An AU-rich sequence in the 3'-UTR of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 2 (PAI-2) mRNA promotes PAI-2 mRNA decay and provides a binding site for nuclear HuR.
AUTOR(ES)
Maurer, F
RESUMO
The plasminogen activator inhibitor type 2 (PAI-2) gene is regulated by transcriptional and post-transcriptional processes. We have previously shown that insertion of the 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR) of PAI-2 mRNA into the 3'-UTR of a beta-globin reporter mRNA reduces constitutive beta-globin mRNA expression and that this requires, at least in part, an AU-rich motif. Here we have directly assessed the role of this motif in PAI-2 mRNA stability using both chimeric and non-chimeric reporter systems. We first show that the full-length PAI-2 mRNA is indeed unstable with a half-life of 1 h. Using the c-fos promoter-driven human growth hormone (HGH) mRNA as a reporter, we demonstrate that the 580 nt 3'-UTR of PAI-2 accelerates chimeric HGH mRNA decay in a process which is dependent on the intact AU-rich sequence. Furthermore, disruption of this motif within a constitutively expressed PAI-2 cDNA produces a 2.5- and 2. 7-fold increase in PAI-2 mRNA and protein levels in HT-1080 cells, respectively. RNA electrophoretic mobility shift and supershift assays indicate that this motif provides a specific binding site for cellular proteins that include nuclear HuR. Taken together, these data show that a correlation exists between the binding of HuR to the AU-rich motif in vitro and the destabilizing properties conferred by this sequence in vivo.
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