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  • Anti-miR-141-3p maintains homeostasis between autophagy and apoptosis by targeting Yy1 in the fetal lumbosacral defecation center of rats.

Anti-miR-141-3p maintains homeostasis between autophagy and apoptosis by targeting Yy1 in the fetal lumbosacral defecation center of rats.

Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids (2024-03-28)
Yue Li, Peiqi Liu, Yifan Yao, Weilin Wang, Huimin Jia, Yuzuo Bai, Zhengwei Yuan, Zhonghua Yang
ABSTRACT

Anorectal malformations (ARMs) are congenital diseases that lead to postoperative fecal incontinence, constipation, and soiling, despite improvements in surgery; however, their pathological mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we report the role of microRNA-141-3p in maintaining homeostasis between apoptosis and autophagy in the lumbosacral defecation center of fetal rats with ARMs. Elevated microRNA-141-3p expression inhibited YIN-YANG-1 expression by binding its 3' UTR, and repressed autophagy and triggered apoptosis simultaneously. Then, adenylate cyclase 3 was screened to be the downstream target gene of YIN-YANG-1 by chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing experiments, and Yin Yang 1 could positively activate the transcription of adenylate cyclase 3 by directly interacting with the motif GAGATGG and ATGG in its promoter. Intraamniotic microinjection of adeno-rno-microRNA-141-3p-sponge-GFP in fetal rats with ARMs on embryonic day 15 restored apoptosis-autophagy homeostasis. These findings reveal that microRNA-141-3p upregulation impaired homeostasis between apoptosis and autophagy by inhibiting the YIN-YANG-1/adenylate cyclase 3 axis, and that intraamniotic injection of anti-microRNA-141-3p helped maintain homeostasis in the lumbosacral defecation center of ARMs during embryogenesis.

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Anti-Bcl-2 antibody, Mouse monoclonal, clone 10C4, purified from hybridoma cell culture