Identification and Characterization of CircRNAs As Competing Endogenous RNAs for MiRNA-mRNA in Colorectal Cancer

Overview

Journal PeerJ

Specialties Biology
Environmental Health
General Medicine

Date 2019 Oct 4

PMID 31579577

Citations 28

Authors

Wenliang Yuan

Sihua Peng

Jingyu Wang

Cai Wei

Zhen Ye

Ye Wang

Meiliang Wang

Hao Xu

Shouwen Jiang

Dan Sun

Chaoxu Dai

Linhua Jiang

Xiaobo Li

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Abstract

Background: Recent studies showed that circRNAs are involved in the biological process of some human cancers. However, little is known about their functions in colorectal cancer (CRC).

Methods: Here we first revealed the expression profiles of circRNAs in the CRC tissues and the adjacent non-tumorous tissues using high-throughput sequencing. The sequence feature, chromosome location, alternative splicing and other characteristics of the circRNAs were also explored. The miRNA and mRNA expression profiles were then obtained by analyzing relevant CRC data retrived from the TCGA database. We obtained and analyzed the competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network of the top three pairs of the largest up-regulated and down-regulated circRNAs.

Results: In this study, we obtained 50,410 circRNAs in the CRC tissue and the adjacent non-tumor tissues, of which 33.7% (16,975) were new, and revealed differential changes in circRNA expression during colorectal carcinogenesis. We have identified six potential key circRNAs (circPIEZO1-3, hsa_circ_0067163, hsa_circ_0140188, hsa_circ_0002632, hsa_circ_0001998 and hsa_circ_0023990) associated with CRC, which play important roles in carcinogenesis as ceRNA for regulation of miRNA-mRNA network. In the subsequent KEGG analysis, several CRC-related pathways were found.

Conclusions: Our findings advance the understanding of the pathogenesis of CRC from the perspective of circRNAs and provide some circRNAs as candidate diagnostic biomarkers or potential therapeutic targets.

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