AGAP2-AS1 affects TNM staging and prognosis of lung cancer patients by acting on SLC7A11 mRNA stability and ferroptosis

Objective The initiation and progression of lung carcinomas are critically regulated by long non-coding RNAs(lncRNAs).However,the role of lncRNAs in the pathways causing lung cancer remains unknown.Methods Cell morphology was regularly observed using an inverted phase-contrast microscope.Cell viability was assessed using CCK-8 according to the manufacturer’s instructions.Total RNA was retrotranscribed from each specimen using the RNAiso Plus Kit.The RT-PCR data were calculated using the Ct approach for comparison.Flow cytometric analyses were prepared by Click-iT™Plus TUNEL Assay for In Situ apoptosis detection,with Alexa Fluor^(TM)594 dye,as instructed.RNA immunoprecipitation assays were used to determine RNA concentration.Results Activated natural killer cells repeat and PH domain-containing protein 2 antisense RNA 1(AGAP2-AS1)levels in cancerous tissues were significantly correlated with cancerous tumor node metastasis(TNM)stage,with cancerous AGAP2-AS1 levels being higher in cancerous tissues than healthy tissues.Patients withelevated AGAP2-AS1 levels had considerably worse outcomes than those with reduced AGAP2-AS1 levels,regardless of the progression-free or overall survival.Functionally,AGAP2-AS1 downregulation represseslung cancer cell growth.AGAP2-AS1 elimination induces erastin-mediated ferroptosis in lung cancer cells.However,the ferritin inhibitor FERSINT-1 negated this result,whereas ERASTIN induced lung cancer cellmortality.After AGAP2-AS1 silencing,erastin-treated lung cancer cells showed a remarkable decrease inGSH levels.These results indicated that AGAP2-AS1 enhanced the stabilization of SLC7A11 mRNA via Recombinant Insulin Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 2(IGF BP2).Patients with elevated AGAP2-AS1 had considerably worse outcomes.Down-regulating AGAP2-AS1 was able to repress lung cancer cell growth and induce greater Erastin-mediated ferroptosis.Lungcancer cells treated with Erastin exhibited a remarkable decrease inglutathione(GSH)levels.The mechanical findingsindicated that AGAP2-AS1 enhanced the stabilization of SLC7A11 mRNA via the IGF2BP2.Conclusion We identified a novel effect of AGAP2-AS1 on TNM staging and the prognosis of patientswith lungcancer by modulating SLC7A11 mRNA stability and ferroptosis.

Evolution and global correlation for strontium isotopic composition of marine Triassic from Huaying Mountains,eastern Sichuan,China

Strontium isotope stratigraphy (SIS) has progressively become an efficient chemostratigraphic tool in the research and correlation of global geological events, such as global sea level fluctuations, orogeny, and paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes. In this paper, 87Sr/86Sr ratios of the Triassic marine carbonate rock samples from Huaying Mountains, eastern Sichuan are measured, and the corre-sponding Sr-isotopic curve is constructed, based on the fundamental principle of strontium isotope stratigraphy, analysis of rock fabric, luminescent intensity, chemical composition and representative evaluation for the coeval seawater information. The 87Sr/86Sr ratios show a rapid rise from 0.70721 near the Permian-Triassic transition to 0.70830 at the end of Early Triassic, and then they decline rapidly to 0.70787 in the early Middle Triassic. These data are generally coincident with 87Sr/86Sr ratios of coeval seawater from previous papers, and the curve is also similar to other previous curves. This indicates that the global geological events are the most important controlling factors to the strontium isotope evolution of the global seawater in the Early and Middle Triassic.