Research Article

Comparison of Cardiac miRNA Transcriptomes Induced by Diabetes and Rapamycin Treatment and Identification of a Rapamycin-Associated Cardiac MicroRNA Signature

Table 5

Differentially expressed miRNAs in ZL-C versus ZO-C and ZL-C versus ZL-Rap pairwise comparisons that target differentially expressed cytokines in the corresponding pairwise comparisons and as determined by binding sites on the 3 untranslated region of their mRNAs by in silico analysis in the corresponding sets.

miRNATargeted cytokines increased inmiRNATargeted cytokines
ZO-CZL-RapBothZO-CZL-Rap

miR-21CTACK, PDGFAA, CINC2Notch2miR-350Notch2
miR-411IL-2, IL-1α, TNF-α (2 sites)IL-2, IL-10miR-505CINC2Gas1
miR-7aPDGFAAIL-2, decorin, IL-22IL-10miR-217Notch 2, IL-1α
miR-384-5pIL-2, IL-10, Notch2miR-541Notch 2, CINC2
miR-30eIL-22, Notch2IL-10, IFNγmiR-328b-3pNotch 2, Gas1
miR-322IFNγmiR-29bNotch 2
miR-382Notch2IFNγ, ProlactinmiR-455Notch2
miR-742IFNγmiR-34bGas1
miR-539IFNγmiR-19aGas1
miR-329PDGFAANotch2IL-10miR-26b-3pGas1
miR-140Notch2IL-10, decorinmiR-429Gas1, Tim1
miR-204TNF-αGas1IL-10miR-128-1-5pGas1
miR-98IL-1αIL-10miR-144Gas1
miR-665IL-10, Notch 2 (3 sites), Tim1miR-2985Gas1
miR-335IL-10, Notch2, Tim 1miR-301aProlactin
miR-495IL-10 (2 sites), Notch 2, Gas1 (2 sites)miR-362Tim1
miR-338IL-10, Notch2miR-451Tim1
miR-200b, cDecorinmiR-409-5pTim1
miR-223DecorinmiR-218aTim1
miR-499Decorin (2 sites), Gas1miR-369-5pTim1
miR-542-3pDecorin, Tim1miR-434IL-22
miR-138-1B7–1/CD80Notch2miR-379TREM1, FGF-BP
miR-196cDecorin, TNF-αmiR-217Notch 2, IL-1α

indicates a functional but nonpredominant miRNA as indicated by miRbase.