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MicroRNA-340-mediated degradation of microphthalmia-associated transcription factor mRNA is inhibited by the coding region determinant-binding protein.


ABSTRACT: Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation generate multiple transcript variants of mRNA isoforms with different length of 3'-untranslated region (UTR). Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation enable differential post-transcriptional regulation of transcripts via the availability of different cis-acting elements in 3'-UTRs. Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) is a master regulator of melanocyte development and melanogenesis. It has also been implicated in melanoma development. Here we show that melanoma cells favor the expression of MITF mRNA with shorter 3'-UTR. This isoform of mRNA is regulated by microRNA, miR-340. miR-340 interacts with two of its target sites on the 3'-UTR of MITF mRNA, causing mRNA degradation and decreased expression and activity of MITF. On the other hand, the RNA-binding protein coding region determinant-binding protein, shown to be highly expressed in melanoma, directly binds to the 3'-UTR of MITF mRNA and prevents the binding of miR-340 to its target sites, resulting in stabilization of the MITF transcript and elevated expression and transcriptional activity of MITF. This interplay between RNA-binding protein and miRNA describes the important mechanism of regulation of MITF in melanocytes and malignant melanomas.

SUBMITTER: Goswami S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2898355 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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MicroRNA-340-mediated degradation of microphthalmia-associated transcription factor mRNA is inhibited by the coding region determinant-binding protein.

Goswami Srikanta S   Tarapore Rohinton S RS   Teslaa Jessica J JJ   Grinblat Yevgenya Y   Setaluri Vijayasaradhi V   Spiegelman Vladimir S VS  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20100503 27


Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation generate multiple transcript variants of mRNA isoforms with different length of 3'-untranslated region (UTR). Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation enable differential post-transcriptional regulation of transcripts via the availability of different cis-acting elements in 3'-UTRs. Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) is a master regulator of melanocyte development and melanogenesis. It has also been implicated in melanoma development. H  ...[more]

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