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Cell ; 149(3): 630-41, 2012 Apr 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22541433

RESUMO

In female mouse embryos, somatic cells undergo a random form of X chromosome inactivation (XCI), whereas extraembryonic trophoblast cells in the placenta undergo imprinted XCI, silencing exclusively the paternal X chromosome. Initiation of imprinted XCI requires a functional maternal allele of the X-linked gene Rnf12, which encodes the ubiquitin ligase Rnf12/RLIM. We find that knockout (KO) of Rnf12 in female mammary glands inhibits alveolar differentiation and milk production upon pregnancy, with alveolar cells that lack RLIM undergoing apoptosis as they begin to differentiate. Genetic analyses demonstrate that these functions are mediated primarily by the paternal Rnf12 allele due to nonrandom maternal XCI in mammary epithelial cells. These results identify paternal Rnf12/RLIM as a critical survival factor for milk-producing alveolar cells and, together with population models, reveal implications of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.


Assuntos
Sobrevivência Celular , Glândulas Mamárias Animais/citologia , Ubiquitina-Proteína Ligases/metabolismo , Animais , Epigênese Genética , Feminino , Impressão Genômica , Masculino , Glândulas Mamárias Animais/fisiologia , Camundongos , Gravidez , Ubiquitina-Proteína Ligases/genética , Inativação do Cromossomo X
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Mol Biol Cell ; 24(19): 3085-96, 2013 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23904271

RESUMO

The X-linked gene Rnf12 encodes the ubiquitin ligase really interesting new gene (RING) finger LIM domain-interacting protein (RLIM)/RING finger protein 12 (Rnf12), which serves as a major sex-specific epigenetic regulator of female mouse nurturing tissues. Early during embryogenesis, RLIM/Rnf12 expressed from the maternal allele is crucial for the development of extraembryonic trophoblast cells. In contrast, in mammary glands of pregnant and lactating adult females RLIM/Rnf12 expressed from the paternal allele functions as a critical survival factor for milk-producing alveolar cells. Although RLIM/Rnf12 is detected mostly in the nucleus, little is known about how and in which cellular compartment(s) RLIM/Rnf12 mediates its biological functions. Here we demonstrate that RLIM/Rnf12 protein shuttles between nucleus and cytoplasm and this is regulated by phosphorylation of serine S214 located within its nuclear localization sequence. We show that shuttling is important for RLIM to exert its biological functions, as alveolar cell survival activity is inhibited in cells expressing shuttling-deficient nuclear or cytoplasmic RLIM/Rnf12. Thus regulated nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of RLIM/Rnf12 coordinates cellular compartments during mammary alveolar cell survival.


Assuntos
Transporte Ativo do Núcleo Celular/genética , Sobrevivência Celular/genética , Glândulas Mamárias Animais/metabolismo , Ubiquitina-Proteína Ligases/metabolismo , Animais , Núcleo Celular/genética , Desenvolvimento Embrionário , Epigênese Genética/genética , Feminino , Células HeLa , Humanos , Proteínas com Domínio LIM/genética , Proteínas com Domínio LIM/metabolismo , Camundongos , Fosforilação , Gravidez , Processos de Determinação Sexual , Ubiquitina-Proteína Ligases/genética
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 104(38): 15000-5, 2007 Sep 18.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17848518

RESUMO

Complexes composed of multiple proteins regulate most cellular functions. However, our knowledge about the molecular mechanisms governing the assembly and dynamics of these complexes in cells remains limited. The in vivo activity of LIM homeodomain (LIM-HD) proteins, a class of transcription factors that regulates neuronal development, depends on the high-affinity association of their LIM domains with cofactor of LIM homeodomain proteins (LIM-HDs) (CLIM, also known as Ldb or NLI). CLIM cofactors recruit single-stranded DNA-binding protein 1 (SSDP1, also known as SSBP3), and this interaction is important for the activation of the LIM-HD/CLIM protein complex in vivo. Here, we identify a cascade of specific protein interactions that protect LIM-HD multiprotein complexes from proteasomal degradation. In this cascade, CLIM stabilizes LIM-HDs, and SSDP1 stabilizes CLIM. Furthermore, we show that stabilizing cofactors prevent binding of ubiquitin ligases to multiple protein interaction domains in LIM-HD recruited protein complexes. Together, our results indicate a combinatorial code that selects specific multiprotein complexes via proteasomal degradation in cells with broad implications for the assembly and specificity of multiprotein complexes.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Homeodomínio/metabolismo , Complexos Multiproteicos/metabolismo , Complexo de Endopeptidases do Proteassoma/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo , Células Cultivadas , Modelos Biológicos , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/metabolismo , Transdução de Sinais , Transfecção
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Dev Dyn ; 235(3): 786-91, 2006 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16395690

RESUMO

The developmental regulation of LIM homeodomain transcription factors (LIM-HD) by the LIM domain-binding cofactors CLIM/Ldb/NLI and RLIM has been demonstrated. Whereas CLIM cofactors are thought to be required for at least some of the in vivo functions of LIM-HD proteins, the ubiquitin ligase RLIM functions as a negative regulator by its ability to target CLIM cofactors for proteasomal degradation. In this report, we have investigated and compared the protein expression of both factors in the developing mouse neural tube. We co-localize both proteins in many tissues and, although widely expressed, we detect high levels of both cofactors in specific neural tube regions, e.g., in the ventral neural tube, where motor neurons reside. The mostly ubiquitous distribution of RLIM- and CLIM-encoding mRNA differs from the more specific expression of both cofactors at the protein level, indicating post-transcriptional regulation. Furthermore, we show that both cofactors not only co-localize with each other but also with Isl and Lhx3 LIM-HD proteins in developing ventral neural tube neurons. Our results demonstrate the dynamic expression of cofactors participating in the regulation of LIM-HD proteins during the development of the neural tube in mice and suggest additional post-transcriptional regulation in the nuclear LIM-HD protein network.


Assuntos
Sistema Nervoso Central/embriologia , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/metabolismo , Camundongos/embriologia , Proteínas Repressoras/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo , Animais , Sistema Nervoso Central/química , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/análise , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/análise , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/genética , Proteínas com Domínio LIM , Proteínas com Homeodomínio LIM , Metaloproteínas/análise , Camundongos/genética , Camundongos/metabolismo , RNA Mensageiro/análise , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Proteínas Repressoras/análise , Proteínas Repressoras/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/análise , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Ubiquitina-Proteína Ligases
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Genes Dev ; 19(19): 2307-19, 2005 Oct 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16204183

RESUMO

LIM kinase 1 (LIMK1) controls important cellular functions such as morphogenesis, cell motility, tumor cell metastasis, development of neuronal projections, and growth cone actin dynamics. We have investigated the role of the RING finger protein Rnf6 during neuronal development and detected high Rnf6 protein levels in developing axonal projections of motor and DRG neurons during mouse embryogenesis as well as cultured hippocampal neurons. RNAi-mediated knock-down experiments in primary hippocampal neurons identified Rnf6 as a regulator of axon outgrowth. Consistent with a role in axonal growth, we found that Rnf6 binds to, polyubiquitinates, and targets LIMK1 for proteasomal degradation in growth cones of primary hippocampal neurons. Rnf6 is functionally linked to LIMK1 during the development of axons, as the changes in axon outgrowth induced by up- or down-regulation of Rnf6 levels can be restored by modulation of LIMK1 expression. Thus, these results assign a specific role for Rnf6 in the control of cellular LIMK1 concentrations and indicate a new function for the ubiquitin/proteasome system in regulating local growth cone actin dynamics.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento/fisiologia , Cones de Crescimento/enzimologia , Hipocampo/embriologia , Complexo de Endopeptidases do Proteassoma/metabolismo , Proteínas Quinases/metabolismo , Actinas/metabolismo , Animais , Células CHO , Células COS , Chlorocebus aethiops , Cricetinae , Cricetulus , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Hipocampo/citologia , Humanos , Quinases Lim , Camundongos , Interferência de RNA , RNA Interferente Pequeno/genética , Ubiquitina/metabolismo
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