Antagonist of microRNA-21 improves balloon injury-induced rat iliac artery remodeling by regulating proliferation and apoptosis of adventitial fibroblasts and myofibroblasts

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry
Fei WangPei-Li Bu

Abstract

Molecular pathways involved in adventitial fibroblasts (AFs) and myofibroblasts (MFs) proliferation and apoptosis contribute to vascular remodeling. MicroRNA-21 (miR-21) plays an important role in regulating cellular proliferation and apoptosis of many cell types; however, the effect of miR-21 on AFs and MFs is still unknown. In this study, we found that miR-21 was expressed in AFs and overexpressed in MFs. Inhibition of miR-21 decreased proliferation and increased apoptosis of AFs and MFs, and overexpression of miR-21 with pre-miR-21 had the reverse effect. Programmed cell death 4 (PDCD4), related to cell proliferation and apoptosis, was validated as a direct target of miR-21 by dual-luciferase reporter assay and gain and loss of function of miR-21 in AFs and MFs. PDCD4 knockdown with siRNA partly rescued the reduced proliferation with miR-21 inhibition and alleviated the increased apoptosis induced by miR-21 inhibition in AFs and MFs. Moreover, increasing PDCD4 expression by miR-21 inhibition significantly decreased JNK/c-Jun activity. In contrast, decreasing PDCD4 expression by pre-miR-21 treatment increased JNK/c-Jun activity, while the effect of miR-21 inhibition on JNK/c-Jun activity could be rescued by PDCD4 siRNA. Moreo...Continue Reading

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