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LncRNA-CR11538 Decoys Dif/Dorsal to Reduce Antimicrobial Peptide Products for Restoring Drosophila Toll Immunity Homeostasis

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms221810117

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lncRNA-CR11538; Drosophila melanogaster; NF-kappa B transcription factor Dif/Dorsal; antimicrobial peptides; innate immunity; toll pathway

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  1. National Natural Science Youth Foundation of China [31802015]
  2. Natural Science Youth Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20180143]
  3. Natural Science Foundation from Jiangsu Province [BK20191368]
  4. Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions

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The study reveals that lncRNA-CR11538 interacts with transcription factors to inhibit antimicrobial peptide expressions in Drosophila, affecting the Toll signaling pathway and helping to restore immune homeostasis in the later stages of the immune response. This provides new insights into understanding the complex regulatory mechanisms of animal innate immunity.
Avoiding excessive or insufficient immune responses and maintaining homeostasis are critical for animal survival. Although many positive or negative modulators involved in immune responses have been identified, little has been reported to date concerning whether the long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) can regulate Drosophila immunity response. In this study, we firstly discover that the overexpression of lncRNA-CR11538 can inhibit the expressions of antimicrobial peptides Drosomycin (Drs) and Metchnikowin (Mtk) in vivo, thereby suppressing the Toll signaling pathway. Secondly, our results demonstrate that lncRNA-CR11538 can interact with transcription factors Dif/Dorsal in the nucleus based on both subcellular localization and RIP analyses. Thirdly, our findings reveal that lncRNA-CR11538 can decoy Dif/Dorsal away from the promoters of Drs and Mtk to repress their transcriptions by ChIP-qPCR and dual luciferase report experiments. Fourthly, the dynamic expression changes of Drs, Dif, Dorsal and lncRNA-CR11538 in wild-type flies (w(1118)) at different time points after M. luteus stimulation disclose that lncRNA-CR11538 can help Drosophila restore immune homeostasis in the later period of immune response. Overall, our study reveals a novel mechanism by which lncRNA-CR11538 serves as a Dif/Dorsal decoy to downregulate antimicrobial peptide expressions for restoring Drosophila Toll immunity homeostasis, and provides a new insight into further studying the complex regulatory mechanism of animal innate immunity.

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