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FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 1239-1250Publisher
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-195875
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Ccr4-Not complex; cytokine signaling; Stat92E; stress response
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- Academy of Finland
- Sigrid Juselius Foundation
- Tampere Tuberculosis Foundation
- Pirkanmaa Hospital District
- Centre of Laboratory Medicine of the Tampere University Hospital
- Finnish Cancer Foundation
- Maire Lisko Foundation
- Emil Aaltonen Foundation
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
- Biocenter Finland
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The JAK/STAT pathway is essential for organogenesis, innate immunity, and stress responses in Drosophila melanogaster. The JAK/STAT pathway and its associated regulators have been highly conserved in evolution from flies to humans. We have used a genome-wide RNAi screen in Drosophila S2 cells to identify regulators of the JAK/STAT pathway, and here we report the characterization of Not4 as a positive regulator of the JAK/STAT pathway. Overexpression of Not4 enhanced Stat92E-mediated gene responses in vitro and in vivo in Drosophila. Specifically, Not4 increased Stat92E-mediated reporter gene activation in S2 cells; and in flies, Not4 overexpression resulted in an 8-fold increase in Turandot M (TotM) and in a 4-fold increase in Turandot A (TotA) stress gene activation when compared to wild-type flies. Drosophila Not4 is structurally related to human CNOT4, which was found to regulate interferon-gamma- and interleukin-4-induced STAT-mediated gene responses in human HeLa cells. Not4 was found to coimmunoprecipitate with Stat92E but not to affect tyrosine phosphorylation of Stat92E in Drosophila cells. However, Not4 is required for binding of Stat92E to its DNA recognition sequence in the TotM gene promoter. In summary, Not4/CNOT4 is a novel positive regulator of the JAK/STAT pathway in Drosophila and in humans.-Gronholm, J., Kaustio, M., Myllymaki, H., Kallio, J., Saarikettu, J., Kronhamn, J., Valanne, S., Silvennoinen, O., Ramet, M. Not4 enhances JAK/STAT pathway-dependent gene expression in Drosophila and in human cells. FASEB J. 26, 1239-1250 (2012). www.fasebj.org
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