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Temporal iTRAQ analysis identified 66 differentially expressed proteins during TGF-beta-induced EMT, demonstrating post-transcriptional regulation of cytoskeletal remodeling and a key role for cofilin1.
This study demonstrates post-transcriptional regulation of cytoskeletal remodeling and identifies a key role for cofilin1 during TGF-beta-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
To gain insights into how TGF-beta regulates epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), we assessed the time course of proteins and mRNAs during EMT by multiplex iTRAQ labeling and 2D-LC-MS/MS, and by hybridization, respectively. Temporal iTRAQ analysis identified 66 proteins as differentially expressed during EMT, including newly associated proteins calpain, fascin and macrophage-migration inhibitory factor (MIF). Comparing protein and mRNA expression overtime showed that all the 14 up-regulated proteins involved in the actin-cytoskeleton remodeling were accompanied by increases in corresponding mRNA expression. Interestingly, siRNA mediated knockdown of cofilin1 potentiated TGF-beta-induced EMT. Further analysis of cofilin1 and beta-actin revealed an increase in their mRNA stability in response to TGF-beta, contributing to the observed increase in mRNA and protein expression. These results are the first demonstration of post-transcriptional regulation of cytoskeletal remodelling and a key role for cofilin1 during TGF-beta-induced EMT.
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Keshamouni et al. (2009) studied TGF-beta-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition. TGF-beta and siRNA mediated knockdown of cofilin1 was evaluated on Protein and mRNA expression during EMT. Temporal iTRAQ analysis identified 66 differentially expressed proteins during TGF-beta-induced EMT, demonstrating post-transcriptional regulation of cytoskeletal remodeling and a key role for cofilin1.
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