Project description:Recent studies have indicated important roles for long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) as potential essential regulators of myogenesis and adult skeletal muscle regeneration. However, in vivo, the role and mechanism of lncRNAs in myogenic differentiation of adult skeletal muscle stem cells (MuSCs) and myogenesis are still largely unknown. Here, we identified a skeletal muscle specific-enriched lncRNA (myogenesis-associated lncRNA, short for lnc-mg). In vivo, skeletal muscle conditional knockout of lnc-mg resulted in muscle atrophy and the loss of muscular endurance during exercise. Alternatively, skeletal muscle-specific overexpression of lnc-mg promoted muscle hypertrophy in mice. In vitro analyses of primary skeletal muscle cells isolated from mice showed that expression of lnc-mg was increased gradually during myogenic differentiation and overexpressed lnc-mg improved cell differentiation. Mechanistically, lnc-mg promoted myogenesis, by functioning as a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) for miR-125b to control protein abundance of Igf2. These findings identify lnc-mg as a novel and important noncoding regulator for muscle cell differentiation and skeletal muscle development. In order to identify functional lncRNAs correlating with myogenesis, microarrays were performed to detect the lncRNAs expression profile in undifferentiated MuSCs (GM, growth media/GM) ) and differentiated MuSCs (DM, differentiation media/DM).
Project description:Recent studies have indicated important roles for long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) as potential essential regulators of myogenesis and adult skeletal muscle regeneration. However, in vivo, the role and mechanism of lncRNAs in myogenic differentiation of adult skeletal muscle stem cells (MuSCs) and myogenesis are still largely unknown. Here, we identified a skeletal muscle specific-enriched lncRNA (myogenesis-associated lncRNA, short for lnc-mg). In vivo, skeletal muscle conditional knockout of lnc-mg resulted in muscle atrophy and the loss of muscular endurance during exercise. Alternatively, skeletal muscle-specific overexpression of lnc-mg promoted muscle hypertrophy in mice. In vitro analyses of primary skeletal muscle cells isolated from mice showed that expression of lnc-mg was increased gradually during myogenic differentiation and overexpressed lnc-mg improved cell differentiation. Mechanistically, lnc-mg promoted myogenesis, by functioning as a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) for miR-125b to control protein abundance of Igf2. These findings identify lnc-mg as a novel and important noncoding regulator for muscle cell differentiation and skeletal muscle development. In order to test the hypothesis that lnc-mg may function as a ceRNA leading to the liberation of corresponding miRNA-targeted transcripts, microarrays were performed to detect miRNAs expression in lnc-mg overexpression and lnc-mg knockdown C2C12 cells.
Project description:Recent studies indicate important roles for long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) as essential regulators of myogenesis and adult skeletal muscle regeneration. However, the specific roles of lncRNAs in myogenic differentiation of adult skeletal muscle stem cells and myogenesis are still largely unknown. Here we identify a lncRNA that is specifically enriched in skeletal muscle (myogenesis-associated lncRNA, in short, lnc-mg). In mice, conditional knockout of lnc-mg in skeletal muscle results in muscle atrophy and the loss of muscular endurance during exercise. Alternatively, skeletal muscle-specific overexpression of lnc-mg promotes muscle hypertrophy. In vitro analysis of primary skeletal muscle cells shows that lnc-mg increases gradually during myogenic differentiation and its overexpression improves cell differentiation. Mechanistically, lnc-mg promotes myogenesis, by functioning as a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) for microRNA-125b to control protein abundance of insulin-like growth factor 2. These findings identify lnc-mg as a novel noncoding regulator for muscle cell differentiation and skeletal muscle development.
Project description:To seek the function of lnc-FANCI-2 in high-risk HPV infected cancer cells, we knocked out lnc-FANCI-2 in CaSki cells (HPV16 positive) using CRISPR/Cas9 system.
Project description:Cytoplasmic long non coding RNAs have been shown to act at many different levels to control post-transcriptional gene expression; though their role in translational control is still poorly understood. Here we show that lnc-31 is a translational activator of Rock1, a negative regulator of myogenesis which prevents the exit of myoblasts from the cell cycle. This activity well correlates with the described role of lnc-31 in supporting myoblast proliferation. We show that lnc-31 binds the translational regulator YB-1 and targets the Rock1 mRNA by direct base pair interaction. We present evidences that lnc-31 stabilizes YB-1 on the Rock1 mRNA; this effect would in turn allow the YB-1-dependent remodelling of the Rock1 5’UTR and the promotion of its translation.
Project description:Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are transposable elements that cause host genome instability and usually play deleterious roles such as tumorigenesis. Recent advances also suggest that this 'enemy within' may encode viral mimic to induce antiviral immune responses through viral sensors. Here, through whole genome RNA-seq we discovered a full-length ERV-derived long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), designated lnc-EPAV (ERV-derived lncRNA positively regulates antiviral responses), as a positive regulator of NF-κB signaling. Lnc-EPAV expression was rapidly up-regulated by viral RNA mimic or RNA viruses to facilitate the expression of RELA, an NF-κB subunit that plays a critical role in antiviral responses. In turn, RELA promoted the transcription of lnc-EPAV to form a positive feedback loop. Transcriptome analysis of lnc-EPAV-silenced macrophages, combined with gain- and loss-of-function experiments, showed that lnc-EPAV was critical for induction of type I interferon (IFN) and inflammatory cytokine expression by RNA viruses. Consistently, lnc-EPAV-deficient mice exhibited reduced expression of type I IFNs, and consequently increased viral loads and mortality following lethal RNA virus infection. Mechanistically, lnc-EPAV promoted expression of RELA by competitively binding to and displacing SFPQ, a transcriptional repressor of RELA. The binding between ERV-derived RNAs and SFPQ also existed in human cells. Altogether, our work demonstrates an alternative mechanism by which ERVs regulate antiviral immune responses.
Project description:Congenital heart defect (CHD) is the most common birth defect worldwide. Copy number variations (CNVs) have been revealed as an important source of pathogenic factor of CHD. 22q11.2 deletion syndrome is the most common microdeletion disorder which has been frequently associated with conotruncal malformations. By now, the dosage sensitive geneTBX1 has been adopted as the major pathogenic gene responsible for 22q11.2 deletion-related heart defects. Here we report the lncRNA lnc-TSSK2-8, which is encompassed in the 22q11.2 region, could activate the canonical Wnt/ -catenin signaling by protecting -catenin from ubiquitination and degradation. Such effects were mediated by two short heat shock proteins HSPA6 and CRYAB, whose expression were regulated by lnc-TSSK2-8 through the ceRNA mechanism. In clinical practice, pathogenesis of CNV were always attributed to haploinsufficiency of protein coding genes. Here we report the 22q11.2 lncRNA lnc-TSSK2-8 significantly activate canonical Wnt/ -catenin signaling, which has major roles in cardiac out flow tract development and should act upstream of TBX1. Our results suggested that lncRNAs should contribute to the etiology of CNV related CHD.
Project description:To quantitative analysis of transcriptome changes caused by lnc-OPC knockdown during OPC differentiation from NSC, lentivirus-based short hairpin RNAs were used to knockdown the lnc-OPC expression in a neural stem cell culture . Subsequently, puromycin-selected NSCs were differentiated to OPC in culture for three days.RNA-Seq was performed on the polyadenylated fraction of RNA isolated from cell samples. DEseq was used for differential gene expression analysis caused by lnc-OPC knockdown. GO functional term enrichment analysis of differential gene expression caused by lnc-OPC knockdown, revealed significant enrichment of âoligodendrocyte developmentâ, âoligodendrocyte differentiationâ, âglia cell developmentâ, and âaxon ensheathmentâ terms that are associated with oligodendrogenesis. mRNA profiles of differentiiated NSC samples after lnc-OPC knockdown by RNA-sequencing.