Abstract
Tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (TrpRS) catalyzes the aminoacylation of tRNATrp. mRNA of a rodent-specific alternative splice variant of TrpRS (SV-TrpRS), which results in the inclusion of an additional hexapeptide at the C-terminus of full-length TrpRS (FL-TrpRS), has been identified in murine embryonic stem (ES) cells. In the present study, we evaluated the expression of mouse TrpRS mRNA by real-time reverse transcription PCR. We show that SV-TrpRS and FL-TrpRS mRNAs are highly expressed in murine ES cells, embryo, spleen, lung, liver and uterus and that the relative expression of SV-TrpRS compared to FL-TrpRS is significantly less in the brain. Moreover, we found that interferon-γ increases the expression of TrpRS in a mouse cell line. These results provide the first evidence for tissue-specific expression and alternative splicing of mouse TrpRS.
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Introduction
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are key enzymes in the process of protein biosynthesis and catalyze the aminoacylation of their cognate tRNAs1. Tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (TrpRS) catalyzes activation of tryptophan (Trp) by ATP and transfer to tRNATrp. Mammalian TrpRSs contain an additional domain at the N-terminus that is absent from lower eukaryotic and prokaryotic TrpRSs2. In human cells, TrpRS exists in two forms: a major form representing the full-length protein (a.a. 1–471) and a truncated form (mini TrpRS) (a.a. 48–471) in which most of the N-terminal extension (a.a. 1–47) is deleted because of alternative splicing of the pre-mRNA2,3,4,5. Human full-length and mini TrpRSs can catalyze the aminoacylation of tRNATrp6,7. Moreover, human mini TrpRS exhibits angiostatic activity, whereas the full-length enzyme does not6,8,9.
In murine embryonic stem (ES) cells, rodent-specific alternative splicing of TrpRS has been reported10. Mouse full-length TrpRS (FL-TrpRS: a.a. 1–475) is produced by normal splicing and is similar in molecular weight to the full-length TrpRSs from other mammals. Alternative splicing of mouse TrpRS mRNA generates an alternative splice variant (SV-TrpRS: a.a. 1–481), that contains an additional hexapeptide, Cys-Phe-Cys-Phe-Asp-Thr, at the C-terminus of mouse FL-TrpRS10.
In the present study, we first designed primers to discriminate between mRNAs corresponding to murine FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS. We used these primers to perform real-time reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) to evaluate the relative expression of the FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS mRNA in murine ES cells, tissues and cell lines. We show that SV-TrpRS and FL-TrpRS are highly expressed in most of the samples we analyzed. Moreover, because the expression of human TrpRS has been reported to be strongly increased in response to interferon (IFN)-γ5,11,12,13,14, we also analyzed the effects of IFN-γ on the expression of mouse TrpRS. We found that TrpRS mRNA and protein are increased in a murine cell line following exposure to IFN-γ.
Results
Detection of mouse FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS by real-time RT-PCR
In the present study, to investigate the expression of mouse FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS by real-time RT-PCR, we first designed primers specific to FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS mRNAs. As shown in Fig. 1A and Table I, to detect the total amount of mouse FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS mRNAs, we designed total TrpRS forward (Fw) and reverse (Rv) primers, which can amplify the common coding region of mouse TrpRSs mRNAs. Moreover, to analyze only the expression of SV-TrpRS mRNA, two strategies using different primer sets were performed. (i) As shown in Table I and Fig. 1A, the SV1 TrpRS Rv primer is a 21-mer oligonucleotide, which contains 7 nucleotides complementary to the common C-terminal sequence of mouse TrpRSs and 14 nucleotides complementary to the alternatively spliced coding sequence specific to mouse SV-TrpRS mRNA. SV-TrpRS mRNA is amplified preferentially by using the SV1 TrpRS Fw and Rv primer set. (ii) the SV2 TrpRS Rv primer is located in the 3′ untranslated sequence (Table I and Fig. 1A). Under the RT-PCR experimental conditions used, the SV2 TrpRS Fw and Rv primer set can amplify the SV-TrpRS mRNA but not the FL-TrpRS mRNA because the PCR product generated from the FL-TrpRS mRNA using the SV2 TrpRS Fw and Rv primer set is too long (1054 b) for successful amplification.
First, to check the specificity of the primers for real-time RT-PCR, two plasmid vectors carrying the mouse FL-TrpRS (Clone ID 6813406; Genbank Accession number BC046232) or SV-TrpRS (Clone ID 2654231; Genbank Accession number BC003450) cDNA were used as templates (Fig. 1A). When the total TrpRS Fw and Rv primer set was used, both vectors were amplified with the same threshold cycle (Ct) values (Fig. 1B). In contrast, when the SV1 or SV2 TrpRS Fw and Rv primer set was used, the vector containing the mouse SV-TrpRS was amplified preferentially (Fig. 1B). Moreover, Fig. 1B shows that the Ct values obtained when using the SV1 or SV2 TrpRS primer set was similar to that obtained when using the total TrpRS primer set.
The amplified products were electrophoresed through a 2% agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide. Amplification of the FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS templates with the total TrpRS Fw and Rv primer set generated the predicted products of approximately 133 b (Fig. 1C). As shown in Fig. 1C, the specific amplification of SV-TrpRS using the SV1 TrpRS primer set and SV2 TrpRS primer set generated the predicted unique amplification products of 189 b and 119 b, respectively.
Expression of FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS mRNAs in murine ES cells and tissues
We compared the expression of FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS mRNAs in murine ES cells and brain by real-time RT-PCR. A PCR primer set for the housekeeping gene hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) (HPRT Fw and Rv) was used for normalization. The relative expression of TrpRS mRNAs compared to the HPRT mRNA in ES cells are expressed as a ratio of the corresponding values in the brain (Figs. 2A–2C). The expression of total TrpRS (FL-TrpRS + SV-TrpRS) mRNAs in murine ES cells is twice that observed in the brain (Fig. 2A). Figs. 2B and 2C show that SV-TrpRS mRNA is highly expressed in murine ES cells and that its expression is significantly reduced in mouse brain.
The in vitro hepatic organogenesis model derived from murine ES cells exhibited high levels of multiple hepatic functions15,16. We therefore next differentiated the murine ES cells, ST1 and E14.1 cells, into liver-like tissues and analyzed the expression of mouse TrpRS mRNA 18 days after plating (A18). As shown in Fig. 2, the expression of SV-TrpRS and FL-TrpRS mRNAs in the in vitro organogenesis model was similar to that observed in murine ES cells, suggesting that the expression of FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS mRNAs does not vary with the stage of differentiation of mouse ES cells.
We next analyzed the expression of FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS mRNAs in the murine embryo and other tissues by real-time RT-PCR. FL-TrpRS mRNA was ubiquitously expressed with a relatively high abundance in murine embryo, spleen, lung, liver and uterus (Fig. 3A). As shown in Figs. 3B and 3C, we observed that SV-TrpRS mRNA was highly expressed in murine embryo, spleen, lung, liver and uterus, but observed weak expression in the brain.
Effects of IFN-γ on the expression of mouse TrpRS
Because TrpRS mRNA has been reported to increase approximately 40–60 fold in human cells exposed to IFN-γ12, we next compared the level of mouse FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS mRNAs in the mouse cell lines, Hepa 1–6 and RAW 264 in the absence or presence of IFN-γ. Expression of both SV-TrpRS and FL-TrpRS mRNA was increased in Hepa 1–6 cells following exposure to IFN-γ (Fig. 4). In contrast, the expression of mouse FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS mRNAs remained unchanged in RAW 264 cells following exposure to IFN-γ (Fig. 4).
We next evaluated the specificity of an antibody to detect expression of mouse TrpRS proteins. Vectors encoding either mouse FL-TrpRS or SV-TrpRS protein fused to an N-terminal 6xHis-tag (pcDNA4/HisMax©-TOPO®-mouse FL-TrpRS expression vector and pcDNA4/HisMax©-TOPO®-mouse SV-TrpRS expression vector, respectively) were transfected into murine Hepa 1–6 cells and Western blot analyses of the transfected cell extracts were performed using anti-TrpRS, anti-6xHis-tag and anti-β-actin antibodies. β-actin was used as a loading control. As shown in Fig. 5A, molecular weights of the polypeptides detected by anti-TrpRS antibodies were indistinguishable from those detected by the anti-6xHis-tag antibody, indicating that the anti-TrpRS antibody recognizes mouse TrpRS specifically. Fig. 5A also shows that the band of 6xHis-tagged mouse SV-TrpRS was detected at the same molecular weight as that of 6xHis-tagged mouse FL-TrpRS. We then analyzed the effects of IFN-γ on the level of mouse TrpRS protein in mouse Hepa 1–6 cells using the anti-TrpRS antibody and observed that expression of mouse TrpRS protein is increased significantly in response to IFN-γ (Fig. 5B). Taken together, we conclude that IFN-γ increases mRNA expression and protein production of TrpRS in mouse Hepa 1–6 cells. On the other hand, the expression of mouse TrpRS protein did not change in RAW 264 cells following exposure to IFN-γ (Fig. 5C). This result is consistent with that of TrpRS mRNA in RAW 264 cells by RT-PCR.
Discussion
In the present study, we show that FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS mRNAs are highly expressed in murine ES cells and several tissues such as spleen, lung, liver and uterus and that the relative expression of SV-TrpRS compared to FL-TrpRS is significantly less in the brain. Because the amplification efficiencies of the SV1 TrpRS and SV2 TrpRS primer sets were similar to that of the total TrpRS primer set, we estimated the ratio of SV-TrpRS to total TrpRS (FL-TrpRS + SV-TrpRS) based on the Ct values of SV-TrpRS and total TrpRS. According to this analysis, the percentage of SV-TrpRS in the total TrpRS is less than 0.7% in mouse brain and is approximately 6% in mouse ES cells. This result is consistent with the previous data of Northern blot analyses of mouse FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS expression10.
Previously, the gene expression profile of human TrpRS present in a human transcriptome database revealed a striking overexpression in placenta, lung and spleen17. The expression patterns of mouse FL-TrpRS and SV-TrpRS are similar to that of human full-length TrpRS, although the differences among the expression levels of TrpRS in mouse tissues are smaller than those among human tissues17. Moreover, we found that the expression of mouse TrpRS is increased in a cell line following exposure to IFN-γ. Previous analysis of human TrpRS expression in response to IFN-γ showed that human TrpRS mRNA is increased approximately 50-fold in response to IFN-γ12, suggesting that the induction of murine TrpRS is less than occurs in human cells. Because the expression of both mouse and human TrpRSs is increased by IFN-γ, the similar tissue-specific expression patterns of mouse and human TrpRSs is not surprising. Another representative IFN-γ-inducible enzyme is indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO)18,19. IDO is responsible for Trp degradation and it catalyzes the first as well as the rate-limiting step in the major pathway of Trp metabolism, the kynurenine pathway20. High levels of IDO expression have been detected in several murine tissues such as spleen and lung21. It has been suggested that IDO-expressing cells avoid self-destruction resulting from Trp depletion by a concomitant increase in the expression of TrpRS22. Overexpression of TrpRS in the cell could facilitate production of a pool of Trp-tRNA, thus providing a reservoir for Trp that would be protected from degradation by IDO and therefore available for protein synthesis.
IFN-γ is a central regulator of the immune response and signals23,24. Gamma Activation Sequences (GAS) and interferon-stimulated response elements (ISRE) are important during IFNγ-mediated gene expression23,24. Genomic DNA organization and alternative splicing of the mouse TrpRS are summarized in Fig. 6A. Two transcription start sites (P1 and P2) are presumed on the basis of the data of the NCBI and Ensembl databases (Fig. 6A). Processing of the primary transcript initiated from the P1 start site generates the mRNA isoform where exon Ia joins to exon II. The other two isoforms are produced by alternative splicing of the primary transcript produced from the P2 start site. As listed in Fig. 6B, we identified GAS and ISRE candidate sequences between the P1 and P2 start sites. The consensus sequences of GAS and ISRE are defined as TTC/ANNNG/TAA and NGAAANNGAAAG/CN, where N represents any nucleotide, respectively23,24. Further studies to investigate IFNγ-mediated regulation of mouse TrpRS and brain-specific suppression of the alternative splicing of mouse TrpRS are underway.
In the present study, we found that SV-TrpRS mRNA is expressed in murine embryo and many tissues as well as ES cells. Moreover, we showed that IFN-γ enhances expression of TrpRS in mouse Hepa 1–6 cells. To our knowledge, no such alternative splicing as mouse TrpRS mRNA has yet been described in lower and higher vertebrates. The tissue-specific distribution pattern and IFN-γ-mediated upregulation of mouse SV-TrpRS imply the functional importance of SV-TrpRS.
We previously revealed species-specific differences in the regulation of the aminoacylation activity of mammalian TrpRSs25,26. We found that human TrpRS binds Zn2+ or an iron protoporphyrin IX complex (heme), which enhances its aminoacylation activity and showed that Zn2+-depleted human TrpRS is enzymatically inactive and that binding of Zn2+ or heme to human TrpRS stimulates its aminoacylation activity25. Moreover, we demonstrated that when expression of human TrpRS is increased in response to IFN-γ, some of the newly produced TrpRS protein is in the Zn2+-free form, such that the aminoacylation activity of this new protein is therefore sensitive to the level of heme or Zn2+ 25. In contrast, we found that mouse FL-TrpRS and bovine TrpRS are constitutively active regardless of the presence of Zn2+ or heme26. Because the two Cys and Asp residues in the C-terminal sequence specific for mouse SV-TrpRS, CFCFDT, might form a metal-binding site, further studies are in progress to investigate whether the enzymatic activity of mouse SV-TrpRS is regulated by metal ions such as Zn2+ and/or heme as is the case for human TrpRS, the expression of which is up-regulated by IFN-γ. Moreover, because the CFCFDT sequence of mouse SV-TrpRS is similar to the C-terminal sequence found in Ras proteins and γ-subunits of heterotrimeric G proteins10, it might represent a site of membrane attachment via posttranslational modification such as isoprenylation, as is the case for Ras and the γ-subunits of G proteins. Further studies are necessary to investigate the physiological function of the rodent-specific SV-TrpRS.
Methods
Chemicals
A Mouse Total RNA Master Panel prepared from BALB/c mice (7-day embryo, 11-day embryo, whole brain, whole eye, heart, kidney, liver, lung, smooth muscle, spinal cord, spleen, thymus and uterus) and Webster mice (15-day embryo and 17-day embryo) was purchased from CLONTECH Laboratories, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA). Plasmid vectors carrying a murine FL-TrpRS cDNA (Clone ID 6813406; Genbank Accession number BC046232) and an SV-TrpRS cDNA (Clone ID 2654231; Genbank Accession number BC003450) were purchased from Invitrogen (Carlsbad, CA). Recombinant rat IFN-γ was purchased from eBioscience (San Diego, CA).
Cell culture and reagents
The mouse ES cell line ST1 was originally established from the blastocyst of a BALB/c mouse and it was transmitted through the germline in chimeric mice. ST1 and E14.1 mouse ES cells derived from 129/Ola mice were grown on a mitomycin C-treated feeder layer of primary cultures of mouse embryonic fibroblasts so as to maintain their undifferentiated state in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) (Invitrogen) containing 20% fetal bovine serum (FBS) (Nichirei Biosciences, Tokyo, Japan), 1 mM sodium pyruvate (Invitrogen), 0.1 mM nonessential amino acid (Invitrogen), 100 μM 2-mercaptoethanol (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO) and 103 U/mL leukemia inhibitory factor (Chemicon, Temecula, CA).
A mouse hepatoma cell line, Hepa 1–6 (RCB1638) and a mouse macrophage cell line, RAW 264 (RCB0535), were obtained from the RIKEN Cell Bank (Tsukuba, Japan). These cells were cultured in DMEM containing 4.5 g/L of glucose, 10% (v/v) FBS, 100 U/ml of penicillin, 100 μg/ml of streptomycin and 2 mM glutamine (all from Invitrogen) in a humidified atmosphere containing 5% CO2 at 37°C. The medium was changed twice weekly and the cultures were split 1:8 once every week.
Hepa 1–6 or RAW 264 cells were seeded at 4.0 × 105 cells/mL on CellBIND® Surface 35-mm cell culture dishes (Corning, Corning, NY) the day before experiments. The cells were treated with 100 Units/mL of IFN-γ (eBioscience) for 24 h at 37°C.
Differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells
The murine ES cell-derived hepatic tissue system was derived as described previously15,16. In brief, ST1 or E14.1 ES cells were dissociated with 0.25% trypsin solution and resuspended in Iscove's modified Dulbecco's medium (Invitrogen) containing 20% FBS, 1 mM sodium pyruvate, 100 μM nonessential amino acids and 100 μM 2-mercaptoethanol and lacking leukemia inhibitory factor. The cells were cultured in a hanging drop (1000 cells per 50-μl drop) in an atmosphere of 5% CO2 at 37°C for 5 days. Under these conditions, cells formed embryoid bodies derived from ES cells. Fifty embryoid bodies were plated in a well of a gelatin-coated 6-well plate; the day of plating was denoted as day 0 (A0). In this study, murine ES cell-derived in vitro liver tissue model was used at A18. Cell differentiation was confirmed by monitoring downregulation of oct3/4, upregulation of hepatocyte-specific gene expression and albumin protein production15,16.
RNA isolation and cDNA synthesis
Total RNA from ST1 or E14.1 ES cells was isolated by the acid guanidinium isothiocyanate-phenol-chloroform-isoamyl alcohol method and genomic DNA was removed by treatment with DNase I (Promega, Madison, WI). Total RNA from Hepa 1–6 or RAW 264 cells was isolated by using an Aurum™ total RNA mini kit (BIO-RAD, Hercules, CA).
First-strand cDNA was synthesized from total RNA with Superscript II reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen) and an oligo(dT)12–18 primer (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's protocols. The synthesized single-stranded cDNA was then treated with RNase H to remove RNA.
Primer design
The NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]) and Ensembl (Ensembl Genome Browser [http://www.ensembl.org/index.html]) databases were used to search for available mouse gene sequences to design primers using Primer3Plus [http://www.bioinformatics.nl/cgi-bin/primer3plus/primer3plus.cgi], taking into account possible secondary structures using Mfold [http://mfold.rna.albany.edu/?q=mfold]) and the specificity of the primers using BLAST [http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/]). Primer sequences prepared for RT-PCR are summarized in Table I.
Quantitative real-time PCR
Real-time PCR was performed in a Thermal Cycler CFX96™ real-time PCR detection system (BIO-RAD, Hercules, CA), using SsoFast™ EvaGreen® Supermix (BIO-RAD). Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) was used as an internal housekeeping reference. The PCR reactions using the HPRT Fw and Rv primer set or total TrpRS Fw and Rv primer set, which is listed in Table I, were initiated with a 30 sec incubation at 95.0°C, followed by 40 cycles of 95.0°C for 5 sec and 55.0°C for 20 sec. PCR reactions using the alternatively spliced SV1 or SV2 TrpRS Fw and Rv primer set, which is listed in Table I, were initiated with a 30 sec incubation at 95.0°C, followed by 40 cycles at 95.0°C for 5 sec and 55.7°C for 20 sec.
Data were analysed using the ΔCt method. Briefly, target gene expression was normalized to the HPRT endogenous reference gene for each sample. The difference between mean threshold PCR cycle values for the target and HPRT genes generated the ΔCt value. This was then calibrated to the control sample (brain) in each experiment to generate the ΔΔCt value, where the brain control was assigned a ΔΔCt value of 0. The fold target gene expression, compared to the calibrator value, is calculated using the formula 2−ΔΔCt. Error bars represent the standard deviation (SD) of each target gene value, after evaluating the expression 2−ΔΔCt+SD and 2−ΔΔCt−SD, where SD is the standard deviation of the ΔΔCt value.
A melting curve was performed at the end of the PCR run over the range of 65–95°C, increasing the temperature stepwise by 0.5°C every 5 sec. Gene-specific amplification was confirmed by a single peak in the melting-curve analysis and a single band on a 2% agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide.
Overexpression of mouse FL-TrpRS or SV-TrpRS by transfection of its expression vector
The nucleotide sequence of the cDNA coding for mouse FL-TrpRS or SV-TrpRS was cloned into the eukaryotic pcDNA4/HisMax©-TOPO® expression vector, which gives a gene product with a N-terminal tag of six histidine residues (6xHis-tag), by using the pcDNA4/HisMax©-TOPO® TA expression kit (Invitrogen) as directed by the manufacturer. The construct was confirmed by DNA sequencing (FASMAC Co., Ltd., DNA sequencing services, Atsugi, Japan). Hepa 1–6 cells were grown on a 25 cm2 flask (Corning) until 70–80% confluence and were seeded at a density of 4.0 × 105 cells/mL in CellBIND® Surface 35-mm cell culture dishes (Corning) for 24 h. The pcDNA4/HisMax©-TOPO®-mouse TrpRS expression vector or control vector (empty vector) was transfected using Lipofectamine™ 2000 (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's instructions. After 24 h of transfection, the cells were collected.
Western blot analyses
Extracts of soluble proteins were resolved by electrophoresis through 12.0% polyacrylamide/sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) gels. For Western blot analyses, proteins were transferred onto Hybond-P PVDF membranes (GE Healthcare Biosciences, Piscataway, NJ), which were then blocked with 5% skim milk (Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Osaka, Japan). The membranes were incubated for 1 h with one of the following primary antibodies in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS): anti-TrpRS rabbit MaxPab® polyclonal antibodies (Abnova Co., Taipei, Taiwan) or anti-β-actin mouse monoclonal antibody (Sigma-Aldrich) or anti-penta-His mouse monoclonal antibody (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). After being washed three times with PBS containing 0.1% Tween20, the membranes were incubated with an HRP-linked F(ab′)2 fragment of donkey anti-rabbit IgG or an HRP-linked sheep anti-mouse IgG (GE Healthcare Biosciences) for 1 h. The membrane was again washed three times with the buffer and the proteins were visualized using ECL™ Western blotting detection reagents (GE Healthcare Biosciences). Chemiluminescent signals were detected using a LAS-4000 mini luminescent image analyzer (GE Healthcare Biosciences).
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This work was supported in part by the PRESTO program of Japan Science and Technology (JST) (to K.W.), the Life Science Foundation of Japan (to K.W.) and the Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (No. 23119003) (to Y.T.) and for Scientific Research (C) (No. 21570129) (to K.W.) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
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M.M., T.T. and K.W. designed the experiments. M.M. and T.T. performed the experiments. M.T. and Y.T. prepared samples of murine ES cells and murine ES cell-derived in vitro liver tissue model. M.M. and K.W. analyzed the data and wrote the paper.
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Miyanokoshi, M., Tanaka, T., Tamai, M. et al. Expression of the rodent-specific alternative splice variant of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase in murine tissues and cells. Sci Rep 3, 3477 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep03477
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