Molecular mechanisms affecting expression of the NO receptor soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) [Elektronische Ressource] / von Rashi Srivastava

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• Publié par: goethe_universitat_frankfurt_am_main
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 13
• Langue: English
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Molecular mechanisms affecting expression of the NO receptor
soluble Guanylyl Cyclase (sGC)







Dissertation
zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades
der Naturwissenschaften





vorgelegt beim Fachbereich Biowissenschaften
der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
in Frankfurt am Main





von
Rashi Srivastava
aus India
Frankfurt 2005
(DF1)
vom Fachbereich Biowissenschaften der
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität als Dissertation angenommen























Dekan: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Wittig

Gutachter: Prof. Dr. A. Starzinski-Powitz
Prof. Dr. A. Mülsch

Datum der Disputation:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I Introduction 10
1 Historical Overview
1.1 Role of Nitric Oxide (NO) 10
1.2 Role of cGMP13
2 Guanylyl Cyclase 16
2.1 Particulate Guanylyl Cyclase (pGC)6
2.2 Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase (sGC)8
3 Regulation of expression of sGC 30
4 The mRNA stability regulating protein HuR 34
II Materials & Methods 40
1 Materials 40
1.1 Cell Culture Reagents 40
1.2 Molecular Biology Reagents
1.3 Biochemical Reagents
1.4 Animal Species and Maintenance
1.5 Cell Lines44
1.6 Buffers and Media5
1.7 Laboratory Equipments7
1.8 Computer Programmes8
1.9 Statistical calculations
2 Methods 49
2.1 Nucleic Acid Preparation9
2.2 NucleiQuantitation 2
2.3 Restriction endonuclease digestion of DNA
2.4 Agarose gel electrophoresis of DNA3
2.5 SDS Gel Electrophoresis
2.6 Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay(EMSA)
2.7 DNA extraction from agarose gels6
2.8 Amplification of DNA using the Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) 5
2.9 Ligation of DNA57
2.10 Preparation of Plasmid Vector57
2.11 Transformation of E.coli cells8
2.12 Bacterial frozen stocks
2.13 Transformation of yeast9
2.14 Yeast mating assay
2.15 Cell culture60
2.16 Transient transfection of RLF-6 cells61
2.17 Transienction of COS-1 cells2
2.18 Decoy oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) technique
2.19 Determination of Luciferase Activity
2.20 Preparation of protein extracts for gelshift assays 3
2.21 Protein estimation 4
72.22 Western Blot Analysis 64
2.23 Immunoprecipitation5
2.24 Expression and purification of GST-fusion proteins
2.25 GST-pulldown66
2.26 Yeast interaction trap assay
2.27 Spermidine/spermine acetyltransferase activity7
III Results 68
1 Transcriptional regulation of sGC expression 68
1.1 Basal activity of the promoter of sGC α-1 subunit in RLF-6 cells 68
2 Identification of transcription factors responsible for the basal expression of α-1
subunit of sGC in RLF-6 cells 71
2.1 Decoy oligonucleotide approach 71
2.2 Effect of core deletions on basal promoter activity3
2.3 Decreased expression of sGC α−1 by inhibitors of DNA binding 76
2.4 Decreased promoter activity by inhibitors of DNA binding8
2.5 DNA binding sites for the transcription factors NFY/Sp10
2.6 Specificity of the decoy approach for inhibition of sGC α−1 promoter activity 8
2.7 Competitive inhibition of transcription factor binding4
2.8 Reduction in enzyme activity by the inhibitors of DNA binding 86
3 Effect of serum on sGC α-1 expression regulation 87
3.1 Serum downregulates sGC α−1 protein expression in rat aorta
3.2 rsα-1 mRNA expression in RLF-6 and RASM cells9
3.3 Decrease in sGC α-1 promoter activity in response to serum 91
3.4 Serum downregulation of sGC α-1 promoter is mediated by NFY and Sp12
4 HuR mediated downregulation of sGC 94
4.1 Role of AP-1 in HuR mediated sGC downregulation 94
5 Identification of HuR Interacting Protein byYeast Two Hybrid Analysis 96
5.1 Construction of the "bait" 7
5.2 HuR expression in yeast8
5.3 Auto-activation99
5.4 Yeast-two hybrid screening10
5.5 Immunoprecipitation2
5.6 Construction of expression plasmids for SSAT3
5.7 Confirmation of SSAT-HuR interaction by GST-pull-down 14
5.8 Preparation of deletion mutants of HuR5
5.9 Mapping of the interacting domain of HuR 8
5.10 Influence of HuR on SSAT activity9
5.11 Effect of SSAT on HuR binding to mRNA
IV Discussion 113
1 Influence of genomic organization on transcriptional regulation of sGC subunits within
different species 114
2 Basal activity of sGC α-1 promoter 115
3 NFY and Sp1 are responsible for the basal expression of sGC α-1 in RLF-6 cells 117
4 Serum downregulates the sGC α-1 Expression in RLF-6 cells 122
5 Downregulation of sGC α-1 by serum is mediated by NFY and Sp1 123
6 Activation of AP-1 is responsible for the HuR mediated downregulation of sGC 124
87 HuR interacts with the protein SSAT 126
V Summary 128
VI References 132
VII Appendix 157
1 Abbreviations 157
2 Zusammenfassung 160
3 List of Figures 165
4 List of Tables 167
5 Curriculum Vitae 168
6 Acknowledgement 171

9I Introduction
1 Historical Overview
After the discovery of 3’,5’-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) as the first
second messenger molecule that regulates many important cell functions
(Sutherland EW, 1958) guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP) became the
second identified member of this important class of signaling molecules, the
cyclic nucleotides (Ashman DF, 1963). cGMP is involved in the regulation of
vision, vasodilatation, platelet aggregation, smooth muscle cell proliferation,
cellular ion homeostasis, synaptic plasticity and other important physiological
processes (Carvajal JA, 2000);(McDonald LJ, 1995);(Sausbier M, 2000).
Cyclic GMP is synthesised by the guanylyl cyclase family of enzymes. It was
established by the mid-1970s that guanylyl cyclase activity is present in both the
soluble and particulate fractions of most cells (Schultz G, 1969);(White AA,
1969);(Hardman JG, 1969);(Ishikawa E, 1969), and that these activities are due
to different proteins (Garbers DL, 1974);(Kimura H, 1974);(Kimura H, 1975a).
Therefore, guanylyl cyclases are divided into two subfamilies: particulate and
soluble guanylyl cyclases (sGC) (Chrisman TD, 1975);(Garbers DL., 1990).

1.1 Role of Nitric Oxide (NO)
While a number of peptide hormones that stimulate particulate guanylyl cyclase
were known for some time (Waldman SA, 1985);(Murad F, 1987), the nature of
the physiological regulator of sGC remained for long time enigmatic. Already in
the 1970s, NO-releasing compounds were found to be potent activators of NO-
sensitive GC (Arnold WP, 1977);(Bohme E, 1978). Similarly, nitrovasodilators like
glyceroltrinitrate or isosorbid dinitrate therapeutically used for the treatment of
coronary heart disease act by stimulation of the enzyme. These nitrates do not
10 release NO spontaneously; instead, they have to undergo bioactivation that either
yields NO or nitrosothiols.
Despite the stimulatory effect of these NO-containing compounds, the
physiological significance of NO-induced activation of the enzyme did not
become apparent until the identification of endothelium-derived relaxing factor
(EDRF) as NO (Ignarro LJ, 1987);(Palmer RM, 1987). Formation of EDRF had
been shown to occur in endothelial cells in response to vasodilatory agonists
such as acetylcholine, histamine, or bradykinin, leading to vasodilation via the
activation of NO-sensitive GC in smooth muscle cells (Forstermann U, 1986).
After the discovery of NO in the vascular system, NO formation was reported to
occur throughout the body (Moncada S, 1995). The enzymes responsible for the
synthesis of NO were identified and termed NO synthases of which three
isoforms are known to date (neuronal NOS-NOS I, inducible NOS-NOS II,
endothelial NOS-NOS III). These enzymes catalyze the oxidative deamination of
the amino acid L-arginine, wherein by the consumption of 1.5 mol of NADPH and
2 mol of oxygen, a mol of NO is formed (Griffith OW, 1995). From two sequential
monooxygenase reactions the final products NO and L-citrulline are synthesized
(Marletta MA, 1988). The endothelial NO synthase is a constitutively expressed
enzyme that shows a low basal activity, which is increased however by hormonal
2+induced rise in the cytosolic Ca -concentration which is regulated by calmodulin
(Busse R, 1990);(Lamas S, 1992). The endothelial NO synthase is also activated
by Akt/PKB-dependent phosphorylation triggered by shear forces exerted on the
endothelial cells (Dimmeler S, 1999).
11
Figure 1. Current scheme for endothelium-dependent relaxation.
Endothelial cells possess receptors on their cell membrane, for example
for acetylcholine (M), ATP (P), histamine (H1), endothelin (ETB) and
thrombin (T). Through G-proteins these factors can induce the activation
of phospholipase C, which catalyzes the conversion of
phosphatidylinositol-4, 5-bisphosphate (PIP ) in inositol-1, 4, 5-triphosphat 2
2+e (IP ) and diacylglycerine (DAG). IP sets Ca free from intracellular 3 3
2+stores. This leads to the activation of the Ca /calmodulin-dependent
endothelial NO synthase (NOS III), which forms NO and L-citrulline