Omics · study · 2026
A549 cells with glucocorticoid treatment
Listed in NCBI GEO
Processing bodies (P-bodies) are cytoplasmic, membraneless organelles that play a key role in regulating RNA translation.
Description
To identify new pathways controlling their formation, we conducted a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drug screen. We found that glucocorticoids, among the most prescribed medicines, significantly increase P-body numbers across diverse epithelial cell types.
This effect was fully reversible after glucocorticoid withdrawal, illustrating the adaptive dynamics of P-bodies. Using genetic invalidation and rescue approaches, we demonstrated that this accumulation requires the Glucocorticoid Receptor alpha isoform. P-body accumulation was associated with selective post-transcriptional regulation of P-body-associated mRNAs rather than global inhibition of translation.
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This selectivity was driven by intrinsic transcript features, including nucleotide composition and codon usage: AU-rich transcripts with low Codon Adaptation Index (CAI) were preferentially accumulated and translationally repressed, whereas GC-rich transcripts with higher CAI displayed enhanced protein output under glucocorticoid treatment. Furthermore, we associated the decrease of LSM14B, a negative regulator of P-bodies, under glucocorticoid treatment to P-body reshaping.
Our results reveal that, beyond their known transcriptional activity, prolonged exposure to glucocorticoids influences mRNA post-transcription and translation through a nucleotide composition-based mechanism.
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Get the data
- GEO FTP directory ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/GSE295nnn/GSE295999 ↗
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Where it is published
- GEO accession page ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE295999 ↗
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Documentation and papers
- PRJNA1257295 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA1257295 ↗
project · from NCBI GEO
Topics
- Stated by source
- Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing · Homo sapiens
- From keywords
- Life Sciences
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NCBI GEO | GSE295999 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[method].geo_series_type:expression-profiling-by-high-throughput-sequencing | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /gdstype |
| concepts[organism].NCBITaxon:9606 | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /taxon |
| description | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /summary |
| publication_date | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /title |