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Ya Luo

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LncCE: Landscape of Cellularly-elevated lncRNAs in Single Cells Across Normal and Cancer Tissues.

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as significant players in maintaining the morphology and function of tissues and cells. The precise regulatory effectiveness of lncRNAs is closely associated with their spatial expression patterns across tissues and cells. Here, we propose the Cellularly-Elevated LncRNA (LncCE) resource to systematically explore cellularly-elevated (CE) lncRNAs across normal and cancer tissues at single-cell resolution. LncCE encompasses 87,946 entries of CE lncRNAs of 149 cell types by analyzing 181 single-cell RNA sequencing datasets, involving 20 fetal normal tissues, 59 adult normal tissues, 32 adult cancer types, and 5 pediatric cancer types. Two main search options are provided via a given lncRNA name or cell type. The results emphasize both qualitative and quantitative expression features of lncRNAs across different cell types, their co-expression with protein-coding genes, and their involvement in biological functions. In particular, LncCE provides quantitative visualizations of lncRNA expression changes in cancers compared to control samples, as well as clinical associations with patients' overall survival. Together, LncCE offers an extensive, quantitative, and user-friendly interface to create a CE expression atlas for lncRNAs across normal and cancer tissues at the single-cell level. The LncCE database is available at http://bio-bigdata.hrbmu.edu.cn/LncCE.

RNA, Long Noncoding↗

Age-dependent modulation of NF-kappaB expression in rat adrenal gland.

The current studies were initiated to examine the expression and regulation of an oxidative stress-responsive transcription factor, NF-kappa B, in rat adrenals during aging. NF- kappa B DNA-binding activity and expression of constituent proteins (Rel family of proteins and I kappa Bs) was measured in adrenal nuclear and cytoplasmic extracts from young mature (5 month) and old (24 month) Sprague-Dawley rats before and after treatment with LPS; the latter was used to further invoke oxidative stress. Administration of LPS to either young or old rats induced a dramatic activation of NF- kappa B DNA binding activity as assayed by EMSA. NF- kappa B hetero-dimers, RelA/NF- kappa B1 (p65/p50) accounted for the majority of proteins that bound to consensus NF- kappa B sequences in LPS-treated young and old animals. The intensity of DNA binding complexes was significantly reduced in old animals. The age-related decline in the activation of NF- kappa B could not be attributed to an alteration in the composition of constituent subunits or degradation of NF- kappa B inhibitory proteins (I kappa B alpha and I kappa B beta) but rather was due to selective down-regulation of RelA/p65 and NF- kappa B2/p52 proteins. No age-related or LPS-induced changes in the constitutively active transcription factors SP-1 and OCT-1 were detected. These data suggest that aberrancies in the activation of NF- kappa B DNA-binding activity may contribute to the excessive oxidative damage observed in adrenal tissue with aging and may adversely affect cellular processes crucial for intracellular cholesterol transport and steroid hormone production.

Adrenal Glands↗