Publication Date:
2014-05-13
Description:
The global shortening of messenger RNAs through alternative polyadenylation (APA) that occurs during enhanced cellular proliferation represents an important, yet poorly understood mechanism of regulated gene expression. The 3' untranslated region (UTR) truncation of growth-promoting mRNA transcripts that relieves intrinsic microRNA- and AU-rich-element-mediated repression has been observed to correlate with cellular transformation; however, the importance to tumorigenicity of RNA 3'-end-processing factors that potentially govern APA is unknown. Here we identify CFIm25 as a broad repressor of proximal poly(A) site usage that, when depleted, increases cell proliferation. Applying a regression model on standard RNA-sequencing data for novel APA events, we identified at least 1,450 genes with shortened 3' UTRs after CFIm25 knockdown, representing 11% of significantly expressed mRNAs in human cells. Marked increases in the expression of several known oncogenes, including cyclin D1, are observed as a consequence of CFIm25 depletion. Importantly, we identified a subset of CFIm25-regulated APA genes with shortened 3' UTRs in glioblastoma tumours that have reduced CFIm25 expression. Downregulation of CFIm25 expression in glioblastoma cells enhances their tumorigenic properties and increases tumour size, whereas CFIm25 overexpression reduces these properties and inhibits tumour growth. These findings identify a pivotal role of CFIm25 in governing APA and reveal a previously unknown connection between CFIm25 and glioblastoma tumorigenicity.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4128630/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4128630/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Masamha, Chioniso P -- Xia, Zheng -- Yang, Jingxuan -- Albrecht, Todd R -- Li, Min -- Shyu, Ann-Bin -- Li, Wei -- Wagner, Eric J -- CA166274/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA167752/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM046454/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM046454/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG007538/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01HG007538/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 Jun 19;510(7505):412-6. doi: 10.1038/nature13261. Epub 2014 May 11.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [2]. ; 1] Division of Biostatistics, Dan L Duncan Cancer Center and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, 77030 Texas, USA [2]. ; The Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Division of Biostatistics, Dan L Duncan Cancer Center and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, 77030 Texas, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24814343" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
3' Untranslated Regions
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Animals
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Carcinogenesis/*genetics/metabolism
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Cell Line
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Cell Line, Tumor
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Cell Proliferation
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Gene Expression Profiling
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*Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
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Gene Knockdown Techniques
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Glioblastoma/*physiopathology
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HeLa Cells
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Heterografts
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Humans
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Male
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Mice
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*Polyadenylation
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RNA, Messenger/*metabolism
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Regression Analysis
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mRNA Cleavage and Polyadenylation Factors/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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