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Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Effect of Mirna Administration on Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells Studied by Cellular Viability Assay and Atr-Ftir Spectroscopy Combined With Multivariate Data-Analysis(Elsevier, 2025) Dagdeviren, Melih; Güler, Günnur; Guler, Gunnur; Guler, Egemen Erdem; Un, Cemal; Karabay-Yavasoglu, Nefise Ulku; 04.05. Department of Pyhsics; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologyMicroRNAs (miRNAs), small non-coding RNAs, play a significant role in the regulation of gene expression by various mechanisms. Some miRNAs such as hsa-miR-145 (mir145), hsa-let-7a-1 (let7), hsa-miR-155 (mir155), and hsa-miR-29b (mir29b) are expressed at low levels in cancers and associated with proliferation, metastasis, invasion and apoptosis. In the current study, we aimed to investigate the effect of selected synthetic miRNAs and their combinations on the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells (A549) by following the cell viability profile and alterations in the cellular biomolecules with biophysical features. After administration of commercial miRNAs and their various combinations to A549 cell line, each group was analyzed with cell viability assay and attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy combined with unsupervised multivariate analysis. Bioinformatics analysis was also performed to detect and to classify the target human genes obtained from the mirDB database. According to the cell viability results, the "mir29b + let7" combination and "mir155" significantly decreased the cancer cell viability whereas the "mir145 + mir29b" and "mir155 + mir145" combinations dramatically increased the cancer cell viability when compared to the control cells. The FTIR data revealed that administration of the "mir155", "mir29b + let7 + mir155", and "mir29b + let7" combinations caused a decrease in the contents of proteins, lipids and nucleic acids in A549 cells. This study suggests that those miRNA combinations might be potential targets for vaccines or miRNA-based therapies that can restore the miRNA activity and thus should be further evaluated to combat lung cancer with miRNA technology.Article Citation - WoS: 48Citation - Scopus: 56A Spatial Evaluation of Multifunctional Ecosystem Service Networks Using Principal Component Analysis: A Case of Study in Turin, Italy(Elsevier, 2021) Salata, Stefano; Salata, Stefano; 02.03. Department of City and Regional Planning; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologyThe multifunctional Ecosystem Service supply analysis at the spatial level is often the output of a weighted sum of layers in a Geographic Information System (GIS). This procedure is weak in detecting and representing the relationships between the input layers. Nonetheless, composite indicators produced by overlaying techniques are quite common in applied research and their discrepancies are underestimated in the scientific community, thus affecting the quality of resulting composite maps. In this work, we empirically test the effectiveness of multivariate statistics to obtain reliable composite Ecosystem Maps in the Turin metropolitan area (north-west Italy). We apply the Principal Component Analysis (PCA, using Matlab and ESRI ArcGis) to seven Ecosystem Service models (Habitat Quality, Carbon Sequestration, Water Yield, Nutrient Retention, Sediment Retention, Crop Production and Crop Pollination) and we evaluate how much the resulting composite map differs from the traditional GIS overlay. In doing this, the spectral analysis (with eigenvectors and eigenvalues) of the covariance matrix of the normalized layers confirms the heuristic arguments about the dependence between Ecosystem Services. We show that the PCA method can provide valuable results in landscape Green Network design, avoiding the limits of standard overlaying procedures. Finally, smoothing and classification techniques, applied to PCA estimates, can further improve the approach and encourage its use in various ecological indicators.
