Research Paper Volume 12, Issue 18 pp 18436—18452
Nudt21-mediated alternative polyadenylation of HMGA2 3′-UTR impairs stemness of human tendon stem cell
- 1 Department of Musculoskeletal Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
- 2 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai 200233, China
- 3 Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
- 4 Department of Orthopaedics, Shaoxing People’s Hospital, Shaoxing Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Shaoxing 312000, Zhejiang, China
- 5 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, University Hospital of Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau 999078, China
- 6 Department of Orthopedics, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University, School of Medicine, Shanghai 200072, China
- 7 Department of Radiology, Rui Jin Hospital, Lu Wan Branch, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200020, China
- 8 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Haikou Orthopedic and Diabetes Hospital of Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, Hainan 570300, China
Received: January 16, 2020 Accepted: July 6, 2020 Published: September 26, 2020
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.103771How to Cite
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Abstract
Tendon-derived stem cells (TSCs) play a primary role in tendon physiology, pathology, as well as tendon repair and regeneration after injury. TSCs are often exposed to mechanical loading-related cellular stresses such as oxidative stress, resulting in loss of stemness and multipotent differentiation potential. Cytoprotective autophagy has previously been identified as an important mechanism to protect human TSCs (hTSCs) from oxidative stress induced impairments. In this study, we found that high-mobility AT-hook 2 (HMGA2) overexpression protects hTSCs against H2O2-induced loss of stemness through autophagy activation. Evidentially, H2O2 treatment increases the expression of Nudt21, a protein critical to polyadenylation site selection in alternative polyadenylation (APA) of mRNA transcripts. This leads to increased cleavage and polyadenylation of HMGA2 3′-UTR at the distal site, resulting in increased HMGA2 silencing by the microRNA let-7 and reduced HMGA2 expression. In conclusion, Nudt21-regulated APA of HMGA2 3′-UTR and subsequent HMGA2 downregulation mediates oxidative stress induced hTSC impairments.
Abbreviations
TSCs: tendon-derived stem cells; hTSCs: human TSCs; HMGA2: high-mobility group AT-hook 2; APA: alternative polyadenylation; 3′-UTR: 3′-untranslated region; miRNA: microRNA; CPSF5: cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor subunit 5; CFIm: cleavage factor Im; 3-MA: 3-methyladenine; CCK-8: counting Kit-8; β-gal: β-galactosidase; rTSCs: rat TSCs; DRAM: damage-regulated autophagy modulator; shRNAs: short hairpin RNAs; qRT-PCR: quantitative real-time PCR; SD: standard deviation.