A cytokine mRNA-destabilizing element that is structurally and functionally distinct from A+U-rich elements

AUTOR(ES)

Brown, Cheryl Y.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

RESUMO

The control of mRNA stability is crucial to the regulation of cytokine expression. We describe here a novel, potent destabilizing element found in the 3′ untranslated region of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor mRNA. This element, which appears to require at least one stem–loop structure, we term the stem–loop destabilizing element (SLDE). Functionally equivalent elements appear to also exist in the interleukin 2 and interleukin 6 mRNAs. The SLDE is functionally distinct from the A+U-rich elements, which are also present in these and other cytokine mRNAs, because it destabilizes a chimeric mRNA in a tumor cell line in which A+U-rich elements do not function. In addition, the effect of the SLDE is insensitive to calcium ionophore and is therefore regulated independently of A+U destabilizing elements. The existence of two distinct mRNA-destabilizing elements provides an additional mechanism for the differential regulation of cytokine expression.

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