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REPRODUCTION FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT
Volume 30, Issue 12, Pages 1759-1769Publisher
CSIRO PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1071/RD18074
Keywords
competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNA); development; embryo implantation; epigenetic regulation; mechanism; non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs); receptive endometrium; reproduction
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- Shaanxi Science and Technology Innovation Project Plan [2015KTCQ03-08, 2013KTZBO2-02-02]
- Technology Extension Project of Northwest A F University [TGZX2017-17]
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Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been found to play important functional roles in epigenetic regulation under certain physiological and pathological conditions. However, knowledge of circRNAs during the development of receptive endometrium (RE) from pre-RE is limited. In the RE of dairy goats, higher circRNA-9119 levels, with lower miR-26a and higher prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2 (PTGS2) levels, were detected. Further study showed that circRNA-9119 decreased levels of miR-26a by acting as a microRNA sponge, and that miR-26a downregulated the expression of PTGS2 via the predicted target site in endometrial epithelial cells (EECs) of dairy goats in vitro. In this way, circRNA-9119 functioned as a competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNA) that sequestered miR-26a, thereby protecting PTGS2 transcripts from miR-26a-mediated suppression in dairy goat EECs in vitro. Furthermore, PTGS2 participated in the regulation of some protein markers for endometrial receptivity in dairy goat EECs in vitro. Thus, a circRNA-9119-miR-26a-PTGS2 pathway in the endometrium was identified, and modulation of circRNA-9119-miR-26a-PTGS2 expression in EECs may emerge as a potential target to regulate the development of RE.
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