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The Tudor-domain protein TDRD7, mutated in congenital cataract, controls the heat shock protein HSPB1 (HSP27) and lens fiber cell morphology


ABSTRACT: Mutations of the RNA-granule component TDRD7 (OMIM: 611258) cause pediatric cataract in humans. Here, we applied an integrated approach to elucidate the molecular pathology of cataract in Tdrd7 targeted-knockout (Tdrd7-/-) mice. Tdrd7-/- animals precipitously develop lens fiber cell abnormalities early in life, suggesting a global-level breakdown/mis-regulation of key cellular processes. High-throughput RNA-sequencing followed by iSyTE-integrated bioinformatics-based analysis identified the molecular chaperone and cytoskeletal-modulator, HSPB1 (HSP27), among the high-priority down-regulated candidates in Tdrd7-/- lens. Moreover, a protein 2-D fluorescence difference gel electrophoresis-coupled mass spectrometry screen also identified HSPB1 to be reduced in Tdrd7-/- lens, offering independent support for focusing efforts on this factor to explain Tdrd7-/- cataract. Reduction of HSPB1 preceded lens morphological abnormalities, suggesting that cytoskeletal defects underlie the Tdrd7-/- cataract phenotype. In agreement, scanning electron microscopy revealed abnormal fiber cell membrane protrusions in Tdrd7-/- lenses. Significantly, abnormal F-actin staining was detected specifically in Tdrd7-/- fiber cells that exhibit nuclear degradation, thereby revealing that there are distinct mechanisms based on pre- or post-nuclear degradation differentiation stage for F-actin cytoskeletal maintenance in fiber cells. Further, RNA-immunoprecipitation identified Hspb1 mRNA in wild-type lens lysate TDRD7-pulldowns, and single-molecule RNA-imaging showed co-localization of TDRD7 protein with cytoplasmic Hspb1 mRNA in a specific pre-nuclear degradation area of differentiating fiber cells, indicating that TDRD7-ribonucleoprotein complexes are necessary for controlling optimal levels of key factors in lens development. Together, these data uncover a novel role for TDRD7 in regulating elevation of stress-responsive chaperones for cytoskeletal maintenance in post-nuclear degradation lens fiber cells, perturbation of which causes early-onset cataracts.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE134384 | GEO | 2020/09/01

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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