Project description:SDS22 forms an inactive complex with nascent protein phosphatase-1 (PP1) and Inhibitor-3 (I3). SDS22:PP1:I3 is a substrate for the ATPase p97/VCP, which liberates PP1 for binding to canonical regulatory subunits. The exact role of SDS22 in PP1-holoenzyme assembly remains elusive. Here, we show that SDS22 prevents the aggregation of nascent PP1. In the absence of SDS22, PP1 was gradually lost, resulting in substrate hyperphosphorylation and a proliferation arrest. A human patient with an unstable SDS22 mutant also expressed reduced levels of PP1 and suffered from neurodevelopmental retardation. We furthermore found that SDS22 directly binds to I3 and that this is essential for the stable assembly of SDS22:PP1:I3, the recruitment of p97/VCP, and the extraction of SDS22 during holoenzyme assembly. SDS22 with a disabled I3-binding site co-transfered with PP1 to canonical regulatory subunits, thereby forming non-functional holoenzymes. Our data show that SDS22, by its ability to bind to both PP1 and I3, integrates the major steps of PP1 holoenzyme assembly.
Project description:The goal of the project was to check the differential effect on transcription rate of a sudden degron-induced depletion of Hpr1 protein and its comparison towards the effect of a constitutive absence of Hpr1 protein in a deletion strain. Cells were grown in YP-Raffinose + 0.1 mM CuSO4 at 26ºC to 0.5 OD600. At that cells were spun-down and changed to YP-Galactose without CuSO4 for 30 min at 26ºC. Then cells were shifted to 37ºC to induce degron-mediated proteolysis and recovered after 30 min. Samples include wt, hpr1delta and hpr1-degron after 0 or 30 min growth at 30ºC.
Project description:Bacterial messenger RNA (mRNA) synthesis by RNA polymerase (RNAP) and first-round translation by the ribosome are often coupled to regulate gene expression, yet how coupling is established and maintained is ill understood. Here, we develop biochemical and single-molecule fluorescence approaches to probe the dynamics of RNAP-ribosome interactions on an mRNA with a translational preQ1-sensing riboswitch in its 5' untranslated region. Binding of preQ1 leads to the occlusion of the ribosome binding site (RBS), inhibiting translation initiation. We demonstrate that RNAP poised within the mRNA leader region promotes ribosomal 30S subunit binding, antagonizing preQ1-induced RBS occlusion, and that the RNAP-30S bridging transcription factors NusG and RfaH distinctly enhance 30S recruitment and retention, respectively. We further find that, while 30S-mRNA interaction significantly impedes RNAP in the absence of translation, an actively translating ribosome promotes productive transcription. A model emerges wherein mRNA structure and transcription factors coordinate to dynamically modulate the efficiency of transcription-translation coupling.
Project description:Many unannotated microproteins and alternative proteins (alt-proteins) are coencoded with canonical proteins, but few of their functions are known. Motivated by the hypothesis that alt-proteins undergoing regulated synthesis could play important cellular roles, we developed a chemoproteomic pipeline to identify nascent alt-proteins in human cells. We identified 22 actively translated alt-proteins or N-terminal extensions, one of which is post-transcriptionally upregulated by DNA damage stress. We further defined a nucleolar, cell-cycle-regulated alt-protein that negatively regulates assembly of the pre-60S ribosomal subunit (MINAS-60). Depletion of MINAS-60 increases the amount of cytoplasmic 60S ribosomal subunit, upregulating global protein synthesis and cell proliferation. Mechanistically, MINAS-60 represses the rate of late-stage pre-60S assembly and export to the cytoplasm. Together, these results implicate MINAS-60 as a potential checkpoint inhibitor of pre-60S assembly and demonstrate that chemoproteomics enables hypothesis generation for uncharacterized alt-proteins.
Project description:Basal bodies organize cilia that are responsible for both mechanical beating and sensation. Nascent basal body assembly follows a series of well characterized morphological events; however, the proteins and their assembly dynamics for new basal body formation and function are not well understood. High-resolution light and electron microscopy studies were performed in Tetrahymena thermophila to determine how proteins assemble into the structure. We identify unique dynamics at basal bodies for each of the four proteins analyzed (alpha-tubulin, Spag6, centrin, and Sas6a). alpha-Tubulin incorporates only during new basal body assembly, Spag6 continuously exchanges at basal bodies, and centrin and Sas6a exhibit both of these patterns. Centrin loads and exchanges at the basal body distal end and stably incorporates during new basal body assembly at the nascent site of assembly and the microtubule cylinder. Conversely, both dynamic and stable populations of Sas6a are found only at a single site, the cartwheel. The bimodal dynamics found for centrin and Sas6a reveal unique protein assembly mechanisms at basal bodies that may reflect novel functions for these important basal body and centriolar proteins.
Project description:RIF1 is a multifunctional protein implicated in controlling DNA replication and repair. Here, we show that human RIF1 protects nascent DNA from over-degradation at stalled replication forks. The major nuclease resecting nascent DNA in the absence of RIF1 is DNA2, operating with WRN as an accessory helicase. We show that RIF1 acts with protein phosphatase 1 to prevent over-degradation and that RIF1 limits phosphorylation of WRN at sites implicated in resection control. Protection by RIF1 against inappropriate degradation prevents accumulation of DNA breakage. Our observations uncover a crucial function of human RIF1 in preventing genome instability by protecting forks from unscheduled DNA2-WRN-mediated degradation.
Project description:RIF1 is a multifunctional protein implicated in controlling DNA replication and repair. Here, we show that human RIF1 protects nascent DNA from over-degradation at stalled replication forks. The major nuclease resecting nascent DNA in the absence of RIF1 is DNA2, operating with WRN as an accessory helicase. We show that RIF1 acts with protein phosphatase 1 to prevent over-degradation and that RIF1 limits phosphorylation of WRN at sites implicated in resection control. Protection by RIF1 against inappropriate degradation prevents accumulation of DNA breakage. Our observations uncover a crucial function of human RIF1 in preventing genome instability by protecting forks from unscheduled DNA2-WRN-mediated degradation.
Project description:RIF1 is a multifunctional protein implicated in controlling DNA replication and repair. Here, we show that human RIF1 protects nascent DNA from over-degradation at stalled replication forks. The major nuclease resecting nascent DNA in the absence of RIF1 is DNA2, operating with WRN as an accessory helicase. We show that RIF1 acts with protein phosphatase 1 to prevent over-degradation and that RIF1 limits phosphorylation of WRN at sites implicated in resection control. Protection by RIF1 against inappropriate degradation prevents accumulation of DNA breakage. Our observations uncover a crucial function of human RIF1 in preventing genome instability by protecting forks from unscheduled DNA2-WRN-mediated degradation.
Project description:The deletion of the protein phosphatase-1 (PP1) regulator NIPP1 is embryonic lethal during gastrulation, hinting at a key role of PP1-NIPP1 in lineage specification. Consistent with this notion we show here that a mild, stable overexpression of NIPP1 in HeLa cells caused a massive induction of genes of the mesenchymal lineage, in particular smooth/cardiac-muscle and matrix markers. This reprogramming was associated with the formation of actin-based stress fibers and retracting filopodia, and a reduced proliferation potential. The NIPP1-induced mesenchymal transition required functional substrate and PP1-binding domains, suggesting that it involves the selective dephosphorylation of substrates of PP1-NIPP1. In total 16 samples were processed. Four different cell lines were analysed: HTO_parental, HTO_NIPP1wt, HTO_NIPP1m (= alias NIPP1-Pm) and HTO_NIPP1-Pa. For each cell line 4 replicates were obtained. The HTO_parental cell line is the control cell line. For the HTO_NIPP1wt and the HTO_NIPP1-Pa the 4 replicates were obtained from two replicates of two different transgenic cell lines expressing FlagNIPP1wt (cell line wt n°1 and 2) and FlagNIPP1-Pa (cell line n°1 and 2), respectively. Each cell line was derived from the same parental control cell line.