Title:MiR-148b Caused Liver Injury in Rats with Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock by Inhibiting SIRT6 Expression
Volume: 24
Issue: 11
Author(s): Xiongfei Ma and Mingchen Liu*
Affiliation:
- Center for General Practice Medicine, Department of
Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Affiliated People's Hospital, Hangzhou Medical
College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310014, China
Keywords:
miR-148b, SIRT6, traumatic hemorrhagic shock, I/R, apoptosis, liver injury, alanine aminotransferase.
Abstract:
Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of miR-
148b in liver injury in rats with traumatic hemorrhagic shock (THS) and to elucidate its
potential mechanism.
Methods: The levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase
(AST) in the serum of rats were detected by enzyme-linked immune sorbent assay
(ELISA), and the injury of rat liver was analyzed by hematoxylin-eosin (H&E) staining.
Apoptosis of rat hepatocytes and normal rat liver cell line (BRL3A) was identified by
terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labeling (TUNEL)
assay and flow cytometry, respectively. MiR-148b and sirtuin 6 (SIRT6) expression was
measured by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR)
and Western blot. Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) content and cell viability were
measured by commercial kits and cell counting kit-8 (CCK-8) assay, respectively. The
binding sites of miR-148b and SIRT6 were predicted by the Starbase database and
verified by dual luciferase reporter assay.
Results: MiR-148b expression in THS rats or ischemia-reperfusion (I/R)-treated cells
was higher than in the control group. Overexpression of miR-148b further promoted the
effects of I/R, which enhanced the levels of ALT, AST and LDH, cell apoptosis of liver
tissue or BRL3A cells and decreased the expression of SITR6. Besides, miR-148b
negatively correlated with SIRT6, and upregulated the expression of SIRT6 could partly
reverse the effect of miR-148b.
Conclusion: Hepatocyte injury induced by I/R was achieved by regulating miR-148b
/SIRT6 axis.