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Chen Y, Hajslova J, Schusterova D, Uttl L, Vymazal J, Chen Z. Transformation and degradation of tebuconazole and its metabolites in constructed wetlands with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonization. WATER RESEARCH 2024; 263:122129. [PMID: 39094199 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.122129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2024] [Revised: 07/15/2024] [Accepted: 07/20/2024] [Indexed: 08/04/2024]
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonization has been used in constructed wetlands (CWs) to enhance treatment performance. However, its role in azole (fungicide) degradation and microbial community changes is not well understood. This study aims to explore the impact of AMF on the degradation of tebuconazole and its metabolites in CWs. Total organic carbon levels were consistently higher with the colonization of AMF (AMF+; 9.63- 16.37 mg/L) compared to without the colonization of AMF (AMF-; 8.79-14.48 mg/L) in CWs. Notably, tebuconazole removal was swift, occurring within one day in both treatments (p = 0.885), with removal efficiencies ranging from 94.10 % to 97.83 %. That's primarily due to rapid substrate absorption at the beginning, while degradation follows with a longer time. Four metabolites were reported in CWs first time: tebuconazole hydroxy, tebuconazole lactone, tebuconazole carboxy acid, and tebuconazole dechloro. AMF decreased the abundance of tebuconazole dechloro in the liquid phase, suggesting an inhibitory effect of AMF on dechlorination processes. Furthermore, tebuconazole carboxy acid and hydroxy were predominantly found in plant roots, with a higher abundance observed in AMF+ treatments. Metagenomic analysis highlighted an increasing abundance in bacterial community structure in favor of beneficial microorganisms (xanthomonadales, xanthomonadaceae, and lysobacter), along with a notable presence of functional genes like codA, NAD, and deaD in AMF+ treatments. These findings highlight the positive influence of AMF on tebuconazole stress resilience, microbial community modification, and the enhancement of bioremediation capabilities in CWs.
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- Yingrun Chen
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Food Analysis and Nutrition, Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technicka 3, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Food Analysis and Nutrition, Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technicka 3, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Food Analysis and Nutrition, Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technicka 3, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Kodavati M, Maloji Rao VH, Provasek VE, Hegde ML. Regulation of DNA damage response by RNA/DNA-binding proteins: Implications for neurological disorders and aging. Ageing Res Rev 2024; 100:102413. [PMID: 39032612 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2024.102413] [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: 06/03/2024] [Accepted: 07/05/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024]
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RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are evolutionarily conserved across most forms of life, with an estimated 1500 RBPs in humans. Traditionally associated with post-transcriptional gene regulation, RBPs contribute to nearly every known aspect of RNA biology, including RNA splicing, transport, and decay. In recent years, an increasing subset of RBPs have been recognized for their DNA binding properties and involvement in DNA transactions. We refer to these RBPs with well-characterized DNA binding activity as RNA/DNA binding proteins (RDBPs), many of which are linked to neurological diseases. RDBPs are associated with both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA repair. Furthermore, the presence of intrinsically disordered domains in RDBPs appears to be critical for regulating their diverse interactions and plays a key role in controlling protein aggregation, which is implicated in neurodegeneration. In this review, we discuss the emerging roles of common RDBPs from the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) family, such as TAR DNA binding protein-43 (TDP43) and fused in sarcoma (FUS) in controlling DNA damage response (DDR). We also explore the implications of RDBP pathology in aging and neurodegenerative diseases and provide a prospective on the therapeutic potential of targeting RDBP pathology mediated DDR defects for motor neuron diseases and aging.
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- Manohar Kodavati
- Department of Neurosurgery, Center for Neuroregeneration, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77047, USA.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Center for Neuroregeneration, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77047, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Center for Neuroregeneration, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77047, USA; School of Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Center for Neuroregeneration, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77047, USA; School of Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Weill Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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Mu F, Zheng H, Zhao Q, Zhu M, Dong T, Kai L, Li Z. Genome-wide systematic survey and analysis of the RNA helicase gene family and their response to abiotic stress in sweetpotato. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2024; 24:193. [PMID: 38493089 PMCID: PMC10944623 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-024-04824-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024]
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Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) holds a crucial position as one of the staple foods globally, however, its yields are frequently impacted by environmental stresses. In the realm of plant evolution and the response to abiotic stress, the RNA helicase family assumes a significant role. Despite this importance, a comprehensive understanding of the RNA helicase gene family in sweetpotato has been lacking. Therefore, we conducted a comprehensive genome-wide analysis of the sweetpotato RNA helicase family, encompassing aspects such as chromosome distribution, promoter elements, and motif compositions. This study aims to shed light on the intricate mechanisms underlying the stress responses and evolutionary adaptations in sweetpotato, thereby facilitating the development of strategies for enhancing its resilience and productivity. 300 RNA helicase genes were identified in sweetpotato and categorized into three subfamilies, namely IbDEAD, IbDEAH and IbDExDH. The collinearity relationship between the sweetpotato RNA helicase gene and 8 related homologous genes from other species was explored, providing a reliable foundation for further study of the sweetpotato RNA helicase gene family's evolution. Furthermore, through RNA-Seq analysis and qRT-PCR verification, it was observed that the expression of eight RNA helicase genes exhibited significant responsiveness to four abiotic stresses (cold, drought, heat, and salt) across various tissues of ten different sweetpotato varieties. Sweetpotato transgenic lines overexpressing the RNA helicase gene IbDExDH96 were generated using A.rhizogenes-mediated technology. This approach allowed for the preliminary investigation of the role of sweetpotato RNA helicase genes in the response to cold stress. Notably, the promoters of RNA helicase genes contained numerous cis-acting elements associated with temperature, hormone, and light response, highlighting their crucial role in sweetpotato abiotic stress response.
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- Fangfang Mu
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Phylogenomics and Comparative Genomics, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, 221116, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Phylogenomics and Comparative Genomics, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, 221116, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Phylogenomics and Comparative Genomics, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, 221116, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Phylogenomics and Comparative Genomics, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, 221116, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Phylogenomics and Comparative Genomics, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, 221116, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Medicinal Plants of Jiangsu Province, School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, 221116, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Phylogenomics and Comparative Genomics, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, 221116, China.
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Liu J, Yang T, Luo Y, Ma Z, Yu Z, Zhang L, Liu G, Wen J, Lu G, Zhang G, Zhao Y, Luo W, Li Y, Yang N, Zhou J, Lu Y, Chen S, Zeng X. DEAD-box helicase 1 inhibited CD8 + T cell antitumor activity by inducing PD-L1 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma. Cancer Sci 2024; 115:763-776. [PMID: 38243657 PMCID: PMC10921000 DOI: 10.1111/cas.16076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2023] [Revised: 12/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/16/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024] Open
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) does not respond well to current treatments, even immune checkpoint inhibitors. PD-L1 (programmed cell death ligand 1 or CD274 molecule)-mediated immune escape of tumor cells may be a key factor affecting the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy. However, the regulatory mechanisms of PD-L1 expression and immune escape require further exploration. Here, we observed that DDX1 (DEAD-box helicase 1) was overexpressed in HCC tissues and associated with poor prognosis in patients with HCC. Additionally, DDX1 expression correlated negatively with CD8+ T cell frequency. DDX1 overexpression significantly increased interferon gamma (IFN-γ)-mediated PD-L1 expression in HCC cell lines. DDX1 overexpression decreased IFN-γ and granzyme B production in CD8+ T cells and inhibited CD8+ T cell cytotoxic function in vitro and in vivo. In conclusion, DDX1 plays an essential role in developing the immune escape microenvironment, rendering it a potential predictor of ICI therapy efficacy in HCC.
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- Junhao Liu
- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
- The Second School of Clinical MedicineSouthern Medical UniversityGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
- The Second School of Clinical MedicineSouthern Medical UniversityGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
- The Second School of Clinical MedicineSouthern Medical UniversityGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
- The Second School of Clinical MedicineSouthern Medical UniversityGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
- The Affiliated Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital of Jinan UniversityGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
- The Affiliated Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital of Jinan UniversityGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
- The Affiliated Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital of Jinan UniversityGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Interventional RadiologyGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Hepatobiliary‐Pancreatic & Hernia SurgeryGuangdong Second Provincial General HospitalGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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Yin C, Zhao H, Xia X, Pan Z, Li D, Zhang L. Picornavirus 2C proteins: structure-function relationships and interactions with host factors. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2024; 14:1347615. [PMID: 38465233 PMCID: PMC10921941 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1347615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/12/2024] Open
Abstract
Picornaviruses, which are positive-stranded, non-enveloped RNA viruses, are known to infect people and animals with a broad spectrum of diseases. Among the nonstructural proteins in picornaviruses, 2C proteins are highly conserved and exhibit multiple structural domains, including amphipathic α-helices, an ATPase structural domain, and a zinc finger structural domain. This review offers a comprehensive overview of the functional structures of picornaviruses' 2C protein. We summarize the mechanisms by which the 2C protein enhances viral replication. 2C protein interacts with various host factors to form the replication complex, ultimately promoting viral replication. We review the mechanisms through which picornaviruses' 2C proteins interact with the NF-κB, RIG-I, MDA5, NOD2, and IFN pathways, contributing to the evasion of the antiviral innate immune response. Additionally, we provide an overview of broad-spectrum antiviral drugs for treating various enterovirus infections, such as guanidine hydrochloride, fluoxetine, and dibucaine derivatives. These drugs may exert their inhibitory effects on viral infections by targeting interactions with 2C proteins. The review underscores the need for further research to elucidate the precise mechanisms of action of 2C proteins and to identify additional host factors for potential therapeutic intervention. Overall, this review contributes to a deeper understanding of picornaviruses and offers insights into the antiviral strategies against these significant viral pathogens.
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- Chunhui Yin
- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, China
- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Clinical and Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
- Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, China
- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Clinical and Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
- Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Clinical and Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
- Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Clinical and Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
- Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Clinical and Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
- Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, China
- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Clinical and Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
- Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
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Nag S, Goswami B, Das Mandal S, Ray PS. Cooperation and competition by RNA-binding proteins in cancer. Semin Cancer Biol 2022; 86:286-297. [PMID: 35248729 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2022.02.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2021] [Revised: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression plays a major role in determining the cellular proteome in health and disease. Post-transcriptional control mechanisms are disrupted in many cancers, contributing to multiple processes of tumorigenesis. RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), the main post-transcriptional regulators, often show altered expression and activity in cancer cells. Dysregulation of RBPs contributes to many cancer phenotypes, functioning in complex regulatory networks with other cellular players such as non-coding RNAs, signaling mediators and transcription factors to alter the expression of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. RBPs often function combinatorially, based on their binding to target sequences/structures on shared mRNA targets, to regulate the expression of cancer-related genes. This gives rise to cooperativity and competition between RBPs in mRNA binding and resultant functional outcomes in post-transcriptional processes such as mRNA splicing, stability, export and translation. Cooperation and competition is also observed in the case of interaction of RBPs and microRNAs with mRNA targets. RNA structural change is a common mechanism mediating the cooperative/competitive interplay between RBPs and between RBPs and microRNAs. RNA modifications, leading to changes in RNA structure, add a new dimension to cooperative/competitive binding of RBPs to mRNAs, further expanding the RBP regulatory landscape. Therefore, cooperative/competitive interplay between RBPs is a major determinant of the RBP interactome and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in cancer cells.
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- Sharanya Nag
- Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur 741246, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur 741246, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur 741246, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur 741246, West Bengal, India.
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Shaath H, Vishnubalaji R, Elango R, Kardousha A, Islam Z, Qureshi R, Alam T, Kolatkar PR, Alajez NM. Long non-coding RNA and RNA-binding protein interactions in cancer: Experimental and machine learning approaches. Semin Cancer Biol 2022; 86:325-345. [PMID: 35643221 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2022.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Revised: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 05/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Understanding the complex and specific roles played by non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), which comprise the bulk of the genome, is important for understanding virtually every hallmark of cancer. This large group of molecules plays pivotal roles in key regulatory mechanisms in various cellular processes. Regulatory mechanisms, mediated by long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) and RNA-binding protein (RBP) interactions, are well documented in several types of cancer. Their effects are enabled through networks affecting lncRNA and RBP stability, RNA metabolism including N6-methyladenosine (m6A) and alternative splicing, subcellular localization, and numerous other mechanisms involved in cancer. In this review, we discuss the reciprocal interplay between lncRNAs and RBPs and their involvement in epigenetic regulation via histone modifications, as well as their key role in resistance to cancer therapy. Other aspects of RBPs including their structural domains, provide a deeper knowledge on how lncRNAs and RBPs interact and exert their biological functions. In addition, current state-of-the-art knowledge, facilitated by machine and deep learning approaches, unravels such interactions in better details to further enhance our understanding of the field, and the potential to harness RNA-based therapeutics as an alternative treatment modality for cancer are discussed.
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- Hibah Shaath
- Translational Cancer and Immunity Center (TCIC), Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation (QF), PO Box 34110, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Cancer and Immunity Center (TCIC), Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation (QF), PO Box 34110, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Cancer and Immunity Center (TCIC), Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation (QF), PO Box 34110, Doha, Qatar
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- College of Health & Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation (QF), PO Box 34110, Doha, Qatar
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- Diabetes Research Center (DRC), Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation, PO Box 34110, Doha, Qatar
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- College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation, PO Box 34110, Doha, Qatar
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- College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation, PO Box 34110, Doha, Qatar
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- College of Health & Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation (QF), PO Box 34110, Doha, Qatar; Diabetes Research Center (DRC), Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation, PO Box 34110, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Cancer and Immunity Center (TCIC), Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation (QF), PO Box 34110, Doha, Qatar; College of Health & Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation (QF), PO Box 34110, Doha, Qatar.
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Yan Y, Gan J, Tao Y, Okita TW, Tian L. RNA-Binding Proteins: The Key Modulator in Stress Granule Formation and Abiotic Stress Response. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:882596. [PMID: 35783947 PMCID: PMC9240754 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.882596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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To cope with abiotic environmental stress, plants rapidly change their gene expression transcriptionally and post-transcriptionally, the latter by translational suppression of selected proteins and the assembly of cytoplasmic stress granules (SGs) that sequester mRNA transcripts. RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are the major players in these post-transcriptional processes, which control RNA processing in the nucleus, their export from the nucleus, and overall RNA metabolism in the cytoplasm. Because of their diverse modular domain structures, various RBP types dynamically co-assemble with their targeted RNAs and interacting proteins to form SGs, a process that finely regulates stress-responsive gene expression. This review summarizes recent findings on the involvement of RBPs in adapting plants to various abiotic stresses via modulation of specific gene expression events and SG formation. The relationship of these processes with the stress hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is discussed.
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- Yanyan Yan
- Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control for Subtropical Fruit and Vegetable (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Collaborative Innovation Center for Efficient and Green Production of Agriculture in Mountainous Areas of Zhejiang Province, College of Horticulture Science, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control for Subtropical Fruit and Vegetable (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Collaborative Innovation Center for Efficient and Green Production of Agriculture in Mountainous Areas of Zhejiang Province, College of Horticulture Science, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control for Subtropical Fruit and Vegetable (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Collaborative Innovation Center for Efficient and Green Production of Agriculture in Mountainous Areas of Zhejiang Province, College of Horticulture Science, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
- *Correspondence: Thomas W. Okita,
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- Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Control for Subtropical Fruit and Vegetable (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Collaborative Innovation Center for Efficient and Green Production of Agriculture in Mountainous Areas of Zhejiang Province, College of Horticulture Science, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
- Li Tian,
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Ru JN, Hou ZH, Zheng L, Zhao Q, Wang FZ, Chen J, Zhou YB, Chen M, Ma YZ, Xi YJ, Xu ZS. Genome-Wide Analysis of DEAD-box RNA Helicase Family in Wheat ( Triticum aestivum) and Functional Identification of TaDEAD-box57 in Abiotic Stress Responses. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:797276. [PMID: 34956297 PMCID: PMC8699334 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.797276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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DEAD-box RNA helicases constitute the largest subfamily of RNA helicase superfamily 2 (SF2), and play crucial roles in plant growth, development, and abiotic stress responses. Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops in worldwide, and abiotic stresses greatly restrict its production. So far, the DEAD-box RNA helicase family has yet to be characterized in wheat. Here, we performed a comprehensive genome-wide analysis of the DEAD-box RNA helicase family in wheat, including phylogenetic relationships, chromosomal distribution, duplication events, and protein motifs. A total of 141 TaDEAD-box genes were identified and found to be unevenly distributed across all 21 chromosomes. Whole genome/segmental duplication was identified as the likely main driving factor for expansion of the TaDEAD-box family. Expression patterns of the 141 TaDEAD-box genes were compared across different tissues and under abiotic stresses to identify genes to be important in growth or stress responses. TaDEAD-box57-3B was significantly up-regulated under multiple abiotic stresses, and was therefore selected for further analysis. TaDEAD-box57-3B was localized to the cytoplasm and plasma membrane. Ectopic expression of TaDEAD-box57-3B in Arabidopsis improved tolerance to drought and salt stress as measured by germination rates, root lengths, fresh weights, and survival rates. Transgenic lines also showed higher levels of proline and chlorophyll and lower levels of malonaldehyde (MDA) than WT plants in response to drought or salt stress. In response to cold stress, the transgenic lines showed significantly better growth and higher survival rates than WT plants. These results indicate that TaDEAD-box57-3B may increase tolerance to drought, salt, and cold stress in transgenic plants through regulating the degree of membrane lipid peroxidation. This study provides new insights for understanding evolution and function in the TaDEAD-box gene family.
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- Jing-Na Ru
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
- Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Crop Salt-Alkali Stress Tolerance Evaluation and Genetic Improvement/Cangzhou Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Cangzhou, China
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- Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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Abidi SH, Almansour NM, Amerzhanov D, Allemailem KS, Rafaqat W, Ibrahim MAA, la Fleur P, Lukac M, Ali S. Repurposing potential of posaconazole and grazoprevir as inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 helicase. Sci Rep 2021; 11:10290. [PMID: 33986405 PMCID: PMC8119689 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-89724-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
As the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic engulfs millions worldwide, the quest for vaccines or drugs against the virus continues. The helicase protein of SARS-CoV-2 represents an attractive target for drug discovery since inhibition of helicase activity can suppress viral replication. Using in silico approaches, we have identified drugs that interact with SARS-CoV-2 helicase based on the presence of amino acid arrangements matching binding sites of drugs in previously annotated protein structures. The drugs exhibiting an RMSD of ≤ 3.0 Å were further analyzed using molecular docking, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, and post-MD analyses. Using these approaches, we found 12 drugs that showed strong interactions with SARS-CoV-2 helicase amino acids. The analyses were performed using the recently available SARS-CoV-2 helicase structure (PDB ID: 5RL6). Based on the MM-GBSA approach, out of the 12 drugs, two drugs, namely posaconazole and grazoprevir, showed the most favorable binding energy, - 54.8 and - 49.1 kcal/mol, respectively. Furthermore, of the amino acids found conserved among all human coronaviruses, 10/11 and 10/12 were targeted by, respectively, grazoprevir and posaconazole. These residues are part of the crucial DEAD-like helicase C and DEXXQc_Upf1-like/ DEAD-like helicase domains. Strong interactions of posaconazole and grazoprevir with conserved amino acids indicate that the drugs can be potent against SARS-CoV-2. Since the amino acids are conserved among the human coronaviruses, the virus is unlikely to develop resistance mutations against these drugs. Since these drugs are already in use, they may be immediately repurposed for SARS-CoV-2 therapy.
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- Syed Hani Abidi
- Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Hafr Al Batin, Hafr Al Batin, Saudi Arabia
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- Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Medical Laboratories, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia
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- Computational Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Minia University, Minia, 61519, Egypt
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- Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
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- Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
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Zhang XY, Shu T, Wang X, Xu J, Qiu Y, Zhou X. Guaico Culex virus NSP2 has RNA helicase and chaperoning activities. J Gen Virol 2021; 102. [PMID: 33891535 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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RNA-remodelling proteins, including RNA helicases and chaperones, function to remodel structured RNAs and/or RNA-protein interactions and play indispensable roles in viral life cycles. Guaico Culex virus (GCXV) is the first uncovered animal-infected multicomponent virus with segmented positive-sense genomic RNAs. GCXV belongs to the Jingmenvirus group, a diverse clade of segmented viruses that are related to the prototypically unsegmented Flavivirus. However, little is known about the exact functions of the GCXV-encoded proteins. Here, we show that the putative non-structural protein (NSP) 2 on segment 2 of GCXV functions as an RNA helicase that unwinds RNA helix bidirectionally in an adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-dependent manner, and an RNA chaperone that remodels structured RNAs and facilitates RNA strand annealing independently of ATP. Together, our findings are the first demonstration of RNA-remodelling activity encoded by Jingmenvirus and highlight the functional significance of NSP2 in the GCXV life cycle.
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- Xue-Yi Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan 430071, PR China.,State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan 430071, PR China
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- The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China.,State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan 430071, PR China
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- The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China.,State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan 430071, PR China
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- The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China.,State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan 430071, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan 430071, PR China.,State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China.,The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
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SARS-Coronavirus-2 Nsp13 Possesses NTPase and RNA Helicase Activities That Can Be Inhibited by Bismuth Salts. Virol Sin 2020; 35:321-329. [PMID: 32500504 PMCID: PMC7271831 DOI: 10.1007/s12250-020-00242-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The ongoing outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global public health emergency. SARS-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative pathogen of COVID-19, is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the family Coronaviridae. For RNA viruses, virus-encoded RNA helicases have long been recognized to play pivotal roles during viral life cycles by facilitating the correct folding and replication of viral RNAs. Here, our studies show that SARS-CoV-2-encoded nonstructural protein 13 (nsp13) possesses the nucleoside triphosphate hydrolase (NTPase) and RNA helicase activities that can hydrolyze all types of NTPs and unwind RNA helices dependently of the presence of NTP, and further characterize the biochemical characteristics of these two enzymatic activities associated with SARS-CoV-2 nsp13. Moreover, we found that some bismuth salts could effectively inhibit both the NTPase and RNA helicase activities of SARS-CoV-2 nsp13 in a dose-dependent manner. Thus, our findings demonstrate the NTPase and helicase activities of SARS-CoV-2 nsp13, which may play an important role in SARS-CoV-2 replication and serve as a target for antivirals.
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Thirumalai D, Lorimer GH, Hyeon C. Iterative annealing mechanism explains the functions of the GroEL and RNA chaperones. Protein Sci 2019; 29:360-377. [PMID: 31800116 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Revised: 11/21/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Molecular chaperones are ATP-consuming machines, which facilitate the folding of proteins and RNA molecules that are kinetically trapped in misfolded states. Unassisted folding occurs by the kinetic partitioning mechanism according to which folding to the native state, with low probability as well as misfolding to one of the many metastable states, with high probability, occur rapidly. GroEL is an all-purpose stochastic machine that assists misfolded substrate proteins to fold. The RNA chaperones such as CYT-19, which are ATP-consuming enzymes, help the folding of ribozymes that get trapped in metastable states for long times. GroEL does not interact with the folded proteins but CYT-19 disrupts both the folded and misfolded ribozymes. The structures of GroEL and RNA chaperones are strikingly different. Despite these differences, the iterative annealing mechanism (IAM) quantitatively explains all the available experimental data for assisted folding of proteins and ribozymes. Driven by ATP binding and hydrolysis and GroES binding, GroEL undergoes a catalytic cycle during which it samples three allosteric states, T (apo), R (ATP bound), and R″ (ADP bound). Analyses of the experimental data show that the efficiency of the GroEL-GroES machinery and mutants is determined by the resetting rate k R ″ → T , which is largest for the wild-type (WT) GroEL. Generalized IAM accurately predicts the folding kinetics of Tetrahymena ribozyme and its variants. Chaperones maximize the product of the folding rate and the steady-state native state fold by driving the substrates out of equilibrium. Neither the absolute yield nor the folding rate is optimized.
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- D Thirumalai
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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- Biophysics Program, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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Shu T, Gan T, Bai P, Wang X, Qian Q, Zhou H, Cheng Q, Qiu Y, Yin L, Zhong J, Zhou X. Ebola virus VP35 has novel NTPase and helicase-like activities. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:5837-5851. [PMID: 31066445 PMCID: PMC6582406 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2018] [Revised: 04/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Ebola virus (EBOV) is a non-segmented, negative-sense RNA virus (NNSV) in the family Filoviridae, and is recognized as one of the most lethal pathogens in the planet. For RNA viruses, cellular or virus-encoded RNA helicases play pivotal roles in viral life cycles by remodelling viral RNA structures and/or unwinding viral dsRNA produced during replication. However, no helicase or helicase-like activity has ever been found to associate with any NNSV-encoded proteins, and it is unknown whether the replication of NNSVs requires the participation of any viral or cellular helicase. Here, we show that despite of containing no conserved NTPase/helicase motifs, EBOV VP35 possesses the NTPase and helicase-like activities that can hydrolyse all types of NTPs and unwind RNA helices in an NTP-dependent manner, respectively. Moreover, guanidine hydrochloride, an FDA-approved compound and inhibitor of certain viral helicases, inhibited the NTPase and helicase-like activities of VP35 as well as the replication/transcription of an EBOV minigenome replicon in cells, highlighting the importance of VP35 helicase-like activity during EBOV life cycle. Together, our findings provide the first demonstration of the NTPase/helicase-like activity encoded by EBOV, and would foster our understanding of EBOV and NNSVs.
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- Ting Shu
- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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- Unit of Viral Hepatitis, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, CAS, Shanghai 200031, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.,State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China.,Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, Mega-Science Center for Bio-Safety Research, CAS, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China.,State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China.,Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, Mega-Science Center for Bio-Safety Research, CAS, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China.,State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China.,Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, Mega-Science Center for Bio-Safety Research, CAS, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.,State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China.,Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, Mega-Science Center for Bio-Safety Research, CAS, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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- Unit of Viral Hepatitis, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, CAS, Shanghai 200031, China.,Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, Mega-Science Center for Bio-Safety Research, CAS, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.,State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China.,Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, Mega-Science Center for Bio-Safety Research, CAS, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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Kang LJ, Nguyen KVA, Eom S, Choi YJ, Nguyen CN, Lee J, Kim C, Lee S, Lee SG, Lee JH. Stimulating DDX3 expression by serotonin 5-HT receptor 7 through phosphorylation of p53 via the AC-PKA-ERK signaling pathway. J Cell Biochem 2019; 120:18193-18208. [PMID: 31172579 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.29125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2018] [Revised: 04/30/2019] [Accepted: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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DDX3 is a host viral factor that can inhibit the hepatitis B virus-induced innate immune responses. In this study, the 20 bioactive compounds have screened the effects on DDX3 and we found that 5-HT upregulated DDX3 promoter activity via the 5-HT7 receptor on liver hepatocellular cells (HepG2 cells) by using a luciferase assay, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analysis, and Western blot analysis. Furthermore, we are trying to elucidate the pathways involved in the stimulating effect of 5-HT on DDX3 expression to induce innate immune responses against hepatitis B virus infection. A knockdown of the 5-HT7 receptor by transfection si-5-HT7 receptors or si-control into HepG2 cells treated by 5-HT (or 5-HT plus agonist) confirmed the role of the 5-HT7 receptor in DDX3 expression. The IFN-β-Luc expression and level of hepatitis B virus surface Antigen (HBsAg) showed that DDX3 mediated by the 5-HT7 agonist (AS-19) increased IFN-β expression and inhibited HBV replication. Luciferase assays showed the involvement of 5-HT7 receptors in DDX3 expression via cAMP/AC/PKA pathways by using protein kinase A (PKA) and adenylyl cyclase inhibitor (MDL 12330A). AS-19 mediated DDX3 promoter activated PKA extracellular signal-regulated kinase ERK signaling the p53 phosphorylation (-1080/-1070) resulted in upregulation of DDX3 promoter transactivation via the 5-HT7 receptors agonist. Overall, 5-HT7 was found to be a new potential target to inhibit hepatitis B infection by activating AC/PKA/ERK pathways by phosphorylating p53 via the 5-HT7 agonist response by mediating DDX3 expression.
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- Li-Jung Kang
- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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Huang X, Yu R, Li W, Geng L, Jing X, Zhu C, Liu H. Identification and characterisation of a glycine-rich RNA-binding protein as an endogenous suppressor of RNA silencing from Nicotiana glutinosa. PLANTA 2019; 249:1811-1822. [PMID: 30840177 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-019-03122-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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MAIN CONCLUSION This study shows that NgRBP suppresses both local and systemic RNA silencing induced by sense- or double-stranded RNA, and the RNA binding activity is essential for its function. To counteract host defence, many plant viruses encode viral suppressors of RNA silencing targeting various stages of RNA silencing. There is increasing evidence that the plants also encode endogenous suppressors of RNA silencing (ESR) to regulate this pathway. In this study, using Agrobacterium infiltration assays, we characterized NgRBP, a glycine-rich RNA-binding protein from Nicotiana glutinosa, as an ESR. Our results indicated that NgRBP suppressed both local and systemic RNA silencing induced by sense- or double-stranded RNA. We also demonstrated that NgRBP could promote Potato Virus X (PVX) infection in N. benthamiana. NgRBP knockdown by virus-induced gene silencing enhanced PVX and Cucumber mosaic virus resistance in N. glutinosa. RNA immunoprecipitation and electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that NgRBP bound to GFP mRNA, dsRNA rather than siRNA. These findings provide the evidence that NgRBP acts as an ESR and the RNA affinity of NgRBP plays the key role in its ESR activity. NgRBP responds to multiple signals such as ABA, MeJA, SA, and Tobacco mosaic virus infection. Therefore, it could participate in the regulation of gene expression under specific conditions.
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- Xu Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China
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- Institute of Immunology, Taishan Medical University, Tai'an, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China.
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Chi YH, Koo SS, Oh HT, Lee ES, Park JH, Phan KAT, Wi SD, Bae SB, Paeng SK, Chae HB, Kang CH, Kim MG, Kim WY, Yun DJ, Lee SY. The Physiological Functions of Universal Stress Proteins and Their Molecular Mechanism to Protect Plants From Environmental Stresses. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:750. [PMID: 31231414 PMCID: PMC6560075 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 05/22/2019] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
Abstract
Since the original discovery of a Universal Stress Protein (USP) in Escherichia coli, a number of USPs have been identified from diverse sources including archaea, bacteria, plants, and metazoans. As their name implies, these proteins participate in a broad range of cellular responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Their physiological functions are associated with ion scavenging, hypoxia responses, cellular mobility, and regulation of cell growth and development. Consistent with their roles in resistance to multiple stresses, USPs show a wide range of structural diversity that results from the diverse range of other functional motifs fused with the USP domain. As well as providing structural diversity, these catalytic motifs are responsible for the diverse biochemical properties of USPs and enable them to act in a number of cellular signaling transducers and metabolic regulators. Despite the importance of USP function in many organisms, the molecular mechanisms by which USPs protect cells and provide stress resistance remain largely unknown. This review addresses the diverse roles of USPs in plants and how the proteins enable plants to resist against multiple stresses in ever-changing environment. Bioinformatic tools used for the collection of a set of USPs from various plant species provide more than 2,100 USPs and their functional diversity in plant physiology. Data from previous studies are used to understand how the biochemical activity of plant USPs modulates biotic and abiotic stress signaling. As USPs interact with the redox protein, thioredoxin, in Arabidopsis and reactive oxygen species (ROS) regulates the activity of USPs, the involvement of USPs in redox-mediated defense signaling is also considered. Finally, this review discusses the biotechnological application of USPs in an agricultural context by considering the development of novel stress-resistant crops through manipulating the expression of USP genes.
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- Yong Hun Chi
- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
- Institute of Agricultural and Life Science (IALS), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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Human Norovirus NS3 Has RNA Helicase and Chaperoning Activities. J Virol 2018; 92:JVI.01606-17. [PMID: 29237842 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01606-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2017] [Accepted: 12/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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RNA-remodeling proteins, including RNA helicases and chaperones, act to remodel RNA structures and/or protein-RNA interactions and are required for all processes involving RNAs. Although many viruses encode RNA helicases and chaperones, their in vitro activities and their roles in infected cells largely remain elusive. Noroviruses are a diverse group of positive-strand RNA viruses in the family Caliciviridae and constitute a significant and potentially fatal threat to human health. Here, we report that the protein NS3 encoded by human norovirus has both ATP-dependent RNA helicase activity that unwinds RNA helices and ATP-independent RNA-chaperoning activity that can remodel structured RNAs and facilitate strand annealing. Moreover, NS3 can facilitate viral RNA synthesis in vitro by norovirus polymerase. NS3 may therefore play an important role in norovirus RNA replication. Lastly, we demonstrate that the RNA-remodeling activity of NS3 is inhibited by guanidine hydrochloride, an FDA-approved compound, and, more importantly, that it reduces the replication of the norovirus replicon in cultured human cells. Altogether, these findings are the first to demonstrate the presence of RNA-remodeling activities encoded by Caliciviridae and highlight the functional significance of NS3 in the noroviral life cycle.IMPORTANCE Noroviruses are a diverse group of positive-strand RNA viruses, which annually cause hundreds of millions of human infections and over 200,000 deaths worldwide. For RNA viruses, cellular or virus-encoded RNA helicases and/or chaperones have long been considered to play pivotal roles in viral life cycles. However, neither RNA helicase nor chaperoning activity has been demonstrated to be associated with any norovirus-encoded proteins, and it is also unknown whether norovirus replication requires the participation of any viral or cellular RNA helicases/chaperones. We found that a norovirus protein, NS3, not only has ATP-dependent helicase activity, but also acts as an ATP-independent RNA chaperone. Also, NS3 can facilitate in vitro viral RNA synthesis, suggesting the important role of NS3 in norovirus replication. Moreover, NS3 activities can be inhibited by an FDA-approved compound, which also suppresses norovirus replicon replication in human cells, raising the possibility that NS3 could be a target for antinoroviral drug development.
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Meurer J, Schmid LM, Stoppel R, Leister D, Brachmann A, Manavski N. PALE CRESS binds to plastid RNAs and facilitates the biogenesis of the 50S ribosomal subunit. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 92:400-413. [PMID: 28805278 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2017] [Revised: 08/04/2017] [Accepted: 08/08/2017] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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The plant-specific PALE CRESS (PAC) protein has previously been shown to be essential for photoautotrophic growth. Here we further investigated the molecular function of the PAC protein. PAC localizes to plastid nucleoids and forms large proteinaceous and RNA-containing megadalton complexes. It co-immunoprecipitates with a specific subset of chloroplast RNAs including psbK-psbI, ndhF, ndhD, and 23S ribosomal RNA (rRNA), as demonstrated by RNA immunoprecipitation in combination with high throughput RNA sequencing (RIP-seq) analyses. Furthermore, it co-migrates with premature 50S ribosomal particles and specifically binds to 23S rRNA in vitro. This coincides with severely reduced levels of 23S rRNA in pac leading to translational deficiencies and related alterations of plastid transcript patterns and abundance similar to plants treated with the translation inhibitor lincomycin. Thus, we conclude that deficiency in plastid ribosomes accounts for the pac phenotype. Moreover, the absence or reduction of PAC levels in the corresponding mutants induces structural changes of the 23S rRNA, as demonstrated by in vivo RNA structure probing. Our results indicate that PAC binds to the 23S rRNA to promote the biogenesis of the 50S subunit.
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- Jörg Meurer
- Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Straße 2-4, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Straße 2-4, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Straße 2-4, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Straße 2-4, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Straße 2-4, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Straße 2-4, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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Coronavirus nucleocapsid proteins assemble constitutively in high molecular oligomers. Sci Rep 2017; 7:5740. [PMID: 28720894 PMCID: PMC5515880 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06062-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Accepted: 06/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Coronaviruses (CoV) are enveloped viruses and rely on their nucleocapsid N protein to incorporate the positive-stranded genomic RNA into the virions. CoV N proteins form oligomers but the mechanism and relevance underlying their multimerization remain to be fully understood. Using in vitro pull-down experiments and density glycerol gradients, we found that at least 3 regions distributed over its entire length mediate the self-interaction of mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) N protein. The fact that these regions can bind reciprocally between themselves provides a possible molecular basis for N protein oligomerization. Interestingly, cytoplasmic N molecules of MHV-infected cells constitutively assemble into oligomers through a process that does not require binding to genomic RNA. Based on our data, we propose a model where constitutive N protein oligomerization allows the optimal loading of the genomic viral RNA into a ribonucleoprotein complex via the presentation of multiple viral RNA binding motifs.
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Cellular DEAD-box RNA helicase 18 (DDX18) Promotes the PRRSV Replication via Interaction with Virus nsp2 and nsp10. Virus Res 2017. [PMID: 28648849 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2017.05.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is an aetiological agent that can lead to reproductive failure and respiratory diseases of pigs. The replication and pathogenesis of PRRSV, although poorly understood, has been associated with the host factors. DDX18 is a member of DEAD-box RNA helicases (DDXs) family which were proved to participate in viral replication. Previously, we found the DDX18 interacts with both nsp2 and nsp10 of PRRSV by Co-Immunoprecipitation (Co-IP). In the present study, we demonstrated the interactions of DDX18 with nsp2 and nsp10, and located DDX18's binding regions as the N-terminus of nsp2 and both the N-terminus and C-terminus of nsp10. The expression of the nsp2 or nsp10 in MARC-145 cells and primary PAM cells redistributed DDX18 from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, and promoted the viral replication, but silencing of the DDX18 gene in MARC-145 cells down-regulated the replication of PRRSV. These findings proved that the cellular RNA helicase DDX18 plays a role in the replication of PRRSV, and provides insights into the understanding of PRRSV replication.
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Olejniczak M, Storz G. ProQ/FinO-domain proteins: another ubiquitous family of RNA matchmakers? Mol Microbiol 2017; 104:905-915. [PMID: 28370625 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/25/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Small RNAs (sRNAs), particularly those that act by limited base pairing with mRNAs, are part of most regulatory networks in bacteria. In many cases, the base-pairing interaction is facilitated by the RNA chaperone Hfq. However, not all bacteria encode Hfq and some base-pairing sRNAs do not require Hfq raising the possibility of other RNA chaperones. Candidates are proteins with homology to FinO, a factor that promotes base pairing between the FinP antisense sRNA and the traJ mRNA to control F plasmid transfer. Recent papers have shown that the Salmonella enterica FinO-domain protein ProQ binds a large suite of sRNAs, including the RaiZ sRNA, which represses translation of the hupA mRNA, and the Legionella pneumophila protein RocC binds the RocR sRNA, which blocks expression of competence genes. Here we discuss what is known about FinO-domain structures, including the recently solved Escherichia coli ProQ structure, as well as the RNA binding properties of this family of proteins and evidence they act as chaperones. We compare these properties with those of Hfq. We further summarize what is known about the physiological roles of FinO-domain proteins and enumerate outstanding questions whose answers will establish whether they constitute a second major class of RNA chaperones.
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- Mikolaj Olejniczak
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, Poznan, 61-614, Poland
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- Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, 20892-4417, USA
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Milani L, Pecci A, Ghiselli F, Passamonti M, Bettini S, Franceschini V, Maurizii MG. VASA expression suggests shared germ line dynamics in bivalve molluscs. Histochem Cell Biol 2017; 148:157-171. [PMID: 28386635 PMCID: PMC5508042 DOI: 10.1007/s00418-017-1560-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Germ line segregation can occur during embryogenesis or after embryogenesis completion, with multipotent cells able to give rise to both germ and somatic cells in the developing juvenile or even in adulthood. These undifferentiated cells, in some animals, are self-renewing stem cells. In all these cell lineages, the same set of genes, among which vasa, appears to be expressed. We traced VASA expression during the peculiar gonad rebuilding of bivalves to verify its presence from undifferentiated germ cells to mature gametes in an animal taxon in which the mechanism of germ line establishment is still under investigation. We utilized antibodies produced against VASPH, VASA homolog of Ruditapes philippinarum (Subclass Heterodonta), to compare the known expression pattern of R. philippinarum to two species of the Subclass Pteriomorphia, Anadara kagoshimensis and Crassostrea gigas, and another species of the Subclass Heterodonta, Mya arenaria. The immunohistological data obtained support a conserved mechanism of proliferation of "primordial stem cells" among the simple columnar epithelium of the gut, as well as in the connective tissue, contributing to the seasonal gonad reconstitution. Given the taxonomic separation of the analyzed species, we suggest that the process could be shared in bivalve molluscs. The presence of germ cell precursors in the gut epithelium appears to be a feature in common with model organisms, such as mouse, fruit fly, and human. Thus, the comparative study of germ line establishment can add details on bivalve development, but can also help to clarify the role that VASA plays during germ cell specification.
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- Liliana Milani
- Department of Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126, Bologna, Italy.
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- Department of Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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Kinetic and thermodynamic framework for P4-P6 RNA reveals tertiary motif modularity and modulation of the folding preferred pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:E4956-65. [PMID: 27493222 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525082113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The past decade has seen a wealth of 3D structural information about complex structured RNAs and identification of functional intermediates. Nevertheless, developing a complete and predictive understanding of the folding and function of these RNAs in biology will require connection of individual rate and equilibrium constants to structural changes that occur in individual folding steps and further relating these steps to the properties and behavior of isolated, simplified systems. To accomplish these goals we used the considerable structural knowledge of the folded, unfolded, and intermediate states of P4-P6 RNA. We enumerated structural states and possible folding transitions and determined rate and equilibrium constants for the transitions between these states using single-molecule FRET with a series of mutant P4-P6 variants. Comparisons with simplified constructs containing an isolated tertiary contact suggest that a given tertiary interaction has a stereotyped rate for breaking that may help identify structural transitions within complex RNAs and simplify the prediction of folding kinetics and thermodynamics for structured RNAs from their parts. The preferred folding pathway involves initial formation of the proximal tertiary contact. However, this preference was only ∼10 fold and could be reversed by a single point mutation, indicating that a model akin to a protein-folding contact order model will not suffice to describe RNA folding. Instead, our results suggest a strong analogy with a modified RNA diffusion-collision model in which tertiary elements within preformed secondary structures collide, with the success of these collisions dependent on whether the tertiary elements are in their rare binding-competent conformations.
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Shen CC, Huang P. Role of DEAD box family in colorectal cancer. Shijie Huaren Xiaohua Zazhi 2016; 24:2811-2816. [DOI: 10.11569/wcjd.v24.i18.2811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Colorectal cancer is one of the most common gastrointestinal tumors, posing a serious threat to human health. The DEAD box family plays an important role in RNA processing, such as transcription, pre-mRNA splicing and mRNA export and translation. Studies have shown that dysregulated expression of many RNA helicases exists in tumors, and some RNA helicases are involved in cell differentiation, cell cycle, apoptosis, oncogene expression and tumor drug resistance. This review aims to elucidate the research progress about the role of the DEAD box family in colorectal cancer.
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Vandivier LE, Anderson SJ, Foley SW, Gregory BD. The Conservation and Function of RNA Secondary Structure in Plants. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 67:463-88. [PMID: 26865341 PMCID: PMC5125251 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-043015-111754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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RNA transcripts fold into secondary structures via intricate patterns of base pairing. These secondary structures impart catalytic, ligand binding, and scaffolding functions to a wide array of RNAs, forming a critical node of biological regulation. Among their many functions, RNA structural elements modulate epigenetic marks, alter mRNA stability and translation, regulate alternative splicing, transduce signals, and scaffold large macromolecular complexes. Thus, the study of RNA secondary structure is critical to understanding the function and regulation of RNA transcripts. Here, we review the origins, form, and function of RNA secondary structure, focusing on plants. We then provide an overview of methods for probing secondary structure, from physical methods such as X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging to chemical and nuclease probing methods. Combining these latter methods with high-throughput sequencing has enabled them to scale across whole transcriptomes, yielding tremendous new insights into the form and function of RNA secondary structure.
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- Lee E Vandivier
- Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, and
- Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104;
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- Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, and
- Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104;
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- Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, and
- Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104;
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Meng X, Zhao Q, Jin Y, Yu J, Yin Z, Chen S, Dai S. Chilling-responsive mechanisms in halophyte Puccinellia tenuiflora seedlings revealed from proteomics analysis. J Proteomics 2016; 143:365-381. [PMID: 27130536 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2016.04.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2015] [Revised: 04/14/2016] [Accepted: 04/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Alkali grass (Puccinellia tenuiflora), a monocotyledonous perennial halophyte species, is a good pasture with great nutritional value for livestocks. It can thrive under low temperature in the saline-alkali soil of Songnen plain in northeastern China. In the present study, the chilling-responsive mechanism in P. tenuiflora leaves was investigated using physiological and proteomic approaches. After treatment of 10°C for 10 and 20days, photosynthesis, biomass, contents of osmolytes and antioxidants, and activities of reactive oxygen species scavenging enzymes were analyzed in leaves of 20-day-old seedlings. Besides, 89 chilling-responsive proteins were revealed from proteomic analysis. All the results highlighted that the growth of seedlings was inhibited due to chilling-decreased enzymes in photosynthesis, carbohydrate metabolism, and energy supplying. The accumulation of osmolytes (i.e., proline, soluble sugar, and glycine betaine) and enhancement of ascorbate-glutathione cycle and glutathione peroxidase/glutathione S-transferase pathway in leaves could minimize oxidative damage of membrane and other molecules under the chilling conditions. In addition, protein synthesis and turnover in cytoplasm and chloroplast were altered to cope with the chilling stress. This study provides valuable information for understanding the chilling-responsive and cross-tolerant mechanisms in monocotyledonous halophyte plant species.
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- Xuejiao Meng
- Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Center, Northeast Forestry University, Key Laboratory of Saline-alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration in Oil Field, Ministry of Education, Harbin 150040, China
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- Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Center, Northeast Forestry University, Key Laboratory of Saline-alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration in Oil Field, Ministry of Education, Harbin 150040, China
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- Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Center, Northeast Forestry University, Key Laboratory of Saline-alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration in Oil Field, Ministry of Education, Harbin 150040, China
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- Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Center, Northeast Forestry University, Key Laboratory of Saline-alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration in Oil Field, Ministry of Education, Harbin 150040, China
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- Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Center, Northeast Forestry University, Key Laboratory of Saline-alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration in Oil Field, Ministry of Education, Harbin 150040, China
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- Department of Biology, Genetics Institute, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Center, Northeast Forestry University, Key Laboratory of Saline-alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration in Oil Field, Ministry of Education, Harbin 150040, China.
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Milani L, Ghiselli F, Pecci A, Maurizii MG, Passamonti M. The Expression of a Novel Mitochondrially-Encoded Gene in Gonadic Precursors May Drive Paternal Inheritance of Mitochondria. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0137468. [PMID: 26339998 PMCID: PMC4560408 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2015] [Accepted: 08/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Mitochondria have an active role in germ line development, and their inheritance dynamics are relevant to this process. Recently, a novel protein (RPHM21) was shown to be encoded in sperm by the male-transmitted mtDNA of Ruditapes philippinarum, a species with Doubly Uniparental Inheritance (DUI) of mitochondria. In silico analyses suggested a viral origin of RPHM21, and we hypothesized that the endogenization of a viral element provided sperm mitochondria of R. philippinarum with the ability to invade male germ line, thus being transmitted to the progeny. In this work we investigated the dynamics of germ line development in relation to mitochondrial transcription and expression patterns using qPCR and specific antibodies targeting the germ line marker VASPH (R. philippinarum VASA homolog), and RPHM21. Based on the experimental results we conclude that both targets are localized in the primordial germ cells (PGCs) of males, but while VASPH is detected in all PGCs, RPHM21 appears to be expressed only in a subpopulation of them. Since it has been predicted that RPHM21 might have a role in cell proliferation and migration, we here suggest that PGCs expressing it might gain advantage over others and undertake spermatogenesis, accounting for RPHM21 presence in all spermatozoa. Understanding how foreign sequence endogenization and co-option can modify the biology of an organism is of particular importance to assess the impact of such events on evolution.
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- Liliana Milani
- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Fernández Moya SM, Kiebler MA. CLIPing Staufen to secondary RNA structures: size and location matter! Bioessays 2015; 37:1062-6. [PMID: 26252431 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201500052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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hiCLIP (RNA hybrid and individual-nucleotide resolution ultraviolet cross-linking and immunoprecipitation), is a novel technique developed by Sugimoto et al. (2015). Here, the use of different adaptors permits a controlled ligation of the two strands of a RNA duplex allowing the identification of each arm in the duplex upon sequencing. The authors chose a notoriously difficult to study double-stranded RNA-binding protein (dsRBP) termed Staufen1, a mammalian homolog of Drosophila Staufen involved in mRNA localization and translational control. Using hiCLIP, they discovered a dominance of intramolecular RNA duplexes compared to the total RNA duplexes identified. Importantly, the authors discovered two different types of intramolecular duplexes in the cell: highly translated mRNAs with long-range duplexes in their 3'-UTRs and poorly translated mRNAs with duplexes in their coding region. In conclusion, the authors establish hiCLIP as an important novel technique for the identification of RNA secondary structures that serve as in vivo binding sites for dsRBPs.
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- Sandra M Fernández Moya
- BioMedical Center, Department for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- BioMedical Center, Department for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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Xia H, Wang P, Wang GC, Yang J, Sun X, Wu W, Qiu Y, Shu T, Zhao X, Yin L, Qin CF, Hu Y, Zhou X. Human Enterovirus Nonstructural Protein 2CATPase Functions as Both an RNA Helicase and ATP-Independent RNA Chaperone. PLoS Pathog 2015. [PMID: 26218680 PMCID: PMC4517893 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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RNA helicases and chaperones are the two major classes of RNA remodeling proteins, which function to remodel RNA structures and/or RNA-protein interactions, and are required for all aspects of RNA metabolism. Although some virus-encoded RNA helicases/chaperones have been predicted or identified, their RNA remodeling activities in vitro and functions in the viral life cycle remain largely elusive. Enteroviruses are a large group of positive-stranded RNA viruses in the Picornaviridae family, which includes numerous important human pathogens. Herein, we report that the nonstructural protein 2CATPase of enterovirus 71 (EV71), which is the major causative pathogen of hand-foot-and-mouth disease and has been regarded as the most important neurotropic enterovirus after poliovirus eradication, functions not only as an RNA helicase that 3′-to-5′ unwinds RNA helices in an adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-dependent manner, but also as an RNA chaperone that destabilizes helices bidirectionally and facilitates strand annealing and complex RNA structure formation independently of ATP. We also determined that the helicase activity is based on the EV71 2CATPase middle domain, whereas the C-terminus is indispensable for its RNA chaperoning activity. By promoting RNA template recycling, 2CATPase facilitated EV71 RNA synthesis in vitro; when 2CATPase helicase activity was impaired, EV71 RNA replication and virion production were mostly abolished in cells, indicating that 2CATPase-mediated RNA remodeling plays a critical role in the enteroviral life cycle. Furthermore, the RNA helicase and chaperoning activities of 2CATPase are also conserved in coxsackie A virus 16 (CAV16), another important enterovirus. Altogether, our findings are the first to demonstrate the RNA helicase and chaperoning activities associated with enterovirus 2CATPase, and our study provides both in vitro and cellular evidence for their potential roles during viral RNA replication. These findings increase our understanding of enteroviruses and the two types of RNA remodeling activities. Enteroviruses contain a large number of closely related human pathogens, including poliovirus, EV71, and coxsackie viruses, and cause ~3 billion infections annually. Among the nonstructural proteins of enteroviruses or picornaviruses, protein 2CATPase is the most conserved and complex but the least understood. On the basis of sequence analyses, this protein has been predicted as a putative superfamily 3 (SF3) helicase that supposedly plays a pivotal role in enteroviral RNA replication. However, attempts to determine the helicase activity associated with 2CATPase have been unsuccessful. We found that eukaryotically expressed EV71 or CAV16 2CATPase does possess an ATP-dependent RNA helicase activity that 3′→5′ unwinds RNA helices like other SF3 helicases; surprisingly, it also functions as an RNA chaperone that remodels RNA structures in an ATP-independent manner. Moreover, we determined the domain requirements for these two RNA remodeling activities associated with 2CATPase and provide both in vitro and cellular evidence of their potential roles during viral RNA replication. Additionally, our study provides the first evidence that RNA helicase and chaperoning activities can be integrated within one protein, thereby introducing an extended view of RNA remodeling proteins.
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- Hongjie Xia
- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Bol GM, Vesuna F, Xie M, Zeng J, Aziz K, Gandhi N, Levine A, Irving A, Korz D, Tantravedi S, Heerma van Voss MR, Gabrielson K, Bordt EA, Polster BM, Cope L, van der Groep P, Kondaskar A, Rudek MA, Hosmane RS, van der Wall E, van Diest PJ, Tran PT, Raman V. Targeting DDX3 with a small molecule inhibitor for lung cancer therapy. EMBO Mol Med 2015; 7:648-69. [PMID: 25820276 PMCID: PMC4492822 DOI: 10.15252/emmm.201404368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2014] [Revised: 02/09/2015] [Accepted: 02/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Lung cancer is the most common malignancy worldwide and is a focus for developing targeted therapies due to its refractory nature to current treatment. We identified a RNA helicase, DDX3, which is overexpressed in many cancer types including lung cancer and is associated with lower survival in lung cancer patients. We designed a first-in-class small molecule inhibitor, RK-33, which binds to DDX3 and abrogates its activity. Inhibition of DDX3 by RK-33 caused G1 cell cycle arrest, induced apoptosis, and promoted radiation sensitization in DDX3-overexpressing cells. Importantly, RK-33 in combination with radiation induced tumor regression in multiple mouse models of lung cancer. Mechanistically, loss of DDX3 function either by shRNA or by RK-33 impaired Wnt signaling through disruption of the DDX3-β-catenin axis and inhibited non-homologous end joining-the major DNA repair pathway in mammalian somatic cells. Overall, inhibition of DDX3 by RK-33 promotes tumor regression, thus providing a compelling argument to develop DDX3 inhibitors for lung cancer therapy.
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Omidvar V, Fellner M. DNA methylation and transcriptomic changes in response to different lights and stresses in 7B-1 male-sterile tomato. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0121864. [PMID: 25849771 PMCID: PMC4388563 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2014] [Accepted: 02/16/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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We reported earlier that 7B-1 mutant in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L., cv. Rutgers), an ABA overproducer, is defective in blue light (B) signaling leading to B-specific resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses. Using a methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) assay, a number of genes were identified, which were differentially methylated between 7B-1 and its wild type (WT) seedlings in white (W), blue (B), red (R) lights and dark (D) or in response to exogenous ABA and mannitol-induced stresses. The genomic methylation level was almost similar in different lights between 7B-1 and WT seedlings, while significant differences were observed in response to stresses in D, but not B. Using a cDNA-AFLP assay, several transcripts were identified, which were differentially regulated between 7B-1 and WT by B or D or in response to stresses. Blue light receptors cryptochrome 1 and 2 (CRY1 and CRY2) and phototropin 1 and 2 (PHOT1 and PHOT2) were not affected by the 7B-1 mutation at the transcriptional level, instead the mutation had likely affected downstream components of the light signaling pathway. 5-azacytidine (5-azaC) induced DNA hypomethylation, inhibited stem elongation and differentially regulated the expression of a number of genes in 7B-1. In addition, it was shown that mir167 and mir390 were tightly linked to auxin signaling pathway in 5-azaC-treated 7B-1 seedlings via the regulation of auxin-response factor (ARF) transcripts. Our data showed that DNA methylation remodeling is an active epigenetic response to different lights and stresses in 7B-1 and WT, and highlighted the differences in epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of light and stress responses between 7B-1 and WT. Furthermore, it shed lights on the crosstalk between DNA hypomethylation and miRNA regulation of ARFs expression. This information could also be used as a benchmark for future studies of male-sterility in other crops.
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- Vahid Omidvar
- Group of Molecular Physiology, Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Palacky University & Institute of Experimental Botany ASCR, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- * E-mail: (VO); (MF)
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- Group of Molecular Physiology, Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Palacky University & Institute of Experimental Botany ASCR, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- * E-mail: (VO); (MF)
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de Boer FK, Hogeweg P. Mutation rates and evolution of multiple coding in RNA-based protocells. J Mol Evol 2014; 79:193-203. [PMID: 25280530 PMCID: PMC4247474 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-014-9648-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Accepted: 09/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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RNA has a myriad of biological roles in contemporary life. We use the RNA paradigm for genotype-phenotype mappings to study the evolution of multiple coding in dependence to mutation rates. We study three different one-to-many genotype-phenotype mappings which have the potential to encode the information for multiple functions on a single sequence. These three different maps are (i) cofolding, where two sequences can bind and “cofold,” (ii) suboptimal folding, where the alternative foldings within a certain range of the native state of sequences are considered, and (iii) adapter-based folding, in which protocells can evolve adapter-mediated alternative foldings. We study how protocells with a set of sequences can code for a set of predefined functional structures, while avoiding all other structures, which are considered to be misfoldings. Note that such misfolded structures are far more prevalent than functional ones. Our results highlight the flexibility of the RNA sequence to secondary structure mapping and the power of evolution to shape the genotype-phenotype mapping. We show that high fitness can be achieved even at high mutation rates. Mutation rates affect genome size, but differently depending on which folding method is used. We observe that cofolding limits the possibility to avoid misfolded structures and that adapters are always beneficial for fitness, but even more beneficial at low mutation rates. In all cases, the evolution procedure selects for molecules that can form additional structures. Our results indicate that inherent properties of RNA molecules and their interactions allow the evolution of complexity even at high mutation rates.
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- Folkert K de Boer
- Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands,
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Xing L, Niu M, Kleiman L. Role of the OB-fold of RNA helicase A in the synthesis of HIV-1 RNA. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2014; 1839:1069-78. [PMID: 25149208 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2014.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2014] [Revised: 07/25/2014] [Accepted: 08/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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RNA helicase A (RHA), a DExD/H protein, contains a stretch of repeated arginine and glycine-glycine (RGG) residues and an oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide-binding fold (OB-fold) at the C-terminus. RHA has been reported to function as a transcriptional cofactor. This study shows the role of RGG and OB-fold domains of RHA in the activation of transcription and splicing of HIV-1 RNA. RHA stimulates HIV-1 transcription by enhancing the occupancy of RNA polymerase II on the proviral DNA. Deletion of RGG or both RGG and OB-fold does not change the transcriptional activity of RHA, nor does the stability of viral RNA. However, deletion of both RGG and OB-fold rather than deletion of RGG only results in less production of multiply spliced 6D RNAs. The results suggest that the OB-fold is involved in modulating HIV-1 RNA splicing in the context of some HIV-1 strains while it is dispensable for the activation of HIV-1 transcription.
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- Li Xing
- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and McGill AIDS Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and McGill AIDS Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and McGill AIDS Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Ostareck DH, Naarmann-de Vries IS, Ostareck-Lederer A. DDX6 and its orthologs as modulators of cellular and viral RNA expression. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2014; 5:659-78. [PMID: 24788243 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2013] [Revised: 03/19/2014] [Accepted: 03/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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DDX6 (Rck/p54), a member of the DEAD-box family of helicases, is highly conserved from unicellular eukaryotes to vertebrates. Functions of DDX6 and its orthologs in dynamic ribonucleoproteins contribute to global and transcript-specific messenger RNA (mRNA) storage, translational repression, and decay during development and differentiation in the germline and somatic cells. Its role in pathways that promote mRNA-specific alternative translation initiation has been shown to be linked to cellular homeostasis, deregulated tissue development, and the control of gene expression in RNA viruses. Recently, DDX6 was found to participate in mRNA regulation mediated by miRNA-mediated silencing. DDX6 and its orthologs have versatile functions in mRNA metabolism, which characterize them as important post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression.
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- Dirk H Ostareck
- Experimental Research Unit, Department of Intensive Care and Intermediate Care, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Hyeon C, Thirumalai D. Generalized iterative annealing model for the action of RNA chaperones. J Chem Phys 2014; 139:121924. [PMID: 24089736 DOI: 10.1063/1.4818594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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As a consequence of the rugged landscape of RNA molecules their folding is described by the kinetic partitioning mechanism according to which only a small fraction (φF) reaches the folded state while the remaining fraction of molecules is kinetically trapped in misfolded intermediates. The transition from the misfolded states to the native state can far exceed biologically relevant time. Thus, RNA folding in vivo is often aided by protein cofactors, called RNA chaperones, that can rescue RNAs from a multitude of misfolded structures. We consider two models, based on chemical kinetics and chemical master equation, for describing assisted folding. In the passive model, applicable for class I substrates, transient interactions of misfolded structures with RNA chaperones alone are sufficient to destabilize the misfolded structures, thus entropically lowering the barrier to folding. For this mechanism to be efficient the intermediate ribonucleoprotein complex between collapsed RNA and protein cofactor should have optimal stability. We also introduce an active model (suitable for stringent substrates with small φF), which accounts for the recent experimental findings on the action of CYT-19 on the group I intron ribozyme, showing that RNA chaperones do not discriminate between the misfolded and the native states. In the active model, the RNA chaperone system utilizes chemical energy of adenosine triphosphate hydrolysis to repeatedly bind and release misfolded and folded RNAs, resulting in substantial increase of yield of the native state. The theory outlined here shows, in accord with experiments, that in the steady state the native state does not form with unit probability.
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- Changbong Hyeon
- School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 130-722, South Korea
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Xu R, Zhang S, Huang J, Zheng C. Genome-wide comparative in silico analysis of the RNA helicase gene family in Zea mays and Glycine max: a comparison with Arabidopsis and Oryza sativa. PLoS One 2013; 8:e78982. [PMID: 24265739 PMCID: PMC3827086 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2013] [Accepted: 09/25/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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RNA helicases are enzymes that are thought to unwind double-stranded RNA molecules in an energy-dependent fashion through the hydrolysis of NTP. RNA helicases are associated with all processes involving RNA molecules, including nuclear transcription, editing, splicing, ribosome biogenesis, RNA export, and organelle gene expression. The involvement of RNA helicase in response to stress and in plant growth and development has been reported previously. While their importance in Arabidopsis and Oryza sativa has been partially studied, the function of RNA helicase proteins is poorly understood in Zea mays and Glycine max. In this study, we identified a total of RNA helicase genes in Arabidopsis and other crop species genome by genome-wide comparative in silico analysis. We classified the RNA helicase genes into three subfamilies according to the structural features of the motif II region, such as DEAD-box, DEAH-box and DExD/H-box, and different species showed different patterns of alternative splicing. Secondly, chromosome location analysis showed that the RNA helicase protein genes were distributed across all chromosomes with different densities in the four species. Thirdly, phylogenetic tree analyses identified the relevant homologs of DEAD-box, DEAH-box and DExD/H-box RNA helicase proteins in each of the four species. Fourthly, microarray expression data showed that many of these predicted RNA helicase genes were expressed in different developmental stages and different tissues under normal growth conditions. Finally, real-time quantitative PCR analysis showed that the expression levels of 10 genes in Arabidopsis and 13 genes in Zea mays were in close agreement with the microarray expression data. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a comparative genome-wide analysis of the RNA helicase gene family in Arabidopsis, Oryza sativa, Zea mays and Glycine max. This study provides valuable information for understanding the classification and putative functions of the RNA helicase gene family in crop growth and development.
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- Ruirui Xu
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Molecular Biology in University of Shandong, Weifang University, Weifang, Shandong, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, P.R. China
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Bol GM, Raman V, van der Groep P, Vermeulen JF, Patel AH, van der Wall E, van Diest PJ. Expression of the RNA helicase DDX3 and the hypoxia response in breast cancer. PLoS One 2013; 8:e63548. [PMID: 23696831 PMCID: PMC3656050 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2012] [Accepted: 04/03/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Aims DDX3 is an RNA helicase that has antiapoptotic properties, and promotes proliferation and transformation. In addition, DDX3 was shown to be a direct downstream target of HIF-1α (the master regulatory of the hypoxia response) in breast cancer cell lines. However, the relation between DDX3 and hypoxia has not been addressed in human tumors. In this paper, we studied the relation between DDX3 and the hypoxic responsive proteins in human breast cancer. Methods and Results DDX3 expression was investigated by immunohistochemistry in breast cancer in comparison with hypoxia related proteins HIF-1α, GLUT1, CAIX, EGFR, HER2, Akt1, FOXO4, p53, ERα, COMMD1, FER kinase, PIN1, E-cadherin, p21, p27, Transferrin receptor, FOXO3A, c-Met and Notch1. DDX3 was overexpressed in 127 of 366 breast cancer patients, and was correlated with overexpression of HIF-1α and its downstream genes CAIX and GLUT1. Moreover, DDX3 expression correlated with hypoxia-related proteins EGFR, HER2, FOXO4, ERα and c-Met in a HIF-1α dependent fashion, and with COMMD1, FER kinase, Akt1, E-cadherin, TfR and FOXO3A independent of HIF-1α. Conclusions In invasive breast cancer, expression of DDX3 was correlated with overexpression of HIF-1α and many other hypoxia related proteins, pointing to a distinct role for DDX3 under hypoxic conditions and supporting the oncogenic role of DDX3 which could have clinical implication for current development of DDX3 inhibitors.
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- Guus M. Bol
- Departments of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht Cancer Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Departments of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht Cancer Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Departments of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht Cancer Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Division of Internal Medicine and Dermatology, University Medical Center Utrecht Cancer Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Departments of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht Cancer Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- MRC, University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Division of Internal Medicine and Dermatology, University Medical Center Utrecht Cancer Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Departments of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht Cancer Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Kang H, Park SJ, Kwak KJ. Plant RNA chaperones in stress response. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2013; 18:100-6. [PMID: 22947615 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2012.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2012] [Revised: 08/02/2012] [Accepted: 08/13/2012] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Post-transcriptional regulation of RNA metabolism is a key regulatory process in diverse cellular processes, including the stress response of plants, during which a variety of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) function as central regulators in cells. RNA chaperones are RBPs found in all living organisms and function by providing assistance to the correct folding of RNA molecules during RNA metabolism. Although our understanding of the role of RNA chaperones in plants is far less advanced than in bacteria, viruses, and animals, recent progress in functional characterization and determination of RNA chaperone activity of several RBPs has shed new light on the emerging roles of RNA chaperones during the stress response of plants.
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- Hunseung Kang
- Department of Plant Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, Korea.
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A genome-wide analysis of the RNA helicase gene family in Solanum lycopersicum. Gene 2012; 513:128-40. [PMID: 23111163 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.10.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2012] [Revised: 09/01/2012] [Accepted: 10/09/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Helicases belong to a class of molecular motor proteins that are found in yeast, animals, and plants. The helicase family is divided into three subfamilies, including the DEAD-box, DEAH-box and DExD/H-box helicases, which are classified based on variations within a common motif, known as motif II. The RNA helicases are involved in every step of RNA metabolism, including nuclear transcription, pre-mRNA splicing, ribosome biogenesis, nucleocytoplasmic transport, translation, RNA decay, and organellar gene expression. The RNA helicase protein family plays a crucial role in plant growth and development as well as in response to biotic and abiotic stresses. However, unlike Arabidopsis, no detailed information regarding the RNA helicase family is currently available for tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) due to a limited number of whole-genome sequences. In this study, we identified a total of 157 RNA helicase genes in the tomato genome. According to the structural features of the motif II region, we classified the tomato RNA helicase genes into DEAD-box, DEAH-box and DExD/H-box helicase genes. But there are 27 RNA helicases not belonging to this three subfamilies, we called that "other helicase". We mapped the 157 RNA helicase genes onto the tomato chromosomes, which range from chr01 to chr12. Microarray and expressed sequence tag data showed that many of these RNA helicase proteins may be involved in diverse biological processes and responses to various stresses. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a genome-wide analysis of the tomato RNA helicase gene family. This study provides valuable information for understanding the classification and putative functions of the RNA helicase gene family in Solanaceae.
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Use of proteomic analysis to elucidate the role of calcium in acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation by Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052. Appl Environ Microbiol 2012; 79:282-93. [PMID: 23104411 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02969-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Calcium carbonate increases growth, substrate utilization, and acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation by Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052. Toward an understanding of the basis for these pleiotropic effects, we profiled changes in the C. beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 proteome that occur in response to the addition of CaCO(3). We observed increases in the levels of different heat shock proteins (GrpE and DnaK), sugar transporters, and proteins involved in DNA synthesis, repair, recombination, and replication. We also noted significant decreases in the levels of proteins involved in metabolism, nucleic acid stabilization, sporulation, oxidative and antibiotic stress responses, and signal transduction. We determined that CaCO(3) enhances ABE fermentation due to both its buffering effects and its ability to influence key cellular processes, such as sugar transport, butanol tolerance, and solventogenesis. Moreover, activity assays in vitro for select solventogenic enzymes revealed that part of the underpinning for the CaCO(3)-mediated increase in the level of ABE fermentation stems from the enhanced activity of these catalysts in the presence of Ca(2+). Collectively, these proteomic and biochemical studies provide new insights into the multifactorial basis for the stimulation of ABE fermentation and butanol tolerance in the presence of CaCO(3).
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Wagner M, Rid R, Maier CJ, Maier RH, Laimer M, Hintner H, Bauer JW, Onder K. DDX5 is a multifunctional co-activator of steroid hormone receptors. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2012; 361:80-91. [PMID: 22476084 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2012.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2011] [Revised: 02/02/2012] [Accepted: 03/20/2012] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The vitamin D receptor (VDR), an evolutionarily conserved member of the nuclear receptor superfamily, links the metabolically activated vitamin D ligand, calcitriol, with its vitamin D-responsive target genes that are implicated in diverse physiological processes. By genome-wide protein-protein interaction screening of a keratinocyte cDNA library using VDR as bait, we found that the DEAD box RNA helicase p68, also referred to as DDX5, directly interacts with VDR. Domain analysis reveals that the ligand-binding domain of VDR is responsible for the binding, an interaction typical of NR co-activators. Interestingly, the VDR interacting domain of DDX5 lacks a LXXLL-motif and interaction analysis of helix 12 VDR mutants E420K, E420Q and L417S, known to decrease binding affinity of LxxLL motif-containing co-activators showed no change in their interactions. As further support that this novel interactor might be involved in vitamin D-stimulated transcriptional regulation, we demonstrate that VDR and DDX5 co-localize within the nuclei of HaCaT keratinocytes and sub-cellular protein fractions. In vivo validation studies demonstrate, that overexpression of DDX5 has the capability to enhance both, calcitriol-dependent transcription of known response genes and an extrachromosomal DR3-type reporter response. In agreement with this, shRNA based knock-down of DDX5 in keratinocytes compensates for this particular response. Finally, our findings reveal parallels between the VDR-DDX5 interaction and the well-characterized interaction between DDX5 and human estrogen receptor α and the androgen receptor, thus underscoring the physiological significance of the novel protein-protein interaction.
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- Martin Wagner
- Division of Molecular Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, Paracelsus Medical University (PMU), Salzburg, Austria.
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Godet J, Boudier C, Humbert N, Ivanyi-Nagy R, Darlix JL, Mély Y. Comparative nucleic acid chaperone properties of the nucleocapsid protein NCp7 and Tat protein of HIV-1. Virus Res 2012; 169:349-60. [PMID: 22743066 PMCID: PMC7114403 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2012.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2012] [Revised: 06/18/2012] [Accepted: 06/19/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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RNA chaperones are proteins able to rearrange nucleic acid structures towards their most stable conformations. In retroviruses, the reverse transcription of the viral RNA requires multiple and complex nucleic acid rearrangements that need to be chaperoned. HIV-1 has evolved different viral-encoded proteins with chaperone activity, notably Tat and the well described nucleocapsid protein NCp7. We propose here an overview of the recent reports that examine and compare the nucleic acid chaperone properties of Tat and NCp7 during reverse transcription to illustrate the variety of mechanisms of action of the nucleic acid chaperone proteins.
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- Julien Godet
- Laboratoire de Biophotonique et Pharmacologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, UMR 7213 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 67401 Illkirch, France
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RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) exert many roles in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in eukaryotic cells. However, our understanding of how they recognize their target RNAs in vivo remains limited. In the January 1, 2012, issue of Genes & Development, Patel and colleagues (p. 43-53) provide detailed mechanistic insights into how one of the best-studied RBPs, zipcode-binding protein 1 (ZBP1), recognizes a bipartite RNA sequence element within the β-actin mRNA.
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- Michael Doyle
- Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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DEAD-box proteins are vitally important to cellular processes and make up the largest class of helicases. Many DEAD-box proteins function as RNA chaperones by accelerating structural transitions of RNA, which can result in the resolution of misfolded conformers or conversion between functional structures. While the biological importance of chaperone proteins is clear, their mechanisms are incompletely understood. Here, we illustrate how the catalytic activity of certain RNAs can be used to measure RNA chaperone activity. By measuring the amount of substrate converted to product, the fraction of catalytically active molecules is measured over time, providing a quantitative measure of the formation or loss of native RNA. The assays are described with references to group I and group II introns and their ribozyme derivatives, and examples are included that illustrate potential complications and indicate how catalytic activity measurements can be combined with physical approaches to gain insights into the mechanisms of DEAD-box proteins as RNA chaperones.
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Potratz JP, Campo MD, Wolf RZ, Lambowitz AM, Russell R. ATP-dependent roles of the DEAD-box protein Mss116p in group II intron splicing in vitro and in vivo. J Mol Biol 2011; 411:661-79. [PMID: 21679717 PMCID: PMC3146569 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.05.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2011] [Revised: 05/24/2011] [Accepted: 05/28/2011] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The yeast DEAD-box protein Mss116p functions as a general RNA chaperone in splicing mitochondrial group I and group II introns. For most of its functions, Mss116p is thought to use ATP-dependent RNA unwinding to facilitate RNA structural transitions, but it has been suggested to assist in the folding of one group II intron (aI5γ) primarily by stabilizing a folding intermediate. Here we compare three aI5γ constructs: one with long exons, one with short exons, and a ribozyme construct lacking exons. The long exons result in slower splicing, suggesting that they misfold and/or stabilize nonnative intronic structures. Nevertheless, Mss116p acceleration of all three constructs depends on ATP and is inhibited by mutations that compromise RNA unwinding, suggesting similar mechanisms. Results of splicing assays and a new two-stage assay that separates ribozyme folding and catalysis indicate that maximal folding of all three constructs by Mss116p requires ATP-dependent RNA unwinding. ATP-independent activation is appreciable for only a subpopulation of the minimal ribozyme construct and not for constructs containing exons. As expected for a general RNA chaperone, Mss116p can also disrupt the native ribozyme, which can refold after Mss116p removal. Finally, using yeast strains with mitochondrial DNA containing only the single intron aI5γ, we show that Mss116p mutants promote splicing in vivo to degrees that correlate with their residual ATP-dependent RNA-unwinding activities. Together, our results indicate that, although DEAD-box proteins play multiple roles in RNA folding, the physiological function of Mss116p in aI5γ splicing includes a requirement for ATP-dependent local unfolding, allowing the conversion of nonfunctional RNA structure into functional RNA structure.
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- Jeffrey P. Potratz
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
- Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
- Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
- Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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Rehman S, Ashfaq UA, Javed T. Antiviral drugs against hepatitis C virus. GENETIC VACCINES AND THERAPY 2011; 9:11. [PMID: 21699699 PMCID: PMC3136400 DOI: 10.1186/1479-0556-9-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2011] [Accepted: 06/23/2011] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major worldwide problem causes acute and chronic HCV infection. Current treatment of HCV includes pegylated interferon-α (PEG IFN- α) plus ribavirin (RBV) which has significant side effects depending upon the type of genotype. Currently, there is a need to develop antiviral agents, both from synthetic chemistry and Herbal sources. In the last decade, various novel HCV replication, helicase and entry inhibitors have been synthesized and some of which have been entered in different phases of clinical trials. Successful results have been acquired by executing combinational therapy of compounds with standard regime in different HCV replicons. Even though, diverse groups of compounds have been described as antiviral targets against HCV via Specifically Targeted Antiviral Therapy for hepatitis C (STAT-C) approach (in which compounds are designed to directly block HCV or host proteins concerned in HCV replication), still there is a need to improve the properties of existing antiviral compounds. In this review, we sum up potent antiviral compounds against entry, unwinding and replication of HCV and discussed their activity in combination with standard therapy. Conclusively, further innovative research on chemical compounds will lead to consistent standard therapy with fewer side effects.
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- Sidra Rehman
- Division of Molecular Medicine, National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Division of Molecular Medicine, National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Division of Molecular Medicine, National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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Xu RR, Qi SD, Lu LT, Chen CT, Wu CA, Zheng CC. A DExD/H box RNA helicase is important for K+ deprivation responses and tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. FEBS J 2011; 278:2296-306. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08147.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Gustafson EA, Wessel GM. Vasa genes: emerging roles in the germ line and in multipotent cells. Bioessays 2011; 32:626-37. [PMID: 20586054 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Sexually reproducing metazoans establish a cell lineage during development that is ultimately dedicated to gamete production. Work in a variety of animals suggests that a group of conserved molecular determinants act in this germ line maintenance and function. The most universal of these genes are Vasa and Vasa-like DEAD-box RNA helicase genes. However, recent evidence indicates that Vasa genes also function in other cell types, distinct from the germ line. Here we evaluate our current understanding of Vasa function and its regulation during development, addressing Vasa's emerging role in multipotent cells. We also explore the evolutionary diversification of the N-terminal domain of this gene and how this impacts the association of Vasa with nuage-like perinuclear structures.
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- Eric A Gustafson
- Providence Institute of Molecular Oogenesis Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry Brown University Providence, RI 02912, USA
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Azizoglu RO, Kathariou S. Inactivation of a cold-induced putative rna helicase gene of Listeria monocytogenes is accompanied by failure to grow at low temperatures but does not affect freeze-thaw tolerance. J Food Prot 2010; 73:1474-9. [PMID: 20819357 DOI: 10.4315/0362-028x-73.8.1474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Freeze-thaw tolerance (cryotolerance) of Listeria monocytogenes is markedly influenced by temperature of growth of the bacteria, and may involve responses to low-temperature stresses encountered during freezing and thawing. A cold-sensitive mariner-based transposon mutant of L. monocytogenes F2365 was found to harbor a single insertion in LMOf2365_1746, encoding a putative RNA helicase, and earlier shown by other investigators to be induced during 4 degrees C growth of L. monocytogenes. The mutant had normal growth at 37 degrees C but completely failed to grow at either 4 or 10 degrees C, and had impaired growth and reduced swarming on soft agar at 25 degrees C. However, the mutation had no discernible influence on the ability of the bacteria to tolerate repeated freezing and thawing after growth at either 25 or 37 degrees C. The findings suggest that the transposon insertion in the putative helicase gene, in spite of the severely cold-sensitive phenotype that accompanies it, does not affect the ability of the bacteria to cope with cold-related stresses encountered during repeated freezing and thawing.
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- Reha O Azizoglu
- Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA
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