Project description:Abstract: Secretion occurs in all cells, with relatively low levels in most cells and extremely high levels in specialized secretory cells, such as those of the pancreas, salivary and mammary glands. Here, we report that the CrebA/Creb3-like family of bZip transcription factors functions to upregulate expression of both the general protein machinery required in all cells for secretion and of cell-type specific secreted proteins. Drosophila CrebA directly binds the enhancers of secretory pathway genes and is both necessary and sufficient to activate expression of every secretory pathway component gene examined thus far. Microarray profiling reveals that CrebA also upregulates expression of genes encoding cell type specific secreted components. Finally, we find that the human CrebA orthologues, Creb3L1 and Creb3L2, have the ability to upregulate the secretory pathway in non-secretory cell types. Goals: Creb3L1 is the closest related human orthologue of Drosophila CrebA. CrebA is required to upregulate genes encoding the protein machinery and cargo in specialized secretory cells. To determine if the human orthologues of CrebA, Creb3L1 and Creb3L2, perform the same function, we expressed the truncated active form of Creb3L1 in non-secretory HeLa cells. We then performed microarray experiments and found that active Creb3L1 is sufficient to upregulate genes encoding the protein machinery of the secretory pathway, as observed with Drosophila CrebA. HeLa cells were transiently co-transfected with truncated Creb3L1 (Creb3L1 T) and GFP. Following 20 hours in culture, GFP positive cells were isolated by FACS and RNA was extracted using the Rneasy kit (Qiagen). As a control, mock transfected cells were also subjected to cell sorting and RNA was extracted using the same protocols. At least three replicates were obtained for each group.
Project description:Abstract: Secretion occurs in all cells, with relatively low levels in most cells and extremely high levels in specialized secretory cells, such as those of the pancreas, salivary and mammary glands. Here, we report that the CrebA/Creb3-like family of bZip transcription factors functions to upregulate expression of both the general protein machinery required in all cells for secretion and of cell-type specific secreted proteins. Drosophila CrebA directly binds the enhancers of secretory pathway genes and is both necessary and sufficient to activate expression of every secretory pathway component gene examined thus far. Microarray profiling reveals that CrebA also upregulates expression of genes encoding cell type specific secreted components. Finally, we find that the human CrebA orthologues, Creb3L1 and Creb3L2, have the ability to upregulate the secretory pathway in non-secretory cell types. This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE23334: Active Creb3L1 can upregulate secretory pathway genes in HeLa cells GSE23346: CrebA is a major and direct regulator of secretory pathway gene expression Refer to individual Series
Project description:Abstract: Secretion occurs in all cells, with relatively low levels in most cells and extremely high levels in specialized secretory cells, such as those of the pancreas, salivary and mammary glands. Here, we report that the CrebA/Creb3-like family of bZip transcription factors functions to upregulate expression of both the general protein machinery required in all cells for secretion and of cell-type specific secreted proteins. Drosophila CrebA directly binds the enhancers of secretory pathway genes and is both necessary and sufficient to activate expression of every secretory pathway component gene examined thus far. Microarray profiling reveals that CrebA also upregulates expression of genes encoding cell type specific secreted components. Finally, we find that the human CrebA orthologues, Creb3L1 and Creb3L2, have the ability to upregulate the secretory pathway in non-secretory cell types. Goals: Creb3L1 is the closest related human orthologue of Drosophila CrebA. CrebA is required to upregulate genes encoding the protein machinery and cargo in specialized secretory cells. To determine if the human orthologues of CrebA, Creb3L1 and Creb3L2, perform the same function, we expressed the truncated active form of Creb3L1 in non-secretory HeLa cells. We then performed microarray experiments and found that active Creb3L1 is sufficient to upregulate genes encoding the protein machinery of the secretory pathway, as observed with Drosophila CrebA.
Project description:Abstract: Secretion occurs in all cells, with relatively low levels in most cells and extremely high levels in specialized secretory cells, such as those of the pancreas, salivary and mammary glands. Here, we report that the CrebA/Creb3-like family of bZip transcription factors functions to upregulate expression of both the general protein machinery required in all cells for secretion and of cell-type specific secreted proteins. Drosophila CrebA directly binds the enhancers of secretory pathway genes and is both necessary and sufficient to activate expression of every secretory pathway component gene examined thus far. Microarray profiling reveals that CrebA also upregulates expression of genes encoding cell type specific secreted components. Finally, we find that the human CrebA orthologues, Creb3L1 and Creb3L2, have the ability to upregulate the secretory pathway in non-secretory cell types. This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Project description:Abstract: Secretion occurs in all cells, with relatively low levels in most cells and extremely high levels in specialized secretory cells, such as those of the pancreas, salivary and mammary glands. Here, we report that the CrebA/Creb3-like family of bZip transcription factors functions to upregulate expression of both the general protein machinery required in all cells for secretion and of cell-type specific secreted proteins. Drosophila CrebA directly binds the enhancers of secretory pathway genes and is both necessary and sufficient to activate expression of every secretory pathway component gene examined thus far. Microarray profiling reveals that CrebA also upregulates expression of genes encoding cell type specific secreted components. Finally, we find that the human CrebA orthologues, Creb3L1 and Creb3L2, have the ability to upregulate the secretory pathway in non-secretory cell types. Goals: The goals of the microarray experiments were to identify additional targets of the CrebA transcription factor to learn the range of genes regulated by this transcription factor during embryogenesis. Previous work had indicated that CrebA upregulates the protein machinery of the early secretory pathway. Our new data now shows that in addition to the protein machinery, CrebA also upregulates genes encoding the protein cargo that is secreted from specialized secretory organs. RNA was isolated from stage 11-15 wild type Drosophila embryos and compared to RNA from CrebA null mutant embryos of the same age; all samples were hybridized to the Drosophila Genome 2.0 Affymetrix array. Three individual replicates were obtained for each sample.
Project description:Abstract: Secretion occurs in all cells, with relatively low levels in most cells and extremely high levels in specialized secretory cells, such as those of the pancreas, salivary and mammary glands. Here, we report that the CrebA/Creb3-like family of bZip transcription factors functions to upregulate expression of both the general protein machinery required in all cells for secretion and of cell-type specific secreted proteins. Drosophila CrebA directly binds the enhancers of secretory pathway genes and is both necessary and sufficient to activate expression of every secretory pathway component gene examined thus far. Microarray profiling reveals that CrebA also upregulates expression of genes encoding cell type specific secreted components. Finally, we find that the human CrebA orthologues, Creb3L1 and Creb3L2, have the ability to upregulate the secretory pathway in non-secretory cell types. Goals: The goals of the microarray experiments were to identify additional targets of the CrebA transcription factor to learn the range of genes regulated by this transcription factor during embryogenesis. Previous work had indicated that CrebA upregulates the protein machinery of the early secretory pathway. Our new data now shows that in addition to the protein machinery, CrebA also upregulates genes encoding the protein cargo that is secreted from specialized secretory organs.
Project description:Transcription factor Creb3l1 is a non-classical ER stress molecule that is emerging as an important component for cellular homeostasis, particularly within cell-types with high peptide secretory capabilities. We have previously shown that Creb3l1 serves an important role in body fluid homeostasis through its transcriptional control of the gene coding for antidiuretic hormone arginine vasopressin in the neuropeptide rich magnocellular neurons of the supraoptic nucleus. To identify other genes regulated by transcription factor Creb3l1 in secretory cells, we performed RNA-sequencing of Creb3l1 knockdown anterior pituitary mouse corticotroph cell line AtT20.
Project description:The goals of this study are to examine changes in the expression profiles of genes in HuCCT1 cells following CREB3L1 gene silencing. In this study, three groups of Si-Ctrl HuCCT1 cells and three groups of Si-CREB3L1 HuCCT1 cells were used to study the change in expression of the different genes after CREB3L1 gene silencing by RNA-seq.
Project description:The unfolded protein response (UPR) is activated in response to hypoxia-induced stress such as in the tumor microenvironment. This study examined the role of CREB3L1 (cAMP-responsive element-binding protein 3-like protein 1), a member of the UPR, in breast cancer development and metastasis. Initial experiments identified the loss of CREB3L1 expression in metastatic breast cancer cell lines compared to low- or non-metastatic cell lines. When metastatic cells were transfected with CREB3L1 they demonstrated reduced invasion and migration in vitro, as well as a significantly decreased ability to survive under non-adherent or hypoxic conditions. Interestingly, in an in vivo rat mammary tumor model, CREB3L1 expressing cells not only failed to form metastases compared to CREB3L1 null cells but regression of the primary tumors was seen in 70% of the animals as a result of impaired angiogenesis. Microarray and ChIP on Chip analyses identified changes in the expression of many genes involved in cancer development and metastasis, including a decrease in those involved in angiogenesis. These data suggest that CREB3L1 plays an important role in suppressing tumorgenesis and loss of expression is required for the development of a metastatic phenotype. CREB3L1 is a member of the unfolded protein response family of proteins. CREB3L1 expression is lost from metastatic breast cancer cells. We wanted to determine the promoters of genes that CREB3L1 bound to. Idenification of promoters to which CREB3L1 is bound following ChIP with a HA antibody in MDA-MB-435 cells.