Identification of Stably Expressed lncRNAs as Valid Endogenous Controls for Profiling of Human Glioma

Kraus, Theo F. J.; Greiner, Andrea; Guibourt, Virginie; Lisec, Kristina; Kretzschmar, Hans A.

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Identification of Stably Expressed lncRNAs as Valid Endogenous Controls for Profiling of Human Glioma

Theo F. J. Kraus^✉, Andrea Greiner, Virginie Guibourt, Kristina Lisec, Hans A. Kretzschmar

Center for Neuropathology and Prion Research (ZNP), Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 23, D-81377 Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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Kraus TFJ, Greiner A, Guibourt V, Lisec K, Kretzschmar HA. Identification of Stably Expressed lncRNAs as Valid Endogenous Controls for Profiling of Human Glioma. J Cancer 2015; 6(2):111-119. doi:10.7150/jca.10867. https://www.jcancer.org/v06p0111.htm

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Background: Recent research indicates that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) represent a new family of RNAs that is of fundamental importance for controlling transcription and translation. Thereby, there is increasing evidence that lncRNAs are also important in tumourigenesis. Thereby valid expression profiling using quantitative PCR requires suitable, stably expressed normalisers to achieve reliable and reproducible data. However, no systematic analysis of suitable references in lncRNA studies in human glioma has been performed yet.

Methods: In this study, we investigated 90 lncRNAs in 30 tissue specimen for the expression stability in human diffuse astrocytoma (WHO-Grade II), anaplastic astrocytoma (WHO-Grade III) and glioblastoma (WHO-Grade IV) both alone as well as in comparison with normal white matter. Our identification procedure included a rigorous bioinformatical selection process that resulted in the inclusion of only highly abundant, equally expressed lncRNAs for further analysis. Additionally, lncRNAs were classified according to their stability value using the NormFinder algorithm.

Results: We identified 24 appropriate normalisers suitable for studies in diffuse astrocytoma, 22 for studies in anaplastic astrocytoma and 12 for studies in glioblastoma. Comparing all three glioma entities 7 lncRNAs showed stable expression levels. Addition of normal brain tissue resulted in only 4 suitable lncRNAs.

Conclusions: Our findings indicate that 4 lncRNAs (HOXA6as, H19 upstream conserved 1 and 2, Zfhx2as and BC200) are suitable as normalisers in glioma and normal brain. These lncRNAs may thus be regarded as universal references being applicable for the accurate normalisation of lncRNA expression profiling in various glioma (WHO-Grades II-IV) alone and in combination with brain tissue. This enables to perform valid longitudinal studies, e.g. of glioma before and after malignisation to identify changes of lncRNA expressions probably driving malignant transformation.

Keywords: long non-coding RNA, lncRNA, Glioma, References, qPCR, Profiling.

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Kraus, T.F.J., Greiner, A., Guibourt, V., Lisec, K., Kretzschmar, H.A. (2015). Identification of Stably Expressed lncRNAs as Valid Endogenous Controls for Profiling of Human Glioma. Journal of Cancer, 6(2), 111-119. https://doi.org/10.7150/jca.10867.

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Kraus, T.F.J.; Greiner, A.; Guibourt, V.; Lisec, K.; Kretzschmar, H.A. Identification of Stably Expressed lncRNAs as Valid Endogenous Controls for Profiling of Human Glioma. J. Cancer 2015, 6 (2), 111-119. DOI: 10.7150/jca.10867.

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Kraus TFJ, Greiner A, Guibourt V, Lisec K, Kretzschmar HA. 2015. Identification of Stably Expressed lncRNAs as Valid Endogenous Controls for Profiling of Human Glioma. J Cancer. 6(2):111-119.

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