scholarly journals Regulatory effect of heat shock transcription factor-1 gene on heat shock proteins and its transcriptional regulation analysis in small abalone Haliotis diversicolor

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Yuting Li ◽  
Yulong Sun ◽  
Mingxing Guo ◽  
Jianjun Feng ◽  
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Abstract Background The effects of diverse stresses ultimately alter the structures and functions of proteins. As molecular chaperones, heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a group of highly conserved proteins that help in the refolding of misfolded proteins and the elimination of irreversibly damaged proteins. They are mediated by a family of transcription factors called heat shock factors (HSFs). The small abalone Haliotis diversicolor is a species naturally distributed along the southern coast of China. In this study, the expression of HdHSF1 was inhibited by RNAi in hemocytes in order to further elucidate the regulatory roles of HdHSF1 on heat shock responsive genes in abalone. Meanwhile, to understand the transcriptional regulation of the HdHSF1 gene, the 5′-upstream regulatory region of HdHSF1 was characterized, and the relative promoter activity was examined by dual-luciferase reporter gene assay system in HEK293T cell lines. Results After the inhibition of the H. diversicolor HSF1 gene (HdHSF1) by dsRNA (double-stranded RNA), the expression of most heat shock related-genes was down-regulated (p < 0.05). It indicated the importance of HdHSF1 in the heat shock response of H. diversicolor. Meanwhile, 5′-flanking region sequence (2633 bp) of the HdHSF1 gene was cloned; it contained a putative core promoter region, TATA box, CAAT box, CpG island, and many transcription elements. In HEK293T cells, the 5′-flanking region sequence can drive expression of the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), proving its promoter function. Exposure of cells to the high-temperature (39 °C and 42 °C) resulted in the activation of HdHSF1 promoter activity, which may explain why the expression of the HdHSF1 gene participates in heat shock response. Luciferase activity of different recombinant plasmids, which contained different truncated promoter fragments of the HdHSF1 gene in HEK293T cells, revealed the possible active regions of the promoter. To further identify the binding site of the critical transcription factor in the region, an expression vector with the site-directed mutation was constructed. After being mutated on the GATA-1 binding site, we found that the luciferase activity was significantly increased, which suggested that the GATA-1 binding site has a certain weakening effect on the activity of the HdHSF1 promoter. Conclusions These findings suggest that GATA-1 may be one of the transcription factors of HdHSF1, and a possible signaling pathway mediated by HdHSF1 may exist in H. diversicolor to counteract the adverse effects of heat shock stress.

2018 ◽  
pp. MCB.00051-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsuaki Fujimoto ◽  
Ryosuke Takii ◽  
Arpit Katiyar ◽  
Pratibha Srivastava ◽  
Akira Nakai

The heat shock response (HSR) is characterized by the rapid and robust induction of heat shock proteins (HSPs), including HSP70, in response to heat shock, and is regulated by heat shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1) in mammalian cells. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1), which can form a complex with HSF1 through the scaffold protein PARP13, has been suggested to be involved in the HSR. However, its effects on and regulatory mechanisms of the HSR are not well understood. Here, we show that prior to heat shock the HSF1-PARP13-PARP1 complex binds to HSP70 promoter. In response to heat shock, activated and auto-PARylated PARP1 dissociates from HSF1-PARP13 and redistributes throughout HSP70 locus. Remarkably, chromatin in HSP70 promoter is initially PARylated at high levels and decondensed, whereas that in the gene body is moderately PARylated afterwards. Activated HSF1 then binds to the promoter efficiently, and promotes the HSR. Chromatin PARylation and HSF1 binding to the promoter are also facilitated by phosphorylation-dependent dissociation of PARP13. Furthermore, the HSR and proteostasis capacity are reduced by pretreatment with genotoxic stresses, which disrupt the ternary complex. These results provide one of the priming mechanisms of the HSR that facilitates HSF1 binding to DNA during heat shock.


1988 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. S. Roychowdhury ◽  
M. Kapoor

In Neurospora crassa, heat shock results in the induction of 9 to 11 heat shock proteins (HSP), of which HSP80 is the most abundant and the first to be synthesized. The induction of HSP80 was investigated during normal growth (2% sucrose) and under sucrose starvation. Transfer of mycelium to a medium supplemented with ethanol stimulated the synthesis of HSP80, even at the normal growth temperature of 28 °C. It was also synthesized under carbon starvation conditions, where the medium was supplemented with 0.02% sucrose, 0.3% acetate, 0.2% lactate, or ethanol. A 30–35 kilodalton polypeptide was induced by heat shock in carbon-sufficient media, but in 0.02% sucrose and 0.3% acetate containing media it was synthesized at normal temperatures. While the overall heat shock response remained unaltered in these cultures, the abundance of HSP90 and HSP70, relative to HSP80, was greater. HSP80 appears to be controlled by carbon-catabolite repression as well as heat shock. Another high molecular mass protein (tentatively designated alc'80') was observed to be induced by heat shock, provided carbon starvation conditions prevailed concurrently.


Genes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 853
Author(s):  
Siti Aisyah Faten Mohamed Sa’dom ◽  
Sweta Raikundalia ◽  
Shaharum Shamsuddin ◽  
Wei Cun See Too ◽  
Ling Ling Few

Choline kinase (CK) is the enzyme catalyzing the first reaction in CDP-choline pathway for the biosynthesis of phosphatidylcholine. Higher expression of the α isozyme of CK has been implicated in carcinogenesis, and inhibition or downregulation of CKα (CHKA) is a promising anticancer approach. This study aimed to investigate the regulation of CKα expression by DNA methylation of the CpG islands found on the promoter of this gene in MCF-7 cells. Four CpG islands have been predicted in the 2000 bp promoter region of ckα (chka) gene. Six CpG island deletion mutants were constructed using PCR site-directed mutagenesis method and cloned into pGL4.10 vectors for promoter activity assays. Deletion of CpG4C region located between –225 and –56 significantly increased the promoter activity by 4-fold, indicating the presence of important repressive transcription factor binding site. The promoter activity of methylated full-length promoter was significantly lower than the methylated CpG4C deletion mutant by 16-fold. The results show that DNA methylation of CpG4C promotes the binding of the transcription factor that suppresses the promoter activity. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay analysis showed that cytosine methylation at MZF1 binding site in CpG4C increased the binding of putative MZF1 in nuclear extract. In conclusion, the results suggest that DNA methylation decreased the promoter activity by promoting the binding of putative MZF1 transcription factor at CpG4C region of the ckα gene promoter.


2001 ◽  
Vol 280 (3) ◽  
pp. C614-C620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chantal Colmont ◽  
Stéphanie Michelet ◽  
Dominique Guivarc'h ◽  
Germain Rousselet

Urea, with NaCl, constitutes the osmotic gradient that allows water reabsorption in mammalian kidneys. Because NaCl induces heat shock proteins, we tested the responses to heat shock of mIMCD3 cells adapted to permissive urea and/or NaCl concentrations. We found that heat-induced cell death was stronger after adaptation to 250 mM urea. This effect was reversible, dose dependent, and, interestingly, blunted by 125 mM NaCl. Moreover, we have shown that urea-adapted cells engaged in an apoptotic pathway upon heat shock, as shown by DNA laddering. This sensitization is not linked to a defect in the heat shock response, because the induction of HSP70 was similar in isotonic and urea-adapted cells. Moreover, it is not linked to the presence of urea inside cells, because washing urea away did not restore heat resistance and because applying urea and heat shock at the same time did not lead to heat sensitivity. Together, these results suggest that urea modifies the heat shock response, leading to facilitated apoptosis.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avishek Roy ◽  
Ranjan Tamuli

Abstract Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are molecular chaperones and required for survival of organisms under heat stress conditions. In this study, we studied Hsp80, a member of the Hsp90 family, in Neurospora crassa. The expression of hsp80 was severely reduced in the N. crassa calcineurin B subunit RIP-mutant (cnb-1RIP) strains under the heat shock conditions. Furthermore, the expression levels of cnb-1, hsp60, hsp80, and the calcineurin-regulated transcription factor crz-1 were increased, but expression levels were reduced in the presence of the calcineurin inhibitor FK506 under the heat shock stress in the N. crassa wild type. Therefore, the calcineurin-crz-1 signaling pathway transcriptionally regulates hsp60 and hsp80 under the heat shock stress condition in N. crassa. In addition, the transcript levels of trm-9 and nca-2, a Ca2+ sensor and a Ca2+ ATPase, respectively, were increased under the heat shock stress condition. Moreover, the expression of the hsp80, but not the hsp60, was reduced in the Δtrm-9, Δnca-2, and the Δtrm-9 Δnca-2 double mutants. These results suggested that hsp80, trm-9, and nca-2 play a role in coping the heat shock stress in N. crassa. We found that CRZ-1 binds to 5ʹ-CCTTCACA-3ʹ and 5ʹ-AGCGGAGC-3ʹ 8 bp nucleotide sequences, located about 1075 bp and 679 bp upstream of the ATG start codon, respectively, of hsp80. We also found that CRZ-1 binds to an 8 bp nucleotide sequence 5ʹ-ACCGCGCC-3ʹ, located 234 bp upstream of the ATG start codon of nca-2 under Ca2+ stress condition. Thus, cnb-1, hsp60, hsp80, and crz-1 are involved in the heat shock stress response in N. crassa. Moreover, CRZ-1 upregulates the expressions of hsp80 and nca-2 under the heat shock stress and Ca2+ stress conditions, respectively, in N. crassa.


1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 244-250
Author(s):  
D Y Shin ◽  
K Matsumoto ◽  
H Iida ◽  
I Uno ◽  
T Ishikawa

When Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells grown at 23 degrees C were transferred to 36 degrees C, they initiated synthesis of heat shock proteins, acquired thermotolerance to a lethal heat treatment given after the temperature shift, and arrested their growth transiently at the G1 phase of the cell division cycle. The bcy1 mutant which resulted in production of cyclic AMP (cAMP)-independent protein kinase did not synthesize the three heat shock proteins hsp72A, hsp72B, and hsp41 after the temperature shift. The bcy1 cells failed to acquire thermotolerance to the lethal heat treatment and were not arrested at the G1 phase after the temperature shift. In contrast, the cyr1-2 mutant, which produced a low level of cAMP, constitutively produced three heat shock proteins and four other proteins without the temperature shift and was resistant to the lethal heat treatment. The results suggest that a decrease in the level of cAMP-dependent protein phosphorylation results in the heat shock response, including elevated synthesis of three heat shock proteins, acquisition of thermotolerance, and transient arrest of the cell cycle.


2018 ◽  
Vol 293 (49) ◽  
pp. 18965-18976 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mohammad Lellahi ◽  
Ingrid Arctander Rosenlund ◽  
Annica Hedberg ◽  
Liv Torill Kiær ◽  
Ingvild Mikkola ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiying Miao ◽  
Weikang Yu ◽  
Yueyang Wang ◽  
Xianhong Gu ◽  
Xiaohua Teng

Abstract Background: Lead (Pb) is a toxic environmental pollutant and can exerts toxicity in kidneys. It is known that selenium (Se) has an antagonistic effect on Pb poisoning. However, biological events during the process were not well understood in chicken kidneys.Methods: One hundred and eighty male Hyline chickens (7-day-old) were randomly divided into the control group (offering standard diet and potable water), the Se group (offering Na2SeO3-added standard diet and potable water), the Pb group (offering standard diet and (CH3OO)2Pb-added potable water), and the Pb+Se group (offering Na2SeO3-added standard diet and (CH3OO)2Pb-added potable water). On 30th, 60th, and 90th days, kidneys were removed to perform the studies of histological structure, oxidative stress indicators, cytokines, heat shock proteins, and autophagy in the chicken kidneys.Results: The experimental results indicated that Pb poisoning changed renal histological structure; decreased catalase, glutathione-s-transferase, and total antioxidative capacity activities; increased hydrogen peroxide content; induced mRNA and protein expression of heat shock proteins; inhibited interleukin (IL)-2 mRNA expression, and induced IL-4 and IL-12β mRNA expression; inhibited mammalian target of rapamycin mRNA and protein expression, and induced autophagy-related gene mRNA and protein expression in the chicken kidneys. Supplement of Se mitigated the above changes caused by Pb.Conclusion: Our research strengthens the evidence that Pb induced oxidative stress, inflammation, heat shock response, and autophagy and Se administration alleviated Pb poisoning through mitigating oxidative stress in the chicken kidneys.


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