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Neves LT, Douglass S, Spreafico R, Venkataramanan S, Kress TL, Johnson TL. The histone variant H2A.Z promotes efficient cotranscriptional splicing in S. cerevisiae. Genes Dev 2017; 31:702-717. [PMID: 28446598 PMCID: PMC5411710 DOI: 10.1101/gad.295188.116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2016] [Accepted: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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In eukaryotes, a dynamic ribonucleic protein machine known as the spliceosome catalyzes the removal of introns from premessenger RNA (pre-mRNA). Recent studies show the processes of RNA synthesis and RNA processing to be spatio-temporally coordinated, indicating that RNA splicing takes place in the context of chromatin. H2A.Z is a highly conserved histone variant of the canonical histone H2A. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, H2A.Z is deposited into chromatin by the SWR-C complex, is found near the 5' ends of protein-coding genes, and has been implicated in transcription regulation. Here we show that splicing of intron-containing genes in cells lacking H2A.Z is impaired, particularly under suboptimal splicing conditions. Cells lacking H2A.Z are especially dependent on a functional U2 snRNP (small nuclear RNA [snRNA] plus associated proteins), as H2A.Z shows extensive genetic interactions with U2 snRNP-associated proteins, and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) reveals that introns with nonconsensus branch points are particularly sensitive to H2A.Z loss. Consistently, H2A.Z promotes efficient spliceosomal rearrangements involving the U2 snRNP, as H2A.Z loss results in persistent U2 snRNP association and decreased recruitment of downstream snRNPs to nascent RNA. H2A.Z impairs transcription elongation, suggesting that spliceosome rearrangements are tied to H2A.Z's role in elongation. Depletion of disassembly factor Prp43 suppresses H2A.Z-mediated splice defects, indicating that, in the absence of H2A.Z, stalled spliceosomes are disassembled, and unspliced RNAs are released. Together, these data demonstrate that H2A.Z is required for efficient pre-mRNA splicing and indicate a role for H2A.Z in coordinating the kinetics of transcription elongation and splicing.
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- Lauren T Neves
- Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90095 USA.,Graduate Program in Molecular Biology Interdepartmental Program, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90095 USA
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- Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90095 USA
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- Department of Biology, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey 08628, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90095 USA.,Molecular Biology Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Battaglia S, Lidschreiber M, Baejen C, Torkler P, Vos SM, Cramer P. RNA-dependent chromatin association of transcription elongation factors and Pol II CTD kinases. eLife 2017; 6. [PMID: 28537551 PMCID: PMC5457138 DOI: 10.7554/elife.25637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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For transcription through chromatin, RNA polymerase (Pol) II associates with elongation factors (EFs). Here we show that many EFs crosslink to RNA emerging from transcribing Pol II in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Most EFs crosslink preferentially to mRNAs, rather than unstable non-coding RNAs. RNA contributes to chromatin association of many EFs, including the Pol II serine 2 kinases Ctk1 and Bur1 and the histone H3 methyltransferases Set1 and Set2. The Ctk1 kinase complex binds RNA in vitro, consistent with direct EF-RNA interaction. Set1 recruitment to genes in vivo depends on its RNA recognition motifs (RRMs). These results strongly suggest that nascent RNA contributes to EF recruitment to transcribing Pol II. We propose that EF-RNA interactions facilitate assembly of the elongation complex on transcribed genes when RNA emerges from Pol II, and that loss of EF-RNA interactions upon RNA cleavage at the polyadenylation site triggers disassembly of the elongation complex. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.25637.001
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- Sofia Battaglia
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.,Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Center for Innovative Medicine and Science for Life Laboratory, Novum, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.,Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Center for Innovative Medicine and Science for Life Laboratory, Novum, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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Zhou J, Gao G, Hou P, Li CM, Guo D. Regulation of the Alternative Splicing and Function of Cyclin T1 by the Serine-Arginine-Rich Protein ASF/SF2. J Cell Biochem 2017; 118:4020-4032. [PMID: 28422315 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.26058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2017] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Positive transcription elongation factor-b (P-TEFb) is required for the release of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) from its pause near the gene promoters and thus for efficient proceeding to the transcription elongation. It consists of two core subunits-CDK9 and one of T-typed or K-typed cyclin, of which, cyclin T1/CDK9 is the major and most studied combination. We have previously identified a novel splice variant of cyclin T1, cyclin T1b, which negatively regulates the transcription elongation of HIV-1 genes as well as several host genes. In this study, we revealed the serine-arginine-rich protein, ASF/SF2, as a regulatory factor of the alternative splicing of cyclin T1 gene. ASF/SF2 promotes the production of cyclin T1b versus cyclin T1a and regulates the expression of cyclin T1-depedent genes at the transcription level. We further found that a cis-element on exon 8 is responsible for the skipping of exon 7 mediated by ASF/SF2. Collectively, ASF/SF2 is identified as a splicing regulator of cyclin T1, which contributes to the control of the subsequent transcription events. J. Cell. Biochem. 118: 4020-4032, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Jieqiong Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.,School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Davari K, Lichti J, Gallus C, Greulich F, Uhlenhaut NH, Heinig M, Friedel CC, Glasmacher E. Rapid Genome-wide Recruitment of RNA Polymerase II Drives Transcription, Splicing, and Translation Events during T Cell Responses. Cell Rep 2017; 19:643-654. [PMID: 28423325 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.03.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2016] [Revised: 02/17/2017] [Accepted: 03/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Activation of immune cells results in rapid functional changes, but how such fast changes are accomplished remains enigmatic. By combining time courses of 4sU-seq, RNA-seq, ribosome profiling (RP), and RNA polymerase II (RNA Pol II) ChIP-seq during T cell activation, we illustrate genome-wide temporal dynamics for ∼10,000 genes. This approach reveals not only immediate-early and posttranscriptionally regulated genes but also coupled changes in transcription and translation for >90% of genes. Recruitment, rather than release of paused RNA Pol II, primarily mediates transcriptional changes. This coincides with a genome-wide temporary slowdown in cotranscriptional splicing, even for polyadenylated mRNAs that are localized at the chromatin. Subsequent splicing optimization correlates with increasing Ser-2 phosphorylation of the RNA Pol II carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) and activation of the positive transcription elongation factor (pTEFb). Thus, rapid de novo recruitment of RNA Pol II dictates the course of events during T cell activation, particularly transcription, splicing, and consequently translation.
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- Kathrin Davari
- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO), German Center for Environmental Health GmbH, Munich 85748, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), German Center for Environmental Health GmbH, Munich 85764, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO), German Center for Environmental Health GmbH, Munich 85748, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), German Center for Environmental Health GmbH, Munich 85764, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO), German Center for Environmental Health GmbH, Munich 85748, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), German Center for Environmental Health GmbH, Munich 85764, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO), German Center for Environmental Health GmbH, Munich 85748, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO), German Center for Environmental Health GmbH, Munich 85748, Germany
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- Institute for Computational Biology (ICB), German Center for Environmental Health GmbH, Munich 85764, Germany
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- Institute for Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80333, Germany.
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO), German Center for Environmental Health GmbH, Munich 85748, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), German Center for Environmental Health GmbH, Munich 85764, Germany.
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Björk P, Wieslander L. Integration of mRNP formation and export. Cell Mol Life Sci 2017; 74:2875-2897. [PMID: 28314893 PMCID: PMC5501912 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-017-2503-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2016] [Revised: 03/06/2017] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Expression of protein-coding genes in eukaryotes relies on the coordinated action of many sophisticated molecular machineries. Transcription produces precursor mRNAs (pre-mRNAs) and the active gene provides an environment in which the pre-mRNAs are processed, folded, and assembled into RNA–protein (RNP) complexes. The dynamic pre-mRNPs incorporate the growing transcript, proteins, and the processing machineries, as well as the specific protein marks left after processing that are essential for export and the cytoplasmic fate of the mRNPs. After release from the gene, the mRNPs move by diffusion within the interchromatin compartment, making up pools of mRNPs. Here, splicing and polyadenylation can be completed and the mRNPs recruit the major export receptor NXF1. Export competent mRNPs interact with the nuclear pore complex, leading to export, concomitant with compositional and conformational changes of the mRNPs. We summarize the integrated nuclear processes involved in the formation and export of mRNPs.
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- Petra Björk
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Hou Y, Huang H, Hu W, Liu H, Sun X. Histone modifications influence skipped exons inclusion. J Bioinform Comput Biol 2017; 15:1750003. [PMID: 28178888 DOI: 10.1142/s0219720017500032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Alternative splicing (AS), by which individual genes can produce multiple mRNA, associates with genomic complexity, disease, and development. Histone modifications show important roles in both transcription initiation and mRNA splicing. Here, we intended to find the link between AS and histone modifications in flanking regions through analyzing publicly available data in two human cell lines, GM12878 and K562 cell lines. According to exon inclusion levels, exons were classified into three types, included skipped exons, excluded skipped exons and expressed constitutive exons. We revealed that the inclusion levels of skipped exons (SEs) were negatively correlated with the enrichment of active histone marks in SEs, indicating a role of histone modifications in AS. We also found that active histone modifications were enriched in the upstream exons of SEs, especially around 5[Formula: see text] splicing sites. We inferred that the histone modifications around the 5[Formula: see text] splicing sites in upstream exon of the SEs could help RNA Polymerase II complex to recruit the effector proteins and facilitate AS. It was indicated that nucleosome occupancy had little influence on the inclusion levels of SEs. At last, we proposed an integrated model that describe how histone modifications affected the pre-mRNA splicing.
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- Yue Hou
- 1 State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biology Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, P. R. China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biology Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, P. R. China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biology Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, P. R. China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biology Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, P. R. China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biology Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, P. R. China
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Serine and arginine-rich (SR) proteins are RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) known as constitutive and alternative splicing regulators. As splicing is linked to transcriptional and post-transcriptional steps, SR proteins are implicated in the regulation of multiple aspects of the gene expression program. Recent global analyses of SR-RNA interaction maps have advanced our understanding of SR-regulated gene expression. Diverse SR proteins play partially overlapping but distinct roles in transcription-coupled splicing and mRNA processing in the nucleus. In addition, shuttling SR proteins act as adaptors for mRNA export and as regulators for translation in the cytoplasm. This mini-review will summarize the roles of SR proteins as RNA binders, regulators, and connectors from transcription in the nucleus to translation in the cytoplasm.
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- Sunjoo Jeong
- Department of Bioconvergent Science and Technology, Dankook University, Yongin 16890,
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Transcription and splicing are fundamental steps in gene expression. These processes have been studied intensively over the past four decades, and very recent findings are challenging some of the formerly established ideas. In particular, splicing was shown to occur much faster than previously thought, with the first spliced products observed as soon as splice junctions emerge from RNA polymerase II (Pol II). Splicing was also found coupled to a specific phosphorylation pattern of Pol II carboxyl-terminal domain (CTD), suggesting a new layer of complexity in the CTD code. Moreover, phosphorylation of the CTD may be scarcer than expected, and other post-translational modifications of the CTD are emerging with unanticipated roles in gene expression regulation.
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- Noélia Custódio
- a Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa , Lisboa , Portugal
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- a Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa , Lisboa , Portugal
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Grenfell AW, Heald R, Strzelecka M. Mitotic noncoding RNA processing promotes kinetochore and spindle assembly in Xenopus. J Cell Biol 2016; 214:133-41. [PMID: 27402954 PMCID: PMC4949451 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201604029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2016] [Accepted: 06/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Grenfell et al. show that transcription and RNA processing occur in metaphase-arrested egg extracts and that noncoding RNA biogenesis is important for centromere, kinetochore, and mitotic spindle assembly. Transcription at the centromere of chromosomes plays an important role in kinetochore assembly in many eukaryotes, and noncoding RNAs contribute to activation of the mitotic kinase Aurora B. However, little is known about how mitotic RNA processing contributes to spindle assembly. We found that inhibition of transcription initiation or RNA splicing, but not translation, leads to spindle defects in Xenopus egg extracts. Spliceosome inhibition resulted in the accumulation of high molecular weight centromeric transcripts, concomitant with decreased recruitment of the centromere and kinetochore proteins CENP-A, CENP-C, and NDC80 to mitotic chromosomes. In addition, blocking transcript synthesis or processing during mitosis caused accumulation of MCAK, a microtubule depolymerase, on the spindle, indicating misregulation of Aurora B. These findings suggest that co-transcriptional recruitment of the RNA processing machinery to nascent mitotic transcripts is an important step in kinetochore and spindle assembly and challenge the idea that RNA processing is globally repressed during mitosis.
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- Andrew W Grenfell
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Movassat M, Crabb TL, Busch A, Yao C, Reynolds DJ, Shi Y, Hertel KJ. Coupling between alternative polyadenylation and alternative splicing is limited to terminal introns. RNA Biol 2016; 13:646-55. [PMID: 27245359 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2016.1191727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Alternative polyadenylation has been implicated as an important regulator of gene expression. In some cases, alternative polyadenylation is known to couple with alternative splicing to influence last intron removal. However, it is unknown whether alternative polyadenylation events influence alternative splicing decisions at upstream exons. Knockdown of the polyadenylation factors CFIm25 or CstF64 in HeLa cells was used as an approach in identifying alternative polyadenylation and alternative splicing events on a genome-wide scale. Although hundreds of alternative splicing events were found to be differentially spliced in the knockdown of CstF64, genes associated with alternative polyadenylation did not exhibit an increased incidence of alternative splicing. These results demonstrate that the coupling between alternative polyadenylation and alternative splicing is usually limited to defining the last exon. The striking influence of CstF64 knockdown on alternative splicing can be explained through its effects on UTR selection of known splicing regulators such as hnRNP A2/B1, thereby indirectly influencing splice site selection. We conclude that changes in the expression of the polyadenylation factor CstF64 influences alternative splicing through indirect effects.
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- Maliheh Movassat
- a Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics , School of Medicine, University of California , Irvine , CA , USA
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- b Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) , Mainz , Germany
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- a Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics , School of Medicine, University of California , Irvine , CA , USA.,b Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) , Mainz , Germany
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- a Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics , School of Medicine, University of California , Irvine , CA , USA
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- a Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics , School of Medicine, University of California , Irvine , CA , USA
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- a Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics , School of Medicine, University of California , Irvine , CA , USA
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- a Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics , School of Medicine, University of California , Irvine , CA , USA
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Towards understanding pre-mRNA splicing mechanisms and the role of SR proteins. Gene 2016; 587:107-19. [PMID: 27154819 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2016.04.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 04/30/2016] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Alternative pre-mRNA splicing provides a source of vast protein diversity by removing non-coding sequences (introns) and accurately linking different exonic regions in the correct reading frame. The regulation of alternative splicing is essential for various cellular functions in both pathological and physiological conditions. In eukaryotic cells, this process is commonly used to increase proteomic diversity and to control gene expression either co- or post-transcriptionally. Alternative splicing occurs within a megadalton-sized, multi-component machine consisting of RNA and proteins; during the splicing process, this complex undergoes dynamic changes via RNA-RNA, protein-protein and RNA-protein interactions. Co-transcriptional splicing functionally integrates the transcriptional machinery, thereby enabling the two processes to influence one another, whereas post-transcriptional splicing facilitates the coupling of RNA splicing with post-splicing events. This review addresses the structural aspects of spliceosomes and the mechanistic implications of their stepwise assembly on the regulation of pre-mRNA splicing. Moreover, the role of phosphorylation-based, signal-induced changes in the regulation of the splicing process is demonstrated.
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Chaudhary S, Madhukrishna B, Adhya AK, Keshari S, Mishra SK. Overexpression of caspase 7 is ERα dependent to affect proliferation and cell growth in breast cancer cells by targeting p21(Cip). Oncogenesis 2016; 5:e219. [PMID: 27089142 PMCID: PMC4848833 DOI: 10.1038/oncsis.2016.12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2015] [Revised: 12/01/2015] [Accepted: 12/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Caspase 7 (CASP7) expression has important function during cell cycle progression and cell growth in certain cancer cells and is also involved in the development and differentiation of dental tissues. However, the function of CASP7 in breast cancer cells is unclear. The aim of this study was to analyze the expression of CASP7 in breast carcinoma patients and determine the role of CASP7 in regulating tumorigenicity in breast cancer cells. In this study, we show that the CASP7 expression is high in breast carcinoma tissues compared with normal counterpart. The ectopic expression of CASP7 is significantly associated with ERα expression status and persistently elevated in different stages of the breast tumor grades. High level of CASP7 expression showed better prognosis in breast cancer patients with systemic endocrine therapy as observed from Kaplan–Meier analysis. S3 and S4, estrogen responsive element (ERE) in the CASP7 promoter, is important for estrogen-ERα-mediated CASP7 overexpression. Increased recruitment of p300, acetylated H3 and pol II in the ERE region of CASP7 promoter is observed after hormone stimulation. Ectopic expression of CASP7 in breast cancer cells results in cell growth and proliferation inhibition via p21Cip reduction, whereas small interfering RNA (siRNA) mediated reduction of CASP7 rescued p21Cip levels. We also show that pro- and active forms of CASP7 is located in the nucleus apart from cytoplasmic region of breast cancer cells. The proliferation and growth of breast cancer cells is significantly reduced by broad-spectrum peptide inhibitors and siRNA of CASP7. Taken together, our findings show that CASP7 is aberrantly expressed in breast cancer and contributes to cell growth and proliferation by downregulating p21Cip protein, suggesting that targeting CASP7-positive breast cancer could be one of the potential therapeutic strategies.
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- S Chaudhary
- Cancer Biology Laboratory, Gene Function and Regulation group, Institute of Life Sciences, Nalco Square, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Cancer Biology Laboratory, Gene Function and Regulation group, Institute of Life Sciences, Nalco Square, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Department of Pathology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, KIIT Rd, Chandaka Industrial Estate, Patia, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India
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- Cancer Biology Laboratory, Gene Function and Regulation group, Institute of Life Sciences, Nalco Square, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Cancer Biology Laboratory, Gene Function and Regulation group, Institute of Life Sciences, Nalco Square, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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Naftelberg S, Schor IE, Ast G, Kornblihtt AR. Regulation of alternative splicing through coupling with transcription and chromatin structure. Annu Rev Biochem 2015; 84:165-98. [PMID: 26034889 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060614-034242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 298] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Alternative precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing plays a pivotal role in the flow of genetic information from DNA to proteins by expanding the coding capacity of genomes. Regulation of alternative splicing is as important as regulation of transcription to determine cell- and tissue-specific features, normal cell functioning, and responses of eukaryotic cells to external cues. Its importance is confirmed by the evolutionary conservation and diversification of alternative splicing and the fact that its deregulation causes hereditary disease and cancer. This review discusses the multiple layers of cotranscriptional regulation of alternative splicing in which chromatin structure, DNA methylation, histone marks, and nucleosome positioning play a fundamental role in providing a dynamic scaffold for interactions between the splicing and transcription machineries. We focus on evidence for how the kinetics of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) elongation and the recruitment of splicing factors and adaptor proteins to chromatin components act in coordination to regulate alternative splicing.
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- Shiran Naftelberg
- Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel;
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Nepal C, Coolen M, Hadzhiev Y, Cussigh D, Mydel P, Steen VM, Carninci P, Andersen JB, Bally-Cuif L, Müller F, Lenhard B. Transcriptional, post-transcriptional and chromatin-associated regulation of pri-miRNAs, pre-miRNAs and moRNAs. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 44:3070-81. [PMID: 26673698 PMCID: PMC4838339 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2015] [Accepted: 11/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a major role in the post-transcriptional regulation of target genes, especially in development and differentiation. Our understanding about the transcriptional regulation of miRNA genes is limited by inadequate annotation of primary miRNA (pri-miRNA) transcripts. Here, we used CAGE-seq and RNA-seq to provide genome-wide identification of the pri-miRNA core promoter repertoire and its dynamic usage during zebrafish embryogenesis. We assigned pri-miRNA promoters to 152 precursor-miRNAs (pre-miRNAs), the majority of which were supported by promoter associated post-translational histone modifications (H3K4me3, H2A.Z) and RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) occupancy. We validated seven miR-9 pri-miRNAs by in situ hybridization and showed similar expression patterns as mature miR-9. In addition, processing of an alternative intronic promoter of miR-9–5 was validated by 5′ RACE PCR. Developmental profiling revealed a subset of pri-miRNAs that are maternally inherited. Moreover, we show that promoter-associated H3K4me3, H2A.Z and RNAPII marks are not only present at pri-miRNA promoters but are also specifically enriched at pre-miRNAs, suggesting chromatin level regulation of pre-miRNAs. Furthermore, we demonstrated that CAGE-seq also detects 3′-end processing of pre-miRNAs on Drosha cleavage site that correlates with miRNA-offset RNAs (moRNAs) production and provides a new tool for detecting Drosha processing events and predicting pre-miRNA processing by a genome-wide assay.
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- Chirag Nepal
- Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Zebrafish Neurogenetics Team, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, CNRS UMR9197 - Université Paris Sud, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, UK
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- Zebrafish Neurogenetics Team, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, CNRS UMR9197 - Université Paris Sud, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Broegelmann Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway
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- Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Zebrafish Neurogenetics Team, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, CNRS UMR9197 - Université Paris Sud, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Sciences MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Thormøhlensgate 55, N-5008 Bergen, Norway
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Singh PK, Plumb MR, Ferris AL, Iben JR, Wu X, Fadel HJ, Luke BT, Esnault C, Poeschla EM, Hughes SH, Kvaratskhelia M, Levin HL. LEDGF/p75 interacts with mRNA splicing factors and targets HIV-1 integration to highly spliced genes. Genes Dev 2015; 29:2287-97. [PMID: 26545813 PMCID: PMC4647561 DOI: 10.1101/gad.267609.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2015] [Accepted: 10/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The host chromatin-binding factor LEDGF/p75 interacts with HIV-1 integrase and directs integration to active transcription units. To understand how LEDGF/p75 recognizes transcription units, we sequenced 1 million HIV-1 integration sites isolated from cultured HEK293T cells. Analysis of integration sites showed that cancer genes were preferentially targeted, raising concerns about using lentivirus vectors for gene therapy. Additional analysis led to the discovery that introns and alternative splicing contributed significantly to integration site selection. These correlations were independent of transcription levels, size of transcription units, and length of the introns. Multivariate analysis with five parameters previously found to predict integration sites showed that intron density is the strongest predictor of integration density in transcription units. Analysis of previously published HIV-1 integration site data showed that integration density in transcription units in mouse embryonic fibroblasts also correlated strongly with intron number, and this correlation was absent in cells lacking LEDGF. Affinity purification showed that LEDGF/p75 is associated with a number of splicing factors, and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis of HEK293T cells lacking LEDGF/p75 or the LEDGF/p75 integrase-binding domain (IBD) showed that LEDGF/p75 contributes to splicing patterns in half of the transcription units that have alternative isoforms. Thus, LEDGF/p75 interacts with splicing factors, contributes to exon choice, and directs HIV-1 integration to transcription units that are highly spliced.
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- Section on Eukaryotic Transposable Elements, Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Center for Retrovirus Research, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Program in Genomics of Differentiation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
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- Advanced Biomedical Computing Center, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, 21702, USA
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- Section on Eukaryotic Transposable Elements, Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
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- HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Center for Retrovirus Research, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Section on Eukaryotic Transposable Elements, Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Rosenberg AB, Patwardhan RP, Shendure J, Seelig G. Learning the sequence determinants of alternative splicing from millions of random sequences. Cell 2015; 163:698-711. [PMID: 26496609 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Revised: 08/28/2015] [Accepted: 09/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Most human transcripts are alternatively spliced, and many disease-causing mutations affect RNA splicing. Toward better modeling the sequence determinants of alternative splicing, we measured the splicing patterns of over two million (M) synthetic mini-genes, which include degenerate subsequences totaling over 100 M bases of variation. The massive size of these training data allowed us to improve upon current models of splicing, as well as to gain new mechanistic insights. Our results show that the vast majority of hexamer sequence motifs measurably influence splice site selection when positioned within alternative exons, with multiple motifs acting additively rather than cooperatively. Intriguingly, motifs that enhance (suppress) exon inclusion in alternative 5' splicing also enhance (suppress) exon inclusion in alternative 3' or cassette exon splicing, suggesting a universal mechanism for alternative exon recognition. Finally, our empirically trained models are highly predictive of the effects of naturally occurring variants on alternative splicing in vivo.
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- Alexander B Rosenberg
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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Splicing is a predominantly co-transcriptional process that has been shown to be tightly coupled to transcription. Chromatin structure is a key factor that mediates this functional coupling. In light of recent evidence that shows the importance of higher order chromatin organization in the coordination and regulation of gene expression, we discuss here the possible roles of long-range chromatin organization in splicing and alternative splicing regulation.
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- Luciana I Gómez Acuña
- a Laboratorio de Fisiología y Biología Molecular, Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, IFIBYNE-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Chromatin, DNA structure and alternative splicing. FEBS Lett 2015; 589:3370-8. [PMID: 26296319 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2015] [Revised: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 08/04/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Coupling of transcription and alternative splicing via regulation of the transcriptional elongation rate is a well-studied phenomenon. Template features that act as roadblocks for the progression of RNA polymerase II comprise histone modifications and variants, DNA-interacting proteins and chromatin compaction. These may affect alternative splicing decisions by inducing pauses or decreasing elongation rate that change the time-window for splicing regulatory sequences to be recognized. Herein we discuss the evidence supporting the influence of template structural modifications on transcription and splicing, and provide insights about possible roles of non-B DNA conformations on the regulation of alternative splicing.
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Following the intracellular localization of the iab-8ncRNA of the bithorax complex using the MS2-MCP-GFP system. Mech Dev 2015; 138 Pt 2:133-140. [PMID: 26277563 DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2015.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2015] [Revised: 08/05/2015] [Accepted: 08/07/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Homeotic genes are aligned on the chromosome in the order of the segments that they specify along the antero-posterior axis of the fly. In general the genes affecting the more posterior segments repress the more anterior genes, a phenomenon known as "posterior dominance". There is however a noticeable exception to this rule in the central nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster where the posterior Abd-B gene does not repress the immediately more anterior abd-A gene. Instead, abd-A repression is accomplished by a 92 kb-long ncRNA (the iab-8ncRNA) that is transcribed from the large inter-genic region between abd-A and Abd-B. This iab-8ncRNA encodes a microRNA to repress abd-A and also a second redundant repression mechanism acting in cis and thought to be transcriptional interference with the abd-A promoter. Using in situ hybridization, a previous work suggested that the iab8ncRNA transcript forms discrete foci restricted to the nuclear periphery and that this localization may be important for its function. In order to better characterize the intra-cellular localization of the iab-8ncRNA we used the MS2-MCP system, which allows fluorescent labeling of RNA in cells and relies on the interaction between GFP-tagged MS2 coat protein (MCP-GFP) and MS2 RNA stem loops. Our results indicate that the large foci seen in previous studies correspond to the site of iab8ncRNA transcription and that the foci seen may simply be an indication of the level of transcription at the locus. We find no evidence to suggest that this localization is important for its function on abd-A repression. We discuss the idea that the iab-8ncRNA may be a relic of a more general ancient mechanism of posterior dominance during the emergence of the hox clusters that was mediated by transcriptional interference.
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Abernathy E, Gilbertson S, Alla R, Glaunsinger B. Viral Nucleases Induce an mRNA Degradation-Transcription Feedback Loop in Mammalian Cells. Cell Host Microbe 2015. [PMID: 26211836 PMCID: PMC4538998 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.06.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Gamma-herpesviruses encode a cytoplasmic mRNA-targeting endonuclease, SOX, that cleaves most cellular mRNAs. Cleaved fragments are subsequently degraded by the cellular 5′-3′ mRNA exonuclease Xrn1, thereby suppressing cellular gene expression and facilitating viral evasion of host defenses. We reveal that mammalian cells respond to this widespread cytoplasmic mRNA decay by altering RNA Polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription in the nucleus. Measuring RNAPII recruitment to promoters and nascent mRNA synthesis revealed that the majority of affected genes are transcriptionally repressed in SOX-expressing cells. The transcriptional feedback does not occur in response to the initial viral endonuclease-induced cleavage, but instead to degradation of the cleaved fragments by cellular exonucleases. In particular, Xrn1 catalytic activity is required for transcriptional repression. Notably, viral mRNA transcription escapes decay-induced repression, and this escape requires Xrn1. Collectively, these results indicate that mRNA decay rates impact transcription and that gamma-herpesviruses use this feedback mechanism to facilitate viral gene expression. Herpesvirus-induced cytoplasmic mRNA decay causes transcriptional alterations The mRNA decay-transcription feedback mechanism requires cellular decay factors Herpesviral genes escape mRNA degradation-induced transcriptional repression
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- Emma Abernathy
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- QB3 Computational Genomics Resource Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Warns JA, Davie JR, Dhasarathy A. Connecting the dots: chromatin and alternative splicing in EMT. Biochem Cell Biol 2015; 94:12-25. [PMID: 26291837 DOI: 10.1139/bcb-2015-0053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Nature has devised sophisticated cellular machinery to process mRNA transcripts produced by RNA Polymerase II, removing intronic regions and connecting exons together, to produce mature RNAs. This process, known as splicing, is very closely linked to transcription. Alternative splicing, or the ability to produce different combinations of exons that are spliced together from the same genomic template, is a fundamental means of regulating protein complexity. Similar to transcription, both constitutive and alternative splicing can be regulated by chromatin and its associated factors in response to various signal transduction pathways activated by external stimuli. This regulation can vary between different cell types, and interference with these pathways can lead to changes in splicing, often resulting in aberrant cellular states and disease. The epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT), which leads to cancer metastasis, is influenced by alternative splicing events of chromatin remodelers and epigenetic factors such as DNA methylation and non-coding RNAs. In this review, we will discuss the role of epigenetic factors including chromatin, chromatin remodelers, DNA methyltransferases, and microRNAs in the context of alternative splicing, and discuss their potential involvement in alternative splicing during the EMT process.
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- Jessica A Warns
- a Department of Basic Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 501 N. Columbia Road Stop 9061, Grand Forks, ND 58202-9061, USA
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- b Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, John Buhler Research Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 3P4, Canada
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- a Department of Basic Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 501 N. Columbia Road Stop 9061, Grand Forks, ND 58202-9061, USA
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Mishra DR, Chaudhary S, Krishna BM, Mishra SK. Identification of Critical Elements for Regulation of Inorganic Pyrophosphatase (PPA1) in MCF7 Breast Cancer Cells. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0124864. [PMID: 25923237 PMCID: PMC4414593 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2014] [Accepted: 03/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Cytosolic inorganic pyrophosphatase plays an important role in the cellular metabolism by hydrolyzing inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) formed as a by-product of various metabolic reactions. Inorganic pyrophosphatases are known to be associated with important functions related to the growth and development of various organisms. In humans, the expression of inorganic pyrophosphatase (PPA1) is deregulated in different types of cancer and is involved in the migration and invasion of gastric cancer cells and proliferation of ovarian cancer cells. However, the transcriptional regulation of the gene encoding PPA1 is poorly understood. To gain insights into PPA1 gene regulation, a 1217 bp of its 5'-flanking region was cloned and analyzed. The 5'-deletion analysis of the promoter revealed a 266 bp proximal promoter region exhibit most of the transcriptional activity and upon sequence analysis, three putative Sp1 binding sites were found to be present in this region. Binding of Sp1 to the PPA1 promoter was confirmed by Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) and Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay. Importance of these binding sites was verified by site-directed mutagenesis and overexpression of Sp1 transactivates PPA1 promoter activity, upregulates protein expression and increases chromatin accessibility. p300 binds to the PPA1 promoter and stimulates Sp1 induced promoter activity. Trichostatin A (TSA), a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor induces PPA1 promoter activity and protein expression and HAT activity of p300 was important in regulation of PPA1 expression. These results demonstrated that PPA1 is positively regulated by Sp1 and p300 coactivates Sp1 induced PPA1 promoter activity and histone acetylation/deacetylation may contribute to a local chromatin remodeling across the PPA1 promoter. Further, knockdown of PPA1 decreased colony formation and viability of MCF7 cells.
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- Dipti Ranjan Mishra
- Cancer Biology Laboratory, Gene function and regulation Group, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Cancer Biology Laboratory, Gene function and regulation Group, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Cancer Biology Laboratory, Gene function and regulation Group, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Cancer Biology Laboratory, Gene function and regulation Group, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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Herzel L, Neugebauer KM. Quantification of co-transcriptional splicing from RNA-Seq data. Methods 2015; 85:36-43. [PMID: 25929182 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.04.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2015] [Revised: 04/03/2015] [Accepted: 04/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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During gene expression, protein-coding transcripts are shaped by multiple processing events: 5' end capping, pre-mRNA splicing, RNA editing, and 3' end cleavage and polyadenylation. These events are required to produce mature mRNA, which can be subsequently translated. Nearly all of these RNA processing steps occur during transcription, while the nascent RNA is still attached to the DNA template by RNA polymerase II (i.e. co-transcriptionally). Polyadenylation occurs after 3' end cleavage or post-transcriptionally. Pre-mRNA splicing - the removal of introns and ligation of exons - can be initiated and concluded co-transcriptionally, although this is not strictly required. Recently, a number of studies using global methods have shown that the majority of splicing is co-transcriptional, yet not all published studies agree in their conclusions. Short read sequencing of RNA (RNA-Seq) is the prevailing approach to measuring splicing levels in nascent RNA, mRNA or total RNA. Here, we compare four different strategies for analyzing and quantifying co-transcriptional splicing. To do so, we reanalyze two nascent RNA-Seq datasets of the same species, but different cell type and RNA isolation procedure. Average co-transcriptional splicing values calculated on a per intron basis are similar, independent of the strategy used. We emphasize the technical requirements for identifying co-transcriptional splicing events with high confidence, e.g. how to calculate co-transcriptional splicing from nascent RNA- versus mRNA-Seq data, the number of biological replicates needed, depletion of polyA+RNA, and appropriate normalization. Finally, we present guidelines for planning a nascent RNA-Seq experiment.
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- Lydia Herzel
- Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
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- Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06520, United States.
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Poly(A) Polymerase and the Nuclear Poly(A) Binding Protein, PABPN1, Coordinate the Splicing and Degradation of a Subset of Human Pre-mRNAs. Mol Cell Biol 2015; 35:2218-30. [PMID: 25896913 PMCID: PMC4456446 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00123-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Accepted: 04/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Most human protein-encoding transcripts contain multiple introns that are removed by splicing. Although splicing catalysis is frequently cotranscriptional, some introns are excised after polyadenylation. Accumulating evidence suggests that delayed splicing has regulatory potential, but the mechanisms are still not well understood. Here we identify a terminal poly(A) tail as being important for a subset of intron excision events that follow cleavage and polyadenylation. In these cases, splicing is promoted by the nuclear poly(A) binding protein, PABPN1, and poly(A) polymerase (PAP). PABPN1 promotes intron excision in the context of 3′-end polyadenylation but not when bound to internal A-tracts. Importantly, the ability of PABPN1 to promote splicing requires its RNA binding and, to a lesser extent, PAP-stimulatory functions. Interestingly, an N-terminal alanine expansion in PABPN1 that is thought to cause oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy cannot completely rescue the effects of PABPN1 depletion, suggesting that this pathway may have relevance to disease. Finally, inefficient polyadenylation is associated with impaired recruitment of splicing factors to affected introns, which are consequently degraded by the exosome. Our studies uncover a new function for polyadenylation in controlling the expression of a subset of human genes via pre-mRNA splicing.
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Kfir N, Lev-Maor G, Glaich O, Alajem A, Datta A, Sze S, Meshorer E, Ast G. SF3B1 Association with Chromatin Determines Splicing Outcomes. Cell Rep 2015; 11:618-29. [DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2014] [Revised: 02/25/2015] [Accepted: 03/22/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing is a critical step in the posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression, providing significant expansion of the functional proteome of eukaryotic organisms with limited gene numbers. Split eukaryotic genes contain intervening sequences or introns disrupting protein-coding exons, and intron removal occurs by repeated assembly of a large and highly dynamic ribonucleoprotein complex termed the spliceosome, which is composed of five small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles, U1, U2, U4/U6, and U5. Biochemical studies over the past 10 years have allowed the isolation as well as compositional, functional, and structural analysis of splicing complexes at distinct stages along the spliceosome cycle. The average human gene contains eight exons and seven introns, producing an average of three or more alternatively spliced mRNA isoforms. Recent high-throughput sequencing studies indicate that 100% of human genes produce at least two alternative mRNA isoforms. Mechanisms of alternative splicing include RNA-protein interactions of splicing factors with regulatory sites termed silencers or enhancers, RNA-RNA base-pairing interactions, or chromatin-based effects that can change or determine splicing patterns. Disease-causing mutations can often occur in splice sites near intron borders or in exonic or intronic RNA regulatory silencer or enhancer elements, as well as in genes that encode splicing factors. Together, these studies provide mechanistic insights into how spliceosome assembly, dynamics, and catalysis occur; how alternative splicing is regulated and evolves; and how splicing can be disrupted by cis- and trans-acting mutations leading to disease states. These findings make the spliceosome an attractive new target for small-molecule, antisense, and genome-editing therapeutic interventions.
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- Yeon Lee
- Center for RNA Systems Biology; Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3204;
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Li Z, Huang C, Bao C, Chen L, Lin M, Wang X, Zhong G, Yu B, Hu W, Dai L, Zhu P, Chang Z, Wu Q, Zhao Y, Jia Y, Xu P, Liu H, Shan G. Exon-intron circular RNAs regulate transcription in the nucleus. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2015; 22:256-64. [PMID: 25664725 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2029] [Impact Index Per Article: 225.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2014] [Accepted: 12/19/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) have numerous roles in development and disease, and one of the prominent roles is to regulate gene expression. A vast number of circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been identified, and some have been shown to function as microRNA sponges in animal cells. Here, we report a class of circRNAs associated with RNA polymerase II in human cells. In these circRNAs, exons are circularized with introns 'retained' between exons; we term them exon-intron circRNAs or EIciRNAs. EIciRNAs predominantly localize in the nucleus, interact with U1 snRNP and promote transcription of their parental genes. Our findings reveal a new role for circRNAs in regulating gene expression in the nucleus, in which EIciRNAs enhance the expression of their parental genes in cis, and highlight a regulatory strategy for transcriptional control via specific RNA-RNA interaction between U1 snRNA and EIciRNAs.
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- Zhaoyong Li
- 1] School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. [2] Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- 1] School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. [2] Department of Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China. [3] Institute of Biophysics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- 1] Department of Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China. [2] Institute of Biophysics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- National Center for Protein Sciences, Beijing, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- 1] School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. [2] Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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Davis ZH, Verschueren E, Jang GM, Kleffman K, Johnson JR, Park J, Von Dollen J, Maher MC, Johnson T, Newton W, Jäger S, Shales M, Horner J, Hernandez RD, Krogan NJ, Glaunsinger BA. Global mapping of herpesvirus-host protein complexes reveals a transcription strategy for late genes. Mol Cell 2015; 57:349-60. [PMID: 25544563 PMCID: PMC4305015 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.11.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2014] [Revised: 08/20/2014] [Accepted: 11/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Mapping host-pathogen interactions has proven instrumental for understanding how viruses manipulate host machinery and how numerous cellular processes are regulated. DNA viruses such as herpesviruses have relatively large coding capacity and thus can target an extensive network of cellular proteins. To identify the host proteins hijacked by this pathogen, we systematically affinity tagged and purified all 89 proteins of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) from human cells. Mass spectrometry of this material identified over 500 virus-host interactions. KSHV causes AIDS-associated cancers, and its interaction network is enriched for proteins linked to cancer and overlaps with proteins that are also targeted by HIV-1. We found that the conserved KSHV protein ORF24 binds to RNA polymerase II and brings it to viral late promoters by mimicking and replacing cellular TATA-box-binding protein (TBP). This is required for herpesviral late gene expression, a complex and poorly understood phase of the viral lifecycle.
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- Zoe H Davis
- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific, 355 River Oaks Parkway, San Jose, CA 95134, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
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- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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SART3-Dependent Accumulation of Incomplete Spliceosomal snRNPs in Cajal Bodies. Cell Rep 2015; 10:429-440. [PMID: 25600876 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.12.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2014] [Revised: 09/18/2014] [Accepted: 12/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Cajal bodies (CBs) are evolutionarily conserved nuclear structures involved in the metabolism of spliceosomal small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs). CBs are not present in all cell types, and the trigger for their formation is not yet known. Here, we depleted cells of factors required for the final steps of snRNP assembly and assayed for the presence of stalled intermediates in CBs. We show that depletion induces formation of CBs in cells that normally lack these nuclear compartments, suggesting that CB nucleation is triggered by an imbalance in snRNP assembly. Accumulation of stalled intermediates in CBs depends on the di-snRNP assembly factor SART3. SART3 is required for both the induction of CB formation as well as the tethering of incomplete snRNPs to coilin, the CB scaffolding protein. We propose a model wherein SART3 monitors tri-snRNP assembly and sequesters incomplete particles in CBs, thereby allowing cells to maintain a homeostatic balance of mature snRNPs in the nucleoplasm.
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Huang Y, Yao X, Wang G. 'Mediator-ing' messenger RNA processing. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2014; 6:257-69. [PMID: 25515410 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2014] [Revised: 09/29/2014] [Accepted: 10/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Pre-messenger RNA (mRNA) processing, generally including capping, mRNA splicing, and cleavage-polyadenylation, is physically and functionally associated with transcription. The reciprocal coupling between transcription and mRNA processing ensures the efficient and regulated gene expression and editing. Multiple transcription factors/cofactors and mRNA processing factors are involved in the coupling process. This review focuses on several classic examples and recent advances that enlarge our understanding of how the transcriptional factors or cofactors, especially the Mediator complex, contribute to the RNA Pol II elongation, mRNA splicing, and polyadenylation.
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- Yan Huang
- Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Kinz-Thompson CD, Gonzalez RL. smFRET studies of the 'encounter' complexes and subsequent intermediate states that regulate the selectivity of ligand binding. FEBS Lett 2014; 588:3526-38. [PMID: 25066296 PMCID: PMC4779314 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2014] [Revised: 07/14/2014] [Accepted: 07/15/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The selectivity with which a biomolecule can bind its cognate ligand when confronted by the vast array of structurally similar, competing ligands that are present in the cell underlies the fidelity of some of the most fundamental processes in biology. Because they collectively comprise one of only a few methods that can sensitively detect the 'encounter' complexes and subsequent intermediate states that regulate the selectivity of ligand binding, single-molecule fluorescence, and particularly single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET), approaches have revolutionized studies of ligand-binding reactions. Here, we describe a widely used smFRET strategy that enables investigations of a large variety of ligand-binding reactions, and discuss two such reactions, aminoacyl-tRNA selection during translation elongation and splice site selection during spliceosome assembly, that highlight both the successes and challenges of smFRET studies of ligand-binding reactions. We conclude by reviewing a number of emerging experimental and computational approaches that are expanding the capabilities of smFRET approaches for studies of ligand-binding reactions and that promise to reveal the mechanisms that control the selectivity of ligand binding with unprecedented resolution.
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, United States.
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Batsché E, Ameyar-Zazoua M. The influence of Argonaute proteins on alternative RNA splicing. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2014; 6:141-56. [DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2013] [Revised: 07/28/2014] [Accepted: 07/31/2014] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Eric Batsché
- Institut Pasteur, Dpt Biologie du Développement et Cellules Souches; Unité de Régulation Epigénétique; 75015 Paris France
- URA2578; CNRS
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- Institut Pasteur, Dpt Biologie du Développement et Cellules Souches; Unité de Régulation Epigénétique; 75015 Paris France
- URA2578; CNRS
- Laboratoire Epigénétique et Destin Cellulaire, CNRS UMR7216; Université Paris Diderot, Cité Sorbonne Paris; Paris France
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Distinct and predictive histone lysine acetylation patterns at promoters, enhancers, and gene bodies. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2014; 4:2051-63. [PMID: 25122670 PMCID: PMC4232531 DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.013565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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In eukaryotic cells, histone lysines are frequently acetylated. However, unlike modifications such as methylations, histone acetylation modifications are often considered redundant. As such, the functional roles of distinct histone acetylations are largely unexplored. We previously developed an algorithm RFECS to discover the most informative modifications associated with the classification or prediction of mammalian enhancers. Here, we used this tool to identify the modifications most predictive of promoters, enhancers, and gene bodies. Unexpectedly, we found that histone acetylation alone performs well in distinguishing these unique genomic regions. Further, we found the association of characteristic acetylation patterns with genic regions and association of chromatin state with splicing. Taken together, our work underscores the diverse functional roles of histone acetylation in gene regulation and provides several testable hypotheses to dissect these roles.
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Regulation of gene expression programmes by serine–arginine rich splicing factors. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2014; 32:11-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2014.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2014] [Accepted: 03/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Dušková E, Hnilicová J, Staněk D. CRE promoter sites modulate alternative splicing via p300-mediated histone acetylation. RNA Biol 2014; 11:865-74. [PMID: 25019513 DOI: 10.4161/rna.29441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Histone acetylation modulates alternative splicing of several hundred genes. Here, we tested the role of the histone acetyltransferase p300 in alternative splicing and showed that knockdown of p300 promotes inclusion of the fibronectin (FN1) alternative EDB exon. p300 associates with CRE sites in the promoter via the CREB transcription factor. We created mini-gene reporters driven by an artificial promoter containing CRE sites. Both deletion and mutation of the CRE site affected EDB alternative splicing in the same manner as p300 knockdown. Next we showed that p300 controls histone H4 acetylation along the FN1 gene. Consistently, p300 depletion and CRE deletion/mutation both reduced histone H4 acetylation on mini-gene reporters. Finally, we provide evidence that the effect of CRE inactivation on H4 acetylation and alternative splicing is counteracted by the inhibition of histone deacetylases. Together, these data suggest that histone acetylation could be one of the mechanisms how promoter and promoter binding proteins influence alternative splicing.
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- Eva Dušková
- Department of RNA Biology, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic; Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of RNA Biology, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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Heim A, Grimm C, Müller U, Häußler S, Mackeen MM, Merl J, Hauck SM, Kessler BM, Schofield CJ, Wolf A, Böttger A. Jumonji domain containing protein 6 (Jmjd6) modulates splicing and specifically interacts with arginine-serine-rich (RS) domains of SR- and SR-like proteins. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:7833-50. [PMID: 24914048 PMCID: PMC4081092 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The Fe(II) and 2-oxoglutarate dependent oxygenase Jmjd6 has been shown to hydroxylate lysine residues in the essential splice factor U2 auxiliary factor 65 kDa subunit (U2AF65) and to act as a modulator of alternative splicing. We describe further evidence for the role of Jmjd6 in the regulation of pre-mRNA processing including interactions of Jmjd6 with multiple arginine–serine-rich (RS)-domains of SR- and SR-related proteins including U2AF65, Luc7-like protein 3 (Luc7L3), SRSF11 and Acinus S′, but not with the bona fide RS-domain of SRSF1. The identified Jmjd6 target proteins are involved in different mRNA processing steps and play roles in exon dependent alternative splicing and exon definition. Moreover, we show that Jmjd6 modifies splicing of a constitutive splice reporter, binds RNA derived from the reporter plasmid and punctually co-localises with nascent RNA. We propose that Jmjd6 exerts its splice modulatory function by interacting with specific SR-related proteins during splicing in a RNA dependent manner.
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- Astrid Heim
- Department of Biology II, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Großhaderner Strasse 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Biology II, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Großhaderner Strasse 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Biology II, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Großhaderner Strasse 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Biology II, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Großhaderner Strasse 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory and Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK Research Unit Protein Science, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Henry Wellcome Building for Molecular Physiology, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- Henry Wellcome Building for Molecular Physiology, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- School of Chemical Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, and Institute of Systems Biology (INBIOSIS) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory and Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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- Institute of Molecular Toxicology and Pharmacology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Biology II, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Großhaderner Strasse 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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How slow RNA polymerase II elongation favors alternative exon skipping. Mol Cell 2014; 54:683-90. [PMID: 24793692 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.03.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2013] [Revised: 01/23/2014] [Accepted: 03/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Splicing is functionally coupled to transcription, linking the rate of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) elongation and the ability of splicing factors to recognize splice sites (ss) of various strengths. In most cases, slow Pol II elongation allows weak splice sites to be recognized, leading to higher inclusion of alternative exons. Using CFTR alternative exon 9 (E9) as a model, we show here that slowing down elongation can also cause exon skipping by promoting the recruitment of the negative factor ETR-3 onto the UG-repeat at E9 3' splice site, which displaces the constitutive splicing factor U2AF65 from the overlapping polypyrimidine tract. Weakening of E9 5' ss increases ETR-3 binding at the 3' ss and subsequent E9 skipping, whereas strengthening of the 5' ss usage has the opposite effect. This indicates that a delay in the cotranscriptional emergence of the 5' ss promotes ETR-3 recruitment and subsequent inhibition of E9 inclusion.
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Unexpected role of the steroid-deficiency protein ecdysoneless in pre-mRNA splicing. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004287. [PMID: 24722212 PMCID: PMC3983036 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2013] [Accepted: 02/20/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The steroid hormone ecdysone coordinates insect growth and development, directing the major postembryonic transition of forms, metamorphosis. The steroid-deficient ecdysoneless1 (ecd1) strain of Drosophila melanogaster has long served to assess the impact of ecdysone on gene regulation, morphogenesis, or reproduction. However, ecd also exerts cell-autonomous effects independently of the hormone, and mammalian Ecd homologs have been implicated in cell cycle regulation and cancer. Why the Drosophila ecd1 mutants lack ecdysone has not been resolved. Here, we show that in Drosophila cells, Ecd directly interacts with core components of the U5 snRNP spliceosomal complex, including the conserved Prp8 protein. In accord with a function in pre-mRNA splicing, Ecd and Prp8 are cell-autonomously required for survival of proliferating cells within the larval imaginal discs. In the steroidogenic prothoracic gland, loss of Ecd or Prp8 prevents splicing of a large intron from CYP307A2/spookier (spok) pre-mRNA, thus eliminating this essential ecdysone-biosynthetic enzyme and blocking the entry to metamorphosis. Human Ecd (hEcd) can substitute for its missing fly ortholog. When expressed in the Ecd-deficient prothoracic gland, hEcd re-establishes spok pre-mRNA splicing and protein expression, restoring ecdysone synthesis and normal development. Our work identifies Ecd as a novel pre-mRNA splicing factor whose function has been conserved in its human counterpart. Whether the role of mammalian Ecd in cancer involves pre-mRNA splicing remains to be discovered.
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Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus ORF45 mediates transcriptional activation of the HIV-1 long terminal repeat via RSK2. J Virol 2014; 88:7024-35. [PMID: 24719417 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00931-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Robust activation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gene expression occurs upon superinfection with Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), a common AIDS-associated pathogen. Though the mechanisms underlying this phenotype remain unknown, several KSHV-encoded factors have been reported to stimulate HIV-1 long terminal repeat (LTR) activity. Here, we systematically evaluated the ability of KSHV tegument proteins to modulate the activation of an integrated HIV-1 LTR and revealed that the most potent individual activator is ORF45. ORF45 directs an increase in RNA polymerase II recruitment to the HIV-1 LTR, leading to enhanced transcriptional output. ORF45 is a robust activator of the p90 ribosomal S6 kinases (RSK), and we found that this activity is necessary but not sufficient to increase transcription from the LTR. Of the three widely expressed RSK isoforms, RSK2 appears to be selectively involved in LTR stimulation by both KSHV ORF45 and HIV-1 Tat. However, constitutively active RSK2 is unable to stimulate the LTR, suggesting that ORF45 may preferentially direct this kinase to a specific set of targets. Collectively, our findings reveal a novel transcriptional activation function for KSHV ORF45 and highlight the importance of RSK2 in shaping the transcriptional environment during infection. IMPORTANCE Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is a prominent AIDS-associated pathogen. Previous studies have shown that infection of cells containing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) with KSHV leads to potent stimulation of HIV-1 gene expression by activating the HIV-1 promoter, termed the long terminal repeat (LTR). Here, we compared the abilities of various KSHV proteins to activate gene expression from the HIV-1 LTR and found that KSHV ORF45 is the most potent activator. ORF45 is known to induce cell signaling through ribosomal S6 kinase (RSK) and enhance protein translation. However, we revealed that the activation of a specific isoform of RSK by ORF45 also leads to increased mRNA synthesis from the LTR by the host RNA polymerase. Collectively, our findings provide new insight into the interviral interactions between KSHV and HIV that may ultimately impact disease.
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Moehle EA, Braberg H, Krogan NJ, Guthrie C. Adventures in time and space: splicing efficiency and RNA polymerase II elongation rate. RNA Biol 2014; 11:313-9. [PMID: 24717535 PMCID: PMC4075515 DOI: 10.4161/rna.28646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Control of pre-mRNA splicing is a critical part of the eukaryotic gene expression process. Extensive evidence indicates that transcription and splicing are spatiotemporally coordinated and that most splicing events occur co-transcriptionally. A kinetic coupling model has been proposed in metazoans to describe how changing RNA Polymerase II (RNAPII) elongation rate can impact which alternative splice sites are used. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, in which most spliced genes have only a single intron and splice sites adhere to a strong consensus sequence, we recently observed that splicing efficiency was sensitive to mutations in RNAPII that increase or decrease its elongation rate. Our data revealed that RNAPII speed and splicing efficiency are generally anti-correlated: at many genes, increased elongation rate caused decreased splicing efficiency, while decreased elongation rate increased splicing efficiency. An improved splicing phenotype was also observed upon deletion of SUB1, a condition in which elongation rate is slowed. We discuss these data in the context of a growing field and expand the kinetic coupling model to apply to both alternative splicing and splicing efficiency.
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- Erica A Moehle
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics; University of California; San Francisco, CA USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology; University of California; San Francisco, CA USA; California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences; QB3; San Francisco, CA USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology; University of California; San Francisco, CA USA; California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences; QB3; San Francisco, CA USA; J. David Gladstone Institutes; San Francisco, CA USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics; University of California; San Francisco, CA USA
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The 7mG (7-methylguanosine cap) formed on mRNA is fundamental to eukaryotic gene expression. Protein complexes recruited to 7mG mediate key processing events throughout the lifetime of the transcript. One of the most important mediators of 7mG functions is CBC (cap-binding complex). CBC has a key role in several gene expression mechanisms, including transcription, splicing, transcript export and translation. Gene expression can be regulated by signalling pathways which influence CBC function. The aim of the present review is to discuss the mechanisms by which CBC mediates and co-ordinates multiple gene expression events.
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Bentley DL. Coupling mRNA processing with transcription in time and space. Nat Rev Genet 2014; 15:163-75. [PMID: 24514444 DOI: 10.1038/nrg3662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 544] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Maturation of mRNA precursors often occurs simultaneously with their synthesis by RNA polymerase II (Pol II). The co-transcriptional nature of mRNA processing has permitted the evolution of coupling mechanisms that coordinate transcription with mRNA capping, splicing, editing and 3' end formation. Recent experiments using sophisticated new methods for analysis of nascent RNA have provided important insights into the relative amount of co-transcriptional and post-transcriptional processing, the relationship between mRNA elongation and processing, and the role of the Pol II carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) in regulating these processes.
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- David L Bentley
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, MS8101, PO BOX 6511, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
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Bieberstein NI, Straube K, Neugebauer KM. Chromatin immunoprecipitation approaches to determine co-transcriptional nature of splicing. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1126:315-23. [PMID: 24549674 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-980-2_23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a common method used to determine the position along DNA where an antigen is found. The method was initially devised for protein antigens that come in direct contact with genomic DNA, such as components of the transcriptional machinery and histones. However, ChIP can also be extended to antigens that bind RNA, as demonstrated by the specific localization of spliceosomal components to particular gene regions that correlate with when and where introns and exons are transcribed. The activities of any RNA binding protein can in principle be monitored using ChIP, and RNA dependency of binding can also be assessed through RNase treatment. Combined with qPCR or high-throughput sequencing, this method allows the detection of RNA bound proteins at individual genes or genome-wide. Here, we present a detailed protocol for "splicing factor ChIP" in tissue culture cells.
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The discovery that many intron-containing genes can be cotranscriptionally spliced has led to an increased understanding of how splicing and transcription are intricately intertwined. Cotranscriptional splicing has been demonstrated in a number of different organisms and has been shown to play roles in coordinating both constitutive and alternative splicing. The nature of cotranscriptional splicing suggests that changes in transcription can dramatically affect splicing, and new evidence suggests that splicing can, in turn, influence transcription. In this chapter, we discuss the mechanisms and consequences of cotranscriptional splicing and introduce some of the tools used to measure this process.
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- Evan C Merkhofer
- Molecular Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Zaghlool A, Ameur A, Cavelier L, Feuk L. Splicing in the human brain. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2014; 116:95-125. [PMID: 25172473 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-801105-8.00005-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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It has become increasingly clear over the past decade that RNA has important functions in human cells beyond its role as an intermediate translator of DNA to protein. It is now known that RNA plays highly specific roles in pathways involved in regulatory, structural, and catalytic functions. The complexity of RNA production and regulation has become evident with the advent of high-throughput methods to study the transcriptome. Deep sequencing has revealed an enormous diversity of RNA types and transcript isoforms in human cells. The transcriptome of the human brain is particularly interesting as it contains more expressed genes than other tissues and also displays an extreme diversity of transcript isoforms, indicating that highly complex regulatory pathways are present in the brain. Several of these regulatory proteins are now identified, including RNA-binding proteins that are neuron specific. RNA-binding proteins also play important roles in regulating the splicing process and the temporal and spatial isoform production. While significant progress has been made in understanding the human transcriptome, many questions still remain regarding the basic mechanisms of splicing and subcellular localization of RNA. A long-standing question is to what extent the splicing of pre-mRNA is cotranscriptional and posttranscriptional, respectively. Recent data, including studies of the human brain, indicate that splicing is primarily cotranscriptional in human cells. This chapter describes the current understanding of splicing and splicing regulation in the human brain and discusses the recent global sequence-based analyses of transcription and splicing.
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- Ammar Zaghlool
- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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In the past several years, the relationship between chromatin structure and mRNA processing has been the source of significant investigation across diverse disciplines. Central to these efforts was an unanticipated nonrandom distribution of chromatin marks across transcribed regions of protein-coding genes. In addition to the presence of specific histone modifications at the 5' and 3' ends of genes, exonic DNA was demonstrated to present a distinct chromatin landscape relative to intronic DNA. As splicing in higher eukaryotes predominantly occurs co-transcriptionally, these studies raised the possibility that chromatin modifications may aid the spliceosome in the detection of exons amidst vast stretches of noncoding intronic sequences. Recent investigations have supported a direct role for chromatin in splicing regulation and have suggested an intriguing role for splicing in the establishment of chromatin modifications. Here we will summarize an accumulating body of data that begins to reveal extensive coupling between chromatin structure and pre-mRNA splicing.
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- Nazmul Haque
- Laboratory of Ribonucleoprotein Biochemistry, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Huang H, Chen J, Liu H, Sun X. The nucleosome regulates the usage of polyadenylation sites in the human genome. BMC Genomics 2013; 14:912. [PMID: 24365105 PMCID: PMC3879661 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2013] [Accepted: 12/19/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Background It has been reported that 3' end processing is coupled to transcription and nucleosome depletion near the polyadenylation sites in many species. However, the association between nucleosome occupancy and polyadenylation site usage is still unclear. Results By systematic analysis of high-throughput sequencing datasets from the human genome, we found that nucleosome occupancy patterns are different around the polyadenylation sites, and that the patterns associate with both transcription termination and recognition of polyadenylation sites. Upstream of proximal polyadenylation sites, RNA polymerase II accumulated and nucleosomes were better positioned compared with downstream of the sites. Highly used proximal polyadenylation sites had higher upstream nucleosome levels and RNA polymerase II accumulation than lowly used sites. This suggests that nucleosomes positioned upstream of proximal sites function in the recognition of proximal polyadenylation sites and in the preparation for 3' end processing by slowing down transcription speed. Both conserved distal polyadenylation sites and constitutive sites showed stronger nucleosome depletion near polyadenylation sites and had intrinsically better positioned downstream nucleosomes. Finally, there was a higher accumulation of RNA polymerase II downstream of the polyadenylation sites, to guarantee gene transcription termination and recognition of the last polyadenylation sites, if previous sites were missed. Conclusions Our study indicates that nucleosome arrays play different roles in the regulation of the usage of polyadenylation sites and transcription termination of protein-coding genes, and form a dual pausing model of RNA polymerase II in the alternative polyadenylation sites’ region, to ensure effective 3' end processing.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China.
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Shargunov AV, Krasnov GS, Ponomarenko EA, Lisitsa AV, Shurdov MA, Zverev VV, Archakov AI, Blinov VM. Tissue-Specific Alternative Splicing Analysis Reveals the Diversity of Chromosome 18 Transcriptome. J Proteome Res 2013; 13:173-82. [DOI: 10.1021/pr400808u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Alexander V. Shargunov
- I. I. Mechnikov Institute of Vaccines and Sera of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 5A, Maly Kazenny per., 105064 Moscow, Russia
- Bioinformatics
and Postgenome Research, V. N. Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 10, Pogodinskaya
Street, 119121 Moscow, Russia
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- I. I. Mechnikov Institute of Vaccines and Sera of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 5A, Maly Kazenny per., 105064 Moscow, Russia
- Bioinformatics
and Postgenome Research, V. N. Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 10, Pogodinskaya
Street, 119121 Moscow, Russia
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- Bioinformatics
and Postgenome Research, V. N. Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 10, Pogodinskaya
Street, 119121 Moscow, Russia
- LLC PostGenTech, 10, Pogodinskaya Street, 119121 Moscow, Russia
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- Bioinformatics
and Postgenome Research, V. N. Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 10, Pogodinskaya
Street, 119121 Moscow, Russia
- LLC PostGenTech, 10, Pogodinskaya Street, 119121 Moscow, Russia
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- I. I. Mechnikov Institute of Vaccines and Sera of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 5A, Maly Kazenny per., 105064 Moscow, Russia
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- Bioinformatics
and Postgenome Research, V. N. Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 10, Pogodinskaya
Street, 119121 Moscow, Russia
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- I. I. Mechnikov Institute of Vaccines and Sera of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 5A, Maly Kazenny per., 105064 Moscow, Russia
- Bioinformatics
and Postgenome Research, V. N. Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 10, Pogodinskaya
Street, 119121 Moscow, Russia
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The human cap-binding complex is functionally connected to the nuclear RNA exosome. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2013; 20:1367-76. [PMID: 24270879 PMCID: PMC3923317 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nuclear processing and quality control of eukaryotic RNA is mediated by the RNA exosome, which is regulated by accessory factors. However, the mechanism of exosome recruitment to its ribonucleoprotein (RNP) targets remains poorly understood. Here we disclose a physical link between the human exosome and the cap-binding complex (CBC). The CBC associates with the ARS2 protein to form CBC-ARS2 (CBCA), and then further connects together with the ZC3H18 protein to the nuclear exosome targeting (NEXT) complex, forming CBC-NEXT (CBCN). RNA immunoprecipitation using CBCN factors as well as the analysis of combinatorial depletion of CBCN and exosome components underscore the functional relevance of CBC-exosome bridging at the level of target RNA. Specifically, CBCA suppresses read-through products of several RNA families by promoting their transcriptional termination. We suggest that the RNP 5′cap links transcription termination to exosomal RNA degradation via CBCN.
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Nuclear trafficking of retroviral RNAs and Gag proteins during late steps of replication. Viruses 2013; 5:2767-95. [PMID: 24253283 PMCID: PMC3856414 DOI: 10.3390/v5112767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2013] [Revised: 10/31/2013] [Accepted: 11/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Retroviruses exploit nuclear trafficking machinery at several distinct stages in their replication cycles. In this review, we will focus primarily on nucleocytoplasmic trafficking events that occur after the completion of reverse transcription and proviral integration. First, we will discuss nuclear export of unspliced viral RNA transcripts, which serves two essential roles: as the mRNA template for the translation of viral structural proteins and as the genome for encapsidation into virions. These full-length viral RNAs must overcome the cell's quality control measures to leave the nucleus by co-opting host factors or encoding viral proteins to mediate nuclear export of unspliced viral RNAs. Next, we will summarize the most recent findings on the mechanisms of Gag nuclear trafficking and discuss potential roles for nuclear localization of Gag proteins in retrovirus replication.
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