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Asson-Batres MA, Norwood CW. Effects of vitamin A and retinoic acid on mouse embryonic stem cells and their differentiating progeny. Methods Enzymol 2021; 637:341-365. [PMID: 32359652 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2020.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Embryonic development is controlled by retinoids, and one approach that has been used to investigate the mechanisms for retinoid actions in developmental processes has been to study the effects of adding retinoids to cultures of pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESC). To date, most in vitro retinoid research has been directed at deciphering the actions of all-trans retinoic acid (atRA). atRA is a derivative of all-trans retinol (a.k.a. vitamin A, VA), which mammals can generate via an enzyme-catalyzed pathway. atRA's effects on development result from its (1) activation of receptor complexes (RARs and RXRs) in the nucleus which then bind to and activate RA response elements (RAREs) in genes and (2) its interactions with processes that are initiated in the cytoplasm. While much work has focused on the impact of atRA on cell differentiation, VA, itself, has been shown to exert effects on the maintenance of ESC identity that are not dependent upon classic RA-signaling pathways. In this chapter, we present results from our laboratory and others using well-documented approaches for investigating the effects of retinoids on the differentiation of ESC in vitro and introduce a novel method that uses chemically-defined growth conditions. The merits of each approach are discussed.
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Carrier M, Lutzing R, Gaouar S, Rochette-Egly C. TRIM24 mediates the interaction of the retinoic acid receptor alpha with the proteasome. FEBS Lett 2018; 592:1426-1433. [PMID: 29543331 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.13033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2018] [Revised: 02/16/2018] [Accepted: 02/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The nuclear retinoic acid (RA) receptors (RARα, β and γ) are ligand-dependent regulators of transcription. Upon activation by RA, they are recruited at the promoters of target genes together with several coregulators. Then, they are degraded by the ubiquitin proteasome system. Here, we report that the degradation of the RARα subtype involves ubiquitination and the tripartite motif protein TRIM24, which was originally identified as a ligand-dependent corepressor of RARα. We show that in response to RA, TRIM24 serves as an adapter linking RARα to the proteasome for its degradation. In addition, TRIM24 and the proteasome are recruited with RARα to the promoters of target genes and thus are inherently linked to RARα transcriptional activity.
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- Marilyn Carrier
- Department of Functional Genomics and Cancer, IGBMC (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire), INSERM, U964, CNRS, UMR7104, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch Cedex, France
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- Department of Functional Genomics and Cancer, IGBMC (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire), INSERM, U964, CNRS, UMR7104, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch Cedex, France
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- Department of Functional Genomics and Cancer, IGBMC (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire), INSERM, U964, CNRS, UMR7104, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch Cedex, France
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- Department of Functional Genomics and Cancer, IGBMC (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire), INSERM, U964, CNRS, UMR7104, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch Cedex, France
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PFN2a, a new partner of RARα in the cytoplasm. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2018; 495:846-853. [PMID: 29158086 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.11.096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Retinoic acid receptors (RARs) are classically considered as nuclear ligand-dependent regulators of transcription. Here we highlighted a novel face of the RARα subtype: RARα is present in low amounts in the cytoplasm of mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) where it interacts with profilin2a (PFN2A), a small actin-binding protein involved in filaments polymerization. The interaction involves the N-terminal proline-rich motif (PRM) of RARα and the SH3-like domain of PFN2a. When increased in the cytoplasm, RARα competes with other PFN2a-binding proteins bearing PRMs and involved in actin filaments elongation. Consequently, the actin filament network is altered and MEFs adhesion is decreased. This novel role opens novel avenues for the understanding of pathologies characterized by increased levels of cytoplasmic RARα.
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Asson-Batres MA, Ryzhov S, Tikhomirov O, Duarte CW, Congdon CB, Lessard CR, McFarland S, Rochette-Egly C, Tran TL, Galindo CL, Favreau-Lessard AJ, Sawyer DB. Effects of vitamin A deficiency in the postnatal mouse heart: role of hepatic retinoid stores. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2016; 310:H1773-89. [PMID: 27084391 PMCID: PMC4935514 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00887.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2015] [Accepted: 04/02/2016] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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To determine whether hepatic depletion of vitamin A (VA) stores has an effect on the postnatal heart, studies were carried out with mice lacking liver retinyl ester stores fed either a VA-sufficient (LRVAS) or VA-deficient (LRVAD) diet (to deplete circulating retinol and extrahepatic stores of retinyl esters). There were no observable differences in the weights or gross morphology of hearts from LRVAS or LRVAD mice relative to sex-matched, age-matched, and genetically matched wild-type (WT) controls fed the VAS diet (WTVAS), but changes in the transcription of functionally relevant genes were consistent with a state of VAD in LRVAS and LRVAD ventricles. In silico analysis revealed that 58/67 differentially expressed transcripts identified in a microarray screen are products of genes that have DNA retinoic acid response elements. Flow cytometric analysis revealed a significant and cell-specific increase in the number of proliferating Sca-1 cardiac progenitor cells in LRVAS animals relative to WTVAS controls. Before myocardial infarction, LRVAS and WTVAS mice had similar cardiac systolic function and structure, as measured by echocardiography, but, unexpectedly, repeat echocardiography demonstrated that LRVAS mice had less adverse remodeling by 1 wk after myocardial infarction. Overall, the results demonstrate that the adult heart is responsive to retinoids, and, most notably, reducing hepatic VA stores (while maintaining circulating levels of VA) impacts ventricular gene expression profiles, progenitor cell numbers, and response to injury.
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- Mary Ann Asson-Batres
- Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee; Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine;
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- Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine
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- Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine; Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
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- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, INSERM, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch Cedex, France; and
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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Schlesinger S, Meshorer E, Goff SP. Asynchronous transcriptional silencing of individual retroviral genomes in embryonic cells. Retrovirology 2014; 11:31. [PMID: 24742368 PMCID: PMC4021621 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-11-31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2014] [Accepted: 04/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Retroviral DNAs are profoundly silenced at the transcriptional level in embryonic cell types. The transcriptional profile of pluripotent stem cells has been demonstrated to be extremely heterogeneous from cell to cell, and how the silencing of retroviral DNAs is achieved is not yet well characterized. RESULTS In the current study, we investigated the transcriptional silencing dynamics in stem cells by independently monitoring the expression of two Moloney murine leukemia virus (MMLV) retroviral vectors newly introduced into embryonic carcinoma (EC) cells. Although MMLV is efficiently silenced by epigenetic mechanisms in most such cells, a small number of the doubly-transduced EC cells transiently show double-positive proviral expression. These cells were sorted and their expression patterns were studied over time as silencing is established. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that retroviral silencing occurs stochastically, in an individual locus-specific fashion, and often without synchronous silencing of both viruses in the same cells. Surprisingly, the chromatin modifications that mark the silenced proviruses are unchanged even in cells that temporarily escape silencing. This local silencing effect is a feature of stem cell epigenomic regulation that has not previously been revealed.
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- Sharon Schlesinger
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, HHSC 1310C, 701 W. 168th St., New York, NY 10032, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University, HHSC 1310C, 701 W. 168th St., New York, NY 10032, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, HHSC 1310C, 701 W. 168th St., New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Genetics, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra (Givat Ram) Campus, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, HHSC 1310C, 701 W. 168th St., New York, NY 10032, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University, HHSC 1310C, 701 W. 168th St., New York, NY 10032, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, HHSC 1310C, 701 W. 168th St., New York, NY 10032, USA
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Al Tanoury Z, Piskunov A, Andriamoratsiresy D, Gaouar S, Lutzing R, Ye T, Jost B, Keime C, Rochette-Egly C. Genes involved in cell adhesion and signaling: a new repertoire of retinoic acid receptor target genes in mouse embryonic fibroblasts. J Cell Sci 2014; 127:521-33. [PMID: 24357724 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.131946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2023] Open
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Nuclear retinoic acid (RA) receptors (RARα, β and γ) are ligand-dependent transcription factors that regulate the expression of a battery of genes involved in cell differentiation and proliferation. They are also phosphoproteins and we previously showed the importance of their phosphorylation in their transcriptional activity. In the study reported here, we conducted a genome-wide analysis of the genes that are regulated by RARs in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) by comparing wild-type MEFs to MEFs lacking the three RARs. We found that in the absence of RA, RARs control the expression of several gene transcripts associated with cell adhesion. Consequently the knockout MEFs are unable to adhere and to spread on substrates and they display a disrupted network of actin filaments, compared with the WT cells. In contrast, in the presence of the ligand, RARs control the expression of other genes involved in signaling and in RA metabolism. Taking advantage of rescue cell lines expressing the RARα or RARγ subtypes (either wild-type or mutated at the N-terminal phosphorylation sites) in the null background, we found that the expression of RA-target genes can be controlled either by a specific single RAR or by a combination of RAR isotypes, depending on the gene. We also selected genes that require the phosphorylation of the receptors for their regulation by RA. Our results increase the repertoire of genes that are regulated by RARs and highlight the complexity and diversity of the transcriptional programs regulated by RARs, depending on the gene.
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- Ziad Al Tanoury
- IGBMC (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire), INSERM, U964, CNRS, UMR7104, Université de Strasbourg, 1 rue Laurent Fries, BP 10142, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France
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The discovery of retinoic acid receptors arose from research into how vitamins are essential for life. Early studies indicated that Vitamin A was metabolized into an active factor, retinoic acid (RA), which regulates RNA and protein expression in cells. Each step forward in our understanding of retinoic acid in human health was accomplished by the development and application of new technologies. Development cDNA cloning techniques and discovery of nuclear receptors for steroid hormones provided the basis for identification of two classes of retinoic acid receptors, RARs and RXRs, each of which has three isoforms, α, β and ɣ. DNA manipulation and crystallographic studies revealed that the receptors contain discrete functional domains responsible for binding to DNA, ligands and cofactors. Ligand binding was shown to induce conformational changes in the receptors that cause release of corepressors and recruitment of coactivators to create functional complexes that are bound to consensus promoter DNA sequences called retinoic acid response elements (RAREs) and that cause opening of chromatin and transcription of adjacent genes. Homologous recombination technology allowed the development of mice lacking expression of retinoic acid receptors, individually or in various combinations, which demonstrated that the receptors exhibit vital, but redundant, functions in fetal development and in vision, reproduction, and other functions required for maintenance of adult life. More recent advancements in sequencing and proteomic technologies reveal the complexity of retinoic acid receptor involvement in cellular function through regulation of gene expression and kinase activity. Future directions will require systems biology approaches to decipher how these integrated networks affect human stem cells, health, and disease.
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