Table 1 The 19 miRNAs significantly upregulated (two-fold or more) in cortical neurons 12 h coculturing with OGD-IEC-6 cells (determined by qRT-PCR).
microRNA | KEGG pathway target gene | Fold changes [compared to (Control-IEC-6) group] | Gene function (reference) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OGD-IEC-6+37 °C | OGD-IEC-6+32 °C | Control-Neuron+37 °C | OGD-IEC-6+Neuron+37 °C | OGD-IEC-6+Neuron+32 °C | |||
rno-miR-384-5p | Ppp3cb Pik3r2 Casp3 Prkar2b Casp8 Tp53 Il1a Pik3cd Ppp3r1 | 164.6* | 125.4 | 35.6 | 783.0† | 267.7‡ | Enhances ER stress-induced cell apoptosis, and upregulates cleaved caspase-3 expression16 |
rno-miR-136-5p | Ppp3r2 Ppp3r1 Fadd Chuk | 119.9* | 67.7 | 18.1 | 629.5† | 88.0‡ | Modulates the inflammatory and immune responses and downregulates Bcl-217 |
rno-miR-9a-5p | Bcl2 Ikbkb Prkar2b CFLAR Cyct Dffa Pik3cd Nfkb1 Irak1 Capn1 | 67.4* | 100.2 | 49.6 | 403.9† | 239.7‡ | Increases the levels of pro-apoptotic regulator Fas ligand (FasL)19 |
rno-miR-369-3p | Tnf Bcl2 Casp3 Prkx Il1a Ngf Casp6 Ppp3r1 | 35.8* | 5.7 | 40.6 | 248.0† | 25.3‡ | Induces apoptosis as well as aberrant TNFα production 21 |
rno-miR-449a-5p | Bcl2 Prkar2b Tp53 Dffb Fadd Rela | 60.2* | 1.9 | 9.8 | 200.3† | 1.6‡ | Induces apoptosis by regulating cyclin D1 and Bcl-2 expression22 |
rno-miR-410-3p | Prkar2b | 26.3* | 18.8 | 24.5 | 141.9† | 83.3‡ | Down-regulates the expression of IL-10 through targeting STAT323 and induces apoptosis by targeting high-mobility group box 1 protein (HMGB1)24 |
rno-miR-497-5p | Tradd Il1rap Ripk1 Ikbkb Prkx Cyct Irak2 Prkar2a Dffb Bcl2l1 Map3k14 Nfkb1 Fadd | 53.6* | 33.7 | 6.2 | 107.1† | 23.1‡ | Induces apoptosis via the Bcl-2/Bax-Caspase9-Caspase3 pathway25 |
rno-miR-539-5p | Ripk1 Prkx Prkar2b Casp9 Myd88 Ppp3r1 Chuk | 15.1* | 6.1 | 11.7 | 104.3† | 26.6‡ | Promotes apoptosis via activation of caspase-3 and suppression of the expression of ERK/AKT and mTOR26 |
rno-miR-29b-3p | Tradd Birc2 Faslg Dffb Tnfrsf1a Casp6 Rela | 22.2* | 24.7 | 1.9 | 90.8† | 12.6‡ | Increases the protein level of cleaved caspase‐3 and the protein ratio of Bcl-2 to Bax27 |
rno-miR-34a-5p | Bcl2 Fadd | 28.5* | 57.3 | 3.2 | 60.7† | 38.0‡ | Increases caspase-3 and caspase-9 activation and supresses Bcl-2 expression18 |
rno-miR-26b-5p | Ppp3cb | 25.2* | 2.2 | 1.4 | 57.5† | 1.9‡ | Increases apoptosis by repression of β‐catenin, and Bcl‐230 |
rno-miR-98-5p | Il1a Ngf | 13.5* | 6.2 | 0.9 | 32.5† | 5.2‡ | Regulates Fas expression and the sensitivity of Fas-mediated apoptosis31 |
rno-miR-152-3p | Chuk | 13.7* | 10.1 | 1.0 | 28.6† | 10.8‡ | induces apoptosis by Caspase-3 and Faslg27 |
rno-miR-140-5p | Bcl2l1 | 13.0* | 2.7 | 1.9 | 27.8† | 1.4‡ | Facilitates the autophagy32 and suppresses the TGF-β1 pathway through targeting Smad333 |
rno-miR-20b-5p | Map3k14 Ppp3r1 | 9.0 | 4.1 | 1.7 | 21.3† | 3.4‡ | Activates the TGF-β signalling pathway34 |
rno-miR-20a-5p | Irak2 Map3k14 Ppp3r1 | 8.9 | 7.7 | 1.5 | 21.0† | 6.0‡ | Mitigates autophagy through suppressing autophagy-related gene 7 (ATG7)35 and increases caspase-3 and caspase-9 expression36 |
rno-miR-17-5p | Irak2 Map3k14 Ppp3r1 | 8.6 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 19.0† | 3.6‡ | Suppresses the apoptotic protease activating factor 1 (Apaf-1) expression37 |
rno-miR-323-3p | Dffb Chuk | 4.4 | 2.1 | 3.7 | 11.8† | 10.3‡ | Suppresses expression of SMAD2 and SMAD3 leading to inactivation of TGF-β signaling38 and lowers caspase-3 expression39 |
rno-miR-448-3p | Bcl2 Prkx Prkar2b | 2.5 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 9.4† | 3.7‡ | Promote apoptosis of nerve cells by downregulating SIRT135 |