目的探讨在耳蜗毛细胞氧化损伤中表达异常的miR-181a对原癌基因c-fos的生物学调控作用。方法采用叔丁基过氧化氢(t-BHP)染毒,设50、100、200μmol/L 3个浓度组和未染毒对照组对HEI-CO1细胞染毒12h,提取细胞总RNA及细胞总蛋白,采用荧光定量PCR(qPCR)检测miR-181a/-181d表达;选择表达异常的miR-181a为研究对象,检索生物信息学网站,对c-fos 3′端非翻译区域(3′-UTR)上miR-181a可能的作用靶序列进行预测分析;用脂质体转染入miR-181a的mimics,qPCR检测转染效率;qPCR观察c-fos mRNA水平表达量的改变;免疫印迹(Western blotting)法观察毛细胞中c-fos蛋白表达量的改变;构建野生型的融合c-fos-3′UTR的重组pGL3质粒(pGL3-c-fos-3′UTR-WT),利用双荧光素酶报告基因检测系统检测在高表达miR-181a后荧光素酶活力的改变情况。结果qPCR结果显示,miR-181a在100、200μmol/L染毒浓度组表达下调,低表达倍数分别为0.744和0.766,差异均有统计学意义(P〈0.01);而miR-181d在50μmol/L浓度组表达升高,高表达倍数为1.29,差异亦有统计学意义(P〈0.01),在100、200μmol/L 2个染毒浓度组中的表达变化的差异无统计学意义(P〉0.05);通过预测显示,在人类和小鼠中,c-fos均受miR-181a的调控,在种子区域完全互补,靶序列在物种之间也十分保守;脂质体转染入miR-181a mimics 24h后,qPCR结果显示,在miR-181a mimics转染组中miR-181a升高892.979倍;与对照组相比,在miR-181a mimics转染组的耳蜗毛细胞中c-fos mRNA的表达增高,差异有统计学意义(P〈0.05);Western blotting观察结果显示,与对照组相比,c-fos蛋白在miR-181a mimics转染组中表达升高,差异有统计学意义(P〈0.01);成功构建pGL3-c-fos-3′UTR-WT的重组质粒,双荧光素报告基因检测系统结果显示,在高表达miR-181a时,野生型pGL3-c-fos-3′U
Objective To investigate the regulatory effect of miR-181a with abnormal expression on the expression of c-fos in cochlear hair cells undergoing oxidative damage. Methods House Ear Institute- Organ of Corti 1 (HEI-CO1) cells were assigned to 50, 100, and 200 μmol/L tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BHP) exposure groups and control group. The HEI-CO1 cells in the exposure groups were exposed to 50, 100, or 200 μmol/L t-BHP for 12 h. Then, total RNA and total protein were extracted from the HEI-CO1 cells, and the expression of miR-181a/-181d was measured by qPCR. The miR-181a with abnormal expression was selected as the subject of study. The putative miR-181 a target sequence in the 3′ untranslated region (3′-UTR) of c-fos was predicted by searching on a bioinformatics website. The HEI-CO1 cells were transfected with miR-181a mimics by lipofection, and the transfection efficiency was measured by qPCR. The mRNA and protein expression of c-fos was measured by qPCR and Western blot. The pGL3-c-fos-3′UTR-WT plasmid was constructed, and the luciferase activity of the plasmid in the case of high miR-181a expression was measured using the Dual-Luciferase Reporter Assay System. Results Compared with those in the control group, the expression of miR-181a in 100 and 200 μmol/L t-BHP exposure groups was significantly decreased, with expression ratios of 0.744 and 0.766 (P〈0.01 ), while the expression of miR-181 d in 50 μmol/L t-BHP exposure group was significantly increased, with an expression ratio of 1.29 (P〈0.01). There was no significant difference in miR-181a expression between the 100 and 200 μmol/L t-BHP exposure groups (P〉0.05). The predication results revealed that c-fos was regulated by miR-181a in humans and mice, with complete complementarity to the seed region of miR-181a, and there was high degree of target sequence conservation across species. The expression of miR-181a in the HEI-OC1 ceils transfected with miR-181a mimics was elevated 892.979 times at 24 hours after transfect