Functional screening of mammalian mechanosensitive genes using Drosophila RNAi library– Smarcd3/Bap60 is a mechanosensitive pro-inflammatory gene
Disturbed blood flow (d-flow) induces atherosclerosis by altering the expression of mechanosensitive genes in the arterial endothelium. Previously, we identified >580 mechanosensitive genes in the mouse arterial endothelium, but their role in endothelial inflammation is incompletely understood. F...
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Published in | Scientific reports Vol. 6; no. 1; p. 36461 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
London
Nature Publishing Group UK
07.11.2016
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Summary: | Disturbed blood flow
(d-flow)
induces atherosclerosis by altering the expression of mechanosensitive genes in the arterial endothelium. Previously, we identified >580 mechanosensitive genes in the mouse arterial endothelium, but their role in endothelial inflammation is incompletely understood. From this set, we obtained 84
Drosophila
RNAi lines that silences the target gene under the control of upstream activation sequence (UAS) promoter. These lines were crossed with C564-GAL4 flies expressing GFP under the control of
drosomycin
promoter, an NF-κB target gene and a marker of pathogen-induced inflammation. Silencing of
psmd12
or
ERN1
decreased infection-induced
drosomycin
expression, while
Bap60
silencing significantly increased the
drosomycin
expression. Interestingly, knockdown of Bap60 in adult flies using temperature-inducible Bap60 RNAi (
C564
ts
-GAL4-Bap60-RNAi
) enhanced
drosomycin
expression upon Gram-positive bacterial challenge but the basal
drosomycin
expression remained unchanged compared to the control. In the mammalian system, smarcd3 (mammalian ortholog of Bap60) expression was reduced in the human- and mouse aortic endothelial cells exposed to oscillatory shear
in vitro as well as in the d-flow
regions of mouse arterial endothelium
in vivo.
Moreover, siRNA-mediated knockdown of smarcd3 induced endothelial inflammation. In summary, we developed an
in vivo Drosophila
RNAi screening method to identify flow-sensitive genes that regulate endothelial inflammation. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 These authors contributed equally to this work. |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 2045-2322 |
DOI: | 10.1038/srep36461 |