ESRP2-microRNA-122 axis promotes the postnatal onset of liver polyploidization and maturation.

ABSTRACT: Hepatocyte polyploidy and maturity are critical to acquiring specialized liver functions. Multiple intracellular and extracellular factors influence ploidy, but how they cooperate temporally to steer liver polyploidization and maturation or how post-transcriptional mechanisms integrate into these paradigms is unknown. Here, we identified an important regulatory hierarchy in which postnatal activation of epithelial splicing regulatory protein 2 (ESRP2) stimulates processing of liver-specific microRNA (miR-122) to facilitate polyploidization, maturation, and functional competence of hepatocytes. By determining transcriptome-wide protein-RNA interactions in vivo and integrating them with single-cell and bulk hepatocyte RNA-seq data sets, we delineated an ESRP2-driven RNA processing pro

SUBMITTER: Bangru S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11874994 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature