 were upregulated and 99 were downregulated. We selected circRNAs that were upregulated by more than five-fold and downregulated by more than three-fold. Ultimately, 74 differentially expressed circRNAs that were highly conserved on Day 14 after induction compared to Day 0 were identified. Among them, 41 were upregulated and 33 were downregulated. Four upregulated circRNAs (circRNA_01536, circRNA_04411, circRNA_09169, and circRNA_09905) and four downregulated circRNAs (circRNA_00699, circRNA_01183, circRNA_01978, and circRNA_16804) were randomly confirmed by RT-PCR. GO analysis suggested a number of cell proliferation and differentiation related physiological processes and pathways, such as the Wnt signaling pathway and others. Network analysis uncovered three potential key circRNAs, that is, circRNA_05432, circRNA_08441, and circRNA_01536. CI - (c) 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. FAU - Ruan, Zhong-Bao AU - Ruan ZB AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0607-0010 AD - Department of Cardiology, Jiangsu Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, P.R. China. FAU - Chen, Ge-Cai AU - Chen GC AD - Department of Cardiology, Jiangsu Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, P.R. China. FAU - Zhang, Rui AU - Zhang R AD - Department of Cardiology, Jiangsu Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, P.R. China. FAU - Zhu, Li AU - Zhu L AD - Department of Cardiology, Jiangsu Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, P.R. China. LA - eng GR - BK20161370/Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190212 PL - United States TA - J Cell Physiol JT - Journal of cellular physiology JID - 0050222 SB - IM OTO - NOTNLM OT - cardiomyocyte-like cells OT - circular RNAs OT - differentiation OT - expression profile OT - human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells EDAT- 2019/02/14 06:00 MHDA- 2019/02/14 06:01 CRDT- 2019/02/14 06:00 PHST- 2019/01/24 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/12/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/01/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/02/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/02/14 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/02/14 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/jcp.28310 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Cell Physiol. 2019 Sep;234(9):16412-16423. doi: 10.1002/jcp.28310. Epub 2019 Feb 12.