Project description:Cancer cells frequently upregulate ribosome production to support tumorigenesis. While small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are critical for ribosome biogenesis, the roles of other classes of noncoding RNAs in this process remain largely unknown. Here we performed CRISPR screens to identify essential long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cells. This revealed that an alternatively-spliced isoform of lncRNA Colorectal Neoplasia Differentially Expressed containing an ultraconserved element (UCE), referred to as CRNDEUCE, is required for RCC cell proliferation. CRNDEUCE localizes to the nucleolus and promotes 60S ribosomal subunit biogenesis. The UCE of CRNDE functions as an unprocessed C/D box snoRNA that directly interacts with ribosomal RNA precursors. This facilitates delivery of eIF6, a key 60S biogenesis factor, which binds to CRNDEUCE through a sequence element adjacent to the UCE. These findings highlight the functional versatility of snoRNA sequences and expand the known mechanisms through which noncoding RNAs orchestrate ribosome biogenesis.
Project description:Cancer cells frequently upregulate ribosome production to support tumorigenesis. While small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are critical for ribosome biogenesis, the roles of other classes of noncoding RNAs in this process remain largely unknown. Here we performed CRISPR screens to identify essential long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cells. This revealed that an alternatively-spliced isoform of lncRNA Colorectal Neoplasia Differentially Expressed containing an ultraconserved element (UCE), referred to as CRNDEUCE, is required for RCC cell proliferation. CRNDEUCE localizes to the nucleolus and promotes 60S ribosomal subunit biogenesis. The UCE of CRNDE functions as an unprocessed C/D box snoRNA that directly interacts with ribosomal RNA precursors. This facilitates delivery of eIF6, a key 60S biogenesis factor, which binds to CRNDEUCE through a sequence element adjacent to the UCE. These findings highlight the functional versatility of snoRNA sequences and expand the known mechanisms through which noncoding RNAs orchestrate ribosome biogenesis.
Project description:Cancer cells frequently upregulate ribosome production to support tumorigenesis. While small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are critical for ribosome biogenesis, the roles of other classes of noncoding RNAs in this process remain largely unknown. Here we performed CRISPR screens to identify essential long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cells. This revealed that an alternatively-spliced isoform of lncRNA Colorectal Neoplasia Differentially Expressed containing an ultraconserved element (UCE), referred to as CRNDEUCE, is required for RCC cell proliferation. CRNDEUCE localizes to the nucleolus and promotes 60S ribosomal subunit biogenesis. The UCE of CRNDE functions as an unprocessed C/D box snoRNA that directly interacts with ribosomal RNA precursors. This facilitates delivery of eIF6, a key 60S biogenesis factor, which binds to CRNDEUCE through a sequence element adjacent to the UCE. These findings highlight the functional versatility of snoRNA sequences and expand the known mechanisms through which noncoding RNAs orchestrate ribosome biogenesis.
Project description:Cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases (CRLs) control the degradation of a wide landscape of human proteins in combination with ubiquitin-carrying enzymes (UCEs). CRL expansion during evolution is apparent, with a few dozen in yeast that function with a single UCE and as many as 300 in humans that function with at least 8 UCEs. A major unaddressed question is why human CRL buildup has been accompanied by additional UCEs that function with CRLs. Here we demonstrate that human CRLs and UCEs can display specificity, resulting in increased affinity for each other and enhanced rates of ubiquitin transfer to substrates. To uncover the structural basis for CRL-UCE specificity, cryo-EM was performed on a CRL2 subfamily member with substrate receptor subunit FEM1C (CRL2FEM1C) in complex with a proxy for catalytically active UCE. The structure elucidated an extensive CRL-UCE interface that promotes proximity between the UCE active site and CRL2FEM1C-bound substrate. Unanticipated selectivity was also observed between the CRL substrate Lys ubiquitylation sites and the identity of the UCE. CRL-UCE specificity also manifests during targeted protein degradation by affecting the activities of drugs that induce ubiquitylation of neosubstrates. An emerging CRL code is revealed that drives selective formation of CRL-UCE complexes to promote rapid substrate ubiquitylation.
Project description:In this study we used mice lacking Evf2 (Evf2TS/TS) and mice expressing a truncated form of Evf2 (Evf1TS/TS) to determine UCE lncRNA epigenetic and chromosome toplogical control. We used 4Cseq to investigate how Evf2 regulates UCE interactions along chromosome 6 (where Evf2 is expressed). We used ChIpseq to compare histone methylation profiles from Evf2TS/TS and Evf1TS/TS. In addition, we used ChIPseq to determine Evf2-depedent regulation of cohesin subunit binding (SMC1 and SMC3) and histone H3K27acetylation. Together, these data support that Evf2 UCE lncRNA controls chromosome topology over multi-megabse distances, through cohesin binding and effects on histone methylation and acetylation. Also included is the ChIPseq profile of Dlx binding sites in SW (outbred strain of mice) from E13.5 GE.
2018-08-23 | GSE117184 | GEO
Project description:UCE sequences of thynnine wasps (Hymenoptera: Thynnidae: Thynninae)