生物
细胞生物学
染色质免疫沉淀
肌成纤维细胞
分子生物学
自噬
转录因子
染色质
癌症研究
纤维化
基因表达
发起人
基因
细胞凋亡
遗传学
病理
医学
作者
Jinjin Zhang,Haixia Wang,Hongbin Chen,Hongbo Li,Pan Xu,Bo Liu,Qian Zhang,Changjun Lv,Xiaodong Song
出处
期刊:Autophagy
[Informa]
日期:2022-04-15
卷期号:18 (11): 2636-2655
被引量:26
标识
DOI:10.1080/15548627.2022.2046448
摘要
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by lung scarring and has no effective treatment. Fibroblast-to-myofibroblast differentiation and myofibroblast proliferation and migration are major clinical manifestations of this disease; hence, blocking these processes is a practical treatment strategy. Here, highly upregulated LINC00941/lncIAPF was found to accelerate pulmonary fibrosis by promoting fibroblast-to-myofibroblast differentiation and myofibroblast proliferation and migration. Assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing and chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments elucidated that histone 3 lysine 27 acetylation (H3K27ac) activated the chromosome region opening in the LINC00941 promoter. As a consequence, the transcription factor ATF3 (activating transcription factor 3) bound to this region, and LINC00941 transcription was enhanced. RNA affinity isolation, RNA immunoprecipitation (RIP), RNase-RIP, half-life analysis, and ubiquitination experiments unveiled that LINC00941 formed a RNA-protein complex with ELAVL1/HuR (ELAV like RNA binding protein 1) to exert its pro-fibrotic function. Dual-fluorescence mRFP-GFP-MAP1LC3/LC3 (microtubule associated protein 1 light chain 3) adenovirus monitoring technology, human autophagy RT2 profiler PCR array, and autophagic flux revealed that the LINC00941-ELAVL1 axis inhibited autophagosome fusion with a lysosome. ELAVL1 RIP-seq, RIP-PCR, mRNA stability, and rescue experiments showed that the LINC00941-ELAVL1 complex inhibited autophagy by controlling the stability of the target genes EZH2 (enhancer of zeste 2 polycomb repressive complex 2 subunit), STAT1 (signal transducer and activators of transcription 1) and FOXK1 (forkhead box K1). Finally, the therapeutic effect of LINC00941 was confirmed in a mouse model and patients with IPF. This work provides a therapeutic target and a new effective therapeutic strategy related to autophagy for IPF.
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