人巨细胞病毒
激活转录因子
生物
小RNA
下调和上调
转录因子
胶质瘤
生物信息学
病毒学
免疫学
细胞生物学
癌症研究
基因
病毒
遗传学
作者
Ming Hu,Yu B,Bingxu Zhang,Bin Wang,Dongmeng Qian,Huanting Li,Junwei Ma,David X Liu
标识
DOI:10.1021/acschemneuro.1c00576
摘要
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) harnesses a cell-specific manner to infect human nervous system cancer cells, establishes a life-long persistent infection without cell death, and modulates signaling pathways associated with cancer. We previously identified that the HCMV immediate-early 2 (IE2-86) protein binds and activates activating transcription factor 5 (ATF5), a survival factor in many tumor cells. In this study, we investigated a new mechanism of stress-induced miRNA regulation at the ATF5 3' UTR under the HCMV infection and other cellular stress conditions. We employed RNA-Seq and in silico analysis to screen stress response gene sets and identify miRNA candidates as potential regulators of ATF5 following HCMV infection. We found that ATF5 and cellular stress response genes were significantly upregulated under HCMV infection and diverse stress conditions. Three downregulated miRNAs were filtrated based on our threshold, and their binding sites for 3' UTR of ATF5 were predicted. Then, luciferase reporter assays were carried out to verify the binding sites for all three miRNA candidates targeting ATF5. However, in vitro validation has shown that miR-134-5p is the only candidate that can reverse the ATF5 protein upregulation under infection and other cell stresses. Additionally, miR-134-5p levels were significantly reduced and inversely related to ATF5 mRNA under HCMV infection. These results provide new evidence that quiescent HCMV infection can trigger a stress response in glioma cells and modulate ATF5 levels by downregulating specific miRNA.
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