Project description:P-bodies (PB) are cytoplasmic RNP complexes that aggregate into foci when cells are exposed to stress. While the core components and stress response of PB and related RNP granules are conserved, it remains unclear how and why cells assemble mRNP complexes into granule foci during stress. We use mass spectrometry and antibody-based microarray to analyze proteins and RNA, respectively, that are immunoisolated with the core PB protein Dhh1-GFP. Analysis of the RNA associated with Dhh1-GFP immunoisolate reveals an enrichment of mitochondrial catalytic RNPs complex, suggesting a role for PB in mitochondrial RNA processing.
Project description:P-bodies (PB) are cytoplasmic RNP complexes that aggregate into foci when cells are exposed to stress. While the core components and stress response of PB and related RNP granules are conserved, it remains unclear how and why cells assemble mRNP complexes into granule foci during stress. We use mass spectrometry and antibody-based microarray to analyze proteins and RNA, respectively, that are immunoisolated with the core PB protein Dhh1-GFP. Analysis of the RNA associated with Dhh1-GFP immunoisolate reveals an enrichment of mitochondrial catalytic RNPs complex, suggesting a role for PB in mitochondrial RNA processing. RNA from 7 anti-GFP immunoisolations as well as total (input) RNA for each experiment was prepared. The seven samples include one mock IP from a strain containing GFP alone as well as 6 from Dhh1-GFP strains, two replicates from a (+) glucose condition and four replicates from a (-) glucose condition in which Dhh1-GFP forms cytoplasmic foci. 5ug of total RNA and 200ng IP RNA was hybridized to cutsom Agilent microarrays and detected using the S9.6 monoclonal antibody to RNA:DNA hybrids (ATCC clone ) and a Cy3 labeled anti-mouse secondary antibody.
Project description:Proteins regulate gene expression by controlling mRNA biogenesis, localization, translation and decay. Identifying the composition, diversity and function of mRNPs (mRNA protein complexes) is essential to understanding these processes. In a global survey of S. cerevisiae mRNA binding proteins we identified 120 proteins that cross-link to mRNA, including 66 new mRNA binding proteins. These include kinases, RNA modification enzymes, metabolic enzymes, and tRNA and rRNA metabolism factors. These proteins show dynamic subcellular localization during stress, including assembly into stress granules and P-bodies (Processing-bodies). CLIP (cross-linking and immunoprecipitation) analyses of the P-body components Pat1, Lsm1, Dhh1 and Sbp1 identified sites of interaction on specific mRNAs revealing positional binding preferences and co-assembly preferences. Taken together, this work defines the major yeast mRNP proteins, reveals widespread changes in their subcellular location during stress, and begins to define assembly rules for P-body mRNPs. CLIP-seq analysis of Dhh1, Lsm1, Pat1 and Sbp1
Project description:Previous experiments revealed that DHH1, a RNA helicase involved in the regulation of mRNA stability and translation, complemented the phenotype of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant affected in the expression of genes coding for monocarboxylic-acids transporters, JEN1 and ADY2. In wild type cells, JEN1 expression had been shown to be undetectable in the presence of glucose or formic acid, and induced in the presence of lactate. In this work, we show that JEN1 mRNA accumulates in a dhh1 mutant, when formic acid was used as sole carbon source. Dhh1 interacts with the decapping activator Dcp1 and with the deadenylase complex. This led to the hypothesis that JEN1 expression is post-transcriptionally regulated by Dhh1 in formic acid. Analyses of JEN1 mRNAs decay in wild-type and dhh1 mutant strains confirmed this hypothesis. Microarray analyses of dhh1 mutant indicated that Dhh1 plays a large role in metabolic adaptation, suggesting that carbon source changes triggers a complex interplay between transcriptional and post-transcriptional effects. We compared gene expression between wild type and dhh1 deleted yeast strains grown either with formate or in glucose as sole carbon source. The experiments were replicated using biologically independant samples with dye swap. A total of four hybridizations were performed.
Project description:Proteins regulate gene expression by controlling mRNA biogenesis, localization, translation and decay. Identifying the composition, diversity and function of mRNPs (mRNA protein complexes) is essential to understanding these processes. In a global survey of S. cerevisiae mRNA binding proteins we identified 120 proteins that cross-link to mRNA, including 66 new mRNA binding proteins. These include kinases, RNA modification enzymes, metabolic enzymes, and tRNA and rRNA metabolism factors. These proteins show dynamic subcellular localization during stress, including assembly into stress granules and P-bodies (Processing-bodies). CLIP (cross-linking and immunoprecipitation) analyses of the P-body components Pat1, Lsm1, Dhh1 and Sbp1 identified sites of interaction on specific mRNAs revealing positional binding preferences and co-assembly preferences. Taken together, this work defines the major yeast mRNP proteins, reveals widespread changes in their subcellular location during stress, and begins to define assembly rules for P-body mRNPs.
Project description:We have developed the HRS-seq method (High-salt Recovered Sequences-sequencing), a straightforward genome-wide approach whereby we isolated and sequenced genomic regions associated with large high-salt insoluble RNP complexes. Using mouse embryonic stem cells (ESC), we showed that HRS are over-represented into the active A chromosomal compartment. The vast majority of HRS-associated genes are very highly expressed. They include both cell type-specific genes, like pluripotency genes, and housekeeping genes, like histone and snRNA genes that are central components of Histone Locus Bodies and Cajal bodies. We conclude that large, high-salt insoluble, RNP complexes including nuclear bodies are associated to the active A chromosomal compartment.
Project description:Previous experiments revealed that DHH1, a RNA helicase involved in the regulation of mRNA stability and translation, complemented the phenotype of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant affected in the expression of genes coding for monocarboxylic-acids transporters, JEN1 and ADY2. In wild type cells, JEN1 expression had been shown to be undetectable in the presence of glucose or formic acid, and induced in the presence of lactate. In this work, we show that JEN1 mRNA accumulates in a dhh1 mutant, when formic acid was used as sole carbon source. Dhh1 interacts with the decapping activator Dcp1 and with the deadenylase complex. This led to the hypothesis that JEN1 expression is post-transcriptionally regulated by Dhh1 in formic acid. Analyses of JEN1 mRNAs decay in wild-type and dhh1 mutant strains confirmed this hypothesis. Microarray analyses of dhh1 mutant indicated that Dhh1 plays a large role in metabolic adaptation, suggesting that carbon source changes triggers a complex interplay between transcriptional and post-transcriptional effects.
Project description:Degradation of many yeast mRNAs involves decapping by Dcp1:Dcp2. Previous studies on decapping activators Edc3 and Scd6 suggested limited roles in promoting mRNA decay in yeast cells. RNA-seq analysis of mutants lacking one or both proteins reveals that Scd6 and Edc3 have largely redundant activities in targeting numerous mRNAs for degradation, which are masked in the single mutants. These transcripts are frequently targeted by decapping activators Dhh1 and Pat1 and the evidence suggests that Scd6/Edc3 act interchangeably to recruit Dhh1 to Dcp2 independently of Pat1. Ribosome profiling shows that redundancy between Scd6 and Edc3 and their functional interactions with Dhh1 and Pat1 extends to translational repression of particular transcripts, including a cohort of poorly translated mRNAs displaying interdependent regulation by all four factors. Scd6/Edc3 also participate with Dhh1/Pat1 in post-transcriptional repression of proteins required for respiration and catabolism of non-optimal carbon sources, which are normally expressed only in limiting glucose. Simultaneously eliminating Scd6/Edc3 increases mitochondrial membrane potential and elevates metabolites of the tricarboxylic acid and glyoxylate cycles critical for growth at low glucose levels. Thus, Scd6/Edc3 act redundantly, in parallel with Dhh1 and in cooperation with Pat1, to adjust gene expression to nutrient availability by controlling mRNA decapping and decay.
Project description:Degradation of many yeast mRNAs involves decapping by Dcp1:Dcp2. Previous studies on decapping activators Edc3 and Scd6 suggested limited roles in promoting mRNA decay in yeast cells. RNA-seq analysis of mutants lacking one or both proteins reveals that Scd6 and Edc3 have largely redundant activities in targeting numerous mRNAs for degradation, which are masked in the single mutants. These transcripts are frequently targeted by decapping activators Dhh1 and Pat1 and the evidence suggests that Scd6/Edc3 act interchangeably to recruit Dhh1 to Dcp2 independently of Pat1. Ribosome profiling shows that redundancy between Scd6 and Edc3 and their functional interactions with Dhh1 and Pat1 extends to translational repression of particular transcripts, including a cohort of poorly translated mRNAs displaying interdependent regulation by all four factors. Scd6/Edc3 also participate with Dhh1/Pat1 in post-transcriptional repression of proteins required for respiration and catabolism of non-optimal carbon sources, which are normally expressed only in limiting glucose. Simultaneously eliminating Scd6/Edc3 increases mitochondrial membrane potential and elevates metabolites of the tricarboxylic acid and glyoxylate cycles critical for growth at low glucose levels. Thus, Scd6/Edc3 act redundantly, in parallel with Dhh1 and in cooperation with Pat1, to adjust gene expression to nutrient availability by controlling mRNA decapping and decay.