Identification of an Alternative Splicing Product of the Otx2 Gene Expressed in the Neural Retina and Retinal Pigmented Epithelial Cells.

Date publication

janvier 2016

Journal

PloS one

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr POCH Olivier

Tous les auteurs :
Kole C, Berdugo N, Da Silva C, Aït-Ali N, Millet-Puel G, Pagan D, Blond F, Poidevin L, Ripp R, Fontaine V, Wincker P, Zack DJ, Sahel JA, Poch O, Léveillard T

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26985665

Résumé

To investigate the complexity of alternative splicing in the retina, we sequenced and analyzed a total of 115,706 clones from normalized cDNA libraries from mouse neural retina (66,217) and rat retinal pigmented epithelium (49,489). Based upon clustering the cDNAs and mapping them with their respective genomes, the estimated numbers of genes were 9,134 for the mouse neural retina and 12,050 for the rat retinal pigmented epithelium libraries. This unique collection of retinal of messenger RNAs is maintained and accessible through a web-base server to the whole community of retinal biologists for further functional characterization. The analysis revealed 3,248 and 3,202 alternative splice events for mouse neural retina and rat retinal pigmented epithelium, respectively. We focused on transcription factors involved in vision. Among the six candidates suitable for functional analysis, we selected Otx2S, a novel variant of the Otx2 gene with a deletion within the homeodomain sequence. Otx2S is expressed in both the neural retina and retinal pigmented epithelium, and encodes a protein that is targeted to the nucleus. OTX2S exerts transdominant activity on the tyrosinase promoter when tested in the physiological environment of primary RPE cells. By overexpressing OTX2S in primary RPE cells using an adeno associated viral vector, we identified 10 genes whose expression is positively regulated by OTX2S. We find that OTX2S is able to bind to the chromatin at the promoter of the retinal dehydrogenase 10 (RDH10) gene.

Mots clés

Alcohol Oxidoreductases, genetics, Alternative Splicing, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Cells, Cultured, Chromatin, genetics, DNA, Complementary, genetics, Gene Library, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Molecular Sequence Data, Monophenol Monooxygenase, genetics, Otx Transcription Factors, analysis, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Protein Isoforms, analysis, RNA, Messenger, genetics, Rats, Retina, cytology, Retinal Pigment Epithelium, cytology

Référence

PLoS ONE. 2016 ;11(3):e0150758