PMID- 25826662 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20151217 LR - 20201113 IS - 1555-8584 (Electronic) IS - 1547-6286 (Print) IS - 1547-6286 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 3 DP - 2015 TI - Regulation of human PTCH1b expression by different 5' untranslated region cis-regulatory elements. PG - 290-304 LID - 10.1080/15476286.2015.1008929 [doi] AB - PTCH1 gene codes for a 12-pass transmembrane receptor with a negative regulatory role in the Hedgehog-Gli signaling pathway. PTCH1 germline mutations cause Gorlin syndrome, a disorder characterized by developmental abnormalities and tumor susceptibility. The autosomal dominant inheritance, and the evidence for PTCH1 haploinsufficiency, suggests that fine-tuning systems of protein patched homolog 1 (PTC1) levels exist to properly regulate the pathway. Given the role of 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) in protein expression, our aim was to thoroughly explore cis-regulatory elements in the 5'UTR of PTCH1 transcript 1b. The (CGG)n polymorphism was the main potential regulatory element studied so far but with inconsistent results and no clear association between repeat number and disease risk. Using luciferase reporter constructs in human cell lines here we show that the number of CGG repeats has no strong impact on gene expression, both at mRNA and protein levels. We observed variability in the length of 5'UTR and changes in abundance of the associated transcripts after pathway activation. We show that upstream AUG codons (uAUGs) present only in longer 5'UTRs could negatively regulate the amount of PTC1 isoform L (PTC1-L). The existence of an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) observed using different approaches and mapped in the region comprising the CGG repeats, would counteract the effect of the uAUGs and enable synthesis of PTC1-L under stressful conditions, such as during hypoxia. Higher relative translation efficiency of PTCH1b mRNA in HEK 293T cultured hypoxia was observed by polysomal profiling and Western blot analyses. All our results point to an exceptionally complex and so far unexplored role of 5'UTR PTCH1b cis-element features in the regulation of the Hedgehog-Gli signaling pathway. FAU - Ozretic, Petar AU - Ozretic P AD - a Laboratory for Hereditary Cancer ; Division of Molecular Medicine ; Ruder Boskovic Institute ; Zagreb , Croatia. FAU - Bisio, Alessandra AU - Bisio A FAU - Musani, Vesna AU - Musani V FAU - Trnski, Diana AU - Trnski D FAU - Sabol, Maja AU - Sabol M FAU - Levanat, Sonja AU - Levanat S FAU - Inga, Alberto AU - Inga A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - RNA Biol JT - RNA biology JID - 101235328 RN - 0 (5' Untranslated Regions) RN - 0 (Internal Ribosome Entry Sites) RN - 0 (PTCH1 protein, human) RN - 0 (Patched Receptors) RN - 0 (Patched-1 Receptor) RN - 0 (Protein Isoforms) RN - 0 (Receptors, Cell Surface) SB - IM MH - *5' Untranslated Regions MH - Base Sequence MH - Cell Hypoxia/genetics MH - *Gene Expression Regulation MH - HCT116 Cells MH - HEK293 Cells MH - Humans MH - *Internal Ribosome Entry Sites MH - MCF-7 Cells MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Patched Receptors MH - Patched-1 Receptor MH - *Protein Biosynthesis MH - Protein Isoforms/genetics/metabolism MH - Receptors, Cell Surface/*genetics/metabolism MH - Ribosomes/genetics/metabolism MH - Signal Transduction PMC - PMC4615190 OTO - NOTNLM OT - 5'UTR OT - 5'UTR, 5' untranslated region OT - CGG repeats OT - Fluc, Firefly luciferase OT - Hedgehog-Gli OT - Hh-Gli, Hedgehog-Gli OT - IRES OT - IRES, internal ribosome entry site OT - POL, polysome-associated OT - PTC1-L, protein patched homolog 1 OT - PTCH1 OT - Rluc, Renilla luciferase OT - SUB, subpolysomal OT - isoform L PTCH1b, Patched 1 gene, transcript variant 1b OT - uAUG OT - uAUG, upstream AUG codon OT - uORF OT - uORF, upstream open reading frame EDAT- 2015/04/01 06:00 MHDA- 2015/12/19 06:00 PMCR- 2016/03/31 CRDT- 2015/04/01 06:00 PHST- 2015/04/01 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/04/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/12/19 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/03/31 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 1008929 [pii] AID - 10.1080/15476286.2015.1008929 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - RNA Biol. 2015;12(3):290-304. doi: 10.1080/15476286.2015.1008929.