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Int J Mol Sci . RNA Sequencing Demonstrates That Circular RNA Regulates Avian Influenza Virus Replication in Human Cells

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Int J Mol Sci


. 2022 Aug 31;23(17):9901.
doi: 10.3390/ijms23179901.
RNA Sequencing Demonstrates That Circular RNA Regulates Avian Influenza Virus Replication in Human Cells


Jie Min[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Ying Cao[SUP] 3 4 [/SUP], Haizhou Liu[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Di Liu[SUP] 2 3 [/SUP], Wenjun Liu[SUP] 1 2 4 5 [/SUP], Jing Li[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP]



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Abstract

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are involved in diverse biological processes. Avian influenza virus (AIV) can cross the species barrier to infect humans. Here, we employed RNA sequencing technology to profile circRNA, microRNA, and mRNA expression in human lung carcinoma cells in response to AIV or human influenza A virus (IAV) infection at viral replication. The analysis revealed that the expression of 475 common circRNAs were significantly regulated. The 381 and 1163 up-regulated circRNAs were induced by AIV at 8 and 16 h, respectively. Subsequently, gene ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes analyses were also conducted for the AIV-specific up-regulated circRNAs. Moreover, the circRNAs were characterized, of which six were verified by quantitative real-time PCR. We further confirmed that expression of the selected circRNAs only increased following AIV infection. Knocking down the selected circRNAs promoted AIV proliferation, and overexpression of three of the candidate circRNAs restricted AIV replication and proliferation. We further analyzed that AIV-specific up-regulated circRNA mechanisms might function through the ceRNA network to affect the "Endocytosis" pathway and the "Cell cycle process". These data provide the first expression profile of AIV-specific up-regulated circRNAs and shed new light on the pathogenesis of AIV infection. Our findings also suggest that these circRNAs serve an important role in AIV infection.

Keywords: Circular RNA; RNA sequencing; avian influenza virus; human cells; replication.
 
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