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Kumar S, Mashkoor M, Balamurugan P, Grove A. Yeast Crf1p is an activator with different roles in regulation of target genes. Yeast 2024; 41:379-400. [PMID: 38639144 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2023] [Revised: 04/02/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024] Open
Abstract
Under stress conditions, ribosome biogenesis is downregulated. This process requires that expression of ribosomal RNA, ribosomal protein, and ribosome biogenesis genes be controlled in a coordinated fashion. The mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 (mTORC1) participates in sensing unfavorable conditions to effect the requisite change in gene expression. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, downregulation of ribosomal protein genes involves dissociation of the activator Ifh1p in a process that depends on Utp22p, a protein that also functions in pre-rRNA processing. Ifh1p has a paralog, Crf1p, which was implicated in communicating mTORC1 inhibition and hence was perceived as a repressor. We focus here on two ribosomal biogenesis genes, encoding Utp22p and the high mobility group protein Hmo1p, both of which are required for communication of mTORC1 inhibition to target genes. Crf1p functions as an activator on these genes as evidenced by reduced mRNA abundance and RNA polymerase II occupancy in a crf1Δ strain. Inhibition of mTORC1 has distinct effects on expression of HMO1 and UTP22; for example, on UTP22, but not on HMO1, the presence of Crf1p promotes the stable depletion of Ifh1p. Our data suggest that Crf1p functions as a weak activator, and that it may be required to prevent re-binding of Ifh1p to some gene promoters after mTORC1 inhibition in situations when Ifh1p is available. We propose that the inclusion of genes encoding proteins required for mTORC1-mediated downregulation of ribosomal protein genes in the same regulatory circuit as the ribosomal protein genes serves to optimize transcriptional responses during mTORC1 inhibition.
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- Sanjay Kumar
- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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Wagner ER, Gasch AP. Advances in S. cerevisiae Engineering for Xylose Fermentation and Biofuel Production: Balancing Growth, Metabolism, and Defense. J Fungi (Basel) 2023; 9:786. [PMID: 37623557 PMCID: PMC10455348 DOI: 10.3390/jof9080786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2023] [Revised: 07/19/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Genetically engineering microorganisms to produce chemicals has changed the industrialized world. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is frequently used in industry due to its genetic tractability and unique metabolic capabilities. S. cerevisiae has been engineered to produce novel compounds from diverse sugars found in lignocellulosic biomass, including pentose sugars, like xylose, not recognized by the organism. Engineering high flux toward novel compounds has proved to be more challenging than anticipated since simply introducing pathway components is often not enough. Several studies show that the rewiring of upstream signaling is required to direct products toward pathways of interest, but doing so can diminish stress tolerance, which is important in industrial conditions. As an example of these challenges, we reviewed S. cerevisiae engineering efforts, enabling anaerobic xylose fermentation as a model system and showcasing the regulatory interplay's controlling growth, metabolism, and stress defense. Enabling xylose fermentation in S. cerevisiae requires the introduction of several key metabolic enzymes but also regulatory rewiring of three signaling pathways at the intersection of the growth and stress defense responses: the RAS/PKA, Snf1, and high osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathways. The current studies reviewed here suggest the modulation of global signaling pathways should be adopted into biorefinery microbial engineering pipelines to increase efficient product yields.
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- Ellen R. Wagner
- Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Center for Genomic Science Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Center for Genomic Science Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Wu Y, Yang Q, Wang M, Chen S, Jia R, Yang Q, Zhu D, Liu M, Zhao X, Zhang S, Huang J, Ou X, Mao S, Gao Q, Sun D, Tian B, Cheng A. Multifaceted Roles of ICP22/ORF63 Proteins in the Life Cycle of Human Herpesviruses. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:668461. [PMID: 34163446 PMCID: PMC8215345 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.668461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 05/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Herpesviruses are extremely successful parasites that have evolved over millions of years to develop a variety of mechanisms to coexist with their hosts and to maintain host-to-host transmission and lifelong infection by regulating their life cycles. The life cycle of herpesviruses consists of two phases: lytic infection and latent infection. During lytic infection, active replication and the production of numerous progeny virions occur. Subsequent suppression of the host immune response leads to a lifetime latent infection of the host. During latent infection, the viral genome remains in an inactive state in the host cell to avoid host immune surveillance, but the virus can be reactivated and reenter the lytic cycle. The balance between these two phases of the herpesvirus life cycle is controlled by broad interactions among numerous viral and cellular factors. ICP22/ORF63 proteins are among these factors and are involved in transcription, nuclear budding, latency establishment, and reactivation. In this review, we summarized the various roles and complex mechanisms by which ICP22/ORF63 proteins regulate the life cycle of human herpesviruses and the complex relationships among host and viral factors. Elucidating the role and mechanism of ICP22/ORF63 in virus-host interactions will deepen our understanding of the viral life cycle. In addition, it will also help us to understand the pathogenesis of herpesvirus infections and provide new strategies for combating these infections.
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- Ying Wu
- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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Formosa T, Winston F. The role of FACT in managing chromatin: disruption, assembly, or repair? Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:11929-11941. [PMID: 33104782 PMCID: PMC7708052 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Revised: 10/01/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
FACT (FAcilitates Chromatin Transcription) has long been considered to be a transcription elongation factor whose ability to destabilize nucleosomes promotes RNAPII progression on chromatin templates. However, this is just one function of this histone chaperone, as FACT also functions in DNA replication. While broadly conserved among eukaryotes and essential for viability in many organisms, dependence on FACT varies widely, with some differentiated cells proliferating normally in its absence. It is therefore unclear what the core functions of FACT are, whether they differ in different circumstances, and what makes FACT essential in some situations but not others. Here, we review recent advances and propose a unifying model for FACT activity. By analogy to DNA repair, we propose that the ability of FACT to both destabilize and assemble nucleosomes allows it to monitor and restore nucleosome integrity as part of a system of chromatin repair, in which disruptions in the packaging of DNA are sensed and returned to their normal state. The requirement for FACT then depends on the level of chromatin disruption occurring in the cell, and the cell's ability to tolerate packaging defects. The role of FACT in transcription would then be just one facet of a broader system for maintaining chromatin integrity.
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- Tim Formosa
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Martínez-Fernández V, Cuevas-Bermúdez A, Gutiérrez-Santiago F, Garrido-Godino AI, Rodríguez-Galán O, Jordán-Pla A, Lois S, Triviño JC, de la Cruz J, Navarro F. Prefoldin-like Bud27 influences the transcription of ribosomal components and ribosome biogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2020; 26:1360-1379. [PMID: 32503921 PMCID: PMC7491330 DOI: 10.1261/rna.075507.120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
Abstract
Understanding the functional connection that occurs for the three nuclear RNA polymerases to synthesize ribosome components during the ribosome biogenesis process has been the focal point of extensive research. To preserve correct homeostasis on the production of ribosomal components, cells might require the existence of proteins that target a common subunit of these RNA polymerases to impact their respective activities. This work describes how the yeast prefoldin-like Bud27 protein, which physically interacts with the Rpb5 common subunit of the three RNA polymerases, is able to modulate the transcription mediated by the RNA polymerase I, likely by influencing transcription elongation, the transcription of the RNA polymerase III, and the processing of ribosomal RNA. Bud27 also regulates both RNA polymerase II-dependent transcription of ribosomal proteins and ribosome biogenesis regulon genes, likely by occupying their DNA ORFs, and the processing of the corresponding mRNAs. With RNA polymerase II, this association occurs in a transcription rate-dependent manner. Our data also indicate that Bud27 inactivation alters the phosphorylation kinetics of ribosomal protein S6, a readout of TORC1 activity. We conclude that Bud27 impacts the homeostasis of the ribosome biogenesis process by regulating the activity of the three RNA polymerases and, in this way, the synthesis of ribosomal components. This quite likely occurs through a functional connection of Bud27 with the TOR signaling pathway.
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- Verónica Martínez-Fernández
- Departamento de Biología Experimental-Genética, Universidad de Jaén, Paraje de las Lagunillas, s/n, E-23071, Jaén, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Experimental-Genética, Universidad de Jaén, Paraje de las Lagunillas, s/n, E-23071, Jaén, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Experimental-Genética, Universidad de Jaén, Paraje de las Lagunillas, s/n, E-23071, Jaén, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Experimental-Genética, Universidad de Jaén, Paraje de las Lagunillas, s/n, E-23071, Jaén, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, E-41013 Seville, Spain
- Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, E-41012 Seville, Spain
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- ERI Biotecmed, Facultad de Biológicas, Universitat de València, E-46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- Sistemas Genómicos. Ronda de Guglielmo Marconi, 6, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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- Sistemas Genómicos. Ronda de Guglielmo Marconi, 6, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, E-41013 Seville, Spain
- Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, E-41012 Seville, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Experimental-Genética, Universidad de Jaén, Paraje de las Lagunillas, s/n, E-23071, Jaén, Spain
- Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Aceite de Oliva y Olivar, Universidad de Jaén, Paraje de las Lagunillas, s/n, E-23071, Jaén, Spain
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Kim S, Beltran B, Irnov I, Jacobs-Wagner C. Long-Distance Cooperative and Antagonistic RNA Polymerase Dynamics via DNA Supercoiling. Cell 2020; 179:106-119.e16. [PMID: 31539491 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.08.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Revised: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 08/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Genes are often transcribed by multiple RNA polymerases (RNAPs) at densities that can vary widely across genes and environmental conditions. Here, we provide in vitro and in vivo evidence for a built-in mechanism by which co-transcribing RNAPs display either collaborative or antagonistic dynamics over long distances (>2 kb) through transcription-induced DNA supercoiling. In Escherichia coli, when the promoter is active, co-transcribing RNAPs translocate faster than a single RNAP, but their average speed is not altered by large variations in promoter strength and thus RNAP density. Environmentally induced promoter repression reduces the elongation efficiency of already-loaded RNAPs, causing premature termination and quick synthesis arrest of no-longer-needed proteins. This negative effect appears independent of RNAP convoy formation and is abrogated by topoisomerase I activity. Antagonistic dynamics can also occur between RNAPs from divergently transcribed gene pairs. Our findings may be broadly applicable given that transcription on topologically constrained DNA is the norm across organisms.
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- Sangjin Kim
- Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06536, USA.
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- Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06536, USA
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- Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06536, USA
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- Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06536, USA; Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06536, USA.
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Calvo O, Grandin N, Jordán-Pla A, Miñambres E, González-Polo N, Pérez-Ortín JE, Charbonneau M. The telomeric Cdc13-Stn1-Ten1 complex regulates RNA polymerase II transcription. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:6250-6268. [PMID: 31006804 PMCID: PMC6614848 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2019] [Revised: 03/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Specialized telomeric proteins have an essential role in maintaining genome stability through chromosome end protection and telomere length regulation. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the evolutionary conserved CST complex, composed of the Cdc13, Stn1 and Ten1 proteins, largely contributes to these functions. Here, we report genetic interactions between TEN1 and several genes coding for transcription regulators. Molecular assays confirmed this novel function of Ten1 and further established that it regulates the occupancies of RNA polymerase II and the Spt5 elongation factor within transcribed genes. Since Ten1, but also Cdc13 and Stn1, were found to physically associate with Spt5, we propose that Spt5 represents the target of CST in transcription regulation. Moreover, CST physically associates with Hmo1, previously shown to mediate the architecture of S-phase transcribed genes. The fact that, genome-wide, the promoters of genes down-regulated in the ten1-31 mutant are prefentially bound by Hmo1, leads us to propose a potential role for CST in synchronizing transcription with replication fork progression following head-on collisions.
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- Olga Calvo
- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica, CSIC-USAL, Salamanca, Spain
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- GReD laboratory, CNRS UMR6293, INSERM U1103, Faculty of Medicine, University Clermont-Auvergne, 28 place Henri Dunant, BP 38, 63001 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France
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- ERI Biotecmed, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de València, C/Dr. Moliner 50, E46100 Burjassot, Spain
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- ERI Biotecmed, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de València, C/Dr. Moliner 50, E46100 Burjassot, Spain
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- GReD laboratory, CNRS UMR6293, INSERM U1103, Faculty of Medicine, University Clermont-Auvergne, 28 place Henri Dunant, BP 38, 63001 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France
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McCullough LL, Pham TH, Parnell TJ, Connell Z, Chandrasekharan MB, Stillman DJ, Formosa T. Establishment and Maintenance of Chromatin Architecture Are Promoted Independently of Transcription by the Histone Chaperone FACT and H3-K56 Acetylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2019; 211:877-892. [PMID: 30679261 PMCID: PMC6404263 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.118.301853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
FACT (FAcilitates Chromatin Transcription/Transactions) is a histone chaperone that can destabilize or assemble nucleosomes. Acetylation of histone H3-K56 weakens a histone-DNA contact that is central to FACT activity, suggesting that this modification could affect FACT functions. We tested this by asking how mutations of H3-K56 and FACT affect nucleosome reorganization activity in vitro, and chromatin integrity and transcript output in vivo Mimics of unacetylated or permanently acetylated H3-K56 had different effects on FACT activity as expected, but the same mutations had surprisingly similar effects on global transcript levels. The results are consistent with emerging models that emphasize FACT's importance in establishing global chromatin architecture prior to transcription, promoting transitions among different states as transcription profiles change, and restoring chromatin integrity after it is disturbed. Optimal FACT activity required the availability of both modified and unmodified states of H3-K56. Perturbing this balance was especially detrimental for maintaining repression of genes with high nucleosome occupancy over their promoters and for blocking antisense transcription at the +1 nucleosome. The results reveal a complex collaboration between H3-K56 modification status and multiple FACT functions, and support roles for nucleosome reorganization by FACT before, during, and after transcription.
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- Laura L McCullough
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Pathology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Pathology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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Martínez-Fernández V, Garrido-Godino AI, Mirón-García MC, Begley V, Fernández-Pévida A, de la Cruz J, Chávez S, Navarro F. Rpb5 modulates the RNA polymerase II transition from initiation to elongation by influencing Spt5 association and backtracking. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2018; 1861:1-13. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2017.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Revised: 11/08/2017] [Accepted: 11/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Gómez-Herreros F, Margaritis T, Rodríguez-Galán O, Pelechano V, Begley V, Millán-Zambrano G, Morillo-Huesca M, Muñoz-Centeno MC, Pérez-Ortín JE, de la Cruz J, Holstege FCP, Chávez S. The ribosome assembly gene network is controlled by the feedback regulation of transcription elongation. Nucleic Acids Res 2017. [PMID: 28637236 PMCID: PMC5737610 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Ribosome assembly requires the concerted expression of hundreds of genes, which are transcribed by all three nuclear RNA polymerases. Transcription elongation involves dynamic interactions between RNA polymerases and chromatin. We performed a synthetic lethal screening in Saccharomyces cerevisiae with a conditional allele of SPT6, which encodes one of the factors that facilitates this process. Some of these synthetic mutants corresponded to factors that facilitate pre-rRNA processing and ribosome biogenesis. We found that the in vivo depletion of one of these factors, Arb1, activated transcription elongation in the set of genes involved directly in ribosome assembly. Under these depletion conditions, Spt6 was physically targeted to the up-regulated genes, where it helped maintain their chromatin integrity and the synthesis of properly stable mRNAs. The mRNA profiles of a large set of ribosome biogenesis mutants confirmed the existence of a feedback regulatory network among ribosome assembly genes. The transcriptional response in this network depended on both the specific malfunction and the role of the regulated gene. In accordance with our screening, Spt6 positively contributed to the optimal operation of this global network. On the whole, this work uncovers a feedback control of ribosome biogenesis by fine-tuning transcription elongation in ribosome assembly factor-coding genes.
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- Fernando Gómez-Herreros
- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, and Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain
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- Molecular Cancer Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, & Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, and Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular and ERI Biotecmed. Facultad de Biológicas, Universitat de València. Burjassot, Spain.,SciLifeLab, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 65 Solna, Sweden
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, and Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, and Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, and Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, and Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular and ERI Biotecmed. Facultad de Biológicas, Universitat de València. Burjassot, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, and Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain
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- Molecular Cancer Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, & Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, and Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain
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de la Cruz J, Gómez-Herreros F, Rodríguez-Galán O, Begley V, de la Cruz Muñoz-Centeno M, Chávez S. Feedback regulation of ribosome assembly. Curr Genet 2017; 64:393-404. [PMID: 29022131 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-017-0764-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2017] [Revised: 10/06/2017] [Accepted: 10/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Ribosome biogenesis is a crucial process for growth and constitutes the major consumer of cellular resources. This pathway is subjected to very stringent regulation to ensure correct ribosome manufacture with a wide variety of environmental and metabolic changes, and intracellular insults. Here we summarise our current knowledge on the regulation of ribosome biogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by particularly focusing on the feedback mechanisms that maintain ribosome homeostasis. Ribosome biogenesis in yeast is controlled mainly at the level of the production of both pre-rRNAs and ribosomal proteins through the transcriptional and post-transcriptional control of the TORC1 and protein kinase A signalling pathways. Pre-rRNA processing can occur before or after the 35S pre-rRNA transcript is completed; the switch between these two alternatives is regulated by growth conditions. The expression of both ribosomal proteins and the large family of transacting factors involved in ribosome biogenesis is co-regulated. Recently, it has been shown that the synthesis of rRNA and ribosomal proteins, but not of trans-factors, is coupled. Thus the so-called CURI complex sequesters specific transcription factor Ifh1 to repress ribosomal protein genes when rRNA transcription is impaired. We recently found that an analogue system should operate to control the expression of transacting factor genes in response to actual ribosome assembly performance. Regulation of ribosome biogenesis manages situations of imbalanced ribosome production or misassembled ribosomal precursors and subunits, which have been closely linked to distinct human diseases.
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- Jesús de la Cruz
- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain. .,Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.,Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.,Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.,Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.,Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain. .,Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.
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Malik I, Qiu C, Snavely T, Kaplan CD. Wide-ranging and unexpected consequences of altered Pol II catalytic activity in vivo. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:4431-4451. [PMID: 28119420 PMCID: PMC5416818 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2016] [Accepted: 01/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Here we employ a set of RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) activity mutants to determine the consequences of increased or decreased Pol II catalysis on gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We find that alteration of Pol II catalytic rate, either fast or slow, leads to decreased Pol II occupancy and apparent reduction in elongation rate in vivo. However, we also find that determination of elongation rate in vivo by chromatin immunoprecipitation can be confounded by the kinetics and conditions of transcriptional shutoff in the assay. We identify promoter and template-specific effects on severity of gene expression defects for both fast and slow Pol II mutants. We show that mRNA half-lives for a reporter gene are increased in both fast and slow Pol II mutant strains and the magnitude of half-life changes correlate both with mutants' growth and reporter expression defects. Finally, we tested a model that altered Pol II activity sensitizes cells to nucleotide depletion. In contrast to model predictions, mutated Pol II retains normal sensitivity to altered nucleotide levels. Our experiments establish a framework for understanding the diversity of transcription defects derived from altered Pol II activity mutants, essential for their use as probes of transcription mechanisms.
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- Indranil Malik
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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Engineered Covalent Inactivation of TFIIH-Kinase Reveals an Elongation Checkpoint and Results in Widespread mRNA Stabilization. Mol Cell 2016; 63:433-44. [PMID: 27477907 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.06.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2016] [Revised: 05/09/2016] [Accepted: 06/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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During transcription initiation, the TFIIH-kinase Kin28/Cdk7 marks RNA polymerase II (Pol II) by phosphorylating the C-terminal domain (CTD) of its largest subunit. Here we describe a structure-guided chemical approach to covalently and specifically inactivate Kin28 kinase activity in vivo. This method of irreversible inactivation recapitulates both the lethal phenotype and the key molecular signatures that result from genetically disrupting Kin28 function in vivo. Inactivating Kin28 impacts promoter release to differing degrees and reveals a "checkpoint" during the transition to productive elongation. While promoter-proximal pausing is not observed in budding yeast, inhibition of Kin28 attenuates elongation-licensing signals, resulting in Pol II accumulation at the +2 nucleosome and reduced transition to productive elongation. Furthermore, upon inhibition, global stabilization of mRNA masks different degrees of reduction in nascent transcription. This study resolves long-standing controversies on the role of Kin28 in transcription and provides a rational approach to irreversibly inhibit other kinases in vivo.
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Gupta I, Villanyi Z, Kassem S, Hughes C, Panasenko OO, Steinmetz LM, Collart MA. Translational Capacity of a Cell Is Determined during Transcription Elongation via the Ccr4-Not Complex. Cell Rep 2016; 15:1782-94. [PMID: 27184853 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.04.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2015] [Revised: 02/08/2016] [Accepted: 04/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The current understanding of gene expression considers transcription and translation to be independent processes. Challenging this notion, we found that translation efficiency is determined during transcription elongation through the imprinting of mRNAs with Not1, the central scaffold of the Ccr4-Not complex. We determined that another subunit of the complex, Not5, defines Not1 binding to specific mRNAs, particularly those produced from ribosomal protein genes. This imprinting mechanism specifically regulates ribosomal protein gene expression, which in turn determines the translational capacity of cells. We validate our model by SILAC and polysome profiling experiments. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate that enhanced translation compensates for transcriptional elongation stress. Taken together, our data indicate that in addition to defining mRNA stability, components of the Ccr4-Not imprinting complex regulate RNA translatability, thus ensuring global gene expression homeostasis.
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- Ishaan Gupta
- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Genomics, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Genomics, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Genome Sciences Center, British Columbia Cancer Research Agency, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1L3, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Genomics, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA; Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Genomics, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
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Chávez S, García-Martínez J, Delgado-Ramos L, Pérez-Ortín JE. The importance of controlling mRNA turnover during cell proliferation. Curr Genet 2016; 62:701-710. [PMID: 27007479 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-016-0594-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2016] [Revised: 03/08/2016] [Accepted: 03/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Microbial gene expression depends not only on specific regulatory mechanisms, but also on cellular growth because important global parameters, such as abundance of mRNAs and ribosomes, could be growth rate dependent. Understanding these global effects is necessary to quantitatively judge gene regulation. In the last few years, transcriptomic works in budding yeast have shown that a large fraction of its genes is coordinately regulated with growth rate. As mRNA levels depend simultaneously on synthesis and degradation rates, those studies were unable to discriminate the respective roles of both arms of the equilibrium process. We recently analyzed 80 different genomic experiments and found a positive and parallel correlation between both RNA polymerase II transcription and mRNA degradation with growth rates. Thus, the total mRNA concentration remains roughly constant. Some gene groups, however, regulate their mRNA concentration by uncoupling mRNA stability from the transcription rate. Ribosome-related genes modulate their transcription rates to increase mRNA levels under fast growth. In contrast, mitochondria-related and stress-induced genes lower mRNA levels by reducing mRNA stability or the transcription rate, respectively. We critically review here these results and analyze them in relation to their possible extrapolation to other organisms and in relation to the new questions they open.
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- Sebastián Chávez
- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain. .,Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.
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- Departamento de Genética, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Spain.,ERI Biotecmed, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.,Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Spain. .,ERI Biotecmed, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Spain.
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García-Martínez J, Delgado-Ramos L, Ayala G, Pelechano V, Medina DA, Carrasco F, González R, Andrés-León E, Steinmetz L, Warringer J, Chávez S, Pérez-Ortín JE. The cellular growth rate controls overall mRNA turnover, and modulates either transcription or degradation rates of particular gene regulons. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 44:3643-58. [PMID: 26717982 PMCID: PMC4856968 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2015] [Accepted: 12/16/2015] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
Abstract
We analyzed 80 different genomic experiments, and found a positive correlation between both RNA polymerase II transcription and mRNA degradation with growth rates in yeast. Thus, in spite of the marked variation in mRNA turnover, the total mRNA concentration remained approximately constant. Some genes, however, regulated their mRNA concentration by uncoupling mRNA stability from the transcription rate. Ribosome-related genes modulated their transcription rates to increase mRNA levels under fast growth. In contrast, mitochondria-related and stress-induced genes lowered mRNA levels by reducing mRNA stability or the transcription rate, respectively. We also detected these regulations within the heterogeneity of a wild-type cell population growing in optimal conditions. The transcriptomic analysis of sorted microcolonies confirmed that the growth rate dictates alternative expression programs by modulating transcription and mRNA decay. The regulation of overall mRNA turnover keeps a constant ratio between mRNA decay and the dilution of [mRNA] caused by cellular growth. This regulation minimizes the indiscriminate transmission of mRNAs from mother to daughter cells, and favors the response capacity of the latter to physiological signals and environmental changes. We also conclude that, by uncoupling mRNA synthesis from decay, cells control the mRNA abundance of those gene regulons that characterize fast and slow growth.
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- José García-Martínez
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de València. C/ Dr. Moliner 50. E46100, Burjassot, Spain ERI Biotecmed, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de Valencia. C/ Dr. Moliner 50. E46100, Burjassot, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, C/ Antonio Maura Montaner, E41013 Sevilla Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Avenida de la Reina Mercedes s/n, E41012, Spain
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- Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Facultad de Matemáticas, Universitat de València. C/ Dr. Moliner 50. E46100, Burjassot, Spain
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- ERI Biotecmed, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de Valencia. C/ Dr. Moliner 50. E46100, Burjassot, Spain Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de Valencia. C/ Dr. Moliner 50. E46100, Burjassot, Spain
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- ERI Biotecmed, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de Valencia. C/ Dr. Moliner 50. E46100, Burjassot, Spain Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de Valencia. C/ Dr. Moliner 50. E46100, Burjassot, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino (CSIC, Universidad de La Rioja, Gobierno de La Rioja), Finca La Grajera LO-20 Salida 13, Autovía del Camino de Santiago, E26007 Logroño, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, C/ Antonio Maura Montaner, E41013 Sevilla
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Genetics, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Stanford Genome Technology Center, 3165 Porter Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Medicinaregatan 9 c, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, C/ Antonio Maura Montaner, E41013 Sevilla Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Avenida de la Reina Mercedes s/n, E41012, Spain
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- ERI Biotecmed, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de Valencia. C/ Dr. Moliner 50. E46100, Burjassot, Spain Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de Valencia. C/ Dr. Moliner 50. E46100, Burjassot, Spain
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Baccarini L, Martínez-Montañés F, Rossi S, Proft M, Portela P. PKA-chromatin association at stress responsive target genes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2015; 1849:1329-39. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2015.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2015] [Revised: 09/10/2015] [Accepted: 09/11/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Jordán-Pla A, Gupta I, de Miguel-Jiménez L, Steinmetz LM, Chávez S, Pelechano V, Pérez-Ortín JE. Chromatin-dependent regulation of RNA polymerases II and III activity throughout the transcription cycle. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 43:787-802. [PMID: 25550430 PMCID: PMC4333398 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
The particular behaviour of eukaryotic RNA polymerases along different gene regions and amongst distinct gene functional groups is not totally understood. To cast light onto the alternative active or backtracking states of RNA polymerase II, we have quantitatively mapped active RNA polymerases at a high resolution following a new biotin-based genomic run-on (BioGRO) technique. Compared with conventional profiling with chromatin immunoprecipitation, the analysis of the BioGRO profiles in Saccharomyces cerevisiae shows that RNA polymerase II has unique activity profiles at both gene ends, which are highly dependent on positioned nucleosomes. This is the first demonstration of the in vivo influence of positioned nucleosomes on transcription elongation. The particular features at the 5' end and around the polyadenylation site indicate that this polymerase undergoes extensive specific-activity regulation in the initial and final transcription elongation phases. The genes encoding for ribosomal proteins show distinctive features at both ends. BioGRO also provides the first nascentome analysis for RNA polymerase III, which indicates that transcription of tRNA genes is poorly regulated at the individual copy level. The present study provides a novel perspective of the transcription cycle that incorporates inactivation/reactivation as an important aspect of RNA polymerase dynamics.
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- Antonio Jordán-Pla
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular and ERI Biotecmed, Facultad de Biológicas, Universitat de València, C/Dr. Moliner 50, E46100 Burjassot, Spain
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, and Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Genetics, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío-CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, and Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular and ERI Biotecmed, Facultad de Biológicas, Universitat de València, C/Dr. Moliner 50, E46100 Burjassot, Spain
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Marguerat S, Lawler K, Brazma A, Bähler J. Contributions of transcription and mRNA decay to gene expression dynamics of fission yeast in response to oxidative stress. RNA Biol 2014; 11:702-14. [PMID: 25007214 PMCID: PMC4156502 DOI: 10.4161/rna.29196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The cooperation of transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels of control to shape gene regulation is only partially understood. Here we show that a combination of two simple and non-invasive genomic techniques, coupled with kinetic mathematical modeling, afford insight into the intricate dynamics of RNA regulation in response to oxidative stress in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. This study reveals a dominant role of transcriptional regulation in response to stress, but also points to the first minutes after stress induction as a critical time when the coordinated control of mRNA turnover can support the control of transcription for rapid gene regulation. In addition, we uncover specialized gene expression strategies associated with distinct functional gene groups, such as simultaneous transcriptional repression and mRNA destabilization for genes encoding ribosomal proteins, delayed mRNA destabilization with varying contribution of transcription for ribosome biogenesis genes, dominant roles of mRNA stabilization for genes functioning in protein degradation, and adjustment of both transcription and mRNA turnover during the adaptation to stress. We also show that genes regulated independently of the bZIP transcription factor Atf1p are predominantly controlled by mRNA turnover, and identify putative cis-regulatory sequences that are associated with different gene expression strategies during the stress response. This study highlights the intricate and multi-faceted interplay between transcription and RNA turnover during the dynamic regulatory response to stress.
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- Samuel Marguerat
- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment and UCL Cancer Institute; University College London; London, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory; EMBL-EBI; Wellcome Trust Genome Campus; Hinxton, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory; EMBL-EBI; Wellcome Trust Genome Campus; Hinxton, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment and UCL Cancer Institute; University College London; London, UK
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Magraner-Pardo L, Pelechano V, Coloma MD, Tordera V. Dynamic remodeling of histone modifications in response to osmotic stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BMC Genomics 2014; 15:247. [PMID: 24678875 PMCID: PMC3986647 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2013] [Accepted: 03/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Specific histone modifications play important roles in chromatin functions; i.e., activation or repression of gene transcription. This participation must occur as a dynamic process. Nevertheless, most of the histone modification maps reported to date provide only static pictures that link certain modifications with active or silenced states. This study, however, focuses on the global histone modification variation that occurs in response to the transcriptional reprogramming produced by a physiological perturbation in yeast. Results We did a genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis for eight specific histone modifications before and after saline stress. The most striking change was rapid acetylation loss in lysines 9 and 14 of H3 and in lysine 8 of H4, associated with gene repression. The genes activated by saline stress increased the acetylation levels at these same sites, but this acetylation process was quantitatively minor if compared to that of the deacetylation of repressed genes. The changes in the tri-methylation of lysines 4, 36 and 79 of H3 and the di-methylation of lysine 79 of H3 were slighter than those of acetylation. Furthermore, we produced new genome-wide maps for seven histone modifications, and we analyzed, for the first time in S. cerevisiae, the genome-wide profile of acetylation of lysine 8 of H4. Conclusions This research reveals that the short-term changes observed in the post-stress methylation of histones are much more moderate than those of acetylation, and that the dynamics of the acetylation state of histones during activation or repression of transcription is a much quicker process than methylation. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-247) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de València, C/Dr, Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain.
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Medina DA, Jordán-Pla A, Millán-Zambrano G, Chávez S, Choder M, Pérez-Ortín JE. Cytoplasmic 5'-3' exonuclease Xrn1p is also a genome-wide transcription factor in yeast. Front Genet 2014; 5:1. [PMID: 24567736 PMCID: PMC3915102 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2013] [Accepted: 01/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The 5′ to 3′ exoribonuclease Xrn1 is a large protein involved in cytoplasmatic mRNA degradation as a critical component of the major decaysome. Its deletion in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is not lethal, but it has multiple physiological effects. In a previous study, our group showed that deletion of all tested components of the yeast major decaysome, including XRN1, results in a decrease in the synthetic rate and an increase in half-life of most mRNAs in a compensatory manner. Furthermore, the same study showed that the all tested decaysome components are also nuclear proteins that bind to the 5′ region of a number of genes. In the present work, we show that disruption of Xrn1 activity preferentially affects both the synthesis and decay of a distinct subpopulation of mRNAs. The most affected mRNAs are the transcripts of the highly transcribed genes, mainly those encoding ribosome biogenesis and translation factors. Previously, we proposed that synthegradases play a key role in regulating both mRNA synthesis and degradation. Evidently, Xrn1 functions as a synthegradase, whose selectivity might help coordinating the expression of the protein synthetic machinery. We propose to name the most affected genes “Xrn1 synthegradon.”
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- Daniel A Medina
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular and ERI Biotecmed, Universitat de València Burjassot, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular and ERI Biotecmed, Universitat de València Burjassot, Spain
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- Departamento de Genética and Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla Seville, Spain
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- Departamento de Genética and Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla Seville, Spain
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular and ERI Biotecmed, Universitat de València Burjassot, Spain
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External conditions inversely change the RNA polymerase II elongation rate and density in yeast. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2013; 1829:1248-55. [PMID: 24103494 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2013.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2013] [Revised: 09/25/2013] [Accepted: 09/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Elongation speed is a key parameter in RNA polymerase II (RNA pol II) activity. It affects the transcription rate, while it is conditioned by the physicochemical environment it works in at the same time. For instance, it is well-known that temperature affects the biochemical reactions rates. Therefore in free-living organisms that are able to grow at various environmental temperatures, such as the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, evolution should have not only shaped the structural and functional properties of this key enzyme, but should have also provided mechanisms and pathways to adapt its activity to the optimal performance required. We studied the changes in RNA pol II elongation speed caused by alternations in growth temperature in yeast to find that they strictly follow the Arrhenius equation, and that they also provoke an almost inverse proportional change in RNA pol II density within the optimal growth temperature range (26-37 °C). Moreover, we discovered that yeast cells control the transcription initiation rate by changing the total amount of available RNA pol II.
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Perales R, Erickson B, Zhang L, Kim H, Valiquett E, Bentley D. Gene promoters dictate histone occupancy within genes. EMBO J 2013; 32:2645-56. [PMID: 24013117 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2013.194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2013] [Accepted: 07/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Spt6 is a transcriptional elongation factor and histone chaperone that reassembles transcribed chromatin. Genome-wide H3 mapping showed that Spt6 preferentially maintains nucleosomes within the first 500 bases of genes and helps define nucleosome-depleted regions in 5' and 3' flanking sequences. In Spt6-depleted cells, H3 loss at 5' ends correlates with reduced pol II density suggesting enhanced transcription elongation. Consistent with its 'Suppressor of Ty' (Spt) phenotype, Spt6 inactivation caused localized H3 eviction over 1-2 nucleosomes at 5' ends of Ty elements. H3 displacement differed between genes driven by promoters with 'open'/DPN and 'closed'/OPN chromatin conformations with similar pol II densities. More eviction occurred on genes with 'closed' promoters, associated with 'noisy' transcription. Moreover, swapping of 'open' and 'closed' promoters showed that they can specify distinct downstream patterns of histone eviction/deposition. These observations suggest a novel function for promoters in dictating histone dynamics within genes possibly through effects on transcriptional bursting or elongation rate.
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- Roberto Perales
- Program in Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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Haimovich G, Medina DA, Causse SZ, Garber M, Millán-Zambrano G, Barkai O, Chávez S, Pérez-Ortín JE, Darzacq X, Choder M. Gene expression is circular: factors for mRNA degradation also foster mRNA synthesis. Cell 2013; 153:1000-11. [PMID: 23706738 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 249] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2011] [Revised: 01/03/2013] [Accepted: 05/07/2013] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Maintaining proper mRNA levels is a key aspect in the regulation of gene expression. The balance between mRNA synthesis and decay determines these levels. We demonstrate that most yeast mRNAs are degraded by the cytoplasmic 5'-to-3' pathway (the "decaysome"), as proposed previously. Unexpectedly, the level of these mRNAs is highly robust to perturbations in this major pathway because defects in various decaysome components lead to transcription downregulation. Moreover, these components shuttle between the cytoplasm and the nucleus, in a manner dependent on proper mRNA degradation. In the nucleus, they associate with chromatin-preferentially ∼30 bp upstream of transcription start-sites-and directly stimulate transcription initiation and elongation. The nuclear role of the decaysome in transcription is linked to its cytoplasmic role in mRNA decay; linkage, in turn, seems to depend on proper shuttling of its components. The gene expression process is therefore circular, whereby the hitherto first and last stages are interconnected.
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- Gal Haimovich
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel
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Garre E, Romero-Santacreu L, Barneo-Muñoz M, Miguel A, Pérez-Ortín JE, Alepuz P. Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay controls the changes in yeast ribosomal protein pre-mRNAs levels upon osmotic stress. PLoS One 2013; 8:e61240. [PMID: 23620734 PMCID: PMC3631235 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2013] [Accepted: 03/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The expression of ribosomal protein (RP) genes requires a substantial part of cellular transcription, processing and translation resources. Thus, the RP expression must be tightly regulated in response to conditions that compromise cell survival. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells, regulation of the RP gene expression at the transcriptional, mature mRNA stability and translational levels during the response to osmotic stress has been reported. Reprogramming global protein synthesis upon osmotic shock includes the movement of ribosomes from RP transcripts to stress-induced mRNAs. Using tiling arrays, we show that osmotic stress yields a drop in the levels of RP pre-mRNAs in S. cerevisiae cells. An analysis of the tiling array data, together with transcription rates data, shows a poor correlation, indicating that the drop in the RP pre-mRNA levels is not merely a result of the lowered RP transcription rates. A kinetic study using quantitative RT-PCR confirmed the decrease in the levels of several RP-unspliced transcripts during the first 15 minutes of osmotic stress, which seems independent of MAP kinase Hog1. Moreover, we found that the mutations in the components of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), Upf1, Upf2, Upf3 or in exonuclease Xrn1, eliminate the osmotic stress-induced drop in RP pre-mRNAs. Altogether, our results indicate that the degradation of yeast RP unspliced transcripts by NMD increases during osmotic stress, and suggest that this might be another mechanism to control RP synthesis during the stress response.
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- Elena Garre
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
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Kaplan CD. Basic mechanisms of RNA polymerase II activity and alteration of gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2012; 1829:39-54. [PMID: 23022618 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2012.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2012] [Revised: 09/18/2012] [Accepted: 09/20/2012] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Transcription by RNA polymerase II (Pol II), and all RNA polymerases for that matter, may be understood as comprising two cycles. The first cycle relates to the basic mechanism of the transcription process wherein Pol II must select the appropriate nucleoside triphosphate (NTP) substrate complementary to the DNA template, catalyze phosphodiester bond formation, and translocate to the next position on the DNA template. Performing this cycle in an iterative fashion allows the synthesis of RNA chains that can be over one million nucleotides in length in some larger eukaryotes. Overlaid upon this enzymatic cycle, transcription may be divided into another cycle of three phases: initiation, elongation, and termination. Each of these phases has a large number of associated transcription factors that function to promote or regulate the gene expression process. Complicating matters, each phase of the latter transcription cycle are coincident with cotranscriptional RNA processing events. Additionally, transcription takes place within a highly dynamic and regulated chromatin environment. This chromatin environment is radically impacted by active transcription and associated chromatin modifications and remodeling, while also functioning as a major platform for Pol II regulation. This review will focus on our basic knowledge of the Pol II transcription mechanism, and how altered Pol II activity impacts gene expression in vivo in the model eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: RNA Polymerase II Transcript Elongation.
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- Craig D Kaplan
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2128, USA.
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One step back before moving forward: regulation of transcription elongation by arrest and backtracking. FEBS Lett 2012; 586:2820-5. [PMID: 22819814 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.07.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2012] [Revised: 07/09/2012] [Accepted: 07/10/2012] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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RNA polymerase II backtracking is a well-known phenomenon, but its involvement in gene regulation is yet to be addressed. Structural studies into the backtracked complex, new reactivation mechanisms and genome-wide approaches are shedding some light on this interesting aspect of gene transcription. In this review, we briefly summarise these new findings, comment about some results recently obtained in our laboratory, and propose a new model for the influence of the chromatin context on RNA polymerase II backtracking.
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El Hadrami A, El-Bebany AF, Yao Z, Adam LR, El Hadrami I, Daayf F. Plants versus fungi and oomycetes: pathogenesis, defense and counter-defense in the proteomics era. Int J Mol Sci 2012; 13:7237-7259. [PMID: 22837691 PMCID: PMC3397523 DOI: 10.3390/ijms13067237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2012] [Revised: 05/29/2012] [Accepted: 05/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Plant-fungi and plant-oomycete interactions have been studied at the proteomic level for many decades. However, it is only in the last few years, with the development of new approaches, combined with bioinformatics data mining tools, gel staining, and analytical instruments, such as 2D-PAGE/nanoflow-LC-MS/MS, that proteomic approaches thrived. They allow screening and analysis, at the sub-cellular level, of peptides and proteins resulting from plants, pathogens, and their interactions. They also highlight post-translational modifications to proteins, e.g., glycosylation, phosphorylation or cleavage. However, many challenges are encountered during in planta studies aimed at stressing details of host defenses and fungal and oomycete pathogenicity determinants during interactions. Dissecting the mechanisms of such host-pathogen systems, including pathogen counter-defenses, will ensure a step ahead towards understanding current outcomes of interactions from a co-evolutionary point of view, and eventually move a step forward in building more durable strategies for management of diseases caused by fungi and oomycetes. Unraveling intricacies of more complex proteomic interactions that involve additional microbes, i.e., PGPRs and symbiotic fungi, which strengthen plant defenses will generate valuable information on how pathosystems actually function in nature, and thereby provide clues to solving disease problems that engender major losses in crops every year.
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- Abdelbasset El Hadrami
- Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, 222, Agriculture Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada; E-Mails: (A.E.H.); (A.F.E.-B.); (Z.Y.); (L.R.A.)
- OMEX Agriculture Inc., P.O. Box 301, 290 Agri Park Road, Oak Bluff, Manitoba, R0G 1N0, Canada
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- Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, 222, Agriculture Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada; E-Mails: (A.E.H.); (A.F.E.-B.); (Z.Y.); (L.R.A.)
- Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, El-Shatby, Alexandria, 21545, Egypt
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- Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, 222, Agriculture Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada; E-Mails: (A.E.H.); (A.F.E.-B.); (Z.Y.); (L.R.A.)
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- Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, 222, Agriculture Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada; E-Mails: (A.E.H.); (A.F.E.-B.); (Z.Y.); (L.R.A.)
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- Laboratoire de Biotechnologies, Protection et Valorisation des Ressources Végétales (Biotec-VRV), Faculté des Sciences Semlalia, B.P. 2390, Marrakech, 40 000, Morocco; E-Mail:
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- Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, 222, Agriculture Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada; E-Mails: (A.E.H.); (A.F.E.-B.); (Z.Y.); (L.R.A.)
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Gómez-Herreros F, de Miguel-Jiménez L, Morillo-Huesca M, Delgado-Ramos L, Muñoz-Centeno MC, Chávez S. TFIIS is required for the balanced expression of the genes encoding ribosomal components under transcriptional stress. Nucleic Acids Res 2012; 40:6508-19. [PMID: 22544605 PMCID: PMC3413141 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Transcription factor IIS (TFIIS) stimulates RNA cleavage by RNA polymerase II by allowing backtracked enzymes to resume transcription elongation. Yeast cells do not require TFIIS for viability, unless they suffer severe transcriptional stress due to NTP-depleting drugs like 6-azauracil or mycophenolic acid. In order to broaden our knowledge on the role of TFIIS under transcriptional stress, we carried out a genetic screening for suppressors of TFIIS-lacking cells’ sensitivity to 6-azauracil and mycophenolic acid. Five suppressors were identified, four of which were related to the transcriptional regulation of those genes encoding ribosomal components [rRNAs and ribosomal proteins (RP)], including global regulator SFP1. This led us to discover that RNA polymerase II is hypersensitive to the absence of TFIIS under NTP scarcity conditions when transcribing RP genes. The absence of Sfp1 led to a profound alteration of the transcriptional response to NTP-depletion, thus allowing the expression of RP genes to resist these stressful conditions in the absence of TFIIS. We discuss the effect of transcriptional stress on ribosome biogenesis and propose that TFIIS contributes to prevent a transcriptional imbalance between rDNA and RP genes.
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- Fernando Gómez-Herreros
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda Reina Mercedes 6. E-41012 Seville, Spain
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García-Martínez J, Ayala G, Pelechano V, Chávez S, Herrero E, Pérez-Ortín JE. The relative importance of transcription rate, cryptic transcription and mRNA stability on shaping stress responses in yeast. Transcription 2012; 3:39-44. [PMID: 22456320 DOI: 10.4161/trns.3.1.19416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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It has been recently stated that stress-responding genes in yeast are enriched in cryptic transcripts and that this is the cause of the differences observed between mRNA amount and RNA polymerase occupancy profiles. Other studies have shown that such differences are mainly due to modulation of mRNA stabilities. Here we analyze the relationship between the presence of cryptic transcripts in genes and their stress response profiles. Despite some of the stress-responding gene groups being indeed enriched in specific classes of cryptic transcripts, we found no statistically significant evidence that cryptic transcription is responsible for the differences observed between mRNA and transcription rate profiles.
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Bregman A, Avraham-Kelbert M, Barkai O, Duek L, Guterman A, Choder M. Promoter elements regulate cytoplasmic mRNA decay. Cell 2012; 147:1473-83. [PMID: 22196725 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2011] [Revised: 09/14/2011] [Accepted: 12/06/2011] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Promoters are DNA elements that enable transcription and its regulation by trans-acting factors. Here, we demonstrate that yeast promoters can also regulate mRNA decay after the mRNA leaves the nucleus. A conventional yeast promoter consists of a core element and an upstream activating sequence (UAS). We find that changing UASs of a reporter gene without altering the transcript sequence affects the transcript's decay kinetics. A short cis element, comprising two Rap1p-binding sites, and Rap1p itself, are necessary and sufficient to induce enhanced decay of the reporter mRNA. Furthermore, Rap1p stimulates both the synthesis and the decay of a specific population of endogenous mRNAs. We propose that Rap1p association with target promoter in the nucleus affects the composition of the exported mRNP, which in turn regulates mRNA decay in the cytoplasm. Thus, promoters can play key roles in determining mRNA levels and have the capacity to coordinate rates of mRNA synthesis and decay.
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- Almog Bregman
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel
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Pérez-Ortín JE, de Miguel-Jiménez L, Chávez S. Genome-wide studies of mRNA synthesis and degradation in eukaryotes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2011; 1819:604-15. [PMID: 22182827 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2011] [Revised: 12/01/2011] [Accepted: 12/05/2011] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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In recent years, the use of genome-wide technologies has revolutionized the study of eukaryotic transcription producing results for thousands of genes at every step of mRNA life. The statistical analyses of the results for a single condition, different conditions, different transcription stages, or even between different techniques, is outlining a totally new landscape of the eukaryotic transcription process. Although most studies have been conducted in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model cell, others have also focused on higher eukaryotes, which can also be comparatively analyzed. The picture which emerges is that transcription is a more variable process than initially suspected, with large differences between genes at each stage of the process, from initiation to mRNA degradation, but with striking similarities for functionally related genes, indicating that all steps are coordinately regulated. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Nuclear Transport and RNA Processing.
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- José E Pérez-Ortín
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Biológicas, Universitat de València, C/ Dr. Moliner 50, E46100 Burjassot, Spain.
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Genome-Wide Analysis of Nascent Transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2011; 1:549-58. [PMID: 22384366 PMCID: PMC3276176 DOI: 10.1534/g3.111.000810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2011] [Accepted: 10/07/2011] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The assessment of transcriptional regulation requires a genome-wide survey of active RNA polymerases. Thus, we combined the nuclear run-on assay, which labels and captures nascent transcripts, with high-throughput DNA sequencing to examine transcriptional activity in exponentially growing Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Sequence read data from these nuclear run-on libraries revealed that transcriptional regulation in yeast occurs not only at the level of RNA polymerase recruitment to promoters but also at postrecruitment steps. Nascent synthesis signals are strongly enriched at TSS throughout the yeast genome, particularly at histone loci. Nascent transcripts reveal antisense transcription for more than 300 genes, with the read data providing support for the activity of distinct promoters driving transcription in opposite directions rather than bidirectional transcription from single promoters. By monitoring total RNA in parallel, we found that transcriptional activity accounts for 80% of the variance in transcript abundance. We computed RNA stabilities from nascent and steady-state transcripts for each gene and found that the most stable and unstable transcripts encode proteins whose functional roles are consistent with these stabilities. We also surveyed transcriptional activity after heat shock and found that most, but not all, heat shock-inducible genes increase their abundance by increasing their RNA synthesis. In summary, this study provides a genome-wide view of RNA polymerase activity in yeast, identifies regulatory steps in the synthesis of transcripts, and analyzes transcript stabilities.
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Pérez-Ortín JE, Medina DA, Jordán-Pla A. Genomic insights into the different layers of gene regulation in yeast. GENETICS RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2011; 2011:989303. [PMID: 22567375 PMCID: PMC3335528 DOI: 10.4061/2011/989303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2011] [Accepted: 08/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae has allowed the development of new functional genomics techniques devoted to the study of transcription in all its stages. With these techniques, it has been possible to find interesting new mechanisms to control gene expression that act at different levels and for different gene sets apart from the known cis-trans regulation in the transcription initiation step. Here we discuss a method developed in our laboratory, Genomic Run-On, and other new methods that have recently appeared with distinct technical features. A comparison between the datasets generated by them provides interesting genomic insights into the different layers of gene regulation in eukaryotes.
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- José E Pérez-Ortín
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Biológicas, Universitat de València, C/Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, Spain
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Yearling MN, Radebaugh CA, Stargell LA. The Transition of Poised RNA Polymerase II to an Actively Elongating State Is a "Complex" Affair. GENETICS RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2011; 2011:206290. [PMID: 22567346 PMCID: PMC3335657 DOI: 10.4061/2011/206290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2011] [Accepted: 07/31/2011] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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The initial discovery of the occupancy of RNA polymerase II at certain genes prior to their transcriptional activation occurred a quarter century ago in Drosophila. The preloading of these poised complexes in this inactive state is now apparent in many different organisms across the evolutionary spectrum and occurs at a broad and diverse set of genes. In this paper, we discuss the genetic and biochemical efforts in S. cerevisiae to describe the conversion of these poised transcription complexes to the active state for productive elongation. The accumulated evidence demonstrates that a multitude of coactivators and chromatin remodeling complexes are essential for this transition.
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- Marie N Yearling
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1870, USA
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The conserved foot domain of RNA pol II associates with proteins involved in transcriptional initiation and/or early elongation. Genetics 2011; 189:1235-48. [PMID: 21954159 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.133215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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RNA polymerase (pol) II establishes many protein-protein interactions with transcriptional regulators to coordinate different steps of transcription. Although some of these interactions have been well described, little is known about the existence of RNA pol II regions involved in contact with transcriptional regulators. We hypothesize that conserved regions on the surface of RNA pol II contact transcriptional regulators. We identified such an RNA pol II conserved region that includes the majority of the "foot" domain and identified interactions of this region with Mvp1, a protein required for sorting proteins to the vacuole, and Spo14, a phospholipase D. Deletion of MVP1 and SPO14 affects the transcription of their target genes and increases phosphorylation of Ser5 in the carboxy-terminal domain (CTD). Genetic, phenotypic, and functional analyses point to a role for these proteins in transcriptional initiation and/or early elongation, consistent with their genetic interactions with CEG1, a guanylyltransferase subunit of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae capping enzyme.
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Poschmann J, Drouin S, Jacques PE, El Fadili K, Newmarch M, Robert F, Ramotar D. The peptidyl prolyl isomerase Rrd1 regulates the elongation of RNA polymerase II during transcriptional stresses. PLoS One 2011; 6:e23159. [PMID: 21887235 PMCID: PMC3160861 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2011] [Accepted: 07/07/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Rapamycin is an anticancer agent and immunosuppressant that acts by inhibiting the TOR signaling pathway. In yeast, rapamycin mediates a profound transcriptional response for which the RRD1 gene is required. To further investigate this connection, we performed genome-wide location analysis of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) and Rrd1 in response to rapamycin and found that Rrd1 colocalizes with RNAPII on actively transcribed genes and that both are recruited to rapamycin responsive genes. Strikingly, when Rrd1 is lacking, RNAPII remains inappropriately associated to ribosomal genes and fails to be recruited to rapamycin responsive genes. This occurs independently of TATA box binding protein recruitment but involves the modulation of the phosphorylation status of RNAPII CTD by Rrd1. Further, we demonstrate that Rrd1 is also involved in various other transcriptional stress responses besides rapamycin. We propose that Rrd1 is a novel transcription elongation factor that fine-tunes the transcriptional stress response of RNAPII.
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- Jeremie Poschmann
- Department of Medicine, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Research Center, University of Montreal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Research Center, University of Montreal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Research Center, University of Montreal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Département de Médecine, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- * E-mail: (FR); (DR)
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- Department of Medicine, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Research Center, University of Montreal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- * E-mail: (FR); (DR)
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Formosa T. The role of FACT in making and breaking nucleosomes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2011; 1819:247-55. [PMID: 21807128 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2011] [Revised: 07/15/2011] [Accepted: 07/16/2011] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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FACT is a roughly 180kDa heterodimeric protein complex important for managing the properties of chromatin in eukaryotic cells. Chromatin is a repressive barrier that plays an important role in protecting genomic DNA and regulating access to it. This barrier must be temporarily removed during transcription, replication, and repair, but it also must be rapidly restored to the original state afterwards. Further, the properties of chromatin are dynamic and must be adjusted as conditions dictate. FACT was identified as a factor that destabilizes nucleosomes in vitro, but it has now also been implicated as a central factor in the deposition of histones to form nucleosomes, as an exchange factor that swaps the histones within existing nucleosomes for variant forms, and as a tether that prevents histones from being displaced by the passage of RNA polymerases during transcription. FACT therefore plays central roles in building, maintaining, adjusting, and overcoming the chromatin barrier. This review summarizes recent results that have begun to reveal how FACT can promote what appear to be contradictory goals, using a simple set of binding activities to both enhance and diminish the stability of nucleosomes. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Histone chaperones and Chromatin assembly.
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Wei W, Pelechano V, Järvelin AI, Steinmetz LM. Functional consequences of bidirectional promoters. Trends Genet 2011; 27:267-76. [PMID: 21601935 PMCID: PMC3123404 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2011.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2011] [Revised: 04/20/2011] [Accepted: 04/20/2011] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Several studies have shown that promoters of protein-coding genes are origins of pervasive non-coding RNA transcription and can initiate transcription in both directions. However, only recently have researchers begun to elucidate the functional implications of this bidirectionality and non-coding RNA production. Increasing evidence indicates that non-coding transcription at promoters influences the expression of protein-coding genes, revealing a new layer of transcriptional regulation. This regulation acts at multiple levels, from modifying local chromatin to enabling regional signal spreading and more distal regulation. Moreover, the bidirectional activity of a promoter is regulated at multiple points during transcription, giving rise to diverse types of transcripts.
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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Trotta E. The 3-base periodicity and codon usage of coding sequences are correlated with gene expression at the level of transcription elongation. PLoS One 2011; 6:e21590. [PMID: 21738721 PMCID: PMC3125259 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2011] [Accepted: 06/03/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Gene transcription is regulated by DNA transcriptional regulatory elements, promoters and enhancers that are located outside the coding regions. Here, we examine the characteristic 3-base periodicity of the coding sequences and analyse its correlation with the genome-wide transcriptional profile of yeast. Principal Findings The analysis of coding sequences by a new class of indices proposed here identified two different sources of 3-base periodicity: the codon frequency and the codon sequence. In exponentially growing yeast cells, the codon-frequency component of periodicity accounts for 71.9% of the variability of the cellular mRNA by a strong association with the density of elongating mRNA polymerase II complexes. The mRNA abundance explains most of the correlation between the codon-frequency component of periodicity and protein levels. Furthermore, pyrimidine-ending codons of the four-fold degenerate small amino acids alanine, glycine and valine are associated with genes with double the transcription rate of those associated with purine-ending codons. Conclusions We demonstrate that the 3-base periodicity of coding sequences is higher than expected by the codon usage frequency (CUF) and that its components, associated with codon bias and amino acid composition, are correlated with gene expression, principally at the level of transcription elongation. This indicates a role of codon sequences in maximising the transcription efficiency in exponentially growing yeast cells. Moreover, the results contrast with the common Darwinian explanation that attributes the codon bias to translational selection by an adjustment of synonymous codon frequencies to the most abundant isoaccepting tRNA. Here, we show that selection on codon bias likely acts at both the transcriptional and translational level and that codon usage and the relative abundance of tRNA could drive each other in order to synergistically optimize the efficiency of gene expression.
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- Edoardo Trotta
- Institute of Translational Pharmacology, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, Italy.
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Dynamic transcriptome analysis measures rates of mRNA synthesis and decay in yeast. Mol Syst Biol 2011; 7:458. [PMID: 21206491 DOI: 10.1038/msb.2010.112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 265] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2010] [Accepted: 11/29/2010] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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To obtain rates of mRNA synthesis and decay in yeast, we established dynamic transcriptome analysis (DTA). DTA combines non-perturbing metabolic RNA labeling with dynamic kinetic modeling. DTA reveals that most mRNA synthesis rates are around several transcripts per cell and cell cycle, and most mRNA half-lives range around a median of 11 min. DTA can monitor the cellular response to osmotic stress with higher sensitivity and temporal resolution than standard transcriptomics. In contrast to monotonically increasing total mRNA levels, DTA reveals three phases of the stress response. During the initial shock phase, mRNA synthesis and decay rates decrease globally, resulting in mRNA storage. During the subsequent induction phase, both rates increase for a subset of genes, resulting in production and rapid removal of stress-responsive mRNAs. During the recovery phase, decay rates are largely restored, whereas synthesis rates remain altered, apparently enabling growth at high salt concentration. Stress-induced changes in mRNA synthesis rates are predicted from gene occupancy with RNA polymerase II. DTA-derived mRNA synthesis rates identified 16 stress-specific pairs/triples of cooperative transcription factors, of which seven were known. Thus, DTA realistically monitors the dynamics in mRNA metabolism that underlie gene regulatory systems.
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García-Martínez J, Pelechano V, Pérez-Ortín JE. Genomic-wide methods to evaluate transcription rates in yeast. Methods Mol Biol 2011; 734:25-44. [PMID: 21468983 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-086-7_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Gene transcription is a dynamic process in which the desired amount of an mRNA is obtained by the equilibrium between its transcription (TR) and degradation (DR) rates. The control mechanism at the RNA polymerase level primarily causes changes in TR. Despite their importance, TRs have been rarely measured. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we have implemented two techniques to evaluate TRs: run-on and chromatin immunoprecipitation of RNA polymerase II. These techniques allow the discrimination of the relative importance of TR and DR in gene regulation for the first time in a eukaryote.
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- José García-Martínez
- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Spain
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Jouvet N, Poschmann J, Douville J, Bulet L, Ramotar D. Rrd1 isomerizes RNA polymerase II in response to rapamycin. BMC Mol Biol 2010; 11:92. [PMID: 21129186 PMCID: PMC3019149 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-11-92] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2010] [Accepted: 12/03/2010] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Background In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the immunosuppressant rapamycin engenders a profound modification in the transcriptional profile leading to growth arrest. Mutants devoid of Rrd1, a protein possessing in vitro peptidyl prolyl cis/trans isomerase activity, display striking resistance to the drug, although how Rrd1 activity is linked to the biological responses has not been elucidated. Results We now provide evidence that Rrd1 is associated with the chromatin and it interacts with RNA polymerase II. Circular dichroism revealed that Rrd1 mediates structural changes onto the C-terminal domain (CTD) of the large subunit of RNA polymerase II (Rpb1) in response to rapamycin, although this appears to be independent of the overall phosphorylation status of the CTD. In vitro experiments, showed that recombinant Rrd1 directly isomerizes purified GST-CTD and that it releases RNA polymerase II from the chromatin. Consistent with this, we demonstrated that Rrd1 is required to alter RNA polymerase II occupancy on rapamycin responsive genes. Conclusion We propose as a mechanism, that upon rapamycin exposure Rrd1 isomerizes Rpb1 to promote its dissociation from the chromatin in order to modulate transcription.
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- Nathalie Jouvet
- Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Research Center, Department of Immunology and Oncology, University of Montreal, 5415 de l'Assomption, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Pelechano V, Chávez S, Pérez-Ortín JE. A complete set of nascent transcription rates for yeast genes. PLoS One 2010; 5:e15442. [PMID: 21103382 PMCID: PMC2982843 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2010] [Accepted: 09/21/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The amount of mRNA in a cell is the result of two opposite reactions: transcription and mRNA degradation. These reactions are governed by kinetics laws, and the most regulated step for many genes is the transcription rate. The transcription rate, which is assumed to be exercised mainly at the RNA polymerase recruitment level, can be calculated using the RNA polymerase densities determined either by run-on or immunoprecipitation using specific antibodies. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the ideal model organism to generate a complete set of nascent transcription rates that will prove useful for many gene regulation studies. By combining genomic data from both the GRO (Genomic Run-on) and the RNA pol ChIP-on-chip methods we generated a new, more accurate nascent transcription rate dataset. By comparing this dataset with the indirect ones obtained from the mRNA stabilities and mRNA amount datasets, we are able to obtain biological information about posttranscriptional regulation processes and a genomic snapshot of the location of the active transcriptional machinery. We have obtained nascent transcription rates for 4,670 yeast genes. The median RNA polymerase II density in the genes is 0.078 molecules/kb, which corresponds to an average of 0.096 molecules/gene. Most genes have transcription rates of between 2 and 30 mRNAs/hour and less than 1% of yeast genes have >1 RNA polymerase molecule/gene. Histone and ribosomal protein genes are the highest transcribed groups of genes and other than these exceptions the transcription of genes is an infrequent phenomenon in a yeast cell.
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- Vicent Pelechano
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Spain
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- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Spain
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Pelechano V, Pérez-Ortín JE. There is a steady-state transcriptome in exponentially growing yeast cells. Yeast 2010; 27:413-22. [PMID: 20301094 DOI: 10.1002/yea.1768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The growth of yeast cells in batches in glucose-based media is a standard condition in most yeast laboratories. Most gene expression experiments are done by taking this condition as a reference. Presumably, cells are in a stable physiological condition that can be easily reproduced in other laboratories. With this assumption, however, it is necessary to consider that the average amount of the mRNAs per cell for most genes does not change during exponential growth. That is to say, there is a steady-state condition for the transcriptome. However, this has not been rigorously demonstrated to date. In this work we take several cell samples during the exponential phase growth to perform a kinetic study using the genomic run-on (GRO) technique, which allows simultaneous measurement of the amount of mRNA and transcription rate variation at the genomic level. We show here that the steady-state condition is fulfilled for almost all the genes during most exponential growth in yeast extract-peptone-dextrose medium (YPD) and, therefore, that simultaneous measures of the transcription rates and the amounts of mRNA can be used for indirect mRNA stability calculations. With this kinetic approach, we were also able to determine the relative influence of the transcription rate and the mRNA stability changes for the mRNA variation for those genes that deviate from the steady state.
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- Vicent Pelechano
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universitat de València, C/Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, Spain
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Pujari V, Radebaugh CA, Chodaparambil JV, Muthurajan UM, Almeida AR, Fischbeck JA, Luger K, Stargell LA. The transcription factor Spn1 regulates gene expression via a highly conserved novel structural motif. J Mol Biol 2010; 404:1-15. [PMID: 20875428 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.09.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2010] [Revised: 09/14/2010] [Accepted: 09/15/2010] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Spn1/Iws1 plays essential roles in the regulation of gene expression by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII), and it is highly conserved in organisms ranging from yeast to humans. Spn1 physically and/or genetically interacts with RNAPII, TBP (TATA-binding protein), TFIIS (transcription factor IIS), and a number of chromatin remodeling factors (Swi/Snf and Spt6). The central domain of Spn1 (residues 141-305 out of 410) is necessary and sufficient for performing the essential functions of SPN1 in yeast cells. Here, we report the high-resolution (1.85 Å) crystal structure of the conserved central domain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Spn1. The central domain is composed of eight α-helices in a right-handed superhelical arrangement and exhibits structural similarity to domain I of TFIIS. A unique structural feature of Spn1 is a highly conserved loop, which defines one side of a pronounced cavity. The loop and the other residues forming the cavity are highly conserved at the amino acid level among all Spn1 family members, suggesting that this is a signature motif for Spn1 orthologs. The locations and the molecular characterization of temperature-sensitive mutations in Spn1 indicate that the cavity is a key attribute of Spn1 that is critical for its regulatory functions during RNAPII-mediated transcriptional activity.
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- Venugopal Pujari
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1870, USA
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Yoon OK, Brem RB. Noncanonical transcript forms in yeast and their regulation during environmental stress. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2010; 16:1256-67. [PMID: 20421314 PMCID: PMC2874177 DOI: 10.1261/rna.2038810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Surveys of transcription in many organisms have observed widespread expression of RNAs with no known function, encoded within and between canonical coding genes. The search to distinguish functional RNAs from transcriptional noise represents one of the great challenges in genomic biology. Here we report a next-generation sequencing technique designed to facilitate the inference of function of uncharacterized transcript forms by improving their coverage in sequencing libraries, in parallel with the detection of canonical mRNAs. We piloted this protocol, which is based on the capture of 3' ends of polyadenylated RNAs, in budding yeast. Analysis of transcript ends in coding regions uncovered hundreds of alternative-length coding forms, which harbored a unique sequence motif and showed signatures of regulatory function in particular gene categories; independent single-gene measurements confirmed the differential regulation of short coding forms during heat shock. In addition, our 3'-end RNA-seq method applied to wild-type strains detected putative noncoding transcripts previously reported only in RNA surveillance mutants, and many such transcripts showed differential expression in yeast cultures grown under chemical stress. Our results underscore the power of the 3'-end protocol to improve detection of noncanonical transcript forms in a sequencing experiment of standard depth, and our findings strongly suggest that many unannotated, polyadenylated RNAs may have as yet uncharacterized regulatory functions.
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- Oh Kyu Yoon
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Morillo-Huesca M, Maya D, Muñoz-Centeno MC, Singh RK, Oreal V, Reddy GU, Liang D, Géli V, Gunjan A, Chávez S. FACT prevents the accumulation of free histones evicted from transcribed chromatin and a subsequent cell cycle delay in G1. PLoS Genet 2010; 6:e1000964. [PMID: 20502685 PMCID: PMC2873916 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2009] [Accepted: 04/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The FACT complex participates in chromatin assembly and disassembly during transcription elongation. The yeast mutants affected in the SPT16 gene, which encodes one of the FACT subunits, alter the expression of G1 cyclins and exhibit defects in the G1/S transition. Here we show that the dysfunction of chromatin reassembly factors, like FACT or Spt6, down-regulates the expression of the gene encoding the cyclin that modulates the G1 length (CLN3) in START by specifically triggering the repression of its promoter. The G1 delay undergone by spt16 mutants is not mediated by the DNA–damage checkpoint, although the mutation of RAD53, which is otherwise involved in histone degradation, enhances the cell-cycle defects of spt16-197. We reveal how FACT dysfunction triggers an accumulation of free histones evicted from transcribed chromatin. This accumulation is enhanced in a rad53 background and leads to a delay in G1. Consistently, we show that the overexpression of histones in wild-type cells down-regulates CLN3 in START and causes a delay in G1. Our work shows that chromatin reassembly factors are essential players in controlling the free histones potentially released from transcribed chromatin and describes a new cell cycle phenomenon that allows cells to respond to excess histones before starting DNA replication. Lengthy genomic DNA is packed in a highly organized nucleoprotein structure called chromatin, whose basic subunit is the nucleosome which is formed by DNA wrapped around an octamer of proteins called histones. Nucleosomes need to be disassembled to allow DNA transcription by RNA polymerases. An essential factor for the disassembly/reassembly process during DNA transcription is the FACT complex. We investigated a phenotype of yeast FACT mutants, a delay in a specific step of the cell cycle division process immediately prior to starting DNA replication. The dysfunction caused by the FACT mutation causes a downregulation of a gene, CLN3, which controls the length of that specific step of the cell cycle. FACT dysfunction also increases the level of the free histones released from chromatin during transcription, and the phenotype of the Spt16 mutant is enhanced by a second mutation affecting a protein that regulates DNA repair and excess histone degradation. Moreover, we show that the overexpression of histones causes a cell cycle delay before DNA replication in wild-type cells. Our results point out a so-far unknown connection between chromatin dynamics and the regulation of the cell cycle.
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- Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
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- Laboratoire d'Instabilité Génétique et Cancérogenèse, Institut de Biologie Struturale et Microbiologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
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- Laboratoire d'Instabilité Génétique et Cancérogenèse, Institut de Biologie Struturale et Microbiologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
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- Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- * E-mail: (SC); (MCM-C)
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Rodríguez-Gil A, García-Martínez J, Pelechano V, Muñoz-Centeno MDLC, Geli V, Pérez-Ortín JE, Chávez S. The distribution of active RNA polymerase II along the transcribed region is gene-specific and controlled by elongation factors. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 38:4651-64. [PMID: 20385590 PMCID: PMC2919717 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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In order to study the intragenic profiles of active transcription, we determined the relative levels of active RNA polymerase II present at the 3′- and 5′-ends of 261 yeast genes by run-on. The results obtained indicate that the 3′/5′ run-on ratio varies among the genes studied by over 12 log2 units. This ratio seems to be an intrinsic characteristic of each transcriptional unit and does not significantly correlate with gene length, G + C content or level of expression. The correlation between the 3′/5′ RNA polymerase II ratios measured by run-on and those obtained by chromatin immunoprecipitation is poor, although the genes encoding ribosomal proteins present exceptionally low ratios in both cases. We detected a subset of elongation-related factors that are important for maintaining the wild-type profiles of active transcription, including DSIF, Mediator, factors related to the methylation of histone H3-lysine 4, the Bur CDK and the RNA polymerase II subunit Rpb9. We conducted a more detailed investigation of the alterations caused by rpb9Δ to find that Rpb9 contributes to the intragenic profiles of active transcription by influencing the probability of arrest of RNA polymerase II.
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- Alfonso Rodríguez-Gil
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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Current awareness on yeast. Yeast 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/yea.1716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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