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Geng G, Yu C, Yuan X. Variable eIF4E-binding sites and their synergistic effect on cap-independent translation in a novel IRES of wheat yellow mosaic virus RNA2 isolates. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 254:128062. [PMID: 37967597 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.128062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 11/17/2023]
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Some viral proteins are translated cap-independently via the internal ribosome entry site (IRES), which maintains conservative characteristic among different isolates of the same virus species. However, IRES activity showed a 7-fold variance in RNA2 of wheat yellow mosaic virus (WYMV) HC and LYJN isolates in this study. Based on RNA structure probing and mutagenesis assay, the loosened middle stem of H1 and the hepta-nucleotide top loop of H2 in the LYJN isolate synergistically ensured higher IRES activity than that in the HC isolate. In addition, the conserved top loop of H1 ensured basic IRES activity in HC and LYJN isolates. WYMV RNA2 5'-UTR specifically interacted with the wheat eIF4E, accomplished by the top loop of H1 in the HC isolate or the top loop of H1 and H2 in the LYJN isolate. The high IRES activity of the WYMV RNA2 LYJN isolate was regulated by two eIF4E-binding sites, which showed a synergistic effect mediated by the proximity of the H1 and H2 top loops owing to the flexibility of the middle stem in H1. This report presents a novel evolution pattern of IRES, which altered the number of eIF4E-binding sites to regulate IRES activity.
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- Guowei Geng
- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Tai'an 271018, PR China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Tai'an 271018, PR China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Tai'an 271018, PR China.
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Deng J, Li J, Ma M, Zhao P, Ming F, Lu Z, Shi J, Fan Q, Liang Q, Jia J, Li J, Zhang S, Zhang L. Co-expressing GroEL-GroES, Ssa1-Sis1 and Bip-PDI chaperones for enhanced intracellular production and partial-wall breaking improved stability of porcine growth hormone. Microb Cell Fact 2020; 19:35. [PMID: 32070347 PMCID: PMC7027120 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-020-01304-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 02/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Porcine growth hormone (pGH) is a class of peptide hormones secreted from the pituitary gland, which can significantly improve growth and feed utilization of pigs. However, it is unstable and volatile in vitro. It needs to be encapsulated in liposomes when feeding livestock, whose high cost greatly limits its application in pig industry. Therefore we attempted to express pGH as intracellular soluble protein in Pichia pastoris and feed these yeasts with partial wall-breaking for swine, which could release directly pGH in intestine tract in case of being degraded in intestinal tract with low cost. In order to improve the intracellular soluble expression of pGH protein in Pichia pastoris and stability in vitro, we optimized the pGH gene, and screened molecular chaperones from E. coli and Pichia pastoris respectively for co-expressing with pGH. In addition, we had also explored conditions of mechanical crushing and fermentation. The results showed that the expression of intracellular soluble pGH protein was significantly increased after gene optimized and co-expressed with Ssa1-Sis1 chaperone from Pichia pastoris. Meanwhile, the optimal conditions of partial wall-breaking and fermentation of Pichia pastoris were confirmed, the data showed that the intracellular expression of the optimized pGH protein co-expressed with Ssa1-Sis1 could reach 340 mg/L with optimal conditions of partial wall-breaking and fermentation. Animal experiments verified that the optimized pGH protein co-expression with Ssa1-Sis1 had the best promoting effects on the growth of piglets. Our study demonstrated that Ssa1-Sis1 could enhance the intracellular soluble expression of pGH protein in Pichia pastoris and that partial wall-breaking of yeast could prevent pGH from degradation in vitro, release targetedly in the intestine and play its biological function effectively. Our study could provide a new idea to cut the cost effectively, establishing a theoretical basis for the clinic application of unstable substances in vitro.
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- Jinbo Deng
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, Microbiological Staff Room, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China. .,Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510642, China.
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Huang Y, Zhang Y, Li S, Lin T, Wu J, Lin Y. Screening for functional IRESes using α-complementation system of β-galactosidase in Pichia pastoris. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2019; 12:300. [PMID: 31890028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Accepted: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND Pichia pastoris is becoming a promising chassis cell for metabolic engineering and synthetic biology after its whole genome and transcriptome sequenced. However, the current systems for multigene co-expression in P. pastoris are not efficient. The internal ribosome entry site (IRES) has an ability to recruit the ribosome to initiate protein synthesis by cap-independent translation manner. This study seeks to screen IRES sequences that are functional in P. pastoris, which will allow P. pastoris to express multiple proteins in a single mRNA and increase its efficacy as a platform for metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. RESULTS In order to efficiently screen the IRES sequences, we first set out to create a screening system using LacZ gene. Due to the cryptic transcription of the LacZ gene, we established the α-complementation system of β-galactosidase in P. pastoris with the optimum length of the α-complementing peptide at ~ 92 amino acids. The optimal α-complementing peptide was then used as the second reporter to screen IRESes in the engineered GS115 expressing the corresponding ω-peptide. A total of 34 reported IRESes were screened. After ruling out all false positive or negative IRESes, only seven IRESes were functional in P. pastoris, which were from TEV, PVY, RhPV, TRV, KSHV, crTMV viruses and the 5'-UTR of the YAP1 gene of S. cerevisiae. CONCLUSIONS We showed here that α-complementation also works in P. pastoris and it can be used in a variety of in vivo studies. The functional IRESes screened in this study can be used to introduce multiple genes into P. pastoris via a prokaryotic-like polycistronic manner, which provided new efficient tools for metabolic engineering and synthetic biology researches in P. pastoris.
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- Yide Huang
- 1Provincial University Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Response and Metabolic Regulation, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007 China
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- 1Provincial University Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Response and Metabolic Regulation, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007 China
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- 1Provincial University Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Response and Metabolic Regulation, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007 China
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- 1Provincial University Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Response and Metabolic Regulation, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007 China
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- 1Provincial University Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Response and Metabolic Regulation, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007 China
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- 1Provincial University Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Response and Metabolic Regulation, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007 China
- 2Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Science and Technology for Medicine of Ministry of Education, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007 China
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