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MicroRNA-570-3p regulates HuR and cytokine expression in airway epithelial cells.

ABSTRACT: Asthma is a chronic lung disease that affects people of all ages and is characterized by high morbidity. The mechanisms of asthma pathogenesis are unclear, and there is a need for development of diagnostic biomarkers and greater understanding of regulation of inflammatory responses in the lung. Post-transcriptional regulation of cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors by the action of microRNAs and RNA-binding proteins on stability or translation of mature transcripts is emerging as a central means of regulating the inflammatory response. In this study, we demonstrate that miR-570-3p expression is increased with TNF? stimuli in normal human bronchial epithelial cells (2.6 ± 0.6, p = 0.01) and the human airway epithelial cell line A549 (4.6 ± 1.4, p = 0.0068), and evaluate the functional effects of its overexpression on predicted mRNA target genes in transfected A549 cells. MiR-570-3p upregulated numerous cytokines and chemokines (CCL4, CCL5, TNF?, and IL-6) and also enhanced their induction by TNF?. For other cytokines (CCL2 and IL-8), the microRNA exhibited an inhibitory effect to repress their upregulation by TNF?. These effects were mediated by a complex pattern of both direct and indirect regulation of downstream targets by miR-570-3p. We also show that the RNA-binding protein HuR is a direct target of miR-570-3p, which has implications for expression of numerous other inflammatory mediators that HuR is known regulate post-transcriptionally. Finally, expression of endogenous miR-570-3p was examined in both serum and exhaled breath condensate (EBC) from asthmatic and healthy patients, and was found to be significantly lower in EBC of asthmatics and inversely correlated to their lung function. These studies implicate miR-570-3p as a potential regulator of asthmatic inflammation with potential as both a diagnostic and therapeutic target in asthma.

SUBMITTER: Roff AN

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4138130 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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MicroRNA-570-3p regulates HuR and cytokine expression in airway epithelial cells.

Roff Alanna N AN Craig Timothy J TJ August Avery A Stellato Cristiana C Ishmael Faoud T FT

American journal of clinical and experimental immunology 20140815 2

Asthma is a chronic lung disease that affects people of all ages and is characterized by high morbidity. The mechanisms of asthma pathogenesis are unclear, and there is a need for development of diagnostic biomarkers and greater understanding of regulation of inflammatory responses in the lung. Post-transcriptional regulation of cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors by the action of microRNAs and RNA-binding proteins on stability or translation of mature transcripts is emerging as a central ...[more]

PMID: 25143867

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MicroRNA-570-3p regulates HuR and cytokine expression in airway epithelial cells.

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MicroRNA-570-3p regulates HuR and cytokine expression in airway epithelial cells.

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