FRZB as a key molecule in abdominal aortic aneurysm progression affecting vascular integrity
- Authors
- Oh, C.-K.; Ko, Y.; Park, J.J.; Heo, H.J.; Kang, J.; Kwon, E.J.; Kang, J.W.; Lee, Y.; Myung, K.; Kang, J.M.; Ko, D.S.; Kim, Y.H.
- Issue Date
- Jan-2021
- Publisher
- Portland Press Ltd
- Citation
- Bioscience Reports, v.41, no.1
- Journal Title
- Bioscience Reports
- Volume
- 41
- Number
- 1
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/80704
- DOI
- 10.1042/BSR20203204
- ISSN
- 0144-8463
- Abstract
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), when ruptured, results in high mortality. The identification of molecular pathways involved in AAA progression is required to improve AAA prognosis. The aim of the present study was to assess the key genes for the progression of AAA and their functional role. Genomic and clinical data of three independent cohorts were downloaded from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) (GSE57691, GSE7084, and GSE98278). To develop AAA diagnosis and progression-related differentially expressed genes (DEGs), we used a significance analysis of microarray (SAM). Spearman correlation test and gene set analysis were performed to identify potential enriched pathways for DEGs. Only the Frizzled-related protein (FRZB) gene and chromosome 1 open reading frame 24 (C1orf24) exhibited significant down-regulation in all analyses. With FRZB, the pathways were associated with RHO GTPase and elastin fiber formation. With C1orf24, the pathways were elastic fiber formation, extracellular matrix organization, and cell-cell communication. Since only FRZB was evolutionally conserved in the vertebrates, function of FRZB was validated using zebrafish embryos. Knockdown of frzb remarkably reduced vascular integrity in zebrafish embryos. We believe that FRZB is a key gene involved in AAA initiation and progression affecting vascular integrity. © 2021 The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).
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