Level of MicroRNA-2 0 6 in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells from Rheumatoid Arthritis and Their Significance / 现代检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the role of microRNA-206 (miR-206)in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC)from rheumatoid arthritis (RA)patients.Methods 27 patients with RA and 25 healthy controls were enrolled into the current study.Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)were isolated by standard density-gradient centrifugation over Ficoll-Hypaque solution in rheumatoid arthritis and healthy control volunteers.Total RNAs were extracted from PBMCs which were stimulated by PMA and ionomycin,then the RNA was transcribed reversely into cDNA.The expression of mi-croRNA-206 and Kruppel-like factor 4 (KLF4)and the orphan nuclear receptor RORγt mRNA was detected by real-time quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR)method.Student’s unpaired t-test and spearman correlation were used for statistica1 analysis. Results The expression of miR-206 in the PBMCs of RA patients was significantly decreased compared with that of the healthy controls (0.056±0.019 vs 0.138±0.057,t=3.103,P<0.01),The levels of KLF4 and RORγt mRNAin the PB-MCs of RA patients were increased significantly verves those of the healthy controls(0.604±0.183 vs 0.098±0.027,t=6.651,P<0.01;0.583±0.271 vs 0.069±0.018,t=7.438,P<0.01),Furthermore,a negative correlated between the ex-pression of miR-206 and KLF4 or RORγt mRNA in RA patients (r=-0.639,P<0.01;r=-0.842,P<0.01).Conclusion These results indicated that the augmented expression of KLF4 mRNA may be caused by the attenuated expression of miR-206,and the high level of KLF4 mRNA evokes the proportion of Th17 cells in RA patients.