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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 287, 期 16, 页码 13116-13127出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.330837
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- National Institutes of Health from NIEHS
- Nova Carta Foundation at University of North Carolina
The zinc finger protein 36-like 2, Zfp36l2, has been implicated in female mouse infertility, because an amino-terminal truncation mutation (Delta N-Zfp36l2) leads to two-cell stage arrest of embryos derived from the homozygous mutant female gamete. Zfp36l2 is a member of the tristetraprolin (TTP) family of CCCH tandem zinc finger proteins that can bind to transcripts containing AU-rich elements ( ARE), resulting in deadenylation and destabilization of these transcripts. I show here that the mouse Zfp36l2 is composed of two exons and a single intron, encoding a polypeptide of 484 amino acids. I observed that Delta N-Zfp36l2 protein is similar to both wild-type Zfp36l2 and TTP (Zfp36) in that it shuttles between the cytoplasm and nucleus, binds to RNAs containing AREs, and promotes deadenylation of a model ARE transcript in a cell-based co-transfection assay. Surprisingly, in contrast to TTP, Zfp36l2 mRNA and protein were rapidly down-regulated upon LPS exposure in bone marrow-derived macrophages. The Delta N-Zfp36l2 protein was substantially more resistant to stimulus-induced down-regulation than the WT. I postulate that the embryonic arrest linked to the Delta N-Zfp36l2 truncation might be related to its resistance to stimulus-induced down-regulation.
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