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Research Articles

Knockdown of circ_0025908 inhibits proliferation, migration, invasion, and inflammation while stimulates apoptosis in fibroblast-like synoviocytes by regulating miR-650-dependent SCUBE2

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Pages 473-484 | Received 21 Feb 2022, Accepted 06 Jul 2022, Published online: 29 Jul 2022
 

Abstract

Background

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are demonstrated to play vital roles in human diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Therefore, this research aimed to explore the effects of hsa_circRNA_0025908 (circ_0025908) on RA.

Methods

RNA expression of circ_0025908, microRNA-650 (miR-650), and Signal peptide-CUBepidermal growth factor-like containing protein 2 (SCUBE2) were assessed by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction; protein expression of SCUBE2, apoptosis- and invasion-related proteins was evaluated by western blot assay. Functional assays were performed using 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2, 5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazol-3-ium bromide, 5-ethynyl-2’-deoxyuridine, transwell, flow cytometry, and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay assays. Dual-luciferase reporter, RNA immunoprecipitation, and RNA pull-down assays confirmed the interaction relationship among circ_0025908, miR-650, and SCUBE2.

Results

Circ_0025908 was overexpressed in synovial tissues and fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) from RA patients. Inhibition of circ_0025908 repressed proliferation, migration, invasion, inflammation, and cell cycle progression, while induced apoptosis in the FLS isolated from RA patients (FLS-RA), accompanied with increased Bax, cleaved caspase-3 and E-cadherin, but declined Bcl-2, N-cadherin and Vimentin. MiR-650 was a target of circ_0025908, and SCUBE2 was a target for miR-650. Silencing of miR-650 could overturned above effects of circ_0025908 knockdown in FLS-RA, whereas its overexpression could mimic those effects by downregulating SCUBE2. Additionally, SCUBE2 expression could be positively regulated by circ_0025908 and inversely regulated by miR-650. Notably, Pearson’s correlation analysis confirmed the linear correlation among circ_0025908, miR-650 and SCUBE2 in these RA tissues.

Conclusion

Circ_0025908 inhibition can suppress FLS-RA dysfunctions through targeting miR-650/SCUBE2 axis, suggesting a new potential therapeutic clue for RA patients.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

Written informed consents were obtained from all participants and this study was permitted by the Ethics Committee of Xingtai people’s Hospital.

Funding

The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.

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