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Chattopadhyay P, Mehta P, Soni J, Tardalkar K, Joshi M, Pandey R. Cell-specific housekeeping role of lncRNAs in COVID-19-infected and recovered patients. NAR Genom Bioinform 2024; 6:lqae023. [PMID: 38426128 PMCID: PMC10903533 DOI: 10.1093/nargab/lqae023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2023] [Revised: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
Abstract
A plethora of studies have demonstrated the roles of lncRNAs in modulating disease severity and outcomes during infection. However, the spatio-temporal expression of these lncRNAs is poorly understood. In this study, we used single-cell RNA-seq to understand the spatio-temporal expression dynamics of lncRNAs across healthy, SARS-CoV-2-infected, and recovered individuals and their functional role in modulating the disease and recovery. We identified 203 differentially expressed lncRNAs, including cell type-specific ones like MALAT1, NEAT1, ZFAS1, SNHG7, SNHG8, and SNHG25 modulating immune function in classical monocyte, NK T, proliferating NK, plasmablast, naive, and activated B/T cells. Interestingly, we found invariant lncRNAs (no significant change in expression across conditions) regulating essential housekeeping functions (for example, HOTAIR, NRAV, SNHG27, SNHG28, and UCA1) in infected and recovered individuals. Despite similar repeat element abundance, variant lncRNAs displayed higher Alu content, suggesting increased interactions with proximal and distal genes, crucial for immune response modulation. The comparable repeat abundance but distinct expression levels of variant and invariant lncRNAs highlight the significance of investigating the regulatory mechanisms of invariant lncRNAs. Overall, this study offers new insights into the spatio-temporal expression patterns and functional roles of lncRNAs in SARS-CoV-2-infected and recovered individuals while highlighting the importance of invariant lncRNAs in the disease context.
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- Partha Chattopadhyay
- Division of Immunology and Infectious Disease Biology, INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201002, India
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- Division of Immunology and Infectious Disease Biology, INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201002, India
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- Division of Immunology and Infectious Disease Biology, INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201002, India
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- Department of Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, D.Y. Patil Education Society, Kadamwadi, Kolhapur-416003,Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, D.Y. Patil Education Society, Kadamwadi, Kolhapur-416003,Maharashtra, India
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- Division of Immunology and Infectious Disease Biology, INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201002, India
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Chattopadhyay P, Mishra P, Khare K, Yadav A, Mehta P, Saifi S, Swaminathan A, Devi P, Parveen S, Tyagi A, Jha V, Tarai B, Jha S, Budhiraja S, Narayan J, Pandey R. LncRNAs harbouring regulatory motifs within repeat elements modulate immune response towards COVID-19 disease severity and clinical outcomes. Clin Transl Med 2022; 12:e932. [PMID: 35808807 PMCID: PMC9270577 DOI: 10.1002/ctm2.932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2022] [Revised: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Partha Chattopadhyay
- INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India
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- INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, India
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- INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India
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- INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India
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- INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, India
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- INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, India
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- INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, India
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- INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India
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- INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, India
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- Max Super Speciality Hospital (A Unit of Devki Devi Foundation), Max Healthcare, Delhi, India
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- Max Super Speciality Hospital (A Unit of Devki Devi Foundation), Max Healthcare, Delhi, India
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- Max Super Speciality Hospital (A Unit of Devki Devi Foundation), Max Healthcare, Delhi, India
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- Max Super Speciality Hospital (A Unit of Devki Devi Foundation), Max Healthcare, Delhi, India
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- Max Super Speciality Hospital (A Unit of Devki Devi Foundation), Max Healthcare, Delhi, India
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- INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, India
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- INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn (INGEN-HOPE) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India
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Vourc’h C, Dufour S, Timcheva K, Seigneurin-Berny D, Verdel A. HSF1-Activated Non-Coding Stress Response: Satellite lncRNAs and Beyond, an Emerging Story with a Complex Scenario. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13040597. [PMID: 35456403 PMCID: PMC9032817 DOI: 10.3390/genes13040597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2022] [Revised: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 03/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
In eukaryotes, the heat shock response is orchestrated by a transcription factor named Heat Shock Factor 1 (HSF1). HSF1 is mostly characterized for its role in activating the expression of a repertoire of protein-coding genes, including the heat shock protein (HSP) genes. Remarkably, a growing set of reports indicate that, upon heat shock, HSF1 also targets various non-coding regions of the genome. Focusing primarily on mammals, this review aims at reporting the identity of the non-coding genomic sites directly bound by HSF1, and at describing the molecular function of the long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) produced in response to HSF1 binding. The described non-coding genomic targets of HSF1 are pericentric Satellite DNA repeats, (sub)telomeric DNA repeats, Short Interspersed Nuclear Element (SINE) repeats, transcriptionally active enhancers and the NEAT1 gene. This diverse set of non-coding genomic sites, which already appears to be an integral part of the cellular response to stress, may only represent the first of many. Thus, the study of the evolutionary conserved heat stress response has the potential to emerge as a powerful cellular context to study lncRNAs, produced from repeated or unique DNA regions, with a regulatory function that is often well-documented but a mode of action that remains largely unknown.
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- Claire Vourc’h
- Université de Grenoble Alpes (UGA), 38700 La Tronche, France
- Correspondence: (C.V.); (A.V.)
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Centre de Recherche UGA/Inserm U 1209/CNRS UMR 5309, Site Santé-Allée des Alpes, 38700 La Tronche, France; (S.D.); (K.T.); (D.S.-B.)
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Centre de Recherche UGA/Inserm U 1209/CNRS UMR 5309, Site Santé-Allée des Alpes, 38700 La Tronche, France; (S.D.); (K.T.); (D.S.-B.)
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Centre de Recherche UGA/Inserm U 1209/CNRS UMR 5309, Site Santé-Allée des Alpes, 38700 La Tronche, France; (S.D.); (K.T.); (D.S.-B.)
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Centre de Recherche UGA/Inserm U 1209/CNRS UMR 5309, Site Santé-Allée des Alpes, 38700 La Tronche, France; (S.D.); (K.T.); (D.S.-B.)
- Correspondence: (C.V.); (A.V.)
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Mobility connects: transposable elements wire new transcriptional networks by transferring transcription factor binding motifs. Biochem Soc Trans 2021; 48:1005-1017. [PMID: 32573687 PMCID: PMC7329337 DOI: 10.1042/bst20190937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Revised: 06/01/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
Transposable elements (TEs) constitute major fractions of plant genomes. Their potential to be mobile provides them with the capacity to cause major genome rearrangements. Those effects are potentially deleterious and enforced the evolution of epigenetic suppressive mechanisms controlling TE activity. However, beyond their deleterious effects, TE insertions can be neutral or even advantageous for the host, leading to long-term retention of TEs in the host genome. Indeed, TEs are increasingly recognized as major drivers of evolutionary novelties by regulating the expression of nearby genes. TEs frequently contain binding motifs for transcription factors and capture binding motifs during transposition, which they spread through the genome by transposition. Thus, TEs drive the evolution and diversification of gene regulatory networks by recruiting lineage-specific targets under the regulatory control of specific transcription factors. This process can explain the rapid and repeated evolution of developmental novelties, such as C4 photosynthesis and a wide spectrum of stress responses in plants. It also underpins the convergent evolution of embryo nourishing tissues, the placenta in mammals and the endosperm in flowering plants. Furthermore, the gene regulatory network underlying flower development has also been largely reshaped by TE-mediated recruitment of regulatory elements; some of them being preserved across long evolutionary timescales. In this review, we highlight the potential role of TEs as evolutionary toolkits in plants by showcasing examples of TE-mediated evolutionary novelties.
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Tong Y, Wang S. Not All Stressors Are Equal: Mechanism of Stressors on RPE Cell Degeneration. Front Cell Dev Biol 2020; 8:591067. [PMID: 33330470 PMCID: PMC7710875 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.591067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a major cause of irreversible blindness among the elderly population. Dysfunction and degeneration of the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) layer in the retina underscore the pathogenesis of both dry and wet AMD. Advanced age, cigarette smoke and genetic factors have been found to be the prominent risk factors for AMD, which point to an important role for oxidative stress and aging in AMD pathogenesis. However, the mechanisms whereby oxidative stress and aging lead to RPE cell degeneration are still unclear. As cell senescence and cell death are the major outcomes from oxidative stress and aging, here we review the mechanisms of RPE cell senescence and different kinds of cell death, including apoptosis, necroptosis, pyroptosis, ferroptosis, with an aim to clarify how RPE cell degeneration could occur in response to AMD-related stresses, including H2O2, 4-Hydroxynonenal (4-HNE), N-retinylidene-N-retinyl-ethanolamine (A2E), Alu RNA and amyloid β (Aβ). Besides those, sodium iodate (NaIO3) induced RPE cell degeneration is also discussed in this review. Although NaIO3 itself is not related to AMD, this line of study would help understand the mechanism of RPE degeneration.
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- Yao Tong
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States.,Department of Ophthalmology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States
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Cheng Y, Saville L, Gollen B, Isaac C, Belay A, Mehla J, Patel K, Thakor N, Mohajerani MH, Zovoilis A. Increased processing of SINE B2 ncRNAs unveils a novel type of transcriptome deregulation in amyloid beta neuropathology. eLife 2020; 9:61265. [PMID: 33191914 PMCID: PMC7717908 DOI: 10.7554/elife.61265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The functional importance of many non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) generated by repetitive elements and their connection with pathologic processes remains elusive. B2 RNAs, a class of ncRNAs of the B2 family of SINE repeats, mediate through their processing the transcriptional activation of various genes in response to stress. Here, we show that this response is dysfunctional during amyloid beta toxicity and pathology in the mouse hippocampus due to increased levels of B2 RNA processing, leading to constitutively elevated B2 RNA target gene expression and high Trp53 levels. Evidence indicates that Hsf1, a master regulator of stress response, mediates B2 RNA processing in hippocampal cells and is activated during amyloid toxicity, accelerating the processing of SINE RNAs and gene hyper-activation. Our study reveals that in mouse, SINE RNAs constitute a novel pathway deregulated in amyloid beta pathology, with potential implications for similar cases in the human brain, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
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- Yubo Cheng
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Southern Alberta Genome Sciences Centre, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Southern Alberta Genome Sciences Centre, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Southern Alberta Genome Sciences Centre, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Southern Alberta Genome Sciences Centre, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Southern Alberta Genome Sciences Centre, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Southern Alberta Genome Sciences Centre, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Southern Alberta Genome Sciences Centre, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Southern Alberta Genome Sciences Centre, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.,Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
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Mirza M, Vainshtein A, DiRonza A, Chandrachud U, Haslett LJ, Palmieri M, Storch S, Groh J, Dobzinski N, Napolitano G, Schmidtke C, Kerkovich DM. The CLN3 gene and protein: What we know. Mol Genet Genomic Med 2019; 7:e859. [PMID: 31568712 PMCID: PMC6900386 DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2018] [Revised: 05/30/2019] [Accepted: 05/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Background One of the most important steps taken by Beyond Batten Disease Foundation in our quest to cure juvenile Batten (CLN3) disease is to understand the State of the Science. We believe that a strong understanding of where we are in our experimental understanding of the CLN3 gene, its regulation, gene product, protein structure, tissue distribution, biomarker use, and pathological responses to its deficiency, lays the groundwork for determining therapeutic action plans. Objectives To present an unbiased comprehensive reference tool of the experimental understanding of the CLN3 gene and gene product of the same name. Methods BBDF compiled all of the available CLN3 gene and protein data from biological databases, repositories of federally and privately funded projects, patent and trademark offices, science and technology journals, industrial drug and pipeline reports as well as clinical trial reports and with painstaking precision, validated the information together with experts in Batten disease, lysosomal storage disease, lysosome/endosome biology. Results The finished product is an indexed review of the CLN3 gene and protein which is not limited in page size or number of references, references all available primary experiments, and does not draw conclusions for the reader. Conclusions Revisiting the experimental history of a target gene and its product ensures that inaccuracies and contradictions come to light, long‐held beliefs and assumptions continue to be challenged, and information that was previously deemed inconsequential gets a second look. Compiling the information into one manuscript with all appropriate primary references provides quick clues to which studies have been completed under which conditions and what information has been reported. This compendium does not seek to replace original articles or subtopic reviews but provides an historical roadmap to completed works.
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.,Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.,Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
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- Biochemistry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Neurology, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, California
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- Biochemistry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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Alu RNA accumulation induces epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition by modulating miR-566 and is associated with cancer progression. Oncogene 2017; 37:627-637. [PMID: 28991230 PMCID: PMC5799714 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2017.369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2017] [Revised: 06/08/2017] [Accepted: 08/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Alu sequences are the most abundant short interspersed repeated elements in the human genome. Here we show that in a cell culture model of colorectal cancer (CRC) progression, we observe accumulation of Alu RNA that is associated with reduced DICER1 levels. Alu RNA induces epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) by acting as a molecular sponge of miR-566. Moreover, Alu RNA accumulates as consequence of DICER1 deficit in colorectal, ovarian, renal and breast cancer cell lines. Interestingly, Alu RNA knockdown prevents DICER1 depletion-induced EMT despite global microRNA (miRNA) downregulation. Alu RNA expression is also induced by transforming growth factor-β1, a major driver of EMT. Corroborating this data, we found that non-coding Alu RNA significantly correlates with tumor progression in human CRC patients. Together, these findings reveal an unexpected DICER1-dependent, miRNA-independent role of Alu RNA in cancer progression that could bring mobile element transcripts in the fields of cancer therapeutic and prognosis.
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Scarpato M, Angelini C, Cocca E, Pallotta MM, Morescalchi MA, Capriglione T. Short interspersed DNA elements and miRNAs: a novel hidden gene regulation layer in zebrafish? Chromosome Res 2016; 23:533-44. [PMID: 26363800 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-015-9484-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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In this study, we investigated by in silico analysis the possible correlation between microRNAs (miRNAs) and Anamnia V-SINEs (a superfamily of short interspersed nuclear elements), which belong to those retroposon families that have been preserved in vertebrate genomes for millions of years and are actively transcribed because they are embedded in the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of several genes. We report the results of the analysis of the genomic distribution of these mobile elements in zebrafish (Danio rerio) and discuss their involvement in generating miRNA gene loci. The computational study showed that the genes predicted to bear V-SINEs can be targeted by miRNAs with a very high hybridization E-value. Gene ontology analysis indicates that these genes are mainly involved in metabolic, membrane, and cytoplasmic signaling pathways. Nearly all the miRNAs that were predicted to target the V-SINEs of these genes, i.e., miR-338, miR-9, miR-181, miR-724, miR-735, and miR-204, have been validated in similar regulatory roles in mammals. The large number of genes bearing a V-SINE involved in metabolic and cellular processes suggests that V-SINEs may play a role in modulating cell responses to different stimuli and in preserving the metabolic balance during cell proliferation and differentiation. Although they need experimental validation, these preliminary results suggest that in the genome of D. rerio, as in other TE families in vertebrates, the preservation of V-SINE retroposons may also have been favored by their putative role in gene network modulation.
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "M. Picone", CNR, via P. Castellino, 80131, Napoli, Italy
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- IBBR-CNR, via P. Castellino, 80131, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Napoli Federico II, via Cinthia 21, 80126, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Napoli Federico II, via Cinthia 21, 80126, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Napoli Federico II, via Cinthia 21, 80126, Napoli, Italy.
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Alu-miRNA interactions modulate transcript isoform diversity in stress response and reveal signatures of positive selection. Sci Rep 2016; 6:32348. [PMID: 27586304 PMCID: PMC5009348 DOI: 10.1038/srep32348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2015] [Accepted: 08/01/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Primate-specific Alus harbor different regulatory features, including miRNA targets. In this study, we provide evidence for miRNA-mediated modulation of transcript isoform levels during heat-shock response through exaptation of Alu-miRNA sites in mature mRNA. We performed genome-wide expression profiling coupled with functional validation of miRNA target sites within exonized Alus, and analyzed conservation of these targets across primates. We observed that two miRNAs (miR-15a-3p and miR-302d-3p) elevated in stress response, target RAD1, GTSE1, NR2C1, FKBP9 and UBE2I exclusively within Alu. These genes map onto the p53 regulatory network. Ectopic overexpression of miR-15a-3p downregulates GTSE1 and RAD1 at the protein level and enhances cell survival. This Alu-mediated fine-tuning seems to be unique to humans as evident from the absence of orthologous sites in other primate lineages. We further analyzed signatures of selection on Alu-miRNA targets in the genome, using 1000 Genomes Phase-I data. We found that 198 out of 3177 Alu-exonized genes exhibit signatures of selection within Alu-miRNA sites, with 60 of them containing SNPs supported by multiple evidences (global-FST > 0.3, pair-wise-FST > 0.5, Fay-Wu’s H < −20, iHS > 2.0, high ΔDAF) and implicated in p53 network. We propose that by affecting multiple genes, Alu-miRNA interactions have the potential to facilitate population-level adaptations in response to environmental challenges.
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Goenka A, Sengupta S, Pandey R, Parihar R, Mohanta GC, Mukerji M, Ganesh S. Human satellite-III non-coding RNAs modulate heat-shock-induced transcriptional repression. J Cell Sci 2016; 129:3541-3552. [PMID: 27528402 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.189803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Accepted: 08/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
The heat shock response is a conserved defense mechanism that protects cells from physiological stress, including thermal stress. Besides the activation of heat-shock-protein genes, the heat shock response is also known to bring about global suppression of transcription; however, the mechanism by which this occurs is poorly understood. One of the intriguing aspects of the heat shock response in human cells is the transcription of satellite-III (Sat3) long non-coding RNAs and their association with nuclear stress bodies (nSBs) of unknown function. Besides association with the Sat3 transcript, the nSBs are also known to recruit the transcription factors HSF1 and CREBBP, and several RNA-binding proteins, including the splicing factor SRSF1. We demonstrate here that the recruitment of CREBBP and SRSF1 to nSBs is Sat3-dependent, and that loss of Sat3 transcripts relieves the heat-shock-induced transcriptional repression of a few target genes. Conversely, forced expression of Sat3 transcripts results in the formation of nSBs and transcriptional repression even without a heat shock. Our results thus provide a novel insight into the regulatory role for the Sat3 transcripts in heat-shock-dependent transcriptional repression.
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- Anshika Goenka
- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
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- CSIR Ayurgenomics Unit - TRISUTRA, CSIR - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Mathura Road, New Delhi 110025, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
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- CSIR Ayurgenomics Unit - TRISUTRA, CSIR - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Mathura Road, New Delhi 110025, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
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Understanding the molecular mechanisms behind the capacity of cancer cells to adapt to the tumor microenvironment and to anticancer therapies is a major challenge. In this context, cancer is believed to be an evolutionary process where random mutations and the selection process shape the mutational pattern and phenotype of cancer cells. This article challenges the notion of randomness of some cancer-associated mutations by describing molecular mechanisms involving stress-mediated biogenesis of mRNA-derived small RNAs able to target and increase the local mutation rate of the genomic loci they originate from. It is proposed that the probability of some mutations at specific loci could be increased in a stress-specific and RNA-depending manner. This would increase the probability of generating mutations that could alleviate stress situations, such as those triggered by anticancer drugs. Such a mechanism is made possible because tumor- and anticancer drug-associated stress situations trigger both cellular reprogramming and inflammation, which leads cancer cells to express molecular tools allowing them to “attack” and mutate their own genome in an RNA-directed manner.
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- Didier Auboeuf
- Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Univ Claude Bernard, CNRS UMR 5239, INSERM U1210, Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell, Lyon, France
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Alu element is the most successful transposon and it maintains a high level of content in primate genome. However, despite the fact that the expression level of independent Alu element is rather low under common condition, an increasing number of the observations for the Alu transcripts in cells and tissues have been reported recently. Alu transcripts play key roles in the network of gene expression regulation. The main functions of Alu transcript focus on gene regulation both at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. This review summarizes major functions of Alu transcripts on gene expression and highlights molecular mechanisms dependent on conserved sequence or secondary structure in order to unravel a relative ubiquitous way that Alu transcript uses to affect the whole genome.
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- Li Zhang
- Laboratory of Fully Human Antibody Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
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- Department of Oncology, The Second Clinical Medical college (Shenzhen People׳s Hospital), Jinan University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Laboratory of Fully Human Antibody Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
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The human genome contains multiple stretches of CGG trinucleotide repeats, which act as transcription- and translation-regulatory elements but at the same time form secondary structures that impede replication and give rise to sites of chromosome fragility. Proteins binding to such DNA elements may be involved in divergent cellular processes such as transcription, DNA damage, and epigenetic state of the chromatin. We review here the work done on CGG repeats and associated proteins with special focus on a factor called CGGBP1. CGGBP1 presents with an interesting example of factors that do not have any single dedicated function, but participate indispensably in multiple processes. Both experimental results and data from cancer genome sequencing have revealed that any alteration in CGGBP1 that compromises its function is not tolerated by normal or cancer cells alike. Based upon a large amount of published data, information from databases, and unpublished results, we decipher in this review how CGGBP1 is a classic example of the 'one factor, divergent functions' paradigm of cytoprotection. By taking cues from the studies on CGGBP1, more such factors can be discovered for a better understanding of the evolution of mechanisms of cellular survival.
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- Umashankar Singh
- Biological Sciences and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
- Correspondence: Umashankar Singh, Biological Sciences and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden
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Booker CS, Grattan DR. Identification of a truncated splice variant of IL-18 receptor alpha in the human and rat, with evidence of wider evolutionary conservation. PeerJ 2014; 2:e560. [PMID: 25250214 PMCID: PMC4168765 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2014] [Accepted: 08/15/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Interleukin-18 (IL-18) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine which stimulates activation of the nuclear factor kappa beta (NF-κB) pathway via interaction with the IL-18 receptor. The receptor itself is formed from a dimer of two subunits, with the ligand-binding IL-18Rα subunit being encoded by the IL18R1 gene. A splice variant of murine IL18r1, which has been previously described, is formed by transcription of an unspliced intron (forming a ‘type II’ IL18r1 transcript) and is predicted to encode a receptor with a truncated intracellular domain lacking the capacity to generate downstream signalling. In order to examine the relevance of this finding to human IL-18 function, we assessed the presence of a homologous transcript by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in the human and rat as another common laboratory animal. We present evidence for type II IL18R1 transcripts in both species. While the mouse and rat transcripts are predicted to encode a truncated receptor with a novel 5 amino acid C-terminal domain, the human sequence is predicted to encode a truncated protein with a novel 22 amino acid sequence bearing resemblance to the ‘Box 1’ motif of the Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain, in a similar fashion to the inhibitory interleukin-1 receptor 2. Given that transcripts from these three species are all formed by inclusion of homologous unspliced intronic regions, an analysis of homologous introns across a wider array of 33 species with available IL18R1 gene records was performed, which suggests similar transcripts may encode truncated type II IL-18Rα subunits in other species. This splice variant may represent a conserved evolutionary mechanism for regulating IL-18 activity.
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- Chris S Booker
- Centre for Neuroendocrinology, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago , Dunedin , New Zealand
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- Centre for Neuroendocrinology, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago , Dunedin , New Zealand
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Capomaccio S, Vitulo N, Verini-Supplizi A, Barcaccia G, Albiero A, D'Angelo M, Campagna D, Valle G, Felicetti M, Silvestrelli M, Cappelli K. RNA sequencing of the exercise transcriptome in equine athletes. PLoS One 2013; 8:e83504. [PMID: 24391776 PMCID: PMC3877044 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2013] [Accepted: 11/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The horse is an optimal model organism for studying the genomic response to exercise-induced stress, due to its natural aptitude for athletic performance and the relative homogeneity of its genetic and environmental backgrounds. Here, we applied RNA-sequencing analysis through the use of SOLiD technology in an experimental framework centered on exercise-induced stress during endurance races in equine athletes. We monitored the transcriptional landscape by comparing gene expression levels between animals at rest and after competition. Overall, we observed a shift from coding to non-coding regions, suggesting that the stress response involves the differential expression of not annotated regions. Notably, we observed significant post-race increases of reads that correspond to repeats, especially the intergenic and intronic L1 and L2 transposable elements. We also observed increased expression of the antisense strands compared to the sense strands in intronic and regulatory regions (1 kb up- and downstream) of the genes, suggesting that antisense transcription could be one of the main mechanisms for transposon regulation in the horse under stress conditions. We identified a large number of transcripts corresponding to intergenic and intronic regions putatively associated with new transcriptional elements. Gene expression and pathway analysis allowed us to identify several biological processes and molecular functions that may be involved with exercise-induced stress. Ontology clustering reflected mechanisms that are already known to be stress activated (e.g., chemokine-type cytokines, Toll-like receptors, and kinases), as well as "nucleic acid binding" and "signal transduction activity" functions. There was also a general and transient decrease in the global rates of protein synthesis, which would be expected after strenuous global stress. In sum, our network analysis points toward the involvement of specific gene clusters in equine exercise-induced stress, including those involved in inflammation, cell signaling, and immune interactions.
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- Stefano Capomaccio
- Department of Pathology, Diagnostic and Veterinary Clinic - Sport Horse Research Centre, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- CRIBI, University of Padua, Complesso Vallisneri, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, Diagnostic and Veterinary Clinic - Sport Horse Research Centre, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Laboratory of Genetic and Genomics, DAFNAE - University of Padova, Campus of Agripolis, Legnaro, Italy
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- CRIBI, University of Padua, Complesso Vallisneri, Padova, Italy
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- CRIBI, University of Padua, Complesso Vallisneri, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, Diagnostic and Veterinary Clinic - Sport Horse Research Centre, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, Diagnostic and Veterinary Clinic - Sport Horse Research Centre, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, Diagnostic and Veterinary Clinic - Sport Horse Research Centre, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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Udan-Johns M, Bengoechea R, Bell S, Shao J, Diamond MI, True HL, Weihl CC, Baloh RH. Prion-like nuclear aggregation of TDP-43 during heat shock is regulated by HSP40/70 chaperones. Hum Mol Genet 2013; 23:157-70. [PMID: 23962724 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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TDP-43 aggregation in the cytoplasm or nucleus is a key feature of the pathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia and is observed in numerous other neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. Despite this fact, the inciting events leading to TDP-43 aggregation remain unclear. We observed that endogenous TDP-43 undergoes reversible aggregation in the nucleus after the heat shock and that this behavior is mediated by the C-terminal prion domain. Substitution of the prion domain from TIA-1 or an authentic yeast prion domain from RNQ1 into TDP-43 can completely recapitulate heat shock-induced aggregation. TDP-43 is constitutively bound to members of the Hsp40/Hsp70 family, and we found that heat shock-induced TDP-43 aggregation is mediated by the availability of these chaperones interacting with the inherently disordered C-terminal prion domain. Finally, we observed that the aggregation of TDP-43 during heat shock led to decreased binding to hnRNPA1, and a change in TDP-43 RNA-binding partners suggesting that TDP-43 aggregation alters its function in response to misfolded protein stress. These findings indicate that TDP-43 shares properties with physiologic prions from yeast, in that self-aggregation is mediated by a Q/N-rich disordered domain, is modulated by chaperone proteins and leads to altered function of the protein. Furthermore, they indicate that TDP-43 aggregation is regulated by chaperone availability, explaining the recurrent observation of TDP-43 aggregates in degenerative diseases of both the brain and muscle where protein homeostasis is disrupted.
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- Maria Udan-Johns
- Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Kus-Liśkiewicz M, Polańska J, Korfanty J, Olbryt M, Vydra N, Toma A, Widłak W. Impact of heat shock transcription factor 1 on global gene expression profiles in cells which induce either cytoprotective or pro-apoptotic response following hyperthermia. BMC Genomics 2013; 14:456. [PMID: 23834426 PMCID: PMC3711851 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2013] [Accepted: 07/01/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Elevated temperatures induce activation of the heat shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1) which in somatic cells leads to heat shock proteins synthesis and cytoprotection. However, in the male germ cells (spermatocytes) caspase-3 dependent apoptosis is induced upon HSF1 activation and spermatogenic cells are actively eliminated. Results To elucidate a mechanism of such diverse HSF1 activity we carried out genome-wide transcriptional analysis in control and heat-shocked cells, either spermatocytes or hepatocytes. Additionally, to identify direct molecular targets of active HSF1 we used chromatin immunoprecipitation assay (ChIP) combined with promoter microarrays (ChIP on chip). Genes that are differently regulated after HSF1 binding during hyperthermia in both types of cells have been identified. Despite HSF1 binding to promoter sequences in both types of cells, strong up-regulation of Hsps and other genes typically activated by the heat shock was observed only in hepatocytes. In spermatocytes HSF1 binding correlates with transcriptional repression on a large scale. HSF1-bound and negatively regulated genes encode mainly for proteins required for cell division, involved in RNA processing and piRNA biogenesis. Conclusions Observed suppression of the transcription could lead to genomic instability caused by meiotic recombination disturbances, which in turn might induce apoptosis of spermatogenic cells. We propose that HSF1-dependent induction of cell death is caused by the simultaneous repression of many genes required for spermatogenesis, which guarantees the elimination of cells damaged during heat shock. Such activity of HSF1 prevents transmission of damaged genetic material to the next generation.
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- Małgorzata Kus-Liśkiewicz
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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Rhyu MG, Oh JH, Hong SJ. Epigenetic implication of gene-adjacent retroelements in Helicobacter pylori-infected adults. Epigenomics 2013; 4:527-35. [PMID: 23130834 DOI: 10.2217/epi.12.51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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A chronic inflammatory condition of gastric mucosa can facilitate the influx of new stem cells into the stomach. Epigenetic codes, such as DNA methylation, may be responsible for the stable maintenance of epigenetic phenotypes established in the new stomach-adapted stem cells. A number of hypotheses have been made for the role of CpG-island methylation, which is common in the Helicobacter pylori-infected stomach. However, they could not explain the plausible role of CpG-island methylation in the re-establishment of epigenetic phenotypes. These islands are highly repetitive sequences densely methylated throughout the human genome, the so-called parasitic retroelements, which expand a number of cDNA copies with reverse transcriptase. The densely methylated retroelements adjacent to the host genes can form the transitional-CpG sites around gene-control regions that are barely methylated. This review focuses on the putative role of transitional CpG methylation in the adaptive differentiation of new stem cells in the H. pylori-infected stomach.
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- Mun-Gan Rhyu
- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 505 Banpo-dong Socho-gu, Seoul 137-701, Korea
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Mandal AK, Pandey R, Jha V, Mukerji M. Transcriptome-wide expansion of non-coding regulatory switches: evidence from co-occurrence of Alu exonization, antisense and editing. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 41:2121-37. [PMID: 23303787 PMCID: PMC3575813 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2012] [Revised: 12/13/2012] [Accepted: 12/13/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Non-coding RNAs from transposable elements of human genome are gaining prominence in modulating transcriptome dynamics. Alu elements, as exonized, edited and antisense components within same transcripts could create novel regulatory switches in response to different transcriptional cues. We provide the first evidence for co-occurrences of these events at transcriptome-wide scale through integrative analysis of data sets across diverse experimental platforms and tissues. This involved the following: (i) positional anchoring of Alu exonization events in the UTRs and CDS of 4663 transcript isoforms from RefSeq mRNAs and (ii) mapping on to them A→I editing events inferred from ∼7 million ESTs from dbEST and antisense transcripts identified from virtual serial analysis of gene expression tags represented in Cancer Genome Anatomy Project next-generation sequencing data sets across 20 tissues. We observed significant enrichment of these events in the 3'UTR as well as positional preference within the embedded Alus. More than 300 genes had co-occurrence of all these events at the exon level and were significantly enriched in apoptosis and lysosomal processes. Further, we demonstrate functional evidence of such dynamic interactions between Alu-mediated events in a time series data from Integrated Personal Omics Profiling during recovery from a viral infection. Such 'single transcript-multiple fate' opportunity facilitated by Alu elements may modulate transcriptional response, especially during stress.
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- Amit K. Mandal
- GN Ramachandran Knowledge Centre for Genome Informatics, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India and Genomics and Molecular Medicine, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India
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- GN Ramachandran Knowledge Centre for Genome Informatics, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India and Genomics and Molecular Medicine, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India
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- GN Ramachandran Knowledge Centre for Genome Informatics, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India and Genomics and Molecular Medicine, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India
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- GN Ramachandran Knowledge Centre for Genome Informatics, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India and Genomics and Molecular Medicine, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India
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Dridi S. Alu mobile elements: from junk DNA to genomic gems. SCIENTIFICA 2012; 2012:545328. [PMID: 24278713 PMCID: PMC3820591 DOI: 10.6064/2012/545328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2012] [Accepted: 11/06/2012] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Alus, the short interspersed repeated sequences (SINEs), are retrotransposons that litter the human genomes and have long been considered junk DNA. However, recent findings that these mobile elements are transcribed, both as distinct RNA polymerase III transcripts and as a part of RNA polymerase II transcripts, suggest biological functions and refute the notion that Alus are biologically unimportant. Indeed, Alu RNAs have been shown to control mRNA processing at several levels, to have complex regulatory functions such as transcriptional repression and modulating alternative splicing and to cause a host of human genetic diseases. Alu RNAs embedded in Pol II transcripts can promote evolution and proteome diversity, which further indicates that these mobile retroelements are in fact genomic gems rather than genomic junks.
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- Sami Dridi
- Nutrition Research Institute, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 500 Laureate Way, Kannapolis, NC 28081, USA
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Kloster-Landsberg M, Herbomel G, Wang I, Derouard J, Vourc'h C, Usson Y, Souchier C, Delon A. Cellular response to heat shock studied by multiconfocal fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Biophys J 2012; 103:1110-9. [PMID: 22995483 PMCID: PMC3446677 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.07.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2011] [Revised: 07/21/2012] [Accepted: 07/27/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Heat shock triggers a transient and ubiquitous response, the function of which is to protect cells against stress-induced damage. The heat-shock response is controlled by a key transcription factor known as heat shock factor 1 (HSF1). We have developed a multiconfocal fluorescence correlation spectroscopy setup to measure the dynamics of HSF1 during the course of the heat-shock response. The system combines a spatial light modulator, to address several points of interest, and an electron-multiplying charge-coupled camera for fast multiconfocal recording of the photon streams. Autocorrelation curves with a temporal resolution of 14 μs were analyzed before and after heat shock on eGFP and HSF1-eGFP-expressing cells. Evaluation of the dynamic parameters of a diffusion-and-binding model showed a slower HSF1 diffusion after heat shock. It is also observed that the dissociation rate decreases after heat shock, whereas the association rate is not affected. In addition, thanks to the multiconfocal fluorescence correlation spectroscopy system, up to five spots could be simultaneously located in each cell nucleus. This made it possible to quantify the intracellular variability of the diffusion constant of HSF1, which is higher than that of inert eGFP molecules and increases after heat shock. This finding is consistent with the fact that heat-shock response is associated with an increase of HSF1 interactions with DNA and cannot be explained even partially by heat-induced modifications of nuclear organization.
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- Meike Kloster-Landsberg
- University of Grenoble I/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Grenoble, France
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- University of Grenoble I/Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Institut Albert Bonniot, U823 team 10, Grenoble, France
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- University of Grenoble I/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Grenoble, France
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- University of Grenoble I/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Grenoble, France
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- University of Grenoble I/Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Institut Albert Bonniot, U823 team 10, Grenoble, France
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- University of Grenoble I/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
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- University of Grenoble I/Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Institut Albert Bonniot, U823 team 10, Grenoble, France
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- University of Grenoble I/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Grenoble, France
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Lakhotia SC. Long non-coding RNAs coordinate cellular responses to stress. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2012; 3:779-96. [PMID: 22976942 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Following the initial discovery of the heat shock RNA omega (hsrω) gene of Drosophila melanogaster to be non-coding (nc) and also inducible by cell stress, other stress-inducible long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) have been described in diverse organisms. In view of the rapid sequence divergence of lncRNAs, present knowledge of stress trasncriptome is limited and fragmented. Several known stress-related lncRNAs, associated with specific nuclear speckled domains or nucleolus, provide structural base for sequestering diverse RNA-processing/regulatory proteins. Others have roles in transcriptional or translational inhibition during stress or in signaling pathways; functions of several other lncRNAs are not yet known. Most stress-related lncRNAs act primarily by modulating activity of the proteins to which they bind or by sequestering specific sets of proteins away from the active pool. A common emerging theme is that a given lncRNA targets one or more protein/s with key role/s in the cascade of events triggered by the stress and therefore has a widespread integrative effect. Since proteins associate with RNA through short sequence motifs, the overall base sequence of functionally similar ncRNAs is often not conserved except for specific motifs. The rapid evolvability of ncRNA sequences provides elegant modules for adaptability to changing environment as binding of one or the other protein to ncRNA can alter its structure and functions in distinct ways. Thus the stress-related lncRNAs act as hubs in the cellular networks to coordinate activities of the members within and between different networks to maintain cellular homeostasis for survival or to trigger cell death.
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- Subhash C Lakhotia
- Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India.
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