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PLOS ONE
卷 6, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020319
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- Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Endowed Chair for Pulmonary Research
- National Institutes of Health [HL0894932, HL095397, LM009657]
Background: Transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) plays a major role in many lung diseases including lung cancer, pulmonary hypertension, and pulmonary fibrosis. TGF beta 1 activates a signal transduction cascade that results in the transcriptional regulation of genes in the nucleus, primarily through the DNA-binding transcription factor SMAD3. The objective of this study is to identify genome-wide scale map of SMAD3 binding targets and the molecular pathways and networks affected by the TGF beta 1/SMAD3 signaling in lung epithelial cells. Methodology: We combined chromatin immunoprecipitation with human promoter region microarrays (ChIP-on-chip) along with gene expression microarrays to study global transcriptional regulation of the TGF beta 1/SMAD3 pathway in human A549 alveolar epithelial cells. The molecular pathways and networks associated with TGF beta 1/SMAD3 signaling were identified using computational approaches. Validation of selected target gene expression and direct binding of SMAD3 to promoters were performed by quantitative real time RT-PCR and electrophoretic mobility shift assay on A549 and human primary lung epithelial cells. Results and Conclusions: Known TGF beta 1 target genes such as SERPINE1, SMAD6, SMAD7, TGFB1 and LTBP3, were found in both ChIP-on-chip and gene expression analyses as well as some previously unrecognized targets such as FOXA2. SMAD3 binding of FOXA2 promoter and changed expression were confirmed. Computational approaches combining ChIP-on-chip and gene expression microarray revealed multiple target molecular pathways affected by the TGF beta 1/SMAD3 signaling. Identification of global targets and molecular pathways and networks associated with TGF beta 1/SMAD3 signaling allow for a better understanding of the mechanisms that determine epithelial cell phenotypes in fibrogenesis and carcinogenesis as does the discovery of the direct effect of TGF beta 1 on FOXA2.
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