Post-transcriptional modulation of protein phosphatase PPP2CA and tumor suppressor PTEN by endogenous siRNA cleaved from hairpin within PTEN mRNA 3'UTR in human liver cells

AIM: Increasing evidence shows that mRNAs exert regulatory function along with coding proteins. Recently we report that a hairpin within YAP mRNA 3'UTR can modulate the Hippo signaling pathway. PTEN is a tumor suppressor, and is mutated in human cancers. In this study we examined whether PTEN mRNA 3'UTR contained a hairpin structure that could regulate gene regulation at the post-transcriptional level.

METHODS: The secondary structure of PTEN mRNA 3'UTR was analyzed using RNAdraw and RNAstructure. Function of hairpin structure derived from the PTEN mRNA 3'UTR was examined using luciferase reporter assay, RT-PCR and Western blotting. RNA-immunoprecipitation (RIP) assay was used to analyze the interaction between PTEN mRNA and microprocessor Drosha and DGCR8. Endogenous siRNA (esiRNA) derived from PTEN mRNA 3'UTR was identified by RT-PCR and rt-PCR, and its target genes were predicted using RNAhybrid.

RESULTS: A bioinformatics analysis revealed that PTEN mRNA contained a hairpin structure (termed PTEN-sh) within 3'UTR, which markedly increased the reporter activities of AP-1 and NF-κB in 293T cells. Moreover, treatment with PTEN-sh (1 and 2 μg) dose-dependently inhibited the expression of PTEN in human liver L-O2 cells. RIP assay demonstrated that the microprocessor Drosha and DGCR8 was bound to PTEN-sh in L-O2 cells, leading to the cleavage of PTEN-sh from PTEN mRNA 3'UTR. In addition, microprocessor Dicer was involved in the processing of PTEN-sh. Interestingly, esiRNA (termed PTEN-sh-3p21) cleaved from PTEN-sh was identified in 293T cells and human liver tissues, which was found to target the mRNA 3'UTRs of protein phosphatase PPP2CA and PTEN in L-O2 cells. Treatment of L-O2 or Chang liver cells with PTEN-sh-3p21 (50, 100 nmol/L) promoted the cell proliferation in dose- and time-dependent manners.

CONCLUSION: The endogenous siRNA (PTEN-sh-3p21) cleaved from PTEN-sh within PTEN mRNA 3'UTR modulates PPP2CA and PTEN at the post-transcriptional level in liver cells.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37

Enthalten in:

Acta pharmacologica Sinica - 37(2016), 7 vom: 25. Juli, Seite 898-907

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gao, Yu-En [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Fu-Quan [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Jin-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Guang [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Guo-Xing [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Zhe [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Li-Hong [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiao-Dong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3' Untranslated Regions
DEAD-box RNA Helicases
DGCR8 protein, human
DICER1 protein, human
DROSHA protein, human
EC 3.1.26.3
EC 3.1.3.16
EC 3.1.3.67
EC 3.6.4.13
Journal Article
PPP2CA protein, human
PTEN Phosphohydrolase
PTEN protein, human
Protein Phosphatase 2
RNA, Small Interfering
RNA-Binding Proteins
Ribonuclease III

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Date Completed 02.08.2017

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/aps.2016.18

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM259911496