1. MicroRNA-218-5p Promotes Endovascular Trophoblast Differentiation and Spiral Artery Remodeling
- Author
-
Mohamed Salem, Yan-Ling Wang, David Rosman, Jelena Brkić, Chun Peng, Heyu Ni, Caroline Dunk, Lubna Nadeem, Issaka Yougbaré, Jacob O’Brien, Guodong Fu, Stephen J. Lye, and Oksana Shynlova
- Subjects
0301 basic medicine ,Spiral artery ,Placenta ,In Vitro Techniques ,Biology ,Cell Line ,Preeclampsia ,Transforming Growth Factor beta2 ,03 medical and health sciences ,Pre-Eclampsia ,Downregulation and upregulation ,Pregnancy ,Drug Discovery ,microRNA ,Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells ,Genetics ,medicine ,Humans ,Gene silencing ,Molecular Biology ,Pharmacology ,Trophoblast ,medicine.disease ,Immunohistochemistry ,Trophoblasts ,MicroRNAs ,030104 developmental biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,embryonic structures ,Cancer research ,Molecular Medicine ,Female ,Original Article ,Pregnancy Trimesters ,Endovascular trophoblast ,Transforming growth factor - Abstract
Preeclampsia (PE) is the leading cause of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Defects in trophoblast invasion, differentiation of endovascular extravillous trophoblasts (enEVTs), and spiral artery remodeling are key factors in PE development. There are no markers clinically available to predict PE, leaving expedited delivery as the only effective therapy. Dysregulation of miRNA in clinical tissues and maternal circulation have opened a new avenue for biomarker discovery. In this study, we investigated the role of miR-218-5p in PE development. miR-218-5p was highly expressed in EVTs and significantly downregulated in PE placentas. Using first-trimester trophoblast cell lines and human placental explants, we found that miR-218-5p overexpression promoted, whereas anti-miR-218-5p suppressed, trophoblast invasion, EVT outgrowth, and enEVT differentiation. Furthermore, miR-218-5p accelerated spiral artery remodeling in a decidua-placenta co-culture. The effect of miR-218-5p was mediated by the suppression of transforming growth factor (TGF)-β2 signaling. Silencing of TGFB2 mimicked, whereas treatment with TGF-β2 partially reversed, the effects of miR-218-5p. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that miR-218-5p promotes trophoblast invasion and enEVT differentiation through a novel miR-218-5p-TGF-β2 pathway. This study elucidates the role of an miRNA in enEVT differentiation and spiral artery remodeling and suggests that downregulation of miR-218-5p contributes to PE development.
- Published
- 2018