scholarly journals Noncoding RNAs Carried by Extracellular Vesicles in Endocrine Diseases

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margherita A. C. Pomatto ◽  
Chiara Gai ◽  
Maria Chiara Deregibus ◽  
Ciro Tetta ◽  
Giovanni Camussi
Keyword(s):  
Extracellular Vesicles ◽  
Thyroid Autoimmunity ◽  
Noncoding Rnas ◽  
Endocrine System ◽  
Rna Molecules ◽  
Enzyme Degradation ◽  
Obesity And Diabetes ◽  
Endocrine Organs ◽  
Complicated Pregnancy ◽  
Metabolic Dysfunctions

RNA molecules are essential and fine regulators of important biological processes. Their role is well documented also in the endocrine system, both in physiological and pathological conditions. Increasing interest is arising about the function and the importance of noncoding RNAs shuttled by extracellular vesicles (EVs). In fact, EV membrane protects nucleic acids from enzyme degradation. Nowadays, the research on EVs and their cargoes, as well as their biological functions, faces the lack of standardization in EV purification. Here, the main techniques for EV isolation are discussed and compared for their advantages and vulnerabilities. Despite the possible discrepancy due to methodological variability, EVs and their RNA content are reported to be key mediators of intercellular communication in pathologies of main endocrine organs, including the pancreas, thyroid, and reproductive system. In particular, the present work describes the role of RNAs contained in EVs in pathogenesis and progression of several metabolic dysfunctions, including obesity and diabetes, and their related manifestations. Their importance in the establishment and progression of thyroid autoimmunity disorders and complicated pregnancy is also discussed. Preliminary studies highlight the attractive possibility to use RNAs contained in EVs as biomarkers suggesting their exploitation for new diagnostic approaches in endocrinology.

scholarly journals Characterization of RNA in Extracellular Vesicles

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 7520
Author(s):  
Silvia Fischer ◽  
Elisabeth Deindl
Keyword(s):  
Extracellular Vesicles ◽  
Noncoding Rnas ◽  
Circular Rnas ◽  
Target Cells ◽  
Multivesicular Bodies ◽  
Bioactive Lipids ◽  
Rna Molecules ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Endosomal Pathway

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are important players in the communication between different kinds of cells by delivering their content, consisting of different types of RNA, proteins, bioactive lipids, or signaling nucleotides, into their target cells. Several types of EVs are distinguished: (1) exosomes with sizes from 30 to 150 nm originate from the endosomal pathway and form intracellular multivesicular bodies (MVBs), which fuse to the plasma membrane before their secretion. (2) EVs with sizes ranging from 100 to 1000 nm in diameter are formed during cell surface budding. (3) Apoptotic bodies with diameters from 500 to 2000 nm are released from blebbing of the cell membrane of apoptotic cells. It is well established that various RNA molecules such as coding RNAs and noncoding RNAs (long noncoding RNAs, microRNAs, circular RNAs, and rRNAs) are present in different amounts in EVs depending on the type and origin of EV. Here we will give an overview of methods to isolate different types of EVs and to quantify and characterize different RNA species.

scholarly journals Multiple Roles of Exosomal Long Noncoding RNAs in Cancers

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenyuan Zhao ◽  
Yuanqi Liu ◽  
Chunfang Zhang ◽  
Chaojun Duan
Keyword(s):  
Extracellular Vesicles ◽  
Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Tumor Angiogenesis ◽  
Cell Communication ◽  
Noncoding Rnas ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Long Noncoding Rnas ◽  
Cancer Therapies ◽  
Transcriptional Noise ◽  
Intercellular Exchange

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are not transcriptional noise, as previously understood, but are currently considered to be multifunctional. Exosomes are derived from the internal multivesicular compartment and are extracellular vesicles (EVs) with diameters of 30–100 nm. Exosomes play significant roles in the intercellular exchange of information and material. Exosomal lncRNAs may be promising biomarkers for cancer diagnosis and potential targets for cancer therapies, since they are increasingly understood to be involved in tumorigenesis, tumor angiogenesis, and chemoresistance. This review mainly focuses on the roles of emerging exosomal lncRNAs in cancer. In addition, the biogenesis of exosomes, the functions of lncRNAs, and the mechanisms of lncRNAs in exosome-mediated cell-cell communication are also summarized.

scholarly journals The Role of Extracellular Vesicles as Shuttles of RNA and Their Clinical Significance as Biomarkers in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Genes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 902
Author(s):  
Eva Costanzi ◽  
Carolina Simioni ◽  
Gabriele Varano ◽  
Cinzia Brenna ◽  
Ilaria Conti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatocellular Carcinoma ◽  
Extracellular Vesicles ◽  
Tumor Metastasis ◽  
Biological Processes ◽  
Rna Molecules ◽  
Expression Of Genes ◽  
Non Coding Rna ◽  
Donor Cells ◽  
Relevant Role

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have attracted interest as mediators of intercellular communication following the discovery that EVs contain RNA molecules, including non-coding RNA (ncRNA). Growing evidence for the enrichment of peculiar RNA species in specific EV subtypes has been demonstrated. ncRNAs, transferred from donor cells to recipient cells, confer to EVs the feature to regulate the expression of genes involved in differentiation, proliferation, apoptosis, and other biological processes. These multiple actions require accuracy in the isolation of RNA content from EVs and the methodologies used play a relevant role. In liver, EVs play a crucial role in regulating cell–cell communications and several pathophysiological events in the heterogeneous liver class of cells via horizontal transfer of their cargo. This review aims to discuss the rising role of EVs and their ncRNAs content in regulating specific aspects of hepatocellular carcinoma development, including tumorigenesis, angiogenesis, and tumor metastasis. We analyze the progress in EV-ncRNAs’ potential clinical applications as important diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for liver conditions.

Endocrinology and alcohol

2011 ◽  
pp. 294-300
Author(s):  
Margit G. Proescholdt ◽  
Marc Walter
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Endocrine System ◽  
Endocrine Function ◽  
Endocrine Regulation ◽  
Chronic Alcohol ◽  
Endocrine Dysfunction ◽  
Chronic Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Multiple Organs ◽  
Endocrine Organs

Alcohol has widespread effects on multiple organs, including the endocrine organs, potentially impairing endocrine function and affecting the entire endocrine milieu. Endocrine impairment may be observed with acute alcohol ingestion, excessive chronic alcohol consumption, and during alcohol withdrawal. Whereas many effects of alcohol on the endocrine organs are reversible following cessation of alcohol consumption, some changes may extend into abstinence. Importantly, endocrine dysfunction observed in alcoholism, is no longer considered to simply result from hepatic failure or chronic malnutrition, but, at least partially, from direct, toxic actions of alcohol on the endocrine organs themselves. In addition, there is increasing evidence that the endocrine system itself may play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of addictive behaviour. Ethanol and its metabolite acetaldehyde directly affect cell membranes and influences intracellular metabolism. Indirect effects include stress, nausea, and vomiting during acute intoxication and withdrawal. Whereas the list of alcohol-induced endocrine dysfunction is long, scientific and epidemiological evidence is frequently controversial. Controversies may result from the highly heterogenic group of alcohol-dependent individuals regarding dose and duration of alcohol consumption, periods of abstinence, age, gender, nutritional status, cigarette smoking, use of other drugs, presence of other diseases, particularly liver disease, and the complexity of endocrine regulation in general.

Endocrine autoimmunity

2011 ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Simmonds ◽  
Stephen C. L. Gough
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Endocrine System ◽  
Graves Disease ◽  
Self Tolerance ◽  
Autoimmune Attack ◽  
Endocrine Organs

Dysfunction within the endocrine system can lead to a variety of diseases with autoimmune attack against individual components being some of the most common. Endocrine autoimmunity encompasses a spectrum of disorders including, e.g., common disorders such as type 1 diabetes, Graves’ disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and rarer disorders including Addison’s disease and the autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes type 1 (APS 1) and type 2 (APS 2) (see Table 1.6.1). Autoimmune attack within each of these diseases although aimed at different endocrine organs is caused by a breakdown in the immune system’s ability to distinguish between self and nonself antigens, leading to an immune response targeted at self tissues. Investigating the mechanisms behind this breakdown is vital to understand what has gone wrong and to determine the pathways against which therapeutics can be targeted. Before discussing how self-tolerance fails, we first have to understand how the immune system achieves self-tolerance.

Normal function of the endocrine system

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Newell-Price ◽  
Alia Munir ◽  
Miguel Debono
Keyword(s):  
Adrenal Glands ◽  
Hormone Secretion ◽  
Endocrine System ◽  
Reproductive Organs ◽  
Normal Function ◽  
Signalling Pathways ◽  
Clinical Specialty ◽  
Intracellular Signalling Pathways ◽  
System P ◽  
Endocrine Organs

Endocrinology is the study of hormones (and their glands of origin), their receptors, the intracellular signalling pathways they invoke, and their associated diseases. The clinical specialty of endocrinology focuses specifically on the endocrine organs, that is, the organs whose primary function is hormone secretion, including the hypothalamus, the pituitary, the thyroid, the parathyroid, the adrenal glands, the pancreas, and the reproductive organs.

scholarly journals Altered Long Noncoding RNA Expression Profile in Multiple Myeloma Patients with Bisphosphonate-Induced Osteonecrosis of the Jaw

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Alessandro Allegra ◽  
Manuela Mania ◽  
Angela D’Ascola ◽  
Giacomo Oteri ◽  
Enrico Nastro Siniscalchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Myeloma ◽  
Metabolic Pathways ◽  
Noncoding Rna ◽  
Protective Action ◽  
Noncoding Rnas ◽  
Osteonecrosis Of The Jaw ◽  
Base Pairs ◽  
Osteolytic Lesions ◽  
Ctrl Group ◽  
Rna Molecules

Bisphosphonates (BPs) are inhibitors of osteoclast-mediated bone resorption used for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) patients with osteolytic lesions. Bisphosphonate-induced osteonecrosis of the jaw (BONJ) is an infrequent drug-caused adverse event of these agents. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a set of more than 200 base pairs, noncoding RNA molecules, which are critical posttranscriptional regulators of gene expression. Our study was aimed at evaluating 17 lncRNAs, whose targets were previously validated as key elements in MM, bone metabolism, and angiogenesis in MM subjects without BONJ (MM group), in MM subjects with BONJ (BONJ group), and a group of healthy controls (CTRL group). Our results demonstrated a different lncRNA profile in BONJ patients compared to MM patients and controls. Two lncRNAs (DANCR and MALAT1) were both downregulated compared to controls and MM, twelve (HOTAIR, MEG3, TP73-AS1, HOTTIP, HIF1A-AS2, MANTIS, CTD-2201E18, CTD1-2003C8, R-471B22, RP1-43E13, RP11-553L6.5, and RP1-286D6) were overexpressed in MM with BONJ, and one (H19) was upregulated compared with only MM. Two lncRNAs (JHDMD1 and MTMR9LP) had higher expression, but these differences were not statistically significant. The examined lncRNAs target several genes and metabolic pathways. An altered lncRNA signature could contribute to the onset of BONJ or have a protective action. Targeting these lncRNAs could offer a possibility for the prevention or therapy of BONJ.

scholarly journals Studying RNA–DNA interactome by Red-C identifies noncoding RNAs associated with various chromatin types and reveals transcription dynamics

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 6699-6714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey A Gavrilov ◽  
Anastasiya A Zharikova ◽  
Aleksandra A Galitsyna ◽  
Artem V Luzhin ◽  
Natalia M Rubanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Messenger Rna ◽  
Noncoding Rnas ◽  
K562 Cells ◽  
Biological Processes ◽  
Intron Splicing ◽  
Rna Molecules ◽  
Proximity Ligation ◽  
Data Support ◽  
Non Coding Rnas ◽  
Kinetics Of

Abstract Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) participate in various biological processes, including regulating transcription and sustaining genome 3D organization. Here, we present a method termed Red-C that exploits proximity ligation to identify contacts with the genome for all RNA molecules present in the nucleus. Using Red-C, we uncovered the RNA–DNA interactome of human K562 cells and identified hundreds of ncRNAs enriched in active or repressed chromatin, including previously undescribed RNAs. Analysis of the RNA–DNA interactome also allowed us to trace the kinetics of messenger RNA production. Our data support the model of co-transcriptional intron splicing, but not the hypothesis of the circularization of actively transcribed genes.

scholarly journals Extracellular Vesicles from Thyroid Carcinoma: The New Frontier of Liquid Biopsy

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Germana Rappa ◽  
Caterina Puglisi ◽  
Mark Santos ◽  
Stefano Forte ◽  
Lorenzo Memeo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Carcinoma ◽  
Extracellular Vesicles ◽  
Liquid Biopsy ◽  
Thyroid Nodules ◽  
Endocrine System ◽  
Diagnostic Procedures ◽  
Lymph Node Involvement ◽  
Phospholipid Bilayer ◽  
Invasive Approach ◽  
Non Invasive

The diagnostic approach to thyroid cancer is one of the most challenging issues in oncology of the endocrine system because of its high incidence (3.8% of all new cancer cases in the US) and the difficulty to distinguish benign from malignant non-functional thyroid nodules and establish the cervical lymph node involvement during staging. Routine diagnosis of thyroid nodules usually relies on a fine-needle aspirate biopsy, which is invasive and often inaccurate. Therefore, there is an urgent need to identify novel, accurate, and non-invasive diagnostic procedures. Liquid biopsy, as a non-invasive approach for the detection of diagnostic biomarkers for early tumor diagnosis, prognosis, and disease monitoring, may be of particular benefit in this context. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are a consistent source of tumor-derived RNA due to their prevalence in circulating bodily fluids, the well-established isolation protocols, and the fact that RNA in phospholipid bilayer-enclosed vesicles is protected from blood-borne RNases. Recent results in other types of cancer, including our recent study on plasma EVs from glioblastoma patients suggest that information derived from analysis of EVs from peripheral blood plasma can be integrated in the routine diagnostic tumor approach. In this review, we will examine the diagnostic and prognostic potential of liquid biopsy to detect tumor-derived nucleic acids in circulating EVs from patients with thyroid carcinoma.

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