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ZFR coordinates crosstalk between RNA decay and transcription in innate immunity.

ABSTRACT: Control of type I interferon production is crucial to combat infection while preventing deleterious inflammatory responses, but the extent of the contribution of post-transcriptional mechanisms to innate immune regulation is unclear. Here, we show that human zinc finger RNA-binding protein (ZFR) represses the interferon response by regulating alternative pre-mRNA splicing. ZFR expression is tightly controlled during macrophage development; monocytes express truncated ZFR isoforms, while macrophages induce full-length ZFR to modulate macrophage-specific alternative splicing. Interferon-stimulated genes are constitutively activated by ZFR depletion, and immunostimulation results in hyper-induction of interferon ? (IFN?/IFNB1). Through whole-genome analyses, we show that ZFR controls interferon signaling by preventing aberrant splicing and nonsense-mediated decay of histone variant macroH2A1/H2AFY mRNAs. Together, our data suggest that regulation of ZFR in macrophage differentiation guards against aberrant interferon responses and reveal a network of mRNA processing and decay that shapes the transcriptional response to infection.

SUBMITTER: Haque N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5861047 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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ZFR coordinates crosstalk between RNA decay and transcription in innate immunity.

Haque Nazmul N Ouda Ryota R Chen Chao C Ozato Keiko K Hogg J Robert JR

Nature communications 20180320 1

Control of type I interferon production is crucial to combat infection while preventing deleterious inflammatory responses, but the extent of the contribution of post-transcriptional mechanisms to innate immune regulation is unclear. Here, we show that human zinc finger RNA-binding protein (ZFR) represses the interferon response by regulating alternative pre-mRNA splicing. ZFR expression is tightly controlled during macrophage development; monocytes express truncated ZFR isoforms, while macropha ...[more]

PMID: 29559679

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ZFR coordinates crosstalk between RNA decay and transcription in innate immunity.

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ZFR coordinates crosstalk between RNA decay and transcription in innate immunity.

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