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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2013 Mar 27;95(6):835–841. doi: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318280b385

TABLE 3.

Pathway enrichment analysis of predicted and validated miRNA targets and differentially regulated transcripts in DGF and acute rejection

DGF
Predicted targets
Experimentally
validated targets
Cleveland data set
Cleveland data
set (ATN)
Pathways P P P P
Angiogenesis <0.001 <0.001 0.015 0.035
Apoptosis signaling pathway <0.001 0.008 0.014 0.011
TGF-ß signaling pathway <0.001 <0.001 0.001 0.001
Endothelin signaling pathway 0.001 0.038 0.002 0.002
VEGF signaling pathway 0.011 <0.001 0.028 0.016
PDGF signaling pathway <0.001 0.002 0.025 0.037
Acute rejection
Predicted targets
Experimentally
validated targets
Cleveland data set
(acute rejection)
ARTS
Pathways P P P P
EGFR signaling pathway <0.001 0.014 0.001 0.012
Inflammation mediated by chemokine and cytokine
 signaling pathway
<0.001 <0.001 0.039 <0.001
T-cell activation 0.003 0.044 <0.001 <0.001
Cytoskeletal regulation by Rho GTPase 0.001 0.011 0.005 0.047
B-cell activation 0.013 0.020 0.031 0.034

ARTS, acute rejection transcript set; ATN, acute tubular necrosis; DGF, delayed graft function; EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor; miRNA, microRNA; PDGF, platelet-derived growth factor; TGF, transforming growth factor; VEGF, vascular endothelial growth factor.