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. 2022 Sep 16;13:1003964. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.1003964

TABLE 2.

Role of lncRNA MALAT1 in chronic lung diseases and other conditions.

Lung diseases Expression Functions Role References
COPD Up MALAT1↓→cell proliferation↑ Promoter Hu et al. (2020)
BPD Up MALAT1↓→miR-206↑→lung inflammation↓, oxidative stress↓, cell apoptosis↓ Promoter Zhang et al. (2021b)
Up MALAT1↑→miR-129-5p↓→HMGB1↑→inflammation↑ Promoter Yangi et al. (2020)
Up MALAT1↓→CREB phosphorylation↓→STING↓→cell proliferation↑, cell apoptosis↓ Promoter Chen et al. (2020a)
Down MALAT1↓→cell apoptosis↑ Suppressor Zhang et al. (2021c)
Up MALAT1↑→cell apoptosis↓ Suppressor Cai et al. (2017)
Pulmonary fibrosis Down MALAT1↓→OxPhos↑→M2 macrophage polarization↑, profibrotic differentiation of macrophage↑→pulmonary fibrosis↑ Suppressor Cui et al. (2019)
Up MALAT1↓→miR-503↑→PI3K/AKT/mTOR/Snail pathway↓→EMT↓→pulmonary fibrosis↓ Promoter Yan et al. (2017)
Asthma Up MALAT1↓→miR-133a↑→RyR2↓→cell apoptosis↓, inflammatory factor release↓ Promoter Yang and Wang, (2021)
Up MALAT1↓→miR-216a↑→cell apoptosis↑, proliferation↓, migration↓ Promoter Huang et al. (2021)
Up MALAT1↓→miR-150↑→eIF4E↓→AKT↓→proliferation↓, migration↓ Promoter Lin et al. (2019a)
Up MALAT1↑→miR-155↓→CTLA4↑→Th1/Th2 ratio↓, T-bet/GATA3 ratio↓ Promoter Liang and Tang, (2020)
PH Up MALAT1↑→miR-503-TLR4 signal axis↓→cell apoptosis↓, cell proliferation↑, migration↑ Promoter He et al. (2020)
Up MALAT1↓→miR-124-3p.1↑→KLF5↓→proliferation↓, migration↓ Promoter Wang et al. (2019a)
Up MALAT1↓→proliferation↓, migration↓ Promoter Brock et al. (2017)
LTIR Up MALAT1↓→IL-8↓→infiltration and activation of neutrophils↓→inflammatory injury↓ Promoter Wei et al. (2019a)
Radiation-induced lung injury Up Irradiation→DNA damage↑→MALAT1↑→miR146a↓→STAT1↑→adhesion molecules↑→inflammatory response↑, lung injury↑ Promoter Yuan et al. (2020)
Pneumonia Up MALAT1↓→NF-κB↓→lung inflammation↓, lung injury↓ Promoter Gu et al. (2020)

Abbreviations: COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; MALAT1, metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1; miRNA, microRNA; BPD, bronchopulmonary dysplasia; HMGB1, high-mobility group box 1; CREB, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) response element-binding protein; STING, stimulator of interferon genes; OxPhos, oxidative phosphorylation; PI3K, phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase; AKT, protein kinase B; mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin; EMT, epithelial-mesenchymal transition; RyR2, ryanodine receptor 2; eIF-4E, eukaryotic initiation factor 4E; CTLA4, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4; Th1, T helper one; T-bet, T box protein expressed in T cells; GATA3, GATA-binding protein 3; PH, pulmonary hypertension; TLR4, Toll-Like Receptor 4; KLF5, Kruppel-like factor 5; LTIR, lung transplant ischemia-reperfusion; IL-8, interleukin-8; STAT1, signal transducer and activator of transcription 1; NF-κB, nuclear factor‐kappaB.