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Zarudnaya MI, Potyahaylo AL, Kolomiets IM, Hovorun DM. Auxiliary elements of mammalian pre-mRNAs polyadenylation signals. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.7124/bc.00062e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, NAS of Ukraine
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Yang JP, Reddy TR, Truong KT, Suhasini M, Wong-Staal F. Functional interaction of Sam68 and heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K. Oncogene 2002; 21:7187-94. [PMID: 12370808 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1205759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2001] [Revised: 06/04/2002] [Accepted: 06/14/2002] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Sam68 is a target of the c-Src tyrosine kinase. We previously showed that overexpression of Sam68 functionally substitutes for, as well as synergies with, HIV-1 Rev in Rev-response element (RRE)-mediated gene expression and virus replication. Here we describe the identification of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K (hnRNP K) as a protein that specifically interacts with Sam68 in vitro and in vivo. HnRNP K did not bind to RRE-RNA directly, but formed a super complex with Sam68 and RRE in vitro. RNase treatment did not change the strength of binding of hnRNP K to Sam68. We demonstrated that hnRNP K significantly inhibited Sam68-mediated, but not Rev-mediated, RRE-dependent gene expression. We further showed that Sam68, but not a non-functional mutant Sam68p21, inhibited transcriptional activation of CT element by hnRNP K. Interestingly, the Sam68p21 with a single amino acid substitution in the nuclear localization domain exhibited less affinity for hnRNP K in vitro. We propose that the direct interaction of Sam68 and hnRNP K adversely affect the activities of both proteins in signal transduction pathways of both transcriptional and post-transcriptional events.
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- Jian-Ping Yang
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, CA 92093-0665, USA
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Gruffat H, Batisse J, Pich D, Neuhierl B, Manet E, Hammerschmidt W, Sergeant A. Epstein-Barr virus mRNA export factor EB2 is essential for production of infectious virus. J Virol 2002; 76:9635-44. [PMID: 12208942 PMCID: PMC136519 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.19.9635-9644.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The splicing machinery which positions a protein export complex near the exon-exon junction mediates nuclear export of mRNAs generated from intron-containing genes. Many Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) early and late genes are intronless, and an alternative pathway, independent of splicing, must export the corresponding mRNAs. Since the EBV EB2 protein induces the cytoplasmic accumulation of intronless mRNA, it is tempting to speculate that EB2 is a viral adapter involved in the export of intronless viral mRNA. If this is true, then the EB2 protein is essential for the production of EBV infectious virions. To test this hypothesis, we generated an EBV mutant in which the BMLF1 gene, encoding the EB2 protein, has been deleted (EBV(BMLF1-KO)). Our studies show that EB2 is necessary for the production of infectious EBV and that its function cannot be transcomplemented by a cellular factor. In the EBV(BMLF1-KO) 293 cells, oriLyt-dependent DNA replication was greatly enhanced by EB2. Accordingly, EB2 induced the cytoplasmic accumulation of a subset of EBV early mRNAs coding for essential proteins implicated in EBV DNA replication during the productive cycle. Two herpesvirus homologs of the EB2 protein, the herpes simplex virus type 1 protein ICP27 and, the human cytomegalovirus protein UL69, only partly rescued the phenotype of the EBV(BMLF1-KO) mutant, indicating that some EB2 functions in virus production cannot be transcomplemented by ICP27 and UL69.
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- Henri Gruffat
- Laboratoire de Virologie Humaine, INSERM U412, ENS-Lyon, F-69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France.
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Lambermon MHL, Fu Y, Wieczorek Kirk DA, Dupasquier M, Filipowicz W, Lorković ZJ. UBA1 and UBA2, two proteins that interact with UBP1, a multifunctional effector of pre-mRNA maturation in plants. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:4346-57. [PMID: 12024044 PMCID: PMC133861 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.12.4346-4357.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Nicotiana plumbaginifolia UBP1 is an hnRNP-like protein associated with the poly(A)(+) RNA in the cell nucleus. Consistent with a role in pre-mRNA processing, overexpression of UBP1 in N. plumabaginifolia protoplasts enhances the splicing of suboptimal introns and increases the steady-state levels of reporter mRNAs, even intronless ones. The latter effect of UBP1 is promoter specific and appears to be due to UBP1 binding to the 3' untranslated region (3'-UTR) and protecting the mRNA from exonucleolytic degradation (M. H. L. Lambermon, G. G. Simpson, D. A. Kirk, M. Hemmings-Mieszczak, U. Klahre, and W. Filipowicz, EMBO J. 19:1638-1649, 2000). To gain more insight into UBP1 function in pre-mRNA maturation, we characterized proteins interacting with N. plumbaginifolia UBP1 and one of its Arabidopsis thaliana counterparts, AtUBP1b, by using yeast two-hybrid screens and in vitro pull-down assays. Two proteins, UBP1-associated proteins 1a and 2a (UBA1a and UBA2a, respectively), were identified in A. thaliana. They are members of two novel families of plant-specific proteins containing RNA recognition motif-type RNA-binding domains. UBA1a and UBA2a are nuclear proteins, and their recombinant forms bind RNA with a specificity for oligouridylates in vitro. As with UBP1, transient overexpression of UBA1a in protoplasts increases the steady-state levels of reporter mRNAs in a promoter-dependent manner. Similarly, overexpression of UBA2a increases the levels of reporter mRNAs, but this effect is promoter independent. Unlike UBP1, neither UBA1a nor UBA2a stimulates pre-mRNA splicing. These and other data suggest that UBP1, UBA1a, and UBA2a may act as components of a complex recognizing U-rich sequences in plant 3'-UTRs and contributing to the stabilization of mRNAs in the nucleus.
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- Mark H L Lambermon
- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
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Popa I, Harris ME, Donello JE, Hope TJ. CRM1-dependent function of a cis-acting RNA export element. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:2057-67. [PMID: 11884594 PMCID: PMC133666 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.7.2057-2067.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2001] [Revised: 07/19/2001] [Accepted: 12/21/2001] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Viruses often contain cis-acting RNA elements, which facilitate the posttranscriptional processing and export of their messages. These elements fall into two classes distinguished by the presence of either viral or cellular RNA binding proteins. To date, studies have indicated that the viral proteins utilize the CRM1-dependent export pathway, while the cellular factors generally function in a CRM1-independent manner. The cis-acting element found in the woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) (the WHV posttranscriptional regulatory element [WPRE]) has the ability to posttranscriptionally stimulate transgene expression and requires no viral proteins to function. Conventional wisdom suggests that the WPRE would function in a CRM1-independent manner. However, our studies on this element reveal that its efficient function is sensitive to the overexpression of the C terminus of CAN/Nup214 and treatment with the antimicrobial agent leptomycin B. Furthermore, the overexpression of CRM1 stimulates WPRE activity. These results suggest a direct role for CRM1 in the export function of the WPRE. This observation suggests that the WPRE is directing messages into a CRM1-dependent mRNA export pathway in somatic mammalian cells.
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- Ileana Popa
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
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Seppen J, Rijnberg M, Cooreman MP, Oude Elferink RPJ. Lentiviral vectors for efficient transduction of isolated primary quiescent hepatocytes. J Hepatol 2002; 36:459-65. [PMID: 11943415 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-8278(01)00308-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS Lentiviral vectors were designed to obtain efficient transduction of primary quiescent hepatocytes. METHODS A hepatitis B virus (HBV) fragment containing enhancers and posttranscriptional regulatory element was used to increase expression levels. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) central polypurine tract (PPT) was used to increase transduction of quiescent cells. HBV elements were incorporated downstream and the HIV PPT was incorporated upstream of green fluorescent protein expression cassettes in third generation self inactivating lentiviral vectors. RESULTS The HBV fragment increased mean fluorescence of transduced HepG2 hepatoma cells 4.3+/-1.7-fold and 2.3-6.0-fold in various other cell types. A role of HBV x protein in the function of the HBV element was excluded. The HBV element increased the number of transducing units per pg of HIV p24 twofold. The unmodified lentiviral vector transduced 5+/-1% of cultured quiescent primary rat hepatocytes, HBV elements increased transduction to 54+/-13% and increased fluorescence 2.8+/-0.6-fold. The PPT increased transduction to 47+/-11% and increased fluorescence 2.3+/-0.4-fold. The vector with PPT and HBV elements transduced 68+/-10% of hepatocytes and increased fluorescence synergistically, 17+/-6 fold. CONCLUSIONS This study shows that HBV elements or HIV PPT are required for efficient transduction of primary hepatocytes.
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- Jurgen Seppen
- Department of Experimental Hepatology, F0-116, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Ketteler R, Glaser S, Sandra O, Martens UM, Klingmüller U. Enhanced transgene expression in primitive hematopoietic progenitor cells and embryonic stem cells efficiently transduced by optimized retroviral hybrid vectors. Gene Ther 2002; 9:477-87. [PMID: 11948372 DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3301653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2001] [Accepted: 12/11/2001] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Oncoretroviral vectors have been successfully used in gene therapy trials, yet low transduction rates and loss of transgene expression are still major obstacles for their application. To overcome these problems we modified the widely used Moloney murine leukemia virus-derived retroviral vector pMX by replacing the 3'LTR with the spleen focus-forming virus LTR and inserting the woodchuck hepatitis B virus post-translational regulatory element. To compare requirements crucial for efficient transgene expression, we generated the hybrid retroviral vectors pMOWS and pOWS that harbor the complete murine embryonic stem cell virus (MESV)-leader sequence or a shortened MESV-leader not comprising primer binding site (PBS) and splice donor (SD). Applying these retroviral vectors significantly augmented transgene expression in hematopoietic cell lines and progenitor cells. For transduction of murine embryonic stem (ES) cells the retroviral vector pMOWS that harbors the MESV-PBS and -SD was superior resulting in 65% green fluorescent protein (GFP) expressing ES cells. Surprisingly, in murine and human primitive hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC), the highest efficiency of up to 66% GFP expressing cells was achieved with pOWS, a retroviral vector that retains the negative regulatory element coinciding with the MoMuLV-PBS. In summary our hybrid retroviral vectors facilitate significantly improved transgene expression in multipotent cells and thus possess great potential for reconstituting genes in primary cells of disease models, as well as for gene therapy.
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- R Ketteler
- Hans-Spemann Laboratories, Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany
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Different classes of RNA are exported from the nucleus by distinct factors. We demonstrate that U1 snRNA is exported like an mRNA on insertion of a pre-mRNA intron or either sense or antisense mRNA exon sequences. mRNA-specific factors are recruited onto the spliced or elongated U1 RNA whereas U snRNA-specific factors are not, suggesting that an unstructured region of sufficient length in an RNA acts as a dominant determinant of mRNA identity. After export, spliced U1 RNA undergoes cytoplasmic maturation but is not reimported into the nucleus. These data provide insight into mechanisms for discrimination of different classes of nuclear RNA and demonstrate that two RNAs of identical sequence can have distinct cytoplasmic fates depending on their mode of export.
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- Mutsuhito Ohno
- The Institute for Virus Research, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
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Lindtner S, Felber BK, Kjems J. An element in the 3' untranslated region of human LINE-1 retrotransposon mRNA binds NXF1(TAP) and can function as a nuclear export element. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2002; 8:345-356. [PMID: 12003494 PMCID: PMC1370256 DOI: 10.1017/s1355838202027759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Export of unspliced mRNA to the cytoplasm is required for the replication of all retroviruses. In simian type D retroviruses, the RNA export is mediated by the constitutive transport element (CTE) that binds the cellular nuclear export factor 1, NXF1(TAP). To search for potential cellular RNA substrates for NXF1, we have set up an in vitro selection procedure, using an RNA library expressed from total human genomic DNA. A sequence that was isolated most frequently as independent clones exhibits extensive homology to the 3' untranslated region of expressed LINE1 (L1) retrotransposons. This region, termed L1-NXF1 binding element (L1-NBE) bears no structural resemblance to the viral CTE, but binds NXF1 as strongly as CTE, based on gel mobility shift competition assays. A deletion analysis of the NXF1 protein reveals that CTE and L1-NBE have different, but overlapping, binding domains on NXF1. Placed in an intron, L1-NBE is capable of mediating nuclear export of lariat RNA species in Xenopus laevis oocytes and of an unspliced HIV-1 derived RNA in human 293 cells, suggesting that it may function as a nuclear export element for the intronless L1 mRNA.
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- Susan Lindtner
- Department of Molecular and Structural Biology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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Wodrich H, Bohne J, Gumz E, Welker R, Kräusslich HG. A new RNA element located in the coding region of a murine endogenous retrovirus can functionally replace the Rev/Rev-responsive element system in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag expression. J Virol 2001; 75:10670-82. [PMID: 11602709 PMCID: PMC114649 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.22.10670-10682.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Nuclear export of incompletely spliced RNAs is a prerequisite for retroviral replication. Complex retroviruses like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) encode a viral transport factor (Rev), which binds to its target sequence on the RNA genome and directs it into the Crm-1-mediated export pathway. Other retroviruses, like Mason-Pfizer monkey virus, contain cis-acting constitutive RNA transport elements (CTE) which achieve nuclear export of intron-containing RNA via cellular transport factors. Here, we describe the identification and characterization of a novel cis-acting orientation-dependent RNA expression element in the coding region of the murine intracisternal A-type particle (IAP) MIA14. This IAP expression element (IAPE) can functionally replace the Rev system in the expression of HIV-1 Gag proteins but functions independently of Crm-1. The presence of this element is needed for the expression of the IAP Gag proteins, indicating its biological significance. The IAPE can be functionally replaced by placing a CTE on the MIA14 RNA, further supporting its role in mRNA export. Northern blot analysis revealed that total RNA, as well as cytoplasmic RNA, was increased when the element was present. The element was mapped to a predicted stem-loop structure in the 3' part of the pol open reading frame. There was no overall homology between the IAPE and the CTE, but there was complete sequence identity between short putative single-stranded loops. Deletion of these loops from the IAPE severely reduced Rev-independent Gag expression.
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- H Wodrich
- Heinrich-Pette-Institut, D-20251 Hamburg, Germany
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Moreau-Gaudry F, Xia P, Jiang G, Perelman NP, Bauer G, Ellis J, Surinya KH, Mavilio F, Shen CK, Malik P. High-level erythroid-specific gene expression in primary human and murine hematopoietic cells with self-inactivating lentiviral vectors. Blood 2001; 98:2664-72. [PMID: 11675336 DOI: 10.1182/blood.v98.9.2664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Use of oncoretroviral vectors in gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies has been impeded by low titer vectors, genetic instability, and poor expression. Fifteen self- inactivating (SIN) lentiviral vectors using 4 erythroid promoters in combination with 4 erythroid enhancers with or without the woodchuck hepatitis virus postregulatory element (WPRE) were generated using the enhanced green fluorescent protein as a reporter gene. Vectors with high erythroid-specific expression in cell lines were tested in primary human CD34(+) cells and in vivo in the murine bone marrow (BM) transplantation model. Vectors containing the ankyrin-1 promoter showed high-level expression and stable proviral transmission. Two vectors containing the ankyrin-1 promoter and 2 erythroid enhancers (HS-40 plus GATA-1 or HS-40 plus 5-aminolevulinate synthase intron 8 [I8] enhancers) and WPRE expressed at levels higher than the HS2/beta-promoter vector in bulk unilineage erythroid cultures and individual erythroid blast-forming units derived from human BM CD34(+) cells. Sca1(+)/lineage(-) Ly5.1 mouse hematopoietic cells, transduced with these 2 ankyrin-1 promoter vectors, were injected into lethally irradiated Ly5.2 recipients. Eleven weeks after transplantation, high-level expression was seen from both vectors in blood (63%-89% of red blood cells) and erythroid cells in BM (70%-86% engraftment), compared with negligible expression in myeloid and lymphoid lineages in blood, BM, spleen, and thymus (0%-4%). The I8/HS-40-containing vector encoding a hybrid human beta/gamma-globin gene led to 43% to 113% human gamma-globin expression/copy of the mouse alpha-globin gene. Thus, modular use of erythroid-specific enhancers/promoters and WPRE in SIN-lentiviral vectors led to identification of high-titer, stably transmitted vectors with high-level erythroid-specific expression for gene therapy of red cell diseases.
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- F Moreau-Gaudry
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90027, USA
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Zang WQ, Li B, Huang PY, Lai MM, Yen TS. Role of polypyrimidine tract binding protein in the function of the hepatitis B virus posttranscriptional regulatory element. J Virol 2001; 75:10779-86. [PMID: 11602719 PMCID: PMC114659 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.22.10779-10786.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The hepatitis B virus posttranscriptional regulatory element (PRE) is an RNA element that increases the expression of unspliced mRNAs, apparently by facilitating their export from the nucleus. We have identified a cellular protein that binds to the PRE as the polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB), which shuttles rapidly between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Mutants of the PRE with mutations in PTB binding sites show markedly decreased activity, while cells that stably overexpress PTB show increased PRE-dependent gene expression. Export of PTB from the nucleus, like PRE function, is blocked by a mutant form of Ran binding protein 1 but not by leptomycin B. Therefore, PTB is important for PRE activity and appears to function as an export factor for PRE-containing mRNAs.
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- W Q Zang
- Department of Pathology, VA Medical Center 113B, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, 94121, USA
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Retroviral replication is highly dependent on post-transcriptional regulation because a single primary transcript directs synthesis of many viral proteins. The identification and characterization of two post-transcriptional regulatory systems (Rev/RRE and CTE) revealed the efficient use of cellular transport pathways by retroviruses to achieve production of infectious progeny virus. The Rev/RRE system of HIV-1 consists of the viral Rev protein which binds to its target sequence on incompletely spliced RNAs and channels these into the CRM1-dependent export pathway, which is normally used for export of cellular proteins and RNAs (U snRNAs and 5 S rRNA). The CTE, on the other hand, directly recruits the cellular mRNA export receptor TAP to the viral RNA. Both systems have in common that they recruit a key player of a specific cellular export pathway and this recruitment appears to out-compete the respective cellular target molecules. The fact that CTE can functionally substitute for Rev/RRE, yielding a replication-competent virus, indicates that very short sequence elements are sufficient for post-transcriptional control. The presence of short dominant export signals could relieve the selective pressure on the remainder of the genome to maintain a sequence that is easily exported. The resultant increase in permitted sequence space may increase the potential for immune escape, thereby providing a selective advantage for the virus. Replication of the CTE-dependent HIV-1 variant is significantly impaired compared with the wild-type virus. Considering that post-transcriptional control in the case of HIV is also used to provide a temporal switch from the early phase of regulatory protein expression to the late phase of virion production, one may suggest that the CRM1 export pathway is advantageous for the rapid delivery of large amounts of cargo (i.e. HIV RNA). This would be in accordance with its normal function because CRM1 has been shown to direct the nuclear export of cellular regulatory proteins which must be accomplished rapidly as well. In summary, retroviruses have evolved fascinating ways to deal with their cellular environment and to make use of cellular transport pathways, allowing nuclear export of intron-containing RNAs which are normally restricted to the nucleus. Specific signals on the viral RNAs recruit key factors of cellular export, thus bypassing these restrictions and ensuring efficient viral replication.
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- H Wodrich
- Heinrich-Pette-Institut für experimentelle Virologie und Immunologie an der Universität Hamburg, 20251 Hamburg, Germany
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- Y Huang
- Department of Microbiology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
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The development of functional genomic resources is essential to understand and utilize information generated from genome sequencing projects. Central to the development of this technology is the creation of high-quality cDNA resources and improved technologies for analyzing coding and noncoding mRNA sequences. The isolation and mapping of cDNAs is an entrée to characterizing the information that is of significant biological relevance in the genome of an organism. However, a bottleneck is often encountered when attempting to bring to full-length (or at least full-coding) a number of incomplete cDNAs in parallel, since this involves the nonsystematic, time consuming, and labor-intensive iterative screening of a number of cDNA libraries of variable quality and/or directed strategies to process individual clones (e.g., 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends). Here, we review the current state of the art in cDNA library generation, as well as present an analysis of the different steps involved in cDNA library generation.
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- M Das
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill Cancer Center, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1Y6
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Ruvolo V, Gupta AK, Swaminathan S. Epstein-Barr virus SM protein interacts with mRNA in vivo and mediates a gene-specific increase in cytoplasmic mRNA. J Virol 2001; 75:6033-41. [PMID: 11390605 PMCID: PMC114319 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.13.6033-6041.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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SM is an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) gene expressed during early lytic replication of EBV. SM encodes a nuclear phosphoprotein that functions as a posttranscriptional regulator of gene expression. SM has been implicated in several aspects of gene regulation, including nuclear mRNA stabilization, posttranscriptional processing, and nuclear mRNA export. Activation by SM is promoter independent but gene specific. The mechanism by which SM selectively activates some EBV target genes or heterologous reporter genes remains to be determined. SM binds RNA in vitro, suggesting that sequence- or structure-specific mRNA interactions might mediate SM specificity. We have further analyzed RNA binding by SM and demonstrated that proteolytic cleavage of SM and consequent exposure of an arginine-rich region are necessary to allow RNA binding in vitro. However, SM mutants with deletions of this arginine-rich region localized normally in the nucleus and were fully functional in gene activation. We therefore developed an assay to study in vivo interactions of SM with target mRNAs based on immunoprecipitation of SM from cell lysates followed by RNase protection analysis. Using this assay, we demonstrated that SM forms complexes with specific mRNAs in vivo. SM binds mRNAs from both SM-responsive as well as nonresponsive intronless genes and increases the nuclear accumulation of both types of mRNAs. In addition, SM preferentially associates with newly transcribed mRNAs. These data indicate that SM forms complexes with mRNAs in the nucleus and enhances their nuclear accumulation. However, SM does not enhance cytoplasmic accumulation of all transcripts that it binds to the same degree, suggesting that additional mRNA-specific characteristics, such as nuclear retention motifs or binding sites for cellular proteins, also determine responsiveness to SM.
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- V Ruvolo
- University of Florida Shands Cancer Center, University of Florida, 1600 SW Archer Rd., Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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Nappi F, Schneider R, Zolotukhin A, Smulevitch S, Michalowski D, Bear J, Felber BK, Pavlakis GN. Identification of a novel posttranscriptional regulatory element by using a rev- and RRE-mutated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 DNA proviral clone as a molecular trap. J Virol 2001; 75:4558-69. [PMID: 11312326 PMCID: PMC114209 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.10.4558-4569.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2000] [Accepted: 02/20/2001] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and all other lentiviruses utilize the essential viral protein Rev, which binds to RRE RNA, to export their unspliced and partially spliced mRNAs from the nucleus. We used a rev- and RRE-defective HIV type 1 (HIV-1) molecular clone in complementation experiments to establish a method for the rapid isolation of posttranscriptional regulatory elements from the mammalian genome by selecting for rescue of virus replication. Viruses rescued by this method contained a novel element with homology to rodent intracisternal A-particle (IAP) retroelements. A functional element was contained within a 247-nucleotide fragment named RNA transport element (RTE), which was able to promote replication of the Rev- and RRE-defective HIV-1 in both human lymphoid cell lines and primary lymphocytes, demonstrating its potent posttranscriptional function. RTE was functional in many cell types, indicating that the cellular factors that recognize RTE are widely expressed and evolutionarily conserved. RTE also promoted RNA export from Xenopus oocyte nuclei. RTE-mediated RNA transport was CRM1 independent, and RTE did not show high affinity for binding to mRNA export factor TAP/NXF1. Since CRM1 and TAP/NXF1 are critical export receptors associated with the two recognized mRNA export pathways, these results suggest that RTE functions via a distinct export mechanism. Taken together, our results identify a novel posttranscriptional control element that uses a conserved cellular export mechanism.
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MESH Headings
- Active Transport, Cell Nucleus
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Carrier Proteins/metabolism
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Viral
- Gene Products, rev/genetics
- Genes, Intracisternal A-Particle
- Genes, Regulator
- Genes, env/genetics
- HIV-1/genetics
- Humans
- Jurkat Cells
- Karyopherins
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis
- Nuclear Proteins/metabolism
- Nucleocytoplasmic Transport Proteins
- Proviruses/genetics
- RNA/metabolism
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Xenopus laevis
- rev Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
- Exportin 1 Protein
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- F Nappi
- Human Retrovirus Section, Basic Research Laboratory, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, USA
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We have uncovered a novel function for two members of the SR protein family in mRNA export. Using UV cross-linking, transient transfection, and Xenopus oocyte microinjection, we find that the nucleocytoplasmic shuttling proteins SRp20 and 9G8 interact specifically with a 22-nt RNA element from the histone H2a gene to promote the export of intronless RNAs in both mammalian cells and Xenopus oocytes. Antibodies to SRp20 or 9G8 eliminate RNA binding and significantly inhibit the export of RNAs carrying the element from oocyte nuclei. Our observation that SRp20 and 9G8 can be UV cross-linked to polyadenylated RNA in both the nucleus and cytoplasm of HeLa cells suggests a more general role for these SR proteins in mRNA export.
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- Y Huang
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06536, USA
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Maquat LE, Li X. Mammalian heat shock p70 and histone H4 transcripts, which derive from naturally intronless genes, are immune to nonsense-mediated decay. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2001; 7:445-56. [PMID: 11333024 PMCID: PMC1370100 DOI: 10.1017/s1355838201002229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Nonsense-mediated decay (NMD), also called mRNA surveillance, is an evolutionarily conserved pathway that degrades mRNAs that prematurely terminate translation. To date, the pathway in mammalian cells has been shown to depend on the presence of a cis-acting destabilizing element that usually consists of an exon-exon junction generated by the process of pre-mRNA splicing. Whether or not mRNAs that derive from naturally intronless genes, that is, mRNAs not formed by the process of splicing, are also subject to NMD has yet to be investigated. The possibility of NMD is certainly reasonable considering that mRNAs of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are subject to NMD even though most derive from naturally intronless genes. In fact, mRNAs of S. cerevisiae generally harbor a loosely defined splicing-independent destabilizing element that has been proposed to function in NMD analogously to the spliced exon-exon junction of mammalian mRNAs. Here, we demonstrate that nonsense codons introduced into naturally intronless genes encoding mouse heat shock protein 70 or human histone H4 fail to elicit NMD. Failure is most likely because each mRNA lacks a cis-acting destabilizing element, because insertion of a spliceable intron a sufficient distance downstream of a nonsense codon within either gene is sufficient to elicit NMD.
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- L E Maquat
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, New York 14642, USA.
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Nuclear Export of Herpes Virus RNA. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2001. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-56597-7_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Mouw MB, Pintel DJ. Adeno-associated virus RNAs appear in a temporal order and their splicing is stimulated during coinfection with adenovirus. J Virol 2000; 74:9878-88. [PMID: 11024114 PMCID: PMC102024 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.21.9878-9888.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have used a quantitative RNase protection assay to characterize the relative accumulation and abundance of individual adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV) RNAs throughout the course of AAV-adenovirus coinfections and preinfections. We have demonstrated that there is a previously unrecognized temporal order to the appearance of AAV RNAs. First, unspliced P5-generated transcripts, which encode Rep78, were detectable prior to the significant accumulation of other AAV RNAs. Ultimately, as previously demonstrated, P19-generated products accumulated to levels greater than those generated from P5, and P40-generated transcripts predominated in the total RNA pool. Second, the percentage of each class of AAV RNA that was spliced increased during infection, and the degree of this increase was different for the P5/P19 products than for those generated by P40. At late times postcoinfection, approximately 90% of P40 products, but only approximately 50% of RNAs generated by P5 and P19, were seen to be spliced; thus, the AAV intron was removed to different final levels from these different RNA species. We have shown that each of the AAV RNAs is quite stable; the majority of each RNA species persisted 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D. Quantification of the accumulation of individual AAV RNAs, over intervals during which degradation was negligible, allowed us to infer that at late times during infection the relative strength of P5, P19, and P40 was approximately 1:3:18, respectively, consistent with the steady-state accumulated levels of the RNAs generated by each promoter. All AAV RNAs exited to the cytoplasm with similar efficiencies in the presence or absence of adenovirus; however, adenovirus coinfection appeared to stimulate total splicing of AAV RNAs and the relative use of the downstream intron acceptor. Our results confirm and extend previous observations concerning the appearance and processing of AAV-generated RNAs.
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- M B Mouw
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA
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Schambach A, Wodrich H, Hildinger M, Bohne J, Kräusslich HG, Baum C. Context dependence of different modules for posttranscriptional enhancement of gene expression from retroviral vectors. Mol Ther 2000; 2:435-45. [PMID: 11082317 DOI: 10.1006/mthe.2000.0191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We present a systematic comparison of three modules that enhance expression from retroviral gene transfer vectors at a posttranscriptional level: (i) splice signals (SS) that create an intron in the 5' untranslated region; (ii) constitutive RNA transport elements (CTE), originally discovered in D-type retroviruses; and (iii) the posttranscriptional regulatory element of woodchuck hepatitis virus (WPRE). Here we show that enhancement of expression depends not only on the specific element, but also on the gene of interest, implying context-dependent activity of the RNA elements. Interestingly, different results were obtained for genes that normally require or do not require such control elements. Expression of the HIV-1 gag-protease gene, which normally depends on the viral export factor Rev, was strongly enhanced by an oligomeric CTE, while WPRE had only a marginal effect. On the other hand, both CTE and WPRE compensated for the lack of an intron in the expression of human beta-globin. In this case, the strongest stimulation of RNA production was observed when functional SS were combined with the WPRE. Both CTE and, in particular, WPRE also enhanced expression of cDNAs that do not normally require any such element (green fluorescent protein, human multidrug resistance-1). In this study, functional SS and WPRE acted in an additive manner, resulting in a 10-fold higher level of expression. Our results indicate that the described modules act on different levels of RNA processing, transport, and translation and that the correct choice of a posttranscriptional enhancer configuration depends on the type of cDNA to be expressed.
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- A Schambach
- Abteilung Virologie, Heinrich-Pette-Institut für Experimentelle Virologie und Immunologie, Martinistrasse 52, Hamburg, D-20251, Germany
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Tang H, Wong-Staal F. Specific interaction between RNA helicase A and Tap, two cellular proteins that bind to the constitutive transport element of type D retrovirus. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:32694-700. [PMID: 10924507 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m003933200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Constitutive transport element (CTE) facilitates retroviral RNA export by interacting with the cellular RNA export machinery. Two cellular proteins, RNA helicase A (RHA) and Tip-associated protein (Tap) were identified as binding to CTE and were proposed to function as CTE co-factors (1,2). Here, we report that these two CTE-binding proteins interact with each other in vitro and in vivo. The in vitro binding of RHA to Tap is direct and independent of either CTE or the nuclear transport domain of RHA. The removal of the first 60 amino acids of Tap significantly diminishes the binding to RHA. The activity of this Tap mutant to enhance CTE-mediated gene expression is also markedly reduced. A transdominant mutant of Tap inhibited RHA-mediated up-regulation of CTE function in mammalian cells. The nuclear transport domain of RHA also interfered with Tap-mediated transactivation of the CTE function in quail cells, in which the function of CTE is dependent on the expression of a functional human Tap cDNA.
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- H Tang
- Departments of Biology and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0665, USA
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The NS1A protein of influenza A virus specifically inhibits the cellular machinery that processes the 3' ends of cellular pre-mRNAs by targeting two of the essential proteins of this machinery. Because the virus does not use this cellular machinery to synthesize the 3' poly(A) ends of viral mRNA, the nuclear export of cellular but not viral mRNAs is selectively inhibited.
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- Z Chen
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2500 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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Ellison KS, Rice SA, Verity R, Smiley JR. Processing of alpha-globin and ICP0 mRNA in cells infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 ICP27 mutants. J Virol 2000; 74:7307-19. [PMID: 10906184 PMCID: PMC112251 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.16.7307-7319.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Herpes simplex virus (HSV) ICP27 is an essential and multifunctional regulator of viral gene expression that modulates RNA splicing, polyadenylation, and nuclear export. We have previously reported that ICP27 causes the cytoplasmic accumulation of unspliced alpha-globin pre-mRNA. Here we examined the effects of a series of ICP27 mutations that alter important functional regions of the protein on the processing and nuclear transport of alpha-globin and HSV ICP0 RNA. The results demonstrate that ICP27 mutants that are impaired for growth in noncomplementing cells, including mutants in the N- and C-terminal regions, are defective in the accumulation of alpha-globin pre-mRNA. Unexpectedly, several mutants that are competent to repress the expression of reporter genes in transient transfection assays failed to accumulate unspliced RNA, implying that different mechanisms are responsible for transrepression and pre-mRNA accumulation. Several mutants caused a marked increase in the length and heterogeneity of the alpha-globin mRNA poly(A) tail, suggesting that ICP27 may directly or indirectly affect the regulation of poly(A) polymerase. ICP27 was also required for the accumulation of multiple ICP0 intron-bearing transcripts, but this effect displayed a mutational sensitivity profile different from that of accumulation of unspliced alpha-globin RNA. Moreover, unlike spliced and unspliced alpha-globin RNAs, which were efficiently exported to the cytoplasm, spliced and intron-containing ICP0 transcripts were predominantly nuclear in localization, and ICP27 was not required for nuclear retention of the spliced message. We propose that these transcript- and ICP27 allele-specific differences may be explained by the presence of a strong cis-acting ICP27 response element in the alpha-globin transcript.
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- K S Ellison
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7
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Ristea S, Dobbelstein M, Roth J. Rev protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and cellular exportin 1 protein relocalize each other to a subnucleolar structure. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2000; 16:857-65. [PMID: 10875611 DOI: 10.1089/08892220050042792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The exportin 1/crml protein associates with leucine-rich nuclear export signals (NESs) and mediates nuclear export in various experimental systems. We show here that exportin 1 and the NES-containing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 Rev protein relocalize each other to a characteristic dotlike structure within the nucleoli of human cells. On treatment with actinomycin D, Rev remains in these dots longer than in the rest of the nucleoli, arguing that the nucleolar dots do not represent sites of high transport turnover. Transient expression of exportin 1 strongly reduces the expression of a reporter that depends on the export of HIV RNA. When export of hepatitis B virus RNA and simple retrovirus RNA, as well as spliced mRNA, was assayed in this way, exportin 1 inhibited reporter expression to a lesser extent. Thus, an excess of exportin 1 may downregulate Rev-mediated RNA export by sequestering Rev to a subnucleolar structure.
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- S Ristea
- Institut für Virologie, Universität Marburg, Germany
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Vainberg IE, Dower K, Rosbash M. Nuclear export of heat shock and non-heat-shock mRNA occurs via similar pathways. Mol Cell Biol 2000; 20:3996-4005. [PMID: 10805742 PMCID: PMC85767 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.20.11.3996-4005.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/1999] [Accepted: 03/08/2000] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Several studies of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae support differential regulation of heat shock mRNA (hs mRNA) and non-hs mRNA nuclear export during stress. These include the finding that hs mRNA export at 42 degrees C is inhibited in the absence of the nucleoporinlike protein Rip1p (also called Nup42p) (C. A. Saavedra, C. M. Hammell, C. V. Heath, and C. N. Cole, Genes Dev. 11:2845-2856, 1997; F. Stutz, J. Kantor, D. Zhang, T. McCarthy, M. Neville, and M. Rosbash, Genes Dev. 11:2857-2868, 1997). However, the results reported in this paper provide little evidence for selective non-hs mRNA retention or selective hs mRNA export under heat shock conditions. First, we do not detect a block to non-hs mRNA export at 42 degrees C in a wild-type strain. Second, hs mRNA export appears to be mediated by the Ran system and several other factors previously reported to be important for general mRNA export. Third, the export of non-hs mRNA as well as hs mRNA is inhibited in the absence of Rip1p at 42 degrees C. As a corollary, we find no evidence for cis-acting hs mRNA sequences that promote transport during heat shock. Taken together, our data suggest that a shift to 42 degrees C in the absence of Rip1p impacts a late stage of transport affecting most if not all mRNA.
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- I E Vainberg
- Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MS008 Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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Molina A, Biemar F, Müller F, Iyengar A, Prunet P, Maclean N, Martial JA, Muller M. Cloning and expression analysis of an inducible HSP70 gene from tilapia fish. FEBS Lett 2000; 474:5-10. [PMID: 10828441 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)01538-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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We isolated and characterized the tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) HSP70 gene, highly homologous to other HSP70 genes. A dramatic increase of tilapia HSP70 mRNA levels was observed after heat shock of whole animals in all organs tested. Reporter constructs were tested for transient expression in carp cells and in microinjected zebrafish embryos. The entire isolated regulatory region (-851/+157) was able to mediate heat shock inducible expression of the reporter gene, with no preference for a particular tissue. Our studies represent the first transcriptional analysis of a HSP70 promoter from fish, revealing a powerful tool to direct controlled, tissue-independent gene expression in fish.
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- A Molina
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Génie Génétique, Université de Liège, Institut de Chimie B6, B-40000 Sart-Tilman, Belgium, UK
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Lambermon MH, Simpson GG, Wieczorek Kirk DA, Hemmings-Mieszczak M, Klahre U, Filipowicz W. UBP1, a novel hnRNP-like protein that functions at multiple steps of higher plant nuclear pre-mRNA maturation. EMBO J 2000; 19:1638-49. [PMID: 10747031 PMCID: PMC310232 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.7.1638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/1999] [Revised: 02/02/2000] [Accepted: 02/04/2000] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Efficient splicing of higher plant pre-mRNAs depends on AU- or U-rich sequences in introns. Moreover, AU-rich sequences present in 3'-untranslated regions (3'-UTRs) may play a role in 3' end processing of plant mRNAs. Here, we describe the cloning and characterization of a Nicotiana plumbaginifolia nuclear protein that can be cross-linked to U-rich intron and 3'-UTR sequences in vitro, and associates with nuclear poly(A)(+) RNA in vivo. The protein, UBP1, strongly enhances the splicing of otherwise inefficiently processed introns when overexpressed in protoplasts. It also increases the accumulation of reporter mRNAs that contain suboptimal introns or are intronless. The enhanced accumulation is apparently due to UBP1 interacting with the 3'-UTR and protecting mRNA from exonucleolytic degradation. The effect on mRNA accumulation but not on mRNA splicing was found to be promoter specific. The fact that these effects of UBP1 can be separated suggests that they represent two independent activities. The properties of UBP1 indicate that it is an hnRNP protein that functions at multiple steps to facilitate the nuclear maturation of plant pre-mRNAs.
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- M H Lambermon
- Friedrich Miescher-Institut, PO Box 2543, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
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Cheung P, Ellison KS, Verity R, Smiley JR. Herpes simplex virus ICP27 induces cytoplasmic accumulation of unspliced polyadenylated alpha-globin pre-mRNA in infected HeLa cells. J Virol 2000; 74:2913-9. [PMID: 10684311 PMCID: PMC111785 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.6.2913-2919.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Transcripts of most intron-bearing cellular genes must be processed by the splicing machinery in order to efficiently accumulate and gain access to the cytoplasm. However, we found that herpes simplex virus induces cytoplasmic accumulation of both spliced and unspliced polyadenylated alpha-globin RNAs in infected HeLa cells. Accumulation of the unspliced RNA required the immediate-early protein ICP27, and ICP27 was sufficient (in combination with ICP4) to produce this effect in a transient-transfection assay. However, expression of ICP27 did not markedly alter the levels of fully spliced alpha-globin transcripts in infected cells. These data demonstrate that the previously documented effects of ICP27 on the cellular splicing apparatus do not greatly inhibit splicing of alpha-globin RNA and argue that ICP27 induces a splicing-independent pathway for alpha-globin RNA accumulation and nuclear export.
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- P Cheung
- Departments of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5
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Wodrich H, Schambach A, Kräusslich HG. Multiple copies of the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus constitutive RNA transport element lead to enhanced HIV-1 Gag expression in a context-dependent manner. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:901-10. [PMID: 10648781 PMCID: PMC102582 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.4.901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Retroviral gene expression requires nuclear export and translation of incompletely spliced RNA. In the case of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), this is facilitated by the viral Rev protein binding to its cognate RNA response element (RRE), while other retroviruses contain constitutive transport elements (CTE) binding to cellular factors. These CTE can substitute for the HIV-1 Rev/RRE system, albeit with reduced efficiency. Here, we show that multimeric copies of the CTE restore HIV-1 protein expression to levels comparable to or higher than Rev/RRE in various cell lines from different species. We suggest that multimerization of export factors is important for CTE function, as reported for Rev. CTE function was not affected when the element was displaced from its natural position close to the poly(A) signal, while insertion of an intron into the 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR) severely reduced CTE activity. In this case, cytoplasmic RNA degradation was observed, which may be mediated by nonsense-mediated RNA decay. In contrast, Rev-dependent gene expression was insensitive to an intron in the 3'-UTR. Finally, we show that the putative CTE-binding protein RNA helicase A is not specifically translocated into the cytoplasm upon overexpression of CTE-containing RNA.
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- H Wodrich
- Heinrich-Pette-Institut für experimentelle Virologie und Immunologie an der Universität Hamburg, Martinstrasse 52, D-20251 Hamburg, Germany
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Jackson DA, Pombo A, Iborra F. The balance sheet for transcription: an analysis of nuclear RNA metabolism in mammalian cells. FASEB J 2000. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.14.2.242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Dean A. Jackson
- Sir William Dunn School of PathologyUniversity of Oxford Oxford OX1 3RE United Kingdom
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- Sir William Dunn School of PathologyUniversity of Oxford Oxford OX1 3RE United Kingdom
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- Sir William Dunn School of PathologyUniversity of Oxford Oxford OX1 3RE United Kingdom
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Chew SL, Baginsky L, Eperon IC. An exonic splicing silencer in the testes-specific DNA ligase III beta exon. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:402-10. [PMID: 10606636 PMCID: PMC102500 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.2.402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Alternative pre-mRNA splicing of two terminal exons (alpha and beta) regulates the expression of the human DNA ligase III gene. In most tissues, the alpha exon is expressed. In testes and during spermatogenesis, the beta exon is used instead. The alpha exon encodes the interaction domain with a scaffold DNA repair protein, XRCC1, while the beta exon-encoded C-terminal does not. Sequence elements regulating the alternative splicing pattern were mapped by in vitro splicing assays in HeLa nuclear extracts. Deletion of a region beginning in the beta exon and extending into the downstream intron derepressed splicing to the beta exon. Two silencing elements were found within this 101 nt region: a 16 nt exonic splicing silencer immediately upstream of the beta exon polyadenylation signal and a 45 nt intronic splicing silencer. The exonic splicing silencer inhibited splicing, even when the poly-adenylation signal was deleted or replaced by a 5' splice site. This element also enhanced polyadenylation under conditions unfavourable to splicing. The splicing silencer partially inhibited assembly of spliceo-somal complexes and functioned in an adenoviral pre-mRNA context. Silencing of splicing by the element was associated with cross-linking of a 37 kDa protein to the RNA substrate. The element exerts opposite functions in splicing and polyadenylation.
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- S L Chew
- Department of Endocrinology, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine, London EC1A 7BE, UK.
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Cullen BR. Connections between the processing and nuclear export of mRNA: evidence for an export license? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:4-6. [PMID: 10618360 PMCID: PMC33509 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.1.4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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- B R Cullen
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Weigel S, Dobbelstein M. The nuclear export signal within the E4orf6 protein of adenovirus type 5 supports virus replication and cytoplasmic accumulation of viral mRNA. J Virol 2000; 74:764-72. [PMID: 10623738 PMCID: PMC111596 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.2.764-772.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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During the late phase of adenovirus infection, viral mRNA is efficiently transported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm while most cellular mRNA species are retained in the nucleus. Two viral proteins, E1B-55 kDa and E4orf6, are both necessary for these effects. The E4orf6 protein of adenovirus type 5 binds and relocalizes E1B-55 kDa, and the complex of the two proteins was previously shown to shuttle continuously between the nucleus and cytoplasm. Nucleocytoplasmic transport of the complex is achieved by a nuclear export signal (NES) within E4orf6. Mutation of this signal sequence severely reduces the ability of the E1B-55 kDa-E4orf6 complex to leave the nucleus. Here, we examined the role of functional domains within E4orf6 during virus infection. E4orf6 or mutants derived from it were transiently expressed, followed by infection with recombinant adenovirus lacking the E4 region and determination of virus yield. An arginine-rich putative alpha helix near the carboxy terminus of E4orf6 contributes to E1B-55 kDa binding and relocalization as well as to the synthesis of viral DNA, mRNA, and proteins. Further mutational analysis revealed that mutation of the NES within E4orf6 considerably reduces its ability to support virus production. The same effect was observed when nuclear export was blocked with a competitor. Further, a functional NES within E4orf6 contributed to the efficiency of late virus protein synthesis and viral DNA replication, as well as total and cytoplasmic accumulation of viral late mRNA. Our data support the view that NES-mediated nucleocytoplasmic shuttling strongly enhances most, if not all, intracellular activities of E4orf6 during the late phase of adenovirus infection.
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- S Weigel
- Institut für Virologie, Zentrum für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35037 Marburg, Germany
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Loeb JE, Cordier WS, Harris ME, Weitzman MD, Hope TJ. Enhanced expression of transgenes from adeno-associated virus vectors with the woodchuck hepatitis virus posttranscriptional regulatory element: implications for gene therapy. Hum Gene Ther 1999; 10:2295-305. [PMID: 10515449 DOI: 10.1089/10430349950016942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The woodchuck hepatitis virus posttranscriptional regulatory element (WPRE) evolved to stimulate the expression of intronless viral messages. To determine whether this ability to enhance expression could be useful in nonviral and heterologous viral gene delivery systems, we analyzed the ability of the WPRE to elevate the expression of a cDNA encoding the green fluorescent protein (GFP) in these contexts. We find that the WPRE can stimulate the expression of GFP when the gene is delivered by transfection or transduction with recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV). Enhancement occurred both during transient expression and when the gene is stably incorporated into the genome of target cells. This enhancement required that the WPRE be located in cis within the GFP message, and was observed in both transformed cell lines and primary human fibroblasts. These results demonstrate that the WPRE will be an effective tool for increasing the long-term expression of transgenes in gene therapy.
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- J E Loeb
- Infectious Disease Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Szilvay AM, Bøe SO, Kalland KH. Co-expression of a trans-dominant negative mutant of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Rev protein affects the Rev-dependent splicing pattern and expression of HIV-1 RNAs. J Gen Virol 1999; 80 ( Pt 8):1965-1974. [PMID: 10466792 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-80-8-1965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Trans-dominant negative mutants of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) regulatory protein Rev inhibit the function of wild-type Rev in a dose-dependent manner. This was previously shown to be caused by nuclear retention of the wild-type protein. In the present work, further analysis of the trans-dominant negative effect was performed using cotransfection experiments with different constructs encoding HIV-1 Rev and viral structural proteins together with a plasmid encoding a trans-dominant negative Rev mutant. Thus, one species of pre-mRNA was transcribed from the reporter plasmids. This pre-mRNA was then either spliced or exported by Rev as unspliced RNA for translation of the HIV structural proteins. An immunofluorescence assay and Western blot analysis were used for analysis of protein expression. In situ hybridization was applied for labelling of unspliced mRNA in transfected cells, and RNase protection analysis was used to determine the relative amount of unspliced versus spliced mRNAs. The experiments confirmed that the transdominant negative mutant inhibited nuclear export of unspliced mRNA. It was, in addition, demonstrated for the first time that the trans-dominant negative mutant also affected a Rev-dependent regulatory step connected with viral pre-mRNA splicing. As a consequence, proteins expressed from unspliced and singly spliced HIV mRNAs decreased while there was an increase in protein products encoded by spliced and alternatively spliced mRNAs.
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- Anne Marie Szilvay
- Department of Molecular Biology1 and Centre for Research in Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology2, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, HIB, Post-box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Molecular Biology1 and Centre for Research in Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology2, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, HIB, Post-box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Molecular Biology1 and Centre for Research in Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology2, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, HIB, Post-box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
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Zhao J, Hyman L, Moore C. Formation of mRNA 3' ends in eukaryotes: mechanism, regulation, and interrelationships with other steps in mRNA synthesis. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 1999; 63:405-45. [PMID: 10357856 PMCID: PMC98971 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.63.2.405-445.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 805] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Formation of mRNA 3' ends in eukaryotes requires the interaction of transacting factors with cis-acting signal elements on the RNA precursor by two distinct mechanisms, one for the cleavage of most replication-dependent histone transcripts and the other for cleavage and polyadenylation of the majority of eukaryotic mRNAs. Most of the basic factors have now been identified, as well as some of the key protein-protein and RNA-protein interactions. This processing can be regulated by changing the levels or activity of basic factors or by using activators and repressors, many of which are components of the splicing machinery. These regulatory mechanisms act during differentiation, progression through the cell cycle, or viral infections. Recent findings suggest that the association of cleavage/polyadenylation factors with the transcriptional complex via the carboxyl-terminal domain of the RNA polymerase II (Pol II) large subunit is the means by which the cell restricts polyadenylation to Pol II transcripts. The processing of 3' ends is also important for transcription termination downstream of cleavage sites and for assembly of an export-competent mRNA. The progress of the last few years points to a remarkable coordination and cooperativity in the steps leading to the appearance of translatable mRNA in the cytoplasm.
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- J Zhao
- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
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Zhao J, Hyman L, Moore C. Formation of mRNA 3' ends in eukaryotes: mechanism, regulation, and interrelationships with other steps in mRNA synthesis. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 1999. [PMID: 10357856 DOI: 10.1007/s13146-011-0050-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/17/2023] Open
Abstract
Formation of mRNA 3' ends in eukaryotes requires the interaction of transacting factors with cis-acting signal elements on the RNA precursor by two distinct mechanisms, one for the cleavage of most replication-dependent histone transcripts and the other for cleavage and polyadenylation of the majority of eukaryotic mRNAs. Most of the basic factors have now been identified, as well as some of the key protein-protein and RNA-protein interactions. This processing can be regulated by changing the levels or activity of basic factors or by using activators and repressors, many of which are components of the splicing machinery. These regulatory mechanisms act during differentiation, progression through the cell cycle, or viral infections. Recent findings suggest that the association of cleavage/polyadenylation factors with the transcriptional complex via the carboxyl-terminal domain of the RNA polymerase II (Pol II) large subunit is the means by which the cell restricts polyadenylation to Pol II transcripts. The processing of 3' ends is also important for transcription termination downstream of cleavage sites and for assembly of an export-competent mRNA. The progress of the last few years points to a remarkable coordination and cooperativity in the steps leading to the appearance of translatable mRNA in the cytoplasm.
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- J Zhao
- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
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