IMR Press / FBL / Volume 28 / Issue 6 / DOI: 10.31083/j.fbl2806113
Open Access Original Research
Differential Gene Expression Signatures and Cellular Signaling Pathways induced by Lamin A/C Transcript Variants in MCF7 Cell Line
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1 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, 11533 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2 Interdisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP 202002, India
3 Department of Forensic Sciences, College of Criminal Justice, Naif Arab University for Security Sciences, 11452 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
*Correspondence: rfakhoury@alfaisal.edu (Rajaa Fakhoury); aaljada@alfaisal.edu (Ahmad Aljada)
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2023, 28(6), 113; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2806113
Submitted: 27 December 2022 | Revised: 3 February 2023 | Accepted: 4 May 2023 | Published: 12 June 2023
Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: Lamins are the major component of nuclear lamina. Alternative splicing of the 12 exons comprising lamin A/C gene creates five known transcript variants, lamin A, lamin C, lamin AΔ10, lamin AΔ50, and lamin C2. The main objective for this study was to examine the association of critical pathways, networks, molecular and cellular functions regulated by each Lamin A/C transcript variants. Methods: Ion AmpliSeq Transcriptome Human Gene Expression analysis was performed on MCF7 cells stably transfected with lamin A/C transcript variants. Results: Lamin A or lamin AΔ50 upregulation was associated with activation of cell death and inactivation of carcinogenesis while both lamin C or lamin AΔ10 upregulation activated carcinogenesis and cell death. Conclusions: Data suggest anti-apoptotic and anti-senescence effects of lamin C and lamin AΔ10 as several functions, including apoptosis and necrosis functions are inactivated following lamin C or lamin AΔ10 upregulation. However, lamin AΔ10 upregulation is associated with a more carcinogenic and aggressive tumor phenotype. Lamin A or lamin AΔ50 upregulation is associated with a predicted activation of increased cell death and inactivation of carcinogenesis. Thus, different signaling pathways, networks, molecular and cellular functions are activated/inactivated by lamin A/C transcript variants resulting in a large number of laminopathies.

Keywords
lamin A/C transcript variants
senescence
laminopathies
nuclear lamins
Ion Torrent
Funding
#21314/Alfaisal University-Office of Research and Graduate Studies (ORG)
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