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Yu Q, Wu T, Xu W, Wei J, Zhao A, Wang M, Li M, Chi G. PTBP1 as a potential regulator of disease. Mol Cell Biochem 2023:10.1007/s11010-023-04905-x. [PMID: 38129625 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-023-04905-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/16/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
Abstract
Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein 1 (PTBP1) is a member of the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) family, which plays a key role in alternative splicing of precursor mRNA and RNA metabolism. PTBP1 is universally expressed in various tissues and binds to multiple downstream transcripts to interfere with physiological and pathological processes such as the tumor growth, body metabolism, cardiovascular homeostasis, and central nervous system damage, showing great prospects in many fields. The function of PTBP1 involves the regulation and interaction of various upstream molecules, including circular RNAs (circRNAs), microRNAs (miRNAs) and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). These regulatory systems are inseparable from the development and treatment of diseases. Here, we review the latest knowledge regarding the structure and molecular functions of PTBP1 and summarize its functions and mechanisms of PTBP1 in various diseases, including controversial studies. Furthermore, we recommend future studies on PTBP1 and discuss the prospects of targeting PTBP1 in new clinical therapeutic approaches.
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- Qi Yu
- The Key Laboratory of Pathobiology, Ministry of Education, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130021, Jilin, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Pathobiology, Ministry of Education, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130021, Jilin, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Pathobiology, Ministry of Education, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130021, Jilin, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Pathobiology, Ministry of Education, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130021, Jilin, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Pathobiology, Ministry of Education, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130021, Jilin, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Pathobiology, Ministry of Education, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130021, Jilin, People's Republic of China
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- The Key Laboratory of Pathobiology, Ministry of Education, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130021, Jilin, People's Republic of China.
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- The Key Laboratory of Pathobiology, Ministry of Education, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130021, Jilin, People's Republic of China.
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Liu HL, Lu XM, Wang HY, Hu KB, Wu QY, Liao P, Li S, Long ZY, Wang YT. The role of RNA splicing factor PTBP1 in neuronal development. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2023; 1870:119506. [PMID: 37263298 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2023.119506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2022] [Revised: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Alternative pre-mRNA splicing, which produces various mRNA isoforms with distinct structures and functions from a single gene, is regulated by specific RNA-binding proteins and is an essential method for regulating gene expression in mammals. Recent studies have shown that abnormal change during neuronal development triggered by splicing mis-regulation is an important feature of various neurological diseases. Polypyrimidine tract binding protein 1 (PTBP1) is a kind of RNA-binding proteins with extensive biological functions. As a well-known splicing regulator, it affects the neuronal development process through its involvement in axon formation, synaptogenesis, and neuronal apoptosis, according to the most recent studies. Here, we summarized the mechanism of alternative splicing, structure and function of PTBP1, and the latest research progress on the role of alternative splicing events regulated by PTBP1 in axon formation, synaptogenesis and neuronal apoptosis, to reveal the mechanism of PTBP1-regulated changes in neuronal development process.
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- Hui-Lin Liu
- College of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing 400042, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing 400042, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing 400042, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing 400042, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing 400042, PR China.
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Chu Z, Zhu M, Luo Y, Hu Y, Feng X, Wang H, Sunagawa M, Liu Y. PTBP1 plays an important role in the development of gastric cancer. Cancer Cell Int 2023; 23:195. [PMID: 37670313 PMCID: PMC10478210 DOI: 10.1186/s12935-023-03043-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 09/07/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Polypyrimidine tract binding protein 1 (PTBP1) has been found to play an important role in the occurrence and development of various tumors. At present, the role of PTBP1 in gastric cancer (GC) is still unknown and worthy of further investigation. METHODS We used bioinformatics to analyze the expression of PTBP1 in patients with GC. Cell proliferation related experiments were used to detect cell proliferation after PTBP1 knockdown. Skeleton staining, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy were used to observe the changes of actin skeleton. Proliferation and actin skeleton remodeling signaling pathways were detected by Western Blots. The relationship between PTBP1 and proliferation of gastric cancer cells was further detected by subcutaneous tumor transplantation. Finally, tissue microarray data from clinical samples were used to further explore the expression of PTBP1 in patients with gastric cancer and its correlation with prognosis. RESULTS Through bioinformatics studies, we found that PTBP1 was highly expressed in GC patients and correlated with poor prognosis. Cell proliferation and cycle analysis showed that PTBP1 down-regulation could significantly inhibit cell proliferation. The results of cell proliferation detection related experiments showed that PTBP1 down-regulation could inhibit the division and proliferation of GC cells. Furthermore, changes in the morphology of the actin skeleton of cells showed that PTBP1 down-regulation inhibited actin skeletal remodeling in GC cells. Western Blots showed that PTBP1 could regulate proliferation and actin skeleton remodeling signaling pathways. In addition, we constructed PTBP1 Cas9-KO mouse model and performed xenograft assays to further confirm that down-regulation of PTBP1 could inhibit the proliferation of GC cells. Finally, tissue microarray was used to further verify the close correlation between PTBP1 and poor prognosis in patients with GC. CONCLUSIONS Our study demonstrates for the first time that PTBP1 may affect the proliferation of GC cells by regulating actin skeleton remodeling. In addition, PTBP1 is closely related to actin skeleton remodeling and proliferation signaling pathways. We suppose that PTBP1 might be a potential target for the treatment of GC.
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- Zewen Chu
- The Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Institute of Translational Medicine, Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- The Key Laboratory of Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment of Gastric Cancer of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yangzhou, China
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- The Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Institute of Translational Medicine, Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- The Key Laboratory of Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment of Gastric Cancer of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yangzhou, China
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- The Key Laboratory of Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment of Gastric Cancer of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yangzhou, China
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- The Key Laboratory of Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment of Gastric Cancer of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yangzhou, China
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- The Key Laboratory of Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment of Gastric Cancer of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yangzhou, China
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- The Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China.
- Institute of Translational Medicine, Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China.
- The Key Laboratory of Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment of Gastric Cancer of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yangzhou, China.
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- Department of physiology, School of Medicine, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan.
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- The Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China.
- Institute of Translational Medicine, Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China.
- The Key Laboratory of Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment of Gastric Cancer of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yangzhou, China.
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Palo A, Patel SA, Sahoo B, Chowdary TK, Dixit M. FRG1 is a direct transcriptional regulator of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay genes. Genomics 2023; 115:110539. [PMID: 36521634 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2022.110539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2022] [Revised: 12/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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FRG1 is the primary candidate gene for Fascioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy. So far, its role has been reported in muscle development, vasculogenesis, angiogenesis, and tumorigenesis. Mechanistically studies suggest FRG1's role in RNA biogenesis which may have implications in multiple physiological processes and diseases, including tumorigenesis. Its probable role as hnRNP and association with NMD-related genes prompted us to look into FRG1's effect on NMD gene expression and the mechanism. Using microarray profiling in cell lines, we found that FRG1 altered the mRNA surveillance pathway and associated pathways, such as RNA transport and spliceosome machinery molecules. Multiple sequence alignment of core factors, namely, UPF1, UPF3B, and SMG1, showed conserved stretches of nucleotide sequence 'CTGGG'. Structural modeling followed by EMSA, ChIP-qPCR, and luciferase reporter assays showed 'CTGGG' as a FRG1 binding site. Analysis of the publicly available datasets showed that the expression of FRG1 correlates with NMD genes in different tissue types. We validated the effect of FRG1 on NMD gene transcription by qRT-PCR. Overall, FRG1 might be a transcriptional regulator of NMD genes.
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- Ananya Palo
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, School of Biological Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 752050, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, School of Biological Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 752050, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, School of Biological Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 752050, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, School of Biological Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 752050, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, School of Biological Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 752050, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400094, India.
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Wang Z, Zhou S, Zhao J, Nie S, Sun J, Gao X, Lenahan C, Lin Z, Huang Y, Chen G. Tobacco Smoking Increases Methylation of Polypyrimidine Tract Binding Protein 1 Promoter in Intracranial Aneurysms. Front Aging Neurosci 2021; 13:688179. [PMID: 34295240 PMCID: PMC8292010 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2021.688179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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DNA methylation at the gene promoter region is reportedly involved in the development of intracranial aneurysm (IA). This study aims to investigate the methylation levels of polypyrimidine tract-binding protein 1 (PTBP1) in IA, as well as its potential to predict IA. Forty-eight patients with IA and 48 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were recruited into this study. Methylation levels of CpG sites were determined via bisulfite pyrosequencing. The PTBP1 levels in the blood were determined using a real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test. Significant differences were found between IAs and controls in CpG1 (p = 0.001), CpG2 (p < 0.001), CpG3 (p = 0.037), CpG4 (p = 0.003), CpG5 (p = 0.006), CpG6 (p = 0.02), and mean methylation (p < 0.001). The mRNA level of PTBP1 in the blood was much lower in IAs compared with controls (p = 0.002), and the PTBP1 expression was significantly associated with DNA methylation promoter levels in individuals (r = −0.73, p < 0.0001). In addition, stratification analysis comparing smokers and non-smokers revealed that tobacco smokers had significantly higher levels of DNA methylation in PTBP1 than non-smokers (p = 0.002). However, no statistical difference in PTBP1 methylation was found between ruptured and unruptured IA groups (p > 0.05). The ROC analyses of curves revealed that PTBP1 methylation may be a predictor of IA regardless of sex (both sexes, area under curve (AUC) = 0.78, p < 0.0001; male, AUC = 0.76, p = 0.002; female, AUC = 0.79, p < 0.0001). These findings suggest that long-term tobacco smoke exposure led to DNA methylation in the promoter region of the PTBP1 gene, which further decreased PTBP1 gene expression and participated in the pathogenesis of IA. The methylation of PTBP1 may be a potential predictive marker for the occurrence of IA.
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- Zhepei Wang
- Department of Neurosurgery, Ningbo Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Ningbo, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ningbo Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Ningbo, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ningbo Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Ningbo, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ningbo Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Ningbo, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ningbo Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Ningbo, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ningbo Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Ningbo, China
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- Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, NM, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ningbo Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Ningbo, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ningbo Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Ningbo, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Role of polypyrimidine tract-binding protein 1/yin yang 2 signaling in regulating vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and neointima hyperplasia. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2019; 383:114747. [DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2019.114747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2019] [Revised: 08/22/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Shen K, Kenche H, Zhao H, Li J, Stone J. The role of extracellular matrix stiffness in regulating cytoskeletal remodeling via vinculin in synthetic smooth muscle cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2018; 508:302-307. [PMID: 30502091 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.11.142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2018] [Accepted: 11/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
Vinculin is a key player in sensing and responding to external mechanical cues such as extracellular matrix stiffness. Increased matrix stiffness is often associated with certain pathological conditions including hypertension induced cellular cytoskeleton changes in vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells. However, little is known on how stiffness affects cytoskeletal remodeling via vinculin in VSM cells. Thus, we utilized matrices with elastic moduli that simulate vascular stiffness in different stages of hypertension to investigate how matrix stiffness regulates cell cytoskeleton via vinculin in synthetic VSM cells. Through selecting a suitable reference gene, we found that an increase in physiologically relevant extracellular matrix stiffness (2-50 kPa) downregulates vinculin gene expression but upregulates vinculin protein expression. This discrepancy, which was not observed previously for non-muscle cells, suggests that the vinculin-mediated mecahnotransduction mechanism in synthetic VSM cells may be more complex than those proposed for non-muscle cells. Also adding to previous findings, we found that VSM cell growth may be impeded by substrates that are either too soft or too rigid.
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- Kai Shen
- Department of Chemistry and Forensic Science, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA, 31404, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Forensic Science, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA, 31404, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, 80639, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah, GA, 31404, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Forensic Science, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA, 31404, USA
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Monzón-Casanova E, Screen M, Díaz-Muñoz MD, Coulson RMR, Bell SE, Lamers G, Solimena M, Smith CWJ, Turner M. The RNA-binding protein PTBP1 is necessary for B cell selection in germinal centers. Nat Immunol 2018; 19:267-278. [PMID: 29358707 PMCID: PMC5842895 DOI: 10.1038/s41590-017-0035-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2017] [Accepted: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
Antibody affinity maturation occurs in germinal centres (GC) where B
cells cycle between the light zone (LZ) and the dark zone. In the LZ GC B cells
bearing immunoglobulins with the highest affinity for antigen receive positive
selection signals from T helper cells that promotes their rapid proliferation.
Here we show that the RNA binding protein PTBP1 is necessary for the progression
of GC B cells through late S-phase of the cell cycle and for affinity
maturation. PTBP1 is required for the proper expression of the c-MYC-dependent
gene program induced in GC B cells receiving T cell help and directly regulates
the alternative splicing and abundance of transcripts increased during positive
selection to promote proliferation.
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- Elisa Monzón-Casanova
- Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signaling and Development, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK.,Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signaling and Development, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signaling and Development, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signaling and Development, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signaling and Development, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signaling and Development, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- Molecular Diabetology, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.,Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of the Helmholtz Center Munich at University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Neuherberg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signaling and Development, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK.
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Functional interactions between polypyrimidine tract binding protein and PRI peptide ligand containing proteins. Biochem Soc Trans 2017; 44:1058-65. [PMID: 27528752 DOI: 10.1042/bst20160080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Abstract
Polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTBP1) is a heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) that plays roles in most stages of the life-cycle of pre-mRNA and mRNAs in the nucleus and cytoplasm. PTBP1 has four RNA binding domains of the RNA recognition motif (RRM) family, each of which can bind to pyrimidine motifs. In addition, RRM2 can interact via its dorsal surface with proteins containing short peptide ligands known as PTB RRM2 interacting (PRI) motifs, originally found in the protein Raver1. Here we review our recent progress in understanding the interactions of PTB with RNA and with various proteins containing PRI ligands.
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Insertion of an Alu element in a lncRNA leads to primate-specific modulation of alternative splicing. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2016; 23:1011-1019. [DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2016] [Accepted: 09/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Souii A, Ben M'hadheb-Gharbi M, Gharbi J. Role of RNA structure motifs in IRES-dependent translation initiation of the coxsackievirus B3: new insights for developing live-attenuated strains for vaccines and gene therapy. Mol Biotechnol 2014; 55:179-202. [PMID: 23881360 DOI: 10.1007/s12033-013-9674-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Internal ribosome entry site (IRES) elements are highly structured RNA sequences that function to recruit ribosomes for the initiation of translation. In contrast to the canonical cap-binding, the mechanism of IRES-mediated translation initiation is still poorly understood. Translation initiation of the coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3), a causative agent of viral myocarditis, has been shown to be mediated by a highly ordered structure of the 5' untranslated region (5'UTR), which harbors an IRES. Taking into account that efficient initiation of mRNA translation depends on temporally and spatially orchestrated sequence of RNA-protein and RNA-RNA interactions, and that, at present, little is known about these interactions, we aimed to describe recent advances in our understanding of molecular structures and biochemical functions of the translation initiation process. Thus, this review will explore the IRES elements as important RNA structures and the significance of these structures in providing an alternative mechanism of translation initiation of the CVB3 RNA. Since translation initiation is the first intracellular step during the CVB3 infection cycle, the IRES region provides an ideal target for antiviral therapies. Interestingly, the 5' and 3'UTRs represent promising candidates for the study of CVB3 cardiovirulence and provide new insights for developing live-attenuated vaccines.
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- Amira Souii
- Institut Supérieur de Biotechnologie de Monastir-Université de Monastir, Avenue Tahar Hadded, BP 74, 5000, Monastir, Tunisia
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Mickleburgh I, Kafasla P, Cherny D, Llorian M, Curry S, Jackson RJ, Smith CWJ. The organization of RNA contacts by PTB for regulation of FAS splicing. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:8605-20. [PMID: 24957602 PMCID: PMC4117754 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Post-transcriptional steps of gene expression are regulated by RNA binding proteins. Major progress has been made in characterizing RNA-protein interactions, from high resolution structures to transcriptome-wide profiling. Due to the inherent technical challenges, less attention has been paid to the way in which proteins with multiple RNA binding domains engage with target RNAs. We have investigated how the four RNA recognition motif (RRM) domains of Polypyrimidine tract binding (PTB) protein, a major splicing regulator, interact with FAS pre-mRNA under conditions in which PTB represses FAS exon 6 splicing. A combination of tethered hydroxyl radical probing, targeted inactivation of individual RRMs and single molecule analyses revealed an unequal division of labour between the four RRMs of PTB. RNA binding by RRM4 is the most important for function despite the low intrinsic binding specificity and the complete lack of effect of disrupting individual RRM4 contact points on the RNA. The ordered RRM3-4 di-domain packing provides an extended binding surface for RNA interacting at RRM4, via basic residues in the preceding linker. Our results illustrate how multiple alternative low-specificity binding configurations of RRM4 are consistent with repressor function as long as the overall ribonucleoprotein architecture provided by appropriate di-domain packing is maintained.
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- Ian Mickleburgh
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Downing Site, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Downing Site, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Henry Wellcome Building, University of Leicester, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Downing Site, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK
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- Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Downing Site, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Downing Site, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK
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Joshi A, Esteve V, Buckroyd AN, Blatter M, Allain FHT, Curry S. Solution and crystal structures of a C-terminal fragment of the neuronal isoform of the polypyrimidine tract binding protein (nPTB). PeerJ 2014; 2:e305. [PMID: 24688880 PMCID: PMC3961105 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2014] [Accepted: 02/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The eukaryotic polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB) serves primarily as a regulator of alternative splicing of messenger RNA, but is also co-opted to other roles such as RNA localisation and translation initiation from internal ribosome entry sites. The neuronal paralogue of PTB (nPTB) is 75% identical in amino acid sequence with PTB. Although the two proteins have broadly similar RNA binding specificities and effects on RNA splicing, differential expression of PTB and nPTB can lead to the generation of alternatively spliced mRNAs. RNA binding by PTB and nPTB is mediated by four RNA recognition motifs (RRMs). We present here the crystal and solution structures of the C-terminal domain of nPTB (nPTB34) which contains RRMs 3 and 4. As expected the structures are similar to each other and to the solution structure of the equivalent fragment from PTB (PTB34). The result confirms that, as found for PTB, RRMs 3 and 4 of nPTB interact with one another to form a stable unit that presents the RNA-binding surfaces of the component RRMs on opposite sides that face away from each other. The major differences between PTB34 and nPTB34 arise from amino acid side chain substitutions on the exposed β-sheet surfaces and adjoining loops of each RRM, which are likely to modulate interactions with RNA.
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- Amar Joshi
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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Shibasaki T, Tokunaga A, Sakamoto R, Sagara H, Noguchi S, Sasaoka T, Yoshida N. PTB Deficiency Causes the Loss of Adherens Junctions in the Dorsal Telencephalon and Leads to Lethal Hydrocephalus. Cereb Cortex 2012; 23:1824-35. [DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Keppetipola N, Sharma S, Li Q, Black DL. Neuronal regulation of pre-mRNA splicing by polypyrimidine tract binding proteins, PTBP1 and PTBP2. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 2012; 47:360-78. [PMID: 22655688 DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2012.691456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Alternative splicing patterns are regulated by RNA binding proteins that assemble onto each pre-mRNA to form a complex RNP structure. The polypyrimidine tract binding protein, PTB, has served as an informative model for understanding how RNA binding proteins affect spliceosome assembly and how changes in the expression of these proteins can control complex programs of splicing in tissues. In this review, we describe the mechanisms of splicing regulation by PTB and its function, along with its paralog PTBP2, in neuronal development.
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- Niroshika Keppetipola
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Joshi A, Coelho MB, Kotik-Kogan O, Simpson PJ, Matthews SJ, Smith CWJ, Curry S. Crystallographic analysis of polypyrimidine tract-binding protein-Raver1 interactions involved in regulation of alternative splicing. Structure 2012; 19:1816-25. [PMID: 22153504 PMCID: PMC3420021 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2011.09.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2011] [Revised: 09/20/2011] [Accepted: 09/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB) is an important regulator of alternative splicing. PTB-regulated splicing of α-tropomyosin is enhanced by Raver1, a protein with four PTB-Raver1 interacting motifs (PRIs) that bind to the helical face of the second RNA recognition motif (RRM2) in PTB. We present the crystal structures of RRM2 in complex with PRI3 and PRI4 from Raver1, which—along with structure-based mutagenesis—reveal the molecular basis of their differential binding. High-affinity binding by Raver1 PRI3 involves shape-matched apolar contacts complemented by specific hydrogen bonds, a new variant of an established mode of peptide-RRM interaction. Our results refine the sequence of the PRI motif and place important structural constraints on functional models of PTB-Raver1 interactions. Our analysis indicates that the observed Raver1-PTB interaction is a general mode of binding that applies to Raver1 complexes with PTB paralogues such as nPTB and to complexes of Raver2 with PTB.
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- Amar Joshi
- Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Suckale J, Wendling O, Masjkur J, Jäger M, Münster C, Anastassiadis K, Stewart AF, Solimena M. PTBP1 is required for embryonic development before gastrulation. PLoS One 2011; 6:e16992. [PMID: 21423341 PMCID: PMC3040740 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2010] [Accepted: 01/18/2011] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Polypyrimidine-tract binding protein 1 (PTBP1) is an important cellular regulator of messenger RNAs influencing the alternative splicing profile of a cell as well as its mRNA stability, location and translation. In addition, it is diverted by some viruses to facilitate their replication. Here, we used a novel PTBP1 knockout mouse to analyse the tissue expression pattern of PTBP1 as well as the effect of its complete removal during development. We found evidence of strong PTBP1 expression in embryonic stem cells and throughout embryonic development, especially in the developing brain and spinal cord, the olfactory and auditory systems, the heart, the liver, the kidney, the brown fat and cartilage primordia. This widespread distribution points towards a role of PTBP1 during embryonic development. Homozygous offspring, identified by PCR and immunofluorescence, were able to implant but were arrested or retarded in growth. At day 7.5 of embryonic development (E7.5) the null mutants were about 5x smaller than the control littermates and the gap in body size widened with time. At mid-gestation, all homozygous embryos were resorbed/degraded. No homozygous mice were genotyped at E12 and the age of weaning. Embryos lacking PTBP1 did not display differentiation into the 3 germ layers and cavitation of the epiblast, which are hallmarks of gastrulation. In addition, homozygous mutants displayed malformed ectoplacental cones and yolk sacs, both early supportive structure of the embryo proper. We conclude that PTBP1 is not required for the earliest isovolumetric divisions and differentiation steps of the zygote up to the formation of the blastocyst. However, further post-implantation development requires PTBP1 and stalls in homozygous null animals with a phenotype of dramatically reduced size and aberration in embryonic and extra-embryonic structures.
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- Jakob Suckale
- Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic ‘Carl Gustav Carus,’ Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Functional Genomics, IGBMC (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire) & ICS (Institut Clinique de la Souris), Illkirch, France
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- Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic ‘Carl Gustav Carus,’ Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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- Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic ‘Carl Gustav Carus,’ Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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- Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic ‘Carl Gustav Carus,’ Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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- Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, BioInnovationsZentrum Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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- Genomics, BioInnovationsZentrum, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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- Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic ‘Carl Gustav Carus,’ Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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hnRNP I inhibits Notch signaling and regulates intestinal epithelial homeostasis in the zebrafish. PLoS Genet 2009; 5:e1000363. [PMID: 19197356 PMCID: PMC2629577 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2008] [Accepted: 12/31/2008] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Regulated intestinal stem cell proliferation and differentiation are required for normal intestinal homeostasis and repair after injury. The Notch signaling pathway plays fundamental roles in the intestinal epithelium. Despite the fact that Notch signaling maintains intestinal stem cells in a proliferative state and promotes absorptive cell differentiation in most species, it remains largely unclear how Notch signaling itself is precisely controlled during intestinal homeostasis. We characterized the intestinal phenotypes of brom bones, a zebrafish mutant carrying a nonsense mutation in hnRNP I. We found that the brom bones mutant displays a number of intestinal defects, including compromised secretory goblet cell differentiation, hyperproliferation, and enhanced apoptosis. These phenotypes are accompanied by a markedly elevated Notch signaling activity in the intestinal epithelium. When overexpressed, hnRNP I destabilizes the Notch intracellular domain (NICD) and inhibits Notch signaling. This activity of hnRNP I is conserved from zebrafish to human. In addition, our biochemistry experiments demonstrate that the effect of hnRNP I on NICD turnover requires the C-terminal portion of the RAM domain of NICD. Our results demonstrate that hnRNP I is an evolutionarily conserved Notch inhibitor and plays an essential role in intestinal homeostasis.
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Robinson F, Jackson RJ, Smith CWJ. Expression of human nPTB is limited by extreme suboptimal codon content. PLoS One 2008; 3:e1801. [PMID: 18335065 PMCID: PMC2258417 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2008] [Accepted: 02/13/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background The frequency of synonymous codon usage varies widely between organisms. Suboptimal codon content limits expression of viral, experimental or therapeutic heterologous proteins due to limiting cognate tRNAs. Codon content is therefore often adjusted to match codon bias of the host organism. Codon content also varies between genes within individual mammalian species. However, little attention has been paid to the consequences of codon content upon translation of host proteins. Methodology/Principal Findings In comparing the splicing repressor activities of transfected human PTB and its two tissue-restricted paralogs–nPTB and ROD1–we found that the three proteins were expressed at widely varying levels. nPTB was expressed at 1–3% the level of PTB despite similar levels of mRNA expression and 74% amino acid identity. The low nPTB expression was due to the high proportion of codons with A or U at the third codon position, which are suboptimal in human mRNAs. Optimization of the nPTB codon content, akin to the “humanization” of foreign ORFs, allowed efficient translation in vivo and in vitro to levels comparable with PTB. We were then able to demonstrate that all three proteins act as splicing repressors. Conclusions/Significance Our results provide a striking illustration of the importance of mRNA codon content in determining levels of protein expression, even within cells of the natural host species.
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- Fiona Robinson
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Functional characterization of the ribonucleoprotein, PTB-binding 1/Raver1 promoter region. Gene 2007; 405:79-87. [PMID: 17931803 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2007] [Revised: 09/03/2007] [Accepted: 09/06/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Raver1 is a ribonucleoprotein, evolutionarily conserved in mammals, which acts as a polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB/hnRNPI) co-repressor in regulating alternative splicing events. The mouse homologue has been identified as a dual compartment protein that interacts with PTB within perinucleolar structures, and localizes at microfilament plasma membrane attachment sites in fibroblasts, epithelial and muscle cells. Human Raver1 gene is localized on chromosome 19p13.2 and encodes for an inferred 756 amino acid protein sharing 87% similarity with the mouse orthologue. The human Raver1 gene expression has not been previously investigated. Here we report the mRNA expression profile of human Raver1 gene and the molecular characterization of its promoter region. From the in silico analysis of 1542 bp of the Raver1 5'-flanking region (GC content=61%), no canonical TATA or CAAT boxes can be highlighted, whereas several consensus Sp1 putative binding sequences can be predicted within 1 kb from the transcription start site (TSS) that we determined by 5'-RACE. Functional analyses established a minimal region involved in the regulation of the human Raver1 promoter activity. Mutational analyses and transfection studies indicated that a GGGAGCTCCC sequence at -531 represents a putative cis signal acting as a negative regulator element of the promoter function. Altogether, our results indicate that human Raver1 gene promoter region shares common features of ubiquitously expressed gene with the interacting splicing regulator PTB.
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Spellman R, Llorian M, Smith CW. Crossregulation and functional redundancy between the splicing regulator PTB and its paralogs nPTB and ROD1. Mol Cell 2007; 27:420-34. [PMID: 17679092 PMCID: PMC1940037 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2007.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 242] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2006] [Revised: 05/11/2007] [Accepted: 06/12/2007] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Among the targets of the repressive splicing regulator, polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB) is its own pre-mRNA, where PTB-induced exon 11 skipping produces an RNA substrate for nonsense-mediated decay (NMD). To identify additional PTB-regulated alternative splicing events, we used quantitative proteomic analysis of HeLa cells after knockdown of PTB. Apart from loss of PTB, the only change was upregulation of the neuronally restricted nPTB, resulting from decreased skipping of nPTB exon 10, a splicing event that leads to NMD of nPTB mRNA. Compared with knockdown of PTB alone, simultaneous knockdown of PTB and nPTB led to larger changes in alternative splicing of known and newly identified PTB-regulated splicing events. Strikingly, the hematopoietic PTB paralog ROD1 also switched from a nonproductive splicing pathway upon PTB/nPTB knockdown. Our data indicate crossregulation between PTB and its paralogs via nonproductive alternative splicing and a large degree of functional overlap between PTB and nPTB.
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- Rachel Spellman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
- Corresponding author
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Ma S, Liu G, Sun Y, Xie J. Relocalization of the polypyrimidine tract-binding protein during PKA-induced neurite growth. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2007; 1773:912-23. [PMID: 17400307 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2007.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2006] [Revised: 02/07/2007] [Accepted: 02/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Neurite RNA binding proteins are important for neurite growth, a process critical for neuronal development and regeneration after injury. It has been known that many RNA binding proteins undergo nucleocytoplasmic shuttling but how their nucleocytoplasmic distributions are regulated during neurite growth has not been well explored. Here we found that the polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB) was exported from the nucleus and accumulated at growing neurite terminals upon activation of the PKA pathway in PC12 cells in a PKA-target Ser16-dependent manner. RNA interference (RNAi) of PTB significantly disrupted the neurite growth. We then examined the role of cytoplasmic PTB in relation to mRNAs involved in neurite growth. We found that PTB was preferentially associated with the beta-actin mRNA transcripts in cytoplasmic fractions. RNAi of PTB reduced neurite accumulation of the endogenous actin proteins. It is thus likely that, during PKA-induced neurite growth, PTB is relocalized through Ser16 phosphorylation to the cytoplasm where it is associated with beta-actin mRNA and is critical for the mRNA localization to neurites.
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- Shumei Ma
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 420 BMSB, 730 William Ave., Winnipeg, Canada MB R3E 3J7
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Boutz PL, Chawla G, Stoilov P, Black DL. MicroRNAs regulate the expression of the alternative splicing factor nPTB during muscle development. Genes Dev 2007; 21:71-84. [PMID: 17210790 PMCID: PMC1759902 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1500707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 256] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2006] [Accepted: 11/07/2006] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Alternative pre-mRNA splicing determines many changes in gene expression during development. Two regulators known to control splicing patterns during neuron and muscle differentiation are the polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB) and its neuronal homolog nPTB. These proteins repress certain exons in early myoblasts, but upon differentiation of mature myotubes PTB/nPTB expression is reduced, leading to increased inclusion of their target exons. We show here that the repression of nPTB expression during myoblast differentiation results from its targeting by the muscle-restricted microRNA miR-133. During differentiation of C2C12 myoblasts, nPTB protein but not mRNA expression is strongly reduced, concurrent with the up-regulation of miR-133 and the induction of splicing for several PTB-repressed exons. Introduction of synthetic miR-133 into undifferentiated C2C12 cells leads to a decrease in endogenous nPTB expression. Both the miR-133 and the coexpressed miR-1/206 microRNAs are extremely conserved across animal species, and PTB proteins are predicted targets for these miRNAs in Drosophila, mice, and humans. There are two potential miR-133-responsive elements (MRE) within the nPTB 3' untranslated region (UTR), and a luciferase reporter carrying this 3' UTR is repressed by miR-133 in an MRE-dependent manner. Transfection of locked nucleic acid (LNA) oligonucleotides designed to block the function of miR-133 and miR-1/206 increases expression of nPTB and decreases the inclusion of PTB dependent exons. These results indicate that miR-133 directly down-regulates a key splicing factor during muscle development and establishes a role for microRNAs in the control of a developmentally dynamic splicing program.
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- Paul L. Boutz
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Martinez-Contreras R, Cloutier P, Shkreta L, Fisette JF, Revil T, Chabot B. hnRNP proteins and splicing control. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2007; 623:123-47. [PMID: 18380344 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-77374-2_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 273] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Proteins of the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoparticles (hnRNP) family form a structurally diverse group of RNA binding proteins implicated in various functions in metazoans. Here we discuss recent advances supporting a role for these proteins in precursor-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing. Heterogeneous nuclear RNP proteins can repress splicing by directly antagonizing the recognition of splice sites, or can interfere with the binding of proteins bound to enhancers. Recently, hnRNP proteins have been shown to hinder communication between factors bound to different splice sites. Conversely, several reports have described a positive role for some hnRNP proteins in pre-mRNA splicing. Moreover, cooperative interactions between bound hnRNP proteins may encourage splicing between specific pairs of splice sites while simultaneously hampering other combinations. Thus, hnRNP proteins utilize a variety of strategies to control splice site selection in a manner that is important for both alternative and constitutive pre-mRNA splicing.
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Bonano VI, Oltean S, Brazas RM, Garcia-Blanco MA. Imaging the alternative silencing of FGFR2 exon IIIb in vivo. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2006; 12:2073-9. [PMID: 17068207 PMCID: PMC1664716 DOI: 10.1261/rna.248506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Alternative splicing multiplies genomic coding capacity and regulates proteomic composition. A well-studied example of this plasticity leads to the synthesis of functionally distinct isoforms of the Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor-2 (FGFR2). The regulation of this isoform diversity necessitates the silencing of FGFR2 exon IIIb, which is mediated by flanking intronic splicing silencers and the polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB). To visualize this splicing decision in vivo, we developed mice harboring a green fluorescent protein construct that reports on the silencing of exon IIIb. The animals also harbor a red fluorescent protein reporter of constitutive splicing as an allelic control. This dual reporter system revealed that in various organs and cell types the silencing of exon IIIb required the intronic silencers. In neurons, which do not express PTB, we observed robust silencer-dependent repression of exon IIIb, suggesting that the neural paralog, brain PTB, can take over this function. In the epidermis, however, the intronic silencers were not required for efficient silencing. This work provides a first glimpse at splicing regulation among different cell types in vivo and promises the drafting of an anatomic map of splicing decisions.
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- Vivian I Bonano
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, USA
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The cell has many ways to regulate the production of proteins. One mechanism is through the changes to the machinery of translation initiation. These alterations favor the translation of one subset of mRNAs over another. It was first shown that internal ribosome entry sites (IRESes) within viral RNA genomes allowed the production of viral proteins more efficiently than most of the host proteins. The RNA secondary structure of viral IRESes has sometimes been conserved between viral species even though the primary sequences differ. These structures are important for IRES function, but no similar structure conservation has yet to be shown in cellular IRES. With the advances in mathematical modeling and computational approaches to complex biological problems, is there a way to predict an IRES in a data set of unknown sequences? This review examines what is known about cellular IRES structures, as well as the data sets and tools available to examine this question. We find that the lengths, number of upstream AUGs, and %GC content of 5'-UTRs of the human transcriptome have a similar distribution to those of published IRES-containing UTRs. Although the UTRs containing IRESes are on the average longer, almost half of all 5'-UTRs are long enough to contain an IRES. Examination of the available RNA structure prediction software and RNA motif searching programs indicates that while these programs are useful tools to fine tune the empirically determined RNA secondary structure, the accuracy of de novo secondary structure prediction of large RNA molecules and subsequent identification of new IRES elements by computational approaches, is still not possible.
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- Stephen D Baird
- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M5, Canada
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Rideau AP, Gooding C, Simpson PJ, Monie TP, Lorenz M, Hüttelmaier S, Singer RH, Matthews S, Curry S, Smith CWJ. A peptide motif in Raver1 mediates splicing repression by interaction with the PTB RRM2 domain. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2006; 13:839-48. [PMID: 16936729 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2006] [Accepted: 07/27/2006] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB) is a regulatory splicing repressor. Raver1 acts as a PTB corepressor for splicing of alpha-tropomyosin (Tpm1) exon 3. Here we define a minimal region of Raver1 that acts as a repressor domain when recruited to RNA. A conserved [S/G][I/L]LGxxP motif is essential for splicing repressor activity and sufficient for interaction with PTB. An adjacent proline-rich region is also essential for repressor activity but not for PTB interaction. NMR analysis shows that LLGxxP peptides interact with a hydrophobic groove on the dorsal surface of the RRM2 domain of PTB, which constitutes part of the minimal repressor region of PTB. The requirement for the PTB-Raver1 interaction that we have characterized may serve to bring the additional repressor regions of both proteins into a configuration that allows them to synergistically effect exon skipping.
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- Alexis P Rideau
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, CB2 1GA, UK
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Botchway S, Barba I, Jordan R, Harmston R, Haggie P, Williams SP, Fulton A, Parker A, Brindle K. A novel method for observing proteins in vivo using a small fluorescent label and multiphoton imaging. Biochem J 2006; 390:787-90. [PMID: 15946123 PMCID: PMC1199672 DOI: 10.1042/bj20050648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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A novel method for the fluorescence detection of proteins in cells is described in the present study. Proteins are labelled by the selective biosynthetic incorporation of 5-hydroxytryptophan and the label is detected via selective two-photon excitation of the hydroxyindole and detection of its fluorescence emission at 340 nm. The method is demonstrated in this paper with images of a labelled protein in yeast cells.
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- Stanley W. Botchway
- *Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- *Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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Vitali F, Henning A, Oberstrass FC, Hargous Y, Auweter SD, Erat M, Allain FHT. Structure of the two most C-terminal RNA recognition motifs of PTB using segmental isotope labeling. EMBO J 2006; 25:150-62. [PMID: 16362043 PMCID: PMC1356354 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2005] [Accepted: 11/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB) is a 58 kDa protein involved in many aspects of RNA metabolism. In this study, we focused our attention on the structure of the two C-terminal RNA recognition motifs (RRM3 and RRM4) of PTB. In a previous study, it was found that the two RRMs are independent in the free state. We recently determined the structure of the same fragment in complex with RNA and found that the two RRMs interact extensively. This difference made us re-evaluate in detail the free protein structure and in particular the interdomain interface. We used a combination of NMR spectroscopy and segmental isotopic labeling to unambiguously study and characterize the interdomain interactions. An improved segmental isotopic labeling protocol was used, enabling us to unambiguously identify 130 interdomain NOEs between the two RRMs and to calculate a very precise structure. The structure reveals a large interdomain interface, resulting in a very unusual positioning of the two RRM domains relative to one another.
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- Francesca Vitali
- Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
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Barbosa-Morais NL, Carmo-Fonseca M, Aparício S. Systematic genome-wide annotation of spliceosomal proteins reveals differential gene family expansion. Genome Res 2005; 16:66-77. [PMID: 16344558 PMCID: PMC1356130 DOI: 10.1101/gr.3936206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Although more than 200 human spliceosomal and splicing-associated proteins are known, the evolution of the splicing machinery has not been studied extensively. The recent near-complete sequencing and annotation of distant vertebrate and chordate genomes provides the opportunity for an exhaustive comparative analysis of splicing factors across eukaryotes. We describe here our semiautomated computational pipeline to identify and annotate splicing factors in representative species of eukaryotes. We focused on protein families whose role in splicing is confirmed by experimental evidence. We visually inspected 1894 proteins and manually curated 224 of them. Our analysis shows a general conservation of the core spliceosomal proteins across the eukaryotic lineage, contrasting with selective expansions of protein families known to play a role in the regulation of splicing, most notably of SR proteins in metazoans and of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNP) in vertebrates. We also observed vertebrate-specific expansion of the CLK and SRPK kinases (which phosphorylate SR proteins), and the CUG-BP/CELF family of splicing regulators. Furthermore, we report several intronless genes amongst splicing proteins in mammals, suggesting that retrotransposition contributed to the complexity of the mammalian splicing apparatus.
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- Nuno L Barbosa-Morais
- University of Cambridge, Department of Oncology, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre, Cambridge CB2 2XZ, United Kingdom
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Lin JC, Tarn WY. Exon selection in alpha-tropomyosin mRNA is regulated by the antagonistic action of RBM4 and PTB. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:10111-21. [PMID: 16260624 PMCID: PMC1280272 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.22.10111-10121.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2005] [Revised: 07/05/2005] [Accepted: 08/19/2005] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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RNA-binding motif protein 4 (RBM4) has been implicated in the regulation of precursor mRNA splicing. Using differential display analysis, we identified mRNAs that associate with RBM4-containing messenger RNPs in vivo. Among these mRNAs, alpha-tropomyosin (alpha-TM) is known to exhibit a muscle cell type-specific splicing pattern. The level of the skeletal muscle-specific alpha-TM mRNA isoform partially correlated with that of RBM4 in human tissues examined and could be modulated by ectopic overexpression or suppression of RBM4. These results indicated that RBM4 directly influences the expression of the skeletal muscle-specific alpha-TM isoform. Using minigenes, we demonstrated that RBM4 can activate the selection of skeletal muscle-specific exons, possibly via binding to intronic pyrimidine-rich elements. By contrast, the splicing regulator polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB) excluded these exons; moreover, RBM4 antagonized this PTB-mediated exon exclusion likely by competing with PTB for binding to a CU-rich element. This study suggests a possible mechanism underlying the regulated alternative splicing of alpha-TM by the antagonistic splicing regulators RBM4 and PTB.
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- Jung-Chun Lin
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, 128 Academy Road Section 2, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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Spellman R, Rideau A, Matlin A, Gooding C, Robinson F, McGlincy N, Grellscheid SN, Southby J, Wollerton M, Smith CWJ. Regulation of alternative splicing by PTB and associated factors. Biochem Soc Trans 2005; 33:457-60. [PMID: 15916540 DOI: 10.1042/bst0330457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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PTB (polypyrimidine tract-binding protein) is a repressive regulator of alternative splicing. We have investigated the role of PTB in three model alternative splicing systems. In the alpha-actinin gene, PTB represses the SM (smooth muscle) exon by binding to key sites in the polypyrimidine tract. Repressive binding to these sites is assisted by co-operative binding to additional downstream sites. SM exon splicing can be activated by CELF proteins, which also bind co-operatively to interspersed sites and displace PTB from the pyrimidine tract. Exon 11 of PTB pre-mRNA is repressed by PTB in an autoregulatory feedback loop. Exon 11-skipped RNA gets degraded through nonsense-mediated decay. Less than 1% of steady-state PTB mRNA is represented by this isoform, but inhibition of nonsense-mediated decay by RNA interference against Upf1 shows that at least 20% of PTB RNA is consumed by this pathway. This represents a widespread but under-appreciated role of alternative splicing in the quantitative regulation of gene expression, an important addition to its role as a generator of protein isoform diversity. Repression of alpha-tropomyosin exon 3 is an exceptional example of PTB regulation, because repression only occurs at high levels in SM cells, despite the fact that PTB is widely expressed. In this case, a PTB-interacting cofactor, raver1, appears to play an important role. By the use of 'tethering' assays, we have identified discrete domains within both PTB and raver1 that mediate their repressive activities on this splicing event.
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- R Spellman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
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Adair R, Liebisch GW, Su Y, Colberg-Poley AM. Alteration of cellular RNA splicing and polyadenylation machineries during productive human cytomegalovirus infection. J Gen Virol 2004; 85:3541-3553. [PMID: 15557227 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80450-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Alternative processing of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) UL37 pre-mRNA predominantly produces the unspliced UL37 exon 1 (UL37x1) RNA and multiple, lower abundance, alternatively spliced UL37 RNAs. The relative abundance of UL37x1 unspliced RNA is surprising because it requires the favoured use of a polyadenylation signal within UL37 intron 1, just upstream of the UL37 exon 2 (UL37x2) acceptor. Here, it was shown that a downstream element (DSE) in UL37x2 strongly enhanced processing at the UL37x1 polyadenylation site, but did not influence UL37x1-x2 splicing. There was a potential binding site (UCUU) for polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB) at the UL37x1 polyadenylation/cleavage site and its mutation to UGGG reduced both polyadenylation and splicing of UL37x1-x2 minigene pre-mRNA, suggesting a role in both RNA processing events. To determine whether lytic HCMV infection altered the balance of RNA processing factors, which bind to UL37 pre-mRNA cis elements, these were investigated in permissively infected primary and immortalized human diploid fibroblasts (HFFs) and epithelial cells. Induction of polyadenylation factors in HCMV-infected, serum-starved (G(0)) HFFs was also investigated. Permissive HCMV infection consistently increased, albeit with different kinetics, the abundance of cleavage stimulation factor 64 (CstF-64) and PTB, and altered hypo-phosphorylated SF2 in different cell types. Moreover, the preponderance of UL37x1 RNA increased during infection and correlated with CstF-64 induction, whereas the complexity of the lower abundance UL37 spliced RNAs transiently increased following reduction of hypo-phosphorylated SF2. Collectively, multiple UL37 RNA polyadenylation cis elements and induced cellular factors in HCMV-infected cells strongly favoured the production of UL37x1 unspliced RNA.
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- Richard Adair
- Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Room 5720, 111 Michigan Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA
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- Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Room 5720, 111 Michigan Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA
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- Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Room 5720, 111 Michigan Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC 20010, USA
- Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Room 5720, 111 Michigan Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA
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Simpson PJ, Monie TP, Szendröi A, Davydova N, Tyzack JK, Conte MR, Read CM, Cary PD, Svergun DI, Konarev PV, Curry S, Matthews S. Structure and RNA Interactions of the N-Terminal RRM Domains of PTB. Structure 2004; 12:1631-43. [PMID: 15341728 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2004.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2004] [Revised: 05/28/2004] [Accepted: 07/06/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB) is an important regulator of alternative splicing that also affects mRNA localization, stabilization, polyadenylation, and translation. NMR structural analysis of the N-terminal half of PTB (residues 55-301) shows a canonical structure for RRM1 but reveals novel extensions to the beta strands and C terminus of RRM2 that significantly modify the beta sheet RNA binding surface. Although PTB contains four RNA recognition motifs (RRMs), it is widely held that only RRMs 3 and 4 are involved in RNA binding and that RRM2 mediates homodimerization. However, we show here not only that the RRMs 1 and 2 contribute substantially to RNA binding but also that full-length PTB is monomeric, with an elongated structure determined by X-ray solution scattering that is consistent with a linear arrangement of the constituent RRMs. These new insights into the structure and RNA binding properties of PTB suggest revised models of its mechanism of action.
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- Peter J Simpson
- Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Ellis PD, Smith CWJ, Kemp P. Regulated Tissue-specific Alternative Splicing of Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein Transgenes Conferred by α-Tropomyosin Regulatory Elements in Transgenic Mice. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:36660-9. [PMID: 15194683 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m405380200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The mutually exclusive exons 2 and 3 of alpha-tropomyosin (alphaTM) have been used as a model system for strictly regulated alternative splicing. Exon 2 inclusion is only observed at high levels in smooth muscle (SM) tissues, whereas striated muscle and non-muscle cells use predominantly exon 3. Experiments in cell culture have shown that exon 2 selection results from repression of exon 3 and that this repression is mediated by regulatory elements flanking exon 3. We have now tested the cell culture-derived model in transgenic mice. We show that by harnessing the intronic splicing regulatory elements, expression of an enhanced green fluorescent protein transgene with a constitutively active promoter can be restricted to SM cells. Splicing of both endogenous alphaTM and a series of transgenes carrying regulatory element mutations was analyzed by reverse transcriptasePCR. These studies indicated that although SM-rich tissues are equipped to regulate splicing of high levels of endogenous or transgene alphaTM RNA, other non-SM tissues such as spleen, which express lower amounts of alphaTM, also splice significant proportions of exon 2, and this splicing pattern can be recapitulated by transgenes expressed at low levels. We confirm the importance in vivo of the negatively acting regulatory elements for regulated skipping of exon 3. Moreover, we provide evidence that some of the regulatory factors responsible for exon 3 skipping appear to be titratable, with loss of regulated splicing sometimes being associated with high transgene expression levels.
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- Peter D Ellis
- Department of Biochemistry, Tennis Court Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, United Kingdom
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Venables JP, Dalgliesh C, Paronetto MP, Skitt L, Thornton JK, Saunders PT, Sette C, Jones KT, Elliott DJ. SIAH1 targets the alternative splicing factor T-STAR for degradation by the proteasome. Hum Mol Genet 2004; 13:1525-34. [PMID: 15163637 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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T-STAR is one of three members of the SAM68 family of RNA-binding proteins that have been shown to be involved in various gene expression pathways including the control of pre-mRNA splicing. We employed a two-hybrid screen to identify proteins that interact with human T-STAR. The predominant interacting proteins were the E3 ubiquitin ligases SIAH1 and SIAH2. We found that SIAH1 bound to an octapeptide sequence in T-STAR targeting it for proteasome-dependent degradation. Rodent T-STAR orthologues (also known as etoile or SLM2) were not targeted for degradation by SIAH1. However a double amino acid substitution of mouse T-STAR that mimics the human SIAH1-binding site brought mouse T-STAR under in vivo control of SIAH1. Using a minigene transfection assay for alternative splicing activity we showed that human T-STAR, like its rodent orthologues can influence splice site choice and that human, but not mouse, T-STAR-dependent alternative splicing is modulated by SIAH1. Western blots of protein from purified germ cells indicated that SIAH1 protein expression peaks in meiosis. In mouse, T-STAR is co-expressed with SIAH1 during meiosis but, in humans, T-STAR is only strongly expressed after meiosis. Comparative sequence analysis showed SIAH-mediated proteasomal degradation of T-STAR has evolved in the primate lineage. Collectively these data suggest that SIAH-mediated down regulation of alternative splicing may be an important developmental difference between otherwise highly conserved T-STAR proteins.
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- Julian P Venables
- Institute of Human Genetics, International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Venkatramana M, Ray PS, Chadda A, Das S. A 25 kDa cleavage product of polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB) present in mouse tissues prevents PTB binding to the 5' untranslated region and inhibits translation of hepatitis A virus RNA. Virus Res 2004; 98:141-9. [PMID: 14659561 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2003.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) of the hepatitis A virus (HAV) genomic RNA contains an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) which interacts with various cellular proteins and facilitates cap-independent translation. We report the interaction of a 25kDa protein (p25), present in certain murine tissues and most abundantly in mouse kidney, with the HAV 5'UTR. This protein was found to be a cleavage product of the polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB) and competed with it for binding to the HAV 5'UTR RNA. The binding site of p25 overlapped with the reported binding site of PTB. Exogenous addition of partially purified p25 to in vitro translation reactions resulted in the inhibition of HAV IRES-mediated translation, which could be rescued by the addition of purified PTB. These results suggest that p25 is a cleavage product of PTB which binds to the HAV IRES and antagonizes the translation-stimulating activity of PTB. The presence of the 25kDa cleavage product of PTB may therefore play a role in the inhibition of HAV IRES-mediated translation in mouse tissues.
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- Musturi Venkatramana
- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, 560012 Bangalore, India
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Wollerton MC, Gooding C, Wagner EJ, Garcia-Blanco MA, Smith CWJ. Autoregulation of Polypyrimidine Tract Binding Protein by Alternative Splicing Leading to Nonsense-Mediated Decay. Mol Cell 2004; 13:91-100. [PMID: 14731397 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(03)00502-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 305] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Polypyrimdine tract binding protein (PTB) is a regulator of alternative splicing, mRNA 3' end formation, mRNA stability and localization, and IRES-mediated translation. Transient overexpression of PTB can influence alternative splicing, sometimes resulting in nonphysiological splicing patterns. Here, we show that alternative skipping of PTB exon 11 leads to an mRNA that is removed by NMD and that this pathway consumes at least 20% of the PTB mRNA in HeLa cells. We also show that exon 11 skipping is itself promoted by PTB in a negative feedback loop. This autoregulation may serve both to prevent disruptively high levels of PTB expression and to restore nuclear levels when PTB is mobilized to the cytoplasm. Our findings suggest that alternative splicing can act not only to generate protein isoform diversity but also to quantitatively control gene expression and complement recent bioinformatic analyses, indicating a high prevalence of human alternative splicing leading to NMD.
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- Matthew C Wollerton
- Department of Biochemistry, 80 Tennis Court Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
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Gromak N, Rideau A, Southby J, Scadden ADJ, Gooding C, Hüttelmaier S, Singer RH, Smith CWJ. The PTB interacting protein raver1 regulates alpha-tropomyosin alternative splicing. EMBO J 2003; 22:6356-64. [PMID: 14633994 PMCID: PMC291850 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2003] [Revised: 09/19/2003] [Accepted: 10/13/2003] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Regulated switching of the mutually exclusive exons 2 and 3 of alpha-tropomyosin (TM) involves repression of exon 3 in smooth muscle cells. Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB) is necessary but not sufficient for regulation of TM splicing. Raver1 was identified in two-hybrid screens by its interactions with the cytoskeletal proteins actinin and vinculin, and was also found to interact with PTB. Consistent with these interactions raver1 can be localized in either the nucleus or cytoplasm. Here we show that raver1 is able to promote the smooth muscle-specific alternative splicing of TM by enhancing PTB-mediated repression of exon 3. This activity of raver1 is dependent upon characterized PTB-binding regulatory elements and upon a region of raver1 necessary for interaction with PTB. Heterologous recruitment of raver1, or just its C-terminus, induced very high levels of exon 3 skipping, bypassing the usual need for PTB binding sites downstream of exon 3. This suggests a novel mechanism for PTB-mediated splicing repression involving recruitment of raver1 as a potent splicing co-repressor.
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- Natalia Gromak
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
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