ATG16L1
自噬
基因敲除
自噬体
细胞生物学
核糖核酸
RNA结合蛋白
信使核糖核酸
细胞凋亡
化学
免疫沉淀
下调和上调
生物
分子生物学
生物化学
基因
作者
Kalaiselvi Palanisamy,Tsung‐Hsun Tsai,Tung‐Min Yu,Kuo‐Ting Sun,Shaohua Yu,Feng‐Yen Lin,I‐Kuan Wang,Chi Yuan Li
摘要
Autophagy, a prosurvival mechanism offers a protective role during acute kidney injury. We show novel findings on the functional role of RNA binding protein, HuR during hypoxia-induced autophagy in renal proximal tubular cells-2 (HK-2). HK-2 cells showed upregulated expressions of HuR and autophagy-related proteins such as autophagy related 7 (ATG7), autophagy related 16 like 1 (ATG16L1), and LC3II under hypoxia. Increased autophagosome formation was visualized as LC3 puncta in hypoxic cells. Further, short hairpin-RNA-mediated loss of HuR function in HK-2 cells significantly decreased ATG7 and ATG16L1 protein expressions. Bioinformatics prediction revealed HuR motif binding on the coding region of ATG7 and AU-rich element at 3'UTR ATG16L1 messnger RNA (mRNA). The RNA immunoprecipitation study showed that HuR was predominantly associated with ATG7 and ATG16L1 mRNAs under hypoxia. In addition, HuR enhanced autophagosome formation by regulating LC3II expressions. These results show that HuR regulates ATG7 and ATG16L1 expressions and thereby mediate autophagy in HK-2 cells. Importantly, HuR knockdown cells underwent apoptosis during hypoxia as observed through the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling assay. Collectively, these findings show the crucial role of HuR under hypoxia by regulating autophagy and suppressing apoptosis in renal tubular cells.
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