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Inflammation potentiates miR-939 expression and packaging into small extracellular vesicles
1 December, 2019
Extracellular RNA in circulation mediates intercellular communication in normal and pathological processes. One mode of circulating miRNA transport in bodily fluids is within 30–150 nm small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) or exosomes. Uptake of sEVs can regulate gene expression in recipient cells enabling circulating miRNAs to exert paracrine and systemic effects. Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a debilitating pain disorder characterized by chronic inflammation. Our previous investigations identified a significant decrease of hsa-miR-939 in whole blood from CRPS patients compared to control; we also observed that overexpression of miR-939 can negatively regulate several proinflammatory genes _in vitro_. Though downregulated in whole blood, miR-939 was significantly upregulated in sEVs isolated from patient serum. Here we investigated miR-939 packaging into sEVs _in vitro_ under inflammation induced by monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), a chemokine that is upregulated in CRPS patients. Stimulation of THP-1 monocytes by MCP-1 led to elevated levels of miR-939 in sEVs, which was abrogated using inhibitors of exosome secretion. miRNAs loaded into exosomes largely contain short miRNA sequence motifs called EXOmotifs. Mutation analysis of miR-939 showed that EXOmotif is one of the possible cellular mechanisms responsible for packaging miR-939 into sEVs. We confirmed gene expression changes in recipient cells following the uptake of sEVs enriched in miR-939 using RNA sequencing. Additionally, our data from primary immune cell-derived sEVs of CRPS patients and controls demonstrate that while the relative expression of miR-939 is higher in sEVs derived from B cells, T cells and NK cells relative to monocyte-derived sEVs in controls, only the B cell-derived sEVs showed a significantly higher level of miR-939 in CRPS patients. Differential miRNA sorting into exosomes and its functional impact on recipient cells may contribute to the underlying pathophysiology of CRPS.
Pages: 1650595 doi: 10.1080/20013078.2019.1650595
The CRISPR-Cas9 crADSL HeLa transcriptome: A first step in establishing a model for ADSL deficiency and SAICAR accumulation
1 December, 2019
Adenylosuccinate lyase (ADSL) catalyzes two steps in de novo purine synthesis (DNPS). Mutations in ADSL can result in inborn errors of metabolism characterized by developmental delay and disorder phenotypes, with no effective treatment options. Recently, SAICAR, a metabolic substrate of ADSL, has been found to have alternative roles in the cell, complicating the role of ADSL. crADSL, a CRISPR KO of ADSL in HeLa cells, was constructed to investigate DNPS and ADSL in a human cell line. Here we employ this cell line in an RNA-seq analysis to initially investigate the effect of DNPS and ADSL deficiency on the transcriptome as a first step in establishing a cellular model of ADSL deficiency. We report transcriptome changes in genes relevant to development, vascular development, muscle, and cancer biology, which provide interesting avenues for future research.
Pages: 100512 doi: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2019.100512
Non-coding RNA Neat1 and Abhd11os expressions are dysregulated in medium spiny neurons of Huntington disease model mice
1 October, 2019
Huntington Disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by expanded CAG repeats in the exon1 of huntingtin gene (HTT). The mutant HTT affects the transcriptional profile of neurons by disrupting the activities of transcriptional machinery and alters expression of many genes. In this study, we identified dysregulated non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in medium spiny neurons of 4-week-old HD model mouse. Also, we observed the intracellular localizations of Abhd11os and Neat1 ncRNAs by ViewRNA in situ hybridization, which could provide more precise detection, suggesting that it is a useful method to investigate the expression changes of genes with low expression levels.
Pages: 58-63 doi: 10.1016/j.neures.2018.10.013
A Compendium of Promoter-Centered Long-Range Chromatin Interactions in the Human Genome
1 October, 2019
A large number of putative cis-regulatory sequences have been annotated in the human genome, but the genes they control remain to be defined. To bridge this gap, we generate maps of long-range chromatin interactions centered on 18,943 wellannotated promoters for protein-coding genes in 27 human cell/tissue types. We use this information to infer the target genes of 70,329 candidate regulatory elements, and suggest potential regulatory function for 27,325 non-coding sequence variants associated with 2,117 physiological traits and diseases. Integrative analysis of these promoter-centered interactome maps reveals widespread enhancer-like promoters involved in gene regulation and common molecular pathways underlying distinct groups of human traits and diseases.
Pages: 1-71
Redistribution of EC-SOD resolves bleomycin-induced inflammation via increased apoptosis of recruited alveolar macrophages
27 September, 2019
A human single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the matrix-binding domain of extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD), with arginine to glycine substitution at position 213 (R213G), redistributes EC-SOD from the matrix into extracellular fluids. We reported that, following bleomycin (bleo), knockin mice harboring the human R213G SNP (R213G mice) exhibit enhanced resolution of inflammation and protection against fibrosis, compared with wild-type (WT) littermates. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the EC-SOD R213G SNP promotes resolution via accelerated apoptosis of recruited alveolar macrophage (AM). RNA sequencing and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis 7 d postbleo in recruited AM implicated increased apoptosis and blunted inflammatory responses in the R213G strain exhibiting accelerated resolution. We validated that the percentage of apoptosis was significantly elevated in R213G recruited AM vs. WT at 3 and 7 d postbleo in vivo. Recruited AM numbers were also significantly decreased in R213G mice vs. WT at 3 and 7 d postbleo. ChaC glutathione-specific gamma-glutamylcyclotransferase 1 (Chac1), a proapoptotic γ-glutamyl cyclotransferase that depletes glutathione, was increased in the R213G recruited AM. Overexpression of Chac1 in vitro induced apoptosis of macrophages and was blocked by administration of cell-permeable glutathione. In summary, we provide new evidence that redistributed EC-SOD accelerates the resolution of inflammation through redox-regulated mechanisms that increase recruited AM apoptosis.
Pages: fj201901038RR doi: 10.1096/fj.201901038RR