title: Micro-RNA-375 inhibits lung surfactant secretion by altering cytoskeleton reorganization.
abstract: Lung surfactant is secreted via exocytosis of lamellar bodies from alveolar epithelial type II cells. Whether micro-RNAs regulate lung surfactant secretion is unknown. Micro-RNA-375 (miR-375) has been shown to be involved in insulin secretion. In this article, we report that the overexpression of miR-375 inhibited lung surfactant secretion. However, miR-125a, miR-30a, miR-1, miR-382 and miR-101 did not influence lung surfactant secretion. miR-375 had no effects on surfactant synthesis or the formation of lamellar bodies. However, miR-375 did abolish the lung surfactant secretagogue-induced disassembly and reassembly of cytoskeleton. Our results suggest that miR-375 regulates surfactant secretion via the reorganization of cytoskeleton.
authors.affiliation: Lundberg-Kienlen Lung Biology and Toxicology Laboratory, Department of Physiological Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA.
authors.forename: Honghao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Amarjit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.forename: Narendranath Reddy
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Chintagari
authors.forename: Deming
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gou
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D056809:Alveolar Epithelial Cells / Q000166:cytology; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000378:metabolism*; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants