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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Osteoporos Rep. 2017 Jun;15(3):162–170. doi: 10.1007/s11914-017-0360-5

Table 1. MiRNAs Differentially Expressed in Myeloma and Carried by Exosomes with a Role in Adipose Tissue.

miRNAs of interest and reference Upregulated or downregulated in MM Role in adipose tissue (BMAT or WAT) Reference demonstrating miR carried by exosomes
miR-15b [15] Upregulated Inhibits osteoblast differentiation [9] [30]
miR-181b [6, 1517, 25, 27] Upregulated Associated with inflammation in AT [36, 43] [30]
miR-21 [6, 16, 17, 25, 26] Upregulated Adhesion to the BMME upregulates in myeloma cells, upregulated in obese WAT [6, 36] [29]
miR-222 [17, 27] Upregulated Associated with inflammation in AT [36] [29]
Let-15a [6] Downregulated Biomarker for type 2 diabetes and morbid obesity, inhibits adipogenic differentiation [36, 43] [30]
Let-7 family (let-7a, let-7b-5p, let-7f, let-7g, let-7i) [6, 46, 56] Downregulated Downregulated in obese WAT, associated with inflammation in AT, all AT expresses let-7a-1-5p and let-7f-5p [36, 43] [29, 30]