AIM: To study the effect of miR-410 on the regulation of angiotensin Ⅱ type 1 receptor(AT1R)in retinal pigment epithelium(RPE)cells of age-related macular degeneration(AMD)patients.

METHODS: The experiment was divided into AMD patients, cataract patients and normal people group. AT1R was the target gene of miR-410 by bioinformatics, and the normal RPE cells were cultured in the simulated microenvironment of AMD and cataracts and the expression of miR-410 was detected. Then miR-410 mimics was transfected into cells, and the expression of mRNA and protein of AT1R were detected by Q-PCR and Western blot respectively. The relationship between miR-410 and AT1R was confirmed by the dual luciferase reporter assay.

RESULTS: The miR-410 expression of in RPE cells with AMD was significantly reduced(P=0.0006, 0.0008)compared with cataract and normal controls. The miR-410 can regulate the function of AT1R by dual luciferase reporter gene experiment and the inhibition rate was about 40%. In addition, miR-410 inhibition rate was about 40%-50% to AT1R mRNA and protein expression by cell experiment.

CONCLUSION: AT1R was a target gene of miR-410 in cell experiments, and it is demonstrated that increasing the expression of miR-410 in RPE cells with AMD can suppress the expression of AT1R.