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Newman R, McHugh J, Turner M. RNA binding proteins as regulators of immune cell biology. Clin Exp Immunol 2015. [PMID: 26201441 DOI: 10.1111/cei.12684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Sequence-specific RNA binding proteins (RBP) are important regulators of the immune response. RBP modulate gene expression by regulating splicing, polyadenylation, localization, translation and decay of target mRNAs. Increasing evidence suggests that RBP play critical roles in the development, activation and function of lymphocyte populations in the immune system. This review will discuss the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression by RBP during lymphocyte development, with particular focus on the Tristetraprolin family of RBP.
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- R Newman
- Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
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Storling J, Brorsson CA. Candidate genes expressed in human islets and their role in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes. Curr Diab Rep 2013; 13:633-41. [PMID: 23925433 DOI: 10.1007/s11892-013-0408-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In type 1 diabetes (T1D), the insulin-producing β cells are destroyed by an immune-mediated process leading to complete insulin deficiency. There is a strong genetic component in T1D. Genes located in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region are the most important genetic determinants of disease, but more than 40 additional loci are known to significantly affect T1D risk. Since most of the currently known genetic candidates have annotated immune cell functions, it is generally considered that most of the genetic susceptibility in T1D is caused by variation in genes affecting immune cell function. Recent studies, however, indicate that most T1D candidate genes are expressed in human islets suggesting that the functions of the genes are not restricted to immune cells, but also play roles in the islets and possibly the β cells. Several candidates change expression levels within the islets following exposure to proinflammatory cytokines highlighting that these genes may be involved in the response of β cells to immune attack. In this review, the compiling evidence that many of the candidate genes are expressed in islets and β cells will be presented. Further, we perform the first systematic human islet expression analysis of all genes located in 50 T1D-associated GWAS loci using a published RNA sequencing dataset. We find that 336 out of 857 genes are expressed in human islets and that many of these interact in protein networks. Finally, the potential pathogenetic roles of some candidate genes will be discussed.
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- Joachim Storling
- Copenhagen Diabetes Research Center, Department of Paediatrics, Herlev University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej, DK-2730, Herlev, Denmark,
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Selmi T, Martello A, Vignudelli T, Ferrari E, Grande A, Gemelli C, Salomoni P, Ferrari S, Zanocco-Marani T. ZFP36 expression impairs glioblastoma cell lines viability and invasiveness by targeting multiple signal transduction pathways. Cell Cycle 2012; 11:1977-87. [PMID: 22544323 DOI: 10.4161/cc.20309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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RNA binding proteins belonging to the TIS11/TTP gene family regulate the stability of multiple targets. Their inactivation or deregulated expression has recently been related to cancer, and it has been suggested that they are capable of displaying tumor suppressor activities. Here we describe three new targets of ZFP36 (PIM-1, PIM-3 and XIAP) and show by different approaches that its ectopic expression is capable of impairing glioblastoma cell lines viability and invasiveness by interfering with different transduction pathways. Moreover, we provide evidence that compounds capable of inducing the expression of TIS11/TTP genes determine a comparable biological effect on the same cell contexts.
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- Tommaso Selmi
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Sezione di Chimica Biologica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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Vignudelli T, Selmi T, Martello A, Parenti S, Grande A, Gemelli C, Zanocco-Marani T, Ferrari S. ZFP36L1 negatively regulates erythroid differentiation of CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells by interfering with the Stat5b pathway. Mol Biol Cell 2010; 21:3340-51. [PMID: 20702587 PMCID: PMC2947470 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e10-01-0040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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ZFP36L1 is a member of a family of CCCH tandem zinc finger proteins (TTP family) able to bind to AU-rich elements in the 3'-untranslated region of mRNAs, thereby triggering their degradation. The present study suggests that such mechanism is used during hematopoiesis to regulate differentiation by posttranscriptionally modulating the expression of specific target genes. In particular, it demonstrates that ZFP36L1 negatively regulates erythroid differentiation by directly binding the 3' untranslated region of Stat5b encoding mRNA. Stat5b down-regulation obtained by ZFP36L1 overexpression results, in human hematopoietic progenitors, in a drastic decrease of erythroid colonies formation. These observations have been confirmed by silencing experiments targeting Stat5b and by treating hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells with drugs able to induce ZFP36L1 expression. Moreover, this study shows that different members of ZFP36L1 family act redundantly, because cooverexpression of ZFP36L1 and family member ZFP36 determines a cumulative effect on Stat5b down-regulation. This work describes a mechanism underlying ZFP36L1 capability to regulate hematopoietic differentiation and suggests a new target for the therapy of hematopoietic diseases involving Stat5b/JAK2 pathway, such as chronic myeloproliferative disorders.
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- Tatiana Vignudelli
- Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Sezione di Chimica Biologica, 41100, Modena, Italy
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Hacker C, Valchanova R, Adams S, Munz B. ZFP36L1 is regulated by growth factors and cytokines in keratinocytes and influences their VEGF production. Growth Factors 2010; 28:178-90. [PMID: 20166898 DOI: 10.3109/08977190903578660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Keratinocyte-derived growth factors and cytokines play an important role in epidermal homeostasis and particularly in cutaneous wound repair. Thus, we analyzed a potential role of the ZFP36/tristetraprolin family of zinc finger proteins, which are targets of these factors, but also regulate their production, in keratinocytes. We show that expression of ZFP36, ZFP36L1, and ZFP36L2 is induced by a broad variety of growth factors and cytokines, and by scratch wounding. Since ZFP36L1 is a modulator of vascular endothelium growth factor (VEGF) mRNA stability, we subsequently used siRNA technology to inhibit ZFP36L1 gene expression. Notably, this treatment resulted in prolonged maintenance of elevated VEGF levels in HaCaT keratinocytes upon epidermal growth factor stimulation of these cells. Taken together, our results suggest an important role of ZFP36L1 in wound healing.
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- Christine Hacker
- Institute of Physiology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Arnimallee 22, D-14195, Berlin, Germany
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Sinha S, Dutta S, Datta K, Ghosh AK, Mukhopadhyay D. Von Hippel-Lindau gene product modulates TIS11B expression in renal cell carcinoma: impact on vascular endothelial growth factor expression in hypoxia. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:32610-8. [PMID: 19801654 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.058065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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TIS11B belongs to a group of RNA-binding proteins (including TIS11/tristetraprolin and TIS11D) that share characteristic tandem CCCH-type zinc-finger domains and can be rapidly induced by multiple stimuli. TIS11B has been shown to regulate vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) mRNA stability in adrenocorticotropic hormone-stimulated primary adrenocortical cells. TIS11B has also been documented as a negative regulator of VEGF during development, but nothing has yet been reported in the context of human cancers. The Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor protein regulates VEGF gene expression at both the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels in normoxia. However, whether it can do so in hypoxia is still unclear. Here, we report a unique regulatory function of VHL in VEGF expression in hypoxia that is mediated through modulation of TIS11B protein levels in renal cancer cells. In normoxia, we detected increased expression of the microRNA hsa-miR-29b in the VHL-overexpressing renal cancer cell line 786-O. We also show that this increased expression of hsa-miR-29b decreased TIS11B protein expression by post-transcriptional regulation in normoxia. In contrast, in hypoxia, increased TIS11B expression paralleled an increased TIS11B mRNA stability in VHL-overexpressing 786-O cells. This VHL-mediated TIS11B up-regulation in hypoxia may be important for TIS11B-regulated gene expression: we observed a down-regulation of VEGF mRNA in hypoxia in VHL-overexpressing cells compared with parental 786-O cells, and this effect was reversible by silencing TIS11B expression.
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- Sutapa Sinha
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
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TIS11 family proteins and their roles in posttranscriptional gene regulation. J Biomed Biotechnol 2009; 2009:634520. [PMID: 19672455 PMCID: PMC2722025 DOI: 10.1155/2009/634520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2009] [Accepted: 05/18/2009] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression of mRNAs containing adenine-uridine rich elements (AREs) in their 3′ untranslated regions is mediated by a number of different proteins that interact with these elements to either stabilise or destabilise them. The present review concerns the TPA-inducible sequence 11 (TIS11) protein family, a small family of proteins, that appears to interact with ARE-containing mRNAs and promote their degradation. This family of proteins has been extensively studied in the past decade. Studies have focussed on determining their biochemical functions, identifying their target mRNAs, and determining their roles in cell functions and diseases.
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Cao H, Urban JF, Anderson RA. Insulin increases tristetraprolin and decreases VEGF gene expression in mouse 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2008; 16:1208-18. [PMID: 18388887 DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.65] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Tristetraprolin (TTP) family proteins (TTP/ZFP36; ZFP36L1, ZFP36L2, ZFP36L3) destabilize adenylate uridylate-rich element-containing mRNAs encoding cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Little is known about the expression and insulin regulation of TTP and related genes in adipocytes. We analyzed the relative abundance of TTP family mRNAs in 3T3-L1 adipocytes compared to RAW264.7 macrophages and investigated insulin effects on the expression of 43 genes in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. METHODS AND PROCEDURES Insulin was added to mouse 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Relative abundance of mRNA levels was determined by quantitative real-time PCR. TTP and ZFP36L1 proteins were detected by immunoblotting. RESULTS Zfp36l1 and Zfp36l2 genes were expressed at eight- to tenfold higher than Ttp in adipocytes. Zfp36l3 mRNA was detected at approximately 1% of Ttp mRNA levels in adipocytes and its low level expression was confirmed in RAW cells. Insulin at 10 and 100 nmol/l increased Ttp mRNA levels by five- to sevenfold, but decreased those of Zfp36l3 by 40% in adipocytes after a 30-min treatment. Immunoblotting showed that insulin induced TTP but did not affect ZFP36L1 protein levels in adipocytes. Insulin decreased mRNA levels of Vegf and a number of other genes in adipocytes. DISCUSSION Insulin induced Ttp mRNA and protein expression and decreased Vegf mRNA levels in adipocytes. Zfp36l3 mRNA was detected, for the first time, in cells other than mouse placenta and extraembryonic tissues. This study established a basis for the investigation of TTP and VEGF genes in the regulation of obesity and suggested that Vegf mRNA may be a target of TTP in fat cells.
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- Heping Cao
- Diet, Genomics, and Immunology Laboratory, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, USA.
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Cao H, Lin R, Ghosh S, Anderson RA, Urban JF. Production and characterization of ZFP36L1 antiserum against recombinant protein from Escherichia coli. Biotechnol Prog 2008; 24:326-33. [PMID: 18302406 DOI: 10.1021/bp070269n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Tristetraprolin/zinc finger protein 36 (TTP/ZFP36) family proteins are anti-inflammatory. They bind and destabilize some AU-rich element-containing mRNAs such as tumor necrosis factor mRNA. In this study, recombinant ZFP36L1/TIS11B (a TTP homologue) was overexpressed in E. coli, purified, and used for polyclonal antibody production in rabbits. The antiserum recognized nanograms of the antigen on immunoblots. This antiserum and another antiserum developed against recombinant mouse TTP were used to detect ZFP36L1 and TTP in mouse 3T3-L1 adipocytes and RAW264.7 macrophages. Immunoblotting showed that ZFP36L1 was stably expressed with a size corresponding to the lower mass size of ZFP36L1 expressed in transfected human embryonic kidney 293 cells, but TTP was induced by cinnamon extract and not by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in adipocytes. In contrast, ZFP36L1 was undetectable, but TTP was strongly induced in LPS-stimulated RAW cells. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction confirmed the higher levels of ZFP36L1 mRNA in adipocytes and TTP mRNA in RAW cells. Low levels of ZFP36L1 expression were also confirmed by Northern blotting in mouse embryonic fibroblasts. These results demonstrate that ZFP36L1 antiserum is useful in the detection of this protein and that TTP and ZFP36L1 are differentially expressed and regulated at the mRNA and protein levels in mouse adipocytes and macrophages.
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- Heping Cao
- Diet, Genomics and Immunology Laboratory, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA.
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Busse M, Schwarzburger M, Berger F, Hacker C, Munz B. Strong induction of the Tis11B gene in myogenic differentiation. Eur J Cell Biol 2007; 87:31-8. [PMID: 17889962 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2007.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2007] [Revised: 07/30/2007] [Accepted: 07/30/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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TIS11B is a zinc-finger protein of the tristetraprolin (TTP) family. Using cDNA microarray analysis, we could identify the Tis11B gene based on its differential expression in myogenesis. Here, we demonstrate that expression of the Tis11B gene is strongly induced during differentiation of the murine myoblast cell line C2C12. By contrast, expression of Ttp itself was not induced in myogenesis. Pretreatment of the cells with the translation inhibitor cycloheximide demonstrated that Tis11B was a primary response gene in this process. In addition, pretreatment with the transcription inhibitor actinomycin D demonstrated that gene expression was regulated at the transcriptional level. Since specific inhibitors of p38 MAP kinase completely blocked Tis11B induction, we conclude that expression of the Tis11B gene is regulated at least in part by this signaling pathway which plays a central role in myogenesis. Induction of Tis11B expression was also observed in primary myoblasts isolated from two different mouse strains, indicating physiological relevance of our results. In addition, TIS11B might also be an important player during myogenic differentiation and regeneration in vivo, as we detected a marked decrease in expression in several muscle tissues of the dystrophic mdx mouse, a model for continuous muscle degeneration and regeneration. These data suggest that TIS11B is an important regulator of myogenesis.
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- Melanie Busse
- Institute of Physiology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Arnimallee 22, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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Butyrate response factor 1 is regulated by parathyroid hormone and bone morphogenetic protein-2 in osteoblastic cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004; 324:218-23. [PMID: 15465005 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.09.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2004] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Parathyroid hormone (PTH) exerts potent and diverse effects in bone and cartilage through activation of type 1 PTH receptors (PTH1R) capable of coupling to protein kinase A (PKA) and PKC. We have used macroarrays to identify zinc finger protein butyrate response factor-1 (BRF1) as a novel PTH regulated gene in clonal and normal osteoblasts of human and rodent origin. We further demonstrate that in human osteoblast-like OHS cells, biologically active hPTH(1-84) and hPTH(1-34) stimulate BRF1 mRNA expression in a dose- and time-dependent manner, while the amino-terminally truncated hPTH(3-84) which does not activate PTH1R has no effect. Moreover, using specific stimulators or inhibitors of PKA and PKC activity, the PTH-elicited BRF1 mRNA expression is mediated through the PKA signaling pathway. In mouse calvarial osteoblasts, BRF1 mRNA levels are upregulated by PTH(1-84) and reduced in response to bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2). Hence, our data showing that BRF1 is expressed in osteoblastic cells and regulated by PTH and BMP-2, suggest an important role for BRF1 in osteoblasts within the molecular network of PTH-dependent bone remodeling.
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Stumpo DJ, Byrd NA, Phillips RS, Ghosh S, Maronpot RR, Castranio T, Meyers EN, Mishina Y, Blackshear PJ. Chorioallantoic fusion defects and embryonic lethality resulting from disruption of Zfp36L1, a gene encoding a CCCH tandem zinc finger protein of the Tristetraprolin family. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:6445-55. [PMID: 15226444 PMCID: PMC434251 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.14.6445-6455.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The mouse gene Zfp36L1 encodes zinc finger protein 36-like 1 (Zfp36L1), a member of the tristetraprolin (TTP) family of tandem CCCH finger proteins. TTP can bind to AU-rich elements within the 3'-untranslated regions of the mRNAs encoding tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), leading to accelerated mRNA degradation. TTP knockout mice exhibit an inflammatory phenotype that is largely due to increased TNF secretion. Zfp36L1 has activities similar to those of TTP in cellular RNA destabilization assays and in cell-free RNA binding and deadenylation assays, suggesting that it may play roles similar to those of TTP in mammalian physiology. To address this question we disrupted Zfp36L1 in mice. All knockout embryos died in utero, most by approximately embryonic day 11 (E11). Failure of chorioallantoic fusion occurred in about two-thirds of cases. Even when fusion occurred, by E10.5 the affected placentas exhibited decreased cell division and relative atrophy of the trophoblast layers. Although knockout embryos exhibited neural tube abnormalities and increased apoptosis within the neural tube and also generalized runting, these and other findings may have been due to deficient placental function. Embryonic expression of Zfp36L1 at E8.0 was greatest in the allantois, consistent with a potential role in chorioallantoic fusion. Fibroblasts derived from knockout embryos had apparently normal levels of fully polyadenylated compared to deadenylated GM-CSF mRNA and normal rates of turnover of this mRNA species, both sensitive markers of TTP deficiency in cells. We postulate that lack of Zfp36L1 expression during mid-gestation results in the abnormal stabilization of one or more mRNAs whose encoded proteins lead directly or indirectly to abnormal placentation and fetal death.
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- Deborah J Stumpo
- Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
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Johnson BA, Geha M, Blackwell TK. Similar but distinct effects of the tristetraprolin/TIS11 immediate-early proteins on cell survival. Oncogene 2000; 19:1657-64. [PMID: 10763822 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1203474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The immediate early protein tristetraprolin (TTP) is required to prevent inappropriate production of the cytokine TNF-alpha, and is a member of a zinc finger protein family that is associated with RNA binding. TTP expression is induced by TNF-alpha, and evidence indicates that TTP can bind and destabilize the TNF-alpha mRNA. TTP and the closely related TIS11b and TIS11d proteins are evolutionarily conserved, however, and induced transiently in various cell types by numerous diverse stimuli, suggesting that they have additional functions. Supporting this idea, continuous expression of each TTP/TIS11 protein at physiological levels causes apoptotic cell death. By various criteria, this cell death appears analogous to apoptosis induced by certain oncoproteins. It is also dependent upon the zinc fingers, suggesting that it involves action on appropriate cellular targets. TTP but not TIS11b or TIS11d also sensitizes cells to induction of apoptosis by TNF-alpha. The data suggest that the TTP and TIS11 immediate early proteins have similar but distinct effects on growth or survival pathways, and that TTP might influence TNF-alpha regulation at multiple levels.
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- B A Johnson
- Center for Blood Research and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Manabe T, Fukuda K, Pan J, Nagasaki K, Yamaguchi K, Ogawa S. Hypertrophic stimuli augment expression of cMG1/ERF-1, a putative zinc-finger motif transcription factor, in rat cardiomyocytes. FEBS Lett 1999; 463:39-42. [PMID: 10601634 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)01601-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We isolated the gene for cMG1/ERF-1, a known putative zinc-finger transcription factor, by differential display of mRNA extracted from cardiomyocytes with and without leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) stimulation. LIF induced cMG1/ERF-1 mRNA at 15 min, and levels peaked at 10-fold initial levels at 30 min. cMG1/ERF-1 expression was inhibited by AG490 (JAK2 inhibitor) and genistein, but was unaffected by PD98059 or wortmannin. Phenylephrine, angiotensin II and endothelin-1 also induced cMG1/ERF-1 expression. Mechanical stretch in vitro and acute pressure overload in vivo increased cMG1/ERF-1 expression. To our knowledge, this is the first report showing that the cMG1/ERF-1 gene can be induced by various hypertrophic stimuli, and that Janus kinase 2 is involved in this process.
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- T Manabe
- Cardiopulmonary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Leroith D, Blakesley VA, Werner H. Molecular Mechanisms of Insulin‐like Growth Factor I Receptor Function: Implications for Normal Physiology and Pathological States. Compr Physiol 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/cphy.cp070520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Bustin SA, McKay IA. The product of the primary response gene BRF1 inhibits the interaction between 14-3-3 proteins and cRaf-1 in the yeast trihybrid system. DNA Cell Biol 1999; 18:653-61. [PMID: 10463061 DOI: 10.1089/104454999315060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The 14-3-3 proteins are small abundant cytosolic eukaryotic proteins that associate with and modulate the activity of numerous other proteins. The 14-3-3 beta isoform has been shown to bind to the product of the protooncogene cRaf-1 and to facilitate its activation by Ras. Using the yeast two-hybrid system, we have demonstrated that 14-3-3 beta and another isoform, 14-3-3 tau, bind to the product of the primary response gene BRF1 and that the interaction between each isoform and BRF1 is significantly stronger than that with cRaf-1. We further demonstrated that the charge of residue 187 in 14-3-3 beta regulates its affinity for both BRF1 and cRaf-1. The interaction of either isoform with BRF1 requires both proteins to be fully intact. When all three proteins are coexpressed in a yeast trihybrid system, BRF1 interferes significantly with the binding of 14-3-3 to full-length cRaf-1 as well as to its regulatory and kinase domains. Using quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, 14-3-3 beta and BRF1 were found to be coexpressed in four different human tissues, suggesting a biologic role for their interaction in the regulation of cRaf-1-mediated signal transduction processes.
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- S A Bustin
- Department of Surgery, St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, England.
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Lee-Kwon W, Park D, Bernier M. Involvement of the Ras/extracellular signal-regulated kinase signalling pathway in the regulation of ERCC-1 mRNA levels by insulin. Biochem J 1998; 331 ( Pt 2):591-7. [PMID: 9531502 PMCID: PMC1219393 DOI: 10.1042/bj3310591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Expression of DNA repair enzymes, which includes ERCC-1, might be under the control of hormonal and growth factor stimulation. In the present study it was observed that insulin increased ERCC-1 mRNA levels both in Chinese hamster ovary cells overexpressing human insulin receptors (HIRc cells) and in fully differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes. To investigate the mechanisms underlying the increase in ERCC-1 gene expression in HIRc cells, we used a variety of pharmacological tools known to inhibit distinct signalling pathways. None of these inhibitors affected the amount of ERCC-1 mRNA in unstimulated cells. The pretreatment of cells with two chemically unrelated phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase inhibitors, wortmannin and LY294002, failed to block the doubling of ERCC-1 mRNA content by insulin. Similarly, inhibition of pp70 S6 kinase by rapamycin had no apparent effects on this insulin response. In contrast, altering the p21(ras)-dependent pathway with either manumycin, an inhibitor of Ras farnesylation, or PD98059, an inhibitor of the mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (ERK) kinase, suppressed the induction of ERCC-1 mRNA by insulin (P<0.001). Furthermore inhibition of RNA and protein synthesis negatively regulated the expression of this insulin-regulated gene (P<0.005). These results suggest that insulin enhances ERCC-1 mRNA levels by the activation of the Ras-ERK-dependent pathway without the involvement of the phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase/pp70 S6 kinase.
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- W Lee-Kwon
- Diabetes Section, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, 5600 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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