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Here, we describe the role of MSC-resident AARSs in cancer progression, and the factors that regulate their release from the MSC. Elucidation of the non-canonical activities of several AARSs residing in the MSC suggest they are potential therapeutic targets for cancer, as well as metabolic and neurologic diseases. These activities are generally beneficial, but can also be deleterious to the cell. In some cases, environmental cues direct the release of constituents from the MSC which enables the execution of non-canonical, i.e., “moonlighting”, functions distinct from their essential activities in protein translation. The complex is absent in prokaryotes, but evolutionary expansion of MSC constituents, primarily by addition of novel interacting domains, facilitates formation of subcomplexes that join to establish the holo-MSC. In higher eukaryotes, 9 of the 20 AARSs, along with 3 auxiliary proteins, join to form the cytoplasmic multi-tRNA synthetase complex (MSC). In mammalian cells, 20 aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (AARS) catalyze the ligation of amino acids to their cognate tRNAs to generate aminoacylated-tRNAs. Data shown are from three isolated experiments.
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Different letters indicate statistical significance at p < 0.05 according to one-way ANOVA. (G) A549 cells transfected with COL1A1 or LAMC2 promoter-luciferase constructs with STATs-consensus responsive sequences (Col1a1-2.9 and Lamc2-2.3 kb constructs with upstream promoter regions up to −2.9 and −2.3 kb, respectively) together with either siRNA against control sequence (siCon), STAT3 (siSTAT3), or STAT6 (siSTAT6) were treated with TGFβ1 (0 or 2.5 ng/ml) for 24 h, prior to luciferase reporter analysis. (A-G) A549 cells stably infected with control (-) or shEPRS virus (A549-shEPRS) or control A549 cells transiently transfected with different expression vectors or siRNAs as indicated were treated without (-) or with TGFβ1 (2 ng/ml, +) for 24 h, before whole cell extracts preparation and immunoblotting for the indicated molecules. | Regulation of TGFβ1-induced ECM protein synthesis by EPRS occurred via STAT activation.