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Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry

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ISSN (Print): 1871-5206
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Research Article

Transcriptome Analysis of mRNA in Uterine Leiomyoma Using Next-generation RNA Sequencing

Author(s): Shadab Anjum, Tahreem Sahar, Aruna Nigam and Saima Wajid*

Volume 19, Issue 14, 2019

Page: [1703 - 1718] Pages: 16

DOI: 10.2174/1871520619666190409102855

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Abstract

Background: Uterine leiomyoma is a benign smooth muscle tumor of monoclonal nature in the female reproductive tract and is one of the major health problems. More than 70% of the female population suffers from uterine leiomyoma in their lifetime and in the advanced condition, it is associated with pregnancy complications and infertility.

Objective: Characterization and relative expression of mRNA transcripts through transcriptome profiling in uterine leiomyoma and adjacent normal myometrium.

Methods: Uterine leiomyoma tissue of an Indian female, age 32 years, with a family history of leiomyoma (evident from mother’s hysterectomy for the same pathology) was used. Patient showed 9 multiple large lesions appearing heterogeneously, deforming the uterine contour and causing distortion and splaying of the endometrial cavity showing disease aggressiveness was taken for Next-generation sequencing (NGS) to develop whole transcriptome profile along with the adjacent normal myometrium as control. The validation of the relative expression of the selective transcripts was done using Real-Time PCR.

Results: The transcriptome profile indicated 128 genes up-regulated and 98 down-regulated, with the Log2 fold change ≥ 2 and P ≤ 0.05, highlighting the molecular network closely associated with focal adhesion, hyaluronan and MAPK-signaling pathways. The mean relative fold change obtained from quantitative PCR as well as the P-values of 10 selected transcripts evaluated from student’s t-test were as follows: BCAN: 7.93 fold (p-value =0.0013); AAK1: 2.2 fold (p-value =0.0036); PCBP3: 3.4 fold (p-value =0.0197); MOV10L1: 3.4 fold (p-value =0.0062); TWISTNB: 1.8 fold (p-value =0.006); TMSB15A: 2.1 fold (p-value =0.0023); SMAD1: 0.8 fold (p-value =0.0112); ANXA1: 0.6 fold (p-value =0.0012); FOS: 0.6 fold (p-value =0.0191); SLFN11: 0.56 fold (p-value =0.0001).

Conclusion: The present study provides a roadmap, towards the analysis of genes and their roles in corresponding pathways throwing light on their possible involvement in the pathology of the disease.

Keywords: Uterine leiomyoma, fibroid, transcriptome, next-generation sequencing, genes, real-time PCR.

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