ArticleCell death & disease2018
REST, regulated by RA through miR-29a and the proteasome pathway, plays a crucial role in RPC proliferation and differentiation.
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- Bio-inspired chiral self-assemblies promoted neuronal differentiation of retinal progenitor cells through activation of metabolic pathway.Bioactive materials · 2021Article
- News about the Role of the Transcription Factor REST in Neurons: From Physiology to Pathology.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
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Abstract
One of the primary obstacles in the application of retinal progenitor cells (RPCs) to the treatment of retinal degenerative diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP), is their limited ability to proliferate and differentiate into specific retinal neurons. In this study, we revealed that repressor element-1-silencing transcription factor (REST), whose expression could be transcriptionally and post-transcriptionally mediated by retinoic acid (RA, one isomeride of a vitamin A derivative used as a differentiation-inducing agent in many disease treatments), plays a pivotal role in the regulation of proliferation and differentiation of RPCs. Our results show that direct knockdown of endogenous REST reduced RPC proliferation but accelerated RPC differentiation toward retinal neurons, which phenocopied the observed effects of RA on RPCs. Further studies disclosed that the expression level of REST could be downregulated by RA not only through upregulating microRNA (miR)-29a, which directly interacted with the 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR) of the REST mRNA, but also through promoting REST proteasomal degradation. These results show us a novel functional protein, REST, which regulates RPC proliferation and differentiation, can be mediated by RA. Understanding the mechanisms of REST and RA in RPC fate determination enlightens a promising future for the application of REST and RA in the treatment of retinal degeneration diseases.
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