PUBLICATION
Temporal and Spatial Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Zebrafish tie1 mRNA by Long Noncoding RNA During Brain Vascular Assembly.
- Authors
- Chowdhury, T.A., Koceja, C., Eisa-Beygi, S., Kleinstiver, B.P., Kumar, S.N., Lin, C.W., Li, K., Prabhudesai, S., Joung, J.K., Ramchandran, R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-180508-3
- Date
- 2018
- Source
- Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology 38(7): 1562-1575 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Eisa-Beygi, Shahram, Li, Keguo, Prabhudesai, Shubhangi N., Ramchandran, Ramani
- Keywords
- Drosophila, RNA, endothelium, immunoglobulin, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Blood Vessels/embryology
- Blood Vessels/enzymology*
- Brain/blood supply*
- ELAV-Like Protein 1/genetics
- ELAV-Like Protein 1/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Neovascularization, Physiologic/genetics*
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional*
- RNA, Antisense/genetics
- RNA, Antisense/metabolism
- RNA, Long Noncoding/genetics
- RNA, Long Noncoding/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/genetics*
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Receptor, TIE-1/genetics
- Receptor, TIE-1/metabolism
- Time Factors
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 29724820 Full text @ Arterio., Thromb., and Vas. Bio.
Citation
Chowdhury, T.A., Koceja, C., Eisa-Beygi, S., Kleinstiver, B.P., Kumar, S.N., Lin, C.W., Li, K., Prabhudesai, S., Joung, J.K., Ramchandran, R. (2018) Temporal and Spatial Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Zebrafish tie1 mRNA by Long Noncoding RNA During Brain Vascular Assembly.. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 38(7):1562-1575.
Abstract
Objective Tie1 (tyrosine kinase containing immunoglobulin and epidermal growth factor homology 1), an endothelial and hematopoietic cell-specific receptor tyrosine kinase, is an important regulator of angiogenesis and critical for maintaining vascular integrity. The post-transcriptional regulation of tie1 mRNA expression is not understood, but it might partly explain Tie1's differential expression pattern in endothelium. Following up on our previous work that identified natural antisense transcripts from the tie1 locus-tie1 antisense (tie1AS), which regulates tie1 mRNA levels in zebrafish-we attempted to identify the mechanism of this regulation.
Approach and results Through in vitro and in vivo ribonucleoprotein binding studies, we demonstrated that tie1AS long noncoding RNA interacts with an RNA binding protein-embryonic lethal and abnormal vision Drosophila-like 1 (Elavl1)-that regulates tie1 mRNA levels. When we disrupted the interaction between tie1AS and Elavl1 by using constitutively active antisense morpholino oligonucleotides or photoactivatable morpholino oligonucleotides, tie1 mRNA levels increased between 26 and 31 hours post-fertilization, particularly in the head. This increase correlated with dilation of primordial midbrain channels, smaller eyes, and reduced ventricular space. We also observed these phenotypes when we used CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-mediated CRISPRi (CRISPR-mediated interference) to knock down tie1AS. Treatment of the morpholino oligonucleotide-injected embryos with a small molecule that decreased tie1 mRNA levels rescued all 3 abnormal phenotypes.
Conclusions We identified a novel mode of temporal and spatial post-transcriptional regulation of tie1 mRNA. It involves long noncoding RNA, tie1AS, and Elavl1 (an interactor of tie1AS).
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping