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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 113(5): E548-57, 2016 Feb 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26764381

RESUMO

Aberrant embryonic development of the hypothalamus and/or pituitary gland in humans results in congenital hypopituitarism (CH). Transcription factor 7-like 1 (TCF7L1), an important regulator of the WNT/ß-catenin signaling pathway, is expressed in the developing forebrain and pituitary gland, but its role during hypothalamo-pituitary (HP) axis formation or involvement in human CH remains elusive. Using a conditional genetic approach in the mouse, we first demonstrate that TCF7L1 is required in the prospective hypothalamus to maintain normal expression of the hypothalamic signals involved in the induction and subsequent expansion of Rathke's pouch progenitors. Next, we reveal that the function of TCF7L1 during HP axis development depends exclusively on the repressing activity of TCF7L1 and does not require its interaction with ß-catenin. Finally, we report the identification of two independent missense variants in human TCF7L1, p.R92P and p.R400Q, in a cohort of patients with forebrain and/or pituitary defects. We demonstrate that these variants exhibit reduced repressing activity in vitro and in vivo relative to wild-type TCF7L1. Together, our data provide support for a conserved molecular function of TCF7L1 as a transcriptional repressor during HP axis development in mammals and identify variants in this transcription factor that are likely to contribute to the etiology of CH.


Assuntos
Sistema Hipotálamo-Hipofisário , Proteína 1 Semelhante ao Fator 7 de Transcrição/fisiologia , Animais , Estudos de Coortes , Humanos , Camundongos , Hipófise/anormalidades , Hipófise/metabolismo , Hipófise/fisiopatologia , Prosencéfalo/anormalidades , Prosencéfalo/metabolismo
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Cell Rep ; 4(1): 1-9, 2013 Jul 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23810553

RESUMO

Wnt/ß-catenin signal transduction requires direct binding of ß-catenin to Tcf/Lef proteins, an event that is classically associated with stimulating transcription by recruiting coactivators. This molecular cascade plays critical roles throughout embryonic development and normal postnatal life by affecting stem cell characteristics and tumor formation. Here, we show that this pathway utilizes a fundamentally different mechanism to regulate Tcf7l1 (formerly named Tcf3) activity. ß-catenin inactivates Tcf7l1 without a switch to a coactivator complex by removing it from DNA, which leads to Tcf7l1 protein degradation. Mouse genetic experiments demonstrate that Tcf7l1 inactivation is the only required effect of the Tcf7l1-ß-catenin interaction. Given the expression of Tcf7l1 in pluripotent embryonic and adult stem cells, as well as in poorly differentiated breast cancer, these findings provide mechanistic insights into the regulation of pluripotency and the role of Wnt/ß-catenin in breast cancer.


Assuntos
Proteína 1 Semelhante ao Fator 7 de Transcrição/metabolismo , Via de Sinalização Wnt , Animais , Cromatina/metabolismo , Humanos , Células MCF-7 , Camundongos , Ligação Proteica , Estabilidade Proteica , Células-Tronco/metabolismo , Proteína 1 Semelhante ao Fator 7 de Transcrição/genética , beta Catenina/metabolismo
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Cell Microbiol ; 11(1): 37-50, 2009 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18774950

RESUMO

Human hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes acute and chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Here we report that HBV core protein interacts with a cellular SKIP (skeletal muscle and kidney enriched inositol phosphatase) protein, an endoplasmic reticulum-located phosphoinositide 5-phosphatase, both in vivo and in vitro. The minimal sequence required for interaction is the amino acid region from 116 to 149 for the core protein and the SKIP carboxyl homology (SKICH) domain for SKIP. When HBV replicates in HuH-7 cells, overexpressed SKIP localizes to nucleus in addition to ER and suppresses HBV gene expression and replication. SKIP loses its nuclear localization and suppressive effect during replication of a core-negative HBV mutant. HBV gene expression is enhanced significantly when endogenous SKIP expression is knocked down by a SKIP-specific siRNA. SKIP mutation analysis shows that its 5-phosphatase activity is not required for the suppressive effect and that the suppression domain maps to amino acids 199-226. These results demonstrate that SKIP is translocated from endoplasmic reticulum into nucleus through its interaction with core protein and suppresses HBV gene expression via a novel suppression domain.


Assuntos
Regulação Viral da Expressão Gênica , Antígenos do Núcleo do Vírus da Hepatite B/metabolismo , Vírus da Hepatite B/fisiologia , Monoéster Fosfórico Hidrolases/metabolismo , Linhagem Celular , Núcleo Celular/química , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Técnicas de Silenciamento de Genes , Inativação Gênica , Humanos , Ligação Proteica , Domínios e Motivos de Interação entre Proteínas , Mapeamento de Interação de Proteínas , Replicação Viral
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