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Recurrent rewiring and emergence of RNA regulatory networks.

ABSTRACT: Alterations in regulatory networks contribute to evolutionary change. Transcriptional networks are reconfigured by changes in the binding specificity of transcription factors and their cognate sites. The evolution of RNA-protein regulatory networks is far less understood. The PUF (Pumilio and FBF) family of RNA regulatory proteins controls the translation, stability, and movements of hundreds of mRNAs in a single species. We probe the evolution of PUF-RNA networks by direct identification of the mRNAs bound to PUF proteins in budding and filamentous fungi and by computational analyses of orthologous RNAs from 62 fungal species. Our findings reveal that PUF proteins gain and lose mRNAs with related and emergent biological functions during evolution. We demonstrate at least two independent rewiring events for PUF3 orthologs, independent but convergent evolution of PUF4/5 binding specificity and the rewiring of the PUF4/5 regulons in different fungal lineages. These findings demonstrate plasticity in RNA regulatory networks and suggest ways in which their rewiring occurs.

SUBMITTER: Wilinski D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5389312 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Recurrent rewiring and emergence of RNA regulatory networks.

Wilinski Daniel D Buter Natascha N Klocko Andrew D AD Lapointe Christopher P CP Selker Eric U EU Gasch Audrey P AP Wickens Marvin M

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170320 14

Alterations in regulatory networks contribute to evolutionary change. Transcriptional networks are reconfigured by changes in the binding specificity of transcription factors and their cognate sites. The evolution of RNA-protein regulatory networks is far less understood. The PUF (Pumilio and FBF) family of RNA regulatory proteins controls the translation, stability, and movements of hundreds of mRNAs in a single species. We probe the evolution of PUF-RNA networks by direct identification of the ...[more]

PMID: 28320951

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Recurrent rewiring and emergence of RNA regulatory networks.

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