TY - JOUR
T1 - Tristetraprolin expression by keratinocytes protects against skin carcinogenesis
AU - Assabban, Assiya
AU - Dubois-Vedrenne, Ingrid
AU - van Maele, Laurye
AU - Salcedo, Rosalba
AU - Snyder, Brittany L.
AU - Zhou, Lecong
AU - Azouz, Abdulkader
AU - de Toeuf, Bérengère
AU - Lapouge, Gaëlle
AU - La, Caroline
AU - Melchior, Maxime
AU - Nguyen, Muriel
AU - Thomas, Séverine
AU - Wu, Si Fan
AU - Hu, Wenqian
AU - Kruys, Véronique
AU - Blanpain, Cédric
AU - Trinchieri, Giorgio
AU - Gueydan, Cyril
AU - Blackshear, Perry J.
AU - Goriely, Stanislas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright: © 2021, Assabban et al.
PY - 2021/3/8
Y1 - 2021/3/8
N2 - Cancer is caused primarily by genomic alterations resulting in deregulation of gene regulatory circuits in key growth, apoptosis, or DNA repair pathways. Multiple genes associated with the initiation and development of tumors are also regulated at the level of mRNA decay, through the recruitment of RNA-binding proteins to AU-rich elements (AREs) located in their 3′-untranslated regions. One of these ARE-binding proteins, tristetraprolin (TTP; encoded by Zfp36), is consistently dysregulated in many human malignancies. Herein, using regulated overexpression or conditional ablation in the context of cutaneous chemical carcinogenesis, we show that TTP represents a critical regulator of skin tumorigenesis. We provide evidence that TTP controlled both tumor-associated inflammation and key oncogenic pathways in neoplastic epidermal cells. We identify Areg as a direct target of TTP in keratinocytes and show that EGFR signaling potentially contributed to exacerbated tumor formation. Finally, single-cell RNA-Seq analysis indicated that ZFP36 was downregulated in human malignant keratinocytes. We conclude that TTP expression by epidermal cells played a major role in the control of skin tumorigenesis.
AB - Cancer is caused primarily by genomic alterations resulting in deregulation of gene regulatory circuits in key growth, apoptosis, or DNA repair pathways. Multiple genes associated with the initiation and development of tumors are also regulated at the level of mRNA decay, through the recruitment of RNA-binding proteins to AU-rich elements (AREs) located in their 3′-untranslated regions. One of these ARE-binding proteins, tristetraprolin (TTP; encoded by Zfp36), is consistently dysregulated in many human malignancies. Herein, using regulated overexpression or conditional ablation in the context of cutaneous chemical carcinogenesis, we show that TTP represents a critical regulator of skin tumorigenesis. We provide evidence that TTP controlled both tumor-associated inflammation and key oncogenic pathways in neoplastic epidermal cells. We identify Areg as a direct target of TTP in keratinocytes and show that EGFR signaling potentially contributed to exacerbated tumor formation. Finally, single-cell RNA-Seq analysis indicated that ZFP36 was downregulated in human malignant keratinocytes. We conclude that TTP expression by epidermal cells played a major role in the control of skin tumorigenesis.
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U2 - 10.1172/jci.insight.140669
DO - 10.1172/jci.insight.140669
M3 - Article
C2 - 33497366
AN - SCOPUS:85102431610
SN - 2379-3708
VL - 6
JO - JCI Insight
JF - JCI Insight
IS - 5
M1 - e140669
ER -