Expression data from miR-27a/b-overexpressing HeLa cells
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ABSTRACT: In infection with an adenovirus, it remains to be clarified whether host miRNAs affect Ad replication. We focused on miR-27 as an miRNA crucial for regulation of Ad infection because miR-27 has been reported to be involved in infection of other viruses, including MCMV and herpesvirus saimiri (HVS). We used microarrays to detail gene expression profiles in miR-27a/b-overexpressing HeLa cells and demonstarted that expression levels of various genes were down- or up-regulated following transfection with miR-27a/b mimics.
Project description:In marmoset T cells transformed by Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS), a viral U-rich noncoding RNA, HSUR 1, specifically mediates degradation of host microRNA-27 (miR-27). High-throughput sequencing of RNA after crosslinking immunoprecipitation (HITS-CLIP) identified mRNAs targeted by miR-27 as enriched in the T-cell receptor (TCR) signaling pathway, including GRB2. Accordingly, transfection of miR-27 into human T cells attenuates TCR-induced activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) and induction of CD69. MiR-27 also robustly regulates SEMA7A and IFN-γ, key modulators and effectors of T-cell function. Knockdown or ectopic expression of HSUR 1 alters levels of these proteins in virally-transformed cells. Two other T-lymphotropic γ-herpesviruses, AlHV-1 and OvHV-2, do not produce a noncoding RNA to downregulate miR-27, but instead encode homologs of miR-27 target genes. Thus, oncogenic γ-herpesviruses have evolved diverse strategies to converge on common targets in host T cells. HVS-transformed marmoset T cells were transfected with ASOs against HSUR 1 or control, or with LNAs against miR-27 or control, in replicates; poly A+ RNAs were selected and sequenced on HiSeq 2000.
Project description:In marmoset T cells transformed by Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS), a viral U-rich noncoding RNA, HSUR 1, specifically mediates degradation of host microRNA-27 (miR-27). High-throughput sequencing of RNA after crosslinking immunoprecipitation (HITS-CLIP) identified mRNAs targeted by miR-27 as enriched in the T-cell receptor (TCR) signaling pathway, including GRB2. Accordingly, transfection of miR-27 into human T cells attenuates TCR-induced activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) and induction of CD69. MiR-27 also robustly regulates SEMA7A and IFN-γ, key modulators and effectors of T-cell function. Knockdown or ectopic expression of HSUR 1 alters levels of these proteins in virally-transformed cells. Two other T-lymphotropic γ-herpesviruses, AlHV-1 and OvHV-2, do not produce a noncoding RNA to downregulate miR-27, but instead encode homologs of miR-27 target genes. Thus, oncogenic γ-herpesviruses have evolved diverse strategies to converge on common targets in host T cells.
Project description:We analyzed gene expression profiles of unstimulated Herpesvirus Saimiri (HVS) transformed T cells (CD4+) of patients harboring a homozygous R335W mutation in the IL-2 inducible T cell kinase (ITK) compared to healthy control HVS cells. We identified a set of 1927 Affymetrix probe sets showing significant misregulation in the ITK deficient cells (Welch's T-test, p<0.05).
Project description:We analyzed gene expression profiles of unstimulated Herpesvirus Saimiri (HVS) transformed T cells (CD4+) of patients harboring a homozygous R335W mutation in the IL-2 inducible T cell kinase (ITK) compared to healthy control HVS cells. We identified a set of 1927 Affymetrix probe sets showing significant misregulation in the ITK deficient cells (Welch's T-test, p<0.05). HVS T cell lines (ITK wt or ITK R335W, each CD4+) from three independent culturing time points were used for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Cytomegaloviruses express large amounts of viral miRNAs during lytic infection, yet, they only modestly alter the cellular miRNA profile. The most prominent alteration upon lytic murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infection is the rapid degradation of the cellular miR-27a and miR-27b. Here, we report that this regulation is mediated by the <1.7 kb spliced and highly abundant MCMV m169 transcript. Specificity to miR-27a/b is mediated by a single, apparently optimized, miRNA binding site located in its 3'-UTR. This site is easily and efficiently retargeted to other cellular and viral miRNAs by target site replacement. Expression of the 3'-UTR of m169 by an adenoviral vector was sufficient to mediate its function, indicating that no other viral factors are essential in this process. Degradation of miR-27a/b was found to be accompanied by 3'-tailing and -trimming. Despite its dramatic effect on miRNA stability, we found this interaction to be mutual, indicating potential regulation of m169 by miR-27a/b. Most interestingly, three mutant viruses no longer able to target miR-27a/b, either due to miRNA target site disruption or target site replacement, showed significant attenuation in multiple organs as early as 4 days post infection, indicating that degradation of miR-27a/b is important for efficient MCMV replication in vivo. Small RNA sequencing from total RNA or Ago2 associated small RNAs extracted from mock- or MCMV-infected NIH-3T3 cells
Project description:Cytomegaloviruses express large amounts of viral miRNAs during lytic infection, yet, they only modestly alter the cellular miRNA profile. The most prominent alteration upon lytic murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infection is the rapid degradation of the cellular miR-27a and miR-27b. Here, we report that this regulation is mediated by the <1.7 kb spliced and highly abundant MCMV m169 transcript. Specificity to miR-27a/b is mediated by a single, apparently optimized, miRNA binding site located in its 3'-UTR. This site is easily and efficiently retargeted to other cellular and viral miRNAs by target site replacement. Expression of the 3'-UTR of m169 by an adenoviral vector was sufficient to mediate its function, indicating that no other viral factors are essential in this process. Degradation of miR-27a/b was found to be accompanied by 3'-tailing and -trimming. Despite its dramatic effect on miRNA stability, we found this interaction to be mutual, indicating potential regulation of m169 by miR-27a/b. Most interestingly, three mutant viruses no longer able to target miR-27a/b, either due to miRNA target site disruption or target site replacement, showed significant attenuation in multiple organs as early as 4 days post infection, indicating that degradation of miR-27a/b is important for efficient MCMV replication in vivo.
Project description:In latently-infected marmoset T cells, Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) expresses six microRNAs (known as miR-HSURs). The viral miR-HSURs are processed from chimeric primary transcripts, each containing a noncoding U-rich RNA (HSUR) and a pre-miRNA hairpin. To uncover functions of miR-HSURs, we identified mRNA targets in infected cells using High-Throughput Sequencing of RNA Isolated by Crosslinking Immunoprecipitation (HITS-CLIP). HITS-CLIP revealed hundreds of robust Argonaute (Ago) binding sites mediated by miR-HSURs in the host genome, but few in the HVS genome. Gene Ontology analysis showed that several pathways regulating the cell cycle are enriched among cellular targets of miR-HSURs. Interestingly, miR-HSUR4-3p represses expression of the p300 transcriptional co-activator by binding the open reading frame of its mRNA. miR-HSUR5-3p directly regulates BiP, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) localized chaperone facilitating maturation of the Major Histocompatibility Complex I (MHC I) and the antiviral response. miR-HSUR5-3p also robustly downregulates WEE1, a key negative regulator of cell-cycle progression, leading to reduced phosphorylation of its substrate cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk1). Consistently, inhibition of miR-HSUR5-3p in HVS-infected cells decreases their proliferation. Together, our results shed light on the roles of viral miRNAs in cellular transformation and viral latency.
Project description:We have recently confirmed miR-27a-3p as a crucial regulator of human adipogenesis (Wu H, Pula T, Tews D, Amri E-Z, Debatin K-M, Wabitsch M, Fischer-Posovszky P, Roos J. microRNA-27a-3p but Not -5p Is a Crucial Mediator of Human Adipogenesis. Cells. 2021; 10(11):3205. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10113205 ). MiR-27a-5p did not impair human adipogenesis. However, since several publications state that miR-27a ist also a crucial regulator of UCP1, we were interested if miR-27a-3p or miR-27a-5p regulatas UCP1 and other thermogenesis related genes. We found a strong regulation of UCP1 with functional relevance for the cellular metabolism by miR-27a-5p.To asesse the mRNA gene expression pattern, mRNA sequencing was performed.
Project description:We used HSUR1 – a small non-coding RNA from Herpesvirus saimiri that induces degradation of host miR-27 – to validate structural insights into target-directed miRNA degradation (TDMD). While performing systematic mutagenesis of HSUR1 we noticed that HSUR1 mutants exhibiting complementarity to the extreme 3' end of miR-27, lead to generation of extended miR-27 isoforms (isomiRs). These isomiRs likely represent failed products of TDMD and could mean that features of the pairing between the TDMD target and miRNA dictate which enzymes are recruited to modify the miRNA 3′ end. Small RNA sequencing revealed that a mixture of adenylates and uridylates is added to the 3′ end of miR-27 during TDMD.
Project description:Gene expression profiling was carried out in Huh-7.5 cells in which miR-27a was over- or under-expressed. Transfection of cells with pre-miR-27a and pre-miR-control, or anti-miR-27a and anti-miR-control enabled down- and up-regulated genes to be determined, respectively. Replication and infectivity of the lipotrophic hepatitis C virus (HCV) is regulated by cellular lipid status. Among differentially expressed micro (mi)RNAs, we found that miR-27a was preferentially expressed in HCV-infected compared with hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected liver. Gene expression profiling of Huh-7.5 cells showed that miR-27a regulates lipid metabolism by targeting the lipid synthetic transcriptional factor, RXRα, and the lipid transporter, ABCA1 Carrying out a Target Scan (Release 5.2) of miR-27a predicted 921 candidate target genes, and functional gene ontology enrichment analysis of these genes by MetaCore (Thomson Reuters, NY) showed that miR-27a could target the signaling pathways of cytoskeleton remodeling and lipid metabolism . To examine whether these signaling pathways were regulated by miR-27a, gene expression profiling was carried out in Huh-7.5 cells in which miR-27a was over- or under-expressed. Transfection of cells with pre-miR-27a and pre-miR-control, or anti-miR-27a and anti-miR-control enabled down- and up-regulated genes to be determined, respectively. Huh-7.5 cells with miR-27a over- or under-expressed