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The Polyadenosine RNA-binding Protein, Zinc Finger Cys(3)His Protein 14 (ZC3H14), Regulates the Pre-mRNA Processing of a Key ATP Synthase Subunit mRNA

by Callie P. Wigington; Kevin J. Morris; Laura E. Newman; Anita Corbett

2016

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  • Chemistry, Biochemistry
  • Biology, Cell
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Polyadenosine RNA-binding proteins (Pabs) regulate multiple steps in gene expression. This protein family includes the well studied Pabs, PABPN1 and PABPC1, as well as the newly characterized Pab, zinc finger CCCH-type containing protein 14 (ZC3H14). Mutations in ZC3H14 are linked to a form of intellectual disability. To probe the function of ZC3H14, we performed a transcriptome-wide analysis of cells depleted of either ZC3H14 or the control Pab, PABPN1. Depletion of PABPN1 affected - 17% of expressed transcripts, whereas ZC3H14 affected only - 1% of expressed transcripts. To assess the function of ZC3H14 in modulating target mRNAs, we selected the gene encoding the ATP synthase F 0 subunit C (ATP5G1) transcript. Knockdown of ZC3H14 significantly reduced ATP5G1 steady-state mRNA levels. Consistent with results suggesting that ATP5G1 turnover increases upon depletion of ZC3H14, double knockdown of ZC3H14 and the nonsense-mediated decay factor, UPF1, rescues ATP5G1 transcript levels. Furthermore, fractionation reveals an increase in the amount of ATP5G1 pre-mRNA that reaches the cytoplasm when ZC3H14 is depleted and that ZC3H14 binds to ATP5G1 pre-mRNA in the nucleus. These data support a role for ZC3H14 in ensuring proper nuclear processing and retention of ATP5G1 pre-mRNA. Consistent with the observation that ATP5G1 is a rate-limiting component for ATP synthase activity, knockdown of ZC3H14 decreases cellular ATP levels and causes mitochondrial fragmentation. These data suggest that ZC3H14 modulates pre-mRNA processing of select mRNA transcripts and plays a critical role in regulating cellular energy levels, observations that have broad implications for proper neuronal function.

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Purification of bacteriophage lambda repressor

by Ning Gao; Keith Shearwin; John Mack; Laura Finzi; David Dunlap

2013

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  • Biology, Molecular
  • Biology, Cell
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Bacteriophage lambda repressor controls the lysogeny/lytic growth switch after infection of E. coli by lambda phage. In order to study in detail the looping of DNA mediated by the protein, tag-free repressor and a loss-of-cooperativity mutant were expressed in E.coli and purified by (1) ammonium sulfate fractionation, (2) anion-exchange chromatography and (3) heparin affinity chromatography. This method employs more recently developed and readily available chromatography resins to produce highly pure protein in good yield. In tethered particle motion looping assays and atomic force microscopy "footprinting" assays, both the wild-type protein and a C-terminal His-tagged variant, purified using immobilized metal affinity chromatography, bound specifically to high affinity sites to mediate loop formation. In contrast the G147D loss-of-cooperativity mutant bound specifically but did not secure loops.

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Protein phosphatase 2A is crucial for sarcomere organization in Caenorhabditis elegans striated muscle

by Hiroshi Qadota; Yohei Matsunaga; Pritha Bagchi; Karen I. Lange; Karma J. Carrier; William Vander Pols; Emily Swartzbaugh; Kristy J. Wilson; Martin Srayko; David Pallas; Guy Benian

2018

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Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) is a heterotrimer composed of single catalytic and scaffolding subunits and one of several possible regulatory subunits. We identified PPTR-2, a regulatory subunit of PP2A, as a binding partner for the giant muscle protein UNC-89 (obscurin) in Caenorhabditis elegans. PPTR-2 is required for sarcomere organization when its paralogue, PPTR-1, is deficient. PPTR-2 localizes to the sarcomere at dense bodies and M-lines, colocalizing with UNC-89 at M-lines. PP2A components in C. elegans include one catalytic subunit LET-92, one scaffolding subunit (PAA-1), and five regulatory subunits (SUR-6, PPTR-1, PPTR-2, RSA-1, and CASH-1). In adult muscle, loss of function in any of these subunits results in sarcomere disorganization. rsa-1 mutants show an interesting phenotype: One of the two myosin heavy chains, MHC A, localizes as closely spaced double lines rather than single lines. This "double line" phenotype is found in rare missense mutants of the head domain of MHC B myosin, such as unc-54(s74). Analysis of phosphoproteins in the unc-54(s74) mutant revealed two additional phosphoserines in the nonhelical tailpiece of MHC A. Antibodies localize PPTR-1, PAA-1, and SUR-6 to I-bands and RSA-1 to M-lines and I-bands. Therefore, PP2A localizes to sarcomeres and functions in the assembly or maintenance of sarcomeres.

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Altered Inflammatory Responses to Citrobacter rodentium Infection, but not Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide, in Mice Lacking the Cyp4a10 or Cyp4a14 Genes

by Beatrice A. Nyagode; Ifor Williams; Edward T Morgan

2014

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  • Biology, Cell
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Murine hepatic Cyp4a mRNAs are markedly downregulated during inflammation. Here, we investigated the roles of Cyp4a10 and Cyp4a14 in the response to infection with C. rodentium. Absence of either Cyp4a gene attenuated or abrogated the changes in spleen weight, colon crypt length, hepatic cytokine, and acute phase protein mRNAs, and serum acute phase proteins and cytokines caused by infection. Cyp4a10-/- mice on a low-salt diet had a similar hepatic acute phase response as those mice on a high-salt diet, suggesting that hypertension associated with this genotype is not the cause of their altered inflammatory response. In contrast, wild-type, Cyp4a10-/-, and Cyp4a14-/- mice showed similar responses to injected LPS. These results implicate Cyp4a10 and Cyp4a14 in the regulation of the host inflammatory response to enteropathogenic bacterial infection but not to acute aseptic inflammation. Understanding the mechanism of this role may lead to novel therapeutic approaches in some inflammatory diseases.

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Myofibroblast proliferation and heterogeneity are supported by macrophages during skin repair

by Brett A. Shook; Renee R. Wasko; Guillermo C. Rivera-Gonzalez; Emilio Salazar-Gatzimas; Francesc Lopez-Giraldez; Biraja C. Dash; Andres R. Munoz-Rojas; Krystal D. Aultman; Rachel K. Zwick; Vivian Lei; Jack Arbiser; Kathryn Miller-Jensen; Damon A. Clark; Henry C. Hsia; Valerie Horsley

2018

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  • Biology, Cell
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During tissue repair, myofibroblasts produce extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules for tissue resilience and strength. Altered ECM deposition can lead to tissue dysfunction and disease. Identification of distinct myofibroblast subsets is necessary to develop treatments for these disorders.We analyzed profibrotic cells during mouse skin wound healing, fibrosis, and aging and identified distinct subpopulations of myofibroblasts, including adipocyte precursors (APs). Multiple mouse models and transplantation assays demonstrate that proliferation of APs but not other myofibroblasts is activated by CD301b-expressing macrophages through insulin-like growth factor 1 and platelet-derived growth factor C. With age, wound bed APs and differential gene expression between myofibroblast subsets are reduced. Our findings identify multiple fibrotic cell populations and suggest that the environment dictates functional myofibroblast heterogeneity, which is driven by fibroblast-immune interactions after wounding.

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Acute Liver Damage Associated with Innate Immune Activation in a Small Nonhuman Primate Model of Hepacivirus Infection

by Cordelia Manickam; Premeela Rajakumar; Lynn Wachtman; Joshua A. Kramer; Amanda J. Martinot; Valerie Varner; Luis D. Giavedoni; R. Keith Reeves

2016

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  • Health Sciences, Immunology
  • Biology, Virology
  • Biology, Cell
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Despite its importance in shaping adaptive immune responses, viral clearance, and immune-based inflammation, tissue-specific innate immunity remains poorly characterized for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection due to the lack of access to acutely infected tissues. In this study, we evaluated the impact of natural killer (NK) cells and myeloid (mDCs) and plasmacytoid (pDCs) dendritic cells on control of virus replication and virus-induced pathology caused by another, more rapidly resolving hepacivirus, GB virus B (GBV-B), in infections of common marmosets. High plasma and liver viral loads and robust hepatitis characterized acute GBV-B infection, and while viremia was generally cleared by 2 to 3 months postinfection, hepatitis and liver fibrosis persisted after clearance. Coinciding with peak viral loads and liver pathology, the levels of NK cells, mDCs, and pDCs in the liver increased up to 3-fold. Although no obvious numerical changes in peripheral innate cells occurred, circulating NK cells exhibited increased perforin and Ki67 expression levels and increased surface expression of CXCR3. These data suggested that increased NK cell arming and proliferation as well as tissue trafficking may be associated with influx into the liver during acute infection. Indeed, NK cell frequencies in the liver positively correlated with plasma (R = 0.698; P = 0.015) and liver (R = 0.567; P = 0.057) viral loads. Finally, soluble factors associated with NK cells and DCs, including gamma interferon (IFN-γ) and RANTES, were increased in acute infection and also were associated with viral loads and hepatitis. Collectively, the findings showed that mobilization of local and circulating innate immune responses was linked to acute virus-induced hepatitis, and potentially to resolution of GBV-B infection, and our results may provide insight into similar mechanisms in HCV infection.

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Nuclear Factor Kappa B Signaling Initiates Early Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells

by Yonggang Zhang; Jianjun Liu; Shaohua Yao; Fang Li; Lin Xin; Mowen Lai; Valerie Bracchi-Ricard; Hong Xu; William Yen; Wentong Meng; Shu Liu; Leiting Yang; Shaffiat Karmally; Jin Liu; Hongyan Zhu; Jennifer Gordon; Kamel Khalili; Shanthi Srinivasan; John R. Bethea; Xianming Mo; Wenhui Hu

2012

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  • Biology, Neuroscience
  • Biology, Cell
  • Biology, Microbiology
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Inflammatory mediators, many of which activate the signaling of nuclear factor kappa B (NFκB), have received increasing attention in the field of neurogenesis. NFκB signaling regulates neurite outgrowth and neural plasticity as well as the proliferation/apoptosis and terminal differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs). Early neurogenesis from NSCs produces identical progeny through symmetric division and committed daughter cells through asymmetric division. Here, we show that NFκB signaling is required for NSC initial differentiation. The canonical IKKβ/IκBα/ p65 pathway is activated during the initial stages of neural differentiation induced by treatment with TNFα or withdrawal of epidermal growth factor/basic fibroblast growth factor. NSC-specific inhibition of NFκB in transgenic mice causes an accumulation of Nestin+/Sox2+/glial fibrillary acidic protein+NSCs. Inhibition of NFκB signaling in vitro blocks differentiation and asymmetric division and maintains NSCs in an undifferentiated state. The induction of initial differentiation and asymmetry by NFκB signaling occurs through the inhibition of C/EBPβ expression. Our data reveal a novel function of NFκB signaling in early neurogenesis and provide insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.

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Biophysical subsets of embryonic stem cells display distinct phenotypic and morphological signatures

by Tom Bongiorno; Jeremy Gura; Priyanka Talwar; Dwight Chambers; Katherine M. Young; Dwight Arafat; Gonghao Wang; Emily L. Jackson-Holmes; Peng Qiu; Todd McDevitt; Todd Sulchek

2018

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  • Engineering, Biomedical
  • Biology, Molecular
  • Biology, Cell
  • Engineering, Mechanical
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The highly proliferative and pluripotent characteristics of embryonic stem cells engender great promise for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, but the rapid identification and isolation of target cell phenotypes remains challenging. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to characterize cell mechanics as a function of differentiation and to employ differences in cell stiffness to select population subsets with distinct mechanical, morphological, and biological properties. Biomechanical analysis with atomic force microscopy revealed that embryonic stem cells stiffened within one day of differentiation induced by leukemia inhibitory factor removal, with a lagging but pronounced change from spherical to spindle-shaped cell morphology. A microfluidic device was then employed to sort a differentially labeled mixture of pluripotent and differentiating cells based on stiffness, resulting in pluripotent cell enrichment in the soft device outlet. Furthermore, sorting an unlabeled population of partially differentiated cells produced a subset of “soft” cells that was enriched for the pluripotent phenotype, as assessed by post-sort characterization of cell mechanics, morphology, and gene expression. The results of this study indicate that intrinsic cell mechanical properties might serve as a basis for efficient, high-throughput, and label-free isolation of pluripotent stem cells, which will facilitate a greater biological understanding of pluripotency and advance the potential of pluripotent stem cell differentiated progeny as cell sources for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

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SPR-5 and MET-2 function cooperatively to reestablish an epigenetic ground state during passage through the germ line

by Shana C. Kerr; Chelsey Chandler Ruppersburg; Joshua W. Francis; David Katz

2014

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  • Chemistry, Biochemistry
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The Caenorhabditis elegans LSD1 H3K4me2 demethylase SPR-5 reprograms epigenetic transcriptional memory during passage through the germ line. Here we show that mutants in the H3K9me2 methyltransferase, met-2, result in transgenerational epigenetic effects that parallel spr-5 mutants. In addition, we find that spr-5;met-2 double mutants have a synergistic effect on sterility, H3K4me2, and spermatogenesis expression. These results implicate MET-2 as a second histone-modifying enzyme in germ-line reprogramming and suggest a model in which SPR-5 and MET-2 function cooperatively to reestablish an epigenetic ground state required for the continued immortality of the C. elegans germ line.Without SPR-5 and MET-2,we find that the ability to express spermatogenesis genes is transgenerationally passed on to the somatic cells of the subsequent generation. This indicates that H3K4me2 may act in the maintenance of cell fate. Finally, we demonstrate that reducing H3K4me2 causes a large increase in H3K9me2 added by the SPR-5;MET-2 reprogramming mechanism. This finding suggests a novel histone code interaction in which the input chromatin environment dictates the output chromatin state. Taken together, our results provide evidence for a broader reprogramming mechanism in which multiple enzymes coordinately regulate histone information during passage through the germ line.

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The Caenorhabditis elegans paxillin orthologue, PXL-1, is required for pharyngeal muscle contraction and for viability

by Adam Warner; Hiroshi Qadota; Guy Benian; A. Wayne Vogl; Donald G. Moerman

2011

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  • Biology, Cell
  • Health Sciences, Pathology
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We have identified the gene C28H8.6 (pxl-1) as the Caenorhabditis elegans orthologue of vertebrate paxillin. PXL-1 contains the four C-terminal LIM domains conserved in paxillin across all species and three of the five LD motifs found in the N-terminal half of most paxillins. In body wall muscle, PXL-1 antibodies and a full-length green fluorescent protein translational fusion localize to adhesion sites in the sarcomere, the functional repeat unit in muscle responsible for contraction. PXL-1 also localizes to ring-shaped structures near the sarcolemma in pharyngeal muscle corresponding to podosome-like sites of actin attachment. Our analysis of a loss-of-function allele of pxl-1, ok1483, shows that loss of paxillin leads to early larval arrested animals with paralyzed pharyngeal muscles and eventual lethality, presumably due to an inability to feed. We rescued the mutant phenotype by expressing paxillin solely in the pharynx and found that these animals survived and are essentially wild type in movement and body wall muscle structure. This indicates a differential requirement for paxillin in these two types of muscle. In pharyngeal muscle it is essential for contraction, whereas in body wall muscle it is dispensable for filament assembly, sarcomere stability, and ultimately movement.
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