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Madsen CD, Hein J, Workman CT. Systematic inference of indirect transcriptional regulation by protein kinases and phosphatases. PLoS Comput Biol 2022; 18:e1009414. [PMID: 35731801 PMCID: PMC9255832 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2021] [Revised: 07/05/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Gene expression is controlled by pathways of regulatory factors often involving the activity of protein kinases on transcription factor proteins. Despite this well established mechanism, the number of well described pathways that include the regulatory role of protein kinases on transcription factors is surprisingly scarce in eukaryotes.
To address this, PhosTF was developed to infer functional regulatory interactions and pathways in both simulated and real biological networks, based on linear cyclic causal models with latent variables. GeneNetWeaverPhos, an extension of GeneNetWeaver, was developed to allow the simulation of perturbations in known networks that included the activity of protein kinases and phosphatases on gene regulation. Over 2000 genome-wide gene expression profiles, where the loss or gain of regulatory genes could be observed to perturb gene regulation, were then used to infer the existence of regulatory interactions, and their mode of regulation in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Despite the additional complexity, our inference performed comparably to the best methods that inferred transcription factor regulation assessed in the DREAM4 challenge on similar simulated networks. Inference on integrated genome-scale data sets for yeast identified ∼ 8800 protein kinase/phosphatase-transcription factor interactions and ∼ 6500 interactions among protein kinases and/or phosphatases. Both types of regulatory predictions captured statistically significant numbers of known interactions of their type. Surprisingly, kinases and phosphatases regulated transcription factors by a negative mode or regulation (deactivation) in over 70% of the predictions.
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- Christian Degnbol Madsen
- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Hopper AK, Nostramo RT. tRNA Processing and Subcellular Trafficking Proteins Multitask in Pathways for Other RNAs. Front Genet 2019; 10:96. [PMID: 30842788 PMCID: PMC6391926 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Accepted: 01/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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This article focuses upon gene products that are involved in tRNA biology, with particular emphasis upon post-transcriptional RNA processing and nuclear-cytoplasmic subcellular trafficking. Rather than analyzing these proteins solely from a tRNA perspective, we explore the many overlapping functions of the processing enzymes and proteins involved in subcellular traffic. Remarkably, there are numerous examples of conserved gene products and RNP complexes involved in tRNA biology that multitask in a similar fashion in the production and/or subcellular trafficking of other RNAs, including small structured RNAs such as snRNA, snoRNA, 5S RNA, telomerase RNA, and SRP RNA as well as larger unstructured RNAs such as mRNAs and RNA-protein complexes such as ribosomes. Here, we provide examples of steps in tRNA biology that are shared with other RNAs including those catalyzed by enzymes functioning in 5' end-processing, pseudoU nucleoside modification, and intron splicing as well as steps regulated by proteins functioning in subcellular trafficking. Such multitasking highlights the clever mechanisms cells employ for maximizing their genomes.
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- Anita K Hopper
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for RNA Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for RNA Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
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Chatterjee K, Nostramo RT, Wan Y, Hopper AK. tRNA dynamics between the nucleus, cytoplasm and mitochondrial surface: Location, location, location. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2018; 1861:373-386. [PMID: 29191733 PMCID: PMC5882565 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2017.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2017] [Revised: 11/19/2017] [Accepted: 11/23/2017] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Although tRNAs participate in the essential function of protein translation in the cytoplasm, tRNA transcription and numerous processing steps occur in the nucleus. This subcellular separation between tRNA biogenesis and function requires that tRNAs be efficiently delivered to the cytoplasm in a step termed "primary tRNA nuclear export". Surprisingly, tRNA nuclear-cytoplasmic traffic is not unidirectional, but, rather, movement is bidirectional. Cytoplasmic tRNAs are imported back to the nucleus by the "tRNA retrograde nuclear import" step which is conserved from budding yeast to vertebrate cells and has been hijacked by viruses, such as HIV, for nuclear import of the viral reverse transcription complex in human cells. Under appropriate environmental conditions cytoplasmic tRNAs that have been imported into the nucleus return to the cytoplasm via the 3rd nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling step termed "tRNA nuclear re-export", that again is conserved from budding yeast to vertebrate cells. We describe the 3 steps of tRNA nuclear-cytoplasmic movements and their regulation. There are multiple tRNA nuclear export and import pathways. The different tRNA nuclear exporters appear to possess substrate specificity leading to the tantalizing possibility that the cellular proteome may be regulated at the level of tRNA nuclear export. Moreover, in some organisms, such as budding yeast, the pre-tRNA splicing heterotetrameric endonuclease (SEN), which removes introns from pre-tRNAs, resides on the cytoplasmic surface of the mitochondria. Therefore, we also describe the localization of the SEN complex to mitochondria and splicing of pre-tRNA on mitochondria, which occurs prior to the participation of tRNAs in protein translation. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: SI: Regulation of tRNA synthesis and modification in physiological conditions and disease edited by Dr. Boguta Magdalena.
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- Kunal Chatterjee
- The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Research Center, United States; Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, United States; Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, United States; Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, United States
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- The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Research Center, United States; Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, United States; Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, United States; Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, United States.
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Hu Z, Wang Y, Yu L, Mahanty SK, Mendoza N, Elion EA. Mapping regions in Ste5 that support Msn5-dependent and -independent nuclear export. Biochem Cell Biol 2016; 94:109-28. [PMID: 26824509 DOI: 10.1139/bcb-2015-0101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Careful control of the available pool of the MAPK scaffold Ste5 is important for mating-pathway activation and the prevention of inappropriate mating differentiation in haploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Ste5 shuttles constitutively through the nucleus, where it is degraded by a ubiquitin-dependent mechanism triggered by G1 CDK phosphorylation. Here we narrow-down regions of Ste5 that mediate nuclear export. Four regions in Ste5 relocalize SV40-TAgNLS-GFP-GFP from nucleus to cytoplasm. One region is N-terminal, dependent on exportin Msn5/Ste21/Kap142, and interacts with Msn5 in 2 hybrid assays independently of mating pheromone, Fus3, Kss1, Ptc1, the NLS/PM, and RING-H2. A second region overlaps the PH domain and Ste11 binding site and 2 others are on the vWA domain and include residues essential for MAPK activation. We find no evidence for dependence on Crm1/Xpo1, despite numerous potential nuclear export sequences (NESs) detected by LocNES and NetNES1.1 predictors. Thus, Msn5 (homolog of human Exportin-5) and one or more exportins or adaptor molecules besides Crm1/Xpo1 may regulate Ste5 through multiple recognition sites.
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- Zhenhua Hu
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Huang HY, Hopper AK. In vivo biochemical analyses reveal distinct roles of β-importins and eEF1A in tRNA subcellular traffic. Genes Dev 2015; 29:772-83. [PMID: 25838545 PMCID: PMC4387718 DOI: 10.1101/gad.258293.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Huang et al. developed in vivo β-importin complex co-IP assays to study the interactions of β-importins with tRNAs. Los1 (exportin-t) interacts with both unspliced and spliced tRNAs. In contrast, Msn5 (exportin-5) primarily interacts with spliced aminoacylated tRNAs. They demonstrate that Tef1/2 assembles with Msn5–tRNA complexes in a RanGTP-dependent manner. Bidirectional tRNA movement between the nucleus and the cytoplasm serves multiple biological functions. To gain a biochemical understanding of the mechanisms for tRNA subcellular dynamics, we developed in vivo β-importin complex coimmunoprecipitation (co-IP) assays using budding yeast. Our studies provide the first in vivo biochemical evidence that two β-importin family members, Los1 (exportin-t) and Msn5 (exportin-5), serve overlapping but distinct roles in tRNA nuclear export. Los1 assembles complexes with RanGTP and tRNA. Both intron-containing pre-tRNAs and spliced tRNAs, regardless of whether they are aminoacylated, assemble into Los1–RanGTP complexes, documenting that Los1 participates in both primary nuclear export and re-export of tRNAs to the cytoplasm. In contrast, β-importin Msn5 preferentially assembles with RanGTP and spliced, aminoacylated tRNAs, documenting its role in tRNA nuclear re-export. Tef1/2 (the yeast form of translation elongation factor 1α [eEF1A]) aids the specificity of Msn5 for aminoacylated tRNAs to form a quaternary complex consisting of Msn5, RanGTP, aminoacylated tRNA, and Tef1/2. Assembly and/or stability of this quaternary complex requires Tef1/2, thereby facilitating efficient re-export of aminoacylated tRNAs to the cytoplasm.
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- Hsiao-Yun Huang
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Huang HY, Hopper AK. Separate responses of karyopherins to glucose and amino acid availability regulate nucleocytoplasmic transport. Mol Biol Cell 2014; 25:2840-52. [PMID: 25057022 PMCID: PMC4161518 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e14-04-0948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The subcellular distribution of yeast β-importins inverts upon acute glucose deprivation, likely due to collapse of the RanGTP nuclear–cytoplasmic gradient. This redistribution of β-importins likely results in rapid widespread alterations of the traffic of macromolecules between the nucleus and cytoplasm in response to glucose limitation. The importin-β family members (karyopherins) mediate the majority of nucleocytoplasmic transport. Msn5 and Los1, members of the importin-β family, function in tRNA nuclear export. tRNAs move bidirectionally between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Nuclear tRNA accumulation occurs upon amino acid (aa) or glucose deprivation. To understand the mechanisms regulating tRNA subcellular trafficking, we investigated whether Msn5 and Los1 are regulated in response to nutrient availability. We provide evidence that tRNA subcellular trafficking is regulated by distinct aa-sensitive and glucose-sensitive mechanisms. Subcellular distributions of Msn5 and Los1 are altered upon glucose deprivation but not aa deprivation. Redistribution of tRNA exportins from the nucleus to the cytoplasm likely provides one mechanism for tRNA nuclear distribution upon glucose deprivation. We extended our studies to other members of the importin-β family and found that all tested karyopherins invert their subcellular distributions upon glucose deprivation but not aa deprivation. Glucose availability regulates the subcellular distributions of karyopherins likely due to alteration of the RanGTP gradient since glucose deprivation causes redistribution of Ran. Thus nuclear–cytoplasmic distribution of macromolecules is likely generally altered upon glucose deprivation due to collapse of the RanGTP gradient and redistribution of karyopherins between the nucleus and the cytoplasm.
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- Hsiao-Yun Huang
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Center for RNA Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Center for RNA Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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Transfer RNA post-transcriptional processing, turnover, and subcellular dynamics in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2013; 194:43-67. [PMID: 23633143 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.147470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are essential for protein synthesis. In eukaryotes, tRNA biosynthesis employs a specialized RNA polymerase that generates initial transcripts that must be subsequently altered via a multitude of post-transcriptional steps before the tRNAs beome mature molecules that function in protein synthesis. Genetic, genomic, biochemical, and cell biological approaches possible in the powerful Saccharomyces cerevisiae system have led to exciting advances in our understandings of tRNA post-transcriptional processing as well as to novel insights into tRNA turnover and tRNA subcellular dynamics. tRNA processing steps include removal of transcribed leader and trailer sequences, addition of CCA to the 3' mature sequence and, for tRNA(His), addition of a 5' G. About 20% of yeast tRNAs are encoded by intron-containing genes. The three-step splicing process to remove the introns surprisingly occurs in the cytoplasm in yeast and each of the splicing enzymes appears to moonlight in functions in addition to tRNA splicing. There are 25 different nucleoside modifications that are added post-transcriptionally, creating tRNAs in which ∼15% of the residues are nucleosides other than A, G, U, or C. These modified nucleosides serve numerous important functions including tRNA discrimination, translation fidelity, and tRNA quality control. Mature tRNAs are very stable, but nevertheless yeast cells possess multiple pathways to degrade inappropriately processed or folded tRNAs. Mature tRNAs are also dynamic in cells, moving from the cytoplasm to the nucleus and back again to the cytoplasm; the mechanism and function of this retrograde process is poorly understood. Here, the state of knowledge for tRNA post-transcriptional processing, turnover, and subcellular dynamics is addressed, highlighting the questions that remain.
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Genome-wide investigation of the role of the tRNA nuclear-cytoplasmic trafficking pathway in regulation of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae transcriptome and proteome. Mol Cell Biol 2013; 33:4241-54. [PMID: 23979602 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00785-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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In eukaryotic cells, tRNAs are transcribed and partially processed in the nucleus before they are exported to the cytoplasm, where they have an essential role in protein synthesis. Surprisingly, mature cytoplasmic tRNAs shuttle between nucleus and cytoplasm, and tRNA subcellular distribution is nutrient dependent. At least three members of the β-importin family, Los1, Mtr10, and Msn5, function in tRNA nuclear-cytoplasmic intracellular movement. To test the hypothesis that the tRNA retrograde pathway regulates the translation of particular transcripts, we compared the expression profiles from nontranslating mRNAs and polyribosome-associated translating mRNAs collected from msn5Δ, mtr10Δ, and wild-type cells under fed or acute amino acid depletion conditions. Our microarray data revealed that the methionine, arginine, and leucine biosynthesis pathways are targets of the tRNA retrograde process. We confirmed the microarray data by Northern and Western blot analyses. The levels of some of the particular target mRNAs were reduced, while others appeared not to be affected. However, the protein levels of all tested targets in these pathways were greatly decreased when tRNA nuclear import or reexport to the cytoplasm was disrupted. This study provides information that tRNA nuclear-cytoplasmic dynamics is connected to the biogenesis of proteins involved in amino acid biosynthesis.
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Bahassou-Benamri R, Davin AH, Gaillard JC, Alonso B, Odorico M, Pible O, Armengaud J, Godon C. Subcellular localization and interaction network of the mRNA decay activator Pat1 upon UV stress. Yeast 2013; 30:353-63. [PMID: 23847025 DOI: 10.1002/yea.2968] [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] [Received: 10/23/2012] [Revised: 06/07/2013] [Accepted: 07/05/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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To identify nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttle proteins that relocate to the nucleus upon UV stress, we selected 18 targets on the basis of their conservation amongst eukaryotes and their relatively poor functional description. Their relocation was assayed using quantitative nuclear relocation assay (QNR). We focused on Pat1, a component of the cytoplasmic foci called processing bodies (p-bodies), because it had the strongest response to the stress. We verified that Pat1 accumulates in the nucleus after GFP tagging and fluorescence microscopy. Using tandem affinity purification coupled to a mass spectrometry shotgun detection and quantitation approach, we explored the dynamics of Pat1 protein-protein interaction network after UV stress. We have shown that Pat1 co-purifies with Dhh1 specifically upon UV stress. We observed that the nuclear accumulation of Pat1 upon UV stress is abolished in a dhh1∆ strain. These data provide the first evidence that Dhh1 is required for Pat1 nuclear relocation after UV stress.
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Rubio MAT, Hopper AK. Transfer RNA travels from the cytoplasm to organelles. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2011; 2:802-17. [PMID: 21976284 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.93] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) encoded by the nuclear genome are surprisingly dynamic. Although tRNAs function in protein synthesis occurring on cytoplasmic ribosomes, tRNAs can transit from the cytoplasm to the nucleus and then again return to the cytoplasm by a process known as the tRNA retrograde process. Subsets of the cytoplasmic tRNAs are also imported into mitochondria and function in mitochondrial protein synthesis. The numbers of tRNA species that are imported into mitochondria differ among organisms, ranging from just a few to the entire set needed to decode mitochondrially encoded mRNAs. For some tRNAs, import is dependent on the mitochondrial protein import machinery, whereas the majority of tRNA mitochondrial import is independent of this machinery. Although cytoplasmic proteins and proteins located on the mitochondrial surface participating in the tRNA import process have been described for several organisms, the identity of these proteins differ among organisms. Likewise, the tRNA determinants required for mitochondrial import differ among tRNA species and organisms. Here, we present an overview and discuss the current state of knowledge regarding the mechanisms involved in the tRNA retrograde process and continue with an overview of tRNA import into mitochondria. Finally, we highlight areas of future research to understand the function and regulation of movement of tRNAs between the cytoplasm and organelles.
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- Mary Anne T Rubio
- Department of Microbiology and Center for RNA Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Steinberg T, Ziegler N, Alonso A, Kohl A, Müssig E, Proksch S, Schulz S, Tomakidi P. Strain response in fibroblasts indicates a possible role of the Ca(2+)-dependent nuclear transcription factor NM1 in RNA synthesis. Cell Calcium 2011; 49:259-71. [PMID: 21470675 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2011.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2010] [Revised: 02/08/2011] [Accepted: 03/07/2011] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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On the mechanistic level, response of periodontal fibroblasts permanently exposed to mechanical strain forces in vivo still lacks in clarity. Therefore, we first investigated putative strain modulation of proteins by combined 1D gel electrophoresis-based protein profiling and electrospray tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Thereafter, the exponential-modified protein abundance index (emPAI) identified strain modulation of cytoskeleton-associated molecules, including decrease in talin and microtubule-associated protein 4 (MAP4), and significant increase in myosin IC (Myo IC), the latter ones regulated by Ca(2+). These findings were corroborated by western blotting (WB) and indirect immunofluorescence (IIF). Regarding the dual function of Myo IC as actin-based cytoplasmic motor protein and nuclear transcription factor NM1, WB and IIF revealed inverse correlation for Myo IC and NM1. During strain application, cytoplasmic increase of Myo IC was counteracted by nuclear NM1 deprivation, the latter coinciding with a decline in RNA quantity. Independent on strain, cytoplasmic Myo IC and nuclear NM1 abundance could be abrogated by the Ca(2+) channel blocker nifedipine, suggesting Ca(2+) dependency of cytoplasmic and/or nuclear Myo IC/NM1 expression. Mechanistically, we conclude that, application of strain appears as causative for the decline in RNA by impacting NM1, thereby indicating the possible role of NM1 in RNA synthesis.
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- Thorsten Steinberg
- Department of Oral Biotechnology, Dental School, University Hospital Freiburg, Hugstetterstrasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
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tRNA biology has come of age, revealing an unprecedented level of understanding and many unexpected discoveries along the way. This review highlights new findings on the diverse pathways of tRNA maturation, and on the formation and function of a number of modifications. Topics of special focus include the regulation of tRNA biosynthesis, quality control tRNA turnover mechanisms, widespread tRNA cleavage pathways activated in response to stress and other growth conditions, emerging evidence of signaling pathways involving tRNA and cleavage fragments, and the sophisticated intracellular tRNA trafficking that occurs during and after biosynthesis.
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- Eric M Phizicky
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Center for RNA Biology, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York 14642, USA.
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Murthi A, Shaheen HH, Huang HY, Preston MA, Lai TP, Phizicky EM, Hopper AK. Regulation of tRNA bidirectional nuclear-cytoplasmic trafficking in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biol Cell 2009; 21:639-49. [PMID: 20032305 PMCID: PMC2820427 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e09-07-0551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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tRNAs traffic between the nucleus and the cytoplasm in response to nutrient availability. Using a new assay to track tRNA within cells, we show that tRNA nuclear import is constitutive, whereas tRNA reexport to the cytoplasm is regulated. Msn5 functions only in tRNA re-export, whereas Los1 functions in both the primary and reexport steps. tRNAs in yeast and vertebrate cells move bidirectionally and reversibly between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. We investigated roles of members of the β-importin family in tRNA subcellular dynamics. Retrograde import of tRNA into the nucleus is dependent, directly or indirectly, upon Mtr10. tRNA nuclear export utilizes at least two members of the β-importin family. The β-importins involved in nuclear export have shared and exclusive functions. Los1 functions in both the tRNA primary export and the tRNA reexport processes. Msn5 is unable to export tRNAs in the primary round of export if the tRNAs are encoded by intron-containing genes, and for these tRNAs Msn5 functions primarily in their reexport to the cytoplasm. The data support a model in which tRNA retrograde import to the nucleus is a constitutive process; in contrast, reexport of the imported tRNAs back to the cytoplasm is regulated by the availability of nutrients to cells and by tRNA aminoacylation in the nucleus. Finally, we implicate Tef1, the yeast orthologue of translation elongation factor eEF1A, in the tRNA reexport process and show that its subcellular distribution between the nucleus and cytoplasm is dependent upon Mtr10 and Msn5.
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- Athulaprabha Murthi
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Lai TP, Stauffer KA, Murthi A, Shaheen HH, Peng G, Martin NC, Hopper AK. Mechanism and a peptide motif for targeting peripheral proteins to the yeast inner nuclear membrane. Traffic 2009; 10:1243-56. [PMID: 19602197 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2009.00956.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Trm1 is a tRNA specific m(2)(2)G methyltransferase shared by nuclei and mitochondria in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In nuclei, Trm1 is peripherally associated with the inner nuclear membrane (INM). We investigated the mechanism delivering/tethering Trm1 to the INM. Analyses of mutations of the Ran pathway and nuclear pore components showed that Trm1 accesses the nucleoplasm via the classical nuclear import pathway. We identified a Trm1 cis-acting sequence sufficient to target passenger proteins to the INM. Detailed mutagenesis of this region uncovered specific amino acids necessary for authentic Trm1 to locate at the INM. The INM information is contained within a sequence of less than 20 amino acids, defining the first motif for addressing a peripheral protein to this important subnuclear location. The combined studies provide a multi-step process to direct Trm1 to the INM: (i) translation in the cytoplasm; (ii) Ran-dependent import into the nucleoplasm; and (iii) redistribution from the nucleoplasm to the INM via the INM motif. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the Trm1 mitochondrial targeting and nuclear localization signals are in competition with each other, as Trm1 becomes mitochondrial if prevented from entering the nucleus.
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- Tsung-Po Lai
- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Towpik J, Graczyk D, Gajda A, Lefebvre O, Boguta M. Derepression of RNA polymerase III transcription by phosphorylation and nuclear export of its negative regulator, Maf1. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:17168-74. [PMID: 18445601 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m709157200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Maf1 is the global repressor of RNA polymerase III (Pol III) in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Transcription regulation by Maf1 is important under stress conditions and during the switch between fermentation and respiration. Under repressive conditions on nonfermentable carbon sources, Maf1 is dephosphorylated and located predominantly in the nucleus. When cells were shifted to glucose medium, Maf1 became phosphorylated and concomitantly relocated to the cytoplasm. This relocation was dependent on Msn5, a carrier responsible for export of several other phosphoproteins out of the nucleus. Using coimmunoprecipitation, Maf1 was found to interact with Msn5. When msn5-Delta cells were transferred to glucose, Maf1 remained in the nucleus. Remarkably, despite constitutive presence in the nucleus, Maf1 was dephosphorylated and phosphorylated normally in the msn5-Delta mutant, and Pol III was under proper regulation. That phosphorylation of Maf1 and Pol III derepression are tightly linked was shown by studying tRNA transcription in Maf1 mutants with an altered pattern of phosphorylation. In summary, we conclude that phosphorylation of Maf1 inside the nucleus acts both directly by decreasing of Maf1-mediated repression of Pol III and indirectly by stimulation of Msn5 binding and export of nuclear Maf1 to the cytoplasm.
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- Joanna Towpik
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawiñskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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Hopper AK, Shaheen HH. A decade of surprises for tRNA nuclear-cytoplasmic dynamics. Trends Cell Biol 2008; 18:98-104. [PMID: 18262788 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2008.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2007] [Revised: 01/07/2008] [Accepted: 01/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The biosynthesis of tRNA was previously thought to occur solely in the nucleus, with tRNA functioning only in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells. However, recent publications have reported that pre-tRNA splicing can occur in the cytoplasm, that aminoacylation can occur in the nucleus and that tRNA can travel in a retrograde direction from the cytoplasm to the nucleus. Moreover, the subcellular distribution of tRNA seems to serve unanticipated functions in diverse processes, including response to nutrient availability, DNA repair and HIV replication.
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- Anita K Hopper
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University, 484 West 12th Avenue, Room Riffe 800, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Ueta R, Fujiwara N, Iwai K, Yamaguchi-Iwai Y. Mechanism underlying the iron-dependent nuclear export of the iron-responsive transcription factor Aft1p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 18:2980-90. [PMID: 17538022 PMCID: PMC1949351 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e06-11-1054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Aft1p is an iron-responsive transcriptional activator that plays a central role in maintaining iron homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Aft1p is regulated primarily by iron-induced shuttling of the protein between the nucleus and cytoplasm, but its nuclear import is not regulated by iron. Here, we have shown that the nuclear export of Aft1p is promoted in the presence of iron and that Msn5p is the nuclear export receptor (exportin) for Aft1p. Msn5p recognizes Aft1p in the iron-replete condition. Phosphorylation of S210 and S224 in Aft1p, which is not iron dependent, and the iron-induced intermolecular interaction of Aft1p are both essential for its recognition by Msn5p. Mutation of Cys291 of Aft1p to Phe, which causes Aft1p to be retained in the nucleus and results in constitutive activation of Aft1-target genes, disrupts the intermolecular interaction of Aft1p. Collectively, these results suggest that iron induces a conformational change in Aft1p, in which Aft1p Cys291 plays a critical role, and that, in turn, Aft1p is recognized by Msn5p and exported into the cytoplasm in an iron-dependent manner.
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- Ryo Ueta
- *Department of Applied Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka 545-8585, Japan; and
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- *Department of Applied Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka 545-8585, Japan; and
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Kawaguchi, Saitama 322-0012, Japan
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- *Department of Applied Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Kawaguchi, Saitama 322-0012, Japan
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Durchschlag E, Reiter W, Ammerer G, Schüller C. Nuclear localization destabilizes the stress-regulated transcription factor Msn2. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:55425-32. [PMID: 15502160 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m407264200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The transcriptional program of yeast cells undergoes dramatic changes during the shift from fermentative growth to respiratory growth. A large part of this response is mediated by the stress responsive transcription factor Msn2. During glucose exhaustion, Msn2 is activated and concentrated in the nucleus. Simultaneously, Msn2 protein levels also drop significantly under this condition. Here we show that the decrease in Msn2 concentration is due to its increased degradation. Moreover, Msn2 levels are also reduced under chronic stress or low protein kinase A (PKA) activity, both conditions that cause a predominant nuclear localization of Msn2. Similar effects were found in msn5 mutant cells that block Msn2 nuclear export. To approximate the effect of low PKA activity on Msn2, we generated a mutant form with alanine substitutions in PKA phosphorylation sites. High expression of this Msn2 mutant is detrimental for growth, suggesting that the increased degradation of nuclear Msn2 might be necessary to adapt cells to low PKA conditions after the diauxic shift or to allow growth under chronic stress conditions.
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- Erich Durchschlag
- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology and Ludwig Boltzmann Forschungsstelle for Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University and BioCenter of Vienna, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 9/5, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
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Neumann S, Petfalski E, Brügger B, Großhans H, Wieland F, Tollervey D, Hurt E. Formation and nuclear export of tRNA, rRNA and mRNA is regulated by the ubiquitin ligase Rsp5p. EMBO Rep 2003; 4:1156-62. [PMID: 14608372 PMCID: PMC1326418 DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2003] [Revised: 09/15/2003] [Accepted: 09/22/2003] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The yeast ubiquitin-protein ligase Rsp5p regulates processes as diverse as polII transcription and endocytosis. Here, we identify Rsp5p in a screen for tRNA export (tex) mutants. The tex23-1/rsp5-3 mutant, which is complemented by RSP5, not only shows a strong nuclear accumulation of tRNAs at the restrictive temperature, but also is severely impaired in the nuclear export of mRNAs and 60S pre-ribosomal subunits. In contrast, nuclear localization sequence (NLS)-mediated nuclear protein import is unaffected in this mutant. Strikingly, the nuclear RNA export defects seen in the rsp5-3 strain are accompanied by a dramatic inhibition of both rRNA and tRNA processing, a combination of phenotypes that has not been reported for any previously characterized mutation in yeast. These data implicate ubiquitination as a mechanism coordinating the major nuclear RNA biogenesis pathways.
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- Silvia Neumann
- Biochemie-Zentrum Heidelberg (BZH),
Im Neuenheimer Feld 328, D-69120
Heidelberg, Germany
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR,
UK
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- Biochemie-Zentrum Heidelberg (BZH),
Im Neuenheimer Feld 328, D-69120
Heidelberg, Germany
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- Biochemie-Zentrum Heidelberg (BZH),
Im Neuenheimer Feld 328, D-69120
Heidelberg, Germany
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- Biochemie-Zentrum Heidelberg (BZH),
Im Neuenheimer Feld 328, D-69120
Heidelberg, Germany
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR,
UK
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- Biochemie-Zentrum Heidelberg (BZH),
Im Neuenheimer Feld 328, D-69120
Heidelberg, Germany
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- Christoph Schüller
- Vienna Biocenter, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, University of Vienna, Ludwig Boltzmann-Forschungsstelle für Biochemie, Wien, Austria
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Weis K. Identification, analysis, and use of nuclear export signals in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Methods Enzymol 2001; 327:297-304. [PMID: 11044992 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(00)27285-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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- K Weis
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley 94720-3200, USA
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Sommer T, Jarosch E, Lenk U. Compartment-specific functions of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol 2001; 142:97-160. [PMID: 11190579 DOI: 10.1007/bfb0117492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- T Sommer
- Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13092 Berlin, Germany
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Delahodde A, Pandjaitan R, Corral-Debrinski M, Jacq C. Pse1/Kap121-dependent nuclear localization of the major yeast multidrug resistance (MDR) transcription factor Pdr1. Mol Microbiol 2001; 39:304-12. [PMID: 11136452 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02182.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Pdr1 and Pdr3 are two very similar transcription factors that mainly control membrane biogenesis by adjusting the production of different membrane proteins, such as different ABC or major facilitator superfamily (MFS) transporters. We observed that the pse1-1 mutation in the importin/beta-karyopherin Pse1/Kap121 specifically induced the cytoplasmic localization of Pdr1, but not that of Pdr3. Interactions between Pse1 and Pdr1 could be observed in vivo, and a short peptide of 44 amino acids from Pdr1 was shown to contain the information necessary and sufficient for Pse1-dependent nuclear import. This Pdr1-NLS sequence, absent in Pdr3, although rich in serine and tyrosine, is different from the Pse1-dependent nuclear localization signal (NLS) of Pho4. Furthermore, we showed that Pse1/Kap121 is likely to be the sole import receptor for the regulator Pdr1. Together, these new observations underscore the diversity of cellular processes that address to the nucleus two very similar transcription factors involved in the control of the same phenotype, thus securing their function in the cell.
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- A Delahodde
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, UMR 8541, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Prüfer K, Racz A, Lin GC, Barsony J. Dimerization with retinoid X receptors promotes nuclear localization and subnuclear targeting of vitamin D receptors. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:41114-23. [PMID: 11001945 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m003791200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The vitamin D receptor (VDR) acts as heterodimer with the retinoid X receptor alpha (RXR) to control transcriptional activity of target genes. To explore the influence of heterodimerization on the subcellular distribution of these receptors in living cells, we developed a series of fluorescent-protein chimeras. The steady-state distribution of the yellow fluorescent protein-RXR was more nuclear than the unliganded green fluorescent protein (GFP)-VDR. Coexpression of RXR-blue fluorescent protein (BFP) promoted nuclear accumulation of GFP-VDR by influencing both nuclear import and retention. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer microscopy (FRET) demonstrated that the unliganded GFP-VDR and RXR-BFP form heterodimers. The increase in nuclear heterodimer content correlated with an increase in basal transcriptional activity. FRET also revealed that calcitriol induces formation of multiple nuclear foci of heterodimers. Mutational analysis showed a correlation between hormone-dependent nuclear VDR foci formation and DNA binding. RXR-BFP also promoted hormone-dependent nuclear accumulation and intranuclear foci formation of a nuclear localization signal mutant receptor (nlsGFP-VDR) and rescued its transcriptional activity. Heterodimerization mutant RXR failed to alter GFP-VDR and nlsGFP-VDR distribution or activity. These experiments suggest that RXR has a profound effect on VDR distribution. This effect of RXR to promote nuclear accumulation and intranuclear targeting contributes to the regulation of VDR activity and probably the activity of other heterodimerization partners.
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- K Prüfer
- Laboratory of Cell Biochemistry and Biology, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Liu CJ, Wang H, Zhao Z, Yu S, Lu YB, Meyer J, Chatterjee G, Deschamps S, Roe BA, Lengyel P. MyoD-dependent induction during myoblast differentiation of p204, a protein also inducible by interferon. Mol Cell Biol 2000; 20:7024-36. [PMID: 10958697 PMCID: PMC88777 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.20.18.7024-7036.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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p204, an interferon-inducible p200 family protein, inhibits rRNA synthesis in fibroblasts by blocking the binding of the upstream binding factor transcription factor to DNA. Here we report that among 10 adult mouse tissues tested, the level of p204 was highest in heart and skeletal muscles. In cultured C2C12 skeletal muscle myoblasts, p204 was nucleoplasmic and its level was low. During myoblast fusion this level strongly increased, p204 became phosphorylated, and the bulk of p204 appeared in the cytoplasm of the myotubes. Leptomycin B, an inhibitor of nuclear export that blocked myoblast fusion, inhibited the nuclear export signal-dependent translocation of p204 to the cytoplasm. The increase in the p204 level during myoblast fusion was a consequence of MyoD transcription factor binding to several MyoD-specific sequences in the gene encoding p204, followed by transcription. Overexpression of p204 (in C2C12 myoblasts carrying an inducible p204 expression plasmid) accelerated the fusion of myoblasts to myotubes in differentiation medium and induced the fusion even in growth medium. The level of p204 in mouse heart muscle strongly increased during differentiation; it was barely detectable in 10. 5-day-old embryos, reached the peak level in 16.5-day-old embryos, and remained high thereafter. p204 is the second p200 family protein (after p202a) found to be involved in muscle differentiation. (p202a was formerly designated p202. The new designation is due to the identification of a highly similar protein-p202b [H. Wang, G. Chatterjee, J. J. Meyer, C. J. Liu, N. A. Manjunath, P. Bray-Ward, and P. Lengyel, Genomics 60:281-294, 1999].) These results reveal that p204 and p202a function in both muscle differentiation and interferon action.
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- C j Liu
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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Sekito T, Thornton J, Butow RA. Mitochondria-to-nuclear signaling is regulated by the subcellular localization of the transcription factors Rtg1p and Rtg3p. Mol Biol Cell 2000; 11:2103-15. [PMID: 10848632 PMCID: PMC14906 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.11.6.2103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Cells modulate the expression of nuclear genes in response to changes in the functional state of mitochondria, an interorganelle communication pathway called retrograde regulation. In yeast, expression of the CIT2 gene shows a typical retrograde response in that its expression is dramatically increased in cells with dysfunctional mitochondria, such as in rho(o) petites. Three genes control this signaling pathway: RTG1 and RTG3, which encode basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper transcription factors that bind as heterodimer to the CIT2 upstream activation site, and RTG2, which encodes a protein of unknown function. We show that in respiratory-competent (rho(+)) cells in which CIT2 expression is low, Rtg1p and Rtg3p exist as a complex largely in the cytoplasm, and in rho(o) petites in which CIT2 expression is high, they exist as a complex predominantly localized in the nucleus. Cytoplasmic Rtg3p is multiply phosphorylated and becomes partially dephosphorylated when localized in the nucleus. Rtg2p, which is cytoplasmic in both rho(+) and rho(o) cells, is required for the dephosphorylation and nuclear localization of Rtg3p. Interaction of Rtg3p with Rtg1p is required to retain Rtg3p in the cytoplasm of rho(+) cells; in the absence of such interaction, nuclear localization and dephosphorylation of Rtg3p is independent of Rtg2p. Our data show that Rtg1p acts as both a positive and negative regulator of the retrograde response and that Rtg2p acts to transduce mitochondrial signals affecting the phosphorylation state and subcellular localization of Rtg3p.
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- T Sekito
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390-9148, USA
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