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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
28
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-7-10
pubmed:abstractText
Polyamines are essential for maintaining normal intestinal epithelial integrity, an effect that relies, at least in part, on their ability to keep low levels of nucleophosmin (NPM) and p53 mRNAs. The RNA-binding protein HuR associates with the p53 mRNA, as reported previously, and with the NPM mRNA, computationally predicted to be a target of HuR. Here, we show that HuR binds the NPM and p53 3'-untranslated regions and stabilizes these mRNAs in polyamine-depleted intestinal epithelial cells. Depletion of cellular polyamines by inhibiting ornithine decarboxylase with alpha-difluoromethylornithine dramatically enhanced the cytoplasmic abundance of HuR, whereas ectopic ornithine decarboxylase overexpression decreased cytoplasmic HuR; neither intervention changed whole-cell HuR levels. HuR was found to specifically bind the 3'-untranslated regions of NPN and p53 mRNAs. HuR silencing rendered the NPM and p53 mRNAs unstable and prevented increases in NPM and p53 mRNA and protein in polyamine-deficient cells. These results indicate that polyamines modulate cytoplasmic HuR levels in intestinal epithelial cells, in turn controlling the stability of the NPM and p53 mRNAs and influencing NPM and p53 protein levels.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
14
pubmed:volume
281
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
19387-94
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Polyamine depletion increases cytoplasmic levels of RNA-binding protein HuR leading to stabilization of nucleophosmin and p53 mRNAs.
pubmed:affiliation
Cell Biology Group, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural