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Polák P, Garland W, Rathore O, Schmid M, Salerno-Kochan A, Jakobsen L, Gockert M, Gerlach P, Silla T, Andersen JS, Conti E, Jensen TH. Dual agonistic and antagonistic roles of ZC3H18 provide for co-activation of distinct nuclear RNA decay pathways. Cell Rep 2023; 42:113325. [PMID: 37889751 PMCID: PMC10720265 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
Abstract
The RNA exosome is a versatile ribonuclease. In the nucleoplasm of mammalian cells, it is assisted by its adaptors the nuclear exosome targeting (NEXT) complex and the poly(A) exosome targeting (PAXT) connection. Via its association with the ARS2 and ZC3H18 proteins, NEXT/exosome is recruited to capped and short unadenylated transcripts. Conversely, PAXT/exosome is considered to target longer and adenylated substrates via their poly(A) tails. Here, mutational analysis of the core PAXT component ZFC3H1 uncovers a separate branch of the PAXT pathway, which targets short adenylated RNAs and relies on a direct ARS2-ZFC3H1 interaction. We further demonstrate that similar acidic-rich short linear motifs of ZFC3H1 and ZC3H18 compete for a common ARS2 epitope. Consequently, while promoting NEXT function, ZC3H18 antagonizes PAXT activity. We suggest that this organization of RNA decay complexes provides co-activation of NEXT and PAXT at loci with abundant production of short exosome substrates.
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Affiliation(s)
- Patrik Polák
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Universitetsbyen 81, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Universitetsbyen 81, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Universitetsbyen 81, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Universitetsbyen 81, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Structural Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, Martinsried/Munich, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Universitetsbyen 81, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Structural Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, Martinsried/Munich, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Universitetsbyen 81, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Structural Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, Martinsried/Munich, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Universitetsbyen 81, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Silla T, Schmid M, Dou Y, Garland W, Milek M, Imami K, Johnsen D, Polak P, Andersen JS, Selbach M, Landthaler M, Jensen TH. The human ZC3H3 and RBM26/27 proteins are critical for PAXT-mediated nuclear RNA decay. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:2518-2530. [PMID: 31950173 PMCID: PMC7049725 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz1238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 12/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Recruitment of the human ribonucleolytic RNA exosome to nuclear polyadenylated (pA+) RNA is facilitated by the Poly(A) Tail eXosome Targeting (PAXT) connection. Besides its core dimer, formed by the exosome co-factor MTR4 and the ZFC3H1 protein, the PAXT connection remains poorly defined. By characterizing nuclear pA+-RNA bound proteomes as well as MTR4-ZFC3H1 containing complexes in conditions favoring PAXT assembly, we here uncover three additional proteins required for PAXT function: ZC3H3, RBM26 and RBM27 along with the known PAXT-associated protein, PABPN1. The zinc-finger protein ZC3H3 interacts directly with MTR4-ZFC3H1 and loss of any of the newly identified PAXT components results in the accumulation of PAXT substrates. Collectively, our results establish new factors involved in the turnover of nuclear pA+ RNA and suggest that these are limiting for PAXT activity.
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- Toomas Silla
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13092 Berlin, Germany.,IRI Life Sciences, Institute für Biologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13092 Berlin, Germany.,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13092 Berlin, Germany.,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13092 Berlin, Germany.,IRI Life Sciences, Institute für Biologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Silla T, Karadoulama E, Mąkosa D, Lubas M, Jensen TH. The RNA Exosome Adaptor ZFC3H1 Functionally Competes with Nuclear Export Activity to Retain Target Transcripts. Cell Rep 2019; 23:2199-2210. [PMID: 29768216 PMCID: PMC5972229 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.04.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2018] [Revised: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 04/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Mammalian genomes are promiscuously transcribed, yielding protein-coding and non-coding products. Many transcripts are short lived due to their nuclear degradation by the ribonucleolytic RNA exosome. Here, we show that abolished nuclear exosome function causes the formation of distinct nuclear foci, containing polyadenylated (pA+) RNA secluded from nucleocytoplasmic export. We asked whether exosome co-factors could serve such nuclear retention. Co-localization studies revealed the enrichment of pA+ RNA foci with “pA-tail exosome targeting (PAXT) connection” components MTR4, ZFC3H1, and PABPN1 but no overlap with known nuclear structures such as Cajal bodies, speckles, paraspeckles, or nucleoli. Interestingly, ZFC3H1 is required for foci formation, and in its absence, selected pA+ RNAs, including coding and non-coding transcripts, are exported to the cytoplasm in a process dependent on the mRNA export factor AlyREF. Our results establish ZFC3H1 as a central nuclear pA+ RNA retention factor, counteracting nuclear export activity. Abolished RNA exosome function leads to pA+ RNA accumulation in nuclear foci pA+ RNA foci are enriched with various transcripts and exosome adaptor proteins The exosome adaptor protein ZFC3H1 is required for pA+ RNA foci formation ZFC3H1 functionally counteracts the mRNA export factor AlyREF
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- Toomas Silla
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, Building 1130, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, Building 1130, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology and Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaloesvej 5, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, Building 1130, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, Building 1130, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, Building 1130, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Adriaens C, Rambow F, Bervoets G, Silla T, Mito M, Chiba T, Asahara H, Hirose T, Nakagawa S, Jensen TH, Marine JC. The long noncoding RNA NEAT1_1 is seemingly dispensable for normal tissue homeostasis and cancer cell growth. RNA 2019; 25:1681-1695. [PMID: 31551298 PMCID: PMC6859857 DOI: 10.1261/rna.071456.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2019] [Accepted: 08/30/2019] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
NEAT1 is one of the most studied lncRNAs, in part because its silencing in mice causes defects in mammary gland development and corpus luteum formation and protects them from skin cancer development. Moreover, depleting NEAT1 in established cancer cell lines reduces growth and sensitizes cells to DNA damaging agents. However, NEAT1 produces two isoforms and because the short isoform, NEAT1_1, completely overlaps the 5' part of the long NEAT1_2 isoform; the respective contributions of each of the isoforms to these phenotypes has remained unclear. Whereas NEAT1_1 is highly expressed in most tissues, NEAT1_2 is the central architectural component of paraspeckles, which are nuclear bodies that assemble in specific tissues and cells exposed to various forms of stress. Using dual RNA-FISH to detect both NEAT1_1 outside of the paraspeckles and NEAT1_2/NEAT1 inside this nuclear body, we report herein that NEAT1_1 levels are dynamically regulated during the cell cycle and targeted for degradation by the nuclear RNA exosome. Unexpectedly, however, cancer cells engineered to lack NEAT1_1, but not NEAT1_2, do not exhibit cell cycle defects. Moreover, Neat1_1-specific knockout mice do not exhibit the phenotypes observed in Neat1-deficient mice. We propose that NEAT1 functions are mainly, if not exclusively, attributable to NEAT1_2 and, by extension, to paraspeckles.
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- Carmen Adriaens
- Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology, Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology, Oncology Department, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology, Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology, Oncology Department, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology, Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology, Oncology Department, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- RNA Systems Biochemistry Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, 351-0198 Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Systems BioMedicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 113-8510 Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Systems BioMedicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 113-8510 Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, 060-0808 Sapporo, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, 060-0812 Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology, Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology, Oncology Department, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Brd4 protein has been proposed to act as a cellular receptor for the bovine papillomavirus type 1 (BPV1) E2 protein in the E2-mediated chromosome attachment and mitotic segregation of viral genomes. Here, we provide data that show the involvement of Brd4 in multiple early functions of the BPV1 life cycle, suggest a Brd4-dependent mechanism for E2-dependent transcription activation, and indicate the role of Brd4 in papillomavirus and polyomavirus replication as well as cell-specific utilization of Brd4-linked features in BPV1 DNA replication. Our data also show the potential therapeutic value of the disruption of the E2-Brd4 interaction for the development of antiviral drugs.
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- Ivar Ilves
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Tartu 50411, Estonia
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Silla T, Hääl I, Geimanen J, Janikson K, Abroi A, Ustav E, Ustav M. Episomal maintenance of plasmids with hybrid origins in mouse cells. J Virol 2005; 79:15277-88. [PMID: 16306599 PMCID: PMC1316011 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.24.15277-15288.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2005] [Accepted: 09/29/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Bovine papillomavirus type 1 (BPV1), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), and human herpesvirus 8 genomes are stably maintained as episomes in dividing host cells during latent infection. The mitotic segregation/partitioning function of these episomes is dependent on single viral protein with specific DNA-binding activity and its multimeric binding sites in the viral genome. In this study we show that, in the presence of all essential viral trans factors, the segregation/partitioning elements from both BPV1 and EBV can provide the stable maintenance function to the mouse polyomavirus (PyV) core origin plasmids but fail to do so in the case of complete PyV origin. Our study is the first which follows BPV1 E2- and minichromosome maintenance element (MME)-dependent stable maintenance function with heterologous replication origins. In mouse fibroblast cell lines expressing PyV large T antigen (LT) and either BPV1 E2 or EBV EBNA1, the long-term episomal replication of plasmids carrying the PyV minimal origin together with the MME or family of repeats (FR) element can be monitored easily for 1 month under nonselective conditions. Our data demonstrate clearly that the PyV LT-dependent replication function and the segregation/partitioning function of the BPV1 or EBV are compatible in certain, but not all, configurations. The quantitative analysis indicates a loss rate of 6% per cell, doubling in the case of MME-dependent plasmids, and 13% in the case of FR-dependent plasmids in nonselective conditions. Our data clearly indicate that maintenance functions from different viruses are principally interexchangeable and can provide a segregation/partitioning function to different heterologous origins in a variety of cells.
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- Toomas Silla
- Department of Microbiology and Virology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Tartu University, Riia 23 St., Tartu 51010, Estonia
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