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Xavier CAD, Tyson C, Kerner LM, Whitfield AE. RNAi-mediated knockdown of exportin 1 negatively affected ovary development, survival and maize mosaic virus accumulation in its insect vector Peregrinus maidis. INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2024; 33:295-311. [PMID: 38551144 DOI: 10.1111/imb.12910] [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: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 07/10/2024]
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Exportin 1 (XPO1) is the major karyopherin-β nuclear receptor mediating the nuclear export of hundreds of proteins and some classes of RNA and regulates several critical processes in the cell, including cell-cycle progression, transcription and translation. Viruses have co-opted XPO1 to promote nucleocytoplasmic transport of viral proteins and RNA. Maize mosaic virus (MMV) is a plant-infecting rhabdovirus transmitted in a circulative propagative manner by the corn planthopper, Peregrinus maidis. MMV replicates in the nucleus of plant and insect hosts, and it remains unknown whether MMV co-opts P. maidis XPO1 (PmXPO1) to complete its life cycle. Because XPO1 plays multiple regulatory roles in cell functions and virus infection, we hypothesized that RNAi-mediated silencing of XPO1 would negatively affect MMV accumulation and insect physiology. Although PmXPO1 expression was not modulated during MMV infection, PmXPO1 knockdown negatively affected MMV accumulation in P. maidis at 12 and 15 days after microinjection. Likewise, PmXPO1 knockdown negatively affected P. maidis survival and reproduction. PmXPO1 exhibited tissue-specific expression patterns with higher expression in the ovaries compared with the guts of adult females. Survival rate was significantly lower for PmXPO1 knockdown females, compared with controls, but no effect was observed for males. PmXPO1 knockdown experiments revealed a role for PmXPO1 in ovary function and egg production. Oviposition and egg hatch on plants were dramatically reduced in females treated with dsRNA PmXPO1. These results suggest that PmXPO1 is a positive regulator of P. maidis reproduction and that it plays a proviral role in the insect vector supporting MMV infection.
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- Cesar A D Xavier
- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Udi Y, Zhang W, Stein ME, Ricardo-Lax I, Pasolli HA, Chait BT, Rout MP. A general method for quantitative fractionation of mammalian cells. J Cell Biol 2023; 222:213941. [PMID: 36920247 PMCID: PMC10040634 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202209062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Revised: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023] Open
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Subcellular fractionation in combination with mass spectrometry-based proteomics is a powerful tool to study localization of key proteins in health and disease. Here we offered a reliable and rapid method for mammalian cell fractionation, tuned for such proteomic analyses. This method proves readily applicable to different cell lines in which all the cellular contents are accounted for, while maintaining nuclear and nuclear envelope integrity. We demonstrated the method's utility by quantifying the effects of a nuclear export inhibitor on nucleoplasmic and cytoplasmic proteomes.
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- Yael Udi
- Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University , New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University , New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University , New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University , New York, NY, USA
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- Electron Microscopy Resource Center, The Rockefeller University , New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University , New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University , New York, NY, USA
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Hall R, Guedán A, Yap MW, Young GR, Harvey R, Stoye JP, Bishop KN. SARS-CoV-2 ORF6 disrupts innate immune signalling by inhibiting cellular mRNA export. PLoS Pathog 2022; 18:e1010349. [PMID: 36007063 PMCID: PMC9451085 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2022] [Revised: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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SARS-CoV-2 is a betacoronavirus and the etiological agent of COVID-19, a devastating infectious disease. Due to its far-reaching effect on human health, there is an urgent and growing need to understand the viral molecular biology of SARS-CoV-2 and its interaction with the host cell. SARS-CoV-2 encodes 9 predicted accessory proteins, which are presumed to be dispensable for in vitro replication, most likely having a role in modulating the host cell environment to aid viral replication. Here we show that the ORF6 accessory protein interacts with cellular Rae1 to inhibit cellular protein production by blocking mRNA export. We utilised cell fractionation coupled with mRNAseq to explore which cellular mRNA species are affected by ORF6 expression and show that ORF6 can inhibit the export of many mRNA including those encoding antiviral factors such as IRF1 and RIG-I. We also show that export of these mRNA is blocked in the context of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Together, our studies identify a novel mechanism by which SARS-CoV-2 can manipulate the host cell environment to supress antiviral responses, providing further understanding to the replication strategies of a virus that has caused an unprecedented global health crisis.
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- Ross Hall
- Retroviral Replication Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Retroviral Replication Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Retroviral Replication Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Bioinformatics and Biostatistics STP, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- World Influenza Centre, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Retrovirus-Host Interactions Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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- Retroviral Replication Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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Moreno-Oñate M, Herrero-Ruiz AM, García-Dominguez M, Cortés-Ledesma F, Ruiz JF. RanBP2-Mediated SUMOylation Promotes Human DNA Polymerase Lambda Nuclear Localization and DNA Repair. J Mol Biol 2020; 432:3965-3979. [PMID: 32224012 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2020.03.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 03/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cellular DNA is under constant attack by a wide variety of agents, both endogenous and exogenous. To counteract DNA damage, human cells have a large collection of DNA repair factors. Among them, DNA polymerase lambda (Polλ) stands out for its versatility, as it participates in different DNA repair and damage tolerance pathways in which gap-filling DNA synthesis is required. In this work, we show that human Polλ is conjugated with Small Ubiquitin-like MOdifier (SUMO) proteins both in vitro and in vivo, with Lys27 being the main target of this covalent modification. Polλ SUMOylation takes place in the nuclear pore complex and is mediated by the E3 ligase RanBP2. This post-translational modification promotes Polλ entry into the nucleus, which is required for its recruitment to DNA lesions and stimulated by DNA damage induction. Our work represents an advance in the knowledge of molecular pathways that regulate cellular localization of human Polλ, which are essential to be able to perform its functions during repair of nuclear DNA, and that might constitute an important point for the modulation of its activity in human cells.
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- M Moreno-Oñate
- Departamento Bioquímica Vegetal y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa (CABIMER), Universidad de Sevilla/CSIC/Universidad Pablo Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa (CABIMER), Universidad de Sevilla/CSIC/Universidad Pablo Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa (CABIMER), Universidad de Sevilla/CSIC/Universidad Pablo Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, 41092 Sevilla, Spain; Topology and DNA Breaks Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), 28029 Madrid, Spain.
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- Departamento Bioquímica Vegetal y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla; Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa (CABIMER), Universidad de Sevilla/CSIC/Universidad Pablo Olavide/Junta de Andalucía, 41092 Sevilla, Spain.
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Boehringer A, Bowser R. RNA Nucleocytoplasmic Transport Defects in Neurodegenerative Diseases. ADVANCES IN NEUROBIOLOGY 2018; 20:85-101. [PMID: 29916017 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89689-2_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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In eukaryotic cells, transcription and translation are compartmentalized by the nuclear membrane, requiring an active transport of RNA from the nucleus into the cytoplasm. This is accomplished by a variety of transport complexes that contain either a member of the exportin family of proteins and translocation fueled by GTP hydrolysis or in the case of mRNA by complexes containing the export protein NXF1. Recent evidence indicates that RNA transport is altered in a number of different neurodegenerative diseases including Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Alterations in RNA transport predominately fall into three categories: Alterations in the nuclear membrane and mislocalization and aggregation of the nucleoporins that make up the nuclear pore; alterations in the Ran gradient and the proteins that control it which impacts exportin based nuclear export; and alterations of proteins that are required for the export of mRNA leading nuclear accumulation of mRNA.
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- Ashley Boehringer
- Department of Neurobiology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA.,School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
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Hansen MMK, Desai RV, Simpson ML, Weinberger LS. Cytoplasmic Amplification of Transcriptional Noise Generates Substantial Cell-to-Cell Variability. Cell Syst 2018; 7:384-397.e6. [PMID: 30243562 PMCID: PMC6202163 DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2018.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2018] [Revised: 06/14/2018] [Accepted: 08/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Transcription is an episodic process characterized by probabilistic bursts, but how the transcriptional noise from these bursts is modulated by cellular physiology remains unclear. Using simulations and single-molecule RNA counting, we examined how cellular processes influence cell-to-cell variability (noise). The results show that RNA noise is higher in the cytoplasm than the nucleus in ∼85% of genes across diverse promoters, genomic loci, and cell types (human and mouse). Measurements show further amplification of RNA noise in the cytoplasm, fitting a model of biphasic mRNA conversion between translation- and degradation-competent states. This multi-state translation-degradation of mRNA also causes substantial noise amplification in protein levels, ultimately accounting for ∼74% of intrinsic protein variability in cell populations. Overall, the results demonstrate how noise from transcriptional bursts is intrinsically amplified by mRNA processing, leading to a large super-Poissonian variability in protein levels.
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- Maike M K Hansen
- Gladstone|UCSF Center for Cell Circuitry, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Gladstone|UCSF Center for Cell Circuitry, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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- Gladstone|UCSF Center for Cell Circuitry, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
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Dubey A, Copeland PR. The Selenocysteine-Specific Elongation Factor Contains Unique Sequences That Are Required for Both Nuclear Export and Selenocysteine Incorporation. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0165642. [PMID: 27802322 PMCID: PMC5089774 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Selenocysteine (Sec) is a critical residue in at least 25 human proteins that are essential for antioxidant defense and redox signaling in cells. Sec is inserted into proteins cotranslationally by the recoding of an in-frame UGA termination codon to a Sec codon. In eukaryotes, this recoding event requires several specialized factors, including a dedicated, Sec-specific elongation factor called eEFSec, which binds Sec-tRNASec with high specificity and delivers it to the ribosome for selenoprotein production. Unlike most translation factors, including the canonical elongation factor eEF1A, eEFSec readily localizes to the nucleus of mammalian cells and shuttles between the cytoplasmic and nuclear compartments. The functional significance of eEFSec's nuclear localization has remained unclear. In this study, we have examined the subcellular localization of eEFSec in the context of altered Sec incorporation to demonstrate that reduced selenoprotein production does not correlate with changes in the nuclear localization of eEFSec. In addition, we identify several novel sequences of the protein that are essential for localization as well as Sec insertion activity, and show that eEFSec utilizes CRM1-mediated nuclear export pathway. Our findings argue for two distinct pools of eEFSec in the cell, where the cytoplasmic pool participates in Sec incorporation and the nuclear pool may be involved in an as yet unknown function.
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- Aditi Dubey
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rutgers—Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rutgers—Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America
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Shin HR, Islam R, Yoon WJ, Lee T, Cho YD, Bae HS, Kim BS, Woo KM, Baek JH, Ryoo HM. Pin1-mediated Modification Prolongs the Nuclear Retention of β-Catenin in Wnt3a-induced Osteoblast Differentiation. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:5555-5565. [PMID: 26740630 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.698563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The canonical Wnt signaling pathway, in which β-catenin nuclear localization is a crucial step, plays an important role in osteoblast differentiation. Pin1, a prolyl isomerase, is also known as a key enzyme in osteogenesis. However, the role of Pin1 in canonical Wnt signal-induced osteoblast differentiation is poorly understood. We found that Pin1 deficiency caused osteopenia and reduction of β-catenin in bone lining cells. Similarly, Pin1 knockdown or treatment with Pin1 inhibitors strongly decreased the nuclear β-catenin level, TOP flash activity, and expression of bone marker genes induced by canonical Wnt activation and vice versa in Pin1 overexpression. Pin1 interacts directly with and isomerizes β-catenin in the nucleus. The isomerized β-catenin could not bind to nuclear adenomatous polyposis coli, which drives β-catenin out of the nucleus for proteasomal degradation, which consequently increases the retention of β-catenin in the nucleus and might explain the decrease of β-catenin ubiquitination. These results indicate that Pin1 could be a critical target to modulate β-catenin-mediated osteogenesis.
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- Hye-Rim Shin
- From the Departments of Molecular Genetics, School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, BK21 Program, and
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- From the Departments of Molecular Genetics, School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, BK21 Program, and
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- From the Departments of Molecular Genetics, School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, BK21 Program, and
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- From the Departments of Molecular Genetics, School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, BK21 Program, and
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- From the Departments of Molecular Genetics, School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, BK21 Program, and; Periodontology, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 110-749, Korea
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- From the Departments of Molecular Genetics, School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, BK21 Program, and
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- From the Departments of Molecular Genetics, School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, BK21 Program, and
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- From the Departments of Molecular Genetics, School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, BK21 Program, and
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- From the Departments of Molecular Genetics, School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, BK21 Program, and
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- From the Departments of Molecular Genetics, School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, BK21 Program, and.
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Saito N, Sakakibara K, Sato T, Friedman JM, Kufe DW, VonHoff DD, Kawabe T. CBS9106-induced CRM1 degradation is mediated by cullin ring ligase activity and the neddylation pathway. Mol Cancer Ther 2014; 13:3013-23. [PMID: 25253782 DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-14-0064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Chromosome region maintenance 1 (CRM1) mediates the nuclear export of proteins and mRNAs, and is overexpressed in various cancers. Recent studies have also reported that CRM1 protein expression is a negative prognostic factor in patients with cancer. Therefore, CRM1 is considered a potential target for anticancer therapy. Our previous study demonstrated that CBS9106, a synthetic small-molecular inhibitor of CRM1, decreases CRM1 protein through proteasomal degradation without affecting CRM1 mRNA levels. However, the mechanism by which CRM1 is degraded is not well understood. Here, we demonstrate a novel signaling pathway that plays an important role in CBS9106-induced CRM1 degradation. We found that MLN4924, a selective inhibitor of NEDD8-activating enzyme (NAE), effectively inhibits cullin neddylation and attenuates CBS9106-induced CRM1 degradation in a time- and dose-dependent manner. MLN4924 also attenuated CBS9106-induced nuclear accumulation of Ran-binding protein 1 (RanBP1), cell growth inhibition, and apoptosis. Furthermore, RNAi-mediated knockdown of neddylation pathway proteins (NEDD8 and UBA3) or cullin ring ligase (CRL) component protein (Rbx1) attenuated CRM1 protein degradation and G1 phase cell-cycle arrest by CBS9106. Knockdown of CSN5 or CAND1 also partially inhibited CBS9106-induced CRM1 degradation. These findings demonstrate that CBS9106-induced CRM1 degradation is conferred by CRL activity involving the neddylation pathway, and that this response to CBS9106 leads to cell growth inhibition and apoptosis.
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Phoenix, Arizona
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Inoue AH, Serpeloni M, Hiraiwa PM, Yamada-Ogatta SF, Muniz JRC, Motta MCM, Vidal NM, Goldenberg S, Ávila AR. Identification of a novel nucleocytoplasmic shuttling RNA helicase of trypanosomes. PLoS One 2014; 9:e109521. [PMID: 25313564 PMCID: PMC4196910 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2014] [Accepted: 09/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Gene expression in trypanosomes is controlled mostly by post-transcriptional pathways. Little is known about the components of mRNA nucleocytoplasmic export routes in these parasites. Comparative genomics has shown that the mRNA transport pathway is the least conserved pathway among eukaryotes. Nonetheless, we identified a RNA helicase (Hel45) that is conserved across eukaryotes and similar to shuttling proteins involved in mRNA export. We used in silico analysis to predict the structure of Trypanosoma cruzi Hel45, including the N-terminal domain and the C-terminal domain, and our findings suggest that this RNA helicase can form complexes with mRNA. Hel45 was present in both nucleus and cytoplasm. Electron microscopy showed that Hel45 is clustered close to the cytoplasmic side of nuclear pore complexes, and is also present in the nucleus where it is associated with peripheral compact chromatin. Deletion of a predicted Nuclear Export Signal motif led to the accumulation of Hel45ΔNES in the nucleus, indicating that Hel45 shuttles between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. This transport was dependent on active transcription but did not depend on the exportin Crm1. Knockdown of Mex67 in T. brucei caused the nuclear accumulation of the T. brucei ortholog of Hel45. Indeed, Hel45 is present in mRNA ribonucleoprotein complexes that are not associated with polysomes. It is still necessary to confirm the precise function of Hel45. However, this RNA helicase is associated with mRNA metabolism and its nucleocytoplasmic shuttling is dependent on an mRNA export route involving Mex67 receptor.
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- Instituto Carlos Chagas, FIOCRUZ, Curitiba, Brazil
- Departamento de Biologia Celular e Molecular, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Celular e Parasitologia, Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Instituto Carlos Chagas, FIOCRUZ, Curitiba, Brazil
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Fung HYJ, Chook YM. Atomic basis of CRM1-cargo recognition, release and inhibition. Semin Cancer Biol 2014; 27:52-61. [PMID: 24631835 PMCID: PMC4108548 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2014.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2014] [Accepted: 03/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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CRM1 or XPO1 is the major nuclear export receptor in the cell, which controls the nuclear-cytoplasmic localization of many proteins and RNAs. CRM1 is also a promising cancer drug target as the transport receptor is overexpressed in many cancers where some of its cargos are misregulated and mislocalized to the cytoplasm. Atomic level understanding of CRM1 function has greatly facilitated recent drug discovery and development of CRM1 inhibitors to target a variety of malignancies. Numerous atomic resolution CRM1 structures are now available, explaining how the exporter recognizes nuclear export signals in its cargos, how RanGTP and cargo bind with positive cooperativity, how RanBP1 causes release of export cargos in the cytoplasm and how diverse inhibitors such as Leptomycin B and the new KPT-SINE compounds block nuclear export. This review summarizes structure-function studies that explain CRM1-cargo recognition, release and inhibition.
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- Ho Yee Joyce Fung
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 6001 Forest Park, Dallas, TX 75390-9041, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 6001 Forest Park, Dallas, TX 75390-9041, USA.
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Togashi N, Yamashita A, Sato M, Yamamoto M. Functional significance of nuclear export and mRNA binding of meiotic regulator Spo5 in fission yeast. BMC Microbiol 2014; 14:188. [PMID: 25023750 PMCID: PMC4109790 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-14-188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2013] [Accepted: 07/03/2014] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Background Meiotic cells undergo two rounds of nuclear division and generate gametes. Previous studies have indicated that a number of transcription factors modulate the transcriptome in successive waves during meiosis and spore formation in fission yeast. However, the mechanisms underlying the post-transcriptional regulation in meiosis are not fully understood. The fission yeast spo5+ gene encodes a meiosis-specific RNA-binding protein, which is required for the progression of meiosis II and spore formation. However, the target RNA molecules of Spo5 are yet to be identified. Characterization of meiosis-specific RNA-binding proteins will provide insight into how post-transcriptional regulation influence gene expression during sexual differentiation. Results To assess the functional significance of RNA-recognition motifs (RRMs) of Spo5, we constructed a series of new spo5 truncated mutants and previously reported spo5 missense mutants. In addition, we isolated novel spo5 missense mutants. The phenotypic characteristics of these mutants indicated that the RRMs are essential for both the localization and function of the protein. Interestingly, Spo5 is exported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm via the Rae1-dependent mRNA export pathway, but is unlikely to be involved in global mRNA export. Furthermore, cytoplasmic localization of Spo5 is important for its function, which suggests the involvement of Spo5 in post-transcriptional regulation. We identified pcr1+ mRNA as one of the critical targets of Spo5. The pcr1+ gene encodes an activating transcription factor/cAMP response element binding (ATF/CREB) transcription factor family. Among the four family members, namely Pcr1, Atf1, Atf21, and Atf31, only the mRNA encoding Pcr1 binds to Spo5. Conclusions Spo5 is exported from the nucleus with mRNAs via the Rae1-dependent pathway. RRMs are necessary for this process and also for the function of Spo5 after the nuclear export. Spo5 appears to influence the activity of pcr1+ mRNA, and the mechanism of how Spo5 stimulates the mRNA to promote the progression of meiosis II and spore formation remains an intriguing question for future research.
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- Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-kamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan.
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Binding of the rhesus TRIM5α PRYSPRY domain to capsid is necessary but not sufficient for HIV-1 restriction. Virology 2013; 448:217-28. [PMID: 24314652 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2013.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2013] [Revised: 07/11/2013] [Accepted: 10/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The PRYSPRY domain of TRIM5α provides specificity and the capsid recognition motif to retroviral restriction. Restriction of HIV-1 by rhesus TRIM5α (TRIM5αrh) has been correlated to its ability to bind to the HIV-1 core, suggesting that capsid binding is required for restriction. This work explores whether the PRYSPRY domain of TRIM5αrh exhibits an additional function besides binding to the HIV-1 core. Using our recently described structure of the PRYSPRY domain, we performed an exhaustive structure-function study of the surface and interior residues of the PRYSPRY domain. Testing retroviral restriction and capsid binding of an extensive collection of 60 TRIM5αrh PRYSPRY variants revealed that binding is necessary but not sufficient for restriction. In support of this hypothesis, we showed that some human tripartite motif proteins bind the HIV-1 capsid but do not restrict HIV-1 infection, such as human TRIM6 and TRIM34. Overall this work suggested that the PRYSPRY domain serves an unknown function, distinct from the binding of TRIM5αrh to the HIV-1 core, to block HIV-1 infection.
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Caporilli S, Yu Y, Jiang J, White-Cooper H. The RNA export factor, Nxt1, is required for tissue specific transcriptional regulation. PLoS Genet 2013; 9:e1003526. [PMID: 23754955 PMCID: PMC3674997 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2012] [Accepted: 04/08/2013] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The highly conserved, Nxf/Nxt (TAP/p15) RNA nuclear export pathway is important for export of most mRNAs from the nucleus, by interacting with mRNAs and promoting their passage through nuclear pores. Nxt1 is essential for viability; using a partial loss of function allele, we reveal a role for this gene in tissue specific transcription. We show that many Drosophila melanogaster testis-specific mRNAs require Nxt1 for their accumulation. The transcripts that require Nxt1 also depend on a testis-specific transcription complex, tMAC. We show that loss of Nxt1 leads to reduced transcription of tMAC targets. A reporter transcript from a tMAC-dependent promoter is under-expressed in Nxt1 mutants, however the same transcript accumulates in mutants if driven by a tMAC-independent promoter. Thus, in Drosophila primary spermatocytes, the transcription factor used to activate expression of a transcript, rather than the RNA sequence itself or the core transcription machinery, determines whether this expression requires Nxt1. We additionally find that transcripts from intron-less genes are more sensitive to loss of Nxt1 function than those from intron-containing genes and propose a mechanism in which transcript processing feeds back to increase activity of a tissue specific transcription complex.
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- Simona Caporilli
- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Contribution of SUMO-interacting motifs and SUMOylation to the antiretroviral properties of TRIM5α. Virology 2012; 435:463-71. [PMID: 23084420 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2012.09.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2012] [Revised: 08/29/2012] [Accepted: 09/28/2012] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Recent findings suggested that the SUMO-interacting motifs (SIMs) present in the human TRIM5α (TRIM5α(hu)) protein play an important role in the ability of TRIM5α(hu) to restrict N-MLV. Here we explored the role of SIMs in the ability of rhesus TRIM5α (TRIM5α(rh)) to restrict HIV-1, and found that TRIM5α(rh) SIM mutants IL376KK (SIM1mut) and VI405KK (SIM2mut) completely lost their ability to block HIV-1 infection. Interestingly, these mutants also lost the recently described property of TRIM5α(rh) to shuttle into the nucleus. Analysis of these variants revealed that they are unable to interact with the HIV-1 core, which might explain the reason that these variants are not active against HIV-1. Furthermore, NMR titration experiments to assay the binding between the PRYSPRY domain of TRIM5α(rh) and the small ubiquitin-like modifier 1(SUMO-1) revealed no interaction. In addition, we examined the role of SUMOylation in restriction, and find out that inhibition of SUMOylation by the adenoviral protein Gam1 did not alter the retroviral restriction ability of TRIM5α. Overall, our results do not support a role for SIMs or SUMOylation in the antiviral properties of TRIM5α.
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Kurischko C, Kuravi VK, Herbert CJ, Luca FC. Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of Ssd1 defines the destiny of its bound mRNAs. Mol Microbiol 2011; 81:831-49. [PMID: 21762218 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07731.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Mechanisms that control mRNA metabolism are critical for cell function, development and stress response. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae mRNA-binding protein Ssd1 has been implicated in mRNA processing, ageing, stress response and maintenance of cell integrity. Ssd1 is a substrate of the LATS/NDR tumour suppressor orthologue Cbk1 kinase. Previous data indicate that Ssd1 localizes to the cytoplasm; however, biochemical interactions suggest that Ssd1 at least transiently localizes to the nucleus. We therefore explored whether nuclear localization is important for Ssd1 cytoplasmic functions. We identified a functional NLS in the N-terminal domain of Ssd1. An Ssd1-derived NLS-GFP fusion protein and several C-terminally truncated Ssd1 proteins, which presumably lack nuclear export sequences, accumulate in the nucleus. Alanine substitution of the Ssd1 NLS prevents Ssd1 nuclear entry, mRNA binding and disrupts Srl1 mRNA localization. Moreover, Ssd1-NLS mutations abolish Ssd1 toxicity in the absence of Cbk1 phosphorylation and cause Ssd1 to localize prominently to cytoplasmic puncta. These data indicate that nuclear shuttling is critical for Ssd1 mRNA binding and Ssd1-mRNA localization in the cytoplasm. Collectively these data support the model that Ssd1 functions analogously to hnRNPs, which bind mRNA co-transcriptionally, are exported to the cytoplasm and target mRNAs to sites of localized translation and P-bodies.
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- Cornelia Kurischko
- Department of Animal Biology and Mari Lowe Center for Comparative Oncology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Diaz-Griffero F, Gallo DE, Hope TJ, Sodroski J. Trafficking of some old world primate TRIM5α proteins through the nucleus. Retrovirology 2011; 8:38. [PMID: 21575157 PMCID: PMC3120760 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-8-38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2011] [Accepted: 05/15/2011] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Background TRIM5α and TRIMCyp are cytoplasmic proteins that bind incoming retroviral capsids and mediate early blocks to viral infection. TRIM5 proteins form cytoplasmic bodies, which are highly dynamic structures. So far, TRIM5 proteins have been found only in the cytoplasm of cells. Interestingly, other proteins from the TRIM family localize to the nucleus. Therefore, we tested the possibility that TRIM5 proteins traffic to the nucleus and the impact of this trafficking on retroviral restriction. Results Here we report that the TRIM5α proteins of two Old World primates, humans and rhesus monkeys, are transported into the nucleus and are shuttled back to the cytoplasm by a leptomycin B-sensitive mechanism. In leptomycin B-treated cells, these TRIM5α proteins formed nuclear bodies that also contained TRIM19 (PML). Deletion of the amino terminus, including the linker 1 (L1) region, resulted in TRIM5α proteins that accumulated in nuclear bodies. Leptomycin B treatment of TRIM5α-expressing target cells only minimally affected the restriction of retrovirus infection. Conclusions We discovered the ability of human and rhesus TRIM5α to shuttle into and out of the nucleus. This novel trafficking ability of TRIM5α proteins could be important for an as-yet-unknown function of TRIM5α.
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- Felipe Diaz-Griffero
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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Mor A, Shav-Tal Y. Dynamics and kinetics of nucleo-cytoplasmic mRNA export. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2010; 1:388-401. [PMID: 21956938 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.41] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Activation of the gene expression pathway in eukaryotic cells results in the nuclear transcription of mRNA molecules, many of which are destined for translation into protein by cytoplasmic ribosomes. mRNA transcripts are exported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm via passage through nuclear pore complexes (NPCs), ∼125 MDa supramolecular complexes set in the double-membraned nuclear envelope. Understanding the kinetics of mRNA translocation, from the point of transcription through export, localization, translation, and degradation, is of fundamental interest since gene expression is regulated at all the different levels of this pathway. In this review, we delineate the steps taken by an mRNA molecule in transit to the nuclear envelope and during mRNA export, with specific focus on the dynamic aspects of nucleo-cytoplasmic mRNA transport as revealed by electron microscopy and live-cell imaging.
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- Amir Mor
- The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
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Li XW, Zhu R, Li B, Zhou M, Sheng QJ, Yang YP, Han NY, Li ZQ. Mechanism underlying carbon tetrachloride-inhibited protein synthesis in liver. World J Gastroenterol 2010; 16:3950-6. [PMID: 20712057 PMCID: PMC2923770 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i31.3950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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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AIM: To study the mechanism underlying carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced alterations of protein synthesis in liver.
METHODS: Male Sprague-Dawley rats were given CCl4 (1 mL/100 g body weight) and 3H-leucine incorporation. Malondialdehyde (MDA) level in the liver, in vitro response of hepatocyte nuclei nucleotide triphosphatase (NTPase) to free radicals, and nuclear export of total mRNA with 3’-poly A+ were measured respectively. Survival response of HepG2 cells to CCl4 treatment was assessed by methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium. Km and Vmax values of nuclear envelope NTPase activity in liver of rats treated with CCl4 were assayed by a double-reciprocal plot.
RESULTS: The protein synthesis was inhibited while the MDA level was significantly increased in liver of rats treated with CCl4. In addition, CCl4 decreased the NTPase binding capacity of nuclear envelope (Km value) in cultured HepG2 cells. Moreover, in vitro ferrous radicals from Fenton’s system suppressed the NTPase activity of liver nuclear envelope in a dose-dependent manner. Down-regulation of the nuclear envelope NTPase activity indicated a lower energy provision for nucleocytoplasmic transport of mRNA molecules, an evidence in CCl4-treated HepG2 cells correspondingly supported by the nuclear sequestration of poly (A)+ mRNA molecules in morphological hybridization research.
CONCLUSION: Inhibition of mRNA transport, suggestive of decreased NTPase activity of the nuclear envelope, may be involved in carbon tetrachloride-inhibited protein synthesis in liver.
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P68 RNA helicase is a prototypical DEAD box RNA helicase. The protein plays a very important role in early organ development and maturation. In consistence with the function of the protein in transcriptional regulation and pre-mRNA splicing, p68 was found to predominately localize in the cell nucleus. However, recent experiments demonstrate a transient cytoplasmic localization of the protein. We report here that p68 shuttles between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. The nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of p68 is mediated by two nuclear localization signal (NLS) and two nuclear exporting signal (NES) sequence elements. Our experiments reveal that p68 shuttles via a classical RanGTPase dependent pathway.
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Rossi M, Demidov ON, Anderson CW, Appella E, Mazur SJ. Induction of PPM1D following DNA-damaging treatments through a conserved p53 response element coincides with a shift in the use of transcription initiation sites. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:7168-80. [PMID: 19015127 PMCID: PMC2602757 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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PPM1D (Wip1), a type PP2C phosphatase, is expressed at low levels in most normal tissues but is overexpressed in several types of cancers. In cells containing wild-type p53, the levels of PPM1D mRNA and protein increase following exposure to genotoxic stress, but the mechanism of regulation by p53 was unknown. PPM1D also has been identified as a CREB-regulated gene due to the presence of a cyclic AMP response element (CRE) in the promoter. Transient transfection and chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments in HCT116 cells were used to characterize a conserved p53 response element located in the 5' untranslated region (UTR) of the PPM1D gene that is required for the p53-dependent induction of transcription from the human PPM1D promoter. CREB binding to the CRE contributes to the regulation of basal expression of PPM1D and directs transcription initiation at upstream sites. Following exposure to ultraviolet (UV) or ionizing radiation, the abundance of transcripts with short 5' UTRs increased in cells containing wild-type p53, indicating increased utilization of downstream transcription initiation sites. In cells containing wild-type p53, exposure to UV resulted in increased PPM1D protein levels even when PPM1D mRNA levels remained constant, indicating post-transcriptional regulation of PPM1D protein levels.
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- Matteo Rossi
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Wang W, Cui ZQ, Han H, Zhang ZP, Wei HP, Zhou YF, Chen Z, Zhang XE. Imaging and characterizing influenza A virus mRNA transport in living cells. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:4913-28. [PMID: 18653528 PMCID: PMC2528172 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2008] [Revised: 06/23/2008] [Accepted: 07/08/2008] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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The mechanisms of influenza A virus mRNA intracellular transport are still not clearly understood. Here, we visualized the distribution and transport of influenza A virus mRNA in living cells using molecular beacon (MB) technology. Confocal-FRAP measurements determined that the transport of influenza A virus intronless mRNA, in both nucleus and cytoplasm, was energy dependent, being similar to that of Poly(A)(+) RNA. Drug inhibition studies in living cells revealed that the export of influenza A virus mRNA is independent of the CRM1 pathway, while the function of RNA polymerase II (RNAP-II) may be needed. In addition, viral NS1 protein and cellular TAP protein were found associated with influenza A virus mRNA in the cell nucleus. These findings characterize influenza A virus mRNA transport in living cells and suggest that influenza A virus mRNA may be exported from the nucleus by the cellular TAP/p15 pathway with NS1 protein and RNAP-II participation.
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- Wei Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071 and Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071 and Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071 and Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071 and Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071 and Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071 and Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071 and Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071 and Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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Suzuki T, Tazoe H, Taguchi K, Koyama Y, Ichikawa H, Hayakawa S, Munakata H, Isemura M. DNA microarray analysis of changes in gene expression induced by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells. Biomed Res 2006; 27:99-109. [PMID: 16847355 DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.27.99] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Using a DNA microarray, we analyzed about 16,600 genes for changes in expression associated with the differentiation of human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells induced by 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (DVD). Many of the up-regulated genes could be correlated to differentiation-associated changes toward a monocyte/macrophage lineage, and many down-regulated genes could be correlated to repressed cell growth. The present study revealed the down-regulated gene expression of importins and exportins 1, 5, 7, and exportin-tRNA. Thus, the present results confirmed our previous findings of down-regulation of exportin 1 and exportin-tRNA by DVD. Gene expression of exportin 6 is suggested to be regulated differently from that of exportins 1, 5, 7, and exportin-tRNA. The down-regulation of nuclear transport factors may be deeply associated with the differentiation of HL-60 cells induced by DVD.
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- Takuji Suzuki
- Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry, Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, and COE for the 21th Century, University of Shizuoka, Yada, Japan
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Tokunaga K, Shibuya T, Ishihama Y, Tadakuma H, Ide M, Yoshida M, Funatsu T, Ohshima Y, Tani T. Nucleocytoplasmic transport of fluorescent mRNA in living mammalian cells: nuclear mRNA export is coupled to ongoing gene transcription. Genes Cells 2006; 11:305-17. [PMID: 16483318 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2006.00936.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In eukaryotic cells, export of mRNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm is one of the essential steps in gene expression. To examine mechanisms involved in the nucleocytoplasmic transport of mRNA, we microinjected fluorescently labeled fushi tarazu (ftz) pre-mRNA into the nuclei of HeLa cells. The injected intron-containing ftz pre-mRNA was distributed to the SC35 speckles and exported to the cytoplasm after splicing by an energy-requiring active process. In contrast, the injected intron-less ftz mRNA was diffusely distributed in the nucleus and then presumably degraded. Interestingly, export of the ftz pre-mRNA was inhibited by treatment with transcriptional inhibitors (actinomycin D, alpha-amanitin or DRB). Cells treated with transcriptional inhibitor showed foci enriched with the injected mRNA, which localize side by side with SC35 speckles. Those nuclear foci, referred to as TIDRs (transcriptional-inactivation dependent RNA domain), do not overlap with paraspeckles. In addition, in situ hybridization analysis revealed that the export of endogenous poly(A)+ mRNA is also affected by transcriptional inactivation. These results suggest that nuclear mRNA export is coupled to ongoing gene transcription in mammalian cells.
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- Kazuaki Tokunaga
- Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan
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Suzuki T, Koyama Y, Hayakawa S, Munakata H, Isemura M. 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 suppresses exportin expression in human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells. Biomed Res 2006; 27:89-92. [PMID: 16707848 DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.27.89] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The active form of vitamin D3, 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (DVD), is a potent inducer of cell differentiation and inhibits proliferation of cells such as human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells. In the present study, we examined the effects of DVD on the expression of exportin-1 and exportin-t, which play essential roles in the transport of mRNA and tRNA, respectively. The results of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction indicated that DVD down-regulated the gene expression of these exportins. Western blotting revealed the decreased production of these proteins in DVD-treated cells. Thus, the present findings of decreased expression of exportin-1 and exportin-t induced by DVD can be correlated to inhibition of the proliferation of HL-60 cells.
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- Takuji Suzuki
- Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry, Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, and COE for the 21th Century, University of Shizuoka, Japan
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Zhao J, Jin SB, Wieslander L. CRM1 and Ran are present but a NES-CRM1-RanGTP complex is not required in Balbiani ring mRNP particles from the gene to the cytoplasm. J Cell Sci 2004; 117:1553-66. [PMID: 15020682 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Messenger RNA is formed from precursors known as pre-mRNA. These precursors associate with proteins to form pre-mRNA-protein (pre-mRNP) complexes. Processing machines cap, splice and polyadenylate the pre-mRNP and in this way build the mRNP. These processing machines also affect the export of the mRNP complexes from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. Export to the cytoplasm takes place through a structure in the nuclear membrane called the nuclear pore complex (NPC). Export involves adapter proteins in the mRNP and receptor proteins that bind to the adapter proteins and to components of the NPC. We show that the export receptor chromosomal region maintenance protein 1 (CRM1), belonging to a family of proteins known as importin-beta-like proteins, binds to gene-specific Balbiani ring (BR) pre-mRNP while transcription takes place. We also show that the GTPase known as Ran binds to BR pre-mRNP, and that it binds mainly in the interchromatin. However, we also show using leptomycin B treatment that a NES-CRM1-RanGTP complex is not essential for export, even though both CRM1 and Ran accompany the BR mRNP through the NPC. Our results therefore suggest that several export receptors associate with BR mRNP and that these receptors have redundant functions in the nuclear export of BR mRNP.
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- Jian Zhao
- Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Jang BC, Muñoz-Najar U, Paik JH, Claffey K, Yoshida M, Hla T. Leptomycin B, an inhibitor of the nuclear export receptor CRM1, inhibits COX-2 expression. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:2773-6. [PMID: 12468543 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.c200620200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2, the inducible prostaglandin synthase, is overexpressed in cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases. Post-transcriptional regulation of COX-2 mRNA is important in controlling the expression of the COX-2 gene. Here, we report that leptomycin B (LMB), a specific inhibitor of the nuclear export factor CRM1 potently inhibits the stabilization of COX-2 mRNA in MDA-MB-231 human mammary cancer cells. However, COX-2 promoter-driven reporter gene expression is not inhibited by LMB, suggesting that LMB acts at the post-transcriptional level. Subcellular fractionation experiments indicate that LMB inhibited the time-dependent export of COX-2 mRNA into the membrane-bound polysomal compartment at the endoplasmic reticulum. LMB suppressed COX-2 expression by interleukin-1beta in HT-29 human colon cancer cells and in human umbilical vein endothelial cells but had no effect on COX-2 expression induced by Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide in monocytic THP-1 cells. These data suggest that the nuclear export of COX-2 mRNA may be rate-liming in a cell-specific manner. LMB may be useful to control COX-2 expression in various human diseases in which COX-2 plays a pathogenetic role.
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- Byeong-Churl Jang
- Center for Vascular Biology, Department of Physiology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030-3501, USA
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A central aspect of cellular function is the proper regulation of nucleocytoplasmic transport. In recent years, significant progress has been made in identifying and characterizing the essential components of the transport machinery. Despite these advances, some facets of this process are still unclear. Furthermore, recent work has uncovered novel molecules and mechanisms of nuclear transport. This review focuses on the unresolved and novel aspects of nuclear transport and explores issues in tRNA, snRNA, and mRNA export that highlight the diversity of nuclear transport mechanisms.
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- A Komeili
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA.
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Lischka P, Rosorius O, Trommer E, Stamminger T. A novel transferable nuclear export signal mediates CRM1-independent nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of the human cytomegalovirus transactivator protein pUL69. EMBO J 2001; 20:7271-83. [PMID: 11743003 PMCID: PMC125785 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.24.7271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2001] [Revised: 10/18/2001] [Accepted: 10/26/2001] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The best studied nuclear export processes are mediated by classical leucine-rich nuclear export signals that specify recognition by the CRM1 export receptor. However, details concerning alternative nuclear export signals and pathways are beginning to emerge. Within the family of Herpesviridae, a set of homologous regulatory proteins that are exemplified by the ICP27 of herpes simplex virus were described recently as nucleocytoplasmic shuttling proteins. Here we report that pUL69 of the beta-herpesvirus human cytomegalovirus is a nuclear protein that is able to shuttle between the nucleus and the cytoplasm independently of virus-encoded cofactors. In contrast to proteins containing a leucine-rich export signal, the shuttling activity of pUL69 was not affected by leptomycin B, indicating that pUL69 trafficking is not mediated by the export receptor CRM1. Importantly, we identified and characterized a novel type of transferable, leptomycin B-insensitive export signal that is distinct from other export signals described previously and is required for pUL69-mediated activation of gene expression. These data suggest that pUL69 is exported via a novel nuclear export pathway, based on a so far unique nuclear export signal of 28 amino acids.
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- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie and
Institut für Biochemie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie and
Institut für Biochemie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany Corresponding author e-mail:
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Eckmann CR, Neunteufl A, Pfaffstetter L, Jantsch MF. The human but not the Xenopus RNA-editing enzyme ADAR1 has an atypical nuclear localization signal and displays the characteristics of a shuttling protein. Mol Biol Cell 2001; 12:1911-24. [PMID: 11451992 PMCID: PMC55639 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.12.7.1911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The RNA-editing enzyme ADAR1 (adenosine deaminase that acts on RNA) is a bona fide nuclear enzyme that has been cloned from several vertebrate species. Putative nuclear localization signals (NLSs) have been identified in the aminoterminal regions of both human and Xenopus ADAR1. Here we show that neither of these predicted NLSs is biologically active. Instead, we could identify a short basic region located upstream of the RNA-binding domains of Xenopus ADAR1 to be necessary and sufficient for nuclear import. In contrast, the homologous region in human ADAR1 does not display NLS activity. Instead, we could map an NLS in human ADAR1 that overlaps with its third double-stranded RNA-binding domain. Interestingly, the NLS activity displayed by this double-stranded RNA-binding domain does not depend on RNA binding, therefore showing a dual function for this domain. Furthermore, nuclear accumulation of human (hs) ADAR1 is transcription dependent and can be stimulated by LMB, an inhibitor of Crm1-dependent nuclear export, indicating that hsADAR1 can move between the nucleus and cytoplasm. Regulated nuclear import and export of hsADAR1 can provide an excellent mechanism to control nuclear concentration of this editing enzyme thereby preventing hyperediting of structured nuclear RNAs.
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- C R Eckmann
- Department of Cytology and Genetics, Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
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McKendrick L, Thompson E, Ferreira J, Morley SJ, Lewis JD. Interaction of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4G with the nuclear cap-binding complex provides a link between nuclear and cytoplasmic functions of the m(7) guanosine cap. Mol Cell Biol 2001; 21:3632-41. [PMID: 11340157 PMCID: PMC86986 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.21.11.3632-3641.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
In eukaryotes the majority of mRNAs have an m(7)G cap that is added cotranscriptionally and that plays an important role in many aspects of mRNA metabolism. The nuclear cap-binding complex (CBC; consisting of CBP20 and CBP80) mediates the stimulatory functions of the cap in pre-mRNA splicing, 3' end formation, and U snRNA export. As little is known about how nuclear CBC mediates the effects of the cap in higher eukaryotes, we have characterized proteins that interact with CBC in HeLa cell nuclear extracts as potential mediators of its function. Using cross-linking and coimmunoprecipitation, we show that eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4G (eIF4G), in addition to its function in the cytoplasm, is a nuclear CBC-interacting protein. We demonstrate that eIF4G interacts with CBC in vitro and that, in addition to its cytoplasmic localization, there is a significant nuclear pool of eIF4G in mammalian cells in vivo. Immunoprecipitation experiments suggest that, in contrast to the cytoplasmic pool, much of the nuclear eIF4G is not associated with eIF4E (translation cap binding protein of eIF4F) but is associated with CBC. While eIF4G stably associates with spliceosomes in vitro and shows close association with spliceosomal snRNPs and splicing factors in vivo, depletion studies show that it does not participate directly in the splicing reaction. Taken together the data indicate that nuclear eIF4G may be recruited to pre-mRNAs via its interaction with CBC and accompanies the mRNA to the cytoplasm, facilitating the switching of CBC for eIF4F. This may provide a mechanism to couple nuclear and cytoplasmic functions of the mRNA cap structure.
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- L McKendrick
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, United Kingdom
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Brennan CM, Gallouzi IE, Steitz JA. Protein ligands to HuR modulate its interaction with target mRNAs in vivo. J Cell Biol 2000; 151:1-14. [PMID: 11018049 PMCID: PMC2189805 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.151.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 301] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2000] [Accepted: 08/15/2000] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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AU-rich elements (AREs) present in the 3' untranslated regions of many protooncogene, cytokine, and lymphokine messages target them for rapid degradation. HuR, a ubiquitously expressed member of the ELAV (embryonic lethal abnormal vision) family of RNA binding proteins, selectively binds AREs and stabilizes ARE-containing mRNAs in transiently transfected cells. Here, we identify four mammalian proteins that bind regions of HuR known to be essential for its ability to shuttle between the nucleus and the cytoplasm and to stabilize mRNA: SETalpha, SETbeta, pp32, and acidic protein rich in leucine (APRIL). Three have been reported to be protein phosphatase 2A inhibitors. All four ligands contain long, acidic COOH-terminal tails, while pp32 and APRIL share a second motif: rev-like leucine-rich repeats in their NH(2)-terminal regions. We show that pp32 and APRIL are nucleocytoplasmic shuttling proteins that interact with the nuclear export factor CRM1 (chromosomal region maintenance protein 1). The inhibition of CRM1 by leptomycin B leads to the nuclear retention of pp32 and APRIL, their increased association with HuR, and an increase in HuR's association with nuclear poly(A)+ RNA. Furthermore, transcripts from the ARE-containing c-fos gene are selectively retained in the nucleus, while the cytoplasmic distribution of total poly(A)+ RNA is not altered. These data provide evidence that interaction of its ligands with HuR modulate HuR's ability to bind its target mRNAs in vivo and suggest that CRM1 is instrumental in the export of at least some cellular mRNAs under certain conditions. We discuss the possible role of these ligands upstream of HuR in pathways that govern the stability of ARE-containing mRNAs.
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- C M Brennan
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06536, USA
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