Journal article
MicroRNA Regulation of Smooth Muscle Phenotype
Molecular and cellular pharmacology (Windsor Mill, Md.), Vol.4(1), pp.1-16
01/01/2012
DOI: 10.4255/mcpharmacol.12.01
PMCID: PMC4190587
PMID: 25309675
Abstract
Advances in studies of microRNA (miRNA) expression and function in smooth muscles illustrate important effects of small noncoding RNAs on cell proliferation, hypertrophy and differentiation. An emerging theme in miRNA research in a variety of cell types including smooth muscles is that miRNAs regulate protein expression networks to fine tune phenotype. Some widely expressed miRNAs have been described in smooth muscles that regulate important processes in many cell types, such as miR-21 control of proliferation and cell survival. Other miRNAs that are prominent regulators of smooth muscle-restricted gene expression also have targets that control pluripotent cell differentiation. The miR-143~145 cluster which targets myocardin and Kruppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) is arguably the best-described miRNA family in smooth muscles with profound effects on gene expression networks that promote serum response factor (SRF)-dependent contractile and cytoskeletal protein expression and the mature contractile phenotype. Kruppel-family members KLF4 and KLF5 have multiple effects on cell differentiation and are targets for multiple miRNAs in smooth muscles (miR-145, miR-146a, miR-25). The feedback and feedforward loops being defined appear to contribute significantly to vascular and airway remodeling in cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. RNA interference approaches applied to animal models of vascular and respiratory diseases prove that miRNAs and RNA-induced silencing are valid targets for novel anti-remodeling therapies that alter pathological smooth muscle hyperplasia and hypertrophy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- MicroRNA Regulation of Smooth Muscle Phenotype
- Creators
- Sachindra R Joshi - University of South AlabamaBrian S Comer - University of South AlabamaJared M McLendon - University of South AlabamaWilliam T Gerthoffer - University of South Alabama
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Molecular and cellular pharmacology (Windsor Mill, Md.), Vol.4(1), pp.1-16
- DOI
- 10.4255/mcpharmacol.12.01
- PMID
- 25309675
- PMCID
- PMC4190587
- ISSN
- 1938-1247
- eISSN
- 1938-1247
- Grant note
- R01 HL077726 / NHLBI NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2012
- Academic Unit
- Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984618522402771
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