Project description:Nonsense mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a translation-dependent surveillance pathway that eliminates RNAs with short open reading frames (ORFs) and long 3' untranslated regions (UTRs). Upf1 is the key protein of this degradation pathway and we were interested to purify the associated RNAs. Moreover we have done purifications of two proteins from the general mRNA turnover in yeast : Pab1 and Lsm1 that both bind RNAs poly(A) tails. We have also done a purification with a protein from the small ribosomal subunit (40S) in order to have a look at the translated RNAs.
Project description:Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a conserved RNA degradation pathway that is involved in development, resistance to viral infections and evolution. Upf1, a core NMD factor, is associated with a large variety of cellular RNA in complex ribonucleoprotein particles. We characterized NMD complexes previously by affinity purification of tagged protein followed by mass spectrometry. Here, we extend our observations to proteins that are present in NMD complexes, but for whom the interaction with NMD factors is mediated by RNA. We purified tagged versions of Lsm1, Lsm7, Pat1, Dhh1 and Pab1 and assessed the presence and amount of NMD and RNA-related proteins in each purification. As expected from our previously published results, Upf1 was present in these purifications, suggesting novel hypotheses about the role of Pab1 and the Lsm1-7 complexes in RNA degradation.
Project description:Comparison of WT, xrn1 delta and upf1 delta strains were used in a tiling array to yield genomic regions regulated by these proteins The supplementary CHP files record either the signal in log2 space or the p-values in linear space, per TAS output. The CHP files are further divided between UPF1 delta vs. WT and XRN1 delta vs. WT.
Project description:In this study, we aim to understand how the fates of stress-activated mRNAs are determined under stress conditions by isolating individual osmostress-activated mRNA species, quantitating the proteins associated in vivo with each of them, and analyzing how deletion of these proteins impact on the expression of stress-activated genes. By comparison with the proteome associated with individual not stress-related mRNA species, we show specific proteins to be preferentially binding to osmostress-activated mRNAs, notably members of the cytoplasmic Pat1 / Lsm1 – 7 complex. We evaluated the impact of this complex on the stress response by analyzing expression of osmostress-activated genes, production of osmo-protein and, mapping ribosome transit at single nucleotide resolution using 5’-phosphate sequencing of mRNAs in lsm1 and pat1 mutants. We conclude that our biochemical co-purification approach has successfully identified RNA-binding proteins with a particular role in regulating post-transcriptional expression of stress-activated mRNAs.
Project description:Two RNA binding proteins, UPF1 and LIN28A, have well-known functions in posttranscriptional regulations and stem cell differentiation. Most studies on UPF1 and LIN28A have focused on the molecular mechanism in differentiated cells and stem cell differentiation, respectively. We revealed that LIN28A directly interacts with UPF1, which happens before UPF1 forms a complex with UPF2, thereby resulting in the reduction of UPF1 phosphorylation and inhibition of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). Our studies reveal that cell fate is determined by transcriptome regulation through UPF1-LIN28A interaction in hPSCs.
Project description:We report the role of LSM1-7 complex in the Arabidopsis tolerance to abiotic stresses. LSM1-7 controls gene expression reprogramming at the post-transcriptional level by promoting the decapping of mRNA. This function is selectively achieve over selected stress-induced transcripts depending on stress nature.
Project description:RNA sequencing of heterozygote or Tudor domain contian protein 6 (TDRD6) knockout round spermatid cells. Chromatoid bodies (CBs) are germ cell-specific organelles of largely unknown function. CBs harbor various RNA species, RNA-associated proteins and proteins of the tudor domain family such as TDRD6. Proteome analysis of purified CBs revealed components of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay machinery such as UPF1. TDRD6 is essential for UPF1 localization to CBs, for UPF1-UPF2 interaction, and for assembly of UPFs and other RNA binding proteins into super-complexes. In absence of TDRD6, the association of some mRNAs with UPF1 is impaired, and the long 3’ UTR-stimulated but not the exon junction complex-stimulated pathway of NMD is distorted. Reduced association of mRNAs with UPF1 correlated with increased stability and presence in polysome fractions, i.e. enhanced translational activity. Thus, we define CBs as sites of UPF1-dependent mRNA degradation and provide evidence for the requirement for NMD in spermiogenesis. This function of CBs depends on TDRD6-promoted assembly of mRNA decay enzymes within mRNPs.
Project description:Alternative polyadenylation generates numerous 3' mRNA isoforms per gene; regulation of this process is critical in development and impaired in cancer. Individual isoforms from the same gene can vary greatly in biological properties such as translational efficiency, localization, and half-life. Even closely related isoforms - including those differing by a single nt - can have different biological properties, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Here we show that many highly similar yeast isoforms unexpectedly exhibit extensive structural variation and differential Pab1 binding, and that these physical properties serve as a good predictor of relative isoform stability. We developed DREADS, a dimethyl sulphate (DMS)-based technique, to obtain the first transcriptome-scale structural description of individual 3' mRNA isoforms in vivo. Strikingly, near-identical yeast mRNA isoforms arising from the same gene can possess dramatically different DMS modification profiles over hundreds of nt upstream of the poly(A) tail. DREADS analyses of the same mRNAs refolded in vitro or in different species indicate that structural differences in vivo are often due to trans- acting factors. CLIP-READS, a technique we developed to measure isoform-specific binding, reveals that differences in Poly(A) binding protein (Pab1) binding to 3' ends correlate with the extent of structural variation for closely-spaced isoforms. A pattern encompassing single-strandedness near the 3' terminus, double-stranded character of the poly(A) tail, and low Pab1 binding is significantly associated with mRNA stability. Sequences responsible for isoform-specific structures, differential Pab1 binding, and mRNA stability are evolutionarily conserved, and are indicative of biological function.