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Medical Physiology

Thomas Jefferson University

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2019

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Full-Text Articles in Translational Medical Research

Increasing Upstream Chromatin Long-Range Interactions May Favor Induction Of Circular Rnas In Lysopc-Activated Human Aortic Endothelial Cells., Angus Li, Yu Sun, Charles Drummer, Yifan Lu, Daohai Yu, Yan Zhou, Xinyuan Li, Simone J. Pearson, Candice Johnson, Catherine Yu, William Y. Yang, Kevin Mastascusa, Xiaohua Jiang, Jianxin Sun, Thomas Rogers, Wenhui Hu, Hong Wang, Xiaofeng Yang Apr 2019

Increasing Upstream Chromatin Long-Range Interactions May Favor Induction Of Circular Rnas In Lysopc-Activated Human Aortic Endothelial Cells., Angus Li, Yu Sun, Charles Drummer, Yifan Lu, Daohai Yu, Yan Zhou, Xinyuan Li, Simone J. Pearson, Candice Johnson, Catherine Yu, William Y. Yang, Kevin Mastascusa, Xiaohua Jiang, Jianxin Sun, Thomas Rogers, Wenhui Hu, Hong Wang, Xiaofeng Yang

Center for Translational Medicine Faculty Papers

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are non-coding RNAs that form covalently closed continuous loops, and act as gene regulators in physiological and disease conditions. To test our hypothesis that proatherogenic lipid lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) induce a set of circRNAs in human aortic endothelial cell (HAEC) activation, we performed circRNA analysis by searching our RNA-Seq data from LPC-activated HAECs, and found: (1) LPC induces significant modulation of 77 newly characterized cirRNAs, among which 47 circRNAs (61%) are upregulated; (2) 34 (72%) out of 47 upregulated circRNAs are upregulated when the corresponding mRNAs are downregulated, suggesting that the majority of circRNAs are upregulated presumably via …