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Fuchs A, Riegler S, Ayatollahi Z, Cavallari N, Giono LE, Nimeth BA, Mutanwad KV, Schweighofer A, Lucyshyn D, Barta A, Petrillo E, Kalyna M. Targeting alternative splicing by RNAi: from the differential impact on splice variants to triggering artificial pre-mRNA splicing. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:1133-1151. [PMID: 33406240 PMCID: PMC7826280 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2018] [Revised: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Alternative splicing generates multiple transcript and protein isoforms from a single gene and controls transcript intracellular localization and stability by coupling to mRNA export and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). RNA interference (RNAi) is a potent mechanism to modulate gene expression. However, its interactions with alternative splicing are poorly understood. We used artificial microRNAs (amiRNAs, also termed shRNAmiR) to knockdown all splice variants of selected target genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. We found that splice variants, which vary by their protein-coding capacity, subcellular localization and sensitivity to NMD, are affected differentially by an amiRNA, although all of them contain the target site. Particular transcript isoforms escape amiRNA-mediated degradation due to their nuclear localization. The nuclear and NMD-sensitive isoforms mask RNAi action in alternatively spliced genes. Interestingly, Arabidopsis SPL genes, which undergo alternative splicing and are targets of miR156, are regulated in the same manner. Moreover, similar results were obtained in mammalian cells using siRNAs, indicating cross-kingdom conservation of these interactions among RNAi and splicing isoforms. Furthermore, we report that amiRNA can trigger artificial alternative splicing, thus expanding the RNAi functional repertoire. Our findings unveil novel interactions between different post-transcriptional processes in defining transcript fates and regulating gene expression.
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- Armin Fuchs
- Max Perutz Labs, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria
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- Max Perutz Labs, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.,Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna 1190, Austria
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- Max Perutz Labs, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria
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- Max Perutz Labs, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria
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- Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, C1428EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna 1190, Austria
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- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna 1190, Austria
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- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna 1190, Austria
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- Max Perutz Labs, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria
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- Max Perutz Labs, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.,Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, C1428EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna 1190, Austria
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Chicois C, Scheer H, Garcia S, Zuber H, Mutterer J, Chicher J, Hammann P, Gagliardi D, Garcia D. The UPF1 interactome reveals interaction networks between RNA degradation and translation repression factors in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2018; 96:119-132. [PMID: 29983000 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2018] [Revised: 06/20/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
The RNA helicase UP-FRAMESHIFT (UPF1) is a key factor of nonsense-mediated decay (NMD), a mRNA decay pathway involved in RNA quality control and in the fine-tuning of gene expression. UPF1 recruits UPF2 and UPF3 to constitute the NMD core complex, which is conserved across eukaryotes. No other components of UPF1-containing ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) are known in plants, despite its key role in regulating gene expression. Here, we report the identification of a large set of proteins that co-purify with the Arabidopsis UPF1, either in an RNA-dependent or RNA-independent manner. We found that like UPF1, several of its co-purifying proteins have a dual localization in the cytosol and in P-bodies, which are dynamic structures formed by the condensation of translationally repressed mRNPs. Interestingly, more than half of the proteins of the UPF1 interactome also co-purify with DCP5, a conserved translation repressor also involved in P-body formation. We identified a terminal nucleotidyltransferase, ribonucleases and several RNA helicases among the most significantly enriched proteins co-purifying with both UPF1 and DCP5. Among these, RNA helicases are the homologs of DDX6/Dhh1, known as translation repressors in humans and yeast, respectively. Overall, this study reports a large set of proteins associated with the Arabidopsis UPF1 and DCP5, two components of P-bodies, and reveals an extensive interaction network between RNA degradation and translation repression factors. Using this resource, we identified five hitherto unknown components of P-bodies in plants, pointing out the value of this dataset for the identification of proteins potentially involved in translation repression and/or RNA degradation.
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- Clara Chicois
- Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes (IBMP), CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes (IBMP), CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes (IBMP), CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes (IBMP), CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes (IBMP), CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Plateforme Protéomique Strasbourg-Esplanade, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Plateforme Protéomique Strasbourg-Esplanade, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes (IBMP), CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes (IBMP), CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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Reho JJ, Zheng X, Asico LD, Fisher SA. Redox signaling and splicing dependent change in myosin phosphatase underlie early versus late changes in NO vasodilator reserve in a mouse LPS model of sepsis. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2015; 308:H1039-50. [PMID: 25724497 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00912.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
Abstract
Microcirculatory dysfunction may cause tissue malperfusion and progression to organ failure in the later stages of sepsis, but the role of smooth muscle contractile dysfunction is uncertain. Mice were given intraperitoneal LPS, and mesenteric arteries were harvested at 6-h intervals for analyses of gene expression and contractile function by wire myography. Contractile (myosin and actin) and regulatory [myosin light chain kinase and phosphatase subunits (Mypt1, CPI-17)] mRNAs and proteins were decreased in mesenteric arteries at 24 h concordant with reduced force generation to depolarization, Ca(2+), and phenylephrine. Vasodilator sensitivity to DEA/nitric oxide (NO) and cGMP under Ca(2+) clamp were increased at 24 h after LPS concordant with a switch to Mypt1 exon 24- splice variant coding for a leucine zipper (LZ) motif required for PKG-1α activation of myosin phosphatase. This was reproduced by smooth muscle-specific deletion of Mypt1 exon 24, causing a shift to the Mypt1 LZ+ isoform. These mice had significantly lower resting blood pressure than control mice but similar hypotensive responses to LPS. The vasodilator sensitivity of wild-type mice to DEA/NO, but not cGMP, was increased at 6 h after LPS. This was abrogated in mice with a redox dead version of PKG-1α (Cys42Ser). Enhanced vasorelaxation in early endotoxemia is mediated by redox signaling through PKG-1α but in later endotoxemia by myosin phosphatase isoform shifts enhancing sensitivity to NO/cGMP as well as smooth muscle atrophy. Muscle atrophy and modulation may be a novel target to suppress microcirculatory dysfunction; however, inactivation of inducible NO synthase, treatment with the IL-1 antagonist IL-1ra, or early activation of α-adrenergic signaling did not suppressed this response.
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- John J Reho
- Department of Medicine, Divisions of Cardiovascular Medicine and Nephrology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Medicine, Divisions of Cardiovascular Medicine and Nephrology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Medicine, Divisions of Cardiovascular Medicine and Nephrology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Medicine, Divisions of Cardiovascular Medicine and Nephrology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
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