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Niggl E, Bouman A, Briere LC, Hoogenboezem RM, Wallaard I, Park J, Admard J, Wilke M, Harris-Mostert EDRO, Elgersma M, Bain J, Balasubramanian M, Banka S, Benke PJ, Bertrand M, Blesson AE, Clayton-Smith J, Ellingford JM, Gillentine MA, Goodloe DH, Haack TB, Jain M, Krantz I, Luu SM, McPheron M, Muss CL, Raible SE, Robin NH, Spiller M, Starling S, Sweetser DA, Thiffault I, Vetrini F, Witt D, Woods E, Zhou D, Elgersma Y, van Esbroeck ACM. HNRNPC haploinsufficiency affects alternative splicing of intellectual disability-associated genes and causes a neurodevelopmental disorder. Am J Hum Genet 2023; 110:1414-1435. [PMID: 37541189 PMCID: PMC10432175 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2023.07.005] [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: 01/26/2023] [Revised: 07/04/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C (HNRNPC) is an essential, ubiquitously abundant protein involved in mRNA processing. Genetic variants in other members of the HNRNP family have been associated with neurodevelopmental disorders. Here, we describe 13 individuals with global developmental delay, intellectual disability, behavioral abnormalities, and subtle facial dysmorphology with heterozygous HNRNPC germline variants. Five of them bear an identical in-frame deletion of nine amino acids in the extreme C terminus. To study the effect of this recurrent variant as well as HNRNPC haploinsufficiency, we used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and fibroblasts obtained from affected individuals. While protein localization and oligomerization were unaffected by the recurrent C-terminal deletion variant, total HNRNPC levels were decreased. Previously, reduced HNRNPC levels have been associated with changes in alternative splicing. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis on published RNA-seq datasets of three different cell lines to identify a ubiquitous HNRNPC-dependent signature of alternative spliced exons. The identified signature was not only confirmed in fibroblasts obtained from an affected individual but also showed a significant enrichment for genes associated with intellectual disability. Hence, we assessed the effect of decreased and increased levels of HNRNPC on neuronal arborization and neuronal migration and found that either condition affects neuronal function. Taken together, our data indicate that HNRNPC haploinsufficiency affects alternative splicing of multiple intellectual disability-associated genes and that the developing brain is sensitive to aberrant levels of HNRNPC. Hence, our data strongly support the inclusion of HNRNPC to the family of HNRNP-related neurodevelopmental disorders.
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- Eva Niggl
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands; ENCORE Expertise Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands; ENCORE Expertise Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; NGS Competence Center Tübingen, Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands; ENCORE Expertise Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands; ENCORE Expertise Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology Division of Child Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, S5 7AU Sheffield, UK; Department of Oncology & Metabolism, University of Sheffield, S5 7AU Sheffield, UK
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- Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester M13 9WL, UK; Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, UK
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- Division of Clinical Genetics, Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, Hollywood, FL 33021, USA
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- Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurogenetics, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester M13 9WL, UK; Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, UK
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- Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester M13 9WL, UK; Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, UK
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- Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA
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- Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; Center for Rare Diseases, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurogenetics, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI 53704, USA; Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Nemours / AI DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE 19803, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA
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- Sheffield Diagnostic Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK
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- Division of Clinical Genetics, Children's Mercy, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA; School of Medicine, University of Missouri- Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
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- Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Division of Clinical Genetics, Children's Mercy, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA; Genomic Medicine Center, Children's Mercy Research Institute, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
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- Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; Undiagnosed Rare Disease Clinic (URDC), Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, S5 7AU Sheffield, UK
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- Division of Clinical Genetics, Children's Mercy, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA; School of Medicine, University of Missouri- Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands; ENCORE Expertise Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands; ENCORE Expertise Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Erasmus MC, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Kwan T, Thompson SR. Noncanonical Translation Initiation in Eukaryotes. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2019; 11:cshperspect.a032672. [PMID: 29959190 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a032672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The vast majority of eukaryotic messenger RNAs (mRNAs) initiate translation through a canonical, cap-dependent mechanism requiring a free 5' end and 5' cap and several initiation factors to form a translationally active ribosome. Stresses such as hypoxia, apoptosis, starvation, and viral infection down-regulate cap-dependent translation during which alternative mechanisms of translation initiation prevail to express proteins required to cope with the stress, or to produce viral proteins. The diversity of noncanonical initiation mechanisms encompasses a broad range of strategies and cellular cofactors. Herein, we provide an overview and, whenever possible, a mechanistic understanding of the various noncanonical mechanisms of initiation used by cells and viruses. Despite many unanswered questions, recent advances have propelled our understanding of the scope, diversity, and mechanisms of alternative initiation.
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- Thaddaeus Kwan
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294
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Aviner R, Hofmann S, Elman T, Shenoy A, Geiger T, Elkon R, Ehrlich M, Elroy-Stein O. Proteomic analysis of polyribosomes identifies splicing factors as potential regulators of translation during mitosis. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:5945-5957. [PMID: 28460002 PMCID: PMC5449605 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2017] [Accepted: 04/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Precise regulation of mRNA translation is critical for proper cell division, but little is known about the factors that mediate it. To identify mRNA-binding proteins that regulate translation during mitosis, we analyzed the composition of polysomes from interphase and mitotic cells using unbiased quantitative mass-spectrometry (LC–MS/MS). We found that mitotic polysomes are enriched with a subset of proteins involved in RNA processing, including alternative splicing and RNA export. To demonstrate that these may indeed be regulators of translation, we focused on heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C (hnRNP C) as a test case and confirmed that it is recruited to elongating ribosomes during mitosis. Then, using a combination of pulsed SILAC, metabolic labeling and ribosome profiling, we showed that knockdown of hnRNP C affects both global and transcript-specific translation rates and found that hnRNP C is specifically important for translation of mRNAs that encode ribosomal proteins and translation factors. Taken together, our results demonstrate how proteomic analysis of polysomes can provide insight into translation regulation under various cellular conditions of interest and suggest that hnRNP C facilitates production of translation machinery components during mitosis to provide daughter cells with the ability to efficiently synthesize proteins as they enter G1 phase.
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- Ranen Aviner
- Department of Cell Research & Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Cell Research & Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Cell Research & Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Cell Research & Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Cell Research & Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Esnault S, Shen ZJ, Malter JS. Protein Translation and Signaling in Human Eosinophils. Front Med (Lausanne) 2017; 4:150. [PMID: 28971096 PMCID: PMC5609579 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2017.00150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2017] [Accepted: 09/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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We have recently reported that, unlike IL-5 and GM-CSF, IL-3 induces increased translation of a subset of mRNAs. In addition, we have demonstrated that Pin1 controls the activity of mRNA binding proteins, leading to enhanced mRNA stability, GM-CSF protein production and prolonged eosinophil (EOS) survival. In this review, discussion will include an overview of cap-dependent protein translation and its regulation by intracellular signaling pathways. We will address the more general process of mRNA post-transcriptional regulation, especially regarding mRNA binding proteins, which are critical effectors of protein translation. Furthermore, we will focus on (1) the roles of IL-3-driven sustained signaling on enhanced protein translation in EOS, (2) the mechanisms regulating mRNA binding proteins activity in EOS, and (3) the potential targeting of IL-3 signaling and the signaling leading to mRNA binding activity changes to identify therapeutic targets to treat EOS-associated diseases.
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- Stephane Esnault
- Department of Medicine, Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States
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- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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Chan SW. Hydrogen peroxide induces La cytoplasmic shuttling and increases hepatitis C virus internal ribosome entry site-dependent translation. J Gen Virol 2016; 97:2301-2315. [PMID: 27436793 PMCID: PMC5042130 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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We have previously shown that physio/pathological levels of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) stimulate translation from the hepatitis C virus (HCV) internal ribosome entry site (IRES) element in tissue-cultured cells. Here, using in vitro translation, we further show that H2O2 upregulates HCV IRES-dependent mRNA translation and correlates with an increase in intracellular oxidant level. Using Western blotting, immunocytochemistry, microscopy and affinity pulldown, we show that H2O2 stimulates HCV IRES-dependent translation and correlates with nuclear–cytoplasmic shuttling of the La autoantigen, resulting in enhanced binding of cytoplasmic La to HCV IRES RNA. The role of the La protein in H2O2-stimulated IRES-dependent translation is further confirmed by the ability of an anti-La antibody to suppress H2O2-activated IRES-dependent translation in vitro. This is further supported by the ability of an ectopically expressed dominant, negative La mutant protein to suppress H2O2-inducible IRES-mediated translation in Huh7 cells, transiently transfected with a bicistronic reporter and in a sub-genomic replicon cell line resembling a persistent infection. On the other hand, translation from the encephalomyocarditis virus IRES is diminished in the presence of H2O2, suggesting that H2O2 translational responsiveness is a specific property of the HCV IRES and is not a general phenomenon for all viral IRESs. Altogether, these results suggest that HCV adapts to physio/pathological oxidative stress in the host cell by mediating La cytoplasmic shuttling to enhance its IRES-dependent translation.
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- Shiu-Wan Chan
- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Horvilleur E, Wilson LA, Bastide A, Piñeiro D, Pöyry TAA, Willis AE. Cap-Independent Translation in Hematological Malignancies. Front Oncol 2015; 5:293. [PMID: 26734574 PMCID: PMC4685420 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2015.00293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2015] [Accepted: 12/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Hematological malignancies are a heterogeneous group of diseases deriving from blood cells progenitors. Although many genes involved in blood cancers contain internal ribosome entry sites (IRESes), there has been only few studies focusing on the role of cap-independent translation in leukemia and lymphomas. Expression of IRES trans-acting factors can also be altered, and interestingly, BCL-ABL1 fusion protein expressed from “Philadelphia” chromosome, found in some types of leukemia, regulates several of them. A mechanism involving c-Myc IRES and cap-independent translation and leading to resistance to chemotherapy in multiple myeloma emphasize the contribution of cap-independent translation in blood cancers and the need for more work to be done to clarify the roles of known IRESes in pathology and response to chemotherapeutics.
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- Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit , Leicester , UK
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- Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit , Leicester , UK
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Cieniková Z, Jayne S, Damberger FF, Allain FHT, Maris C. Evidence for cooperative tandem binding of hnRNP C RRMs in mRNA processing. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2015; 21:1931-42. [PMID: 26370582 PMCID: PMC4604433 DOI: 10.1261/rna.052373.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2015] [Accepted: 07/21/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The human hnRNP C is a ubiquitous cellular protein involved in mRNA maturation. Recently, we have shown that this protein specifically recognizes uridine (U) pentamers through its single RNA recognition motif (RRM). However, a large fraction of natural RNA targets of hnRNP C consists of much longer contiguous uridine stretches. To understand how these extended sites are recognized, we studied the binding of the RRM to U-tracts of 8-11 bases. In vivo investigation of internal translation activation of unr (upstream of N-ras) mRNA indicates that the conservation of the entire hnRNP C binding site, UC(U)8, is required for hnRNP C-dependent IRES activation. The assays further suggest a synergistic interplay between hnRNP C monomers, dependent on the protein's ability to oligomerize. In vitro spectroscopic and thermodynamic analyses show that isolated RRMs bind to (U)11 oligomers as dimers. Structural modeling of a ternary double-RRM/RNA complex indicates additionally that two RRM copies can be accommodated on the canonical sequence UC(U)8. The proposed tandem RRM binding is in very good agreement with the transcriptome-wide recognition of extended U-tracts by full-length hnRNP C, which displays a cross-linking pattern consistent with a positively cooperative RRM dimer binding model.
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- Zuzana Cieniková
- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Novel prognostic tissue markers in congestive heart failure. Cardiovasc Pathol 2015; 24:65-70. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2014.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2014] [Revised: 07/03/2014] [Accepted: 07/05/2014] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Dechtawewat T, Songprakhon P, Limjindaporn T, Puttikhunt C, Kasinrerk W, Saitornuang S, Yenchitsomanus PT, Noisakran S. Role of human heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C1/C2 in dengue virus replication. Virol J 2015; 12:14. [PMID: 25890165 PMCID: PMC4351676 DOI: 10.1186/s12985-014-0219-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2014] [Accepted: 11/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Host and viral proteins are involved in dengue virus (DENV) replication. Heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) C1/C2 are abundant host cellular proteins that exhibit RNA binding activity and play important roles in the replication of positive-strand RNA viruses such as poliovirus and hepatitis C virus. hnRNP C1/C2 have previously been shown to interact with vimentin and viral NS1 in DENV-infected cells; however, their functional role in DENV replication is not clearly understood. In the present study, we investigated the role of hnRNP C1/C2 in DENV replication by using an in vitro model of DENV infection in a hepatocyte cell line (Huh7) and siRNA-mediated knockdown of hnRNP C1/C2. METHODS Huh7 cells were transfected with hnRNP C1/C2-specific siRNA or irrelevant siRNA (control) followed by infection with DENV. Mock and DENV-infected knockdown cells were processed for immunoprecipitation using hnRNP C1/C2-specific antibody or their isotype-matched control antibody. The immunoprecipitated samples were subjected to RNA extraction and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for detection of DENV RNA. In addition, the knockdown cells harvested at varying time points after the infection were assessed for cell viability, cell proliferation, percentage of DENV infection, amount of viral RNA, and viral E and NS1 expression. Culture supernatants were subjected to focus forming unit assays to determine titers of infectious DENV. DENV luciferase reporter assay was also set up to determine viral translation. RESULTS Immunoprecipitation with the anti-hnRNP C1/C2 antibody and subsequent RT-PCR revealed the presence of DENV RNA in the immunoprecipitated complex containing hnRNP C1/C2 proteins. Transfection with hnRNP C1/C2-specific siRNA resulted in a significant reduction of hnRNP C1/C2 mRNA and protein levels but did not induce cell death during DENV infection. The reduced hnRNP C1/C2 expression decreased the percentage of DENV antigen-positive cells as well as the amount of DENV RNA and the relative levels of DENV E and NS1 proteins; however, it had no direct effect on DENV translation. In addition, a significant reduction of DENV titers was observed in the supernatant from DENV-infected cells following the knockdown of hnRNP C1/C2. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that hnRNP C1/C2 is involved in DENV replication at the stage of viral RNA synthesis.
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- Thanyaporn Dechtawewat
- Division of Molecular Medicine, Office of Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
- Graduate Program in Immunology, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
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- Division of Molecular Medicine, Office of Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
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- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
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- Medical Biotechnology Research Unit, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
- Division of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Research Unit, Office of Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
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- Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Medical Technology, Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand.
- Biomedical Technology Research Center, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand.
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- Medical Biotechnology Research Unit, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
- Division of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Research Unit, Office of Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
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- Division of Molecular Medicine, Office of Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
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- Medical Biotechnology Research Unit, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
- Division of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Research Unit, Office of Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
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Cieniková Z, Damberger FF, Hall J, Allain FHT, Maris C. Structural and mechanistic insights into poly(uridine) tract recognition by the hnRNP C RNA recognition motif. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:14536-44. [PMID: 25216038 DOI: 10.1021/ja507690d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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HnRNP C is a ubiquitous RNA regulatory factor and the principal constituent of the nuclear hnRNP core particle. The protein contains one amino-terminal RNA recognition motif (RRM) known to bind uridine (U)-rich sequences. This work provides a molecular and mechanistic understanding of this interaction. We solved the solution structures of the RRM in complex with poly(U) oligomers of five and seven nucleotides. The five binding pockets of RRM recognize uridines with an unusual 5'-to-3' gradient of base selectivity. The target recognition is therefore strongly sensitive to base clustering, explaining the preference for contiguous uridine tracts. Using a novel approach integrating the structurally derived recognition consensus of the RRM with a thermodynamic description of its multi-register binding, we modeled the saturation of cellular uridine tracts by this protein. The binding pattern is remarkably consistent with the experimentally observed transcriptome-wide cross-link distribution of the full-length hnRNP C on short uridine tracts. This result re-establishes the RRM as the primary RNA-binding domain of the hnRNP C tetramer and provides a proof of concept for interpreting high-throughput interaction data using structural approaches.
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- Zuzana Cieniková
- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich , 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Wang H, Albadawi H, Siddiquee Z, Stone JM, Panchenko MP, Watkins MT, Stone JR. Altered vascular activation due to deficiency of the NADPH oxidase component p22phox. Cardiovasc Pathol 2013; 23:35-42. [PMID: 24035466 DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2013.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2013] [Revised: 08/04/2013] [Accepted: 08/05/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Reactive oxygen species generated by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase play important roles in vascular activation. The p22(phox) subunit is necessary for the activity of NADPH oxidase complexes utilizing Nox1, Nox2, Nox3, and Nox4 catalytic subunits. METHODS We assessed p22(phox)-deficient mice and human tissue for altered vascular activation. RESULTS Mice deficient in p22(phox) were smaller than their wild-type littermates but showed no alteration in basal blood pressure. The wild-type littermates were relatively resistant to forming intimal hyperplasia following carotid ligation, and the intimal hyperplasia that developed was not altered by p22(phox) deficiency. However, at the site of carotid artery ligation, the p22(phox)-deficient mice showed significantly less vascular elastic fiber loss compared with their wild-type littermates. This preservation of elastic fibers was associated with a reduced matrix metallopeptidase (MMP) 12/tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP) 1 expression ratio. A similar decrease in the relative MMP12/TIMP1 expression ratio occurred in human coronary artery smooth muscle cells upon knockdown of the hydrogen peroxide responsive kinase CK1αLS. In the ligated carotid arteries, the p22(phox)-deficient mice showed reduced expression of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C (hnRNP-C), suggesting reduced activity of CK1αLS. In a lung biopsy from a human patient with p22(phox) deficiency, there was also reduced vascular hnRNP-C expression. CONCLUSIONS These findings indicate that NADPH oxidase complexes modulate aspects of vascular activation including vascular elastic fiber loss, the MMP12/TIMP1 expression ratio, and the expression of hnRNP-C. Furthermore, these findings suggest that the effects of NADPH oxidase on vascular activation are mediated in part by protein kinase CK1αLS.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Carotid Artery Injuries/enzymology
- Carotid Artery Injuries/pathology
- Carotid Artery, Common/enzymology
- Carotid Artery, Common/pathology
- Case-Control Studies
- Casein Kinase Ialpha/genetics
- Casein Kinase Ialpha/metabolism
- Cells, Cultured
- Coronary Vessels/enzymology
- Coronary Vessels/pathology
- Cytochrome b Group/deficiency
- Cytochrome b Group/genetics
- Elastic Tissue/enzymology
- Elastic Tissue/pathology
- Female
- Granulomatous Disease, Chronic/enzymology
- Granulomatous Disease, Chronic/genetics
- Granulomatous Disease, Chronic/pathology
- Heterogeneous-Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein Group C/metabolism
- Humans
- Hyperplasia
- Infant
- Male
- Matrix Metalloproteinase 12/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/enzymology
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/pathology
- NADPH Oxidases/deficiency
- NADPH Oxidases/genetics
- Neointima
- RNA Interference
- Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism
- Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-1/metabolism
- Transfection
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- He Wang
- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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Jia R, Li X, Yu C, Fan M, Guo J. The splicing factor hnRNP C regulates expression of co-stimulatory molecules CD80 and CD40 in dendritic cells. Immunol Lett 2013; 153:27-32. [PMID: 23831410 DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2013.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2012] [Revised: 06/03/2013] [Accepted: 06/25/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Maturation of dendritic cells is a key step during induction of adaptive immune responses. Multiple pathways and factors are involved in the regulation of dendritic cell maturation. Alternative splicing of pre-mRNA, which is regulated by splicing factors, plays an important role in many biological processes, including immune responses. To understand the roles of splicing factors in the maturation of dendritic cells, we analyzed the expression of the splicing factors hnRNP C and hnRNP A1 during maturation of the mouse dendritic cell line DC2.4 upon treatment with lipopolysaccharides (LPS). The expression of hnRNP C significantly increased after LPS stimulation. Knockdown or overexpression of hnRNP C respectively downregulated or upregulated the expression of nuclear factor-kappa B p65 as well as its downstream targets CD80 and CD40. Our results indicate that hnRNP C regulates the maturation of dendritic cells by affecting the expression of p65, CD80 and CD40.
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- Rong Jia
- Hubei-MOST KLOS & KLOBME, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China
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Kronja I, Orr-Weaver TL. Translational regulation of the cell cycle: when, where, how and why? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2012; 366:3638-52. [PMID: 22084390 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Translational regulation contributes to the control of archetypal and specialized cell cycles, such as the meiotic and early embryonic cycles. Late meiosis and early embryogenesis unfold in the absence of transcription, so they particularly rely on translational repression and activation of stored maternal mRNAs. Here, we present examples of cell cycle regulators that are translationally controlled during different cell cycle and developmental transitions in model organisms ranging from yeast to mouse. Our focus also is on the RNA-binding proteins that affect cell cycle progression by recognizing special features in untranslated regions of mRNAs. Recent research highlights the significance of the cytoplasmic polyadenylation element-binding protein (CPEB). CPEB determines polyadenylation status, and consequently translational efficiency, of its target mRNAs in both transcriptionally active somatic cells as well as in transcriptionally silent mature Xenopus oocytes and early embryos. We discuss the role of CPEB in mediating the translational timing and in some cases spindle-localized translation of critical regulators of Xenopus oogenesis and early embryogenesis. We conclude by outlining potential directions and approaches that may provide further insights into the translational control of the cell cycle.
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- Iva Kronja
- Whitehead Institute and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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Alternative Mechanisms to Initiate Translation in Eukaryotic mRNAs. Comp Funct Genomics 2012; 2012:391546. [PMID: 22536116 PMCID: PMC3321441 DOI: 10.1155/2012/391546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2011] [Accepted: 01/20/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The composition of the cellular proteome is under the control of multiple processes, one of the most important being translation initiation. The majority of eukaryotic cellular mRNAs initiates translation by the cap-dependent or scanning mode of translation initiation, a mechanism that depends on the recognition of the m(7)G(5')ppp(5')N, known as the cap. However, mRNAs encoding proteins required for cell survival under stress bypass conditions inhibitory to cap-dependent translation; these mRNAs often harbor internal ribosome entry site (IRES) elements in their 5'UTRs that mediate internal initiation of translation. This mechanism is also exploited by mRNAs expressed from the genome of viruses infecting eukaryotic cells. In this paper we discuss recent advances in understanding alternative ways to initiate translation across eukaryotic organisms.
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Silvera D, Koloteva-Levine N, Burma S, Elroy-Stein O. Effect of Ku proteins on IRES-mediated translation. Biol Cell 2012; 98:353-61. [PMID: 16448389 DOI: 10.1042/bc20050060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION Ku is an abundant nuclear heterodimeric protein composed of 70 and 86 kDa subunits. As an activator of the catalytic subunit of DNA-PK (DNA-dependent protein kinase), Ku plays an important role in DNA repair and recombination. Ku is also involved in actions independent of DNA-PK, such as transcription regulation and telomere maintenance. Although Ku is localized in the cytoplasm under specific cellular conditions, no functions for Ku outside of the nucleus have as yet been reported. In addition to DNA binding, Ku binds specific RNA sequences with high affinity. However, no specific cellular mRNA targets for Ku have been identified. RESULTS In a yeast three-hybrid system, Ku70 bound to an RNA bait that contained an IRES (internal ribosomal entry site) element. A single band with migration properties similar to those of Ku70 was immunoprecipitated with anti-Ku antibody, using UV cross-linked complexes formed by HeLa cell nuclear extracts and an IRES-containing RNA probe. IRES activity was reduced in Ku80(-/-) cells. Overexpression of Ku proteins stimulated IRES-dependent translation. CONCLUSIONS The present study suggests that Ku binds IRES elements within RNA molecules, and that Ku plays a role in the modulation of IRES-mediated mRNA translation.
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- Deborah Silvera
- Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Le SY, Shapiro BA. Data mining of functional RNA structures in genomic sequences. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS. DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY 2011; 1:88-95. [PMID: 34306322 PMCID: PMC8301259 DOI: 10.1002/widm.13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The normal functions of genomes depend on the precise expression of messenger RNAs and noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) such as transfer RNAs and microRNAs in eukaryotes. These ncRNAs and functional RNA structures (FRSs) act as regulators or response elements for cellular factors and participate in transcription, posttranscriptional processing, and translation. Knowledge discovery of these FRSs in huge DNA/RNA sequence databases is a very important step to reach our goal of going from genomic sequence data to biological knowledge for understanding RNA-based regulation. Analyses of a large number of FRSs have indicated that the FRS can be well characterized by some quantitative measures such as significance and well-ordered scores of the local segment. Various data mining tools have been developed and successfully applied to FRS discovery in genomic sequence databases. Here, we summarize our efforts in the computational discovery of structured features of ncRNAs and FRSs within complex genomes by EDscan and SigED.
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- Shu-Yun Le
- Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, NCI Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, NCI Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
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Spriggs KA, Bushell M, Willis AE. Translational regulation of gene expression during conditions of cell stress. Mol Cell 2010; 40:228-37. [PMID: 20965418 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.09.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 523] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2010] [Revised: 09/10/2010] [Accepted: 09/28/2010] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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A number of stresses, including nutrient stress, temperature shock, DNA damage, and hypoxia, can lead to changes in gene expression patterns caused by a general shutdown and reprogramming of protein synthesis. Each of these stress conditions results in selective recruitment of ribosomes to mRNAs whose protein products are required for responding to stress. This recruitment is regulated by elements within the 5' and 3' untranslated regions of mRNAs, including internal ribosome entry segments, upstream open reading frames, and microRNA target sites. These elements can act singly or in combination and are themselves regulated by trans-acting factors. Translational reprogramming can result in increased life span, and conversely, deregulation of these translation pathways is associated with disease including cancer and diabetes.
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- Keith A Spriggs
- Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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The hnRNPs (heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins) are RNA-binding proteins with important roles in multiple aspects of nucleic acid metabolism, including the packaging of nascent transcripts, alternative splicing and translational regulation. Although they share some general characteristics, they vary greatly in terms of their domain composition and functional properties. Although the traditional grouping of the hnRNPs as a collection of proteins provided a practical framework, which has guided much of the research on them, this approach is becoming increasingly incompatible with current knowledge about their structural and functional divergence. Hence, we review the current literature to examine hnRNP diversity, and discuss how this impacts upon approaches to the classification of RNA-binding proteins in general.
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Panchenko MP, Siddiquee Z, Dombkowski DM, Alekseyev YO, Lenburg ME, Walker JD, Macgillivray TE, Preffer FI, Stone JR. Protein kinase CK1alphaLS promotes vascular cell proliferation and intimal hyperplasia. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2010; 177:1562-72. [PMID: 20696773 DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2010.100327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Protein kinase CK1alpha regulates several fundamental cellular processes including proliferation and differentiation. Up to four forms of this kinase are expressed in vertebrates resulting from alternative splicing of exons; these exons encode either the L-insert located within the catalytic domain or the S-insert located at the C terminus of the protein. Whereas the L-insert is known to target the kinase to the nucleus, the functional significance of nuclear CK1alphaLS has been unclear. Here we demonstrate that selective L-insert-targeted short hairpin small interfering RNA-mediated knockdown of CK1alphaLS in human vascular endothelial cells and vascular smooth muscle cells impairs proliferation and abolishes hydrogen peroxide-stimulated proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells, with the cells accumulating in G(0)/G(1). In addition, selective knockdown of CK1alphaLS in cultured human arteries inhibits vascular activation, preventing smooth muscle cell proliferation, intimal hyperplasia, and proteoglycan deposition. Knockdown of CK1alphaLS results in the harmonious down-regulation of its target substrate heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C and results in the altered expression or alternative splicing of key genes involved in cellular activation including CXCR4, MMP3, CSF2, and SMURF1. Our results indicate that the nuclear form of CK1alpha in humans, CK1alphaLS, plays a critical role in vascular cell proliferation, cellular activation, and hydrogen peroxide-mediated mitogenic signal transduction.
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- Mikhail P Panchenko
- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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Dhar D, Venkataramana M, Ponnuswamy A, Das S. Role of polypyrimidine tract binding protein in mediating internal initiation of translation of interferon regulatory factor 2 RNA. PLoS One 2009; 4:e7049. [PMID: 19756143 PMCID: PMC2737629 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2009] [Accepted: 07/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background Earlier we have reported translational control of interferon regulatory factor 2 (IRF2) by internal initiation (Dhar et al, Nucleic Acids Res, 2007). The results implied possible role of IRF2 in controlling the intricate balance of cellular gene expression under stress conditions in general. Here we have investigated the secondary structure of the Internal Ribosome Entry Site of IRF2 RNA and demonstrated the role of PTB protein in ribosome assembly to facilitate internal initiation. Methodology/Principal Findings We have probed the putative secondary structure of the IRF2 5′UTR RNA using various enzymatic and chemical modification agents to constrain the secondary structure predicted from RNA folding algorithm Mfold. The IRES activity was found to be influenced by the interaction of trans-acting factor, polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB). Deletion of 25 nts from the 3′terminus of the 5′untranslated region resulted in reduced binding with PTB protein and also showed significant decrease in IRES activity compared to the wild type. We have also demonstrated putative contact points of PTB on the IRF2–5′UTR using primer extension inhibition assay. Majority of the PTB toe-prints were found to be restricted to the 3′end of the IRES. Additionally, Circular Dichroism (CD) spectra analysis suggested change in the conformation of the RNA upon PTB binding. Further, binding studies using S10 extract from HeLa cells, partially silenced for PTB gene expression, resulted in reduced binding by other trans-acting factors. Finally, we have demonstrated that addition of recombinant PTB enhances ribosome assembly on IRF2 IRES suggesting possible role of PTB in mediating internal initiation of translation of IRF2 RNA. Conclusion/Significance It appears that PTB binding to multiple sites within IRF2 5′UTR leads to a conformational change in the RNA that facilitate binding of other trans-acting factors to mediate internal initiation of translation.
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- Debojyoti Dhar
- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Fitzgerald KD, Semler BL. Bridging IRES elements in mRNAs to the eukaryotic translation apparatus. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2009; 1789:518-28. [PMID: 19631772 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2009.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2009] [Revised: 07/10/2009] [Accepted: 07/14/2009] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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IRES elements are highly structured RNA sequences that function to recruit ribosomes for the initiation of translation. In contrast to the canonical cap-binding, ribosome-scanning model, the mechanism of IRES-mediated translation initiation is not well understood. IRES elements, first discovered in viral RNA genomes, were subsequently found in a subset of cellular RNAs as well. Interestingly, these cellular IRES-containing mRNAs appear to play important roles during conditions of cellular stress, development, and disease (e.g., cancer). It has been shown for viral IRESes that some require specific IRES trans-acting factors (ITAFs), while others require few if any additional proteins and can bind ribosomes directly. Current studies are aimed at elucidating the mechanism of IRES-mediated translation initiation and features that may be common or differ greatly among cellular and viral IRESes. This review will explore IRES elements as important RNA structures that function in both cellular and viral RNA translation and the significance of these structures in providing an alternative mechanism of eukaryotic translation initiation.
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- Kerry D Fitzgerald
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Wang G, Guo X, Silveyra P, Kimball SR, Floros J. Cap-independent translation of human SP-A 5'-UTR variants: a double-loop structure and cis-element contribution. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2009; 296:L635-47. [PMID: 19181744 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.90508.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Human surfactant protein A (hSP-A), a molecule of innate immunity and surfactant-related functions, consists of two functional genes, SP-A1 and SP-A2. SP-A expression is regulated by several factors including environmental stressors. SP-A1 and SP-A2 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) splice variants have a differential impact on translation efficiency and mRNA stability. To study whether these variants mediate internal ribosome entry site (IRES) activity (i.e., cap-independent translation), we performed transient transfection experiments in H441 cells with constructs containing one SP-A1 (A'D', AB'D', or A'CD') or SP-A2 (ABD) 5'-UTR splice variant between the Renilla and firefly luciferase genes of a bicistronic reporter vector. We found that 1) variants A'D', ABD, and AB'D' exhibit significantly higher IRES activities than negative control (no SP-A 5'-UTR) and A'CD' has no activity; the order of highest IRES activity was ABD > A'D' > AB'D; 2) IRES activity of ABD significantly increased in response to diesel particulate matter (20 microg/ml) but not in response to ozone (1 ppm for 1 h); 3) deletion mutants of ABD revealed regulatory elements associated with IRES activity; one at the end of exon A attenuated activity, whereas a region containing a short adenosine-rich motif in the second half of exon B and the start of exon D enhanced activity; 4) elimination of a predicted double-loop structure or increase in free energy significantly reduced IRES activity; 5) elimination of one or both double-loop structures in A'D' did not affect cap-dependent translation activity. Thus several factors, including cis-elements and secondary structure type and stability, are required for hSP-A 5'-UTR variant-mediated cap-independent translation.
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- Guirong Wang
- Department of Pediatrics, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
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Meng Z, Jackson NL, Choi H, King PH, Emanuel PD, Blume SW. Alterations in RNA-binding activities of IRES-regulatory proteins as a mechanism for physiological variability and pathological dysregulation of IGF-IR translational control in human breast tumor cells. J Cell Physiol 2008; 217:172-83. [PMID: 18452152 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The type I insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-IR) is integrally involved in the control of cellular proliferation and survival. An internal ribosomal entry site (IRES) within the 1,038 nucleotide 5'-untranslated region of the human IGF-IR mRNA helps to provide the tight control of IGF-IR expression necessary for maintenance of normal cellular and tissue homeostasis. The IRES maps to a discrete sequence of 85 nucleotides positioned just upstream of the IGF-IR initiation codon, allowing the ribosome to bypass the highly structured regions of the 5'-UTR as well as the upstream open reading frame. The authenticity of the IGF-IR IRES has been confirmed by its sensitivity to deletion of the promoter from a bicistronic reporter construct, and its resistance in a monocistronic reporter construct to co-expression of a viral 2A protease. We previously characterized HuR as a potent repressor of IGF-IR translation. Here we demonstrate that hnRNP C competes with HuR for binding the IGF-IR 5'-UTR and enhances IRES-mediated translation initiation in a concentration-dependent manner. We observed changes in binding of hnRNP C versus HuR to the IGF-IR 5'-UTR in response to physiological alterations in cellular environment or proliferative status. Furthermore, we have found distinct alterations in the pattern of protein binding to the IGF-IR 5'-UTR in human breast tumor cells in which IGF-IR IRES activity and relative translational efficiency are aberrantly increased. These results suggest that dysregulation of the IGF-IR IRES through changes in the activities of RNA-binding translation-regulatory proteins could be responsible for IGF-IR overexpression in a proportion of human breast tumors.
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- Zheng Meng
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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Panchenko MP, Silva N, Stone JR. Up-regulation of a hydrogen peroxide-responsive pre-mRNA binding protein in atherosclerosis and intimal hyperplasia. Cardiovasc Pathol 2008; 18:167-72. [PMID: 18508286 DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2008.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2007] [Revised: 02/28/2008] [Accepted: 03/16/2008] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Multiple lines of investigation have implicated hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) as an important endogenous mediator of cell proliferation in the vessel wall. Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C (hnRNP-C), a nuclear pre-mRNA binding protein that plays roles in vertebrate cell proliferation and differentiation, has been identified as a component of a vascular cell signaling pathway activated by low physiologic levels of H(2)O(2). The expression of hnRNP-C in human arteries has not previously been assessed. METHODS Segments of human proximal internal carotid arteries were evaluated for the expression of hnRNP-C by immunohistochemistry. RESULTS In normal proximal internal carotid arteries, hnRNP-C is expressed predominantly by the endothelium, with significantly lower expression by medial smooth muscle. In preatherosclerotic intimal hyperplasia, hnRNP-C is up-regulated in the artery wall, due to the robust expression by the intimal smooth muscle cells, without up-regulation in the medial smooth muscle cells. In arteries with atherosclerotic lesions, there is strong expression of hnRNP-C not only by intimal cells but also by medial smooth muscle cells. CONCLUSIONS The H(2)O(2) responsive pre-mRNA binding protein hnRNP-C is up-regulated in atherosclerosis and in preatherosclerotic intimal hyperplasia in humans, supporting the hypothesis that H(2)O(2) is a regulator of vascular cell proliferation in these conditions. These data also suggest that hnRNP-C may be useful as a marker of vascular cell activation.
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- Mikhail P Panchenko
- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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A gastrin transcript expressed in gastrointestinal cancer cells contains an internal ribosome entry site. Br J Cancer 2008; 98:1696-703. [PMID: 18392051 PMCID: PMC2391123 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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As the hormone gastrin promotes gastrointestinal (GI) cancer progression by triggering survival pathways, regulation of gastrin expression at the translational level was explored. Sequence within the 5' untranslated region of a gastrin transcript expressed in GI cancer cells was investigated, then cloned into a bicistronic vector upstream of firefly luciferase and transfected into a series of GI cancer cell lines. Firefly luciferase activity was measured relative to that of a cap-dependent Renilla luciferase. A gastrin transcript that was different from that described in Ensembl was expressed in GI cancer cells. Its transcription appears to be initiated within the region designated as the gene's first intron. In GI cancer cells transfected with the bicistronic construct, firefly luciferase activity increased 8-15-fold compared with the control vector, and there was a further induction of the signal (up to 25-fold) following exposure of the cells to genotoxic stress or hypoxia, suggesting that the sequence acts as an internal ribosome entry site. These data suggest that the gastrin transcript within GI cancer cells contains an internal ribosome entry site that may allow continued expression of gastrin peptides when normal translational mechanisms are inactive, such as in hypoxia, thereby promoting cancer cell survival.
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Hayakawa Y, Kurimoto M, Nagai S, Kurosaki K, Tsuboi Y, Hamada H, Hayashi N, Endo S. Thrombin-induced cell proliferation and platelet-derived growth factor-AB release from A172 human glioblastoma cells. J Thromb Haemost 2007; 5:2219-26. [PMID: 17958740 DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2007.02739.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND In a previous study, we found that thrombin induced proliferation of TM-1 and T98G human glioma cells and that the mitogenic effect was abolished by hirudin. OBJECTIVES We investigated thrombin's effects on the proliferation of A172 human glioblastoma cells and the induction of growth factors. Furthermore, we examined whether or not the expression of heparin cofactor II (HCII) in A172 cells using adenovirus vector could suppress thrombin's effects. METHODS The effect of thrombin on cell proliferation was assessed using a 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl-tetrazolium bromide assay. The amount of growth factors in the conditioned medium was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The level of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-B mRNA was assessed by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analysis. RESULTS Thrombin-induced proliferation of A172 cells primarily depended on the enhanced secretion of PDGF-AB by thrombin. The action of thrombin depended on its proteolytic activity. However, thrombin-induced PDGF-AB secretion was not abolished by anti-protease-activated receptor (PAR) antibody. The PAR-1 agonist peptide had no effect on cell growth and PDGF-AB levels. Thrombin did not increase PDGF-B gene expression. Expression of HCII effectively suppressed thrombin-induced PDGF-AB release. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate that thrombin may play an important role in the proliferation of A172 cells by inducing PDGF-AB secretion and that thrombin's action is mediated by its proteolytic activity. Inhibition of thrombin's proteolytic activity may be a new therapeutic method for gliomas.
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- Y Hayakawa
- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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Halaby MJ, Yang DQ. p53 translational control: a new facet of p53 regulation and its implication for tumorigenesis and cancer therapeutics. Gene 2007; 395:1-7. [PMID: 17395405 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2006] [Revised: 01/26/2007] [Accepted: 01/26/2007] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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While posttranslational regulation of p53 levels by its interaction with the ubiquitin ligase MDM2 is widely accepted, it has recently become clear that regulation of p53 translation also contributes to p53 induction following DNA damage. However, the mechanisms underlying the translational control of p53 are still poorly understood. In this review, we will focus on the translational regulation of p53 through the 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions of its mRNA. We will also discuss in detail the recent discovery of the p53 internal ribosome entry site (IRES), its role in p53 translation in response to DNA damage, and how it might lead to a better understanding of the process of oncogenesis and provide new avenues for cancer therapeutics.
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- Marie-Jo Halaby
- Sanford School of Medicine, The University of South Dakota, Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, 414 East Clark Street, Lee Medicine Building, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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Schepens B, Tinton SA, Bruynooghe Y, Parthoens E, Haegman M, Beyaert R, Cornelis S. A role for hnRNP C1/C2 and Unr in internal initiation of translation during mitosis. EMBO J 2006; 26:158-69. [PMID: 17159903 PMCID: PMC1782369 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2006] [Accepted: 11/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The upstream of N-Ras (Unr) protein is involved in translational regulation of specific genes. For example, the Unr protein contributes to translation mediated by several viral and cellular internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs), including the PITSLRE IRES, which is activated at mitosis. Previously, we have shown that translation of the Unr mRNA itself can be initiated through an IRES. Here, we show that UNR mRNA translation and UNR IRES activity are significantly increased during mitosis. Functional analysis identified hnRNP C1/C2 proteins as UNR IRES stimulatory factors, whereas both polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB) and Unr were found to function as inhibitors of UNR IRES-mediated translation. The increased UNR IRES activity during mitosis results from enhanced binding of the stimulatory hnRNP C1/C2 proteins and concomitant dissociation of PTB and Unr from the UNR IRES RNA. Our data suggest the existence of an IRES-dependent cascade in mitosis comprising hnRNP C1/C2 proteins that stimulate Unr expression, and Unr, in turn, contributes to PITSLRE IRES activity. The observation that RNA interference-mediated knockdown of hnRNP C1/C2 and Unr, respectively, abrogates and retards mitosis points out that regulation of IRES-mediated translation by hnRNP C1/C2 and Unr might be important in mitosis.
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- Bert Schepens
- Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in Inflammation, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB-Ghent University, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in Inflammation, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB-Ghent University, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in Inflammation, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB-Ghent University, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Microscopy Core Facility, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB-Ghent University, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in Inflammation, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB-Ghent University, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in Inflammation, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB-Ghent University, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
- These authors contributed equally to this work
- Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB-Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent (Zwijnaarde), Belgium. Tel.: +32 9 3313 600; Fax: +32 9 3313 609; E-mail:
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- Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in Inflammation, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB-Ghent University, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
- These authors contributed equally to this work
- Tel.: +32 9 3313 770; Fax: +32 9 3313 609; E-mail:
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The cell has many ways to regulate the production of proteins. One mechanism is through the changes to the machinery of translation initiation. These alterations favor the translation of one subset of mRNAs over another. It was first shown that internal ribosome entry sites (IRESes) within viral RNA genomes allowed the production of viral proteins more efficiently than most of the host proteins. The RNA secondary structure of viral IRESes has sometimes been conserved between viral species even though the primary sequences differ. These structures are important for IRES function, but no similar structure conservation has yet to be shown in cellular IRES. With the advances in mathematical modeling and computational approaches to complex biological problems, is there a way to predict an IRES in a data set of unknown sequences? This review examines what is known about cellular IRES structures, as well as the data sets and tools available to examine this question. We find that the lengths, number of upstream AUGs, and %GC content of 5'-UTRs of the human transcriptome have a similar distribution to those of published IRES-containing UTRs. Although the UTRs containing IRESes are on the average longer, almost half of all 5'-UTRs are long enough to contain an IRES. Examination of the available RNA structure prediction software and RNA motif searching programs indicates that while these programs are useful tools to fine tune the empirically determined RNA secondary structure, the accuracy of de novo secondary structure prediction of large RNA molecules and subsequent identification of new IRES elements by computational approaches, is still not possible.
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- Stephen D Baird
- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M5, Canada
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Hossain MN, Fuji M, Miki K, Endoh M, Ayusawa D. Downregulation of hnRNP C1/C2 by siRNA sensitizes HeLa cells to various stresses. Mol Cell Biochem 2006; 296:151-7. [PMID: 16960656 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-006-9308-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2005] [Accepted: 12/23/2005] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C1/C2 is one of the most abundant proteins in the nucleus, and shown to have roles in cellular differentiation and proliferation through post-transcriptional regulations of certain mRNA species. We studied its role in stress response using siRNA mediated knockdown approach in HeLa cells. Upon transient transfection with plasmid encoding siRNA, the cells showed increased sensitivities to various chemical agents, namely H(2)O(2, )paraquat, camptothecin, ICRF-193 and halogenated deoxyuridines. These results demonstrate that hnRNP C1/C2 is involved in maintenance of cellular homeostasis besides cellular differentiation and proliferation.
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- Mohammad Nazir Hossain
- Kihara Institute for Biological research, Yokohama City University, Maioka-cho 641-12, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama 244-0813, Japan
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Mehta A, Trotta CR, Peltz SW. Derepression of the Her-2 uORF is mediated by a novel post-transcriptional control mechanism in cancer cells. Genes Dev 2006; 20:939-53. [PMID: 16598037 PMCID: PMC1472302 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1388706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Transcripts harboring 5' upstream open reading frames (uORFs) are often found in genes controlling cell growth including receptors, oncogenes, or growth factors. uORFs can modulate translation or RNA stability and mediate inefficient translation of these potent proteins under normal conditions. In dysregulated cancer cells, where the gene product, for example Her-2 receptor, is overexpressed, post-transcriptional processes must exist that serve to override the inhibitory effects of the uORFs. The 5' untranslated region (UTR) of Her-2 mRNA contains a short uORF that represses translation of the downstream coding region. We demonstrate that in Her-2 overexpressing breast cancer cells, the 3' UTR of the Her-2 mRNA can override translational inhibition mediated by the Her-2 uORF. Within this 3' UTR, a translational derepression element (TDE) that binds to a 38-kDa protein was identified. These results define a novel biological mechanism in which translational control of genes harboring a 5' uORF can be modulated by elements in their 3' UTRs.
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- Anuradha Mehta
- PTC Therapeutics, Inc., South Plainfield, New Jersey 07080, USA.
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Schepens B, Tinton SA, Bruynooghe Y, Beyaert R, Cornelis S. The polypyrimidine tract-binding protein stimulates HIF-1alpha IRES-mediated translation during hypoxia. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:6884-94. [PMID: 16396835 PMCID: PMC1310900 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki1000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2005] [Accepted: 11/16/2005] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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When oxygen supply is restricted, protein synthesis is rapidly abrogated owing to inhibition of global translation. However, HIF-1alpha protein expression can persist during hypoxia, owing to an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) in the 5'-untranslated region of its mRNA. Here, we report on the molecular mechanism of HIF-1alpha IRES-mediated translation during oxygen deprivation. Using RNA affinity chromatography and UV-crosslinking experiments, we show that the polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB) can specifically interact with the HIF-1alpha IRES, and that this interaction is enhanced in hypoxic conditions. Overexpression of PTB enhanced HIF-1alpha IRES activity, whereas RNA interference-mediated downregula-tion of PTB protein expression inhibited HIF-1alpha IRES activity. Furthermore, hypoxia-induced stimulation of the HIF-1alpha IRES was reduced in cells in which PTB function was downregulated. In agreement with these results, the IRES activity of HIF-1alpha IRES deletion mutants that are deficient in PTB-binding could not be stimulated by oxygen deprivation. All together, our data suggest that PTB plays a stimulatory role in the IRES-mediated translation of HIF-1alpha when oxygen supply is limited.
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- Bert Schepens
- Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB—Ghent University, Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in InflammationB-9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB—Ghent University, Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in InflammationB-9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB—Ghent University, Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in InflammationB-9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB—Ghent University, Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in InflammationB-9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB—Ghent University, Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in InflammationB-9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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Derrington EA, López-Lastra M, Darlix JL. Dicistronic MLV-retroviral vectors transduce neural precursors in vivo and co-express two genes in their differentiated neuronal progeny. Retrovirology 2005; 2:60. [PMID: 16194277 PMCID: PMC1266060 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-2-60] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2005] [Accepted: 09/29/2005] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Dicistronic MLV-based retroviral vectors, in which two IRESes independently initiate the translation of two proteins from a single RNA, have been shown to direct co-expression of proteins in several cell culture systems. Here we report that these dicistronic retroviral vectors can drive co-expression of two gene products in brain cells in vivo. Injection of retroviral vector producer cells leads to the transduction of proliferating precursors in the external granular layer of the cerebellum and throughout the ventricular regions. Differentiated neurons co-expressing both transgenes were observed in the cerebellum and in lower numbers in distant brain regions such as the cortex. Thus, we describe an eukaryotic dicistronic vector system that is capable of transducing mouse neural precursors in vivo and maintaining the expression of genes after cell differentiation.
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- Edmund A Derrington
- LaboRétro, INSERM U412, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon 69364 Cedex 07, France
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- Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, Centro de Investigaciones Médicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Marcoleta 391, Santiago, Chile
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- LaboRétro, INSERM U412, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon 69364 Cedex 07, France
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Lahlou H, Fanjul M, Pradayrol L, Susini C, Pyronnet S. Restoration of functional gap junctions through internal ribosome entry site-dependent synthesis of endogenous connexins in density-inhibited cancer cells. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:4034-45. [PMID: 15870276 PMCID: PMC1087721 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.10.4034-4045.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Gap junctions are composed of connexins and are critical for the maintenance of the differentiated state. Consistently, connexin expression is impaired in most cancer cells, and forced expression of connexins following cDNA transfection reverses the tumor phenotype. We have found that the restoration of density inhibition of human pancreatic cancer cells by the antiproliferative somatostatin receptor 2 (sst2) is due to overexpression of endogenous connexins Cx26 and Cx43 and consequent formation of functional gap junctions. Immunoblotting along with protein metabolic labeling and mRNA monitoring revealed that connexin expression is enhanced at the level of translation but is not sensitive to the inhibition of cap-dependent translation initiation. Furthermore, we identified a new internal ribosome entry site (IRES) in the Cx26 mRNA. The activity of Cx26 IRES and that of the previously described Cx43 IRES are enhanced in density-inhibited cells. These data indicate that the restoration of functional gap junctions is likely a critical event in the antiproliferative action of the sst2 receptor. We further suggest that the existence of IRESes in connexin mRNAs permits connexin expression in density-inhibited or differentiated cells, where cap-dependent translation is generally reduced.
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- Hicham Lahlou
- INSERM U531, Institut Louis Bugnard, CHU Rangueil, TSA 50032, 31059 Toulouse cedex 9, France
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Cells respond to stress stimuli through coordinated changes in gene expression. The regulation of translation is often used under these circumstances because it allows immediate and selective changes in protein levels. There are many examples of translational control in response to stress. Here we examine two representative models, the regulation of eukaryotic initiation factor-2alpha by phosphorylation and internal ribosome initiation through the internal ribosome-entry site, which illustrate the importance of translational control in the cellular stress response and apoptosis.
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- Martin Holcik
- Apoptosis Research Center, Room R3116, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L1, Canada.
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Cho S, Kim JH, Back SH, Jang SK. Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein enhances the internal ribosomal entry site-dependent translation of p27Kip1 mRNA and modulates transition from G1 to S phase. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:1283-97. [PMID: 15684381 PMCID: PMC548013 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.4.1283-1297.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2004] [Revised: 09/06/2004] [Accepted: 11/29/2004] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The p27(Kip1) protein plays a critical role in the regulation of cell proliferation through the inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinase activity. Translation of p27(Kip1) is directed by an internal ribosomal entry site (IRES) in the 5' nontranslated region of p27(Kip1) mRNA. Here, we report that polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB) specifically enhances the IRES activity of p27(Kip1) mRNA through an interaction with the IRES element. We found that addition of PTB to an in vitro translation system and overexpression of PTB in 293T cells augmented the IRES activity of p27(Kip1) mRNA but that knockdown of PTB by introduction of PTB-specific small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) diminished the IRES activity of p27(Kip1) mRNA. Moreover, the G(1) phase in the cell cycle (which is maintained in part by p27(Kip1)) was shortened in cells depleted of PTB by siRNA knockdown. 12-O-Tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-induced differentiation in HL60 cells was used to examine PTB-induced modulation of p27(Kip1) protein synthesis during differentiation. The IRES activity of p27(Kip1) mRNA in HL60 cells was increased by TPA treatment (with a concomitant increase in PTB protein levels), but the levels of p27(Kip1) mRNA remained unchanged. Together, these data suggest that PTB modulates cell cycle and differentiation, at least in part, by enhancing the IRES activity of p27(Kip1) mRNA.
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- Sungchan Cho
- PBC, Division of Molecular and Life Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja Dong, Pohang, Kyungbuk 790-784, South Korea.
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Tinton S, Schepens B, Bruynooghe Y, Beyaert R, Cornelis S. Regulation of the cell-cycle-dependent internal ribosome entry site of the PITSLRE protein kinase: roles of Unr (upstream of N-ras) protein and phosphorylated translation initiation factor eIF-2alpha. Biochem J 2005; 385:155-63. [PMID: 15330758 PMCID: PMC1134683 DOI: 10.1042/bj20040963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2004] [Revised: 08/10/2004] [Accepted: 08/26/2004] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The PITSLRE kinases belong to the large family of cyclin-dependent protein kinases. Their function has been related to cell-cycle regulation, splicing and apoptosis. We have previously shown that the open reading frame of the p110(PITSLRE) transcript contains an IRES (internal ribosome entry site) that allows the expression of a smaller p58(PITSLRE) isoform during the G2/M stage of the cell cycle. In the present study we investigated further the role of cis- and trans-acting factors in the regulation of the PITSLRE IRES. Progressive deletion analysis showed that both a purine-rich sequence and a Unr (upstream of N-ras) consensus binding site are essential for PITSLRE IRES activity. In line with these observations, we demonstrate that the PITSLRE IRES interacts with the Unr protein, which is more prominently expressed at the G2/M stage of the cell cycle. We also show that phosphorylation of the alpha-subunit of the canonical initiation factor eIF-2 is increased at G2/M. Interestingly, phosphorylation of eIF-2alpha has a permissive effect on the efficiency of both the PITSLRE IRES and the ornithine decarboxylase IRES, two cell cycle-dependent IRESs, in mediating internal initiation of translation, whereas this was not observed with the viral EMCV (encephalomyocarditis virus) and HRV (human rhinovirus) IRESs.
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Key Words
- cap-independent translation
- α-subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eif-2α)
- g2/m cell-cycle stage
- internal ribosome-entry-site (ires)-specific trans-acting factor (itaf)
- p58pitslre protein kinase
- upstream of n-ras
- apaf-1, apoptotic-protease-activating factor 1
- cat-1, cationic amino acid transporter protein 1
- dtt, dithiothreitol
- eifs, eukaryotic initiation factors
- eif-2α, α-subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2
- emcv, encephalomyocarditis virus
- fcs, fetal-calf serum
- fluc, firefly luciferase
- hnrnp, heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein
- il-3, interleukin-3
- itaf, ires-specific trans-acting factor
- hrv, human rhinovirus
- ires, internal ribosome entry site
- odc, ornithine decarboxylase
- pars, polypurine (a)-rich sequence
- pdgf, platelet-derived growth factor
- pkr, double-stranded-rna-activated protein kinase
- pkr-k296r, death mutant [lys296→arginine]kpr
- ptb, polypyrimidine-tract-binding protein
- 5′-race, rapid amplification of cdna ends
- rluc, renilla luciferase
- rrl, rabbit reticulocyte lysate
- sv40, simian virus 40
- unr, upstream of n-ras (protein)
- 5′-utr, 5′-untranslated region
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- Sandrine A. Tinton
- Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in Inflammation, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB (Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology)–Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in Inflammation, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB (Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology)–Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in Inflammation, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB (Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology)–Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in Inflammation, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB (Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology)–Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Unit of Molecular Signal Transduction in Inflammation, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB (Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology)–Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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Pickering BM, Willis AE. The implications of structured 5' untranslated regions on translation and disease. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2004; 16:39-47. [PMID: 15659338 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2004.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 251] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Translational control is a key step in eukaryotic gene expression. The majority of translational control occurs at the level of initiation, thus implicating the 5' untranslated region as a major site of translational regulation. Many growth-related mRNAs have atypical 5' UTRs, which are often long and GC-rich. Such features promote formation of stable secondary structure, and many mRNAs encoding proteins involved in cell growth, proliferation and apoptosis have structured 5' UTRs, which in many cases harbour internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs) and upstream open-reading frames (uORFs). In this review we discuss how secondary structural elements in the 5' UTR can regulate translation and how mutations that perturb these secondary structural elements can have implications for disease and tumourigenesis.
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- Becky M Pickering
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, University Rd, Leicester LE17RH, UK
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Blais JD, Filipenko V, Bi M, Harding HP, Ron D, Koumenis C, Wouters BG, Bell JC. Activating transcription factor 4 is translationally regulated by hypoxic stress. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:7469-82. [PMID: 15314157 PMCID: PMC506979 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.17.7469-7482.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 326] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Hypoxic stress results in a rapid and sustained inhibition of protein synthesis that is at least partially mediated by eukaryotic initiation factor 2alpha (eIF2alpha) phosphorylation by the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) kinase PERK. Here we show through microarray analysis of polysome-bound RNA in aerobic and hypoxic HeLa cells that a subset of transcripts are preferentially translated during hypoxia, including activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4), an important mediator of the unfolded protein response. Changes in mRNA translation during the unfolded protein response are mediated by PERK phosphorylation of the translation initiation factor eIF2alpha at Ser-51. Similarly, PERK is activated and is responsible for translational regulation under hypoxic conditions, while inducing the translation of ATF4. The overexpression of a C-terminal fragment of GADD34 that constitutively dephosphorylates eIF2alpha was able to attenuate the phosphorylation of eIF2alpha and severely inhibit the induction of ATF4 in response to hypoxic stress. These studies demonstrate the essential role of ATF4 in the response to hypoxic stress, define the pathway for its induction, and reveal that GADD34, a target of ATF4 activation, negatively regulates the eIF2alpha-mediated inhibition of translation. Taken with the concomitant induction of additional ER-resident proteins identified by our microarray analysis, this study suggests an important integrated response between ER signaling and the cellular adaptation to hypoxic stress.
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Shih AH, Dai C, Hu X, Rosenblum MK, Koutcher JA, Holland EC. Dose-Dependent Effects of Platelet-Derived Growth Factor-B on Glial Tumorigenesis. Cancer Res 2004; 64:4783-9. [PMID: 15256447 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-03-3831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is expressed in many different tumors, but its precise roles in tumorigenesis remain to be fully defined. Here, we report on a mouse model that demonstrates dose-dependent effects of PDGF-B on glial tumorigenesis. By removing inhibitory regulatory elements in the PDGFB mRNA, we are able to substantially elevate its expression in tumor cells using a retroviral delivery system. This elevation in PDGF-B production results in tumors with shortened latency, increased cellularity, regions of necrosis, and general high-grade character. In addition, elevated PDGF-B in these tumors also mediates vascular smooth muscle cell recruitment that supports tumor angiogenesis. PDGF receptor (PDGFR) signaling appears to be required for the maintenance of these high-grade characteristics, because treatment of high-grade tumors with a small molecule inhibitor of PDGFR results in reversion to a lower grade tumor histology. Our data show that PDGFR signaling quantitatively regulates tumor grade and is required to sustain high-grade oligodendrogliomas.
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- Alan H Shih
- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Koloteva-Levine N, Pinchasi D, Pereman I, Zur A, Brandeis M, Elroy-Stein O. The Apc5 subunit of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome interacts with poly(A) binding protein and represses internal ribosome entry site-mediated translation. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:3577-87. [PMID: 15082755 PMCID: PMC387753 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.9.3577-3587.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is a multisubunit ubiquitin ligase that mediates the proteolysis of cell cycle proteins in mitosis and G(1). We used a yeast three-hybrid screen to identify proteins that interact with the internal ribosome entry site (IRES) of platelet-derived growth factor 2 mRNA. Surprisingly, this screen identified Apc5, although it does not harbor a classical RNA binding domain. We found that Apc5 binds the poly(A) binding protein (PABP), which directly binds the IRES element. PABP was found to enhance IRES-mediated translation, whereas Apc5 overexpression counteracted this effect. In addition to its association with the APC/C complex, Apc5 binds much heavier complexes and cosediments with the ribosomal fraction. In contrast to Apc3, which is associated only with the APC/C and remains intact during differentiation, Apc5 is degraded upon megakaryocytic differentiation in correlation with IRES activation. Expression of Apc5 in differentiated cells abolished IRES activation. This is the first report implying an additional role for an APC/C subunit, apart from its being part of the APC/C complex.
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- Nadejda Koloteva-Levine
- Department of Cell Research & Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Jopling CL, Spriggs KA, Mitchell SA, Stoneley M, Willis AE. L-Myc protein synthesis is initiated by internal ribosome entry. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2004; 10:287-98. [PMID: 14730027 PMCID: PMC1370540 DOI: 10.1261/rna.5138804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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An internal ribosome entry segment (IRES) has been identified in the 5' untranslated region (5' UTR) of two members of the myc family of proto-oncogenes, c-myc and N-myc. Hence, the synthesis of c-Myc and N-Myc polypeptides can involve the alternative mechanism of internal initiation. Here, we show that the 5' UTR of L-myc, another myc family member, also contains an IRES. Previous studies have shown that the translation of mRNAs containing the c-myc and N-myc IRESs can involve both cap-dependent initiation and internal initiation. In contrast, the data presented here suggest that internal initiation can account for all of the translation initiation that occurs on an mRNA with the L-myc IRES in its 5' UTR. Like many other cellular IRESs, the L-myc IRES appears to be modular in nature and the entire 5' UTR is required for maximum IRES efficiency. The ribosome entry window within the L-myc IRES is located some distance upstream of the initiation codon, and thus, this IRES uses a "land and scan" mechanism to initiate translation. Finally, we have derived a secondary structural model for the IRES. The model confirms that the L-myc IRES is highly structured and predicts that a pseudoknot may form near the 5' end of the mRNA.
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- Catherine L Jopling
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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Cencig S, Nanbru C, Le SY, Gueydan C, Huez G, Kruys V. Mapping and characterization of the minimal internal ribosome entry segment in the human c-myc mRNA 5' untranslated region. Oncogene 2004; 23:267-77. [PMID: 14712232 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1207017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The human c-myc proto-oncogene is transcribed from four alternative promoters generating transcripts with 5' untranslated regions of various lengths. These transcripts encode two proteins, c-Myc1 and c-Myc2, from two initiation codons, CUG and AUG, respectively. We and others have previously demonstrated that the region of c-myc transcripts between nucleotides (nt) -363 and -94 upstream from the CUG start codon contained an internal ribosome entry site leading to the cap-independent translation of c-myc open reading frames (ORFs). Here, we mapped a 50-nt sequence (-143 -94), which is sufficient to promote internal translation initiation of c-myc ORFs. Interestingly, this 50-nt element can be further dissected into two segments of 14 nt, each capable of activating internal translation initiation. We also demonstrate that this 50-nt element acts as the ribosome landing site from which the preinitiation ribosomal complex scans the mRNA until the CUG or AUG start codons.
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- Sabrina Cencig
- Laboratoire de Chimie Biologique, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires, Université Libre de Bruxelles, rue des Profs Jeener et Brachet 12, 6041 Gosselies, Belgium
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Qin X, Sarnow P. Preferential translation of internal ribosome entry site-containing mRNAs during the mitotic cycle in mammalian cells. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:13721-8. [PMID: 14739278 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m312854200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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A cell synchronization protocol was established in which global and individual mRNA translational efficiencies could be examined. While global translational efficiency was reduced in mitotic cells, approximately 3% of mRNAs remained predominantly associated with large polysomes during mitosis, as determined by cDNA microarray analyses. The 5'-non-coding regions of six mRNAs were shown to contain internal ribosome entry sites (IRES). However, not all known mRNAs that contain IRES elements were actively translated during mitosis, arguing that specific IRES sequences are differentially regulated during mitosis.
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- Xiaoli Qin
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Kozak M. Alternative ways to think about mRNA sequences and proteins that appear to promote internal initiation of translation. Gene 2004; 318:1-23. [PMID: 14585494 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(03)00774-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Translation of some mRNAs is postulated to occur via an internal initiation mechanism which is said to be augmented by a variety of RNA-binding proteins. A pervasive problem is that the RNA sequences to which the proteins bind were not rigorously proven to function as internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs). Critical examination of the evidence reveals flaws that leave room for alternative interpretations, such as the possibility that IRES elements might function as cryptic promoters, splice sites, or sequences that modulate cleavage by RNases. The growing emphasis on IRES-binding proteins diverts attention from these fundamental unresolved issues. Many of the putative IRES-binding proteins are heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins that have recognized roles in RNA processing or stability and no recognized role in translation. Thus the mechanism whereby they promote internal initiation, if indeed they do, is not obvious. Some recent experiments were said to support the idea that IRES-binding proteins cause functionally important changes in folding of the RNA, but the evidence is not convincing when examined closely. The proteins that bind to some (not all) viral IRES elements include a subset of authentic initiation factors. This has not been demonstrated with any candidate IRES of cellular origin, however; and even with viral RNAs, the required chase experiment has not been done to prove that a pre-bound initiation factor actually mediates subsequent entry of ribosomes. In short, the focus on IRES-binding proteins has gotten us no closer to understanding the mechanism of internal initiation. Given the aforementioned uncertainty about whether other mechanisms (splicing, cryptic promoters) might underlie what-appears-to-be internal initiation, a temporary solution might be to redefine IRES to mean "internal regulatory expression sequence." This compromise would allow the sequences to be used for gene expression studies, for which they sometimes work, without asserting more than has been proven about the mechanism.
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- Marilyn Kozak
- Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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Han B, Dong Z, Zhang JT. Tight control of platelet-derived growth factor B/c-sis expression by interplay between the 5'-untranslated region sequence and the major upstream promoter. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:46983-93. [PMID: 12960151 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m304976200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The long and GC-rich 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) of the known 3.8-kb platelet-derived growth factor B (PDGF-B)/c-sis mRNA is highly conserved and inhibits its own translation. It has been thought that this 5'-UTR functions by regulating translation possibly using an internal ribosome entry site (IRES)-mediated mechanism. However, in the present study we found no evidence that the 5'-UTR sequence of PDGF-B mRNA contains any IRES activity. Instead, we found that the 5'-UTR sequence of PDGF-B functions as a promoter both constitutively and upon induction in a variety of cell lines. The 5'-UTR sequence contains two promoters (termed P1 and P2) when only the 5'-UTR sequence is analyzed. In the presence of the upstream TATA-box-containing promoter (P0), P1 and P0 promoters are integrated into one promoter, whereas the P2 promoter still functions. The full promoter with combined P0, P1, and P2 produced two transcripts, with the major one having the full-length 5'-UTR and the minor one the short 5'-UTR. The integrated P0/P1 promoter and P2 promoter are likely responsible for producing the endogenous 3.8- and 2.8-kb PDGF-B mRNAs that are detected in cultured human renal microvascular endothelial cells, a few tumor cells, and rat brain tissues. Furthermore, we detected the 2.8-kb PDGF-B mRNA in erythroleukemia K562 cells upon 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate-induced differentiation. Considering that the 5'-UTR in the 3.8-kb mRNA contains no IRES activity and inhibits cap-dependent translation, we believe that the endogenous 2.8-kb mRNA produced from the 5'-UTR promoter is likely the major template responsible for protein production both constitutively and upon induction. We also found that the transcription from the 5'-UTR P2 promoter might be coordinated by the major upstream P0 promoter upon stimulation. Based on these observations, we propose that the TATA-containing P0 promoter and the 5'-UTR promoter work together to tightly control the expression of PDGF-B.
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- Baoguang Han
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Walther Oncology Center/Walther Cancer Institute and Indiana University Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Indiana University, 1044 W. Walnut Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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Bonnal S, Schaeffer C, Créancier L, Clamens S, Moine H, Prats AC, Vagner S. A single internal ribosome entry site containing a G quartet RNA structure drives fibroblast growth factor 2 gene expression at four alternative translation initiation codons. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:39330-6. [PMID: 12857733 PMCID: PMC2635476 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m305580200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The 484-nucleotide (nt) alternatively translated region (ATR) of the human fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2) mRNA contains four CUG and one AUG translation initiation codons. Although the 5'-end proximal CUG codon is initiated by a cap-dependent translation process, the other four initiation codons are initiated by a mechanism of internal entry of ribosomes. We undertook here a detailed analysis of the cis-acting elements defining the FGF-2 internal ribosome entry site (IRES). A thorough deletion analysis study within the 5'-ATR led us to define a 176-nt region as being necessary and sufficient for IRES function at four codons present in a downstream 308-nt RNA segment. Unexpectedly, a single IRES module is therefore responsible for translation initiation at four distantly localized codons. The determination of the FGF-2 5'-ATR RNA secondary structure by enzymatic and chemical probing experiments showed that the FGF-2 IRES contained two stem-loop regions and a G quartet motif that constitute novel structural determinants of IRES function.
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- Sophie Bonnal
- Hormones, facteurs de croissance et physiopathologie vasculaire
INSERM : U589IFR31Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse IIIHopital de Rangueil
1, Avenue Jean Poulhes
31059 TOULOUSE CEDEX 9,FR
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- SMBMR, Structure des macromolécules biologiques et mécanismes de reconnaissance
CNRS : UPR9002IBMC
15, Rue René Descartes
67084 STRASBOURG CEDEX,FR
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- Centre de Recherches Pierre Fabre
Centre de Recherches Pierre Fabre81106 Castres,FR
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- Hormones, facteurs de croissance et physiopathologie vasculaire
INSERM : U589IFR31Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse IIIHopital de Rangueil
1, Avenue Jean Poulhes
31059 TOULOUSE CEDEX 9,FR
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- SMBMR, Structure des macromolécules biologiques et mécanismes de reconnaissance
CNRS : UPR9002IBMC
15, Rue René Descartes
67084 STRASBOURG CEDEX,FR
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- Hormones, facteurs de croissance et physiopathologie vasculaire
INSERM : U589IFR31Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse IIIHopital de Rangueil
1, Avenue Jean Poulhes
31059 TOULOUSE CEDEX 9,FR
- * Correspondence should be adressed to: Anne-Catherine Prats
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- Hormones, facteurs de croissance et physiopathologie vasculaire
INSERM : U589IFR31Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse IIIHopital de Rangueil
1, Avenue Jean Poulhes
31059 TOULOUSE CEDEX 9,FR
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Mitchell SA, Spriggs KA, Coldwell MJ, Jackson RJ, Willis AE. The Apaf-1 internal ribosome entry segment attains the correct structural conformation for function via interactions with PTB and unr. Mol Cell 2003; 11:757-71. [PMID: 12667457 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(03)00093-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 198] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We have shown previously that polypyrimidine tract binding protein 1 (PTB) binds and activates the Apaf-1 internal ribosome entry segment (IRES) when the protein upstream of N-ras (unr) is prebound. Here we show that the Apaf-1 IRES is highly active in neuronal-derived cell lines due to the presence of the neuronal-enhanced version of PTB, nPTB. The unr and PTB/nPTB binding sites have been located on the Apaf-1 IRES RNA, and a structural model for the IRES bound to these proteins has been derived. The ribosome landing site has been located to a single-stranded region, and this is generated by the binding of the nPTB and unr to the RNA. These data suggest that unr and nPTB act as RNA chaperones by changing the structure of the IRES into one that permits translation initiation.
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- Sally A Mitchell
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, University Road, LE1 7RH, Leicester, United Kingdom
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Meng Z, Snyder RC, Shrestha K, Miller DM, Emanuel PD, Blume SW. Evidence for differential ribonucleoprotein complex assembly in vitro on the 5'-untranslated region of the human IGF-IR transcript. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2003; 200:127-40. [PMID: 12644306 DOI: 10.1016/s0303-7207(02)00381-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The type I insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-IR) plays a key role in the control of cellular proliferation and survival. The human IGF-IR transcript is characterized by an unusually long 1038 nucleotide 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR). We hypothesized that the contribution of this complex 5'-untranslated RNA sequence to the post-transcriptional regulation of IGF-IR expression would involve a dynamic interplay between RNA structure and specific RNA-binding proteins. Here we have detected and characterized a diverse series of regulatory proteins binding the IGF-IR 5'-UTR under disparate conditions. One pair of proteins ( approximately 42/38 kDa) binds readily to the intact 5'-UTR, which is predicted to adopt a highly base-paired, highly favorable (dG=-498 kcal/mol) three-domain structure. Another protein(s) (p20*) specifically induces formation of a novel RNA structure from within the initial 209 nucleotides of the nascent IGF-IR transcript, but fails to UV crosslink to this RNA sequence. A third group of proteins recognizes and binds the IGF-IR 5'-UTR under highly stringent conditions, but only after higher-ordered RNA structure has been disrupted. Our in vitro results indicate that the IGF-IR 5'-UTR may exist in at least three distinct states, and we propose that interconversion between these states might take place in vivo and differentially alter IGF-IR transcript utilization.
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- Zheng Meng
- The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA
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