Journal
NON-CODING RNA
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ncrna7020026
Keywords
miRNAs; lncRNAs; ceRNAs; translation; post-transcriptional regulation; mTOR pathway
Funding
- NCCR RNA & Disease fellowship
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Under stressful conditions, cells activate a rescue program modulated by mTOR and rely on microRNAs and lncRNAs for translation regulation. Upregulation of lncRNA lncTNK2-2:1 may be associated with the stabilization of translation and DNA damage regulation in response to treatment with bimiralisib.
Stressful conditions induce the cell to save energy and activate a rescue program modulated by mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR). Along with transcriptional and translational regulation, the cell relies also on post-transcriptional modulation to quickly adapt the translation of essential proteins. MicroRNAs play an important role in the regulation of protein translation, and their availability is tightly regulated by RNA competing mechanisms often mediated by long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). In our paper, we simulated the response to growth adverse condition by bimiralisib, a dual PI3K/mTOR inhibitor, in diffuse large B cell lymphoma cell lines, and we studied post-transcriptional regulation by the differential analysis of exonic and intronic RNA expression. In particular, we observed the upregulation of a lncRNA, lncTNK2-2:1, which correlated with the stabilization of transcripts involved in the regulation of translation and DNA damage after bimiralisib treatment. We identified miR-21-3p as miRNA likely sponged by lncTNK2-2:1, with consequent stabilization of the mRNA of p53, which is a master regulator of cell growth in response to DNA damage.
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