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Wang C, He Y, Fang X, Zhang D, Huang J, Zhao S, Li L, Li G. METTL1-modulated LSM14A facilitates proliferation and migration in glioblastoma via the stabilization of DDX5. iScience 2024; 27:110225. [PMID: 39040050 PMCID: PMC11261005 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Revised: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 06/06/2024] [Indexed: 07/24/2024] Open
Abstract
Glioblastoma (GBM) is characterized by aggressive growth, invasiveness, and poor prognosis. Elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying GBM is crucial. This study explores the role of Sm-like protein 14 homolog A (LSM14A) in GBM. Bioinformatics and clinical tissue samples analysis demonstrated that overexpression of LSM14A in GBM correlates with poorer prognosis. CCK8, EdU, colony formation, and transwell assays revealed that LSM14A promotes proliferation, migration, and invasion in GBM in vitro. In vivo mouse xenograft models confirmed the results of the in vitro experiments. The mechanism of LSM14A modulating GBM cell proliferation was investigated using mass spectrometry, co-immunoprecipitation (coIP), protein half-life, and methylated RNA immunoprecipitation (MeRIP) analyses. The findings indicate that during the G1/S phase, LSM14A stabilizes DDX5 in the cytoplasm, regulating CDK4 and P21 levels. Furthermore, METTL1 modulates LSM14A expression via mRNA m7G methylation. Altogether, our work highlights the METTL1-LSM14A-DDX5 pathway as a potential therapeutic target in GBM.
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- Changyu Wang
- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, NO. 155 Nanjing North Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110002, China
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- Department of Laboratory Animal Science, China Medical University, 110122, No. 77 Puhe Road, Shenyang North New Area, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, No. 105, Jiefang Road, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences of China Medical University, 110122, No. 77 Puhe Road, Shenyang North New Area, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, NO. 155 Nanjing North Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110002, China
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- The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110032, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Anshan Hospital of the First Hospital of China Medical University, Anshan, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, NO. 155 Nanjing North Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110002, China
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Cassani M, Seydoux G. P-body-like condensates in the germline. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2024; 157:24-32. [PMID: 37407370 PMCID: PMC10761593 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2023.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Revised: 06/20/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023]
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P-bodies are cytoplasmic condensates that accumulate low-translation mRNAs for temporary storage before translation or degradation. P-bodies have been best characterized in yeast and mammalian tissue culture cells. We describe here related condensates in the germline of animal models. Germline P-bodies have been reported at all stages of germline development from primordial germ cells to gametes. The activity of the universal germ cell fate regulator, Nanos, is linked to the mRNA decay function of P-bodies, and spatially-regulated condensation of P-body like condensates in embryos is required to localize mRNA regulators to primordial germ cells. In most cases, however, it is not known whether P-bodies represent functional compartments or non-functional condensation by-products that arise when ribonucleoprotein complexes saturate the cytoplasm. We speculate that the ubiquity of P-body-like condensates in germ cells reflects the strong reliance of the germline on cytoplasmic, rather than nuclear, mechanisms of gene regulation.
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- Madeline Cassani
- HHMI and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- HHMI and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Zhang H, Zhang T, Wan X, Chen C, Wang S, Qin D, Li L, Yu L, Wu X. LSM14B coordinates protein component expression in the P-body and controls oocyte maturation. J Genet Genomics 2024; 51:48-60. [PMID: 37481122 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2023.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 07/24/2023]
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The generation of mature and healthy oocytes is the most critical event in the entire female reproductive process, and the mechanisms regulating this process remain to be studied. Here, we demonstrate that Smith-like (LSM) family member 14B (LSM14B) regulates oocyte maturation, and the loss of LSM14B in mouse ovaries leads to abnormal oocyte MII arrest and female infertility. Next, we find the aberrant transcriptional activation, indicated by abnormal non-surrounded nucleolus and surrounded nucleolus oocyte proportions, and abnormal chromosome assembly and segregation in Lsm14b-deficient mouse oocytes. The global transcriptome analysis suggests that many transcripts involved in cytoplasmic processing body (P-body) function are altered in Lsm14b-deficient mouse oocytes. Deletion of Lsm14b results in the expression and/or localization changes of P-body components (such as LSM14A, DCP1A, and 4E-T). Notably, DDX6, a key component of the P-body, is downregulated and accumulates in the nuclei in Lsm14b-deficient mouse oocytes. Taken together, our data suggest that LSM14B links mouse oocyte maturation to female fertility through the regulation of the P-body.
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- Huiru Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China.
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Wan Y, Yang S, Li T, Cai Y, Wu X, Zhang M, Muhammad T, Huang T, Lv Y, Chan WY, Lu G, Li J, Sha QQ, Chen ZJ, Liu H. LSM14B is essential for oocyte meiotic maturation by regulating maternal mRNA storage and clearance. Nucleic Acids Res 2023; 51:11652-11667. [PMID: 37889087 PMCID: PMC10681746 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Revised: 10/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
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Fully grown oocytes remain transcriptionally quiescent, yet many maternal mRNAs are synthesized and retained in growing oocytes. We now know that maternal mRNAs are stored in a structure called the mitochondria-associated ribonucleoprotein domain (MARDO). However, the components and functions of MARDO remain elusive. Here, we found that LSM14B knockout prevents the proper storage and timely clearance of mRNAs (including Cyclin B1, Btg4 and other mRNAs that are translationally activated during meiotic maturation), specifically by disrupting MARDO assembly during oocyte growth and meiotic maturation. With decreased levels of storage and clearance, the LSM14B knockout oocytes failed to enter meiosis II, ultimately resulting in female infertility. Our results demonstrate the function of LSM14B in MARDO assembly, and couple the MARDO with mRNA clearance and oocyte meiotic maturation.
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- Yanling Wan
- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology of Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Shandong Provincial Clinical Medicine Research Center for Reproductive Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
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- Department of Physiology School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology of Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Shandong Provincial Clinical Medicine Research Center for Reproductive Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology of Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Shandong Provincial Clinical Medicine Research Center for Reproductive Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology of Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Shandong Provincial Clinical Medicine Research Center for Reproductive Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology of Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Shandong Provincial Clinical Medicine Research Center for Reproductive Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology of Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Shandong Provincial Clinical Medicine Research Center for Reproductive Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, NY Medical College, 15 Dana Road, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology of Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Shandong Provincial Clinical Medicine Research Center for Reproductive Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- CUHK-SDU Joint Laboratory on Reproductive Genetics, School of Biomedical Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
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- CUHK-SDU Joint Laboratory on Reproductive Genetics, School of Biomedical Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
- Shandong Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology of Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- CUHK-SDU Joint Laboratory on Reproductive Genetics, School of Biomedical Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology of Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- CUHK-SDU Joint Laboratory on Reproductive Genetics, School of Biomedical Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
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- Department of Physiology School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
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- Fertility Preservation Laboratory, Reproductive Medicine Center, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510317, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Shandong Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology of Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Shandong Provincial Clinical Medicine Research Center for Reproductive Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- CUHK-SDU Joint Laboratory on Reproductive Genetics, School of Biomedical Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
- Research Unit of Gametogenesis and Health of ART-Offspring, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory for Assisted Reproduction and Reproductive Genetics, Shanghai 200135, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology of Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- Shandong Provincial Clinical Medicine Research Center for Reproductive Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
- CUHK-SDU Joint Laboratory on Reproductive Genetics, School of Biomedical Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
- Research Unit of Gametogenesis and Health of ART-Offspring, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China
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He F, Jacobson A. Eukaryotic mRNA decapping factors: molecular mechanisms and activity. FEBS J 2023; 290:5057-5085. [PMID: 36098474 PMCID: PMC10008757 DOI: 10.1111/febs.16626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Revised: 08/11/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Decapping is the enzymatic removal of 5' cap structures from mRNAs in eukaryotic cells. Cap structures normally enhance mRNA translation and stability, and their excision commits an mRNA to complete 5'-3' exoribonucleolytic digestion and generally ends the physical and functional cellular presence of the mRNA. Decapping plays a pivotal role in eukaryotic cytoplasmic mRNA turnover and is a critical and highly regulated event in multiple 5'-3' mRNA decay pathways, including general 5'-3' decay, nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), AU-rich element-mediated mRNA decay, microRNA-mediated gene silencing, and targeted transcript-specific mRNA decay. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mRNA decapping is carried out by a single Dcp1-Dcp2 decapping enzyme in concert with the accessory activities of specific regulators commonly known as decapping activators or enhancers. These regulatory proteins include the general decapping activators Edc1, 2, and 3, Dhh1, Scd6, Pat1, and the Lsm1-7 complex, as well as the NMD-specific factors, Upf1, 2, and 3. Here, we focus on in vivo mRNA decapping regulation in yeast. We summarize recently uncovered molecular mechanisms that control selective targeting of the yeast decapping enzyme and discuss new roles for specific decapping activators in controlling decapping enzyme targeting, assembly of target-specific decapping complexes, and the monitoring of mRNA translation. Further, we discuss the kinetic contribution of mRNA decapping for overall decay of different substrate mRNAs and highlight experimental evidence pointing to the functional coordination and physical coupling between events in mRNA deadenylation, decapping, and 5'-3' exoribonucleolytic decay.
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- Feng He
- Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, UMass Chan Medical School, 368 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01655
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- Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, UMass Chan Medical School, 368 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01655
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Lau ESW, Zhu B, Sun MA, Ngai SM, Ge W. Proteomic analysis of zebrafish folliculogenesis identifies YB-1 (Ybx1/ybx1) as a potential gatekeeping molecule controlling early ovarian folliculogenesis. Biol Reprod 2023; 109:482-497. [PMID: 37471641 DOI: 10.1093/biolre/ioad078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Revised: 06/16/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023] Open
Abstract
As in mammals, ovarian folliculogenesis in teleosts also consists of two phases: the primary growth (PG) and secondary growth (SG) phases, which are analogous to the preantral and antral phases respectively in mammals. In this study, we performed a proteomic analysis on zebrafish follicles undergoing the PG-SG transition aiming to identify factors involved in the event. Numerous proteins showed significant changes, and the most prominent one was Y-box binding protein 1 (YB-1; Ybx1/ybx1), a transcription factor and mRNA-binding protein. YB-1 belongs to the Y-box binding protein family, which also includes the gonad-specific YB-2. Interestingly, phylogenetic analysis showed no YB-2 homolog in zebrafish. Although ybx1 mRNA was expressed in various tissues, its protein Ybx1 was primarily produced in the gonads, similar to YB-2 in other species. In the ovary, Ybx1 protein started to appear in early follicles newly emerged from the germ cell cysts, reached the highest level in late PG oocytes, but decreased precipitously when the follicles entered the SG phase. In PG follicles, Ybx1 might function as a key component of the messenger ribonucleoprotein particles (mRNPs) in association with other RNA-binding proteins. Similar to mammalian YB-1, zebrafish Ybx1 also contains functional signals that determine its intracellular localization. In conclusion, Ybx1 may play dual roles of YB-1 and YB-2 in zebrafish. In the ovary, Ybx1 binds mRNAs to stabilize them while preventing their translation. At PG-SG transition, Ybx1 is removed to release the masked mRNAs for translation into functional proteins, leading to follicle activation.
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- Esther Shuk-Wa Lau
- School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong 999077, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Centre of Reproduction, Development and Aging (CRDA), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau 999078, China
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- Institute of Comparative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China
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- School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong 999077, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Centre of Reproduction, Development and Aging (CRDA), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau 999078, China
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Cheng S, Altmeppen G, So C, Welp LM, Penir S, Ruhwedel T, Menelaou K, Harasimov K, Stützer A, Blayney M, Elder K, Möbius W, Urlaub H, Schuh M. Mammalian oocytes store mRNAs in a mitochondria-associated membraneless compartment. Science 2022; 378:eabq4835. [PMID: 36264786 DOI: 10.1126/science.abq4835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
Abstract
Full-grown oocytes are transcriptionally silent and must stably maintain the messenger RNAs (mRNAs) needed for oocyte meiotic maturation and early embryonic development. However, where and how mammalian oocytes store maternal mRNAs is unclear. Here, we report that mammalian oocytes accumulate mRNAs in a mitochondria-associated ribonucleoprotein domain (MARDO). MARDO assembly around mitochondria was promoted by the RNA-binding protein ZAR1 and directed by an increase in mitochondrial membrane potential during oocyte growth. MARDO foci coalesced into hydrogel-like matrices that clustered mitochondria. Maternal mRNAs stored in the MARDO were translationally repressed. Loss of ZAR1 disrupted the MARDO, dispersed mitochondria, and caused a premature loss of MARDO-localized mRNAs. Thus, a mitochondria-associated membraneless compartment controls mitochondrial distribution and regulates maternal mRNA storage, translation, and decay to ensure fertility in mammals.
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- Shiya Cheng
- Department of Meiosis, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Meiosis, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Meiosis, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Meiosis, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- Electron Microscopy City Campus, Department of Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Meiosis, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.,Bourn Hall Clinic, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Meiosis, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- Electron Microscopy City Campus, Department of Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.,Cluster of Excellence "Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells" (MBExC), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.,Bioanalytics Group, Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Meiosis, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.,Cluster of Excellence "Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells" (MBExC), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Jeon P, Ham HJ, Park S, Lee JA. Regulation of Cellular Ribonucleoprotein Granules: From Assembly to Degradation via Post-translational Modification. Cells 2022; 11:cells11132063. [PMID: 35805146 PMCID: PMC9265587 DOI: 10.3390/cells11132063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2022] [Revised: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/24/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Cells possess membraneless ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules, including stress granules, processing bodies, Cajal bodies, or paraspeckles, that play physiological or pathological roles. RNP granules contain RNA and numerous RNA-binding proteins, transiently formed through the liquid–liquid phase separation. The assembly or disassembly of numerous RNP granules is strongly controlled to maintain their homeostasis and perform their cellular functions properly. Normal RNA granules are reversibly assembled, whereas abnormal RNP granules accumulate and associate with various neurodegenerative diseases. This review summarizes current studies on the physiological or pathological roles of post-translational modifications of various cellular RNP granules and discusses the therapeutic methods in curing diseases related to abnormal RNP granules by autophagy.
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Vidya E, Duchaine TF. Eukaryotic mRNA Decapping Activation. Front Genet 2022; 13:832547. [PMID: 35401681 PMCID: PMC8984151 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.832547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The 5′-terminal cap is a fundamental determinant of eukaryotic gene expression which facilitates cap-dependent translation and protects mRNAs from exonucleolytic degradation. Enzyme-directed hydrolysis of the cap (decapping) decisively affects mRNA expression and turnover, and is a heavily regulated event. Following the identification of the decapping holoenzyme (Dcp1/2) over two decades ago, numerous studies revealed the complexity of decapping regulation across species and cell types. A conserved set of Dcp1/2-associated proteins, implicated in decapping activation and molecular scaffolding, were identified through genetic and molecular interaction studies, and yet their exact mechanisms of action are only emerging. In this review, we discuss the prevailing models on the roles and assembly of decapping co-factors, with considerations of conservation across species and comparison across physiological contexts. We next discuss the functional convergences of decapping machineries with other RNA-protein complexes in cytoplasmic P bodies and compare current views on their impact on mRNA stability and translation. Lastly, we review the current models of decapping activation and highlight important gaps in our current understanding.
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- Elva Vidya
- Goodman Cancer Institute, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Goodman Cancer Institute, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- *Correspondence: Thomas F. Duchaine,
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Zhang L, Fu Y, Zhang R, Guan Y, Jiang N, Zheng N, Wu Z. Nonstructural Protein NSs Hampers Cellular Antiviral Response through LSm14A during Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus Infection. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2021; 207:590-601. [PMID: 34244294 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2100148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The nonstructural protein (NSs) of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) plays multiple functions in the virus life cycle. Proteomic screening for host proteins interacting with NSs identified the cellular protein LSm14A. LSm14A, a member of the LSm family involved in RNA processing in the processing bodies, binds to viral RNA or synthetic homolog and mediates IFN regulatory factor 3 activation and IFN-β induction. NSs interacted with and colocalized with LSm14A, and this interaction effectively inhibited downstream phosphorylation and dimerization of IFN regulatory factor 3, resulting in the suppression of antiviral signaling and IFN induction in several cell types of human origin. Knockdown of NSs resulted in the suppression of SFTSV replication in host cells. Viral RNA bound to LSm14A-NSs protein complex during the interaction. A newly discovered LRRD motif of NSs functioned to interact with LSm14A. Altogether, our data demonstrated a mechanism used by SFTSV to inhibit host innate immune response.
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- Li Zhang
- Center for Public Health Research, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Center for Public Health Research, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Center for Public Health Research, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Center for Public Health Research, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Center for Public Health Research, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Center for Public Health Research, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; .,State Key Lab of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; and.,Medical School and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Center for Public Health Research, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; .,State Key Lab of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; and.,Medical School and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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Cytosolic Sensors for Pathogenic Viral and Bacterial Nucleic Acids in Fish. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21197289. [PMID: 33023222 PMCID: PMC7582293 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21197289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2020] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Recognition of the non-self signature of invading pathogens is a crucial step for the initiation of the innate immune mechanisms of the host. The host response to viral and bacterial infection involves sets of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which bind evolutionarily conserved pathogen structures, known as pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). Recent advances in the identification of different types of PRRs in teleost fish revealed a number of cytosolic sensors for recognition of viral and bacterial nucleic acids. These are DExD/H-box RNA helicases including a group of well-characterized retinoic acid inducible gene I (RIG-I)-like receptors (RLRs) and non-RLR DExD/H-box RNA helicases (e.g., DDX1, DDX3, DHX9, DDX21, DHX36 and DDX41) both involved in recognition of viral RNAs. Another group of PRRs includes cytosolic DNA sensors (CDSs), such as cGAS and LSm14A involved in recognition of viral and intracellular bacterial dsDNAs. Moreover, dsRNA-sensing protein kinase R (PKR), which has a role in antiviral immune responses in higher vertebrates, has been identified in fish. Additionally, fish possess a novel PKR-like protein kinase containing Z-DNA binding domain, known as PKZ. Here, we review the current knowledge concerning cytosolic sensors for recognition of viral and bacterial nucleic acids in teleosts.
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Christou-Kent M, Dhellemmes M, Lambert E, Ray PF, Arnoult C. Diversity of RNA-Binding Proteins Modulating Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Protein Expression in the Maturing Mammalian Oocyte. Cells 2020; 9:cells9030662. [PMID: 32182827 PMCID: PMC7140715 DOI: 10.3390/cells9030662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The oocyte faces a particular challenge in terms of gene regulation. When oocytes resume meiosis at the end of the growth phase and prior to ovulation, the condensed chromatin state prevents the transcription of genes as they are required. Transcription is effectively silenced from the late germinal vesicle (GV) stage until embryonic genome activation (EGA) following fertilisation. Therefore, during its growth, the oocyte must produce the mRNA transcripts needed to fulfil its protein requirements during the active period of meiotic completion, fertilisation, and the maternal-to zygote-transition (MZT). After meiotic resumption, gene expression control can be said to be transferred from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, from transcriptional regulation to translational regulation. Maternal RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are the mediators of translational regulation and their role in oocyte maturation and early embryo development is vital. Understanding these mechanisms will provide invaluable insight into the oocyte's requirements for developmental competence, with important implications for the diagnosis and treatment of certain types of infertility. Here, we give an overview of post-transcriptional regulation in the oocyte, emphasising the current knowledge of mammalian RBP mechanisms, and develop the roles of these mechanisms in the timely activation and elimination of maternal transcripts.
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- Marie Christou-Kent
- Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (M.C.-K.); (M.D.); (E.L.); (P.F.R.)
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (M.C.-K.); (M.D.); (E.L.); (P.F.R.)
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (M.C.-K.); (M.D.); (E.L.); (P.F.R.)
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (M.C.-K.); (M.D.); (E.L.); (P.F.R.)
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (M.C.-K.); (M.D.); (E.L.); (P.F.R.)
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +33-(0)4-76-63-74-08
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Tang NH, Kim KW, Xu S, Blazie SM, Yee BA, Yeo GW, Jin Y, Chisholm AD. The mRNA Decay Factor CAR-1/LSM14 Regulates Axon Regeneration via Mitochondrial Calcium Dynamics. Curr Biol 2020; 30:865-876.e7. [PMID: 31983639 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2019] [Revised: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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mRNA decay factors regulate mRNA turnover by recruiting non-translating mRNAs and targeting them for translational repression and mRNA degradation. How mRNA decay pathways regulate cellular function in vivo with specificity is poorly understood. Here, we show that C. elegans mRNA decay factors, including the translational repressors CAR-1/LSM14 and CGH-1/DDX6, and the decapping enzymes DCAP-1/DCP1, function in neurons to differentially regulate axon development, maintenance, and regrowth following injury. In neuronal cell bodies, CAR-1 fully colocalizes with CGH-1 and partially colocalizes with DCAP-1, suggesting that mRNA decay components form at least two types of cytoplasmic granules. Following axon injury in adult neurons, loss of CAR-1 or CGH-1 results in increased axon regrowth and growth cone formation, whereas loss of DCAP-1 or DCAP-2 results in reduced regrowth. To determine how CAR-1 inhibits regrowth, we analyzed mRNAs bound to pan-neuronally expressed GFP::CAR-1 using a crosslinking and immunoprecipitation-based approach. Among the putative mRNA targets of CAR-1, we characterized the roles of micu-1, a regulator of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter MCU-1, in axon injury. We show that loss of car-1 results increased MICU-1 protein levels, and that enhanced axon regrowth in car-1 mutants is dependent on micu-1 and mcu-1. Moreover, axon injury induces transient calcium influx into axonal mitochondria, dependent on MCU-1. In car-1 loss-of-function mutants and in micu-1 overexpressing animals, the axonal mitochondrial calcium influx is more sustained, which likely underlies enhanced axon regrowth. Our data uncover a novel pathway that controls axon regrowth through axonal mitochondrial calcium uptake.
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- Ngang Heok Tang
- Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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Tian L, Wu C, Wen G, Li C. Transcriptional responses of LSm14A after infection of blue eggshell layers with Newcastle disease viruses. J Vet Med Sci 2019; 81:1468-1474. [PMID: 31534060 PMCID: PMC6863722 DOI: 10.1292/jvms.19-0125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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LSm14A is a key innate immunity component of processing body (P-body) that mediates
interferon-β (IFN-β) signaling by viral RNA. This is the first study to report chicken
LSm14A (cLSm14A) cloning from blue eggshell layer, high
tibia and frizzle chickens. The cLSm14A gene, encoding 461
amino acids, is highly homologous in the three types of chickens. The cLSm14A was
extensively expressed in several tissues. The transcriptional level of cLSm14A was
significantly increased in various stages of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) infection. In
HEK293 cells, full length cLSm14A from blue eggshell layer was localized
in the cytoplasm as dots. The results of this study indicated that cLSm14A is an important
sensor that mediates innate immunity in chicken against NDV infections.
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- Lang Tian
- College of Animal Sciences, Preventive Veterinary Laboratory, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025 China
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- Agricultural and Rural Bureau of Anshun City, Guizhou Province, Anshun 561000 China
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- College of Animal Sciences, Preventive Veterinary Laboratory, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025 China
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- College of Animal Sciences, Preventive Veterinary Laboratory, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025 China
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Takase S, Kurokawa R, Kondoh Y, Honda K, Suzuki T, Kawahara T, Ikeda H, Dohmae N, Osada H, Shin-ya K, Kushiro T, Yoshida M, Matsumoto K. Mechanism of Action of Prethioviridamide, an Anticancer Ribosomally Synthesized and Post-Translationally Modified Peptide with a Polythioamide Structure. ACS Chem Biol 2019; 14:1819-1828. [PMID: 31365229 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.9b00410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Thioviridamide, prethioviridamide, and JBIR-140, which are ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) possessing five thioamide bonds, induce selective apoptosis in various cancer cells, especially those expressing the adenovirus oncogene E1A. However, the target protein of this unique family of bioactive compounds was previously unknown. To investigate the mechanism of action, we adopted a combined approach of genome-wide shRNA library screening, transcriptome profiling, and biochemical identification of prethioviridamide-binding proteins. An shRNA screen identified 63 genes involved in cell sensitivity to prethioviridamide, which included translation initiation factors, aminoacyl tRNA synthetases, and mitochondrial proteins. Transcriptome profiling and subsequent analysis revealed that prethioviridamide induces the integrated stress response (ISR) through the GCN2-ATF4 pathway, which is likely to cause cell death. Furthermore, we found that prethioviridamide binds and inhibits respiratory chain complex V (F1Fo-ATP synthase) in mitochondria, suggesting that inhibition of complex V leads to activation of the GCN2-ATF4 pathway. These results imply that the members of a unique family of RiPPs with polythioamide structure target mitochondria to induce the ISR.
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- Shohei Takase
- Chemical Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- School of Agriculture, Meiji University, 1-1-1 Higashimita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 214-8571, Japan
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- Chemical Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Chemical Biology Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Chemical Biology Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Biomolecular Characterization Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Japan Biological Informatics Consortium (JBIC), 2-4-7 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan
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- Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences, Kitasato University, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0373, Japan
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- Biomolecular Characterization Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Chemical Biology Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2-4-7 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan
- Collaborative Research Institute for Innovative Microbiology, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- School of Agriculture, Meiji University, 1-1-1 Higashimita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 214-8571, Japan
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- Chemical Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- Collaborative Research Institute for Innovative Microbiology, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
- Seed Compounds Exploratory Unit for Drug Discovery Platform, Drug Discovery Platforms Cooperation Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- Chemical Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- Seed Compounds Exploratory Unit for Drug Discovery Platform, Drug Discovery Platforms Cooperation Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Cragle CE, MacNicol MC, Byrum SD, Hardy LL, Mackintosh SG, Richardson WA, Gray NK, Childs GV, Tackett AJ, MacNicol AM. Musashi interaction with poly(A)-binding protein is required for activation of target mRNA translation. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:10969-10986. [PMID: 31152063 PMCID: PMC6635449 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.007220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2019] [Revised: 05/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The Musashi family of mRNA translational regulators controls both physiological and pathological stem cell self-renewal primarily by repressing target mRNAs that promote differentiation. In response to differentiation cues, Musashi can switch from a repressor to an activator of target mRNA translation. However, the molecular events that distinguish Musashi-mediated translational activation from repression are not understood. We have previously reported that Musashi function is required for the maturation of Xenopus oocytes and specifically for translational activation of specific dormant maternal mRNAs. Here, we employed MS to identify cellular factors necessary for Musashi-dependent mRNA translational activation. We report that Musashi1 needs to associate with the embryonic poly(A)-binding protein (ePABP) or the canonical somatic cell poly(A)-binding protein PABPC1 for activation of Musashi target mRNA translation. Co-immunoprecipitation studies demonstrated an increased Musashi1 interaction with ePABP during oocyte maturation. Attenuation of endogenous ePABP activity severely compromised Musashi function, preventing downstream signaling and blocking oocyte maturation. Ectopic expression of either ePABP or PABPC1 restored Musashi-dependent mRNA translational activation and maturation of ePABP-attenuated oocytes. Consistent with these Xenopus findings, PABPC1 remained associated with Musashi under conditions of Musashi target mRNA de-repression and translation during mammalian stem cell differentiation. Because association of Musashi1 with poly(A)-binding proteins has previously been implicated only in repression of Musashi target mRNAs, our findings reveal novel context-dependent roles for the interaction of Musashi with poly(A)-binding protein family members in response to extracellular cues that control cell fate.
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- Chad E Cragle
- Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences
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- Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences,; Center for Translational Neuroscience
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,; Arkansas Children's Research Institute
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- Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences
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- MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences,; Center for Translational Neuroscience
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,; Arkansas Children's Research Institute
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- Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences,; Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205 and.
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Poornima G, Mythili R, Nag P, Parbin S, Verma PK, Hussain T, Rajyaguru PI. RGG-motif self-association regulates eIF4G-binding translation repressor protein Scd6. RNA Biol 2019; 16:1215-1227. [PMID: 31157589 PMCID: PMC6693564 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2019.1621623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Regulation of mRNA translation plays a key role in the control of gene expression. Scd6, a conserved RGG-motif containing protein represses translation by binding to translation initiation factor eIF4G1. Here we report that Scd6 binds itself in RGG-motif dependent manner and self-association regulates its repression activity. Scd6 self-interaction competes with eIF4G1 binding and methylation of Scd6 RGG-motif by Hmt1 negatively affects self-association. Results pertaining to Sbp1 indicate that self-association could be a general feature of RGG-motif containing translation repressor proteins. Taken together, our study reveals a mechanism of regulation of eIF4G-binding RGG-motif translation repressors.
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- a Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore , India.,b Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario , London , Canada
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- c Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore , India
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- a Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore , India
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- a Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore , India
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- c Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore , India
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Issigonis M, Newmark PA. From worm to germ: Germ cell development and regeneration in planarians. Curr Top Dev Biol 2019; 135:127-153. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2019.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Trypanosoma brucei PRMT1 Is a Nucleic Acid Binding Protein with a Role in Energy Metabolism and the Starvation Stress Response. mBio 2018; 9:mBio.02430-18. [PMID: 30563898 PMCID: PMC6299225 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02430-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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In Trypanosoma brucei and related kinetoplastid parasites, transcription of protein coding genes is largely unregulated. Rather, mRNA binding proteins, which impact processes such as transcript stability and translation efficiency, are the predominant regulators of gene expression. Arginine methylation is a posttranslational modification that preferentially targets RNA binding proteins and is, therefore, likely to have a substantial impact on T. brucei biology. The data presented here demonstrate that cells depleted of T. brucei PRMT1 (TbPRMT1), a major type I protein arginine methyltransferase, exhibit decreased virulence in an animal model. To understand the basis of this phenotype, quantitative global proteomics was employed to measure protein steady-state levels in cells lacking TbPRMT1. The approach revealed striking changes in proteins involved in energy metabolism. Most prominent were a decrease in glycolytic enzyme abundance and an increase in proline degradation pathway components, changes that resemble the metabolic remodeling that occurs during T. brucei life cycle progression. The work describes several RNA binding proteins whose association with mRNA was altered in TbPRMT1-depleted cells, and a large number of TbPRMT1-interacting proteins, thereby highlighting potential TbPRMT1 substrates. Many proteins involved in the T. brucei starvation stress response were found to interact with TbPRMT1, prompting analysis of the response of TbPRMT1-depleted cells to nutrient deprivation. Indeed, depletion of TbPRMT1 strongly hinders the ability of T. brucei to form cytoplasmic mRNA granules under starvation conditions. Finally, this work shows that TbPRMT1 itself binds nucleic acids in vitro and in vivo, a feature completely novel to protein arginine methyltransferases.IMPORTANCE Trypanosoma brucei infection causes human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, a disease with a nearly 100% fatality rate when untreated. Current drugs are expensive, toxic, and highly impractical to administer, prompting the community to explore various unique aspects of T. brucei biology in search of better treatments. In this study, we identified the protein arginine methyltransferase (PRMT), TbPRMT1, as a factor that modulates numerous aspects of T. brucei biology. These include glycolysis and life cycle progression signaling, both of which are being intensely researched toward identification of potential drug targets. Our data will aid research in those fields. Furthermore, we demonstrate for the first time a direct association of a PRMT with nucleic acids, a finding we believe could translate to other organisms, including humans, thereby impacting research in fields as distant as human cancer biology and immune response modulation.
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Zeidan Q, He F, Zhang F, Zhang H, Jacobson A, Hinnebusch AG. Conserved mRNA-granule component Scd6 targets Dhh1 to repress translation initiation and activates Dcp2-mediated mRNA decay in vivo. PLoS Genet 2018; 14:e1007806. [PMID: 30532217 PMCID: PMC6307823 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2018] [Revised: 12/27/2018] [Accepted: 11/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Scd6 protein family members are evolutionarily conserved components of translationally silent mRNA granules. Yeast Scd6 interacts with Dcp2 and Dhh1, respectively a subunit and a regulator of the mRNA decapping enzyme, and also associates with translation initiation factor eIF4G to inhibit translation in cell extracts. However, the role of Scd6 in mRNA turnover and translational repression in vivo is unclear. We demonstrate that tethering Scd6 to a GFP reporter mRNA reduces mRNA abundance via Dcp2 and suppresses reporter mRNA translation via Dhh1. Thus, in a dcp2Δ mutant, tethered Scd6 reduces GFP protein expression with little effect on mRNA abundance, whereas tethered Scd6 has no impact on GFP protein or mRNA expression in a dcp2Δ dhh1Δ double mutant. The conserved LSm domain of Scd6 is required for translational repression and mRNA turnover by tethered Scd6. Both functions are enhanced in a ccr4Δ mutant, suggesting that the deadenylase function of Ccr4-Not complex interferes with a more efficient repression pathway enlisted by Scd6. Ribosome profiling and RNA-Seq analysis of scd6Δ and dhh1Δ mutants suggests that Scd6 cooperates with Dhh1 in translational repression and turnover of particular native mRNAs, with both processes dependent on Dcp2. Our results suggest that Scd6 can (i) recruit Dhh1 to confer translational repression and (ii) activate mRNA decapping by Dcp2 with attendant degradation of specific mRNAs in vivo, in a manner dependent on the Scd6 LSm domain and modulated by Ccr4.
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- Quira Zeidan
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
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Chong PA, Vernon RM, Forman-Kay JD. RGG/RG Motif Regions in RNA Binding and Phase Separation. J Mol Biol 2018; 430:4650-4665. [PMID: 29913160 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 230] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2018] [Revised: 06/02/2018] [Accepted: 06/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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RGG/RG motifs are RNA binding segments found in many proteins that can partition into membraneless organelles. They occur in the context of low-complexity disordered regions and often in multiple copies. Although short RGG/RG-containing regions can sometimes form high-affinity interactions with RNA structures, multiple RGG/RG repeats are generally required for high-affinity binding, suggestive of the dynamic, multivalent interactions that are thought to underlie phase separation in formation of cellular membraneless organelles. Arginine can interact with nucleotide bases via hydrogen bonding and π-stacking; thus, nucleotide conformers that provide access to the bases provide enhanced opportunities for RGG interactions. Methylation of RGG/RG regions, which is accomplished by protein arginine methyltransferase enzymes, occurs to different degrees in different cell types and may regulate the behavior of proteins containing these regions.
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- P Andrew Chong
- Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Roy D, Rajyaguru PI. Suppressor of clathrin deficiency (Scd6)-An emerging RGG-motif translation repressor. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2018; 9:e1479. [DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2017] [Revised: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 03/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Debadrita Roy
- Department of Biochemistry; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore India
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Matsumoto K, Kose S, Kuwahara I, Yoshimura M, Imamoto N, Yoshida M. Y-box protein-associated acidic protein (YBAP1/C1QBP) affects the localization and cytoplasmic functions of YB-1. Sci Rep 2018; 8:6198. [PMID: 29670170 PMCID: PMC5906478 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-24401-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2018] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The Y-box proteins are multifunctional nucleic acid-binding proteins involved in various aspects of gene regulation. The founding member of the Y-box protein family, YB-1, functions as a transcription factor as well as a principal component of messenger ribonucleoprotein particles (mRNPs) in somatic cells. The nuclear level of YB-1 is well correlated with poor prognosis in many human cancers. Previously, we showed that a Y-box protein–associated acidic protein, YBAP1, which is identical to complement component 1, q subcomponent-binding protein (C1QBP, also called gC1qR, hyaluronan-binding protein 1 [HABP1] or ASF/SF2-associated protein p32), relieves translational repression by YB-1. Here we show that the nuclear localization of YB-1 harboring a point mutation in the cold shock domain was inhibited when co-expressed with YBAP1, whereas cytoplasmic accumulation of the wild-type YB-1 was not affected. We showed that YBAP1 inhibited the interaction between YB-1 and transportin 1. In the cytoplasm, YBAP1 affected the accumulation of YB-1 to processing bodies (P-bodies) and partially abrogated the mRNA stabilization by YB-1. Our results, indicating that YBAP1/C1QBP regulates the nucleo-cytoplasmic distribution of YB-1 and its cytoplasmic functions, are consistent with a model that YBAP1/C1QBP acts as an mRNP remodeling factor.
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- Ken Matsumoto
- Chemical Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan. .,PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan. .,Molecular Entomology Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan.
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- Cellular Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR), RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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- Molecular Entomology Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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- Molecular Entomology Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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- Cellular Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR), RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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- Chemical Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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Brandmann T, Fakim H, Padamsi Z, Youn JY, Gingras AC, Fabian MR, Jinek M. Molecular architecture of LSM14 interactions involved in the assembly of mRNA silencing complexes. EMBO J 2018; 37:embj.201797869. [PMID: 29510985 DOI: 10.15252/embj.201797869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2017] [Revised: 01/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The LSM domain-containing protein LSM14/Rap55 plays a role in mRNA decapping, translational repression, and RNA granule (P-body) assembly. How LSM14 interacts with the mRNA silencing machinery, including the eIF4E-binding protein 4E-T and the DEAD-box helicase DDX6, is poorly understood. Here we report the crystal structure of the LSM domain of LSM14 bound to a highly conserved C-terminal fragment of 4E-T. The 4E-T C-terminus forms a bi-partite motif that wraps around the N-terminal LSM domain of LSM14. We also determined the crystal structure of LSM14 bound to the C-terminal RecA-like domain of DDX6. LSM14 binds DDX6 via a unique non-contiguous motif with distinct directionality as compared to other DDX6-interacting proteins. Together with mutational and proteomic studies, the LSM14-DDX6 structure reveals that LSM14 has adopted a divergent mode of binding DDX6 in order to support the formation of mRNA silencing complexes and P-body assembly.
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- Tobias Brandmann
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.,Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.,Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada .,Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Hara M, Lourido S, Petrova B, Lou HJ, Von Stetina JR, Kashevsky H, Turk BE, Orr-Weaver TL. Identification of PNG kinase substrates uncovers interactions with the translational repressor TRAL in the oocyte-to-embryo transition. eLife 2018; 7:33150. [PMID: 29480805 PMCID: PMC5826265 DOI: 10.7554/elife.33150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Accepted: 02/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The Drosophila Pan Gu (PNG) kinase complex regulates hundreds of maternal mRNAs that become translationally repressed or activated as the oocyte transitions to an embryo. In a previous paper (Hara et al., 2017), we demonstrated PNG activity is under tight developmental control and restricted to this transition. Here, examination of PNG specificity showed it to be a Thr-kinase yet lacking a clear phosphorylation site consensus sequence. An unbiased biochemical screen for PNG substrates identified the conserved translational repressor Trailer Hitch (TRAL). Phosphomimetic mutation of the PNG phospho-sites in TRAL reduced its ability to inhibit translation in vitro. In vivo, mutation of tral dominantly suppressed png mutants and restored Cyclin B protein levels. The repressor Pumilio (PUM) has the same relationship with PNG, and we also show that PUM is a PNG substrate. Furthermore, PNG can phosphorylate BICC and ME31B, repressors that bind TRAL in cytoplasmic RNPs. Therefore, PNG likely promotes translation at the oocyte-to-embryo transition by phosphorylating and inactivating translational repressors.
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, United States
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- Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, United States.,Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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Hua K, Li H, Chen H, Foda MF, Luo R, Jin H. Functional characterization of duck LSm14A in IFN-β induction. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY 2017; 76:255-261. [PMID: 28666650 DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2017.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2017] [Revised: 06/24/2017] [Accepted: 06/26/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Human LSm14A is a key component of processing body (P-body) assembly that mediates interferon-β (IFN-β) production by sensing viral RNA or DNA. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to report duck LSm14A (duLSm14A) cloning from duck embryo fibroblasts (DEFs). Full-length duLSm14A encoded 461 amino acids and was highly homologous with chicken and swan goose sequences. More interestingly, the duLSm14A mRNA was extensively expressed in all the studied tissues. In DEFs, duLSm14A was localized in the cytoplasm as P-body-like dots. Expression of duLSm14A induced IFN-β through the activation of interferon regulatory factor-1 and nuclear factor-κB in DEFs. Furthermore, knockdown of duLSm14A by small interfering RNA notably decreased poly(I:C)- or duck reovirus-induced IFN-β production. The present study results indicate that the duLSm14A is an essential sensor that mediates duck innate immunity against viral infections.
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- Kexin Hua
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University, Moshtohor, Toukh 13736, Egypt
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
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Götze M, Dufourt J, Ihling C, Rammelt C, Pierson S, Sambrani N, Temme C, Sinz A, Simonelig M, Wahle E. Translational repression of the Drosophila nanos mRNA involves the RNA helicase Belle and RNA coating by Me31B and Trailer hitch. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2017; 23:1552-1568. [PMID: 28701521 PMCID: PMC5602113 DOI: 10.1261/rna.062208.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Translational repression of maternal mRNAs is an essential regulatory mechanism during early embryonic development. Repression of the Drosophila nanos mRNA, required for the formation of the anterior-posterior body axis, depends on the protein Smaug binding to two Smaug recognition elements (SREs) in the nanos 3' UTR. In a comprehensive mass spectrometric analysis of the SRE-dependent repressor complex, we identified Smaug, Cup, Me31B, Trailer hitch, eIF4E, and PABPC, in agreement with earlier data. As a novel component, the RNA-dependent ATPase Belle (DDX3) was found, and its involvement in deadenylation and repression of nanos was confirmed in vivo. Smaug, Cup, and Belle bound stoichiometrically to the SREs, independently of RNA length. Binding of Me31B and Tral was also SRE-dependent, but their amounts were proportional to the length of the RNA and equimolar to each other. We suggest that "coating" of the RNA by a Me31B•Tral complex may be at the core of repression.
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- Michael Götze
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, UMR9002 CNRS-University of Montpellier, 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Institute of Pharmacy, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, UMR9002 CNRS-University of Montpellier, 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Institute of Human Genetics, UMR9002 CNRS-University of Montpellier, 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmacy, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, UMR9002 CNRS-University of Montpellier, 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, Germany
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Controlling the Messenger: Regulated Translation of Maternal mRNAs in Xenopus laevis Development. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2017; 953:49-82. [PMID: 27975270 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46095-6_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The selective translation of maternal mRNAs encoding cell-fate determinants drives the earliest decisions of embryogenesis that establish the vertebrate body plan. This chapter will discuss studies in Xenopus laevis that provide insights into mechanisms underlying this translational control. Xenopus has been a powerful model organism for many discoveries relevant to the translational control of maternal mRNAs because of the large size of its oocytes and eggs that allow for microinjection of molecules and the relative ease of manipulating the oocyte to egg transition (maturation) and fertilization in culture. Consequently, many key studies have focused on the expression of maternal mRNAs during the oocyte to egg transition (the meiotic cell cycle) and the rapid cell divisions immediately following fertilization. This research has made seminal contributions to our understanding of translational regulatory mechanisms, but while some of the mRNAs under consideration at these stages encode cell-fate determinants, many encode cell cycle regulatory proteins that drive these early cell cycles. In contrast, while maternal mRNAs encoding key developmental (i.e., cell-fate) regulators that function after the first cleavage stages may exploit aspects of these foundational mechanisms, studies reveal that these mRNAs must also rely on distinct and, as of yet, incompletely understood mechanisms. These findings are logical because the functions of such developmental regulatory proteins have requirements distinct from cell cycle regulators, including becoming relevant only after fertilization and then only in specific cells of the embryo. Indeed, key maternal cell-fate determinants must be made available in exquisitely precise amounts (usually low), only at specific times and in specific cells during embryogenesis. To provide an appreciation for the regulation of maternal cell-fate determinant expression, an overview of the maternal phase of Xenopus embryogenesis will be presented. This section will be followed by a review of translational mechanisms operating in oocytes, eggs, and early cleavage-stage embryos and conclude with a discussion of how the regulation of key maternal cell-fate determinants at the level of translation functions in Xenopus embryogenesis. A key theme is that the molecular asymmetries critical for forming the body axes are established and further elaborated upon by the selective temporal and spatial regulation of maternal mRNA translation.
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Zhang T, Li Y, Li H, Ma XS, Ouyang YC, Hou Y, Schatten H, Sun QY. RNA-associated protein LSM family member 14 controls oocyte meiotic maturation through regulating mRNA pools. J Reprod Dev 2017; 63:383-388. [PMID: 28458300 PMCID: PMC5593090 DOI: 10.1262/jrd.2017-018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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LSM family member 14 (LSM14) belongs to the RNA-associated protein (RAP) family that is widely expressed in different species, and whose functions include associating and storing mRNAs. In the present study, we found that LSM14b was essential for oocyte meiotic maturation. Lack of LSM14b caused oocyte meiotic arrest at metaphase, and misalignment of chromosomes, as well as abnormal spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) and maturation promoting factor (MPF) activation. Cyclin B1 and Cdc20 mRNAs, whose contents changed with LSM14b expression, were likely direct targets of LSM14b. We conclude that LSM14b, by functioning as a container of mRNAs, controls protein expression, and thus regulates the oocyte meiotic maturation process.
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- Teng Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- College of Animal Science, Guangxi University, Nanning 530003, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Cup regulates oskar mRNA stability during oogenesis. Dev Biol 2017; 421:77-85. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.06.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2016] [Revised: 06/22/2016] [Accepted: 06/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Mäkinen K, Lõhmus A, Pollari M. Plant RNA Regulatory Network and RNA Granules in Virus Infection. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:2093. [PMID: 29312371 PMCID: PMC5732267 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2017] [Accepted: 11/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Regulation of post-transcriptional gene expression on mRNA level in eukaryotic cells includes translocation, translation, translational repression, storage, mRNA decay, RNA silencing, and nonsense-mediated decay. These processes are associated with various RNA-binding proteins and cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein complexes many of which are conserved across eukaryotes. Microscopically visible aggregations formed by ribonucleoprotein complexes are termed RNA granules. Stress granules where the translationally inactive mRNAs are stored and processing bodies where mRNA decay may occur present the most studied RNA granule types. Diverse RNP-granules are increasingly being assigned important roles in viral infections. Although the majority of the molecular level studies on the role of RNA granules in viral translation and replication have been conducted in mammalian systems, some studies link also plant virus infection to RNA granules. An increasing body of evidence indicates that plant viruses require components of stress granules and processing bodies for their replication and translation, but how extensively the cellular mRNA regulatory network is utilized by plant viruses has remained largely enigmatic. Antiviral RNA silencing, which is an important regulator of viral RNA stability and expression in plants, is commonly counteracted by viral suppressors of RNA silencing. Some of the RNA silencing suppressors localize to cellular RNA granules and have been proposed to carry out their suppression functions there. Moreover, plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat protein-mediated virus resistance has been linked to enhanced processing body formation and translational repression of viral RNA. Many interesting questions relate to how the pathways of antiviral RNA silencing leading to viral RNA degradation and/or repression of translation, suppression of RNA silencing and viral RNA translation converge in plants and how different RNA granules and their individual components contribute to these processes. In this review we discuss the roles of cellular RNA regulatory mechanisms and RNA granules in plant virus infection in the light of current knowledge and compare the findings to those made in animal virus studies.
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Poornima G, Shah S, Vignesh V, Parker R, Rajyaguru PI. Arginine methylation promotes translation repression activity of eIF4G-binding protein, Scd6. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 44:9358-9368. [PMID: 27613419 PMCID: PMC5100564 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2016] [Accepted: 08/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Regulation of translation plays a critical role in determining mRNA fate. A new role was recently reported for a subset of RGG-motif proteins in repressing translation initiation by binding eIF4G1. However the signaling mechanism(s) that leads to spatial and temporal regulation of repression activity of RGG-motif proteins remains unknown. Here we report the role of arginine methylation in regulation of repression activity of Scd6, a conserved RGG-motif protein. We demonstrate that Scd6 gets arginine methylated at its RGG-motif and Hmt1 plays an important role in its methylation. We identify specific methylated arginine residues in the Scd6 RGG-motif in vivo We provide evidence that methylation augments Scd6 repression activity. Arginine methylation defective (AMD) mutant of Scd6 rescues the growth defect caused by overexpression of Scd6, a feature of translation repressors in general. Live-cell imaging of the AMD mutant revealed that it is defective in inducing formation of stress granules. Live-cell imaging and pull-down results indicate that it fails to bind eIF4G1 efficiently. Consistent with these results, a strain lacking Hmt1 is also defective in Scd6-eIF4G1 interaction. Our results establish that arginine methylation augments Scd6 repression activity by promoting eIF4G1-binding. We propose that arginine methylation of translation repressors with RGG-motif could be a general modulator of their repression activity.
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- Gopalakrishna Poornima
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, C V Raman Road, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, C V Raman Road, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, 596 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, C V Raman Road, Bangalore 560012, India
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Kırlı K, Karaca S, Dehne HJ, Samwer M, Pan KT, Lenz C, Urlaub H, Görlich D. A deep proteomics perspective on CRM1-mediated nuclear export and nucleocytoplasmic partitioning. eLife 2015; 4:e11466. [PMID: 26673895 PMCID: PMC4764573 DOI: 10.7554/elife.11466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2015] [Accepted: 12/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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CRM1 is a highly conserved, RanGTPase-driven exportin that carries proteins and RNPs from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. We now explored the cargo-spectrum of CRM1 in depth and identified surprisingly large numbers, namely >700 export substrates from the yeast S. cerevisiae, ≈1000 from Xenopus oocytes and >1050 from human cells. In addition, we quantified the partitioning of ≈5000 unique proteins between nucleus and cytoplasm of Xenopus oocytes. The data suggest new CRM1 functions in spatial control of vesicle coat-assembly, centrosomes, autophagy, peroxisome biogenesis, cytoskeleton, ribosome maturation, translation, mRNA degradation, and more generally in precluding a potentially detrimental action of cytoplasmic pathways within the nuclear interior. There are also numerous new instances where CRM1 appears to act in regulatory circuits. Altogether, our dataset allows unprecedented insights into the nucleocytoplasmic organisation of eukaryotic cells, into the contributions of an exceedingly promiscuous exportin and it provides a new basis for NES prediction.
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- Koray Kırlı
- Department of Cellular Logistics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Logistics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
- Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Logistics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Logistics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
- Bioanalytics, Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
- Bioanalytics, Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Logistics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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Ladomery M, Sommerville J. The Scd6/Lsm14 protein xRAPB has properties different from RAP55 in selecting mRNA for early translation or intracellular distribution in Xenopus oocytes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2015; 1849:1363-73. [PMID: 26455898 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2015.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2015] [Revised: 10/03/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Oocytes accumulate mRNAs in the form of maternal ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particles, the protein components of which determine the location and stability of individual mRNAs prior to translation. Scd6/Lsm14 proteins, typified by RAP55, function in a wide range of eukaryotes in repressing translation and relocating mRNPs to processing bodies and stress granules. In Xenopus laevis, the RAP55 orthologue xRAPA fulfils these functions. Here we describe the properties of a variant of xRAPA, xRAPB, which is a member of the Lsm14B group. xRAPB differs from xRAPA in various respects: it is expressed at high concentration earlier in oogenesis; it interacts specifically with the DDX6 helicase Xp54; it is detected in polysomes and stalled translation initiation complexes; its over-expression leads to selective binding to translatable mRNA species without evidence of translation repression or mRNA degradation. Since both Xp54 and xRAPA are repressors of translation, activation appears to be effected through targeting of xRAPB/Xp54.
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- Michael Ladomery
- Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, Biomolecular Sciences Building, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9TS, UK
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- Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, Biomolecular Sciences Building, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9TS, UK.
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Schweidenback CTH, Emerman AB, Jambhekar A, Blower MD. Evidence for multiple, distinct ADAR-containing complexes in Xenopus laevis. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2015; 21:279-295. [PMID: 25519486 PMCID: PMC4338354 DOI: 10.1261/rna.047787.114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2014] [Accepted: 11/20/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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ADAR (adenosine deaminase acting on RNA) is an RNA-editing enzyme present in most metazoans that converts adenosines in double-stranded RNA targets into inosines. Although the RNA targets of ADAR-mediated editing have been extensively cataloged, our understanding of the cellular function of such editing remains incomplete. We report that long, double-stranded RNA added to Xenopus laevis egg extract is incorporated into an ADAR-containing complex whose protein components resemble those of stress granules. This complex localizes to microtubules, as assayed by accumulation on meiotic spindles. We observe that the length of a double-stranded RNA influences its incorporation into the microtubule-localized complex. ADAR forms a similar complex with endogenous RNA, but the endogenous complex fails to localize to microtubules. In addition, we characterize the endogenous, ADAR-associated RNAs and discover that they are enriched for transcripts encoding transcriptional regulators, zinc-finger proteins, and components of the secretory pathway. Interestingly, association with ADAR correlates with previously reported translational repression in early embryonic development. This work demonstrates that ADAR is a component of two, distinct ribonucleoprotein complexes that contain different types of RNAs and exhibit diverse cellular localization patterns. Our findings offer new insight into the potential cellular functions of ADAR.
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- Caterina T H Schweidenback
- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Ostareck DH, Naarmann-de Vries IS, Ostareck-Lederer A. DDX6 and its orthologs as modulators of cellular and viral RNA expression. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2014; 5:659-78. [PMID: 24788243 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2013] [Revised: 03/19/2014] [Accepted: 03/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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DDX6 (Rck/p54), a member of the DEAD-box family of helicases, is highly conserved from unicellular eukaryotes to vertebrates. Functions of DDX6 and its orthologs in dynamic ribonucleoproteins contribute to global and transcript-specific messenger RNA (mRNA) storage, translational repression, and decay during development and differentiation in the germline and somatic cells. Its role in pathways that promote mRNA-specific alternative translation initiation has been shown to be linked to cellular homeostasis, deregulated tissue development, and the control of gene expression in RNA viruses. Recently, DDX6 was found to participate in mRNA regulation mediated by miRNA-mediated silencing. DDX6 and its orthologs have versatile functions in mRNA metabolism, which characterize them as important post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression.
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- Dirk H Ostareck
- Experimental Research Unit, Department of Intensive Care and Intermediate Care, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Quantitative proteomics of Xenopus laevis embryos: expression kinetics of nearly 4000 proteins during early development. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4365. [PMID: 24626130 PMCID: PMC3953746 DOI: 10.1038/srep04365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2014] [Accepted: 02/17/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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While there is a rich literature on transcription dynamics during the development of many organisms, protein data is limited. We used iTRAQ isotopic labeling and mass spectrometry to generate the largest developmental proteomic dataset for any animal. Expression dynamics of nearly 4,000 proteins of Xenopuslaevis was generated from fertilized egg to neurula embryo. Expression clusters into groups. The cluster profiles accurately reflect the major events that mark changes in gene expression patterns during early Xenopus development. We observed decline in the expression of ten DNA replication factors after the midblastula transition (MBT), including a marked decline of the licensing factor XCdc6. Ectopic expression of XCdc6 leads to apoptosis; temporal changes in this protein are critical for proper development. Measurement of expression in single embryos provided no evidence for significant protein heterogeneity between embryos at the same stage of development.
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The storage of translationally inactive mRNAs in cytosolic granules enables cells to react flexibly to environmental changes. In eukaryotes, Scd6 (suppressor of clathrin deficiency 6)/Rap55 (RNA-associated protein 55), a member of the LSm14 (like-Sm14) family, is an important factor in the formation and activity of P-bodies, where mRNA decay factors accumulate, in stress granules that store mRNAs under adverse conditions and in granules that store developmentally regulated mRNAs. SCD6 from Trypanosoma brucei (TbSCD6) shares the same domain architecture as orthologous proteins in other organisms and is also present in cytosolic granules (equivalent to P-bodies). We show that TbSCD6 is a general repressor of translation and that its depletion by RNAi results in a global increase in protein synthesis. With few exceptions, the steady-state levels of proteins are unchanged. TbSCD6 is not required for the formation of starvation-induced granules in trypanosomes, and unlike Scd6 from yeast, Plasmodium and all multicellular organisms analysed to date, it does not form a complex with the helicase Dhh1 (DExD/H-box helicase 1). In common with Xenopus laevis RAP55, TbSCD6 co-purifies with two arginine methyltransferases; moreover, TbSCD6 itself is methylated on three arginine residues. Finally, a detailed analysis identified roles for the Lsm and N-rich domains in both protein localization and translational repression.
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Jonas S, Izaurralde E. The role of disordered protein regions in the assembly of decapping complexes and RNP granules. Genes Dev 2014; 27:2628-41. [PMID: 24352420 PMCID: PMC3877753 DOI: 10.1101/gad.227843.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Removal of the 5′ cap structure is a critical step in mRNA turnover, yet key questions regarding the assembly and regulation of decapping complexes remain unanswered. This review provides comprehensive insight into the structural and biochemical properties of decapping factors. Jonas and Izaurralde highlight the plasticity of the decapping network and cover recent advances that reveal how short linear motifs (SliMs) in disordered regions help maintain interactions between decapping network members. The removal of the 5′ cap structure by the decapping enzyme DCP2 inhibits translation and generally commits the mRNA to irreversible 5′-to-3′ exonucleolytic degradation by XRN1. DCP2 catalytic activity is stimulated by DCP1, and these proteins form the conserved core of the decapping complex. Additional decapping factors orchestrate the recruitment and activity of this complex in vivo. These factors include enhancer of decapping 3 (EDC3), EDC4, like Sm14A (LSm14A), Pat, the LSm1–7 complex, and the RNA helicase DDX6. Decapping factors are often modular and feature folded domains flanked or connected by low-complexity disordered regions. Recent studies have made important advances in understanding how these disordered regions contribute to the assembly of decapping complexes and promote phase transitions that drive RNP granule formation. These studies have also revealed that the decapping network is governed by interactions mediated by short linear motifs (SLiMs) in these disordered regions. Consequently, the network has rapidly evolved, and although decapping factors are conserved, individual interactions between orthologs have been rewired during evolution. The plasticity of the network facilitates the acquisition of additional subunits or domains in pre-existing subunits, enhances opportunities for regulating mRNA degradation, and eventually leads to the emergence of novel functions.
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- Stefanie Jonas
- Department of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Huang L, Kuwahara I, Matsumoto K. EWS represses cofilin 1 expression by inducing nuclear retention of cofilin 1 mRNA. Oncogene 2013; 33:2995-3003. [PMID: 23831569 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2013.255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2012] [Revised: 04/05/2013] [Accepted: 05/06/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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In Ewing's sarcoma family tumors (ESFTs), the proto-oncogene EWS that encodes an RNA-binding protein is fused by chromosomal translocation to the gene encoding one of the E-twenty six (ETS) family of transcription factors, most commonly friend leukemia virus integration 1 (FLI-1). Although EWS/FLI-1 chimeric proteins are necessary for carcinogenesis, additional events seem to be required for transformation to occur. We have previously reported that a protein product of an EWS mRNA target, whose expression is negatively regulated by EWS but not by EWS/FLI-1, contributes to ESFT development. However, the mechanism by which EWS represses protein expression remains to be elucidated. Here, we report that overexpression of full-length EWS repressed protein expression and induced nuclear retention of reporter mRNAs in a tethering assay. In contrast, when a mutant lacking the EWS C-terminal nuclear localization signal (classified as a PY-NLS) was expressed, reporter protein expression was upregulated, and the number of cells exporting reporter mRNA to the cytoplasm increased. EWS binds to the 3'-untranslated region in another mRNA target, cofilin 1 (CFL1), and negatively regulates the expression of CFL1. Overexpression of EWS induced nuclear retention of CFL1 mRNA. Furthermore, ESFT cell proliferation and metastatic potential were suppressed by small interfering RNA-mediated CFL1 knockdown. Together, our findings suggest that EWS induces nuclear retention of CFL1 mRNA, thereby suppressing expression of CFL1, and that CFL1 promotes development of ESFT. Targeting CFL1 might therefore provide another novel approach for treatment of this aggressive disease.
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- L Huang
- 1] Molecular Entomology Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Japan [2] Department of Pathophysiology, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
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- Molecular Entomology Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Japan
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- 1] Molecular Entomology Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Japan [2] PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan
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Kim MH, Sonoda Y, Sasaki K, Kaminaka H, Imai R. Interactome analysis reveals versatile functions of Arabidopsis COLD SHOCK DOMAIN PROTEIN 3 in RNA processing within the nucleus and cytoplasm. Cell Stress Chaperones 2013; 18:517-25. [PMID: 23334891 PMCID: PMC3682024 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-012-0398-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2012] [Revised: 12/13/2012] [Accepted: 12/18/2012] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Arabidopsis COLD SHOCK DOMAIN PROTEIN 3 (AtCSP3) shares an RNA chaperone function with E. coli cold shock proteins and regulates freezing tolerance during cold acclimation. Here, we screened for AtCSP3-interacting proteins using a yeast two-hybrid system and 38 candidate interactors were identified. Sixteen of these were further confirmed in planta interaction between AtCSP3 by a bi-molecular fluorescence complementation assay. We found that AtCSP3 interacts with CONSTANS-LIKE protein 15 and nuclear poly(A)-binding proteins in nuclear speckles. Three 60S ribosomal proteins (RPL26A, RPL40A/UBQ2, and RPL36aB) and the Gar1 RNA-binding protein interacted with AtCSP3 in the nucleolus and nucleoplasm, suggesting that AtCSP3 functions in ribosome biogenesis. Interactions with LOS2/enolase and glycine-rich RNA-binding protein 7 that are cold inducible, and an mRNA decapping protein 5 (DCP5) were observed in the cytoplasm. These data suggest that AtCSP3 participates in multiple complexes that reside in nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments and possibly regulates RNA processing and functioning.
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- Myung-Hee Kim
- />Crop Breeding Research Division, Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Hitsujigaoka 1, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, 062-8555 Japan
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- />Crop Breeding Research Division, Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Hitsujigaoka 1, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, 062-8555 Japan
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- />Crop Breeding Research Division, Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Hitsujigaoka 1, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, 062-8555 Japan
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- />Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan
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- />Crop Breeding Research Division, Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Hitsujigaoka 1, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, 062-8555 Japan
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Krüger T, Hofweber M, Kramer S. SCD6 induces ribonucleoprotein granule formation in trypanosomes in a translation-independent manner, regulated by its Lsm and RGG domains. Mol Biol Cell 2013; 24:2098-111. [PMID: 23676662 PMCID: PMC3694794 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e13-01-0068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Trypanosomes lack many core components of ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules identified in yeast and humans (e.g., DCP1/2). This study provides evidence for SCD6 being the core RNP granule component in trypanosomes: overexpression induces granules independent of translation, and even when SCD6 is targeted to the nucleus. Granule type and granule number are dependent on the RGG domain. Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules are cytoplasmic, microscopically visible structures composed of RNA and protein with proposed functions in mRNA decay and storage. Trypanosomes have several types of RNP granules, but lack most of the granule core components identified in yeast and humans. The exception is SCD6/Rap55, which is essential for processing body (P-body) formation. In this study, we analyzed the role of trypanosome SCD6 in RNP granule formation. Upon overexpression, the majority of SCD6 aggregates to multiple granules enriched at the nuclear periphery that recruit both P-body and stress granule proteins, as well as mRNAs. Granule protein composition depends on granule distance to the nucleus. In contrast to findings in yeast and humans, granule formation does not correlate with translational repression and can also take place in the nucleus after nuclear targeting of SCD6. While the SCD6 Lsm domain alone is both necessary and sufficient for granule induction, the RGG motif determines granule type and number: the absence of an intact RGG motif results in the formation of fewer granules that resemble P-bodies. The differences in granule number remain after nuclear targeting, indicating translation-independent functions of the RGG domain. We propose that, in trypanosomes, a local increase in SCD6 concentration may be sufficient to induce granules by recruiting mRNA. Proteins that bind selectively to the RGG and/or Lsm domain of SCD6 could be responsible for regulating granule type and number.
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- Timothy Krüger
- Lehrstuhl für Zell- und Entwicklungsbiologie, Biozentrum, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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Sanchez G, Dury AY, Murray LM, Biondi O, Tadesse H, El Fatimy R, Kothary R, Charbonnier F, Khandjian EW, Côté J. A novel function for the survival motoneuron protein as a translational regulator. Hum Mol Genet 2012; 22:668-84. [PMID: 23136128 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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SMN1, the causative gene for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), plays a housekeeping role in the biogenesis of small nuclear RNA ribonucleoproteins. SMN is also present in granular foci along axonal projections of motoneurons, which are the predominant cell type affected in the pathology. These so-called RNA granules mediate the transport of specific mRNAs along neurites and regulate mRNA localization, stability, as well as local translation. Recent work has provided evidence suggesting that SMN may participate in the assembly of RNA granules, but beyond that, the precise nature of its role within these structures remains unclear. Here, we demonstrate that SMN associates with polyribosomes and can repress translation in an in vitro translation system. We further identify the arginine methyltransferase CARM1 as an mRNA that is regulated at the translational level by SMN and find that CARM1 is abnormally up-regulated in spinal cord tissue from SMA mice and in severe type I SMA patient cells. We have previously characterized a novel regulatory pathway in motoneurons involving the SMN-interacting RNA-binding protein HuD and CARM1. Thus, our results suggest the existence of a potential negative feedback loop in this pathway. Importantly, an SMA-causing mutation in the Tudor domain of SMN completely abolished translational repression, a strong indication for the functional significance of this novel SMN activity in the pathology.
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- Gabriel Sanchez
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1H 8M5
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The NS1 protein of influenza A virus interacts with cellular processing bodies and stress granules through RNA-associated protein 55 (RAP55) during virus infection. J Virol 2012; 86:12695-707. [PMID: 22973032 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00647-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The nonstructural protein (NS1) of influenza A virus performs multiple functions in the virus life cycle. Proteomic screening for cellular proteins which interact with NS1 identified the cellular protein RAP55, which is one of the components of cellular processing bodies (P-bodies) and stress granules. To verify whether NS1 interacts with cellular P-bodies, interactions between NS1, RAP55, and other P-body-associated proteins (Ago1, Ago2, and DCP1a) were confirmed using coimmunoprecipitation and cellular colocalization assays. Overexpression of RAP55 induced RAP55-associated stress granule formation and suppressed virus replication. Knockdown of RAP55 with small interfering RNA (siRNA) or expression of a dominant-negative mutant RAP55 protein with defective interaction with P-bodies blocked NS1 colocalization to P-bodies in cells. Expression of NS1 inhibited RAP55 expression and formation of RAP55-associated P-bodies/stress granules. The viral nucleoprotein (NP) was found to be targeted to stress granules in the absence of NS1 but localized to P-bodies when NS1 was coexpressed. Restriction of virus replication via P-bodies occurred in the early phases of infection, as the number of RAP55-associated P-bodies in cells diminished over the course of virus infection. NS1 interaction with RAP55-associated P-bodies/stress granules was associated with RNA binding and mediated via a protein kinase R (PKR)-interacting viral element. Mutations introduced into either RNA binding sites (R38 and K41) or PKR interaction sites (I123, M124, K126, and N127) caused NS1 proteins to lose the ability to interact with RAP55 and to inhibit stress granules. These results reveal an interplay between virus and host during virus replication in which NP is targeted to P-bodies/stress granules while NS1 counteracts this host restriction mechanism.
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YB-1 functions as a porter to lead influenza virus ribonucleoprotein complexes to microtubules. J Virol 2012; 86:11086-95. [PMID: 22855482 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00453-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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De novo-synthesized RNAs are under the regulation of multiple posttranscriptional processes by a variety of RNA-binding proteins. The influenza virus genome consists of single-stranded RNAs and exists as viral ribonucleoprotein (vRNP) complexes. After the replication of vRNP in the nucleus, it is exported to the cytoplasm and then reaches the budding site beneath the cell surface in a process mediated by Rab11a-positive recycling endosomes along microtubules. However, the regulatory mechanisms of the postreplicational processes of vRNP are largely unknown. Here we identified, as a novel vRNP-interacting protein, Y-box-binding protein 1 (YB-1), a cellular protein that is involved in regulation of cellular transcription and translation. YB-1 translocated to the nucleus from the cytoplasm and accumulated in PML nuclear bodies in response to influenza virus infection. vRNP assembled into the exporting complexes with YB-1 at PML nuclear bodies. After nuclear export, using YB-1 knockdown cells and in vitro reconstituted systems, YB-1 was shown to be required for the interaction of vRNP exported from the nucleus with microtubules around the microtubule-organizing center (MTOC), where Rab11a-positive recycling endosomes were located. Further, we also found that YB-1 overexpression stimulates the production of progeny virions in an Rab11a-dependent manner. Taking these findings together, we propose that YB-1 is a porter that leads vRNP to microtubules from the nucleus and puts it into the vesicular trafficking system.
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Sengupta MS, Boag PR. Germ granules and the control of mRNA translation. IUBMB Life 2012; 64:586-94. [DOI: 10.1002/iub.1039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2012] [Accepted: 03/17/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Dheilly NM, Lelong C, Huvet A, Kellner K, Dubos MP, Riviere G, Boudry P, Favrel P. Gametogenesis in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas: a microarrays-based analysis identifies sex and stage specific genes. PLoS One 2012; 7:e36353. [PMID: 22590533 PMCID: PMC3348941 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2012] [Accepted: 04/03/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (Mollusca, Lophotrochozoa) is an alternative and irregular protandrous hermaphrodite: most individuals mature first as males and then change sex several times. Little is known about genetic and phenotypic basis of sex differentiation in oysters, and little more about the molecular pathways regulating reproduction. We have recently developed and validated a microarray containing 31,918 oligomers (Dheilly et al., 2011) representing the oyster transcriptome. The application of this microarray to the study of mollusk gametogenesis should provide a better understanding of the key factors involved in sex differentiation and the regulation of oyster reproduction. Methodology/Principal Findings Gene expression was studied in gonads of oysters cultured over a yearly reproductive cycle. Principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering showed a significant divergence in gene expression patterns of males and females coinciding with the start of gonial mitosis. ANOVA analysis of the data revealed 2,482 genes differentially expressed during the course of males and/or females gametogenesis. The expression of 434 genes could be localized in either germ cells or somatic cells of the gonad by comparing the transcriptome of female gonads to the transcriptome of stripped oocytes and somatic tissues. Analysis of the annotated genes revealed conserved molecular mechanisms between mollusks and mammals: genes involved in chromatin condensation, DNA replication and repair, mitosis and meiosis regulation, transcription, translation and apoptosis were expressed in both male and female gonads. Most interestingly, early expressed male-specific genes included bindin and a dpy-30 homolog and female-specific genes included foxL2, nanos homolog 3, a pancreatic lipase related protein, cd63 and vitellogenin. Further functional analyses are now required in order to investigate their role in sex differentiation in oysters. Conclusions/Significance This study allowed us to identify potential markers of early sex differentiation in the oyster C. gigas, an alternative hermaphrodite mollusk. We also provided new highly valuable information on genes specifically expressed by mature spermatozoids and mature oocytes.
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- Nolwenn M Dheilly
- Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Biologie des Organismes Marins et des Ecosystèmes Associés, IBFA, SFR ICORE, Caen, France.
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Matsumoto K, Nakayama H, Yoshimura M, Masuda A, Dohmae N, Matsumoto S, Tsujimoto M. PRMT1 is required for RAP55 to localize to processing bodies. RNA Biol 2012; 9:610-23. [PMID: 22614839 DOI: 10.4161/rna.19527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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In eukaryotic cells, components of messenger ribonucleoproteins (mRNPs) are often detected in cytoplasmic granules, such as processing bodies (P-bodies) and stress granules (SGs) where translationally repressed mRNAs accumulate. RAP55A, which is an RNA binding component of mRNPs, acts as a translational repressor and localizes to P-bodies and SGs. We found here that a homologous protein RAP55B also localized to P-bodies when expressed in human cultured cells. When RAP55A or RAP55B was highly expressed in the cells, they induced the formation of SG-like large cytoplasmic mRNP granules that contained both P-body and SG components, indicating that RAP55 is important for the assembly of cytoplasmic mRNP granules. In addition, we found that RAP55A associated with protein arginine methyltransferases PRMT1 and PRMT5. Multiple arginine residues of RAP55A were indeed asymmetrically dimethylated in the cell and PRMT1 was shown to be a component of large mRNP granules induced by RAP55A overexpression. Although PRMT1 did not accumulate in P-bodies, siRNA-mediated knockdown of PRMT1 impaired the localization of RAP55A to P-bodies, while other components were still retained in these structures. Thus, our data indicate that RAP55 is important for the assembly of cytoplasmic mRNP granules and that PRMT1 is required for RAP55A to localize to P-bodies.
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- Ken Matsumoto
- Molecular Entomology Laboratory, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan.
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Rajyaguru P, She M, Parker R. Scd6 targets eIF4G to repress translation: RGG motif proteins as a class of eIF4G-binding proteins. Mol Cell 2012; 45:244-54. [PMID: 22284680 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.11.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2011] [Revised: 07/25/2011] [Accepted: 11/04/2011] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The formation of mRNPs controls the interaction of the translation and degradation machinery with individual mRNAs. The yeast Scd6 protein and its orthologs regulate translation and mRNA degradation in yeast, C. elegans, D. melanogaster, and humans by an unknown mechanism. We demonstrate that Scd6 represses translation by binding the eIF4G subunit of eIF4F in a manner dependent on its RGG domain, thereby forming an mRNP repressed for translation initiation. Strikingly, several other RGG domain-containing proteins in yeast copurify with eIF4E/G and we demonstrate that two such proteins, Npl3 and Sbp1, also directly bind eIF4G and repress translation in a manner dependent on their RGG motifs. These observations identify the mechanism of Scd6 function through its RGG motif and indicate that eIF4G plays an important role as a scaffolding protein for the recruitment of translation repressors.
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- Purusharth Rajyaguru
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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Secrier M, Pavlopoulos GA, Aerts J, Schneider R. Arena3D: visualizing time-driven phenotypic differences in biological systems. BMC Bioinformatics 2012; 13:45. [PMID: 22439608 PMCID: PMC3368716 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2011] [Accepted: 03/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Elucidating the genotype-phenotype connection is one of the big challenges of modern molecular biology. To fully understand this connection, it is necessary to consider the underlying networks and the time factor. In this context of data deluge and heterogeneous information, visualization plays an essential role in interpreting complex and dynamic topologies. Thus, software that is able to bring the network, phenotypic and temporal information together is needed. Arena3D has been previously introduced as a tool that facilitates link discovery between processes. It uses a layered display to separate different levels of information while emphasizing the connections between them. We present novel developments of the tool for the visualization and analysis of dynamic genotype-phenotype landscapes. RESULTS Version 2.0 introduces novel features that allow handling time course data in a phenotypic context. Gene expression levels or other measures can be loaded and visualized at different time points and phenotypic comparison is facilitated through clustering and correlation display or highlighting of impacting changes through time. Similarity scoring allows the identification of global patterns in dynamic heterogeneous data. In this paper we demonstrate the utility of the tool on two distinct biological problems of different scales. First, we analyze a medium scale dataset that looks at perturbation effects of the pluripotency regulator Nanog in murine embryonic stem cells. Dynamic cluster analysis suggests alternative indirect links between Nanog and other proteins in the core stem cell network. Moreover, recurrent correlations from the epigenetic to the translational level are identified. Second, we investigate a large scale dataset consisting of genome-wide knockdown screens for human genes essential in the mitotic process. Here, a potential new role for the gene lsm14a in cytokinesis is suggested. We also show how phenotypic patterning allows for extensive comparison and identification of high impact knockdown targets. CONCLUSIONS We present a new visualization approach for perturbation screens with multiple phenotypic outcomes. The novel functionality implemented in Arena3D enables effective understanding and comparison of temporal patterns within morphological layers, to help with the system-wide analysis of dynamic processes. Arena3D is available free of charge for academics as a downloadable standalone application from: http://arena3d.org/.
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- Maria Secrier
- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, Heidelberg 69117, Germany.
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