Microscopic Effect of Tobacco on Human Health: How Tobacco Impacts Gene Expression Levels

Jingquan Shi
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Jingquan Shi: Claremont High School, Claremont, CA 91711, US

Journal of Innovations in Medical Research, 2025, vol. 4, issue 4, 34-37

Abstract: Tobacco exposure is commonly linked to airway epithelium and lung diseases, yet its impact on the enzymes that catalyze adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing remains unclear. The goal of this research is to compare the three gene expression levels, ADAR, ADARB1, ADARB2, between smokers and non-smoker, which play an important role in RNA editing and cellular regulation. RNA-sequence count data for smokers (362 samples) and non-smokers (635) were obtained from the GEO publication “Cigarette Smoking-Associated Isoform Switching and 3’ UTR Lengthening Via Alternative Polyadenylation” (GSE171730). Data obtained was first applied with log₂-transformation to dampen outliers, then compared with T-test. The result of the study shows that smoking had no significant effect on ADAR1, but produced robust up-regulation of ADARB1 and ADARB2. These results indicate that tobacco selectively enhances expression of two ADAR paralogs while sparing the ubiquitously expressed ADAR1, pointing to a targeted modulation of the RNA-editing machinery in smokers. Such selective induction may shift global A-to-I editing profiles and contribute to smoking-associated disease risk.

Keywords: smoking; RNA editing; ADAR enzymes; airway epithelium; gene expression; transcriptomics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.63593/JIMR.2788-7022.2025.08.005

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