Knockdown screening of chromatin binding and regulatory proteins in zebrafish identified Suz12b as a regulator of tfpia and an antithrombotic drug target
| Autor: | Weam Fallatah, Revathi Raman, Ayah Al Qaryoute, Pudur Jagadeeswaran, Sanchi Dhinoja |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0301 basic medicine
Science Repressor Biology Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Chromatin remodeling Article Antithrombins 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Tissue factor pathway inhibitor Drug Delivery Systems SUZ12 Genetics Animals Epigenetics Zebrafish Gene knockdown Multidisciplinary Chromatin binding Zebrafish Proteins biology.organism_classification Chromatin Cell biology 030104 developmental biology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis RNAi Medicine Transcription Factors |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | Tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) is an anticoagulant protein that inhibits factor VIIa and Xa in the coagulation cascade. It has been shown that forkhead box P3 protein is a TFPI transcriptional repressor. However, there are no studies on chromatin remodeling that control TFPI expression. We hypothesized that the genome-wide knockdowns of the chromatin binding and regulatory proteins (CBRPs) in zebrafish could identify novel tfpia gene regulators. As an initial step, we selected 69 CBRP genes from the list of zebrafish thrombocyte-expressed genes. We then performed a 3-gene piggyback knockdown screen of these 69 genes, followed by quantification of tfpia mRNA levels. The results revealed that knockdown of brd7, ing2, ing3, ing4, and suz12b increased tfpia mRNA levels. The simultaneous knockdown of these 5 genes also increased tfpia mRNA levels. We also performed individual gene and simultaneous 5-gene knockdowns on the 5 genes in zebrafish larvae. We found that after laser injury, it took a longer time for the formation of the thrombus to occlude the caudal vessel compared to the control larvae. We then treated the larvae and adults with a chemical UNC6852 known to proteolytically degrade polycomb repressor complex 2, where SUZ12 is a member, and observed prolongation of time to occlude (TTO) the caudal vein after laser injury and increased tfpia mRNA levels in larvae and adults, respectively. In summary, our results have identified novel epigenetic regulators for tfpia and exploited this information to discover a drug that enhances tfpia mRNA levels and prolongation of TTO. This discovery provides the basis for testing whether UNC6852 could be used as an antithrombotic drug. This approach could be used to study the regulation of other plasma proteins, including coagulant and anticoagulant factors. |
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