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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2017

Transcriptome Identified lncRNAs Associated with Renal Fibrosis in UUO Rat Model.

Jiazeng Sun, Shang Zhang, Bianhua Shi, Dexian Zheng, Juan Shi

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Diverse Role of TGF-β in Kidney Disease.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020
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  20. Non-Coding RNAs as New Therapeutic Targets in the Context of Renal Fibrosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jiazeng SunNational Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijing, China.
Shang ZhangNational Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijing, China.
Bianhua ShiNational Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijing, China.
Dexian ZhengNational Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijing, China.
Juan ShiNational Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical CollegeBeijing, China.
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Renal fibrosis represents a final common outcome of many renal diseases and has attracted a great deal of attention. To better understand whether lncRNAs could be a player in this process or be a biomarker for renal fibrosis diagnosis, we compared transcriptome sequencing data on renal tissues and urine respectively between UUO (unilateral ureteral obstruction) and shamed (Sham) rat model. Numerous genes including lncRNAs with significant changes in their expression were identified. 24 lncRNAs were up-regulated and 79 lncRNAs were down-regulated in the renal tissues of the UUO rats. 625 lncRNAs were up-regulated and 177 lncRNAs were down-regulated in urines of the UUO rats. Among the lncRNAs upregulated in renal tissue of UUO rats, 19 lncRNAs were predicted containing several conserved Smad3 binding motifs in the promoter. Among them, lncRNAs with putative promoter containing more than 4 conserved Smad3 binding motifs were demonstrated to be induced by TGF-β significantly in normal rat renal tubular epithelial NRK-52E cells. We further confirmed that lncRNA TCONS_00088786 and TCONS_01496394 were regulated by TGF-β stimulation and also can influence the expression of some fibrosis-related genes through a feedback loop. Based on transcriptome sequencing data, bioinformatics analysis and qRT-PCR detection, we also demonstrated lncRNA in urine are detectable and might be a novel biomarker of renal fibrosis. These results provide new information for the involvement of lncRNAs in renal fibrosis, indicating that they may serve as candidate biomarkers or therapeutic targets in the future.

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lncRNArenal fibrosisTGF-βurineUUO

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