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Glauninger H, Bard JA, Wong Hickernell CJ, Airoldi EM, Li W, Singer RH, Paul S, Fei J, Sosnick TR, Wallace EWJ, Drummond DA. Transcriptome-wide mRNA condensation precedes stress granule formation and excludes stress-induced transcripts. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.04.15.589678. [PMID: 38659805 PMCID: PMC11042329 DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.15.589678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Stress-induced condensation of mRNA and proteins into stress granules is conserved across eukaryotes, yet the function, formation mechanisms, and relation to well-studied conserved transcriptional responses remain largely unresolved. Stress-induced exposure of ribosome-free mRNA following translational shutoff is thought to cause condensation by allowing new multivalent RNA-dependent interactions, with RNA length and associated interaction capacity driving increased condensation. Here we show that, in striking contrast, virtually all mRNA species condense in response to multiple unrelated stresses in budding yeast, length plays a minor role, and instead, stress-induced transcripts are preferentially excluded from condensates, enabling their selective translation. Using both endogenous genes and reporter constructs, we show that translation initiation blockade, rather than resulting ribosome-free RNA, causes condensation. These translation initiation-inhibited condensates (TIICs) are biochemically detectable even when stress granules, defined as microscopically visible foci, are absent or blocked. TIICs occur in unstressed yeast cells, and, during stress, grow before the appearance of visible stress granules. Stress-induced transcripts are excluded from TIICs primarily due to the timing of their expression, rather than their sequence features. Together, our results reveal a simple system by which cells redirect translational activity to newly synthesized transcripts during stress, with broad implications for cellular regulation in changing conditions.
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- Hendrik Glauninger
- Graduate Program in Biophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
- Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Ciancone AM, Seo KW, Chen M, Borne AL, Libby AH, Bai DL, Kleiner RE, Hsu KL. Global Discovery of Covalent Modulators of Ribonucleoprotein Granules. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:11056-11066. [PMID: 37159397 PMCID: PMC10392812 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00165] [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] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Stress granules (SGs) and processing-bodies (PBs, P-bodies) are ubiquitous and widely studied ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules involved in cellular stress response, viral infection, and the tumor microenvironment. While proteomic and transcriptomic investigations of SGs and PBs have provided insights into molecular composition, chemical tools to probe and modulate RNP granules remain lacking. Herein, we combine an immunofluorescence (IF)-based phenotypic screen with chemoproteomics to identify sulfonyl-triazoles (SuTEx) capable of preventing or inducing SG and PB formation through liganding of tyrosine (Tyr) and lysine (Lys) sites in stressed cells. Liganded sites were enriched for RNA-binding and protein-protein interaction (PPI) domains, including several sites found in RNP granule-forming proteins. Among these, we functionally validate G3BP1 Y40, located in the NTF2 dimerization domain, as a ligandable site that can disrupt arsenite-induced SG formation in cells. In summary, we present a chemical strategy for the systematic discovery of condensate-modulating covalent small molecules.
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- Anthony M. Ciancone
- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
- University of Virginia Cancer Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States
- University of Virginia Cancer Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
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In Vivo Analysis of a Biomolecular Condensate in the Nervous System of C. elegans. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2551:575-593. [PMID: 36310226 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2597-2_35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) has emerged as a common biophysical event that facilitates the formation of non-membrane-bound cellular compartments, also termed biomolecular condensates. Since the first report of a biomolecular condensate in the germline of C. elegans, many regulatory hubs have been shown to have similar liquid-like features. With the wealth of molecules now being reported to possess liquid-like features, an impetus has been placed on reconciling LLPS with regulation of specific biological properties in vivo. Herein, we report a methodology used to study LLPS-associated features in C. elegans neurons, illustrated using the RNA granule protein TIAR-2. In axons, TIAR-2 forms liquid-like granules, which following injury are inhibitory to the regeneration process. Measuring the dynamics of TIAR-2 granules provides a tractable biological output to study LLPS function. In conjunction with other established methods to assess LLPS, the results from the protocol outlined provide comprehensive insight regarding this important biophysical property.
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Cabral AJ, Costello DC, Farny NG. The enigma of ultraviolet radiation stress granules: Research challenges and new perspectives. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:1066650. [DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.1066650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Stress granules (SGs) are non-membrane bound cytoplasmic condensates that form in response to a variety of different stressors. Canonical SGs are thought to have a cytoprotective role, reallocating cellular resources during stress by activation of the integrated stress response (ISR) to inhibit translation and avoid apoptosis. However, different stresses result in compositionally distinct, non-canonical SG formation that is likely pro-apoptotic, though the exact function(s) of both SGs subtypes remain unclear. A unique non-canonical SG subtype is triggered upon exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. While it is generally agreed that UV SGs are bona fide SGs due to their dependence upon the core SG nucleating protein Ras GTPase-activating protein-binding protein 1 (G3BP1), the localization of other key components of UV SGs are unknown or under debate. Further, the dynamics of UV SGs are not known, though unique properties such as cell cycle dependence have been observed. This Perspective compiles the available information on SG subtypes and on UV SGs in particular in an attempt to understand the formation, dynamics, and function of these mysterious stress-specific complexes. We identify key gaps in knowledge related to UV SGs, and examine the unique aspects of their formation. We propose that more thorough knowledge of the distinct properties of UV SGs will lead to new avenues of understanding of the function of SGs, as well as their roles in disease.
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Sze H, Palanivelu R, Harper JF, Johnson MA. Holistic insights from pollen omics: co-opting stress-responsive genes and ER-mediated proteostasis for male fertility. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 187:2361-2380. [PMID: 34601610 PMCID: PMC8644640 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/01/2021] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Sexual reproduction in flowering plants takes place without an aqueous environment. Sperm are carried by pollen through air to reach the female gametophyte, though the molecular basis underlying the protective strategy of the male gametophyte is poorly understood. Here we compared the published transcriptomes of Arabidopsis thaliana pollen, and of heat-responsive genes, and uncovered insights into how mature pollen (MP) tolerates desiccation, while developing and germinating pollen are vulnerable to heat stress. Germinating pollen expresses molecular chaperones or "heat shock proteins" in the absence of heat stress. Furthermore, pollen tubes that grew through pistils at basal temperature showed induction of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response, which is a characteristic of stressed vegetative tissues. Recent studies show MP contains mRNA-protein (mRNP) aggregates that resemble "stress" granules triggered by heat or other stresses to protect cells. Based on these observations, we postulate that mRNP particles are formed in maturing pollen in response to developmentally programmed dehydration. Dry pollen can withstand harsh conditions as it is dispersed in air. We propose that, when pollen lands on a compatible pistil and hydrates, mRNAs stored in particles are released, aided by molecular chaperones, to become translationally active. Pollen responds to osmotic, mechanical, oxidative, and peptide cues that promote ER-mediated proteostasis and membrane trafficking for tube growth and sperm discharge. Unlike vegetative tissues, pollen depends on stress-protection strategies for its normal development and function. Thus, heat stress during reproduction likely triggers changes that interfere with the normal pollen responses, thereby compromising male fertility. This holistic perspective provides a framework to understand the basis of heat-tolerant strains in the reproduction of crops.
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- Heven Sze
- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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Grousl T, Vojtova J, Hasek J, Vomastek T. Yeast stress granules at a glance. Yeast 2021; 39:247-261. [PMID: 34791685 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Revised: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The formation of stress granules (SGs), membrane-less organelles that are composed of mainly messenger ribonucleoprotein assemblies, is the result of a conserved evolutionary strategy to cellular stress. During their formation, which is triggered by robust environmental stress, SGs sequester translationally inactive mRNA molecules, which are either forwarded for further processing elsewhere or stored during a period of stress within SGs. Removal of mRNA molecules from active translation and their sequestration in SGs allows preferential translation of stress response transcripts. By affecting the specificity of mRNA translation, mRNA localization and stability, SGs are involved in the overall cellular reprogramming during periods of environmental stress and viral infection. Over the past two decades, we have learned which processes drive SGs assembly, how their composition varies under stress, and how they co-exist with other subcellular organelles. Yeast as a model has been instrumental in our understanding of SG biology. Despite the specific differences between the SGs of yeast and mammals, yeast have been shown to be a valuable tool to the study of SGs in translation-related stress response. This review summarizes the data surrounding SGs that are formed under different stress conditions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeast species. It offers a comprehensive and up-to-date view on these still somewhat mysterious entities.
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- Tomas Grousl
- Laboratory of Cell Signalling, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Cell Reproduction, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Cell Reproduction, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Cell Signalling, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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Amen T, Guihur A, Zelent C, Ursache R, Wilting J, Kaganovich D. Resveratrol and related stilbene derivatives induce stress granules with distinct clearance kinetics. Mol Biol Cell 2021; 32:ar18. [PMID: 34432484 PMCID: PMC8693967 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e21-02-0066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Stress granules (SGs) are ribonucleoprotein functional condensates that form under stress conditions in all eukaryotic cells. Although their stress-survival function is far from clear, SGs have been implicated in the regulation of many vital cellular pathways. Consequently, SG dysfunction is thought to be a mechanistic point of origin for many neurodegenerative disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Additionally, SGs are thought to play a role in pathogenic pathways as diverse as viral infection and chemotherapy resistance. There is a growing consensus on the hypothesis that understanding the mechanistic regulation of SG physical properties is essential to understanding their function. Although the internal dynamics and condensation mechanisms of SGs have been broadly investigated, there have been fewer investigations into the timing of SG formation and clearance in live cells. Because the lifetime of SG persistence can be a key factor in their function and tendency toward pathological dysregulation, SG clearance mechanisms deserve particular attention. Here we show that resveratrol and its analogues piceatannol, pterostilbene, and 3,4,5,4'-tetramethoxystilbene induce G3BP-dependent SG formation with atypically rapid clearance kinetics. Resveratrol binds to G3BP, thereby reducing its protein-protein association valency. We suggest that altering G3BP valency is a pathway for the formation of uniquely transient SGs.
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- Triana Amen
- Department of Experimental Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Göttingen, 37073, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University Medical Center Göttingen, 37073, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University Medical Center Göttingen, 37073, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Göttingen, 37073, Goettingen, Germany.,1Base Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA, 02129, USA
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Alluri RK, Li Z, McCrae KR. Stress Granule-Mediated Oxidized RNA Decay in P-Body: Hypothetical Role of ADAR1, Tudor-SN, and STAU1. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:672988. [PMID: 34150849 PMCID: PMC8211916 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.672988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated under oxidative stress (OS) cause oxidative damage to RNA. Recent studies have suggested a role for oxidized RNA in several human disorders. Under the conditions of oxidative stress, mRNAs released from polysome dissociation accumulate and initiate stress granule (SG) assembly. SGs are highly enriched in mRNAs, containing inverted repeat (IR) Alus in 3′ UTRs, AU-rich elements, and RNA-binding proteins. SGs and processing bodies (P-bodies) transiently interact through a docking mechanism to allow the exchange of RNA species. However, the types of RNA species exchanged, and the mechanisms and outcomes of exchange are still unknown. Specialized RNA-binding proteins, including adenosine deaminase acting on RNA (ADAR1-p150), with an affinity toward inverted repeat Alus, and Tudor staphylococcal nuclease (Tudor-SN) are specifically recruited to SGs under OS along with an RNA transport protein, Staufen1 (STAU1), but their precise biochemical roles in SGs and SG/P-body docking are uncertain. Here, we critically review relevant literature and propose a hypothetical mechanism for the processing and decay of oxidized-RNA in SGs/P-bodies, as well as the role of ADAR1-p150, Tudor-SN, and STAU1.
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- Ravi Kumar Alluri
- Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Biomedical Science Department, College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States
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- Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States.,Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
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Qin F, Yu B, Li W. Heat shock protein 101 (HSP101) promotes flowering under nonstress conditions. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 186:407-419. [PMID: 33561259 PMCID: PMC8154077 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Accepted: 01/10/2021] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are stress-responsive proteins that are conserved across all organisms. Heat shock protein 101 (HSP101) has an important role in thermotolerance owing to its chaperone activity. However, if and how it functions in development under nonstress conditions is not yet known. By using physiological, molecular, and genetic methods, we investigated the role of HSP101 in the control of flowering in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.) under nonstress conditions. Knockout and overexpression of HSP101 cause late and early flowering, respectively. Late flowering can be restored by rescue of HSP101. HSP101 regulates the expression of genes involved in the six known flowering pathways; the most negatively regulated genes are FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) and SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP); downstream integrators of the flowering pathways are positively regulated. The late-flowering phenotype of loss-of-HSP101 mutants is suppressed by both the mutations of FLC and SVP. The responses of flowering time to exogenous signals do not change in HSP101 mutants. HSP101 is also found in nonspecific regions according to subcellular localization. We found that HSP101 promotes flowering under nonstress conditions and that this promotion depends on FLC and SVP. Our data suggest that this promotion could occur through a multiple gene regulation mechanism.
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- Feng Qin
- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
- Yuxi Normal University, Yuxi 653100, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Markiewicz L, Drazkowska K, Sikorski PJ. Tricks and threats of RNA viruses - towards understanding the fate of viral RNA. RNA Biol 2021; 18:669-687. [PMID: 33618611 PMCID: PMC8078519 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2021.1875680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Revised: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Human innate cellular defence pathways have evolved to sense and eliminate pathogens, of which, viruses are considered one of the most dangerous. Their relatively simple structure makes the identification of viral invasion a difficult task for cells. In the course of evolution, viral nucleic acids have become one of the strongest and most reliable early identifiers of infection. When considering RNA virus recognition, RNA sensing is the central mechanism in human innate immunity, and effectiveness of this sensing is crucial for triggering an appropriate antiviral response. Although human cells are armed with a variety of highly specialized receptors designed to respond only to pathogenic viral RNA, RNA viruses have developed an array of mechanisms to avoid being recognized by human interferon-mediated cellular defence systems. The repertoire of viral evasion strategies is extremely wide, ranging from masking pathogenic RNA through end modification, to utilizing sophisticated techniques to deceive host cellular RNA degrading enzymes, and hijacking the most basic metabolic pathways in host cells. In this review, we aim to dissect human RNA sensing mechanisms crucial for antiviral immune defences, as well as the strategies adopted by RNA viruses to avoid detection and degradation by host cells. We believe that understanding the fate of viral RNA upon infection, and detailing the molecular mechanisms behind virus-host interactions, may be helpful for developing more effective antiviral strategies; which are urgently needed to prevent the far-reaching consequences of widespread, highly pathogenic viral infections.
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Knowles A, Campbell S, Cross N, Stafford P. Bacterial Manipulation of the Integrated Stress Response: A New Perspective on Infection. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:645161. [PMID: 33967983 PMCID: PMC8100032 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.645161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Host immune activation forms a vital line of defence against bacterial pathogenicity. However, just as hosts have evolved immune responses, bacteria have developed means to escape, hijack and subvert these responses to promote survival. In recent years, a highly conserved group of signalling cascades within the host, collectively termed the integrated stress response (ISR), have become increasingly implicated in immune activation during bacterial infection. Activation of the ISR leads to a complex web of cellular reprogramming, which ultimately results in the paradoxical outcomes of either cellular homeostasis or cell death. Therefore, any pathogen with means to manipulate this pathway could induce a range of cellular outcomes and benefit from favourable conditions for long-term survival and replication. This review aims to outline what is currently known about bacterial manipulation of the ISR and present key hypotheses highlighting areas for future research.
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- Alex Knowles
- Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre, Department of Biosciences and Chemistry, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre, Department of Biosciences and Chemistry, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre, Department of Biosciences and Chemistry, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre, Department of Biosciences and Chemistry, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Fukushi D, Inaba M, Katoh K, Suzuki Y, Enokido Y, Nomura N, Tokita Y, Hayashi S, Mizuno S, Yamada K, Wakamatsu N. R3HDM1 haploinsufficiency is associated with mild intellectual disability. Am J Med Genet A 2021; 185:1776-1786. [PMID: 33750005 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2020] [Revised: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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R3HDM1 (R3H domain containing 1) is an uncharacterized RNA-binding protein that is highly expressed in the human cerebral cortex. We report the first case of a 12-year-old Japanese male with haploinsufficiency of R3HDM1. He presented with mild intellectual disability (ID) and developmental delay. He had a pericentric inversion of 46,XY,inv(2)(p16.1q21.3)dn with breakpoints in intron 19 of R3HDM1 (2q21.3) and the intergenic region (2p16.1). The R3HDM1 levels in his lymphoblastoid cells were reduced to approximately half that of the healthy controls. However, the expression of MIR128-1, in intron 18 of R3HDM1, was not affected via the pericentric inversion. Knockdown of R3HDM1 in mouse embryonic hippocampal neurons suppressed dendritic growth and branching. Notably, the Database of Genomic Variants reported the case of a healthy control with a 488-kb deletion that included both R3HDM1 and MIR128-1. miR-128 has been reported to inhibit dendritic growth and branching in mouse brain neurons, which directly opposes the novel functions of R3HDM1. These findings suggest that deleting both R3HDM1 and MIR128-1 alleviates the symptoms of the disease caused by loss-of-function mutations in R3HDM1 only. Thus, haploinsufficiency of R3HDM1 in the patient may be the cause of the mild ID due to the genetic imbalance between R3HDM1 and MIR128-1.
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- Daisuke Fukushi
- Department of Genetics, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Developmental Disability Center, Kasugai, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Central Hospital, Aichi Developmental Disability Center, Kasugai, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Developmental Disability Center, Kasugai, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Developmental Disability Center, Kasugai, Japan
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- Department of Cellular Pathology, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Developmental Disability Center, Kasugai, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Developmental Disability Center, Kasugai, Japan
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- Department of Disease Model, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Developmental Disability Center, Kasugai, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Developmental Disability Center, Kasugai, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Central Hospital, Aichi Developmental Disability Center, Kasugai, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Developmental Disability Center, Kasugai, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Developmental Disability Center, Kasugai, Japan.,Department of Pathology and Host Defense, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Miki, Japan
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Mateju D, Chao JA. Stress granules: regulators or by-products? FEBS J 2021; 289:363-373. [PMID: 33725420 DOI: 10.1111/febs.15821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2021] [Revised: 02/07/2021] [Accepted: 03/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Cells have to deal with conditions that can cause damage to biomolecules and eventually cell death. To protect against these adverse conditions and promote recovery, cells undergo dramatic changes upon exposure to stress. This involves activation of signaling pathways, cell cycle arrest, translational reprogramming, and reorganization of the cytoplasm. Notably, many stress conditions cause a global inhibition of mRNA translation accompanied by the formation of cytoplasmic condensates called stress granules (SGs), which sequester mRNA together with RNA-binding proteins, translation initiation factors, and other components. SGs are highly conserved in eukaryotes, suggesting that they perform an important function during the stress response. Over the years, many different roles have been assigned to SGs, including translational control, mRNA storage, regulation of mRNA decay, antiviral innate immune response, and modulation of signaling pathways. Most of our understanding, however, has been deduced from correlative data based upon the composition of SGs and only recently have technological innovations allowed hypotheses for SG function to be directly tested. Here, we discuss these challenges and explore the evidence related to the function of SGs.
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- Daniel Mateju
- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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Alsamir M, Mahmood T, Trethowan R, Ahmad N. An overview of heat stress in tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L.). Saudi J Biol Sci 2021; 28:1654-1663. [PMID: 33732051 PMCID: PMC7938145 DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.11.088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2020] [Revised: 11/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Heat stress has been defined as the rise of temperature for a period of time higher than a threshold level, thereby permanently affecting the plant growth and development. Day or night temperature is considered as the major limiting factor for plant growth. Earlier studies reported that night temperature is an important factor in the heat reaction of the plants. Tomato cultivars capable of setting viable fruits under night temperatures above 21 °C are considered as heat-tolerant cultivars. The development of breeding objectives is generally summarized in four points: (a) cultivars with higher yield, (b) disease resistant varieties in the 1970s, (c) long shelf-life in 1980s, and (d) nutritive and taste quality during 1990s. Some unique varieties like the dwarf "Micro-Tom", and the first transgenic tomato (FlavrSavr) were developed through breeding; they were distributed late in the 1980s. High temperature significantly affects seed, pollen viability and root expansion. Researchers have employed different parameters to evaluate the tolerance to heat stress, including membrane thermo stability, floral characteristics (Stigma exertion and antheridia cone splitting), flower number, and fruit yield per plant. Reports on pollen viability and fruit set/plant under heat stress by comparing the pollen growth and tube development in heat-treated and non-heat-stressed conditions are available in literature. The electrical conductivity (EC) have been used to evaluate the tolerance of some tomato cultivars in vitro under heat stress conditions as an indication of cell damage due to electrolyte leakage; they classified the cultivars into three groups: (a) heat tolerant, (b) moderately heat tolerant, and (c) heat sensitive. It is important to determine the range in genetic diversity for heat tolerance in tomatoes. Heat stress experiments under field conditions offer breeders information to identify the potentially heat tolerant germplasm.
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- Muhammed Alsamir
- Plant Breeding Institute, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, University of Sydney, 107 Cobbitty Road, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, University of Sydney, 107 Cobbitty Road, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, University of Sydney, 107 Cobbitty Road, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, University of Sydney, 107 Cobbitty Road, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia
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Stress granules (SGs) are ubiquitous nonmembrane-bound assemblies of protein and mRNA formed under stress conditions associated with stalled translation. SGs are evolutionarily conserved across eukaryotes. The canonical function of SGs is to selectively protect mRNAs and proteins from unfolding and prevent degradation induced by diverse environmental stresses. Moreover, sequestration into SGs provides an elegant way to regulate protein activities. Disassembly of SGs upon stress recovery is accompanied by the reactivation of protein translation and protein activities. The regulatory importance of SGs has been corroborated by recent studies describing the multiomics analysis of the composition of SGs from yeast, animal, and plant cells. Herein, we describe an isolation protocol of SGs that allows for the identification of proteins, mRNA, and metabolites sequestered into SG cores. Furthermore, the described protocols can be used to isolate other SG-like foci. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC. Basic Protocol 1: Preparation of SG-enriched fraction from plant material Basic Protocol 2: Affinity purification to isolate SGs Basic Protocol 3: Simultaneous extraction of proteins and metabolites from affinity-purified beads Basic Protocol 4: Protein digestion on affinity-purified beads Basic Protocol 5: Data analysis.
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- Monika Kosmacz
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm, Germany
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Yu C, Shen B, You K, Huang Q, Shi M, Wu C, Chen Y, Zhang C, Li T. Proteome-scale analysis of phase-separated proteins in immunofluorescence images. Brief Bioinform 2020; 22:5900570. [PMID: 34020549 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Revised: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Phase separation is an important mechanism that mediates the spatial distribution of proteins in different cellular compartments. While phase-separated proteins share certain sequence characteristics, including intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) and prion-like domains, such characteristics are insufficient for making accurate predictions; thus, a proteome-wide understanding of phase separation is currently lacking. Here, we define phase-separated proteomes based on the systematic analysis of immunofluorescence images of 12 073 proteins in the Human Protein Atlas. The analysis of these proteins reveals that phase-separated candidate proteins exhibit higher IDR contents, higher mean net charge and lower hydropathy and prefer to bind to RNA. Kinases and transcription factors are also enriched among these candidate proteins. Strikingly, both phase-separated kinases and phase-separated transcription factors display significantly reduced substrate specificity. Our work provides the first global view of the phase-separated proteome and suggests that the spatial proximity resulting from phase separation reduces the requirement for motif specificity and expands the repertoire of substrates. The source code and data are available at https://github.com/cheneyyu/deepphase.
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- Chunyu Yu
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division and Center for Synthetic & Systems Biology, TNLIST; School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Systems Biomedicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division and Center for Synthetic & Systems Biology, TNLIST; School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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Jang GJ, Jang JC, Wu SH. Dynamics and Functions of Stress Granules and Processing Bodies in Plants. PLANTS 2020; 9:plants9091122. [PMID: 32872650 PMCID: PMC7570210 DOI: 10.3390/plants9091122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Revised: 08/25/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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RNA granules, such as stress granules and processing bodies, can balance the storage, degradation, and translation of mRNAs in diverse eukaryotic organisms. The sessile nature of plants demands highly versatile strategies to respond to environmental fluctuations. In this review, we discuss recent findings of the dynamics and functions of these RNA granules in plants undergoing developmental reprogramming or responding to environmental stresses. Special foci include the dynamic assembly, disassembly, and regulatory roles of these RNA granules in determining the fate of mRNAs.
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- Geng-Jen Jang
- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan;
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- Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for Applied Plant Sciences, Center for RNA Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA;
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +886-2-2787-1178
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Linsenmeier M, Kopp MRG, Stavrakis S, de Mello A, Arosio P. Analysis of biomolecular condensates and protein phase separation with microfluidic technology. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2020; 1868:118823. [PMID: 32800925 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2020.118823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Revised: 08/04/2020] [Accepted: 08/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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An increasing body of evidence shows that membraneless organelles are key components in cellular organization. These observations open a variety of outstanding questions about the physico-chemical rules underlying their assembly, disassembly and functions. Some molecular determinants of biomolecular condensates are challenging to probe and understand in complex in vivo systems. Minimalistic in vitro reconstitution approaches can fill this gap, mimicking key biological features, while maintaining sufficient simplicity to enable the analysis of fundamental aspects of biomolecular condensates. In this context, microfluidic technologies are highly attractive tools for the analysis of biomolecular phase transitions. In addition to enabling high-throughput measurements on small sample volumes, microfluidic tools provide for exquisite control of self-assembly in both time and space, leading to accurate quantitative analysis of biomolecular phase transitions. Here, with a specific focus on droplet-based microfluidics, we describe the advantages of microfluidic technology for the analysis of several aspects of phase separation. These include phase diagrams, dynamics of assembly and disassembly, rheological and surface properties, exchange of materials with the surrounding environment and the coupling between compartmentalization and biochemical reactions. We illustrate these concepts with selected examples, ranging from simple solutions of individual proteins to more complex mixtures of proteins and RNA, which represent synthetic models of biological membraneless organelles. Finally, we discuss how this technology may impact the bottom-up fabrication of synthetic artificial cells and for the development of synthetic protein materials in biotechnology.
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- Miriam Linsenmeier
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland.
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Singh AK, Kapoor V, Thotala D, Hallahan DE. TAF15 contributes to the radiation-inducible stress response in cancer. Oncotarget 2020; 11:2647-2659. [PMID: 32676166 PMCID: PMC7343639 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.27663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Resistance to radiation therapy is a significant problem in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). There is an unmet need to discover new molecular targets for drug development in combination with standard of care cancer therapy. We found that TAF15 was radiation-inducible using phage-displayed peptide libraries. In this study, we report that overexpression of TAF15 is correlated with worsened survival in NSCLC patients. Radiation treatment led to surface induction of TAF15 in vitro and in vivo. We genetically silenced TAF15 which led to a significant reduction in proliferation of NSCLC cells. Cells depleted of TAF15 exhibited cell cycle arrest and enhanced apoptosis through activation and accumulation of p53. In combination with radiation, TAF15 knockdown led to a significant reduction in the surviving fraction of NSCLC cell lines. To determine the importance of TAF15 surface expression, we targeted TAF15 with an antibody. In combination with radiation, the anti-TAF15 antibody led to a reduction in the surviving fraction of cancer cells. These studies show that TAF15 is a radiation-inducible molecular target that is accessible to anti-cancer antibodies and enhances cell viability in response to radiation.
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- Abhay Kumar Singh
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Siteman Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Siteman Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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RNase L Amplifies Interferon Signaling by Inducing Protein Kinase R-Mediated Antiviral Stress Granules. J Virol 2020; 94:JVI.00205-20. [PMID: 32295917 PMCID: PMC7307175 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00205-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Accepted: 04/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Double-stranded RNAs produced during viral infections serve as pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and bind pattern recognition receptors to stimulate IFN production. RNase L is an IFN-regulated endoribonuclease that is activated in virus-infected cells and cleaves single-stranded viral and cellular RNAs. The RNase L-cleaved dsRNAs signal to Rig-like helicases to amplify IFN production. This study identifies a novel role of antiviral stress granules induced by RNase L as an antiviral signaling hub to coordinate the RNA ligands with cognate receptors to mount an effective host response during viral infections. Virus infection leads to activation of the interferon (IFN)-induced endoribonuclease RNase L, which results in degradation of viral and cellular RNAs. Both cellular and viral RNA cleavage products of RNase L bind pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), like retinoic acid-inducible I (Rig-I) and melanoma differentiation-associated protein 5 (MDA5), to further amplify IFN production and antiviral response. Although much is known about the mechanics of ligand binding and PRR activation, how cells coordinate RNA sensing with signaling response and interferon production remains unclear. We show that RNA cleavage products of RNase L activity induce the formation of antiviral stress granules (avSGs) by regulating activation of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-dependent protein kinase R (PKR) and recruit the antiviral proteins Rig-I, PKR, OAS, and RNase L to avSGs. Biochemical analysis of purified avSGs showed interaction of a key stress granule protein, G3BP1, with only PKR and Rig-I and not with OAS or RNase L. AvSG assembly during RNase L activation is required for IRF3-mediated IFN production, but not IFN signaling or proinflammatory cytokine induction. Consequently, cells lacking avSG formation or RNase L signaling produced less IFN and showed higher susceptibility during Sendai virus infection, demonstrating the importance of avSGs in RNase L-mediated host defense. We propose a role during viral infection for RNase L-cleaved RNAs in inducing avSGs containing antiviral proteins to provide a platform for efficient interaction of RNA ligands with pattern recognition receptors to enhance IFN production to mount an effective antiviral response. IMPORTANCE Double-stranded RNAs produced during viral infections serve as pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and bind pattern recognition receptors to stimulate IFN production. RNase L is an IFN-regulated endoribonuclease that is activated in virus-infected cells and cleaves single-stranded viral and cellular RNAs. The RNase L-cleaved dsRNAs signal to Rig-like helicases to amplify IFN production. This study identifies a novel role of antiviral stress granules induced by RNase L as an antiviral signaling hub to coordinate the RNA ligands with cognate receptors to mount an effective host response during viral infections.
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Many proteins, particularly those that are intrinsically disordered and carry charges have a tendency to undergo liquid liquid phase separation (LLPS). Phase separation is a widespread mechanism by which cells concentrate a set of proteins to perform molecular reactions, and appear to compartmentalize molecular functions. Among the intrinsically disordered proteins are a subset that tend to form solid inclusions in cells and contribute to the pathology of several neurodegenerative diseases. Among this subset is the tau protein, a critically important inclusion in a class of conditions known as the tauopathies, which include Alzheimer's disease. Tau in neurons strongly and selectively associates with RNA species, most notably tRNA with a nanomolar dissociation constant. Furthermore, tau and RNA, under charge matching conditions, undergo LLPS in a process known as complex coacervation. Tau-RNA LLPS is reversible, and can persist for more than 15 h without subsequent fibrilization, although after longer time periods β-sheet content can be detected by thioflavin T. These findings suggest that LLPS tau droplets or condensates can be placed on a pathway to fibrillization and be arrested by solidification or dissolve into a soluble state, depending on the condition at hand, suggesting a regulatory and physiological role for the phase separated state of tau.
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Kuechler ER, Budzyńska PM, Bernardini JP, Gsponer J, Mayor T. Distinct Features of Stress Granule Proteins Predict Localization in Membraneless Organelles. J Mol Biol 2020; 432:2349-2368. [PMID: 32105731 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2020.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2019] [Revised: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Recently generated proteomic data provides unprecedented insight into stress granule composition and stands as fruitful ground for further analysis. Stress granules are stress-induced biological assemblies that are of keen interest due to being linked to both long-term cell viability and a variety of protein aggregation-based diseases. Herein, we compile recently published stress granule composition data, formed specifically through heat and oxidative stress, for both mammalian (Homo sapiens) and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) cells. Interrogation of the data reveals that stress granule proteins are enriched in features that favor protein liquid-liquid phase separation, being highly disordered, soluble, and abundant while maintaining a high level of protein-protein interactions under basal conditions. Furthermore, these "stress granuleomes" are shown to be enriched for multidomained, RNA-binding proteins with increased potential for post-translational modifications. Findings are consistent with the notion that stress granule formation is driven by protein liquid-liquid phase separation. Furthermore, stress granule proteins appear poised near solubility limits while possessing the ability to dynamically alter their phase behavior in response to external threat. Interestingly, several features, such as protein disorder, are more prominent among stress granule proteins that share homologs between yeast and mammalian systems also found within stress-induced foci. We culminate results from our stress granule analysis into novel predictors for granule incorporation and validate the mammalian predictor's performance against multiple types of membraneless condensates and by colocalization microscopy.
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- Erich R Kuechler
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Wang R, Zhang H, Du J, Xu J. Heat resilience in embryonic zebrafish revealed using an in vivo stress granule reporter. J Cell Sci 2019; 132:jcs.234807. [PMID: 31558681 PMCID: PMC6826007 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.234807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 09/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Although the regulation of stress granules has become an intensely studied topic, current investigations of stress granule assembly, disassembly and dynamics are mainly performed in cultured cells. Here, we report the establishment of a stress granule reporter to facilitate the real-time study of stress granules in vivo. Using CRISPR/Cas9, we fused a green fluorescence protein (GFP) to endogenous G3BP1 in zebrafish. The GFP–G3BP1 reporter faithfully and robustly responded to heat stress in zebrafish embryos and larvae. The induction of stress granules varied by brain regions under the same stress condition, with the midbrain cells showing the highest efficiency and dynamics. Furthermore, pre-conditioning using lower heat stress significantly limited stress granule formation during subsequent higher heat stress. More interestingly, stress granule formation was much more robust in zebrafish embryos than in larvae and coincided with significantly elevated levels of phosphorylated eIF2α and enhanced heat resilience. Therefore, these findings have generated new insights into stress response in zebrafish during early development and demonstrated that the GFP–G3BP1 knock-in zebrafish could be a valuable tool for the investigation of stress granule biology. This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper. Summary: Establishment of a new transgenic zebrafish line with knock-in GFP-G3BP1 to visualize stress granule dynamics in live animals in real time.
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- Ruiqi Wang
- Institute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.,CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.,CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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Gao W, Li G, Bian X, Rui Y, Zhai C, Liu P, Su J, Wang H, Zhu C, Du Y, Zheng W, Zheng B, Zhang W, Zhang H, Zhao K, Yang Y, Yu X. Defective modulation of LINE-1 retrotransposition by cancer-associated SAMHD1 mutants. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2019; 519:213-219. [PMID: 31492497 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.08.155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Accepted: 08/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Long interspersed nuclear elements (LINE-1) is now considered as the only active autonomous mobile DNA in humans, LINE-1 retrotransposition activities are associated with and fluctuate during cancer initiation and progression; however, the mechanism underlying the increased LINE-1 activity in cancer is poorly understood. SAMHD1 has been reported to be a potent inhibitor of LINE-1 retrotransposition, and SAMHD1 mutations are frequently associated with cancer development. To gain insights on whether cancer-related SAMHD1 mutants affect LINE-1 activity, we explored the biochemical and cellular properties of some human mutants known correlate with the development of cancer. Most of the tested SAMHD1 cancer-related mutations were defective in LINE-1 inhibition. Interestingly we also found that SAMHD1 mutant K288T was defective for dNTPase activity but showed potent activity against LINE-1 retrotransposition. These findings suggest that LINE-1 inhibition does not depend solely on the dNTPase activity of SAMHD1. In contrast, SAMHD1's ability to inhibit ORF2p-mediated LINE-1 RNP reverse transcription was correlated with SAMHD1-mediated LINE-1 inhibition. Together, our data could also facilitate the deeper understanding for the inhibition of endogenous LINE-1 elements by SAMHD1.
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- Wenying Gao
- The First Hospital of Jilin University, Institute of Virology and AIDS Research & Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory on Molecular and Chemical Genetics, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China
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- Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, Ministry of Education), Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- The First Hospital of Jilin University, Institute of Virology and AIDS Research & Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- The First Hospital of Jilin University, Institute of Virology and AIDS Research & Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, Ministry of Education), Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- The First Hospital of Jilin University, Institute of Virology and AIDS Research & Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- School of Life Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China
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- Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, Ministry of Education), Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- The First Hospital of Jilin University, Institute of Virology and AIDS Research & Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- The First Hospital of Jilin University, Institute of Virology and AIDS Research & Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China
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- The First Hospital of Jilin University, Institute of Virology and AIDS Research & Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
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- The First Hospital of Jilin University, Institute of Virology and AIDS Research & Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
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- The First Hospital of Jilin University, Institute of Virology and AIDS Research & Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, China; Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, Ministry of Education), Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
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Liu S, Liu L, Aranda MA, Peng B, Gu Q. Expression and Localization Patterns of a Small Heat Shock Protein that Interacts with the Helicase Domain of Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Virus. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2019; 109:1648-1657. [PMID: 31025902 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-11-18-0436-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV), a member of the genus Tobamovirus (family Virgaviridae), is an economically important virus that has detrimental effects on cucurbit crops worldwide. Understanding the interaction between host factors and CGMMV viral proteins will facilitate the design of new strategies for disease control. In this study, a yeast two-hybrid assay revealed that the CGMMV helicase (HEL) domain interacts with a Citrullus lanatus small heat shock protein (sHSP), and we verified this observation by performing in vitro GST pull-down and in vivo coimmunoprecipitation assays. Measurement of the levels of accumulated sHSP transcript revealed that sHSP is upregulated on initial CGMMV infection in both Nicotiana benthamiana and C. lanatus plants, although not in the systemically infected leaves. We also found that the subcellular localization of the sHSP was altered after CGMMV infection. To further validate the role of sHSP in CGMMV infection, we produced and assayed N. benthamiana transgenic plants with up- and down-regulated sHSP expression. Overexpression of sHSP inhibited viral RNA accumulation and retarded disease development, whereas sHSP silencing had no marked effect on CGMMV infection. Therefore, we postulate that the identified sHSP may be one of the factors modulating host defense mechanisms in response to CGMMV infection and that the HEL domain interaction may inhibit this sHSP function to promote viral infection.
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- Shanshan Liu
- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Fruit and Cucurbit Biology, Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450009, Henan, China
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Fruit and Cucurbit Biology, Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450009, Henan, China
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- Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura-CSIC, 30100 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Fruit and Cucurbit Biology, Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450009, Henan, China
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Fruit and Cucurbit Biology, Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450009, Henan, China
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McLoughlin F, Kim M, Marshall RS, Vierstra RD, Vierling E. HSP101 Interacts with the Proteasome and Promotes the Clearance of Ubiquitylated Protein Aggregates. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 180:1829-1847. [PMID: 31113833 PMCID: PMC6670096 DOI: 10.1104/pp.19.00263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Accepted: 05/09/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Stressful environments often lead to protein unfolding and the formation of cytotoxic aggregates that can compromise cell survival. The molecular chaperone heat shock protein (HSP) 101 is a protein disaggregase that co-operates with the small HSP (sHSP) and HSP70 chaperones to facilitate removal of such aggregates and is essential for surviving severe heat stress. To better define how HSP101 protects plants, we investigated the localization and targets of this chaperone in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). By following HSP101 tagged with GFP, we discovered that its intracellular distribution is highly dynamic and includes a robust, reversible sequestration into cytoplasmic foci that vary in number and size among cell types and are potentially enriched in aggregated proteins. Affinity isolation of HSP101 recovered multiple proteasome subunits, suggesting a functional interaction. Consistent with this, the GFP-tagged 26S proteasome regulatory particle non-ATPase (RPN) 1a transiently colocalized with HSP101 in cytoplasmic foci during recovery. In addition, analysis of aggregated (insoluble) proteins showed they are extensively ubiquitylated during heat stress, especially in plants deficient in HSP101 or class I sHSPs, implying that protein disaggregation is important for optimal proteasomal degradation. Many potential HSP101 clients, identified by mass spectrometry of insoluble proteins, overlapped with known stress granule constituents and sHSP-interacting proteins, confirming a role for HSP101 in stress granule function. Connections between HSP101, stress granules, proteasomes, and ubiquitylation imply that dynamic coordination between protein disaggregation and proteolysis is required to survive proteotoxic stress caused by protein aggregation at high temperatures.
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- Fionn McLoughlin
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01009
- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01009
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01009
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Wang S, Kwon SH, Su Y, Dong Z. Stress granules are formed in renal proximal tubular cells during metabolic stress and ischemic injury for cell survival. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2019; 317:F116-F123. [PMID: 31091124 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00139.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Stress granules (SGs) are a type of cytoplasmic structures formed in eukaryotic cells upon cell stress, which mainly contain RNA-binding proteins and RNAs. The formation of SGs is generally regarded as a mechanism for cells to survive a harsh insult. However, little is known about SG formation and function in kidneys. To address this, we applied different kinds of stressors to cultured proximal tubular cells as well as a short period of ischemia-reperfusion to mouse kidneys. It was found that glycolytic inhibitors such as 2-deoxy-d-glucose and 3-(3-pyridinyl)-1-(4-pyridinyl)-2-propen-1-one induced SG formation within 30 min in these cells. Similarly, SGs were induced by inhibitors of mitochondrial respiration such as sodium azide and CCCP. Renal ischemia-reperfusion induced SG formation in the cells of proximal tubules. To test the role of SGs, we stably knocked down G3bp1, a SG core protein, in renal tubular cells by shRNA viral transduction. As expected, knockdown of G3bp1 largely disrupted the assembly of SGs. After azide or cisplatin treatment, more dead cells were found in knockdown cells compared with controls, accompanied by increases in cleaved/active caspase-3. Reintroduction of exogenous G3bp1 into knockdown cells could rescue the cell death phenotype. Taken together, our data provide the first evidence of SG formation in renal tubular cells during metabolic stress and acute kidney injury. SGs are formed to protect proximal tubular cells under these conditions. Modulation of SG biogenesis may provide a novel approach to lessen the severity of renal diseases.
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- Shixuan Wang
- Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University , Augusta, Georgia
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- Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University , Augusta, Georgia
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, and Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Augusta, Georgia
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- Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University , Augusta, Georgia
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Ivanov P, Kedersha N, Anderson P. Stress Granules and Processing Bodies in Translational Control. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2019; 11:cshperspect.a032813. [PMID: 30082464 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a032813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 273] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Stress granules (SGs) and processing bodies (PBs) are non-membrane-enclosed RNA granules that dynamically sequester translationally inactive messenger ribonucleoprotein particles (mRNPs) into compartments that are distinct from the surrounding cytoplasm. mRNP remodeling, silencing, and/or storage involves the dynamic partitioning of closed-loop polyadenylated mRNPs into SGs, or the sequestration of deadenylated, linear mRNPs into PBs. SGs form when stress-activated pathways stall translation initiation but allow elongation and termination to occur normally, resulting in a sudden excess of mRNPs that are spatially condensed into discrete foci by protein:protein, protein:RNA, and RNA:RNA interactions. In contrast, PBs can exist in the absence of stress, when specific factors promote mRNA deadenylation, condensation, and sequestration from the translational machinery. The formation and dissolution of SGs and PBs reflect changes in messenger RNA (mRNA) metabolism and allow cells to modulate the proteome and/or mediate life or death decisions during changing environmental conditions.
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- Pavel Ivanov
- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.,Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.,The Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.,Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.,Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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Isobe T, Tange S, Tasaki H, Kanamori K, Kato A, Nakanishi A. Upregulation of CHOP participates in caspase activation and virus release in human astrovirus-infected cells. J Gen Virol 2019; 100:778-792. [PMID: 30912739 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Human astroviruses (HAstVs), non-enveloped RNA viruses with positive-sense RNA genomes, are an important cause of acute gastroenteritis in young children, although the processes that produce infectious virions are not clearly defined. To track the viral replication complex (RC) upon HAstV1 infection, the subcellular distribution of double-stranded (ds) RNA and of ORF1b, a viral RNA polymerase, was examined by immunocytochemistry. Foci that were positive for dsRNA and for ORF1b were co-localized, and both foci were also co-localized with resident proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Focusing on the association between the HAstV RC and ER, we examined the expression of unfolded protein response (UPR) markers and found that targets of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (eIF2α)-activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4), including CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein homologous protein (CHOP), a proapoptotic transcription factor, were upregulated at the late phase in HAstV-infected cells. Consistently, eIF2α was phosphorylated at the late phase of HAstV infection. The formation of foci resembling stress granules, another known downstream response to eIF2α phosphorylation, was also observed at the same period. Phosphorylation of eIF2α was attenuated in protein kinase R (PKR)-knockdown cells, suggesting that, unlike the canonical ER stress response, PKR was involved in eIF2α phosphorylation in response to HAstV infection. Studies have indicated that immature HAstV capsid protein is processed by caspases, and caspase cleavage is integral to particle release. Inhibition of CHOP upregulation reduced caspase activation and the release of HAstV RNA from cells during HAstV infection. Our results suggest that the eIF2α-ATF4-CHOP pathway participates in HAstV propagation.
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- Tomoyasu Isobe
- 1Section of Gene Therapy, Department of Aging Intervention, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi, 474-8522, Japan
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- 2Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Research Institute for Frontier Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, 060-8556, Japan
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- 1Section of Gene Therapy, Department of Aging Intervention, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi, 474-8522, Japan
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- 4Laboratory of Radiation Safety, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi, 474-8522, Japan
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- 1Section of Gene Therapy, Department of Aging Intervention, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi, 474-8522, Japan.,4Laboratory of Radiation Safety, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi, 474-8522, Japan
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Shimahara Y, Sugawara K, Kojo KH, Kawai H, Yoshida Y, Hasezawa S, Kutsuna N. IMACEL: A cloud-based bioimage analysis platform for morphological analysis and image classification. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0212619. [PMID: 30794647 PMCID: PMC6386377 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 02/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Automated quantitative image analysis is essential for all fields of life science research. Although several software programs and algorithms have been developed for bioimage processing, an advanced knowledge of image processing techniques and high-performance computing resources are required to use them. Hence, we developed a cloud-based image analysis platform called IMACEL, which comprises morphological analysis and machine learning-based image classification. The unique click-based user interface of IMACEL’s morphological analysis platform enables researchers with limited resources to evaluate particles rapidly and quantitatively without prior knowledge of image processing. Because all the image processing and machine learning algorithms are performed on high-performance virtual machines, users can access the same analytical environment from anywhere. A validation study of the morphological analysis and image classification of IMACEL was performed. The results indicate that this platform is an accessible and potentially powerful tool for the quantitative evaluation of bioimages that will lower the barriers to life science research.
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- Yuki Shimahara
- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
- Research and Development Division, LPixel Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research and Development Division, LPixel Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research and Development Division, LPixel Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Sophia University, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research and Development Division, LPixel Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
- Research and Development Division, LPixel Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
- Research and Development Division, LPixel Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Hamada T, Yako M, Minegishi M, Sato M, Kamei Y, Yanagawa Y, Toyooka K, Watanabe Y, Hara-Nishimura I. Stress granule formation is induced by a threshold temperature rather than a temperature difference in Arabidopsis. J Cell Sci 2018; 131:jcs.216051. [PMID: 30030372 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.216051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2018] [Accepted: 07/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Stress granules, a type of cytoplasmic RNA granule in eukaryotic cells, are induced in response to various environmental stresses, including high temperature. However, how high temperatures induce the formation of these stress granules in plant cells is largely unknown. Here, we characterized the process of stress granule formation in Arabidopsis thaliana by combining live imaging and electron microscopy analysis. In seedlings grown at 22°C, stress granule formation was induced at temperatures above a critical threshold level of 34°C in the absence of transpiration. The threshold temperature was the same, regardless of whether the seedlings were grown at 22°C or 4°C. High-resolution live imaging microscopy revealed that stress granule formation is not correlated with the sizes of pre-existing RNA processing bodies (P-bodies) but that the two structures often associated rapidly. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed a previously unidentified characteristic of the fine structures of Arabidopsis stress granules and P-bodies: the lack of ribosomes and the presence of characteristic electron-dense globular and filamentous structures. These results provide new insights into the universal nature of stress granules in eukaryotic cells.
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- Takahiro Hamada
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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- Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, NARO, Tsukuba 305-8602, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Kosmacz M, Luzarowski M, Kerber O, Leniak E, Gutiérrez-Beltrán E, Moreno JC, Gorka M, Szlachetko J, Veyel D, Graf A, Skirycz A. Interaction of 2',3'-cAMP with Rbp47b Plays a Role in Stress Granule Formation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2018; 177:411-421. [PMID: 29618637 PMCID: PMC5933139 DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.00285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2018] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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2',3'-cAMP is an intriguing small molecule that is conserved among different kingdoms. 2',3'-cAMP is presumably produced during RNA degradation, with increased cellular levels observed especially under stress conditions. Previously, we observed the presence of 2',3'-cAMP in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) protein complexes isolated from native lysate, suggesting that 2',3'-cAMP has potential protein partners in plants. Here, affinity purification experiments revealed that 2',3'-cAMP associates with the stress granule (SG) proteome. SGs are aggregates composed of protein and mRNA, which enable cells to selectively store mRNA for use in response to stress such as heat whereby translation initiation is impaired. Using size-exclusion chromatography and affinity purification analyses, we identified Rbp47b, the key component of SGs, as a potential interacting partner of 2',3'-cAMP. Furthermore, SG formation was promoted in 2',3'-cAMP-treated Arabidopsis seedlings, and interactions between 2',3'-cAMP and RNA-binding domains of Rbp47b, RRM2 and RRM3, were confirmed in vitro using microscale thermophoresis. Taken together, these results (1) describe novel small-molecule regulation of SG formation, (2) provide evidence for the biological role of 2',3'-cAMP, and (3) demonstrate an original biochemical pipeline for the identification of protein-metabolite interactors.
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- Monika Kosmacz
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Universidad de Sevilla/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 41092 Seville, Spain
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Orrù S, Coni P, Floris A, Littera R, Carcassi C, Sogos V, Brancia C. Reduced stress granule formation and cell death in fibroblasts with the A382T mutation of TARDBP gene: evidence for loss of TDP-43 nuclear function. Hum Mol Genet 2018; 25:4473-4483. [PMID: 28172957 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddw276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2016] [Revised: 08/11/2016] [Accepted: 08/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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TAR deoxyribonucleic acid-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is a key protein in the pathogenesis of amyoptrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Recent studies suggest that mutations in the TDP-43 coding gene, TARDBP, as well as variations in TDP-43 protein expression levels may disrupt the dynamics of stress granules (SGs). However, it remains unclear whether the pathogenetic effect of the TDP-43 protein is exerted at the cytoplasmic level, through direct participation to SG composition, or at nuclear level, through control of proteins essential to SG assembly. To clarify this point, we investigated the dynamics of SG formation in primary skin fibroblast cultures from the patients with ALS together with the A382T mutation and the patients with ALS and healthy controls with wild-type TDP-43. Under stress conditions induced by sodium arsenite, we found that in human fibroblasts TDP-43 did not translocate to the SGs but instead contributed to the SG formation through a regulatory effect on the G3BP1 core protein. We found that the A382T mutation caused a significant reduction in the number of SGs per cell (P < 0.01) as well as the percentage of cells that form SGs (P < 0.00001). Following stress stimuli, a significant decrease of viability was observed for cells with the TDP-43 A382T mutation (P < 0.0005).
We can therefore conclude that the A382T mutation caused a reduction in the ability of cells to respond to stress through loss of TDP-43 function in SG nucleation. The pathogenetic action revealed in our study model does not seem to be mediated by changes in the localization of the TDP-43 protein.
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- Sandro Orrù
- Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Cagliari, R. Binaghi Hospital, Cagliari, Italy
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- Paola Coni, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy
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- Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Cagliari, R. Binaghi Hospital, Cagliari, Italy
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- Regional Transplant Center, R. Binaghi Hospital, ASL Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Cagliari, R. Binaghi Hospital, Cagliari, Italy
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- Paola Coni, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy
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- Paola Coni, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy
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Sheinberger J, Shav-Tal Y. mRNPs meet stress granules. FEBS Lett 2017; 591:2534-2542. [DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.12765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2017] [Revised: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 07/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Jonathan Sheinberger
- The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences; Institute of Nanotechnology; Bar-Ilan University; Ramat Gan Israel
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- The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences; Institute of Nanotechnology; Bar-Ilan University; Ramat Gan Israel
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Kulkarni A, Extavour CG. Convergent evolution of germ granule nucleators: A hypothesis. Stem Cell Res 2017; 24:188-194. [PMID: 28801028 DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2017.07.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Revised: 06/18/2017] [Accepted: 07/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Germ cells have been considered "the ultimate stem cell" because they alone, during normal development of sexually reproducing organisms, are able to give rise to all organismal cell types. Morphological descriptions of a specialized cytoplasm termed 'germ plasm' and associated electron dense ribonucleoprotein (RNP) structures called 'germ granules' within germ cells date back as early as the 1800s. Both germ plasm and germ granules are implicated in germ line specification across metazoans. However, at a molecular level, little is currently understood about the molecular mechanisms that assemble these entities in germ cells. The discovery that in some animals, the gene products of a small number of lineage-specific genes initiate the assembly (also termed nucleation) of germ granules and/or germ plasm is the first step towards facilitating a better understanding of these complex biological processes. Here, we draw on research spanning over 100years that supports the hypothesis that these nucleator genes may have evolved convergently, allowing them to perform analogous roles across animal lineages.
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- Arpita Kulkarni
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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Oberstadt M, Claßen J, Arendt T, Holzer M. TDP-43 and Cytoskeletal Proteins in ALS. Mol Neurobiol 2017; 55:3143-3151. [PMID: 28466273 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-017-0543-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2016] [Accepted: 04/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) represents a rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disease and is characterized by a degeneration of motor neurons. Motor neurons are particularly susceptible to selective and early degeneration because of their extended axon length and their dependency on the cytoskeleton for its stability, signaling, and axonal transport. The motor neuron cytoskeleton comprises actin filaments, neurofilaments like peripherin, and microtubules. The Transactivating Response Region (TAR) DNA Binding Protein (TDP-43) forms characteristic cytoplasmic aggregates in motor neurons of ALS patients, and at least in part, the pathogenesis of ALS seems to be driven by toxic pTDP-43 aggregates in cytoplasm, which lead to a diminished axon formation and reduced axon length. Diminished axon formation and reduced axon length suggest an interaction of TDP-43 with the cytoskeleton of motor neurons. TDP-43 interacts with several cytoskeletal components, e.g., the microtubule-associated protein 1B (MAP1B) or the neurofilament light chain (NFL) through direct binding to its RNA. From a clinical perspective, cytoskeletal biomarkers like phosphorylated neurofilament heavy chain (pNFH) and NFL are already clinically used in ALS patients to predict survival, disease progression, and duration. Thus, in this review, we focus on the interaction of TDP-43 with the different cytoskeleton components such as actin filaments, neurofilaments, and microtubules as well as their associated proteins as one aspect in the complex pathogenesis of ALS.
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- Moritz Oberstadt
- Department of Neurology, University of Leipzig, Liebigstraße 20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Department of Neurology, University of Leipzig, Liebigstraße 20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department for Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration, Paul Flechsig Institute for Brain Research, University of Leipzig, Liebigstraße 19, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department for Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration, Paul Flechsig Institute for Brain Research, University of Leipzig, Liebigstraße 19, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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Rabouille C, Alberti S. Cell adaptation upon stress: the emerging role of membrane-less compartments. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2017; 47:34-42. [PMID: 28342303 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2017.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2016] [Revised: 02/06/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Cells under stress transition from a growth to a quiescent state. The conventional thinking is that this is achieved through transcriptional programs, translational regulation, protein degradation, and post-translational modifications. However, there is an increasing realization that stress adaptation also goes along with dramatic changes in the architecture and organization of cells. In particular, it seems to involve the formation of membrane-less compartments and macromolecular assemblies. We propose that cells make widespread use of this ability to change macromolecular organization to adapt to stress conditions and protect themselves. Here, we address what triggers the formation of these assemblies under stress conditions. We present examples illustrating that in some cases, sophisticated signaling pathways transmit environmental fluctuations from the outside to the inside and in others, that external fluctuations directly affect the internal conditions in cells. We further argue that changes in the organization of the cytoplasm and the formation of membrane-less compartments have many advantages over other ways of altering protein function, such as protein degradation, translation or transcription. Furthermore, membrane-less compartments may act as protective devices for key cellular components.
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- Catherine Rabouille
- Hubrecht Institute of the KNAW & UMC Utrecht, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Cell Biology, UMC Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
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Sun Y, Dong L, Yu S, Wang X, Zheng H, Zhang P, Meng C, Zhan Y, Tan L, Song C, Qiu X, Wang G, Liao Y, Ding C. Newcastle disease virus induces stable formation of bona fide stress granules to facilitate viral replication through manipulating host protein translation. FASEB J 2016; 31:1337-1353. [PMID: 28011649 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201600980r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 12/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Mammalian cells respond to various environmental stressors to form stress granules (SGs) by arresting cytoplasmic mRNA, protein translation element, and RNA binding proteins. Virus-induced SGs function in different ways, depending on the species of virus; however, the mechanism of SG regulation of virus replication is not well understood. In this study, Newcastle disease virus (NDV) triggered stable formation of bona fide SGs on HeLa cells through activating the protein kinase R (PKR)/eIF2α pathway. NDV-induced SGs contained classic SG markers T-cell internal antigen (TIA)-1, Ras GTPase-activating protein-binding protein (G3BP)-1, eukaryotic initiation factors, and small ribosomal subunit, which could be disassembled in the presence of cycloheximide. Treatment with nocodazole, a microtubule disruption drug, led to the formation of relatively small and circular granules, indicating that NDV infection induces canonical SGs. Furthermore, the role of SGs on NDV replication was investigated by knockdown of TIA-1 and TIA-1-related (TIAR) protein, the 2 critical components involved in SG formation from the HeLa cells, followed by NDV infection. Results showed that depletion of TIA-1 or TIAR inhibited viral protein synthesis, reduced extracellular virus yields, but increased global protein translation. FISH revealed that NDV-induced SGs contained predominantly cellular mRNA rather than viral mRNA. Deletion of TIA-1 or TIAR reduced NP mRNA levels in polysomes. These results demonstrate that NDV triggers stable formation of bona fide SGs, which benefit viral protein translation and virus replication by arresting cellular mRNA.-Sun, Y., Dong, L., Yu, S., Wang, X., Zheng, H., Zhang, P., Meng, C., Zhan, Y., Tan, L., Song, C., Qiu, X., Wang, G., Liao, Y., Ding, C. Newcastle disease virus induces stable formation of bona fide stress granules to facilitate viral replication through manipulating host protein translation.
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- Yingjie Sun
- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China.,College of Animal Science and Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China.,College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China; and
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- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China.,College of Animal Science and Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China; and
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- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Avian Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China; .,Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou, China
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McLoughlin F, Basha E, Fowler ME, Kim M, Bordowitz J, Katiyar-Agarwal S, Vierling E. Class I and II Small Heat Shock Proteins Together with HSP101 Protect Protein Translation Factors during Heat Stress. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 172:1221-1236. [PMID: 27474115 PMCID: PMC5047077 DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2016] [Accepted: 07/25/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The ubiquitous small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are well documented to act in vitro as molecular chaperones to prevent the irreversible aggregation of heat-sensitive proteins. However, the in vivo activities of sHSPs remain unclear. To investigate the two most abundant classes of plant cytosolic sHSPs (class I [CI] and class II [CII]), RNA interference (RNAi) and overexpression lines were created in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and shown to have reduced and enhanced tolerance, respectively, to extreme heat stress. Affinity purification of CI and CII sHSPs from heat-stressed seedlings recovered eukaryotic translation elongation factor (eEF) 1B (α-, β-, and γ-subunits) and eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A (three isoforms), although the association with CI sHSPs was stronger and additional proteins involved in translation were recovered with CI sHSPs. eEF1B subunits became partially insoluble during heat stress and, in the CI and CII RNAi lines, showed reduced recovery to the soluble cell fraction after heat stress, which was also dependent on HSP101. Furthermore, after heat stress, CI sHSPs showed increased retention in the insoluble fraction in the CII RNAi line and vice versa. Immunolocalization revealed that both CI and CII sHSPs were present in cytosolic foci, some of which colocalized with HSP101 and with eEF1Bγ and eEF1Bβ. Thus, CI and CII sHSPs have both unique and overlapping functions and act either directly or indirectly to protect specific translation factors in cytosolic stress granules.
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- Fionn McLoughlin
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 (F.M., M.E.F., M.K., E.V.);Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (E.B., M.K., J.B., S.K.-A.); andDepartment of Botany, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt (E.B.)
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 (F.M., M.E.F., M.K., E.V.);Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (E.B., M.K., J.B., S.K.-A.); andDepartment of Botany, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt (E.B.)
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 (F.M., M.E.F., M.K., E.V.);Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (E.B., M.K., J.B., S.K.-A.); andDepartment of Botany, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt (E.B.)
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 (F.M., M.E.F., M.K., E.V.);Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (E.B., M.K., J.B., S.K.-A.); andDepartment of Botany, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt (E.B.)
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 (F.M., M.E.F., M.K., E.V.);Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (E.B., M.K., J.B., S.K.-A.); andDepartment of Botany, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt (E.B.)
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 (F.M., M.E.F., M.K., E.V.);Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (E.B., M.K., J.B., S.K.-A.); andDepartment of Botany, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt (E.B.)
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 (F.M., M.E.F., M.K., E.V.);Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (E.B., M.K., J.B., S.K.-A.); andDepartment of Botany, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt (E.B.)
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Perera ND, Sheean RK, Crouch PJ, White AR, Horne MK, Turner BJ. Enhancing survival motor neuron expression extends lifespan and attenuates neurodegeneration in mutant TDP-43 mice. Hum Mol Genet 2016; 25:4080-4093. [DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddw247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2016] [Revised: 07/11/2016] [Accepted: 07/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Gleason LU, Burton RS. Genomic evidence for ecological divergence against a background of population homogeneity in the marine snail Chlorostoma funebralis. Mol Ecol 2016; 25:3557-73. [PMID: 27199218 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2015] [Revised: 04/29/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The balance between natural selection, gene flow and genetic drift is difficult to resolve in marine invertebrates with extensive dispersal and fluctuating population sizes. The intertidal snail Chlorostoma funebralis has planktonic larvae and previous work using mtDNA polymorphism reported no genetic population structure. Nevertheless, recent studies have documented differences in thermal tolerance and transcriptomic responses to heat stress between northern and southern California, USA, populations. To gain insight into the dynamics influencing adaptive divergence, we used double-digest restriction site-associated DNA (ddRAD) sequencing to identify 1861 genomewide, quality-filtered single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci for C. funebralis collected from three northern and three southern California sites (15 individuals per population). Considering all SNPs, there was no evidence for genetic differentiation among populations or regions (average FST = 0.0042). However, outlier tests revealed 34 loci putatively under divergent selection between northern and southern populations, and structure and SNP tree analyses based on these outliers show clear genetic differentiation between geographic regions. Three of these outliers are known or hypothesized to be involved in stress granule formation, a response to environmental stress such as heat. Combined with previous work that found thermally tolerant southern populations show high baseline expression of stress response genes, these results further suggest that thermal stress is a strong selective pressure across C. funebralis populations. Overall, this study increases our understanding of the factors constraining local adaptation in marine organisms, while suggesting that ecologically driven, strong differentiation can occur at relevant loci in a species with planktonic larvae.
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- Lani U Gleason
- Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0202, USA.,Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, 90045, USA
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- Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0202, USA
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Bellato HM, Hajj GNM. Translational control by eIF2α in neurons: Beyond the stress response. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 2016; 73:551-565. [PMID: 26994324 DOI: 10.1002/cm.21294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2015] [Revised: 03/14/2016] [Accepted: 03/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The translation of mRNAs is a tightly controlled process that responds to multiple signaling pathways. In neurons, this control is also exerted locally due to the differential necessity of proteins in axons and dendrites. The phosphorylation of the alpha subunit of the translation initiation factor 2 (eIF2α) is one of the mechanisms of translational control. The phosphorylation of eIF2α has classically been viewed as a stress response, halting translation initiation. However, in the nervous system this type of regulation has been related to other mechanisms besides stress response, such as behavior, memory consolidation and nervous system development. Additionally, neurodegenerative diseases have a major stress component, thus eIF2α phosphorylation plays a preeminent role and its modulation is currently viewed as a new opportunity for therapeutic interventions. This review consolidates current information regarding eIF2α phosphorylation in neurons and its impact in neurodegenerative diseases. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Lokdarshi A, Conner WC, McClintock C, Li T, Roberts DM. Arabidopsis CML38, a Calcium Sensor That Localizes to Ribonucleoprotein Complexes under Hypoxia Stress. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 170:1046-59. [PMID: 26634999 PMCID: PMC4734562 DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.01407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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During waterlogging and the associated oxygen deprivation stress, plants respond by the induction of adaptive programs, including the redirected expression of gene networks toward the synthesis of core hypoxia-response proteins. Among these core response proteins in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) is the calcium sensor CML38, a protein related to regulator of gene silencing calmodulin-like proteins (rgsCaMs). CML38 transcripts are up-regulated more than 300-fold in roots within 6 h of hypoxia treatment. Transfer DNA insertional mutants of CML38 show an enhanced sensitivity to hypoxia stress, with lowered survival and more severe inhibition of root and shoot growth. By using yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) translational fusions, CML38 protein was found to be localized to cytosolic granule structures similar in morphology to hypoxia-induced stress granules. Immunoprecipitation of CML38 from the roots of hypoxia-challenged transgenic plants harboring CML38pro::CML38:YFP followed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis revealed the presence of protein targets associated with messenger RNA ribonucleoprotein (mRNP) complexes including stress granules, which are known to accumulate as messenger RNA storage and triage centers during hypoxia. This finding is further supported by the colocalization of CML38 with the mRNP stress granule marker RNA Binding Protein 47 (RBP47) upon cotransfection of Nicotiana benthamiana leaves. Ruthenium Red treatment results in the loss of CML38 signal in cytosolic granules, suggesting that calcium is necessary for stress granule association. These results confirm that CML38 is a core hypoxia response calcium sensor protein and suggest that it serves as a potential calcium signaling target within stress granules and other mRNPs that accumulate during flooding stress responses.
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- Ansul Lokdarshi
- Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology (A.L., W.C.C., C.M., D.M.R.) and Program in Genome Science and Technology (T.L., D.M.R.), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology (A.L., W.C.C., C.M., D.M.R.) and Program in Genome Science and Technology (T.L., D.M.R.), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology (A.L., W.C.C., C.M., D.M.R.) and Program in Genome Science and Technology (T.L., D.M.R.), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology (A.L., W.C.C., C.M., D.M.R.) and Program in Genome Science and Technology (T.L., D.M.R.), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology (A.L., W.C.C., C.M., D.M.R.) and Program in Genome Science and Technology (T.L., D.M.R.), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
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DDX3 Interacts with Influenza A Virus NS1 and NP Proteins and Exerts Antiviral Function through Regulation of Stress Granule Formation. J Virol 2016; 90:3661-75. [PMID: 26792746 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.03010-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2015] [Accepted: 01/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED DDX3 belongs to the DEAD box RNA helicase family and is a multifunctional protein affecting the life cycle of a variety of viruses. However, its role in influenza virus infection is unknown. In this study, we explored the potential role of DDX3 in influenza virus life cycle and discovered that DDX3 is an antiviral protein. Since many host proteins affect virus life cycle by interacting with certain components of the viral machinery, we first verified whether DDX3 has any viral interaction partners. Immunoprecipitation studies revealed NS1 and NP as direct interaction partners of DDX3. Stress granules (SGs) are known to be antiviral and do form in influenza virus-infected cells expressing defective NS1 protein. Additionally, a recent study showed that DDX3 is an important SG-nucleating factor. We thus explored whether DDX3 plays a role in influenza virus infection through regulation of SGs. Our results showed that SGs were formed in infected cells upon infection with a mutant influenza virus lacking functional NS1 (del NS1) protein, and DDX3 colocalized with NP in SGs. We further determined that the DDX3 helicase domain did not interact with NS1 and NP; however, it was essential for DDX3 localization in virus-induced SGs. Knockdown of DDX3 resulted in impaired SG formation and led to increased virus titers. Taken together, our results identified DDX3 as an antiviral protein with a role in virus-induced SG formation. IMPORTANCE DDX3 is a multifunctional RNA helicase and has been reported to be involved in regulating various virus life cycles. However, its function during influenza A virus infection remains unknown. In this study, we demonstrated that DDX3 is capable of interacting with influenza virus NS1 and NP proteins; DDX3 and NP colocalize in the del NS1 virus-induced SGs. Furthermore, knockdown of DDX3 impaired SG formation and led to a decreased virus titer. Thus, we provided evidence that DDX3 is an antiviral protein during influenza virus infection and its antiviral activity is through regulation of SG formation. Our findings provide knowledge about the function of DDX3 in the influenza virus life cycle and information for future work on manipulating the SG pathway and its components to fight influenza virus infection.
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Spetale FE, Tapia E, Krsticevic F, Roda F, Bulacio P. A Factor Graph Approach to Automated GO Annotation. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0146986. [PMID: 26771463 PMCID: PMC4714749 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2015] [Accepted: 12/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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As volume of genomic data grows, computational methods become essential for providing a first glimpse onto gene annotations. Automated Gene Ontology (GO) annotation methods based on hierarchical ensemble classification techniques are particularly interesting when interpretability of annotation results is a main concern. In these methods, raw GO-term predictions computed by base binary classifiers are leveraged by checking the consistency of predefined GO relationships. Both formal leveraging strategies, with main focus on annotation precision, and heuristic alternatives, with main focus on scalability issues, have been described in literature. In this contribution, a factor graph approach to the hierarchical ensemble formulation of the automated GO annotation problem is presented. In this formal framework, a core factor graph is first built based on the GO structure and then enriched to take into account the noisy nature of GO-term predictions. Hence, starting from raw GO-term predictions, an iterative message passing algorithm between nodes of the factor graph is used to compute marginal probabilities of target GO-terms. Evaluations on Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Arabidopsis thaliana and Drosophila melanogaster protein sequences from the GO Molecular Function domain showed significant improvements over competing approaches, even when protein sequences were naively characterized by their physicochemical and secondary structure properties or when loose noisy annotation datasets were considered. Based on these promising results and using Arabidopsis thaliana annotation data, we extend our approach to the identification of most promising molecular function annotations for a set of proteins of unknown function in Solanum lycopersicum.
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- Flavio E. Spetale
- CIFASIS-Conicet Institute, Rosario, Argentina
- Facultad de Cs. Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura, National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- CIFASIS-Conicet Institute, Rosario, Argentina
- Facultad de Cs. Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura, National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- CIFASIS-Conicet Institute, Rosario, Argentina
- Facultad Regional San Nicolás, National Technological University, San Nicolás, Argentina
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- CIFASIS-Conicet Institute, Rosario, Argentina
- Facultad de Cs. Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura, National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
- Facultad Regional San Nicolás, National Technological University, San Nicolás, Argentina
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Nguyen CC, Nakaminami K, Matsui A, Kobayashi S, Kurihara Y, Toyooka K, Tanaka M, Seki M. Oligouridylate Binding Protein 1b Plays an Integral Role in Plant Heat Stress Tolerance. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:853. [PMID: 27379136 PMCID: PMC4911357 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2016] [Accepted: 05/31/2016] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Stress granules (SGs), which are formed in the plant cytoplasm under stress conditions, are transient dynamic sites (particles) for mRNA storage. SGs are actively involved in protecting mRNAs from degradation. Oligouridylate binding protein 1b (UBP1b) is a component of SGs. The formation of microscopically visible cytoplasmic foci, referred to as UBP1b SG, was induced by heat treatment in UBP1b-overexpressing Arabidopsis plants (UBP1b-ox). A detailed understanding of the function of UBP1b, however, is still not clear. UBP1b-ox plants displayed increased heat tolerance, relative to control plants, while ubp1b mutants were more sensitive to heat stress than control plants. Microarray analysis identified 117 genes whose expression was heat-inducible and higher in the UBP1b-ox plants. RNA decay analysis was performed using cordycepin, a transcriptional inhibitor. In order to determine if those genes serve as targets of UBP1b, the rate of RNA degradation of a DnaJ heat shock protein and a stress-associated protein (AtSAP3) in UBP1b-ox plants was slower than in control plants; indicating that the mRNAs of these genes were protected within the UBP1b SG granule. Collectively, these data demonstrate that UBP1b plays an integral role in heat stress tolerance in plants.
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- Cam Chau Nguyen
- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ScienceYokohama, Japan
- Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City UniversityYokohama, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ScienceYokohama, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ScienceYokohama, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ScienceYokohama, Japan
- Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City UniversityYokohama, Japan
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- Synthetic Genomics Research Group, Biomass Engineering Program Cooperation Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ScienceYokohama, Japan
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- Mass Spectrometry and Microscopy Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ScienceYokohama, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ScienceYokohama, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ScienceYokohama, Japan
- Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City UniversityYokohama, Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and TechnologyKawaguchi, Japan
- *Correspondence: Motoaki Seki
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Aulas A, Vande Velde C. Alterations in stress granule dynamics driven by TDP-43 and FUS: a link to pathological inclusions in ALS? Front Cell Neurosci 2015; 9:423. [PMID: 26557057 PMCID: PMC4615823 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2015] [Accepted: 10/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Stress granules (SGs) are RNA-containing cytoplasmic foci formed in response to stress exposure. Since their discovery in 1999, over 120 proteins have been described to be localized to these structures (in 154 publications). Most of these components are RNA binding proteins (RBPs) or are involved in RNA metabolism and translation. SGs have been linked to several pathologies including inflammatory diseases, cancer, viral infection, and neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In ALS and FTD, the majority of cases have no known etiology and exposure to external stress is frequently proposed as a contributor to either disease initiation or the rate of disease progression. Of note, both ALS and FTD are characterized by pathological inclusions, where some well-known SG markers localize with the ALS related proteins TDP-43 and FUS. We propose that TDP-43 and FUS serve as an interface between genetic susceptibility and environmental stress exposure in disease pathogenesis. Here, we will discuss the role of TDP-43 and FUS in SG dynamics and how disease-linked mutations affect this process.
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- Anaïs Aulas
- Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal Montréal, QC, Canada ; Department of Biochemistry, Université de Montréal Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal Montréal, QC, Canada ; Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal Montréal, QC, Canada
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Li J, Xiang CY, Yang J, Chen JP, Zhang HM. Interaction of HSP20 with a viral RdRp changes its sub-cellular localization and distribution pattern in plants. Sci Rep 2015; 5:14016. [PMID: 26359114 PMCID: PMC4642574 DOI: 10.1038/srep14016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2015] [Accepted: 08/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) perform a fundamental role in protecting cells against a wide array of stresses but their biological function during viral infection remains unknown. Rice stripe virus (RSV) causes a severe disease of rice in Eastern Asia. OsHSP20 and its homologue (NbHSP20) were used as baits in yeast two-hybrid (YTH) assays to screen an RSV cDNA library and were found to interact with the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) of RSV. Interactions were confirmed by pull-down and BiFC assays. Further analysis showed that the N-terminus (residues 1-296) of the RdRp was crucial for the interaction between the HSP20s and viral RdRp and responsible for the alteration of the sub-cellular localization and distribution pattern of HSP20s in protoplasts of rice and epidermal cells of Nicotiana benthamiana. This is the first report that a plant virus or a viral protein alters the expression pattern or sub-cellular distribution of sHSPs.
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- Jing Li
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China
- College of Chemistry and Life Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China
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The function of RNA-binding proteins at the synapse: implications for neurodegeneration. Cell Mol Life Sci 2015; 72:3621-35. [PMID: 26047658 PMCID: PMC4565867 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-015-1943-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2015] [Revised: 05/18/2015] [Accepted: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The loss of synapses is a central event in
neurodegenerative diseases. Synaptic proteins are often associated with disease neuropathology, but their role in synaptic loss is not fully understood. Of the many processes involved in sustaining the integrity of synapses, local protein translation can directly impact synaptic formation, communication, and maintenance. RNA-binding proteins and their association with RNA granules serve to regulate mRNA transportation and translation at synapses and in turn regulate the synapse. Genetic mutations in RNA-binding proteins FUS and TDP-43 have been linked with causing neurodegenerative diseases: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. The observation that mutations in FUS and TDP-43 coincide with changes in RNA granules provides evidence that dysfunction of RNA metabolism may underlie the mechanism of synaptic loss in these diseases. However, we do not know how mutations in RNA-binding proteins would affect RNA granule dynamics and local translation, or if these alterations would cause neurodegeneration. Further investigation into this area will lead to important insights into how disruption of RNA metabolism and local translation at synapses can cause neurodegenerative diseases.
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Aulas A, Caron G, Gkogkas CG, Mohamed NV, Destroismaisons L, Sonenberg N, Leclerc N, Parker JA, Vande Velde C. G3BP1 promotes stress-induced RNA granule interactions to preserve polyadenylated mRNA. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 209:73-84. [PMID: 25847539 PMCID: PMC4395486 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201408092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2014] [Accepted: 03/04/2015] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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The TDP-43 target G3BP1 is essential for a functional interaction between stress granules and processing bodies. G3BP1, a target of TDP-43, is required for normal stress granule (SG) assembly, but the functional consequences of failed SG assembly remain unknown. Here, using both transformed cell lines and primary neurons, we investigated the functional impact of this disruption in SG dynamics. While stress-induced translational repression and recruitment of key SG proteins was undisturbed, depletion of G3BP1 or its upstream regulator TDP-43 disturbed normal interactions between SGs and processing bodies (PBs). This was concomitant with decreased SG size, reduced SG–PB docking, and impaired preservation of polyadenylated mRNA. Reintroduction of G3BP1 alone was sufficient to rescue all of these phenotypes, indicating that G3BP1 is essential for normal SG–PB interactions and SG function.
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Affiliation(s)
- Anaïs Aulas
- Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada
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- Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada
| | - Christos G Gkogkas
- Patrick Wild Centre and Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, Scotland, UK Patrick Wild Centre and Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, Scotland, UK
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- Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada
| | - Laurie Destroismaisons
- Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Goodman Cancer Research Centre, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec H3A 1A3, Canada Department of Biochemistry and Goodman Cancer Research Centre, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec H3A 1A3, Canada
| | - Nicole Leclerc
- Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada
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- Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada
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- Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada Centre de recherché du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H2X 0A9, Canada
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