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Moon SL. Translation feedback control in the brain. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2024:10.1038/s41580-024-00741-z. [PMID: 38698077 DOI: 10.1038/s41580-024-00741-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- Stephanie L Moon
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
- Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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Significance: Stress granules (SGs) are biomolecular condensates that form upon global translation suppression during stress. SGs are enriched in translation factors and messenger RNAs (mRNAs), which they may sequester away from the protein synthesis machinery. While this is hypothesized to remodel the functional transcriptome during stress, it remains unclear whether SGs are a cause, or simply a consequence, of translation repression. Understanding the function of SGs is particularly important because they are implicated in numerous diseases including viral infections, cancer, and neurodegeneration. Recent Advances: We synthesize recent SG research spanning biological scales, from observing single proteins and mRNAs within one cell to measurements of the entire transcriptome or proteome of SGs in a cell population. We use the emerging understanding from these studies to suggest that SGs likely have less impact on global translation, but instead may strongly influence the translation of individual mRNAs localized to them. Critical Issues: Development of a unified model that links stress-induced RNA-protein condensation to regulation of downstream gene expression holds promise for understanding the mechanisms of cellular resilience. Future Directions: Therefore, upcoming research should clarify what influence SGs exert on translation at all scales as well as the molecular mechanisms that enable this. The resulting knowledge will be required to drive discovery in how SGs allow organisms to adapt to challenges and support health or go awry and lead to disease. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 39, 390-409.
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Affiliation(s)
- Max Baymiller
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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English AM, Moon SL. Measuring Bulk Translation Activity in Single Mammalian Cells During the Integrated Stress Response. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2428:63-73. [PMID: 35171473 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1975-9_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The attenuation of global translation is a critical outcome of the integrated stress response (ISR). Consequently, it is important to effectively detect and measure protein synthesis in studies seeking to evaluate the ISR. This chapter details two methods, surface sensing of translation (SUnSET) and fluorescent noncanonical amino acid tagging (FUNCAT), to measure global translation activity in individual cells using fluorescence microscopy as a read-out. Detecting bulk translation activity in single cells is advantageous for the concurrent observation of newly synthesized proteins and other cellular structures and to identify differences in translation activity among individuals within a population of cells.
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- Alyssa M English
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
- Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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English AM, Green KM, Moon SL. A (dis)integrated stress response: Genetic diseases of eIF2α regulators. Wiley Interdiscip Rev RNA 2021; 13:e1689. [PMID: 34463036 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2021] [Revised: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The integrated stress response (ISR) is a conserved mechanism by which eukaryotic cells remodel gene expression to adapt to intrinsic and extrinsic stressors rapidly and reversibly. The ISR is initiated when stress-activated protein kinases phosphorylate the major translation initiation factor eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2ɑ (eIF2ɑ), which globally suppresses translation initiation activity and permits the selective translation of stress-induced genes including important transcription factors such as activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4). Translationally repressed messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and noncoding RNAs assemble into cytoplasmic RNA-protein granules and polyadenylated RNAs are concomitantly stabilized. Thus, regulated changes in mRNA translation, stability, and localization to RNA-protein granules contribute to the reprogramming of gene expression that defines the ISR. We discuss fundamental mechanisms of RNA regulation during the ISR and provide an overview of a growing class of genetic disorders associated with mutant alleles of key translation factors in the ISR pathway. This article is categorized under: RNA Interactions with Proteins and Other Molecules > Protein-RNA Interactions: Functional Implications RNA in Disease and Development > RNA in Disease Translation > Translation Regulation RNA in Disease and Development > RNA in Development.
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- Alyssa M English
- Department of Human Genetics, Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Human Genetics, Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Moon SL, Morisaki T, Stasevich TJ, Parker R. Coupling of translation quality control and mRNA targeting to stress granules. J Cell Biol 2021; 219:151851. [PMID: 32520986 PMCID: PMC7401812 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202004120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Revised: 05/05/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Stress granules are dynamic assemblies of proteins and nontranslating RNAs that form when translation is inhibited in response to diverse stresses. Defects in ubiquitin–proteasome system factors including valosin-containing protein (VCP) and the proteasome impact the kinetics of stress granule induction and dissolution as well as being implicated in neuropathogenesis. However, the impacts of dysregulated proteostasis on mRNA regulation and stress granules are not well understood. Using single mRNA imaging, we discovered ribosomes stall on some mRNAs during arsenite stress, and the release of transcripts from stalled ribosomes for their partitioning into stress granules requires the activities of VCP, components of the ribosome-associated quality control (RQC) complex, and the proteasome. This is an unexpected contribution of the RQC system in releasing mRNAs from translation under stress, thus identifying a new type of stress-activated RQC (saRQC) distinct from canonical RQC pathways in mRNA substrates, cellular context, and mRNA fate.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stephanie L Moon
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.,Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Biochemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
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- Department of Biochemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.,World Research Hub Initiative, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD
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Moon SL, Morisaki T, Khong A, Lyon K, Parker R, Stasevich TJ. Multicolour single-molecule tracking of mRNA interactions with RNP granules. Nat Cell Biol 2019; 21:162-168. [PMID: 30664789 PMCID: PMC6375083 DOI: 10.1038/s41556-018-0263-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules are non-membrane-bound organelles that have critical roles in the stress response1,2, maternal messenger RNA storage3, synaptic plasticity4, tumour progression5,6 and neurodegeneration7-9. However, the dynamics of their mRNA components within and near the granule surface remain poorly characterized, particularly in the context and timing of mRNAs exiting translation. Herein, we used multicolour single-molecule tracking to quantify the precise timing and kinetics of single mRNAs as they exit translation and enter RNP granules during stress. We observed single mRNAs interacting with stress granules and P-bodies, with mRNAs moving bidirectionally between them. Although translating mRNAs only interact with RNP granules dynamically, non-translating mRNAs can form stable, and sometimes rigid, associations with RNP granules with stability increasing with both mRNA length and granule size. Live and fixed cell imaging demonstrated that mRNAs can extend beyond the protein surface of a stress granule, which may facilitate interactions between RNP granules. Thus, the recruitment of mRNPs to RNP granules involves dynamic, stable and extended interactions affected by translation status, mRNA length and granule size that collectively regulate RNP granule dynamics.
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- Stephanie L Moon
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
- World Research Hub Initiative, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.
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Vaidya VM, Zende RJ, Paturkar AM, Gatne ML, Dighe DG, Waghmare RN, Moon SL, Bhave SS, Bengale KG, Nikale NV. Cystic echinococcosis in animals and humans of Maharashtra State, India. Acta Parasitol 2018; 63:232-243. [PMID: 29654685 DOI: 10.1515/ap-2018-0027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2017] [Accepted: 12/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Echinococcosis/hydatidosis which is a neglected parasitic zoonosis in the developing country like India. The study was conducted during April, 2010 to March, 2017 to determine the prevalence among slaughtered food animals, dogs and human. The samples were collected from the various slaughterhouses situated in different regions of Maharashtra state. A total of 9464 cattle (male), 3661 buffalo, 47189 sheep, 33350 goats and 13579 pigs were scientifically examined during PM inspection at different slaughterhouses. The study revealed that the prevalence of disease in cattle (3.00%) was highest followed by buffalo (2.05%), pig (1.28%), sheep (0.09%) and goat (0.01%), by PM examination. The average estimated economic losses (direct and indirect) due to hydatidosis were Rs. 8,65,83,566 in cattle, Rs. 44,33,93,900 in buffalo, Rs. 7,24,50,615 in sheep, Rs. 1,88,29,359 in goat and Rs. 5,20,49,081 in pigs. Dog faecal samples analyzed and showed the prevalence of echinococcosis as 4.34% (19/438) by sedimentation method and positive samples were confirmed by PCR assay, whereas in high risk human, 11.09% sera samples were found to be positive for echinococcosis. However, based on data collection for seven years, 58 patients were found to be surgically operated for hydatid cyst removal. The results of the present study indicated that cystic echinococcosis/hydatidosis is prevalent in both human and animal population in study areas which attracts serious attention from veterinary and public health authority to reduce economic burden and in designing appropriate strategy for prevention and control of disease.
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- V M Vaidya
- Department of Veterinary Public Health, Bombay Veterinary College, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health, Bombay Veterinary College, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health, Bombay Veterinary College, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health, Bombay Veterinary College, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Bombay Veterinary College, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health, Bombay Veterinary College, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health, Nagpur Veterinary College, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Nagpur, India
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health, Bombay Veterinary College, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health, Bombay Veterinary College, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health, Bombay Veterinary College, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Mumbai, India
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Moon SL, Parker R. EIF2B2 mutations in vanishing white matter disease hypersuppress translation and delay recovery during the integrated stress response. RNA 2018; 24:841-852. [PMID: 29632131 PMCID: PMC5959252 DOI: 10.1261/rna.066563.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2018] [Accepted: 04/07/2018] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Mutations in eIF2B genes cause vanishing white matter disease (VWMD), a fatal leukodystrophy that can manifest following physical trauma or illness, conditions that activate the integrated stress response (ISR). EIF2B is the guanine exchange factor for eIF2, facilitating ternary complex formation and translation initiation. During the ISR, eIF2α is phosphorylated and inhibits eIF2B, causing global translation suppression and stress-induced gene translation, allowing stress adaptation and recovery. We demonstrate that VWMD patient cells hypersuppress translation during the ISR caused by acute ER stress, delaying stress-induced gene expression and interrupting a negative feedback loop that allows translational recovery by GADD34-mediated dephosphorylation of phospho-eIF2α. Thus, cells from VWMD patients undergo a prolonged state of translational hyperrepression and fail to recover from stress. We demonstrate that small molecules targeting eIF2B or the eIF2α kinase PERK rescue translation defects in patient cells. Therefore, defects in the ISR could contribute to white matter loss in VWMD.
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- Stephanie L Moon
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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Moon SL, Sonenberg N, Parker R. Neuronal Regulation of eIF2α Function in Health and Neurological Disorders. Trends Mol Med 2018; 24:575-589. [PMID: 29716790 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2018.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2018] [Revised: 04/04/2018] [Accepted: 04/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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A key site of translation control is the phosphorylation of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (eIF2α), which reduces the rate of GDP to GTP exchange by eIF2B, leading to altered translation. The extent of eIF2α phosphorylation within neurons can alter synaptic plasticity. Phosphorylation of eIF2α is triggered by four stress-responsive kinases, and as such eIF2α is often phosphorylated during neurological perturbations or disease. Moreover, in some cases decreasing eIF2α phosphorylation mitigates neurodegeneration, suggesting that this could be a therapeutic target. Mutations in the γ subunit of eIF2, the guanine exchange factor eIF2B, an eIF2α phosphatase, or in two eIF2α kinases can cause disease in humans, demonstrating the importance of proper regulation of eIF2α phosphorylation for health.
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- Stephanie L Moon
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Goodman Cancer Research Centre, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1A3, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA.
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Moon SL, Dodd BJT, Brackney DE, Wilusz CJ, Ebel GD, Wilusz J. Flavivirus sfRNA suppresses antiviral RNA interference in cultured cells and mosquitoes and directly interacts with the RNAi machinery. Virology 2015; 485:322-9. [PMID: 26331679 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2015.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2015] [Revised: 08/07/2015] [Accepted: 08/09/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Productive arbovirus infections require mechanisms to suppress or circumvent the cellular RNA interference (RNAi) pathway, a major antiviral response in mosquitoes. In this study, we demonstrate that two flaviviruses, Dengue virus and Kunjin virus, significantly repress siRNA-mediated RNAi in infected human cells as well as during infection of the mosquito vector Culex quinquefasciatus. Arthropod-borne flaviviruses generate a small structured non-coding RNA from the viral 3' UTR referred to as sfRNA. Analysis of infections with a mutant Kunjin virus that is unable to generate appreciable amounts of the major sfRNA species indicated that RNAi suppression was associated with the generation of the non-coding sfRNA. Co-immunoprecipitation of sfRNA with RNAi mediators Dicer and Ago2 suggest a model for RNAi suppression. Collectively, these data help to establish a clear role for sfRNA in RNAi suppression and adds to the emerging impact of viral long non-coding RNAs in modulating aspects of anti-viral immune processes.
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- Stephanie L Moon
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
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Moon SL, Blackinton JG, Anderson JR, Dozier MK, Dodd BJT, Keene JD, Wilusz CJ, Bradrick SS, Wilusz J. XRN1 stalling in the 5' UTR of Hepatitis C virus and Bovine Viral Diarrhea virus is associated with dysregulated host mRNA stability. PLoS Pathog 2015; 11:e1004708. [PMID: 25747802 PMCID: PMC4352041 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2014] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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We demonstrate that both Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and Bovine Viral Diarrhea virus (BVDV) contain regions in their 5’ UTRs that stall and repress the enzymatic activity of the cellular 5’-3’ exoribonuclease XRN1, resulting in dramatic changes in the stability of cellular mRNAs. We used biochemical assays, virus infections, and transfection of the HCV and BVDV 5’ untranslated regions in the absence of other viral gene products to directly demonstrate the existence and mechanism of this novel host-virus interaction. In the context of HCV infection, we observed globally increased stability of mRNAs resulting in significant increases in abundance of normally short-lived mRNAs encoding a variety of relevant oncogenes and angiogenesis factors. These findings suggest that non-coding regions from multiple genera of the Flaviviridae interfere with XRN1 and impact post-transcriptional processes, causing global dysregulation of cellular gene expression which may promote cell growth and pathogenesis. Understanding how a persistent virus like Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) interfaces with the cellular machinery during infection can provide significant insights into mechanisms of pathogenesis. We demonstrate that while trying to degrade HCV transcripts, a major cellular exonuclease called XRN1 stalls and gets repressed in the 5’ noncoding region of the viral mRNA. Interestingly, the region where XRN1 stalls in the 5’ UTR includes the viral IRES that is required for translation initiation, uncovering a novel, unexpected function for this well-studied region. Differential mRNA stability is a major regulator of gene expression in cells. Curiously, repression of the cellular XRN1 exonuclease is associated with a general repression of mRNA decay in general in HCV-infected cells. Thus numerous cellular mRNAs are stabilized and accumulate in a dysregulated fashion during HCV infection. Normally short-lived mRNAs are disproportionately affected—including mRNAs that encode immune regulators and oncogenes. Thus, this study suggests a novel role for the 5’ UTR of HCV in molecular pathogenesis—including hepatocellular carcinoma. Furthermore, the 5’ UTR of Bovine Viral Diarrhea virus also represses the XRN1 enzyme and stabilizes cellular mRNA. Therefore a strategy of 5’ UTR-mediated XRN1 repression appears to be conserved among the vector-independent members of the Flaviviridae.
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- Stephanie L. Moon
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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Gullberg RC, Jordan Steel J, Moon SL, Soltani E, Geiss BJ. Oxidative stress influences positive strand RNA virus genome synthesis and capping. Virology 2014; 475:219-29. [PMID: 25514423 PMCID: PMC4332586 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.10.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2014] [Accepted: 10/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Flaviviruses are 5′ capped positive-stranded RNA viruses that replicate their genomes within endoplasmic reticulum-derived vesicles. Flaviviruses are well known to induce oxidative stress late in infection but it is unknown if oxidative stress plays a positive role in the viral RNA replication cycle. We therefore examined how oxidation affects flavivirus RNA replication. We found that antioxidant treatment reduced virus production, reduced the viral positive-to-negative strand RNA ratio, and resulted in the accumulation of uncapped positive-sense viral RNAs. Treatment of the NS5 RNA capping enzyme in vitro with oxidizing agents enhanced guanylyltransferase activity, indicating that the guanylyltransferase function of the flavivirus NS5 RNA capping enzyme is activated by oxidative conditions. Antioxidant treatment also reduced alphavirus RNA replication and protein expression while enhancing nsP1 capping activity. These findings suggest that RNA viruses may utilize oxidative stress induced during infection to help temporally control genome RNA capping and genome replication.
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- Rebekah C Gullberg
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
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Chapman EG, Costantino DA, Rabe JL, Moon SL, Wilusz J, Nix JC, Kieft JS. The structural basis of pathogenic subgenomic flavivirus RNA (sfRNA) production. Science 2014; 344:307-10. [PMID: 24744377 PMCID: PMC4163914 DOI: 10.1126/science.1250897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Flaviviruses are emerging human pathogens and worldwide health threats. During infection, pathogenic subgenomic flaviviral RNAs (sfRNAs) are produced by resisting degradation by the 5'→3' host cell exonuclease Xrn1 through an unknown RNA structure-based mechanism. Here, we present the crystal structure of a complete Xrn1-resistant flaviviral RNA, which contains interwoven pseudoknots within a compact structure that depends on highly conserved nucleotides. The RNA's three-dimensional topology creates a ringlike conformation, with the 5' end of the resistant structure passing through the ring from one side of the fold to the other. Disruption of this structure prevents formation of sfRNA during flaviviral infection. Thus, sfRNA formation results from an RNA fold that interacts directly with Xrn1, presenting the enzyme with a structure that confounds its helicase activity.
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- Erich G Chapman
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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Dengue virus is a growing global health threat. Dengue and other flaviviruses commandeer the host cell’s RNA degradation machinery to generate the small flaviviral RNA (sfRNA), a noncoding RNA that induces cytopathicity and pathogenesis. Host cell exonuclease Xrn1 likely loads on the 5′ end of viral genomic RNA and degrades processively through ∼10 kB of RNA, halting near the 3′ end of the viral RNA. The surviving RNA is the sfRNA. We interrogated the architecture of the complete Dengue 2 sfRNA, identifying five independently-folded RNA structures, two of which quantitatively confer Xrn1 resistance. We developed an assay for real-time monitoring of Xrn1 resistance that we used with mutagenesis and RNA folding experiments to show that Xrn1-resistant RNAs adopt a specific fold organized around a three-way junction. Disrupting the junction’s fold eliminates the buildup of disease-related sfRNAs in human cells infected with a flavivirus, directly linking RNA structure to sfRNA production. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01892.001 More than 40% of people around the globe are at risk of being bitten by mosquitoes infected with the virus that causes Dengue fever. Every year, more than 100 million of these individuals are infected. Many develop severe headaches, pain, and fever, but some develop a life-threatening condition where tiny blood vessels in the body begin to leak. If not treated quickly, this more severe manifestation of the illness can lead to death. There are currently no specific therapies or vaccines against Dengue or many other closely related viruses such as West Nile and Japanese Encephalitis. These viruses use instructions encoded in a single strand of RNA to take over an infected cell and to reproduce. The viruses also exploit an enzyme that cells use to destroy RNA to instead produce short stretches of RNA called sfRNAs that, among other things, may help the virus to avoid the immune system of its host. Understanding exactly how Dengue and other viruses thwart this enzyme—which is called Xrn1—may help scientists develop treatments or vaccines for these diseases. Chapman et al. have now shown that Dengue virus RNA contains a number of RNA elements that prevent it being completely degraded by the Xrn1 enzyme. In particular, a junction formed by three RNA helixes is critical for stopping the enzyme in its tracks, leaving the disease-associated sfRNA behind. A single mutation in the Dengue RNA disrupts the structure of the three-helix junction and allows the enzyme to completely destroy the RNA. A similar mutation was also made in the West Nile virus RNA and when human cells were infected with the mutated West Nile virus, the short sfRNAs were not produced. Treatments or vaccines targeting this structure may therefore help reduce illness associated with Dengue and related viruses. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01892.002
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- Erich G Chapman
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, United States
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- Stephanie L. Moon
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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Barnhart MD, Moon SL, Emch AW, Wilusz CJ, Wilusz J. Changes in cellular mRNA stability, splicing, and polyadenylation through HuR protein sequestration by a cytoplasmic RNA virus. Cell Rep 2013; 5:909-17. [PMID: 24210824 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2013] [Revised: 09/13/2013] [Accepted: 10/07/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The impact of RNA viruses on the posttranscriptional regulation of cellular gene expression is unclear. Sindbis virus causes a dramatic relocalization of the cellular HuR protein from the nucleus to the cytoplasm in infected cells. This is to the result of the expression of large amounts of viral RNAs that contain high-affinity HuR binding sites in their 3' UTRs effectively serving as a sponge for the HuR protein. Sequestration of HuR by Sindbis virus is associated with destabilization of cellular mRNAs that normally bind HuR and rely on it to regulate their expression. Furthermore, significant changes can be observed in nuclear alternative polyadenylation and splicing events on cellular pre-mRNAs as a result of sequestration of HuR protein by the 3' UTR of transcripts of this cytoplasmic RNA virus. These studies suggest a molecular mechanism of virus-host interaction that probably has a significant impact on virus replication, cytopathology, and pathogenesis.
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- Michael D Barnhart
- Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80525, USA
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Moon SL, Anderson JR, Kumagai Y, Wilusz CJ, Akira S, Khromykh AA, Wilusz J. A noncoding RNA produced by arthropod-borne flaviviruses inhibits the cellular exoribonuclease XRN1 and alters host mRNA stability. RNA 2012; 18:2029-40. [PMID: 23006624 PMCID: PMC3479393 DOI: 10.1261/rna.034330.112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2012] [Accepted: 08/17/2012] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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All arthropod-borne flaviviruses generate a short noncoding RNA (sfRNA) from the viral 3' untranslated region during infection due to stalling of the cellular 5'-to-3' exonuclease XRN1. We show here that formation of sfRNA also inhibits XRN1 activity. Cells infected with Dengue or Kunjin viruses accumulate uncapped mRNAs, decay intermediates normally targeted by XRN1. XRN1 repression also resulted in the increased overall stability of cellular mRNAs in flavivirus-infected cells. Importantly, a mutant Kunjin virus that cannot form sfRNA but replicates to normal levels failed to affect host mRNA stability or XRN1 activity. Expression of sfRNA in the absence of viral infection demonstrated that sfRNA formation was directly responsible for the stabilization of cellular mRNAs. Finally, numerous cellular mRNAs were differentially expressed in an sfRNA-dependent fashion in a Kunjin virus infection. We conclude that flaviviruses incapacitate XRN1 during infection and dysregulate host mRNA stability as a result of sfRNA formation.
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- Stephanie L. Moon
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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- Laboratory of Host Defense, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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- Laboratory of Host Defense, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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Moon SL, Barnhart MD, Wilusz J. Inhibition and avoidance of mRNA degradation by RNA viruses. Curr Opin Microbiol 2012; 15:500-5. [PMID: 22626865 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2012.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2012] [Accepted: 04/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The cellular mRNA decay machinery plays a major role in regulating the quality and quantity of gene expression in cells. This machinery involves multiple enzymes and pathways that converge to promote the exonucleolytic decay of mRNAs. The transcripts made by RNA viruses are susceptible to degradation by this machinery and, in fact, can be actively targeted. Thus, to maintain gene expression and replication, RNA viruses have evolved a number of strategies to avoid and/or inactivate aspects of the cellular mRNA decay machinery. Recent work uncovering the mechanisms used by RNA viruses to maintain the stability of their transcripts is described below.
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- Stephanie L Moon
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, United States
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Gribkoff VK, Starrett JE, Dworetzky SI, Hewawasam P, Boissard CG, Cook DA, Frantz SW, Heman K, Hibbard JR, Huston K, Johnson G, Krishnan BS, Kinney GG, Lombardo LA, Meanwell NA, Molinoff PB, Myers RA, Moon SL, Ortiz A, Pajor L, Pieschl RL, Post-Munson DJ, Signor LJ, Srinivas N, Taber MT, Thalody G, Trojnacki JT, Wiener H, Yeleswaram K, Yeola SW. Targeting acute ischemic stroke with a calcium-sensitive opener of maxi-K potassium channels. Nat Med 2001; 7:471-7. [PMID: 11283675 DOI: 10.1038/86546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 254] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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During ischemic stroke, neurons at risk are exposed to pathologically high levels of intracellular calcium (Ca++), initiating a fatal biochemical cascade. To protect these neurons, we have developed openers of large-conductance, Ca++-activated (maxi-K or BK) potassium channels, thereby augmenting an endogenous mechanism for regulating Ca++ entry and membrane potential. The novel fluoro-oxindoles BMS-204352 and racemic compound 1 are potent, effective and uniquely Ca++-sensitive openers of maxi-K channels. In rat models of permanent large-vessel stroke, BMS-204352 provided significant levels of cortical neuroprotection when administered two hours after the onset of occlusion, but had no effects on blood pressure or cerebral blood flow. This novel approach may restrict Ca++ entry in neurons at risk while having minimal side effects.
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- V K Gribkoff
- Neuroscience Drug Discovery, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Wallingford, Connecticut, USA.
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Woodruff-Pak DS, Sasse DK, Coffin JM, Haunton-Kreps M, Moon SL. Effect of BMY 21502 on classical conditioning of the eyeblink response in young and older rabbits. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1991; 640:284-9. [PMID: 1776753 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1991.tb00235.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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BMY 21502, a substituted pyrrolidionone, has been found to enhance a simple form of learning in older rabbits. In humans, this simple type of learning, classical conditioning of the eyeblink response, declines in normal aging and is seriously impaired in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We have demonstrated that eyeblink classical conditioning reliably discriminates patients diagnosed with probable AD from non-demented, age-matched elderly subjects. Older organisms can be classically conditioned, but they condition at a much slower rate than younger organisms. Our preliminary analyses indicate age differences in distribution of protein kinase C in the hippocampus. Here we also report that older rabbits that are administered two different doses of BMY 21502 classically condition at a rate approximating that of young rabbits.
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- D S Woodruff-Pak
- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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The desire of the pharmaceutical industry to obtain more selective agents for the treatment of anxiety with fewer or diminished side effects and a profile consistent with safety during long-term use resulted in a search which has identified the azapirones as a new class of anxiolytics which lack structural or biochemical homology with the benzodiazepines. This presentation reviews the efficacy of buspirone (BuSpar), the first of this class to reach wide acceptance, and its analogs, gepirone, ipsapirone, and tandospirone, in the clinical treatment of anxiety and compares their 'anxioselective' profiles to those of the benzodiazepines. The azapirones appear to act as serotonin 5-HT1A partial agonists as they all share high affinity for 5-HT1A binding sites in vitro as well as in anatomical studies. Moreover, their biochemical, electro-physiological, and behavioural actions are consistent with this suggestion. That the serotonergic actions of the azapirones are relevant to their anxiolytic efficacy is suggested by their efficacy in animal models sensitive to other effective anxiolytics as well as their loss of efficacy in such testing following lesions of serotonergic neurons. Thus action upon serotonergic neurotransmission may produce a highly desirable anxioselective profile of effects.
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- D P Taylor
- CNS Biology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Wallingford, CT 06492-7660
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Dopamine receptors were chronically blocked with haloperidol during prenatal development. The treatment resulted in a large decrease in [3H]naloxone binding to striatal opiate receptors and increased [3H]spiperone binding to dopamine receptors with these effects being apparent on the day of birth (P0). The autoradiographically visualized patterns of receptor distribution were unaltered. At 16 days, postnatally (P16), a period that marks the end of the postnatal spurt in brain growth, dopamine receptor binding was still elevated and opiate receptor binding was still diminished. The differential effect of haloperidol on the density and developmental time course of the dopamine and non-dopamine systems suggests that complex developmental interactions normally occur, and that these can be disrupted by maternal administration of neuroleptic drugs.
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