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Duan XP, Zheng JY, Xiao Y, Zhang CB, Lin DH, Wang WH. Angiotensin II-Type-1a Receptor and Renal K + Wasting during Overnight Low-Na + Intake. J Am Soc Nephrol 2024:00001751-990000000-00356. [PMID: 38913434 DOI: 10.1681/asn.0000000000000429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2023] [Accepted: 06/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/26/2024] Open
Abstract
Key Points
Angiotensin II–type-1a-receptor in the distal convoluted tubule (DCT) plays a role in regulating sodium transport in the DCT.Angiotensin II–type-1a-receptor in the DCT plays a role in maintaining potassium homeostasis during sodium restriction.
Background
Chronic angiotensin II perfusion stimulates Kir4.1/Kir5.1 of the distal convoluted tubule (DCT) via angiotensin II–type-1a-receptor (AT1aR), and low‐sodium intake also stimulates Kir4.1/Kir5.1. However, the role of AT1aR in mediating the effect of low salt on Kir4.1/Kir5.1 is not explored.
Methods
We used the patch-clamp technique to examine Kir4.1/Kir5.1 activity of the DCT, employed immunoblotting to examine Na-Cl cotransporter (NCC) expression/activity, and used the in vivo perfusion technique to measure renal Na+ and renal K+ excretion in control, kidney tubule–specific–AT1aR-knockout mice (Ks-AT1aR-KO) and DCT-specific–AT1aR-knockout mice (DCT-AT1aR-KO).
Results
Angiotensin II acutely stimulated the 40-pS-K+ channel (Kir4.1/Kir5.1-heterotetramer) and increased whole-cell Kir4.1/Kir5.1-mediated K+ currents and the negativity of DCT membrane potential only in late DCT2 but not in early DCT. Acute angiotensin II increased thiazide-induced renal Na+ excretion (ENa). The effect of angiotensin II on Kir4.1/Kir5.1 and hydrochlorothiazide-induced ENa was absent in Ks-AT1aR-KO mice. Overnight low-salt intake stimulated the expression of Agtr1a mRNA in DCT, increased whole-cell Kir4.1/Kir5.1-mediated K+ currents in late DCT, hyperpolarized late DCT membrane, augmented the expression of phosphor-Na-Cl-cotransporter, and enhanced thiazide-induced renal-ENa in the control mice. However, the effect of overnight low-salt intake on Kir4.1/Kir5.1 activity, DCT membrane potential, and NCC activity/expression was abolished in DCT-AT1aR-KO or Ks-AT1aR-KO mice. Overnight low-salt intake had no effect on baseline renal K+ excretion (EK) and plasma K+ concentrations in the control mice, but it increased baseline renal-EK and decreased plasma K+ concentrations in DCT-AT1aR-KO or in Ks-AT1aR-KO mice.
Conclusions
Acute angiotensin II or overnight low-salt intake stimulated Kir4.1/Kir5.1 in late DCT, and AT1aR was responsible for acute angiotensin II or overnight low-salt intake–induced stimulation of Kir4.1/Kir5.1 and NCC. AT1aR of the DCT plays a role in maintaining adequate baseline renal-EK and plasma K+ concentrations during overnight low-salt intake.
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- Xin-Peng Duan
- Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Science, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China
- Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York
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- Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York
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- Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York
- Department of Physiology, Qiqihar Medical College, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Science, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China
- Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York
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- Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York
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- Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York
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Hofman DA, Ruiz-Orera J, Yannuzzi I, Murugesan R, Brown A, Clauser KR, Condurat AL, van Dinter JT, Engels SAG, Goodale A, van der Lugt J, Abid T, Wang L, Zhou KN, Vogelzang J, Ligon KL, Phoenix TN, Roth JA, Root DE, Hubner N, Golub TR, Bandopadhayay P, van Heesch S, Prensner JR. Translation of non-canonical open reading frames as a cancer cell survival mechanism in childhood medulloblastoma. Mol Cell 2024; 84:261-276.e18. [PMID: 38176414 PMCID: PMC10872554 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2023.12.003] [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: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2024]
Abstract
A hallmark of high-risk childhood medulloblastoma is the dysregulation of RNA translation. Currently, it is unknown whether medulloblastoma dysregulates the translation of putatively oncogenic non-canonical open reading frames (ORFs). To address this question, we performed ribosome profiling of 32 medulloblastoma tissues and cell lines and observed widespread non-canonical ORF translation. We then developed a stepwise approach using multiple CRISPR-Cas9 screens to elucidate non-canonical ORFs and putative microproteins implicated in medulloblastoma cell survival. We determined that multiple lncRNA-ORFs and upstream ORFs (uORFs) exhibited selective functionality independent of main coding sequences. A microprotein encoded by one of these ORFs, ASNSD1-uORF or ASDURF, was upregulated, associated with MYC-family oncogenes, and promoted medulloblastoma cell survival through engagement with the prefoldin-like chaperone complex. Our findings underscore the fundamental importance of non-canonical ORF translation in medulloblastoma and provide a rationale to include these ORFs in future studies seeking to define new cancer targets.
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- Damon A Hofman
- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Heidelberglaan 25, 3584 CS Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Heidelberglaan 25, 3584 CS Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Heidelberglaan 25, 3584 CS Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Heidelberglaan 25, 3584 CS Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany; Charité-Universitätsmedizin, 10117 Berlin, Germany; German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Berlin, 13347 Berlin, Germany
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Heidelberglaan 25, 3584 CS Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Hofman DA, Ruiz-Orera J, Yannuzzi I, Murugesan R, Brown A, Clauser KR, Condurat AL, van Dinter JT, Engels SA, Goodale A, van der Lugt J, Abid T, Wang L, Zhou KN, Vogelzang J, Ligon KL, Phoenix TN, Roth JA, Root DE, Hubner N, Golub TR, Bandopadhayay P, van Heesch S, Prensner JR. Translation of non-canonical open reading frames as a cancer cell survival mechanism in childhood medulloblastoma. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.05.04.539399. [PMID: 37205492 PMCID: PMC10187264 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.04.539399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
A hallmark of high-risk childhood medulloblastoma is the dysregulation of RNA translation. Currently, it is unknown whether medulloblastoma dysregulates the translation of putatively oncogenic non-canonical open reading frames. To address this question, we performed ribosome profiling of 32 medulloblastoma tissues and cell lines and observed widespread non-canonical ORF translation. We then developed a step-wise approach to employ multiple CRISPR-Cas9 screens to elucidate functional non-canonical ORFs implicated in medulloblastoma cell survival. We determined that multiple lncRNA-ORFs and upstream open reading frames (uORFs) exhibited selective functionality independent of the main coding sequence. One of these, ASNSD1-uORF or ASDURF, was upregulated, associated with the MYC family oncogenes, and was required for medulloblastoma cell survival through engagement with the prefoldin-like chaperone complex. Our findings underscore the fundamental importance of non-canonical ORF translation in medulloblastoma and provide a rationale to include these ORFs in future cancer genomics studies seeking to define new cancer targets.
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Affiliation(s)
- Damon A. Hofman
- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Heidelberglaan 25, 3584 CS, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- These authors contributed equally
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany
- These authors contributed equally
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Current address: Arbor Biotechnologies, Cambridge, MA, 02140, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Heidelberglaan 25, 3584 CS, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Heidelberglaan 25, 3584 CS, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Heidelberglaan 25, 3584 CS, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Current address: Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, CA, 91101, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
- Department of Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston MA 02115
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany
- Charité-Universitätsmedizin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Berlin, 13347 Berlin, Germany
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Heidelberglaan 25, 3584 CS, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Current address: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Mohaupt P, Roucou X, Delaby C, Vialaret J, Lehmann S, Hirtz C. The alternative proteome in neurobiology. Front Cell Neurosci 2022; 16:1019680. [PMID: 36467612 PMCID: PMC9712206 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2022.1019680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 10/13/2023] Open
Abstract
Translation involves the biosynthesis of a protein sequence following the decoding of the genetic information embedded in a messenger RNA (mRNA). Typically, the eukaryotic mRNA was considered to be inherently monocistronic, but this paradigm is not in agreement with the translational landscape of cells, tissues, and organs. Recent ribosome sequencing (Ribo-seq) and proteomics studies show that, in addition to currently annotated reference proteins (RefProt), other proteins termed alternative proteins (AltProts), and microproteins are encoded in regions of mRNAs thought to be untranslated or in transcripts annotated as non-coding. This experimental evidence expands the repertoire of functional proteins within a cell and potentially provides important information on biological processes. This review explores the hitherto overlooked alternative proteome in neurobiology and considers the role of AltProts in pathological and healthy neuromolecular processes.
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- Pablo Mohaupt
- LBPC-PPC, Université de Montpellier, IRMB CHU de Montpellier, INM INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- LBPC-PPC, Université de Montpellier, IRMB CHU de Montpellier, INM INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- LBPC-PPC, Université de Montpellier, IRMB CHU de Montpellier, INM INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- LBPC-PPC, Université de Montpellier, IRMB CHU de Montpellier, INM INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- LBPC-PPC, Université de Montpellier, IRMB CHU de Montpellier, INM INSERM, Montpellier, France
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Guerra-Almeida D, Tschoeke DA, da-Fonseca RN. Understanding small ORF diversity through a comprehensive transcription feature classification. DNA Res 2021; 28:6317669. [PMID: 34240112 PMCID: PMC8435553 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsab007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Small open reading frames (small ORFs/sORFs/smORFs) are potentially coding sequences smaller than 100 codons that have historically been considered junk DNA by gene prediction software and in annotation screening; however, the advent of next-generation sequencing has contributed to the deeper investigation of junk DNA regions and their transcription products, resulting in the emergence of smORFs as a new focus of interest in systems biology. Several smORF peptides were recently reported in noncanonical mRNAs as new players in numerous biological contexts; however, their relevance is still overlooked in coding potential analysis. Hence, this review proposes a smORF classification based on transcriptional features, discussing the most promising approaches to investigate smORFs based on their different characteristics. First, smORFs were divided into nonexpressed (intergenic) and expressed (genic) smORFs. Second, genic smORFs were classified as smORFs located in noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) or canonical mRNAs. Finally, smORFs in ncRNAs were further subdivided into sequences located in small or long RNAs, whereas smORFs located in canonical mRNAs were subdivided into several specific classes depending on their localization along the gene. We hope that this review provides new insights into large-scale annotations and reinforces the role of smORFs as essential components of a hidden coding DNA world.
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- Diego Guerra-Almeida
- Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute of Graduate Studies and Engineering Research (COPPE), Biomedical Engineering Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,National Institute of Science and Technology in Molecular Entomology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Renz PF, Valdivia-Francia F, Sendoel A. Some like it translated: small ORFs in the 5'UTR. Exp Cell Res 2020; 396:112229. [PMID: 32818479 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2020.112229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Revised: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
Abstract
The 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) is critical in determining post-transcriptional control, which is partly mediated by short upstream open reading frames (uORFs) present in half of mammalian transcripts. uORFs are generally considered to provide functionally important repression of the main-ORF by engaging initiating ribosomes, but under specific environmental conditions such as cellular stress, uORFs can become essential to activate the translation of the main coding sequence. In addition, a growing number of uORF-encoded bioactive microproteins have been described, which have the potential to significantly increase cellular protein diversity. Here we review the diverse cellular contexts in which uORFs play a critical role and discuss the molecular mechanisms underlying their function and regulation. The progress over the last decades in dissecting uORF function suggests that the 5'UTR remains an exciting frontier towards understanding how the cellular proteome is shaped in health and disease.
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- Peter F Renz
- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Wagistrasse 12, CH-8952 Schlieren, Switzerland
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Wagistrasse 12, CH-8952 Schlieren, Switzerland; Life Science Zurich Graduate School, Molecular Life Science Program, University of Zurich/ ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Wagistrasse 12, CH-8952 Schlieren, Switzerland.
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Brunet MA, Levesque SA, Hunting DJ, Cohen AA, Roucou X. Recognition of the polycistronic nature of human genes is critical to understanding the genotype-phenotype relationship. Genome Res 2018; 28:609-624. [PMID: 29626081 PMCID: PMC5932603 DOI: 10.1101/gr.230938.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2017] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Technological advances promise unprecedented opportunities for whole exome sequencing and proteomic analyses of populations. Currently, data from genome and exome sequencing or proteomic studies are searched against reference genome annotations. This provides the foundation for research and clinical screening for genetic causes of pathologies. However, current genome annotations substantially underestimate the proteomic information encoded within a gene. Numerous studies have now demonstrated the expression and function of alternative (mainly small, sometimes overlapping) ORFs within mature gene transcripts. This has important consequences for the correlation of phenotypes and genotypes. Most alternative ORFs are not yet annotated because of a lack of evidence, and this absence from databases precludes their detection by standard proteomic methods, such as mass spectrometry. Here, we demonstrate how current approaches tend to overlook alternative ORFs, hindering the discovery of new genetic drivers and fundamental research. We discuss available tools and techniques to improve identification of proteins from alternative ORFs and finally suggest a novel annotation system to permit a more complete representation of the transcriptomic and proteomic information contained within a gene. Given the crucial challenge of distinguishing functional ORFs from random ones, the suggested pipeline emphasizes both experimental data and conservation signatures. The addition of alternative ORFs in databases will render identification less serendipitous and advance the pace of research and genomic knowledge. This review highlights the urgent medical and research need to incorporate alternative ORFs in current genome annotations and thus permit their inclusion in hypotheses and models, which relate phenotypes and genotypes.
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- Marie A Brunet
- Biochemistry Department, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec J1E 4K8, Canada.,Groupe de recherche PRIMUS, Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Quebec J1H 5N4, Canada.,PROTEO, Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure, and Engineering, Université Laval, Quebec G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Pediatric Department, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec J1H 5N4, Canada
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine & Radiobiology, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec J1H 5N4, Canada
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- Groupe de recherche PRIMUS, Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Quebec J1H 5N4, Canada
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- Biochemistry Department, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec J1E 4K8, Canada.,PROTEO, Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure, and Engineering, Université Laval, Quebec G1V 0A6, Canada
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Peptides encoded by short open reading frames (sORFs) are usually defined as peptides ≤100 aa long. Usually sORFs were ignored by automatic genome annotation programs due to the high probability of false discovery. However, improved computational tools along with a high-throughput RIBO-seq approach identified a myriad of translated sORFs. Their importance becomes evident as we are gaining experimental validation of their diverse cellular functions. This Review examines various computational and experimental approaches of sORFs identification as well as provides the summary of our current knowledge of their functional roles in cells.
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- Anastasia Chugunova
- Lomonosov Moscow State University , Department of Chemistry and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow 119992, Russia.,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology , Skolkovo, Moscow Region 143025, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University , Department of Chemistry and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow 119992, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University , Department of Chemistry and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow 119992, Russia.,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology , Skolkovo, Moscow Region 143025, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University , Department of Chemistry and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow 119992, Russia.,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology , Skolkovo, Moscow Region 143025, Russia
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Samandi S, Roy AV, Delcourt V, Lucier JF, Gagnon J, Beaudoin MC, Vanderperre B, Breton MA, Motard J, Jacques JF, Brunelle M, Gagnon-Arsenault I, Fournier I, Ouangraoua A, Hunting DJ, Cohen AA, Landry CR, Scott MS, Roucou X. Deep transcriptome annotation enables the discovery and functional characterization of cryptic small proteins. eLife 2017; 6:27860. [PMID: 29083303 PMCID: PMC5703645 DOI: 10.7554/elife.27860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2017] [Accepted: 10/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Recent functional, proteomic and ribosome profiling studies in eukaryotes have concurrently demonstrated the translation of alternative open-reading frames (altORFs) in addition to annotated protein coding sequences (CDSs). We show that a large number of small proteins could in fact be coded by these altORFs. The putative alternative proteins translated from altORFs have orthologs in many species and contain functional domains. Evolutionary analyses indicate that altORFs often show more extreme conservation patterns than their CDSs. Thousands of alternative proteins are detected in proteomic datasets by reanalysis using a database containing predicted alternative proteins. This is illustrated with specific examples, including altMiD51, a 70 amino acid mitochondrial fission-promoting protein encoded in MiD51/Mief1/SMCR7L, a gene encoding an annotated protein promoting mitochondrial fission. Our results suggest that many genes are multicoding genes and code for a large protein and one or several small proteins. Proteins are often referred to as the workhorses of the cell, and these molecules affect all aspects of human health and disease. Thus, deciphering the entire set of proteins made by an organism is often an important challenge for biologists. Genes contain the instructions to make a protein, but first they must be copied into a molecule called an mRNA. The part of the mRNA that actually codes for the protein is referred to as an open reading frame (or ORF for short). For many years, most scientists assumed that, except for in bacteria, each mature mRNA in an organism has just a single functional ORF, and that this was generally the longest possible ORF within the mRNA. Many also assumed that RNAs copied from genes that had been labelled as “non-coding” or as “pseudogenes” did not contain functional ORFs. Yet, new ORFs encoding small proteins were recently discovered in RNAs (or parts of RNA) that had previously been annotated as non-coding. Working out what these small proteins actually do will require scientists being able to find more of these overlooked ORFs. The RNAs produced by many organisms – from humans and mice to fruit flies and yeast – have been catalogued and the data stored in publicly accessible databases. Samandi, Roy et al. have now taken a fresh look at the data for nine different organisms, and identified several thousand examples of possibly overlooked ORFs, which they refer to as “alternative ORFs”. This included more than 180,000 from humans. Further analysis of other datasets that captured details of the proteins actually produced in human cells uncovered thousands of small proteins encoded by the predicted alternative ORFs. Many of the so-called alternative proteins also resembled parts of other proteins that have a known activity or function. Lastly, Samandi, Roy et al. focused on two alternative proteins and showed that they both might affect the activity of the proteins coded within the main ORF in their respective genes. These findings reveal new details about the different proteins encoded within the genes of humans and other organisms, including that many mRNAs encode more that one protein. The implications and applications of this research could be far-reaching, and may help scientists to better understand how genes work in both health and disease.
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- Sondos Samandi
- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.,PROTEO, Québec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure and Engineering, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.,PROTEO, Québec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure and Engineering, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.,PROTEO, Québec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure and Engineering, Québec, Canada.,INSERM U1192, Laboratoire Protéomique, Réponse Inflammatoire & Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM) F-59000 Lille, Université de Lille, Lille, France
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- Department of Biology, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.,Center for Scientific computing, Information Technologies Services,, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.,Center for Scientific computing, Information Technologies Services,, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.,PROTEO, Québec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure and Engineering, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.,PROTEO, Québec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure and Engineering, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.,PROTEO, Québec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure and Engineering, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.,PROTEO, Québec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure and Engineering, Québec, Canada
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- PROTEO, Québec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure and Engineering, Québec, Canada.,Département de biochimie, microbiologie et bioinformatique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.,IBIS, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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- INSERM U1192, Laboratoire Protéomique, Réponse Inflammatoire & Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM) F-59000 Lille, Université de Lille, Lille, France
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- Department of Computer Science, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Family Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- PROTEO, Québec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure and Engineering, Québec, Canada.,Département de biochimie, microbiologie et bioinformatique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.,IBIS, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.,PROTEO, Québec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure and Engineering, Québec, Canada
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Paton JFR. Autonomic and neuroendocrine dysfunction in chronic disease. J Physiol 2016; 594:1579-80. [DOI: 10.1113/jp271868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Julian F. R. Paton
- School of Physiology and Pharmacology, Biomedical Sciences; University of Bristol; Bristol UK
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Mouilleron H, Delcourt V, Roucou X. Death of a dogma: eukaryotic mRNAs can code for more than one protein. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 44:14-23. [PMID: 26578573 PMCID: PMC4705651 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2015] [Revised: 10/26/2015] [Accepted: 10/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
mRNAs carry the genetic information that is translated by ribosomes. The traditional view of a mature eukaryotic mRNA is a molecule with three main regions, the 5' UTR, the protein coding open reading frame (ORF) or coding sequence (CDS), and the 3' UTR. This concept assumes that ribosomes translate one ORF only, generally the longest one, and produce one protein. As a result, in the early days of genomics and bioinformatics, one CDS was associated with each protein-coding gene. This fundamental concept of a single CDS is being challenged by increasing experimental evidence indicating that annotated proteins are not the only proteins translated from mRNAs. In particular, mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics and ribosome profiling have detected productive translation of alternative open reading frames. In several cases, the alternative and annotated proteins interact. Thus, the expression of two or more proteins translated from the same mRNA may offer a mechanism to ensure the co-expression of proteins which have functional interactions. Translational mechanisms already described in eukaryotic cells indicate that the cellular machinery is able to translate different CDSs from a single viral or cellular mRNA. In addition to summarizing data showing that the protein coding potential of eukaryotic mRNAs has been underestimated, this review aims to challenge the single translated CDS dogma.
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- Hélène Mouilleron
- Department of biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1E 4K8, Canada PROTEO, Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure, and Engineering, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1E 4K8, Canada PROTEO, Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure, and Engineering, Quebec, Canada Inserm U-1192, Laboratoire de Protéomique, Réponse Inflammatoire, Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM), Université de Lille 1, Cité Scientifique, 59655 Villeneuve D'Ascq, France
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- Department of biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1E 4K8, Canada PROTEO, Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure, and Engineering, Quebec, Canada
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