دورية أكاديمية

Inhibition of EZH2 Causes Retrotransposon Derepression and Immune Activation in Porcine Lung Alveolar Macrophages

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العنوان: Inhibition of EZH2 Causes Retrotransposon Derepression and Immune Activation in Porcine Lung Alveolar Macrophages
المؤلفون: Liangliang Zhang, Jian Jin, Weiyun Qin, Jing Jiang, Wenbin Bao, Ming-an Sun
المصدر: International Journal of Molecular Sciences; Volume 24; Issue 3; Pages: 2394
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: alveolar macrophage, EZH2, porcine 3D4/21 cell, innate immunity, retrotransposon, endogenous retrovirus
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: Alveolar macrophages (AMs) form the first defense line against various respiratory pathogens, and their immune response has a profound impact on the outcome of respiratory infection. Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2), which catalyzes the trimethylation of H3K27 for epigenetic repression, has gained increasing attention for its immune regulation function, yet its exact function in AMs remains largely obscure. Using porcine 3D4/21 AM cells as a model, we characterized the transcriptomic and epigenomic alterations after the inhibition of EZH2. We found that the inhibition of EZH2 causes transcriptional activation of numerous immune genes and inhibits the subsequent infection by influenza A virus. Interestingly, specific families of transposable elements, particularly endogenous retrovirus elements (ERVs) and LINEs which belong to retrotransposons, also become derepressed. While some of the derepressed ERV families are pig-specific, a few ancestral families are known to be under EZH2-mediated repression in humans. Given that derepression of ERVs can promote innate immune activation through “viral mimicry”, we speculate that ERVs may also contribute to the coinciding immune activation in AMs after the inhibition of EZH2. Overall, this study improves the understanding of the EZH2-related immune regulation in AMs and provides novel insights into the epigenetic regulation of retrotransposons in pigs.
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اللغة: English
العلاقة: Molecular Biology; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24032394Test
DOI: 10.3390/ijms24032394
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24032394Test
حقوق: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.9B6A56AE
قاعدة البيانات: BASE