TIS11 Family Proteins and Their Roles in Posttranscriptional Gene Regulation

Baou, Maria; Jewell, Andrew; Murphy, John J.

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TIS11 Family Proteins and Their Roles in Posttranscriptional Gene Regulation

Maria Baou,^1,2Andrew Jewell,³and John J. Murphy¹

Academic Editor: Bibekanand Mallick

Received25 Feb 2009

Accepted18 May 2009

Published06 Aug 2009

Abstract

Posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression of mRNAs containing adenine-uridine rich elements (AREs) in their untranslated regions is mediated by a number of different proteins that interact with these elements to either stabilise or destabilise them. The present review concerns the TPA-inducible sequence 11 (TIS11) protein family, a small family of proteins, that appears to interact with ARE-containing mRNAs and promote their degradation. This family of proteins has been extensively studied in the past decade. Studies have focussed on determining their biochemical functions, identifying their target mRNAs, and determining their roles in cell functions and diseases.

1. Introduction

Mechanisms of posttranscriptional gene regulation by micro-RNA (miRNA) and short interfering RNA (siRNA) have been highlighted in recent years as having important roles in control of a variety of developmental and functional processes. The present review concerns a small family of proteins, the 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) inducible sequence 11 (TIS11) family, which also function in posttranscriptional gene regulation and whose functions may overlap and interact with miRNA and siRNA control mechanisms. The TIS11 family consists of four mammalian members and include TIS11 (ZFP36, TTP, Nup475, GOS24), TIS11b (Berg36, ERF-1, ZFP36L1, BRF-1), and TIS11d (ZFP36L2, ERF-2, BRF-2). The fourth family member described in rodents, Zfp36l3, was expressed in mouse placenta, but was not detected in human placenta or other human tissues [1]. TIS11-like proteins have also been identified in drosophila and yeast [2–4]. These proteins contain two tandemly repeated zinc finger motifs through which they bind to adenine uridine (AU) rich elements (AREs) in mRNA and mediate ARE-mediated mRNA decay [5]. Table 1 lists the three human TIS11 family members, their chromosomal locations as well as reported mRNA targets. This family of proteins have been reported to promote deadenylation, decapping, and finally degradation of mRNAs by either exosome (- degradation) or XRN1 exonuclease (- degradation) [6].

AREs are found mostly at the end of many mRNAs encoding cytokines, transcription factors, cell cycle regulators, and apoptosis regulators. It is estimated that up to 8% of mRNAs may contain AREs [7]. AREs are subdivided into three classes: Class I, Class II, and Class III. Class II is further subdivided into Class IIA, IIB, IIC, IID, IIE [6]. Class I is characterised by the AUUUA motif and a U-rich region. Class III is characterised by a U-rich sequence found in, for example, the mRNA of c-jun. Class IIA contains five consecutive AUUUA pentamer sequences; Class IIB contains four consecutive AUUUA pentamers; Class IIC contains three consecutive AUUUA pentamers; Class IID contains two consecutive AUUUA pentamers, and finally Class IIE contains one AUUUA motif [6].

2. The TIS11 Family in Posttranscriptional Gene Regulation

One of the first indications that the prototype TIS11 protein functions as an AU binding protein came from work which showed that TIS11 inhibited TNF production from macrophages by destabilising its messenger RNA (mRNA) and this appeared to be due to direct binding of TIS11 to the TNF ARE [8]. It was later shown that the optimal and minimally required RNA sequence for TIS11 binding is UUAUUUAUU [9–12]. The adenine residues and the spacing between them are critical in ensuring a stable association between the TIS11 peptide and RNA, even though TIS11 was still able to strongly bind to an AUUUUA peptide, and intermediately to AUUA and AUUUUUA peptides [9, 10]. TIS11 interaction with the RNA sequence is of relatively high affinity [10]. It should be noted that AREs are found at the end of each of the TIS11 family mRNAs suggesting that they may regulate themselves by a negative feedback loop [13, 14].

Overexpression of human TIS11 in HEK293 cells caused significant reduction in the levels of an artificial reporter mRNA containing part of the TNF- untranslated region ( UTR), and this was dependent on the amount of TIS11 plasmid transfected [32]. Similar effects were seen for rat TIS11b or Xenopus TIS11d, although TIS11d was less efficient in inducing TNF- reporter mRNA decay than TIS11 and TIS11b [32]. Two zinc finger motifs in TIS11 are necessary and sufficient for binding to the AREs, and also mediate TNF- mRNA decay [32]. Similarly, other studies reported that TIS11 and other members of the TIS11 family can also mediate decay of mRNA for GM-CSF and IL-3 [15, 33]. Critical residues in the human TIS11 family zinc finger domains for binding to the TNF- ARE probe or GM-CSF ARE probes were , , , , and , and mutations of these residues to other amino acids completely abolished TIS11 binding [39]. In the same study it was shown that coexpression of wild type TIS11 and a nonbinding mutant resulted in stabilisation of artificial reporter TNF- mRNA, even though wild type TIS11 was able to bind reporter TNF- mRNA [39]. This finding suggested that the presence of a nonbinding mutant acts as a dominant negative over TIS11 destabilising activity, possibly by interacting with proteins that regulate TIS11 destabilising function [39].

TIS11-dependent degradation of mRNA requires deadenylation [40]. Deadenylation is strongly induced by TIS11 when two nonamers (UUAUUUAUU) are present in a sequence, whereas deadenylation and mRNA degradation by TIS11 in probes containing only one nonamer is much weaker [12]. The ability of TIS11 to promote deadenylation was dependent on the presence of and it was suggested that there is involvement of PolyA specific ribonuclease (PARN) in the process. It was shown that TIS11 requires PARN to promote deadenylation of an ARE containing mRNA probe [40]. Association between TIS11 and PARN is indirect rather than direct and other proteins may form the bridge between them. Alternatively, the presence of TIS11 may displace an ARE stabilising factor that inhibits deadenylation caused by PARN [40]. Another study using immunoprecipitation demonstrated that TIS11 does not associate directly with PARN [41]. It was also shown that TIS11 co-immunoprecipitates with hDcp1 and hDcp2 (decapping enzymes), hXrn1 (- exonuclease), hCcr4 (deadenylase), hRrp4 (a component of the exosome), or hEdc3 (enhances the activity of the decapping enzymes) through the N-terminal domain, whereas the zinc fingers and the C-terminal domain are not involved in these interactions [41, 42]. Additionally, deletion of the N-terminal domain of TIS11 partially abrogated induction of mRNA decay by TIS11. It was therefore proposed that TIS11 is involved in deadenylation and degradation of mRNA by recruiting enzymes such as hDcp1, hDcp2 and hCcr4 through the N-terminal domain [41]. Other transacting elements may also be involved in TIS11 function recruited through the C-terminal domain, since deletion of this domain in both TIS11 and TIS11b resulted in stabilisation of a -globin mRNA containing AREs [41]. One such element may be the exosome, a multicomponent complex with - exonuclease activity, and it was reported that TIS11 requires and recruits the exosome specifically in ARE containing mRNA probes, to mediate degradation of a deadenylated mRNA [43]. It was also shown that the exosome consists of 14 different components, among which are hRrp4, hRrp40, hRrp41, hRrp42, hRrp43, hRrp46, hCsl4, and hMtr3 [43]. It seems likely that TIS11 mediated mRNA degradation involves multiple enzymes including PARN, decapping enzymes such as hDcp1, hDcp2, hEdc3, exonucleases including the exosome, and Xrn1 (- exonuclease) as well, to preferentially degrade ARE containing mRNAs [42, 43]. Figure 1 shows the pathways and major components of ARE mediated mRNA decay.

Figure 1

Pathways and major components of ARE-mediated mRNA decay by TIS11 proteins. TIS11 protein binds to the ARE sequence in the UTR and recruits deadenylases either directly (hCcr4) or indirectly (PARN). Deadenylated mRNA can be recruited by the exosome, a multiprotein structure containing proteins such as Rrp4, Rrp40, Rrp41, and PM-Scl75 that form the to exoribonuclease complex. Decapping of mRNA can follow deadenylation mediated by decapping enzymes such as Dcp1 and Dcp2 and degradation of mRNA can then be mediated by the to Xrn1 exonuclease.

Reported mRNA targets of the TIS11 family include TNF- in many cell types [14, 24, 44–47], GM-CSF [15], IL-3 [16], IL-2 [21], IL-6 [17], IL-10 [30], Ccl2 and Ccl3 [24], 1,4-galactosyltransferase [22], vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) [29], cyclooxygenase-2 [18], plasminogen activator inhibitor type 2 [19], paired-like homeodomain 2 (Pitx2) [20], E47 [28], polo-like kinase 3 [31], and TIS11 itself [14]. VEGF mRNA was also reported to be a target of TIS11b [35] although in TIS11b deficient fibroblasts VEGF levels were shown to be elevated as a consequence of increased translation rather than an effect on VEGF mRNA [37]. More recently, TIS11b has been reported to target and degrade steroid acute regulatory (STAR) protein mRNA [38]. Utilisation of siRNA inhibition for TIS11 revealed that it targets FOS and p21 in the THP-1 cell line and primary human monocytes [26] and IL-12 and MIP-2 in macrophages [23]. Similarly, TIS11 is involved in the regulation of c-myc and cyclin-D following treatment of glioblastoma and prostate cancer cell lines with rapamycin [25]. This suggests that TIS11 also regulates certain transcription factors and cell cycle regulators. A global search for novel mRNA targets of TIS11 identified 250 potential targets and characterised immediate early response gene 3 (Ier3) mRNA as a novel target [27]. Notably, in this study Ier3 was clearly shown not to be a target for TIS11b [27] and in a later study polo-like kinase 3 was shown also to be a target for TIS11 but not TIS11b or TIS11d [31]. These examples illustrate that mRNA targets of TIS11 family members may be different for different family members. In fact, there is growing awareness in the field that many in vitro assays designed to measure mRNA interaction and decay may identify “nonphysiological targets” and that “physiological targets” of TTP family members can best be determined by analysis of mRNA degradation kinetics in knockout mice or cells derived from knockout mice [27]. Another more recent global analysis of TIS11 targets identified 137 potential TIS11 mRNA targets [30]. Interestingly, only a subset of the putative TIS11 targets contained the UUAUUUAUU sequence. This implies that either the RNA binding specificity of TIS11 proteins is not fully understood or that TIS11 proteins can be indirectly recruited to mRNA targets via other RNA-binding proteins, or that many false positives have been indentified in target screens. Table 1 summarises the reported mRNA targets for TIS11 family proteins and reported mechanisms.

A number of recent studies have reported links between TIS11 and miRNA functions and processes. Dicer, an enzyme required in the processing of miRNAs, was needed for TIS11 mediated degradation of TNF ARE [48]. Furthermore, these studies revealed that miRNA16 can pair with eight bases in the TNF ARE and this pairing is required for TIS11 mediated degradation of TNF ARE [48]. TIS11 and miR16 do not bind directly to each other but interact through association with Argonaute/eiF2C family members [48]. Thus, TIS11 mediated mRNA degradation may require components of the miRNA processing pathway and indeed miRNA and TIS11 proteins may act codependently in mediating degradation. TIS11 was also identified as a component of the RNAi pathway by a genome wide screen in Drosophila melanogaster [49]. TIS11 genes contain many predicted targets for miRNA suggesting another level of complexity in the interrelationship between TIS11 family members and miRNAs [50]. A picture is therefore emerging of potentially complex interplay of different mechanisms of posttranscriptional gene regulation which include the TIS11 family.

3. Identification of Human TIS11 Family Members

Human TIS11 is located on chromosome 19q13.1, and was isolated and cloned by several groups after stimulation of cells with serum, TPA, or insulin [51–53]. Human TIS11b is located on chromosome 14q22-24 and was isolated from chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells (CLL) after stimulation with TPA [54, 55], from human cDNA libraries probed with the rat cMG1 [13] or as a gene that reversed the phenotype of mutant H1080 cells which were unable to degrade IL-3 mRNA [34]. Finally human TIS11d is located on 2p22.3-p21 and was isolated from human cDNA libraries probed with the mouse TIS11d mRNA [56]. The sequence of each of the three human genes shows little variation between individuals, and most polymorphisms are detected in the introns, promoter, and UTR regions [57]. Thirteen polymorphisms were detected in the protein-coding regions of the three TIS11 family genes and six of these would result in amino acid changes. In TIS11b a polymorphism generating a dinucleotide substitution was detected that would prevent splicing of the single intron of TIS11b but to date the significance of this is unknown [57]. Further polymorphisms of TIS11 were identified in a more recent study and one, an C to T transition in the protein coding domain of TIS11, was significantly associated with rheumatoid arthritis in African-Americans [58].

TIS11, TIS11b, and TIS11d have all been associated with induction of mRNA decay (see Table 1), and even though redundancy in their function has been suggested, studies with knock-out mice and analysis of tissue distribution suggest that they may have cell specific regulation and functions. TIS11 knock-out mice appear normal at birth but later develop severe cachexia, autoimmunity, patchy alopecia, arthritis, and conjunctivitis, which can be reversed by administration of anti-TNF- antibody [44]. TIS11b knock-out mice do not survive to birth but die in utero between days E8 and E13, due either to failure in chorioallontoic fusion [59], or to defective extraembryonic vasculogenesis [37]. Mice in which a truncated form of TIS11d was generated, which left the RNA binding domain and the nuclear export signal intact [60], appeared normal at birth, but females were infertile. Expression of the TIS11 family in mouse tissues has shown that the TIS11 protein is highly expressed in spleen, thymus, lung, large intestine, and liver, weakly expressed in brain and pancreas but is not expressed at all in the testis and uterus [61]. TIS11b is highly expressed in kidneys, liver, lung, pancreas, and heart, and weakly in skeletal muscle, colon, thymus, spleen, small intestine, brain, and peripheral blood leukocytes [62]. TIS11d is highly expressed in lung, liver, skeletal muscle, kidneys, pancreas, placenta, and less strongly in heart and brain [63].

4. Structure of TIS11 Family Members

The structures of the first zinc finger motif of TIS11 [64] and human TIS11d before and after binding to an ARE probe have been reported [65]. The spacing between the cysteines and histidine in the zinc fingers () and the length of the linker between the zinc finger motifs are conserved between TIS11, TIS11b, and TIS11d. Because of the similarity of the zinc finger motifs between the three family members, it is expected that the model of mRNA binding to TIS11d will apply to all family members. The first zinc finger motif of TIS11 was found to be very different in comparison with other metal and zinc binding core domains, in terms of diameter and thickness [64]. For human TIS11d each of the two zinc fingers is folded independently into a compact domain connected by a linker sequence [65]. The structure is stabilised by binding of zinc to side chains of , , , for the first zinc finger (ZF1) motif and , , , for the second zinc finger (ZF2). Hydrogen bonds and van der Waals forces are involved in further stabilisation of this structure [65]. The orientation of the fingers is fixed, because the linker region has a relatively rigid structure stabilised by hydrogen bonds at each end and has little flexibility apart from the central region (residues 186-189) [65]. TNF-ARE was used as a probe in this study, with the sequence -UUAUUUAUU-. Zinc finger 1 (-) interacted with a single UAUU subsite on the end while zinc finger 2 (-) interacted with the same subsite on the end.

5. Regulation of the TIS11 Family at the mRNA Level

TIS11 family mRNAs are induced by TPA in a wide variety of cells including CLL cells, mouse fibroblasts, human epithelial cells, and PC phaeochromocytoma cells [53, 54]. Insulin can induce TIS11 in NIH3T3 mouse fibroblasts [66] but in RIE-1 cells only TIS11b is up regulated by insulin while the other two family members remain unaffected [67]. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces TIS11 as early as 30 minutes poststimulation in murine macrophage RAW264.7 cells or human macrophages (THP-1) [14, 68, 69]. TIS11 was also induced by LPS in primary human white blood cells including lymphocytes, monocytes, and neutrophils [70]. TIS11 can be induced by GM-CSF in myeloid cells [71] and by TGF- in a T-cell line [72] or a combination of TPA and ionomycin in T lymphocytes [73]. TIS11 can be induced by anisomycin (a p38 activator) and further induced by a combination of anisomycin plus IFN- or IFN- as early as 1 hour poststimulation in mouse embryonic fibroblasts [24]. In the same study it was shown that addition of IFN- to LPS treated primary mouse bone marrow macrophages further increased induction of TIS11 mRNA in comparison with LPS treated cells [24]. Glucocorticoids have also been reported to induce TIS11 mRNA and protein in lung epithelial cells and this induction may well be important for glucocorticoid mediated control of inflammatory gene expression [74, 75]. The second family member, TIS11b, has been shown to be induced by TPA, bryostatin, and rituximab in CLL cells [54, 76, 77], calcium ionophore, anti-IgM and anti-CD20 in Burkitt’s lymphoma cell lines [55, 78], insulin in RIE-1 cells [67] parathyroid hormone in human primary osteoblasts [79] or adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) hormone in adrenocortical cells [80].

An important consideration is that the kinetics of induction of the mRNA for TIS11 genes appears to be dependent on the type of stimulus and cell type. For example, TIS11 mRNA is evident at 15 minutes after insulin or serum stimulation in mouse fibroblasts returning to almost baseline levels at two hours [66, 81]. In RAW264.7 cells, TIS11 mRNA induction by LPS is biphasic with the first peak at one hour and the second peak at five hours poststimulation [69]. It has been shown that both phases of the biphasic TIS11 mRNA induction after LPS treatment in RAW264.7 are regulated through the p38 pathway at the mRNA level [69] and p38 and ERK pathway at the protein level [82]. Similarly TIS11b peaks at two hours poststimulation and is clearly above basal levels at four hours after stimulation in insulin treated RIE-1 cells [67] but in ACTH treated human adrenocortical cells, peak induction of the gene occurs at three hours poststimulation and is above the basal levels for up to 24 hours poststimulation [80]. TPA stimulation of CLL cells induced TIS11b more strongly and earlier than bryostatin [76] and in the BL60-2 Burkitts lymphoma cell line, anti-IgM induced TIS11b more strongly than anti-CD20 stimulation [78]. H7 (a broad specificity inhibitor for the PKC and PKA pathways) did not have any effect on induction of TIS11b mRNA by TPA or bryostatin in CLL cells [76]. Similarly, induction of TIS11b in RIE-1 cell line by insulin was unaffected by PKC inhibition, but inhibition of PI3K pathway by wortmannin partially abrogated induction, whereas the same PI3K inhibitor had no effect on induction of TIS11b by TPA [67].

6. Regulation of the TIS11 Family at the Protein Level

The TIS11 family is also regulated at the protein level through either phosphorylation and/or localisation in different cellular compartments.

6.1. Phosphorylation

The TIS11 protein was suggested to be phosphorylated since it was noticed that stimulation of the NIH3T3 cell line with various stimuli such as serum, TPA, platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), fibroblast growth factor (FGF) for 2 hours, induced TIS11 protein detected as 45 kDa protein and not as the predicted 33 kDa protein [83]. In this particular study, phosphorylation of TIS11 was shown to be partially regulated by the p42 mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway, which phosphorylates in mouse TIS11 [83]. In another study in LPS stimulated murine macrophages, TIS11 protein was evident at 75 minutes poststimulation as a 36 kDa protein, and increased in size over time up to 45 kDa at 240 minutes poststimulation [84]. TIS11 protein is a substrate for MAPK p38 and p38 isoforms which probably control multiple phosphorylation events [84]. TIS11 phosphorylation was also reported to be mediated by the p38-regulated MAPK activated protein kinase 2 (MK2) [68]. , , , , , were suggested to be the sites of phosphorylation by MK2 in murine TIS11 and and were suggested to be regulated by the p38a pathway [85]. Addition of a p38 inhibitor to RAW 264.7 cells previously stimulated by LPS for 2 hours resulted in rapid TIS11 dephosphorylation and degradation [82]. TIS11 phosphorylation is therefore in equilibrium with dephosphorylation probably mediated by protein phosphatase 2A [86]. Major phosphorylation sites responsible for murine TIS11 stabilisation were found to be and which were phosphorylated by MK2 [82, 87].

The importance of phosphorylation for the cytoplasmic localisation of murine TIS11 was demonstrated in a study which also suggested that is important for this localisation [82]. Interestingly, is also present in murine TIS11b and phosphorylation of this site creates a binding site for the 14-3-3 isoform [85]. This is not the only isoform of 14-3-3 that the TIS11 family can bind to and it has been shown by a yeast two hybrid system that all TIS11 family members bind equally well to 14-3-3 and isoforms [88]. A study using MudPIT or MALDI/MS methods showed that the major phosphorylation sites in human TIS11 when purified from HEK293 cells were , , , , , , , , , [89]. Ser¹⁹⁷, Ser²¹⁸, and Ser²²⁸ were predicted to be potential sites for protein kinase A, glycogen synthase kinase-3, and extracellular-signal-regulated kinase 1 (both and ), respectively [89].

Phosphorylation of TIS11 may alter its function as a destabilizing AU binding protein. One study showed that transfection of cells with TIS11 and MKK6, which activates p38, resulted in phosphorylation of TIS11 protein but this did not affect TIS11 ability to induce mRNA decay [69]. Another study using a series of serine or threonine mutants, alone or in combination, showed that these phosphorylation events did not alter the function of TIS11 in terms of TNF- induced destabilisation or mRNA binding and deadenylation [47]. A further study showed that cotransfection of HEK293 cells with TIS11 and MKK6(E) dominant active MKK6 resulted in a slight increase in the half life of a TNF- construct in comparison with cells transfected with TIS11 alone, suggesting some deactivation or inhibition of TIS11 function following phosphorylation [84]. Furthermore, it was reported that phosphorylation of murine TIS11 especially at inhibited its binding ability to TNF- ARE and thus that the unphosphorylated TIS11 is active in mRNA degradation [87]. It was proposed that reduced binding activity of phosphorylated murine TIS11 could be due to competitive binding with 14-3-3 proteins because phosphorylation of and has been reported to induce binding to 14-3-3 proteins [87]. More recently, it was reported that phosphorylation of human TIS11b did not affect its ability to bind to AREs and recruit RNA degradation enzymes but did nonetheless inhibit its ability to degrade ARE-containing mRNA [90]. Finally, another study involving human TIS11b, showed that phosphorylation of TIS11b by protein kinase B at abrogated mRNA decay of an IL-3 ARE containing probe induced by overexpression of TIS11b [91].

6.2. Subcellular Localisation of TIS11 Family Members

In many cell types, TIS11 is expressed at very low/undetectable levels in the nucleus and cytoplasm of unstimulated cells and is almost entirely expressed in the cytoplasm of stimulated cells [82]. However, there was one early report showing that TIS11 is nuclear and remains nuclear after stimulation with serum [51]. Another exception appears to be human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) in which TIS11 is cytoplasmic in resting HUVEC and becomes nuclear after stimulation with TNF- [22]. Nuclear to cytoplasmic shuttling of murine Tis11 has been shown to be regulated through induction of phosphorylation at and , primarily by the p38 pathway [82]. Hypophosphorylated forms of TIS11 were found to be nuclear and highly susceptible to proteasomal degradation [82].

Murine TIS11 has a nuclear export signal (NES) between amino acids 1–15 [92]. For murine TIS11b B the NES has been mapped between amino acids 305–313 and for murine TIS11d between amino acids 471–479 [92]. In a separate study, the rat TIS11 nuclear localisation signal (NLS) was mapped to the region containing the tandem repeats of the zinc finger motif (amino acids 88–161), and and , which are located in the linker region between the two zinc finger motifs, were shown to be critical residues whereas , and were critical for nuclear export [93]. It has been shown by a yeast two hybrid system that TIS11 specifically associates with nucleoporin/Nup214 which is part of the nuclear pore on the cytoplasmic face of the pore complex [94] and this protein probably associates with the linker region between the zinc finger motifs to mediate nuclear localisation of TIS11. On the other hand nuclear export seems to be regulated through CRM1 since inhibition of CRM1 resulted in nuclear accumulation of TIS11 [93].

When cells are stimulated with a strong stress signal such as heat shock, TIS11 co-localises with TIA-1 in stress granules [95]. Localisation of TIS11 in stress granules also occurs when cells are treated with FCCP (p-trifluoromethoxy carbonyl cyanide phenyl hydrazone, a mitochondrial inhibitor), and oxidative stress but MK2 phosphorylation of TIS11 promotes its complex formation with 14-3-3 protein and excludes it from stress granules [96, 97]. Both zinc fingers of rat TIS11 are absolutely necessary for localisation in stress granules, especially amino acids , , , , and [95]. On the contrary it was shown that arsenite treatment excludes TIS11 from stress granules through MK2 mediated or p38 and c-jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) mediated phosphorylation [47, 96]. TIS11 and TIS11b also localise to processing bodies (P-bodies), which are cytoplasmic foci of mRNAs and enzymes that have been proposed as sites of mRNA decay and translational silencing [42, 97, 98]. TIS11 and TIS11b appear to deliver ARE containing mRNAs to processing bodies for translational silencing and mRNA decay [98]. Overexpression of TIS11 and TIS11b resulted in stable association between stress granules and processing bodies suggesting that the TIS11 family plays an active role in tethering stress granules to processing bodies [97]. Stress granules are considered sites where mRNA is sorted for storage, reinitiation of translation or degradation [97, 99]. Interestingly, formation of processing bodies is absolutely necessary for RNA interference activity and translation arrest or mRNA degradation through siRNA and miRNA [100]. Thus, TIS11 family and miRNA posttranscriptional functions take place in the same subcellular location as well as possibly being interdependent and sharing mRNA degradation machinery [48].

7. TIS11 Family in Cell Functions and Disease

Overexpression of TIS11 family members induces apoptosis in a variety of cell lines including HeLa, U20S, SAOS2, and 3T3 [101, 102] and B-cell lymphoma cells [77] cells. Induction of apoptosis by all three TIS11 family members was completely abrogated in the presence of Bcl-2 or CrmA [101]. TIS11 synergistically induced apoptosis with TNF- in 3T3 cells and the zinc fingers and the N-terminal domain of TIS11 are absolutely critical for this effect [102]. Mutant TIS11 lacking the zinc finger motifs failed to induce apoptosis and localised in the nucleus, whereas the wild type TIS11 localised in the cytoplasm [102]. The TIS11 family may regulate degradation of cell survival proteins such as, Bcl-2, directly. Bcl-2 mRNA contains a Class II ARE motif in the UTR with at least one UUAUUUAUU nonamer which is conserved between different species and this sequence controls the stability of Bcl-2 [103]. RNA electrophoretic shift assays have confirmed an interaction between TIS11b and the Bcl-2 ARE (Murphy et al., unpublished observations). Because TIS11 also destabilises several mRNAs whose overexpression is related to malignant change, it has been suggested that they may form a class of tumour suppressor genes. In support of this hypothesis, it has been reported that injection of mast cells transformed with v-H-Ras resulted in tumour formation in mice as early as 6 weeks after injection due to production of autocrine IL-3 [104]. Transfection with v-H-Ras clones overexpressing TIS11 delayed tumour formation by at least 4 weeks [104]. Another study correlated response to cisplatin in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cell lines with levels of TIS11b expression. Tumour cells expressing TIS11b underwent apoptosis following drug exposure, while tumour cells with low/absent levels of TIS11b were resistant to apoptosis, but became sensitive after transfection of cells with a TIS11b expressing plasmid [36]. Interestingly, significant downregulation of inhibitor of apoptosis protein 2 (cIAP2) but not Bcl-2 mRNA was seen in these cells even though both these mRNAs contain class II AREs [36].

TIS11 (but not TIS11b) specifically interacts with the Tax protein from either bovine leukaemia virus or human T lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1) through the C-terminal domain [46]. In the presence of TIS11, Tax was less oncogenic probably due to inhibition of Tax transactivation activity [46]. Interestingly TIS11 was able to abrogate TNF- induction by Tax in unstimulated RAW264.7 cells [46]. TIS11b expression is upregulated in human HTLV-1-infected cells by Tax transactivator protein which binds to two TIS11b upstream control elements [105].

TIS11b was found to be one of the genes that are over expressed in cell lines and primary cells expressing the AML1-ETO fusion protein, that is, found in 40% of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia subtype M2 [62]. When ectopically expressed TIS11b promoted myeloid progenitor L-G cell proliferation and inhibited differentiation [62]. Intriguingly, siRNA mediated TIS11b knockdown in murine embryonic stem cells promoted their differentiation to cardiomyocytes [106]. Increased expression of TIS11b was reported in primary breast tumours [107] and hepatocellular carcinomas [108]. In addition, TIS11, TIS11b, and TIS11d have been reported to be over-expressed in a variety of the NCI 60 panel of human cancer cell lines [109].

The involvement of the TIS11 family in inflammatory disease was one of the earliest reported disease associations of this family. TIS11 knockout mice developed a generalised autoimmune-like disease that was largely controlled by the addition of neutralising anti-TNF antibodies [44]. TIS11, in particular, has been reported to mediate degradation of inflammatory cytokine mRNAs (see Table 1 and references therein). Recently, targeting TIS11 has been shown to have therapeutic potential in an animal model of inflammatory bone loss [110].

8. Conclusion

The TIS11 family of proteins mediate posttranscriptional gene regulation, which appears to be important in a range of physiological and pathological processes. A number of important gaps in our knowledge still exist and require further study. We have limited knowledge of mRNA targets of TIS11 family members and whether individual TIS11 family members target distinct, overlapping, or identical targets to other family members. A few studies have suggested inhibition of translation may also be mediated by the TIS11 family as well as mRNA degradation and this requires further elucidation. A most interesting line of enquiry concerns the relationship of TIS11 family mediated posttranscriptional regulation to miRNA and siRNA mediated posttranscriptional regulation. Finally, their role in cell functions and disease have already provided evidence that they may be useful therapeutic targets in inflammatory diseases and cancer. Further studies are likely to identify other important regulatory mechanisms for this family in health and disease.

Abbreviations

ARE:	Adenine uridine rich elements
AU:	Adenine uridine
CLL:	Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
LPS:	Lipopolysaccharide
MAPK:	Mitogen activated protein kinase
miRNA:	Micro RNA
MK2:	p38-regulated MAPK activated protein kinase 2
PARN:	PolyA specific ribonuclease
siRNA:	Short interfering RNA
TPA:	12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate.

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