miR-196a Promotes Proliferation and Inhibits Apoptosis of Immature Porcine Sertoli Cells
DNA AND CELL BIOLOGY
Authors: Zhang, Shaoxuan; Guo, Jia; Liang, Mengdi; Qi, Jiajia; Wang, Zhenbo; Jian, Xinrui; Zhang, Zhibin; Sun, Boxing; Li, Zhaohua
Abstract
Our previous study showed that the expression of miR-196a was significantly higher in immature porcine testes than in mature porcine testes. However, the role of miR-196a in immature Sertoli cells remains unclear. In this study, miR-196a mimics, miR-196a inhibitor, and microRNA-small hairpin negative control (miRNA-ShNC) were transfected into immature Sertoli cells, respectively. Subsequently, the cell cycle and apoptosis rate of the immature Sertoli cells were measured by flow cytometry, and the viability of the Sertoli cells was measured by the MTS assay. Furthermore, the candidate target genes of miR-196a were analyzed by bioinformatics, and the target genes were validated by dual luciferase reporter assays, then the expression of target genes was detected by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) and Western blot assays. The results showed that miR-196a promotes the proliferation and inhibits the apoptosis of immature Sertoli cells. miR-196a directly binds the 3 untranslated region (3 UTR) of RCC2 and ABCB9. The expression of miR-196a was shown to be negatively correlated with the messenger RNA and protein levels of the RCC2 and ABCB9 genes. The study demonstrates that miR-196a regulates immature Sertoli cell proliferation and apoptosis and inhibits the expression of RCC2 and ABCB9.
Examination of drug resistance activity of human TAP-like (ABCB9) expressed in yeast
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Authors: Ohashi-Kobayashi, A; Ohashi, K; Du, WB; Omote, H; Nakamoto, R; Al-shawi, M; Maeda, M
Abstract
A half-type ABC transporter, human TAP-like (hTAPL) tagged with histidine cluster, was expressed in budding yeast protease-deficient strain BJ5457, and the effect of expression for resistance to peptide compounds including antibiotics and proteinase inhibitor was examined. Among these Compounds, the yeast expressing hTAPL exhibits high sensitivity to valinomycin, a monovalent cation ionophore. A mutation in Walker A motif, which lost ATP-binding activity of hTAPL, eliminated the enhanced sensitivity to valinomycin. These findings suggest that the transport activity of hTAPL is important for conferring high valinomycin-sensitive phenotype to yeast. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.