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ArticlePloS one2022

Identification of miRNA-mRNA-TFs regulatory network and crucial pathways involved in asthma through advanced systems biology approaches.

Noor Ahmad Shaik, Khalidah Nasser, Arif Mohammed, Abdulrahman Mujalli, Ahmad A Obaid, Ashraf A El-Harouni, Ramu Elango, Babajan Banaganapalli

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Article in PloS one, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Noor Ahmad ShaikDepartment of Genetic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Khalidah NasserPrincess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Center of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Arif MohammedDepartment of Biology, College of Science, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulrahman MujalliDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmad A ObaidDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Ashraf A El-HarouniDepartment of Genetic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Ramu ElangoDepartment of Genetic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-4264-2135
Babajan BanaganapalliDepartment of Genetic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-8089-2210
King Abdulaziz University · SAUmm al-Qura University · SAUniversity of Jeddah · SA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asthma is a life-threatening and chronic inflammatory lung disease that is posing a true global health challenge. The genetic basis of the disease is fairly well examined. However, the molecular crosstalk between microRNAs (miRNAs), target genes, and transcription factors (TFs) networks and their contribution to disease pathogenesis and progression is not well explored. Therefore, this study was aimed at dissecting the molecular network between mRNAs, miRNAs, and TFs using robust computational biology approaches. The transcriptomic data of bronchial epithelial cells of severe asthma patients and healthy controls was studied by different systems biology approaches like differentially expressed gene detection, functional enrichment, miRNA-target gene pairing, and mRNA-miRNA-TF molecular networking. We detected the differential expression of 1703 (673 up-and 1030 down-regulated) genes and 71 (41 up-and 30 down-regulated) miRNAs in the bronchial epithelial cells of asthma patients. The DEGs were found to be enriched in key pathways like IL-17 signaling (KEGG: 04657), Th1 and Th2 cell differentiation (KEGG: 04658), and the Th17 cell differentiation (KEGG: 04659) (p-values = 0.001). The results from miRNAs-target gene pairs-transcription factors (TFs) have detected the key roles of 3 miRs (miR-181a-2-3p; miR-203a-3p; miR-335-5p), 6 TFs (TFAM, FOXO1, GFI1, IRF2, SOX9, and HLF) and 32 miRNA target genes in eliciting autoimmune reactions in bronchial epithelial cells of the respiratory tract. Through systemic implementation of comprehensive system biology tools, this study has identified key miRNAs, TFs, and miRNA target gene pairs as potential tissue-based asthma biomarkers.

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AsthmaMicroRNAsBiomarkersComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene Regulatory NetworksHumansInterleukin-17RNA, MessengerSystems BiologyTranscription FactorsBiomarkersInterleukin-17MicroRNAsRNA, MessengerTranscription Factors

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PMID36264868
PMCPMC9584516
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