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Sugiyama T. Finding new roles of classic biomolecular condensates in the nucleus: Lessons from fission yeast. CELL INSIGHT 2024; 3:100194. [PMID: 39228923 PMCID: PMC11369484 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellin.2024.100194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2024] [Accepted: 07/29/2024] [Indexed: 09/05/2024]
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Decades have passed since the initial discovery of membrane-less nuclear compartments, commonly called nuclear bodies or nuclear condensates. These compartments have drawn attention to their unique characteristics and functions, especially after introducing "liquid-liquid phase separation" to this research field. While the majority of the studies on nuclear condensates have been conducted in multicellular organisms, recent genetic, biochemical, and cell biological analyses using the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe have yielded valuable insights into biomolecular condensates. This review article focuses on two 'classic' nuclear condensates and discusses how research using fission yeast has unveiled previously unknown functions of these known nuclear bodies.
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- Tomoyasu Sugiyama
- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China
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Qin M, Fan W, Li L, Xu T, Zhang H, Chen F, Man J, Kombe AJK, Zhang J, Shi Y, Yao X, Yang Z, Hou Z, Ruan K, Liu D. PRMT1 and TDRD3 promote stress granule assembly by rebuilding the protein-RNA interaction network. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 277:134411. [PMID: 39097054 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.134411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2024] [Revised: 05/27/2024] [Accepted: 07/31/2024] [Indexed: 08/05/2024]
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Stress granules (SGs) are membrane-less organelles (MLOs) or cytosolic compartments formed upon exposure to environmental cell stress-inducing stimuli. SGs are based on ribonucleoprotein complexes from a set of cytoplasmic proteins and mRNAs, blocked in translation due to stress cell-induced polysome disassembly. Post-translational modifications (PTMs) such as methylation, are involved in SG assembly, with the methylation writer PRMT1 and its reader TDRD3 colocalizing to SGs. However, the role of this writer-reader system in SG assembly remains unclear. Here, we found that PRMT1 methylates SG constituent RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) on their RGG motifs. Besides, we report that TDRD3, as a reader of asymmetric dimethylarginines, enhances RNA binding to recruit additional RNAs and RBPs, lowering the percolation threshold and promoting SG assembly. Our study enriches our understanding of the molecular mechanism of SG formation by elucidating the functions of PRMT1 and TDRD3. We anticipate that our study will provide a new perspective for comprehensively understanding the functions of PTMs in liquid-liquid phase separation driven condensate assembly.
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- Mengtong Qin
- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China; The CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China; Department of Chemical Physics, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China; The CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China.
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China; Department of Chemical Physics, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China; The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230001, China.
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China; The CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China; The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230001, China.
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Bai H, Dai Y, Fan P, Zhou Y, Wang X, Chen J, Jiao Y, Du C, Huang Z, Xie Y, Guo X, Lang X, Ling Y, Deng Y, Liu Q, He S, Zhang Z. The METHYLTRANSFERASE B-SERRATE interaction mediates the reciprocal regulation of microRNA biogenesis and RNA m 6A modification. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2024. [PMID: 39206840 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2024] [Revised: 08/07/2024] [Accepted: 08/10/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
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In eukaryotes, RNA N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification and microRNA (miRNA)-mediated RNA silencing represent two critical epigenetic regulatory mechanisms. The m6A methyltransferase complex (MTC) and the microprocessor complex both undergo liquid-liquid phase separation to form nuclear membraneless organelles. Although m6A methyltransferase has been shown to positively regulate miRNA biogenesis, a mechanism of reciprocal regulation between the MTC and the microprocessor complex has remained elusive. Here, we demonstrate that the MTC and the microprocessor complex associate with each other through the METHYLTRANSFERASE B (MTB)-SERRATE (SE) interacting module. Knockdown of MTB impaired miRNA biogenesis by diminishing microprocessor complex binding to primary miRNAs (pri-miRNAs) and their respective MIRNA loci. Additionally, loss of SE function led to disruptions in transcriptome-wide m6A modification. Further biochemical assays and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) assay indicated that SE enhances the liquid-liquid phase separation and solubility of the MTC. Moreover, the MTC exhibited enhanced retention on chromatin and diminished binding to its RNA substrates in the se mutant background. Collectively, our results reveal the substantial regulatory interplay between RNA m6A modification and miRNA biogenesis.
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- Haiyan Bai
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
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- Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Breeding, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
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- Key Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding of High Quality Rice in Southern China (Co-construction by Ministry and Province), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangzhou, 510640, China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of New Technology in Rice Breeding, Guangdong Rice Engineering Laboratory, Rice Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
- Key Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding of High Quality Rice in Southern China (Co-construction by Ministry and Province), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangzhou, 510640, China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of New Technology in Rice Breeding, Guangdong Rice Engineering Laboratory, Rice Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease, State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Key Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding of High Quality Rice in Southern China (Co-construction by Ministry and Province), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangzhou, 510640, China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of New Technology in Rice Breeding, Guangdong Rice Engineering Laboratory, Rice Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Breeding, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
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Deng X, Yao Q, Horvath A, Jiang Z, Zhao J, Fischer T, Sugiyama T. The fission yeast ortholog of Coilin, Mug174, forms Cajal body-like nuclear condensates and is essential for cellular quiescence. Nucleic Acids Res 2024; 52:9174-9192. [PMID: 38828770 PMCID: PMC11347179 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2023] [Revised: 05/08/2024] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 06/05/2024] Open
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The Cajal body, a nuclear condensate, is crucial for ribonucleoprotein assembly, including small nuclear RNPs (snRNPs). While Coilin has been identified as an integral component of Cajal bodies, its exact function remains unclear. Moreover, no Coilin ortholog has been found in unicellular organisms to date. This study unveils Mug174 (Meiosis-upregulated gene 174) as the Coilin ortholog in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Mug174 forms phase-separated condensates in vitro and is often associated with the nucleolus and the cleavage body in vivo. The generation of Mug174 foci relies on the trimethylguanosine (TMG) synthase Tgs1. Moreover, Mug174 interacts with Tgs1 and U snRNAs. Deletion of the mug174+ gene in S. pombe causes diverse pleiotropic phenotypes, encompassing defects in vegetative growth, meiosis, pre-mRNA splicing, TMG capping of U snRNAs, and chromosome segregation. In addition, we identified weak homology between Mug174 and human Coilin. Notably, human Coilin expressed in fission yeast colocalizes with Mug174. Critically, Mug174 is indispensable for the maintenance of and transition from cellular quiescence. These findings highlight the Coilin ortholog in fission yeast and suggest that the Cajal body is implicated in cellular quiescence, thereby preventing human diseases.
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- Xiaoling Deng
- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia
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- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia
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- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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Feng Z, Wang M, Liu Y, Li C, Zhang S, Duan J, Chen J, Qi L, Liu Y, Li H, Wu J, Liu Y, Terzaghi W, Tian F, Zhong B, Fang X, Qian W, Guo Y, Deng XW, Li J. Liquid-liquid phase separation of TZP promotes PPK-mediated phosphorylation of the phytochrome A photoreceptor. NATURE PLANTS 2024; 10:798-814. [PMID: 38714768 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01679-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 05/10/2024]
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Phytochrome A (phyA) is the plant far-red (FR) light photoreceptor and plays an essential role in regulating photomorphogenic development in FR-rich conditions, such as canopy shade. It has long been observed that phyA is a phosphoprotein in vivo; however, the protein kinases that could phosphorylate phyA remain largely unknown. Here we show that a small protein kinase family, consisting of four members named PHOTOREGULATORY PROTEIN KINASES (PPKs) (also known as MUT9-LIKE KINASES), directly phosphorylate phyA in vitro and in vivo. In addition, TANDEM ZINC-FINGER/PLUS3 (TZP), a recently characterized phyA-interacting protein required for in vivo phosphorylation of phyA, is also directly phosphorylated by PPKs. We reveal that TZP contains two intrinsically disordered regions in its amino-terminal domain that undergo liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) upon light exposure. The LLPS of TZP promotes colocalization and interaction between PPKs and phyA, thus facilitating PPK-mediated phosphorylation of phyA in FR light. Our study identifies PPKs as a class of protein kinases mediating the phosphorylation of phyA and demonstrates that the LLPS of TZP contributes significantly to more production of the phosphorylated phyA form in FR light.
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- Ziyi Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences and School of Life Sciences, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
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- Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences and School of Life Sciences, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Wheat Improvement, Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Laboratory of Advanced Agricultural Sciences at Weifang, Weifang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences and School of Life Sciences, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Wheat Improvement, Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Laboratory of Advanced Agricultural Sciences at Weifang, Weifang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
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Louati S, Wozny AS, Malesys C, Daguenet E, Ladjohounlou R, Alphonse G, Tomasetto C, Magné N, Rodriguez-Lafrasse C. Differential Formation of Stress Granules in Radiosensitive and Radioresistant Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2024; 118:485-497. [PMID: 37619790 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.08.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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PURPOSE Stress granules (SGs) are cytoplasmic aggregates in which mRNAs and specific proteins are trapped in response to a variety of damaging agents. They participate in the cellular defense mechanisms. Currently, their mechanism of formation in response to ionizing radiation and their role in tumor-cell radiosensitivity remain elusive. METHODS AND MATERIALS The kinetics of SG formation was investigated after the delivery of photon irradiation at different doses to head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cell lines with different radiosensitivities and the HeLa cervical cancer cell line (used as reference). In parallel, the response to a canonical inducer of SGs, sodium arsenite, was also studied. Immunolabeling of SG-specific proteins and mRNA fluorescence in situ hybridization enabled SG detection and quantification. Furthermore, a ribopuromycylation assay was used to assess the cell translational status. To determine whether reactive oxygen species were involved in SG formation, their scavenging or production was induced by pharmacologic pretreatment in both SCC61 and SQ20B cells. RESULTS Photon irradiation at different doses led to the formation of cytoplasmic foci that were positive for different SG markers. The presence of SGs gradually increased from 30 minutes to 2 hours postexposure in HeLa, SCC61, and Cal60 radiosensitive cells. In turn, the SQ20B and FaDu radioresistant cells did not form SGs. These results indicated a correlation between sensitivity to photon irradiation and SG formation. Moreover, SG formation was significantly reduced by reactive oxygen species scavenging using dimethyl sulfoxide in SCC61 cells, which supported their role in SG formation. However, a reciprocal experiment in SQ20B cells that depleted glutathione using buthionine sulfoximide did not restore SG formation in these cells. CONCLUSIONS SGs are formed in response to irradiation in radiosensitive, but not in radioresistant, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells. Interestingly, compared with sodium arsenite-induced SGs, photon-induced SGs exhibited a different morphology and cellular localization. Moreover, photon-induced SGs were not associated with the inhibition of translation; rather, they depended on oxidative stress.
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- Safa Louati
- Cellular and Molecular Radiobiology Laboratory, Lyon-Sud Medical School, UMR CNRS 5822/IP2I, Université de Lyon, Lyon 1 University, Oullins, France; Department of Research and Teaching in Oncology, Hôpital Nord, Saint-Priest en Jarez, France
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- Cellular and Molecular Radiobiology Laboratory, Lyon-Sud Medical School, UMR CNRS 5822/IP2I, Université de Lyon, Lyon 1 University, Oullins, France; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Lyon-Sud Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite, France
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- Cellular and Molecular Radiobiology Laboratory, Lyon-Sud Medical School, UMR CNRS 5822/IP2I, Université de Lyon, Lyon 1 University, Oullins, France
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- Department of Research and Teaching in Oncology, Hôpital Nord, Saint-Priest en Jarez, France
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- Cellular and Molecular Radiobiology Laboratory, Lyon-Sud Medical School, UMR CNRS 5822/IP2I, Université de Lyon, Lyon 1 University, Oullins, France
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- Cellular and Molecular Radiobiology Laboratory, Lyon-Sud Medical School, UMR CNRS 5822/IP2I, Université de Lyon, Lyon 1 University, Oullins, France; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Lyon-Sud Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite, France
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- Institute of Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France
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- Cellular and Molecular Radiobiology Laboratory, Lyon-Sud Medical School, UMR CNRS 5822/IP2I, Université de Lyon, Lyon 1 University, Oullins, France; Radiotherapy Department, Bergonié Institute, Bordeaux, France
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- Cellular and Molecular Radiobiology Laboratory, Lyon-Sud Medical School, UMR CNRS 5822/IP2I, Université de Lyon, Lyon 1 University, Oullins, France; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Lyon-Sud Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite, France.
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Hoffmann G, López-González S, Mahboubi A, Hanson J, Hafrén A. Cauliflower mosaic virus protein P6 is a multivalent node for RNA granule proteins and interferes with stress granule responses during plant infection. THE PLANT CELL 2023; 35:3363-3382. [PMID: 37040611 PMCID: PMC10473198 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koad101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Revised: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Biomolecular condensation is a multipurpose cellular process that viruses use ubiquitously during their multiplication. Cauliflower mosaic virus replication complexes are condensates that differ from those of most viruses, as they are nonmembranous assemblies that consist of RNA and protein, mainly the viral protein P6. Although these viral factories (VFs) were described half a century ago, with many observations that followed since, functional details of the condensation process and the properties and relevance of VFs have remained enigmatic. Here, we studied these issues in Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotiana benthamiana. We observed a large dynamic mobility range of host proteins within VFs, while the viral matrix protein P6 is immobile, as it represents the central node of these condensates. We identified the stress granule (SG) nucleating factors G3BP7 and UBP1 family members as components of VFs. Similarly, as SG components localize to VFs during infection, ectopic P6 localizes to SGs and reduces their assembly after stress. Intriguingly, it appears that soluble rather than condensed P6 suppresses SG formation and mediates other essential P6 functions, suggesting that the increased condensation over the infection time-course may accompany a progressive shift in selected P6 functions. Together, this study highlights VFs as dynamic condensates and P6 as a complex modulator of SG responses.
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- Gesa Hoffmann
- Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden
- Linnean Center for Plant Biology, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden
- Linnean Center for Plant Biology, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, 90736 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, 90736 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden
- Linnean Center for Plant Biology, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden
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Hirose T, Ninomiya K, Nakagawa S, Yamazaki T. A guide to membraneless organelles and their various roles in gene regulation. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2023; 24:288-304. [PMID: 36424481 DOI: 10.1038/s41580-022-00558-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 106.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Membraneless organelles (MLOs) are detected in cells as dots of mesoscopic size. By undergoing phase separation into a liquid-like or gel-like phase, MLOs contribute to intracellular compartmentalization of specific biological functions. In eukaryotes, dozens of MLOs have been identified, including the nucleolus, Cajal bodies, nuclear speckles, paraspeckles, promyelocytic leukaemia protein (PML) nuclear bodies, nuclear stress bodies, processing bodies (P bodies) and stress granules. MLOs contain specific proteins, of which many possess intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), and nucleic acids, mainly RNA. Many MLOs contribute to gene regulation by different mechanisms. Through sequestration of specific factors, MLOs promote biochemical reactions by simultaneously concentrating substrates and enzymes, and/or suppressing the activity of the sequestered factors elsewhere in the cell. Other MLOs construct inter-chromosomal hubs by associating with multiple loci, thereby contributing to the biogenesis of macromolecular machineries essential for gene expression, such as ribosomes and spliceosomes. The organization of many MLOs includes layers, which might have different biophysical properties and functions. MLOs are functionally interconnected and are involved in various diseases, prompting the emergence of therapeutics targeting them. In this Review, we introduce MLOs that are relevant to gene regulation and discuss their assembly, internal structure, gene-regulatory roles in transcription, RNA processing and translation, particularly in stress conditions, and their disease relevance.
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- Tetsuro Hirose
- Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
- Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
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Li W, Wang Y. Stress granules: potential therapeutic targets for infectious and inflammatory diseases. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1145346. [PMID: 37205103 PMCID: PMC10185834 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1145346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/21/2023] Open
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Eukaryotic cells are stimulated by external pressure such as that derived from heat shock, oxidative stress, nutrient deficiencies, or infections, which induce the formation of stress granules (SGs) that facilitates cellular adaptation to environmental pressures. As aggregated products of the translation initiation complex in the cytoplasm, SGs play important roles in cell gene expression and homeostasis. Infection induces SGs formation. Specifically, a pathogen that invades a host cell leverages the host cell translation machinery to complete the pathogen life cycle. In response, the host cell suspends translation, which leads to SGs formation, to resist pathogen invasion. This article reviews the production and function of SGs, the interaction between SGs and pathogens, and the relationship between SGs and pathogen-induced innate immunity to provide directions for further research into anti-infection and anti-inflammatory disease strategies.
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- Wenyuan Li
- Department of Anesthesiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
- *Correspondence: Yao Wang,
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Guan Y, Wang Y, Fu X, Bai G, Li X, Mao J, Yan Y, Hu L. Multiple functions of stress granules in viral infection at a glance. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1138864. [PMID: 36937261 PMCID: PMC10014870 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1138864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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Stress granules (SGs) are distinct RNA granules induced by various stresses, which are evolutionarily conserved across species. In general, SGs act as a conservative and essential self-protection mechanism during stress responses. Viruses have a long evolutionary history and viral infections can trigger a series of cellular stress responses, which may interact with SG formation. Targeting SGs is believed as one of the critical and conservative measures for viruses to tackle the inhibition of host cells. In this systematic review, we have summarized the role of SGs in viral infection and categorized their relationships into three tables, with a particular focus on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Moreover, we have outlined several kinds of drugs targeting SGs according to different pathways, most of which are potentially effective against SARS-CoV-2. We believe this review would offer a new view for the researchers and clinicians to attempt to develop more efficacious treatments for virus infection, particularly for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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- Yuelin Guan
- The Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China
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- The Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China
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- Center of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, and Bone Marrow Transplantation Center of the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Zhejiang Laboratory for Systems and Precision Medicine, Zhejiang University Medical Center, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- The Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Big Data in Health Science School of Public Health and The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- The Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Yongbin Yan,
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- The Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China
- Lidan Hu,
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Nabariya DK, Heinz A, Derksen S, Krauß S. Intracellular and intercellular transport of RNA organelles in CXG repeat disorders: The strength of weak ties. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:1000932. [PMID: 36589236 PMCID: PMC9800848 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.1000932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 12/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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RNA is a vital biomolecule, the function of which is tightly spatiotemporally regulated. RNA organelles are biological structures that either membrane-less or surrounded by membrane. They are produced by the all the cells and indulge in vital cellular mechanisms. They include the intracellular RNA granules and the extracellular exosomes. RNA granules play an essential role in intracellular regulation of RNA localization, stability and translation. Aberrant regulation of RNA is connected to disease development. For example, in microsatellite diseases such as CXG repeat expansion disorders, the mutant CXG repeat RNA's localization and function are affected. RNA is not only transported intracellularly but can also be transported between cells via exosomes. The loading of the exosomes is regulated by RNA-protein complexes, and recent studies show that cytosolic RNA granules and exosomes share common content. Intracellular RNA granules and exosome loading may therefore be related. Exosomes can also transfer pathogenic molecules of CXG diseases from cell to cell, thereby driving disease progression. Both intracellular RNA granules and extracellular RNA vesicles may serve as a source for diagnostic and treatment strategies. In therapeutic approaches, pharmaceutical agents may be loaded into exosomes which then transport them to the desired cells/tissues. This is a promising target specific treatment strategy with few side effects. With respect to diagnostics, disease-specific content of exosomes, e.g., RNA-signatures, can serve as attractive biomarker of central nervous system diseases detecting early physiological disturbances, even before symptoms of neurodegeneration appear and irreparable damage to the nervous system occurs. In this review, we summarize the known function of cytoplasmic RNA granules and extracellular vesicles, as well as their role and dysfunction in CXG repeat expansion disorders. We also provide a summary of established protocols for the isolation and characterization of both cytoplasmic and extracellular RNA organelles.
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- Human Biology/Neurobiology, Institute of Biology, Faculty IV, School of Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
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Oxidative-Stress-Associated Proteostasis Disturbances and Increased DNA Damage in the Hippocampal Granule Cells of the Ts65Dn Model of Down Syndrome. Antioxidants (Basel) 2022; 11:antiox11122438. [PMID: 36552646 PMCID: PMC9774833 DOI: 10.3390/antiox11122438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Revised: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Oxidative stress (OS) is one of the neuropathological mechanisms responsible for the deficits in cognition and neuronal function in Down syndrome (DS). The Ts65Dn (TS) mouse replicates multiple DS phenotypes including hippocampal-dependent learning and memory deficits and similar brain oxidative status. To better understand the hippocampal oxidative profile in the adult TS mouse, we analyzed cellular OS-associated alterations in hippocampal granule cells (GCs), a neuronal population that plays an important role in memory formation and that is particularly affected in DS. For this purpose, we used biochemical, molecular, immunohistochemical, and electron microscopy techniques. Our results indicate that TS GCs show important OS-associated alterations in the systems essential for neuronal homeostasis: DNA damage response and proteostasis, particularly of the proteasome and lysosomal system. Specifically, TS GCs showed: (i) increased DNA damage, (ii) reorganization of nuclear proteolytic factories accompanied by a decline in proteasome activity and cytoplasmic aggregation of ubiquitinated proteins, (iii) formation of lysosomal-related structures containing lipid droplets of cytotoxic peroxidation products, and (iv) mitochondrial ultrastructural defects. These alterations could be implicated in enhanced cellular senescence, accelerated aging and neurodegeneration, and the early development of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology present in TS mice and the DS population.
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Wang H, Ming X, Zhang S, Chen J, Liu X, Wu X, Zhang S, Zhang Y, Cui W, Li W, Liu Y. Knockdown of Toe1 causes developmental arrest during the morula-to-blastocyst transition in mice. Theriogenology 2022; 194:154-161. [PMID: 36257135 DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2022.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2022] [Revised: 10/06/2022] [Accepted: 10/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The target of EGR1 protein 1 (TOE1) is evolutionarily conserved from Caenorhabditis elegans to mammals, which plays a critical role in the maturation of a variety of small nuclear RNAs. Mutation in human TOE1 has been reported to cause pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 7, a severe neurodegenerative syndrome. However, the role of TOE1 in early embryonic development remains unclear. Herein, we found that Toe1 mRNA and protein were expressed in mouse preimplantation embryos. Silencing Toe1 by siRNA led to morula-to-blastocyst transition failure. This developmental arrest can be rescued by Toe1 mRNA microinjection. EdU incorporation assay showed a defect in blastomere proliferation within developmentally arrested embryos. Further studies revealed that Toe1 knockdown caused increased signals for γH2AX and micronuclei, indicative of sustained DNA damage. Moreover, mRNA levels of cell cycle inhibitor p21 were significantly upregulated in Toe1 knockdown embryos before developmental arrest. Together, these results suggest that TOE1 is indispensable for mouse early embryo development potentially through maintaining genomic integrity. Our findings provide further insight into the role of TOE1 in mouse preimplantation embryonic development.
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- Hongcheng Wang
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Embryo Development and Reproductive Regulation, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Environmental Hormone and Reproduction, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, 236037, China; Linquan Modern Agricultural Technology Cooperation and Extension Service Center, The Anhui Agricultural University's Comprehensive Experimental Station in the Northwest of Anhui Province, Linquan, Anhui, 236400, China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Embryo Development and Reproductive Regulation, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Environmental Hormone and Reproduction, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, 236037, China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Embryo Development and Reproductive Regulation, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Environmental Hormone and Reproduction, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, 236037, China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Embryo Development and Reproductive Regulation, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Environmental Hormone and Reproduction, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, 236037, China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Embryo Development and Reproductive Regulation, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Environmental Hormone and Reproduction, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, 236037, China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Embryo Development and Reproductive Regulation, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Environmental Hormone and Reproduction, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, 236037, China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Embryo Development and Reproductive Regulation, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Environmental Hormone and Reproduction, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, 236037, China
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- Linquan Modern Agricultural Technology Cooperation and Extension Service Center, The Anhui Agricultural University's Comprehensive Experimental Station in the Northwest of Anhui Province, Linquan, Anhui, 236400, China
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- Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Animal Models Core Facility, Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Embryo Development and Reproductive Regulation, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Environmental Hormone and Reproduction, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, 236037, China.
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Embryo Development and Reproductive Regulation, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Environmental Hormone and Reproduction, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, 236037, China; Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Animal Models Core Facility, Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA.
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Gupta P, Khadake RM, Panja S, Shinde K, Rode AB. Alternative RNA Conformations: Companion or Combatant. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:1930. [PMID: 36360167 PMCID: PMC9689429 DOI: 10.3390/genes13111930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Revised: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 09/06/2024] Open
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RNA molecules, in one form or another, are involved in almost all aspects of cell physiology, as well as in disease development. The diversity of the functional roles of RNA comes from its intrinsic ability to adopt complex secondary and tertiary structures, rivaling the diversity of proteins. The RNA molecules form dynamic ensembles of many interconverting conformations at a timescale of seconds, which is a key for understanding how they execute their cellular functions. Given the crucial role of RNAs in various cellular processes, we need to understand the RNA molecules from a structural perspective. Central to this review are studies aimed at revealing the regulatory role of conformational equilibria in RNA in humans to understand genetic diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as in pathogens such as bacteria and viruses so as to understand the progression of infectious diseases. Furthermore, we also summarize the prior studies on the use of RNA structures as platforms for the rational design of small molecules for therapeutic applications.
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- Regional Centre for Biotechnology, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, 3rd Milestone, Faridabad—Gurugram Expressway, Faridabad 121001, India
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Belmont AS. Nuclear Compartments: An Incomplete Primer to Nuclear Compartments, Bodies, and Genome Organization Relative to Nuclear Architecture. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2022; 14:a041268. [PMID: 34400557 PMCID: PMC9248822 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This work reviews nuclear compartments, defined broadly to include distinct nuclear structures, bodies, and chromosome domains. It first summarizes original cytological observations before comparing concepts of nuclear compartments emerging from microscopy versus genomic approaches and then introducing new multiplexed imaging approaches that promise in the future to meld both approaches. I discuss how previous models of radial distribution of chromosomes or the binary division of the genome into A and B compartments are now being refined by the recognition of more complex nuclear compartmentalization. The poorly understood question of how these nuclear compartments are established and maintained is then discussed, including through the modern perspective of phase separation, before moving on to address possible functions of nuclear compartments, using the possible role of nuclear speckles in modulating gene expression as an example. Finally, the review concludes with a discussion of future questions for this field.
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- Andrew S Belmont
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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Wang Y, Li W, Zhang C, Peng W, Xu Z. RBM24 is localized to stress granules in cells under various stress conditions. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2022; 608:96-101. [PMID: 35395551 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.03.160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 03/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Stress granules (SGs) are formed when untranslated messenger ribonucleoproteins (mRNPs) accumulate in cells under stress, and are thought to minimize stress-induced damage and promote cell survival. RBM24 (RNA-binding motif protein 24) is an RNA-binding protein that plays pivotal roles in regulating the stability or translation initiation of target mRNAs as well as alternative splicing of target pre-mRNAs. Its important physiological functions are highlighted by the fact that Rbm24 knockout mice or zebrafish suffer from dysfunction of heart, eye, and inner ear. Here we show that RBM24 is recruited into SGs under various stress conditions, suggesting that it might protect its target RNAs in cells under stress. However, SG formation is unaffected when Rbm24 expression is down-regulated. Nevertheless, RBM24 overexpression in cultured cells is sufficient to induce SG formation, suggesting that RBM24 might play an important role in SG formation. In conclusion, our present work reveals that RBM24 is a SG component, which implies that RBM24 could protect its target mRNAs in stressed cells.
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- Yanfei Wang
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Cells and Developmental Biology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, 266237, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Cells and Developmental Biology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, 266237, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Cells and Developmental Biology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, 266237, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Cells and Developmental Biology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, 266237, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Cells and Developmental Biology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, 266237, China; Shandong Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Cell Biology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong, 250014, China.
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Decker CJ, Burke JM, Mulvaney PK, Parker R. RNA is required for the integrity of multiple nuclear and cytoplasmic membrane-less RNP granules. EMBO J 2022; 41:e110137. [PMID: 35355287 PMCID: PMC9058542 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2021110137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2021] [Revised: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Numerous membrane‐less organelles, composed of a combination of RNA and proteins, are observed in the nucleus and cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells. These RNP granules include stress granules (SGs), processing bodies (PBs), Cajal bodies, and nuclear speckles. An unresolved question is how frequently RNA molecules are required for the integrity of RNP granules in either the nucleus or cytosol. To address this issue, we degraded intracellular RNA in either the cytosol or the nucleus by the activation of RNase L and examined the impact of RNA loss on several RNP granules. We find the majority of RNP granules, including SGs, Cajal bodies, nuclear speckles, and the nucleolus, are altered by the degradation of their RNA components. In contrast, PBs and super‐enhancer complexes were largely not affected by RNA degradation in their respective compartments. RNA degradation overall led to the apparent dissolution of some membrane‐less organelles, whereas others reorganized into structures with altered morphology. These findings highlight a critical and widespread role of RNA in the organization of several RNP granules.
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- Carolyn J Decker
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.,BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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Measuring Cytological Proximity of Chromosomal Loci to Defined Nuclear Compartments with TSA-seq. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2532:145-186. [PMID: 35867249 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2497-5_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Distinct nuclear structures and bodies are involved in genome intranuclear positioning. Measuring proximity and relative distances of genomic loci to these nuclear compartments, and correlating this chromosome intranuclear positioning with epigenetic marks and functional readouts genome-wide, will be required to appreciate the true extent to which this nuclear compartmentalization contributes to regulation of genome functions. Here we present detailed protocols for TSA-seq, the first sequencing-based method for estimation of cytological proximity of chromosomal loci to spatially discrete nuclear structures, such as nuclear bodies or the nuclear lamina. TSA-seq uses Tyramide Signal Amplification (TSA) of immunostained cells to create a concentration gradient of tyramide-biotin free radicals which decays exponentially as a function of distance from a point-source target. Reaction of these free radicals with DNA deposits tyramide-biotin onto DNA as a function of distance from the point source. The relative enrichment of this tyramide-labeled DNA versus input DNA, revealed by DNA sequencing, can then be used as a "cytological ruler" to infer relative, or even absolute, mean chromosomal distances from immunostained nuclear compartments. TSA-seq mapping is highly reproducible and largely independent of the target protein or antibody choice for labeling a particular nuclear compartment. Our protocols include variations in TSA labeling conditions to provide varying spatial resolution as well as enhanced sensitivity. Our most streamlined protocol produces TSA-seq spatial mapping over a distance range of ~1 micron from major nuclear compartments using ~10-20 million cells.
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Pardi SA, Nusinow DA. Out of the Dark and Into the Light: A New View of Phytochrome Photobodies. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:732947. [PMID: 34531891 PMCID: PMC8438518 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.732947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Light is a critical environmental stimulus for plants, serving as an energy source via photosynthesis and a signal for developmental programming. Plants perceive light through various light-responsive proteins, termed photoreceptors. Phytochromes are red-light photoreceptors that are highly conserved across kingdoms. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, phytochrome B serves as a light and thermal sensor, mediating physiological processes such as seedling germination and establishment, hypocotyl growth, chlorophyll biogenesis, and flowering. In response to red light, phytochromes convert to a biologically active form, translocating from the cytoplasm into the nucleus and further compartmentalizes into subnuclear compartments termed photobodies. PhyB photobodies regulate phytochrome-mediated signaling and physiological outputs. However, photobody function, composition, and biogenesis remain undefined since their discovery. Based on photobody cellular dynamics and the properties of internal components, photobodies have been suggested to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation, a process by which some membraneless compartments form. Here, we explore photobodies as environmental sensors, examine the role of their protein constituents, and outline the biophysical perspective that photobodies may be undergoing liquid-liquid phase separation. Understanding the molecular, cellular, and biophysical processes that shape how plants perceive light will help in engineering improved sunlight capture and fitness of important crops.
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- Sarah A. Pardi
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
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Feng Z, Jia B, Zhang M. Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Biology: Specific Stoichiometric Molecular Interactions vs Promiscuous Interactions Mediated by Disordered Sequences. Biochemistry 2021; 60:2397-2406. [PMID: 34291921 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.1c00376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Extensive studies in the past few years have shown that nonmembrane bound organelles are likely assembled via liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), a process that is driven by multivalent protein-protein and/or protein-nucleic acid interactions. Both stoichiometric molecular interactions and intrinsically disordered region (IDR)-driven interactions can promote the assembly of membraneless organelles, and the field is currently dominated by IDR-driven biological condensate formation. Here we discuss recent studies that demonstrate the importance of specific biomolecular interactions for functions of diverse physiological condensates. We suggest that phase separation based on combinations of specific interactions and promiscuous IDR-driven interactions is likely a general feature of biological condensation under physiological conditions.
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- Zhe Feng
- Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong China.,School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong China
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- School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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The spatial organization of the genome in the cell nucleus is pivotal to cell function. However, how the 3D genome organization and its dynamics influence cellular phenotypes remains poorly understood. The very recent development of single-cell technologies for probing the 3D genome, especially single-cell Hi-C (scHi-C), has ushered in a new era of unveiling cell-to-cell variability of 3D genome features at an unprecedented resolution. Here, we review recent developments in computational approaches to the analysis of scHi-C, including data processing, dimensionality reduction, imputation for enhancing data quality, and the revealing of 3D genome features at single-cell resolution. While much progress has been made in computational method development to analyze single-cell 3D genomes, substantial future work is needed to improve data interpretation and multimodal data integration, which are critical to reveal fundamental connections between genome structure and function among heterogeneous cell populations in various biological contexts.
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- Tianming Zhou
- Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA;
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- Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA;
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- Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA;
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He H, Chen X, Feng Z, Liu L, Wang Q, Bi S. Nanoscopic Imaging of Nucleolar Stress Enabled by Protein-Mimicking Carbon Dots. NANO LETTERS 2021; 21:5689-5696. [PMID: 34181434 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The nucleolus is a central hub for coordinating cellular stress responses during cancer development and treatment. Accurate identification of nucleolar stress response is crucially desired for nucleolus-based diagnostics and therapeutics but technically challenging due to the need to address the ultrastructural analysis. Here, we report a protein-like CD with the integration of fluorescent blinking domains and RNA-binding motifs, which offers the ability to perform enhanced super-resolution imaging of the nucleolar ultrastructure. This image allows extraction of multidimensional information from the nucleolus for accurate distinguishment of different cells from the same cell types. Furthermore, we demonstrate for the first time this CD-depicted nucleolar ultrastructure as a sensitive hallmark to identify and discriminate subtle responses to various stressors as well as to afford RNA-related information that has been inaccessible by conventional immunofluorescence methods. This protein-mimicking CD could become a broadly useful probe for nucleolar stress studies in cell diagnostics and therapeutics.
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- Hua He
- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and College of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and College of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
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- Technical Center of Qingdao Customs District, Qingdao 266500, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and College of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and College of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and College of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
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Alvarado-Marchena L, Marquez-Molins J, Martinez-Perez M, Aparicio F, Pallás V. Mapping of Functional Subdomains in the atALKBH9B m 6A-Demethylase Required for Its Binding to the Viral RNA and to the Coat Protein of Alfalfa Mosaic Virus. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:701683. [PMID: 34290728 PMCID: PMC8287571 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.701683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification is a dynamically regulated RNA modification that impacts many cellular processes and pathways. This epitranscriptomic methylation relies on the participation of RNA methyltransferases (referred to as "writers") and demethylases (referred to as "erasers"), respectively. We previously demonstrated that the Arabidopsis thaliana protein atALKBH9B showed m6A-demethylase activity and interacted with the coat protein (CP) of alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV), causing a profound impact on the viral infection cycle. To dissect the functional activity of atALKBH9B in AMV infection, we performed a protein-mapping analysis to identify the putative domains required for regulating this process. In this context, the mutational analysis of the protein revealed that the residues between 427 and 467 positions are critical for in vitro binding to the AMV RNA. The atALKBH9B amino acid sequence showed intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) located at the N-terminal part delimiting the internal AlkB-like domain and at the C-terminal part. We identified an RNA binding domain containing an RGxxxRGG motif that overlaps with the C-terminal IDR. Moreover, bimolecular fluorescent experiments allowed us to determine that residues located between 387 and 427 are critical for the interaction with the AMV CP, which should be critical for modulating the viral infection process. Finally, we observed that atALKBH9B deletions of either N-terminal 20 residues or the C-terminal's last 40 amino acids impede their accumulation in siRNA bodies. The involvement of the regions responsible for RNA and viral CP binding and those required for its localization in stress granules in the viral cycle is discussed.
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Zhang M, Yang C, Zhu M, Qian L, Luo Y, Cheng H, Geng R, Xu X, Qian C, Liu Y. Saturated fatty acids entrap PDX1 in stress granules and impede islet beta cell function. Diabetologia 2021; 64:1144-1157. [PMID: 33569632 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-021-05389-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS Failure of pancreatic and duodenal homeobox factor 1 (PDX1) to localise in the nucleus of islet beta cells under high-fat diet (HFD) conditions may be an early functional defect that contributes to beta cell failure in type 2 diabetes; however, the mechanism of PDX1 intracellular mislocalisation is unclear. Stress granules (SGs) are membrane-less cytoplasmic structures formed under stress that impair nucleocytoplasmic transport by sequestering nucleocytoplasmic transport factors and components of the nuclear pore complex. In this study, we investigated the stimulators that trigger SG formation in islet beta cells and the effects of SGs on PDX1 localisation and beta cell function. METHODS The effect of palmitic acid (PA) on nucleocytoplasmic transport was investigated by using two reporters, S-tdTomato and S-GFP. SG assembly in rat insulinoma cell line INS1 cells, human islets under PA stress, and the pancreas of diet-induced obese mice was analysed using immunofluorescence and immunoblotting. SG protein components were identified through mass spectrometry. SG formation was blocked by specific inhibitors or genetic deletion of essential SG proteins, and then PDX1 localisation and beta cell function were investigated in vitro and in vivo. RESULTS We showed that saturated fatty acids (SFAs) are endogenous stressors that disrupted nucleocytoplasmic transport and stimulated SG formation in pancreatic beta cells. Using mass spectrometry approaches, we revealed that several nucleocytoplasmic transport factors and PDX1 were localised to SGs after SFA treatment, which inhibited glucose-induced insulin secretion. Furthermore, we found that SFAs induced SG formation in a phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (EIF2α) dependent manner. Disruption of SG assembly by PI3K/EIF2α inhibitors or genetic deletion of T cell restricted intracellular antigen 1 (TIA1) in pancreatic beta cells effectively suppressed PA-induced PDX1 mislocalisation and ameliorated HFD-mediated beta cell dysfunction. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION Our findings suggest a link between SG formation and beta cell dysfunction in the presence of SFAs. Preventing SG formation may be a potential therapeutic strategy for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes.
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- Mu Zhang
- Department of Endocrinology, Sir Run Run Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Sir Run Run Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Sir Run Run Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Sir Run Run Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Sir Run Run Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Sir Run Run Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Sir Run Run Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Sir Run Run Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
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- Department of Nephrology, Sir Run Run Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
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- Department of Endocrinology, Sir Run Run Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
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Wang Y, Zhang Y, Zhang R, van Schaik T, Zhang L, Sasaki T, Peric-Hupkes D, Chen Y, Gilbert DM, van Steensel B, Belmont AS, Ma J. SPIN reveals genome-wide landscape of nuclear compartmentalization. Genome Biol 2021; 22:36. [PMID: 33446254 PMCID: PMC7809771 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-020-02253-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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We report SPIN, an integrative computational method to reveal genome-wide intranuclear chromosome positioning and nuclear compartmentalization relative to multiple nuclear structures, which are pivotal for modulating genome function. As a proof-of-principle, we use SPIN to integrate nuclear compartment mapping (TSA-seq and DamID) and chromatin interaction data (Hi-C) from K562 cells to identify 10 spatial compartmentalization states genome-wide relative to nuclear speckles, lamina, and putative associations with nucleoli. These SPIN states show novel patterns of genome spatial organization and their relation to other 3D genome features and genome function (transcription and replication timing). SPIN provides critical insights into nuclear spatial and functional compartmentalization.
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- Yuchuan Wang
- Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 15213 PA USA
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- Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 15213 PA USA
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- Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 15213 PA USA
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- Oncode Institute and Division of Gene Regulation, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, Amsterdam, 1066 CX The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801 IL USA
- Present Address: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, 02142 MA USA
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- Department of Biological Science, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, 32304 FL USA
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- Oncode Institute and Division of Gene Regulation, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, Amsterdam, 1066 CX The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801 IL USA
- Present Address: Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 CA USA
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- Department of Biological Science, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, 32304 FL USA
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- Oncode Institute and Division of Gene Regulation, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, Amsterdam, 1066 CX The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801 IL USA
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- Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 15213 PA USA
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Behavior control of membrane-less protein liquid condensates with metal ion-induced phase separation. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5554. [PMID: 33144560 PMCID: PMC7642319 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19391-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Phase separation of specific biomolecules into liquid droplet-like condensates is a key mechanism to form membrane-less organelles, which spatio-temporally organize diverse biochemical processes in cells. To investigate the working principles of these biomolecular condensates as dynamic reaction centers, precise control of diverse condensate properties is essential. Here, we design a strategy for metal ion-induced clustering of minimal protein modules to produce liquid protein condensates, the properties of which can be widely varied by simple manipulation of the protein clustering systems. The droplet forming-minimal module contains only a single receptor protein and a binding ligand peptide with a hexahistidine tag for divalent metal ion-mediated clustering. A wide range of protein condensate properties such as droplet forming tendency, droplet morphology, inside protein diffusivity, protein recruitment, and droplet density can be varied by adjusting the nature of receptor/ligand pairs or used metal ions, metal/protein ratios, incubation time, binding motif variation on recruited proteins, and even spacing between receptor/ligand pairs and the hexahistidine tag. We also demonstrate metal-ion-induced protein phase separation in cells. The present phase separation strategy provides highly versatile protein condensates, which will greatly facilitate investigation of molecular and structural codes of droplet-forming proteins and the monitoring of biomolecular behaviors inside diverse protein condensates. Mimetic membrane-less organelles are of interest for the range of biochemical processes which can be spatio-temporally organized using them. Here, the authors report on a protein condensate system formed by metal ion induced clustering and demonstrate control over condensate properties.
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Jalihal AP, Pitchiaya S, Xiao L, Bawa P, Jiang X, Bedi K, Parolia A, Cieslik M, Ljungman M, Chinnaiyan AM, Walter NG. Multivalent Proteins Rapidly and Reversibly Phase-Separate upon Osmotic Cell Volume Change. Mol Cell 2020; 79:978-990.e5. [PMID: 32857953 PMCID: PMC7502480 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2019] [Revised: 06/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Processing bodies (PBs) and stress granules (SGs) are prominent examples of subcellular, membraneless compartments that are observed under physiological and stress conditions, respectively. We observe that the trimeric PB protein DCP1A rapidly (within ∼10 s) phase-separates in mammalian cells during hyperosmotic stress and dissolves upon isosmotic rescue (over ∼100 s) with minimal effect on cell viability even after multiple cycles of osmotic perturbation. Strikingly, this rapid intracellular hyperosmotic phase separation (HOPS) correlates with the degree of cell volume compression, distinct from SG assembly, and is exhibited broadly by homo-multimeric (valency ≥ 2) proteins across several cell types. Notably, HOPS sequesters pre-mRNA cleavage factor components from actively transcribing genomic loci, providing a mechanism for hyperosmolarity-induced global impairment of transcription termination. Our data suggest that the multimeric proteome rapidly responds to changes in hydration and molecular crowding, revealing an unexpected mode of globally programmed phase separation and sequestration.
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- Ameya P Jalihal
- Single Molecule Analysis Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- Single Molecule Analysis Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA; Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Center for RNA Biomedicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Chavali S, Singh AK, Santhanam B, Babu MM. Amino acid homorepeats in proteins. Nat Rev Chem 2020; 4:420-434. [PMID: 37127972 DOI: 10.1038/s41570-020-0204-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Amino acid homorepeats, or homorepeats, are polypeptide segments found in proteins that contain stretches of identical amino acid residues. Although abnormal homorepeat expansions are linked to pathologies such as neurodegenerative diseases, homorepeats are prevalent in eukaryotic proteomes, suggesting that they are important for normal physiology. In this Review, we discuss recent advances in our understanding of the biological functions of homorepeats, which range from facilitating subcellular protein localization to mediating interactions between proteins across diverse cellular pathways. We explore how the functional diversity of homorepeat-containing proteins could be linked to the ability of homorepeats to adopt different structural conformations, an ability influenced by repeat composition, repeat length and the nature of flanking sequences. We conclude by highlighting how an understanding of homorepeats will help us better characterize and develop therapeutics against the human diseases to which they contribute.
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- Sreenivas Chavali
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, UK.
- Department of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati, India.
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- Department of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati, India
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Structural Biology and Center for Data Driven Discovery, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, UK.
- Department of Structural Biology and Center for Data Driven Discovery, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
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Pliss A, Prasad PN. High resolution mapping of subcellular refractive index by Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging: a next frontier in quantitative cell science? Methods Appl Fluoresc 2020; 8:032001. [PMID: 32235079 DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/ab8571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Intracellular refractive index (RI) is an essential biophysical parameter, which best represents the mass and the distribution of proteins in the cell interior, including high-density accumulations in membraneless organelles. For RI measurements, a number of sophisticated techniques have been developed; however most of the new approaches are either insufficiently sensitive to intracellular variations of proteins distribution or are not compatible with live cell studies. Here, we outline the fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) strategy for high resolution mapping of subcellular RI. We provide an example of our recent studies in which we utilize FLIM for measurements and monitoring of local RI in the major membraneless organelles within live cultured cells.
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Ganser LR, Kelly ML, Herschlag D, Al-Hashimi HM. The roles of structural dynamics in the cellular functions of RNAs. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2020; 20:474-489. [PMID: 31182864 DOI: 10.1038/s41580-019-0136-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 263] [Impact Index Per Article: 65.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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RNAs fold into 3D structures that range from simple helical elements to complex tertiary structures and quaternary ribonucleoprotein assemblies. The functions of many regulatory RNAs depend on how their 3D structure changes in response to a diverse array of cellular conditions. In this Review, we examine how the structural characterization of RNA as dynamic ensembles of conformations, which form with different probabilities and at different timescales, is improving our understanding of RNA function in cells. We discuss the mechanisms of gene regulation by microRNAs, riboswitches, ribozymes, post-transcriptional RNA modifications and RNA-binding proteins, and how the cellular environment and processes such as liquid-liquid phase separation may affect RNA folding and activity. The emerging RNA-ensemble-function paradigm is changing our perspective and understanding of RNA regulation, from in vitro to in vivo and from descriptive to predictive.
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- Laura R Ganser
- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford ChEM-H Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine for Human Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford ChEM-H Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine for Human Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Department of Chemistry, Stanford ChEM-H Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine for Human Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA. .,Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
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ARS2 Regulates Nuclear Paraspeckle Formation through 3'-End Processing and Stability of NEAT1 Long Noncoding RNA. Mol Cell Biol 2020; 40:MCB.00269-19. [PMID: 31818879 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00269-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2019] [Accepted: 11/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Nuclear paraspeckle assembly transcript 1 (NEAT1) is a long noncoding RNA that functions as an essential framework of subnuclear paraspeckle bodies. Of the two isoforms (NEAT1_1 and NEAT1_2) produced by alternative 3'-end RNA processing, the longer isoform, NEAT1_2, plays a crucial role in paraspeckle formation. Here, we demonstrate that the 3'-end processing and stability of NEAT1 RNAs are regulated by arsenic resistance protein 2 (ARS2), a factor interacting with the cap-binding complex (CBC) that binds to the m7G cap structure of RNA polymerase II transcripts. The knockdown of ARS2 inhibited the association between NEAT1 and mammalian cleavage factor I (CFIm), which produces the shorter isoform, NEAT1_1. Furthermore, the knockdown of ARS2 led to the preferential stabilization of NEAT1_2. As a result, NEAT1_2 RNA levels were markedly elevated in ARS2 knockdown cells, leading to an increase in the number of paraspeckles. These results reveal a suppressive role for ARS2 in NEAT1_2 expression and the subsequent formation of paraspeckles.
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Wingett SW, Andrews S, Fraser P, Morf J. RNA proximity sequencing data and analysis pipeline from a human neuroblastoma nuclear transcriptome. Sci Data 2020; 7:35. [PMID: 31992717 PMCID: PMC6987088 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0372-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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We have previously developed and described a method for measuring RNA co-locations within cells, called Proximity RNA-seq, which promises insights into RNA expression, processing, storage and translation. Here, we describe transcriptome-wide proximity RNA-seq datasets obtained from human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cell nuclei. To aid future users of this method, we also describe and release our analysis pipeline, CloseCall, which maps cDNA to a custom transcript annotation and allocates cDNA-linked barcodes to barcode groups. CloseCall then performs Monte Carlo simulations on the data to identify pairs of transcripts, which are co-barcoded more frequently than expected by chance. Furthermore, derived co-barcoding frequencies for individual transcripts, dubbed valency, serve as proxies for RNA density or connectivity for that given transcript. We outline how this pipeline was applied to these sequencing datasets and openly share the processed data outputs and access to a virtual machine that runs CloseCall. The resulting data specify the spatial organization of RNAs and builds hypotheses for potential regulatory relationships between RNAs. Measurement(s) | RNA • Proximity | Technology Type(s) | RNA sequencing | Factor Type(s) | biological replicate | Sample Characteristic - Organism | Homo sapiens |
Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11627397
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- Steven W Wingett
- Laboratory of Nuclear Dynamics, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK. .,Bioinformatics, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK.
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Dynamics, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK.,Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Dynamics, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK.
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Shattuck JE, Cascarina SM, Paul KR, Ross ED. Sky1: at the intersection of prion-like proteins and stress granule regulation. Curr Genet 2019; 66:463-468. [PMID: 31745569 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-019-01044-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Revised: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 11/06/2019] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Serine-arginine (SR) protein kinases regulate diverse cellular activities, including various steps in RNA maturation and transport. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae expresses a single SR kinase, Sky1. Sky1 has a bipartite kinase domain, separated by an aggregation-prone prion-like domain (PrLD). The assembly of PrLDs is involved in the formation of various membraneless organelles, including stress granules; stress granules are reversible ribonucleoprotein assemblies that form in response to a variety of stresses. Here, we review a recent study suggesting that Sky1's PrLD promotes Sky1 recruitment to stress granules, and that Sky1 regulates stress granule dissolution by phosphorylating the RNA-shuttling protein Npl3.
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- Jenifer E Shattuck
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA.
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Glinsky GV. A Catalogue of 59,732 Human-Specific Regulatory Sequences Reveals Unique-to-Human Regulatory Patterns Associated with Virus-Interacting Proteins, Pluripotency, and Brain Development. DNA Cell Biol 2019; 39:126-143. [PMID: 31730374 DOI: 10.1089/dna.2019.4988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Extensive searches for genomic regions harboring various types of candidate human-specific regulatory sequences (HSRS) identified thousands' HSRS using high-resolution next-generation sequencing technologies and methodologically diverse comparative analyses of human and nonhuman primates' (NHPs) reference genomes. In this study, a comprehensive catalogue of 59,732 genomic loci harboring candidate HSRS has been assembled to facilitate the systematic analyses of genomic sequences that were either inherited from extinct common ancestors (ECAs) or created de novo in human genomes. These analyses identified thousands of candidate HSRS and HSRS-harboring loci that appear inherited from ECAs, yet absent in genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives, chimpanzee and bonobo, presumably due to the incomplete lineage sorting and/or species-specific loss or regulatory DNA. This pattern is particularly prominent for HSRS-harboring loci that have been putatively associated with human-specific gene expression changes in cerebral organoid models. A prominent majority of regions harboring human-specific mutations associated with human-specific expression changes during brain development is highly conserved in chimpanzee, bonobo, and gorilla genomes. Among NHPs, dominant fractions of HSRS-harboring loci associated with human-specific gene expression in both excitatory neurons (347 loci; 67%) and radial glia (683 loci; 72%) are highly conserved in the gorilla genome. Analysis of 4433 genes encoding virus-interacting proteins (VIPs) revealed that 95.9% of human VIPs are components of human-specific regulatory networks that appear to operate in distinct types of human cells from preimplantation embryos to adult dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. These analyses demonstrate that modern humans captured unique genome-wide combinations of regulatory sequences, divergent subsets of which are highly conserved in distinct species of six NHP separated by 30 million years of evolution. Concurrently, this unique-to-human mosaic of genomic regulatory patterns inherited from ECAs was supplemented with 12,486 created de novo HSRS. Genes encoding VIPs appear to represent a principal genomic target during evolution of human-specific regulatory networks, which contribute to fitness of Homo sapiens and affect a functionally diverse spectrum of biological and cellular processes controlled by VIP-containing liquid-liquid phase-separated condensates.
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- Gennadi V Glinsky
- Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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Ohyama T. New Aspects of Magnesium Function: A Key Regulator in Nucleosome Self-Assembly, Chromatin Folding and Phase Separation. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20174232. [PMID: 31470631 PMCID: PMC6747271 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20174232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2019] [Revised: 08/21/2019] [Accepted: 08/26/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Metal cations are associated with many biological processes. The effects of these cations on nucleic acids and chromatin were extensively studied in the early stages of nucleic acid and chromatin research. The results revealed that some monovalent and divalent metal cations, including Mg2+, profoundly affect the conformations and stabilities of nucleic acids, the folding of chromatin fibers, and the extent of chromosome condensation. Apart from these effects, there have only been a few reports on the functions of these cations. In 2007 and 2013, however, Mg2+-implicated novel phenomena were found: Mg2+ facilitates or enables both self-assembly of identical double-stranded (ds) DNA molecules and self-assembly of identical nucleosomes in vitro. These phenomena may be deeply implicated in the heterochromatin domain formation and chromatin-based phase separation. Furthermore, a recent study showed that elevation of the intranuclear Mg2+ concentration causes unusual differentiation of mouse ES (embryonic stem) cells. All of these phenomena seem to be closely related to one another. Mg2+ seems to be a key regulator of chromatin dynamics and chromatin-based biological processes.
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- Takashi Ohyama
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8480, Japan.
- Major in Integrative Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8480, Japan.
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Shattuck JE, Paul KR, Cascarina SM, Ross ED. The prion-like protein kinase Sky1 is required for efficient stress granule disassembly. Nat Commun 2019; 10:3614. [PMID: 31399582 PMCID: PMC6688984 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11550-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2018] [Accepted: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Stress granules are membraneless protein- and mRNA-rich organelles that form in response to perturbations in environmental conditions. Stress granule formation is reversible, and persistent stress granules have been implicated in a variety of neurodegenerative disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. However, characterization of the factors involved in dissolving stress granules is incomplete. Many stress granule proteins contain prion-like domains (PrLDs), some of which have been linked to stress granule formation. Here, we demonstrate that the PrLD-containing yeast protein kinase Sky1 is a stress granule component. Sky1 is recruited to stress granules in part via its PrLD, and Sky1's kinase activity regulates timely stress granule disassembly during stress recovery. This effect is mediated by phosphorylation of the stress granule component Npl3. Sky1 can compensate for defects in chaperone-mediated stress granule disassembly and vice-versa, demonstrating that cells have multiple overlapping mechanisms for re-solubilizing stress granule components.
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- Jenifer E Shattuck
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
- Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA.
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Rodriguez CM, Todd PK. New pathologic mechanisms in nucleotide repeat expansion disorders. Neurobiol Dis 2019; 130:104515. [PMID: 31229686 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2019.104515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2019] [Revised: 06/07/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Tandem microsatellite repeats are common throughout the human genome and intrinsically unstable, exhibiting expansions and contractions both somatically and across generations. Instability in a small subset of these repeats are currently linked to human disease, although recent findings suggest more disease-causing repeats await discovery. These nucleotide repeat expansion disorders (NREDs) primarily affect the nervous system and commonly lead to neurodegeneration through toxic protein gain-of-function, protein loss-of-function, and toxic RNA gain-of-function mechanisms. However, the lines between these categories have blurred with recent findings of unconventional Repeat Associated Non-AUG (RAN) translation from putatively non-coding regions of the genome. Here we review two emerging topics in NREDs: 1) The mechanisms by which RAN translation occurs and its role in disease pathogenesis and 2) How nucleotide repeats as RNA and translated proteins influence liquid-liquid phase separation, membraneless organelle dynamics, and nucleocytoplasmic transport. We examine these topics with a particular eye on two repeats: the CGG repeat expansion responsible for Fragile X syndrome and Fragile X-associated Tremor Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) and the intronic GGGGCC repeat expansion in C9orf72, the most common inherited cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Our thesis is that these emerging disease mechanisms can inform a broader understanding of the native roles of microsatellites in cellular function and that aberrations in these native processes provide clues to novel therapeutic strategies for these currently untreatable disorders.
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- C M Rodriguez
- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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Grimaldi G, Catara G, Palazzo L, Corteggio A, Valente C, Corda D. PARPs and PAR as novel pharmacological targets for the treatment of stress granule-associated disorders. Biochem Pharmacol 2019; 167:64-75. [PMID: 31102582 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2019.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Among the post-translational modifications, ADP-ribosylation has been for long time the least integrated in the scheme of the structural protein modifications affecting physiological functions. In spite of the original findings on bacterial-dependent ADP-ribosylation catalysed by toxins such as cholera and pertussis toxin, only with the discovery of the poly-ADP-ribosyl polymerase (PARP) family the field has finally expanded and the role of ADP-ribosylation has been recognised in both physiological and pathological processes, including cancer, infectious and neurodegenerative diseases. This is now a rapidly expanding field of investigation, centred on the role of the different PARPs and their substrates in various diseases, and on the potential of PARP inhibitors as novel pharmacological tools to be employed in relevant pathological context. In this review we analyse the role that members of the PARP family and poly-ADP-ribose (PAR; the product of PARP1 and PARP5a activity) play in the processes following the exposure of cells to different stresses. The cell response that arises following conditions such as heat, osmotic, oxidative stresses or viral infection relies on the formation of stress granules, which are transient cytoplasmic membrane-less structures, that include untranslated mRNA, specific proteins and PAR, this last one serving as the "collector" of all components (that bind to it in a non-covalent manner). The resulting phenotypes are cells in which translation, intracellular transport or pro-apoptotic pathways are reversibly inhibited, for the time the given stress holds. Interestingly, the formation of defective stress granules has been detected in diverse pathological conditions including neurological disorders and cancer. Analysing the molecular details of stress granule formation under these conditions offers a novel view on the pathogenesis of these diseases and, as a consequence, the possibility of identifying novel drug targets for their treatment.
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- Giovanna Grimaldi
- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples 80131, Italy.
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- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples 80131, Italy
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- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples 80131, Italy
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- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples 80131, Italy
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- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples 80131, Italy
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- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples 80131, Italy.
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Pitchiaya S, Mourao MDA, Jalihal AP, Xiao L, Jiang X, Chinnaiyan AM, Schnell S, Walter NG. Dynamic Recruitment of Single RNAs to Processing Bodies Depends on RNA Functionality. Mol Cell 2019; 74:521-533.e6. [PMID: 30952514 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2018] [Revised: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Cellular RNAs often colocalize with cytoplasmic, membrane-less ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules enriched for RNA-processing enzymes, termed processing bodies (PBs). Here we track the dynamic localization of individual miRNAs, mRNAs, and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) to PBs using intracellular single-molecule fluorescence microscopy. We find that unused miRNAs stably bind to PBs, whereas functional miRNAs, repressed mRNAs, and lncRNAs both transiently and stably localize within either the core or periphery of PBs, albeit to different extents. Consequently, translation potential and 3' versus 5' placement of miRNA target sites significantly affect the PB localization dynamics of mRNAs. Using computational modeling and supporting experimental approaches, we show that partitioning in the PB phase attenuates mRNA silencing, suggesting that physiological mRNA turnover occurs predominantly outside of PBs. Instead, our data support a PB role in sequestering unused miRNAs for surveillance and provide a framework for investigating the dynamic assembly of RNP granules by phase separation at single-molecule resolution.
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- Sethuramasundaram Pitchiaya
- Single Molecule Analysis Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA; Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA
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- Single Molecule Analysis Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA
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- Single Molecule Analysis Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA.
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Cycles of protein condensation and discharge in nuclear organelles studied by fluorescence lifetime imaging. Nat Commun 2019; 10:455. [PMID: 30692529 PMCID: PMC6349932 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08354-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/03/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Nuclear organelles are viscous droplets, created by concentration-dependent condensation and liquid–liquid phase separation of soluble proteins. Nuclear organelles have been actively investigated for their role in cellular regulation and disease. However, these studies are highly challenging to perform in live cells, and therefore, their physico-chemical properties are still poorly understood. In this study, we describe a fluorescence lifetime imaging approach for real-time monitoring of protein condensation in nuclear organelles of live cultured cells. This approach unravels surprisingly large cyclic changes in concentration of proteins in major nuclear organelles including nucleoli, nuclear speckles, Cajal bodies, as well as in the clusters of heterochromatin. Remarkably, protein concentration changes are synchronous for different organelles of the same cells. We propose a molecular mechanism responsible for synchronous accumulations of proteins in the nuclear organelles. This mechanism can serve for general regulation of cellular metabolism and contribute to coordination of gene expression. Studying the condensation of proteins into membraneless organelles in live cells is highly challenging. Here the authors develop a fluorescence lifetime imaging approach to monitor the condensation of proteins in nuclear organelles and report coordinated and cyclic changes in several nuclear organelles.
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Neueder A. RNA-Mediated Disease Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Disorders. J Mol Biol 2018; 431:1780-1791. [PMID: 30597161 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2018] [Revised: 12/14/2018] [Accepted: 12/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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RNA is accurately entangled in virtually all pathways that maintain cellular homeostasis. To name but a few, RNA is the "messenger" between DNA encoded information and the resulting proteins. Furthermore, RNAs regulate diverse processes by forming DNA::RNA or RNA::RNA interactions. Finally, RNA itself can be the scaffold for ribonucleoprotein complexes, for example, ribosomes or cellular bodies. Consequently, disruption of any of these processes can lead to disease. This review describes known and emerging RNA-based disease mechanisms like interference with regular splicing, the anomalous appearance of RNA-protein complexes and uncommon RNA species, as well as non-canonical translation. Due to the complexity and entanglement of the above-mentioned pathways, only few drugs are available that target RNA-based disease mechanisms. However, advances in our understanding how RNA is involved in and modulates cellular homeostasis might pave the way to novel treatments.
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- Andreas Neueder
- Experimental Neurology, Department of Neurology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
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Berry J, Brangwynne CP, Haataja M. Physical principles of intracellular organization via active and passive phase transitions. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2018; 81:046601. [PMID: 29313527 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/aaa61e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 246] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Exciting recent developments suggest that phase transitions represent an important and ubiquitous mechanism underlying intracellular organization. We describe key experimental findings in this area of study, as well as the application of classical theoretical approaches for quantitatively understanding these data. We also discuss the way in which equilibrium thermodynamic driving forces may interface with the fundamentally out-of-equilibrium nature of living cells. In particular, time and/or space-dependent concentration profiles may modulate the phase behavior of biomolecules in living cells. We suggest future directions for both theoretical and experimental work that will shed light on the way in which biological activity modulates the assembly, properties, and function of viscoelastic states of living matter.
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- Joel Berry
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States of America. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States of America
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Protter DSW, Rao BS, Van Treeck B, Lin Y, Mizoue L, Rosen MK, Parker R. Intrinsically Disordered Regions Can Contribute Promiscuous Interactions to RNP Granule Assembly. Cell Rep 2018; 22:1401-1412. [PMID: 29425497 PMCID: PMC5824733 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.01.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 207] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Revised: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Eukaryotic cells contain large RNA-protein assemblies referred to as RNP granules, whose assembly is promoted by both traditional protein interactions and intrinsically disordered protein domains. Using RNP granules as an example, we provide evidence for an assembly mechanism of large cellular structures wherein specific protein-protein or protein-RNA interactions act together with promiscuous interactions of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). This synergistic assembly mechanism illuminates RNP granule assembly and explains why many components of RNP granules, and other large dynamic assemblies, contain IDRs linked to specific protein-protein or protein-RNA interaction modules. We suggest assemblies based on combinations of specific interactions and promiscuous IDRs are common features of eukaryotic cells.
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- David S W Protter
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
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Stachecka J, Walczak A, Kociucka B, Ruszczycki B, Wilczyński G, Szczerbal I. Nuclear organization during in vitro differentiation of porcine mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into adipocytes. Histochem Cell Biol 2017; 149:113-126. [PMID: 29134302 DOI: 10.1007/s00418-017-1618-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Differentiation of progenitor cells into adipocytes is accompanied by remarkable changes in cell morphology, cytoskeletal organization, and gene expression profile. Mature adipocytes are filled with a large lipid droplet and the nucleus tends to move to the cell periphery. It was hypothesized that the differentiation process is also associated with changes of nuclear organization. The aim of this study was to determine the number and distribution of selected components of nuclear architecture during porcine in vitro adipogenesis. The pig is an important animal model sharing many similarities to humans at the anatomical, physiological, and genetic levels and has been recognized as a good model for human obesity. Thus, understanding how cellular structures important for fundamental nuclear processes may be altered during adipocyte differentiation is of great importance. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) were derived from bone marrow (BM-MSCs) and adipose tissue (AD-MSCs) and were cultured for 7 days in the adipogenic medium. A variable differentiation potential of these cell populations towards adipogenic lineage was observed, and for further study, a comparative characteristic of the nuclear organization in BM-MSCs and AD-MSCs was performed. Nuclear substructures were visualized by indirect immunofluorescence (nucleoli, nuclear speckles, PML bodies, lamins, and HP1α) or fluorescence in situ hybridization (telomeres) on fixed cells at 0, 3, 5, and 7 days of differentiation. Comprehensive characterization of these structures, in terms of their number, size, dynamics, and arrangement in three-dimensional space of the nucleus, was performed. It was found that during differentiation of porcine MSCs into adipocytes, changes of nuclear organization occurred and concerned: (1) the nuclear size and shape; (2) reduced lamin A/C expression; and (3) reorganization of chromocenters. Other elements of nuclear architecture such as nucleoli, SC-35 nuclear speckles, and telomeres showed no significant changes when compared to undifferentiated and mature fat cells. In addition, the presence of a low number of PML bodies was characteristic of the studied porcine mesenchymal stem cell adipogenesis system. It has been shown that the arrangement of selected components of nuclear architecture was very similar in MSCs derived from different sources, whereas adipocyte differentiation involves nuclear reorganization. This study adds new data on nuclear organization during adipogenesis using the pig as a model organism.
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- Joanna Stachecka
- Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wolynska 33, 60-637, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Gene Expression, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wolynska 33, 60-637, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pasteura 3, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pasteura 3, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wolynska 33, 60-637, Poznan, Poland.
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Lin Y, Currie SL, Rosen MK. Intrinsically disordered sequences enable modulation of protein phase separation through distributed tyrosine motifs. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:19110-19120. [PMID: 28924037 PMCID: PMC5704491 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.800466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 251] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2017] [Revised: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is thought to contribute to the establishment of many biomolecular condensates, eukaryotic cell structures that concentrate diverse macromolecules but lack a bounding membrane. RNA granules control RNA metabolism and comprise a large class of condensates that are enriched in RNA-binding proteins and RNA molecules. Many RNA granule proteins are composed of both modular domains and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) having low amino acid sequence complexity. Phase separation of these molecules likely plays an important role in the generation and stability of RNA granules. To understand how folded domains and IDRs can cooperate to modulate LLPS, we generated a series of engineered proteins. These were based on fusions of an IDR derived from the RNA granule protein FUS (fused in sarcoma) to a multivalent poly-Src homology 3 (SH3) domain protein that phase-separates when mixed with a poly-proline–rich-motif (polyPRM) ligand. We found that the wild-type IDR promotes LLPS of the polySH3–polyPRM system, decreasing the phase separation threshold concentration by 8-fold. Systematic mutation of tyrosine residues in Gly/Ser-Tyr-Gly/Ser motifs of the IDR reduced this effect, depending on the number but not on the position of these substitutions. Mutating all tyrosines to non-aromatic residues or phosphorylating the IDR raised the phase separation threshold above that of the unmodified polySH3–polyPRM pair. These results show that low-complexity IDRs can modulate LLPS both positively and negatively, depending on the degree of aromaticity and phosphorylation status. Our findings provide plausible mechanisms by which these sequences could alter RNA granule properties on evolutionary and cellular timescales.
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- Yuan Lin
- From the Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and.,the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dallas, Texas 75390
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- From the Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and.,the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dallas, Texas 75390
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- From the Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and .,the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dallas, Texas 75390
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Park H, Kim NY, Lee S, Kim N, Kim J, Heo WD. Optogenetic protein clustering through fluorescent protein tagging and extension of CRY2. Nat Commun 2017. [PMID: 28646204 PMCID: PMC5482817 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00060-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Protein homo-oligomerization is an important molecular mechanism in many biological processes. Therefore, the ability to control protein homo-oligomerization allows the manipulation and interrogation of numerous cellular events. To achieve this, cryptochrome 2 (CRY2) from Arabidopsis thaliana has been recently utilized for blue light-dependent spatiotemporal control of protein homo-oligomerization. However, limited knowledge on molecular characteristics of CRY2 obscures its widespread applications. Here, we identify important determinants for efficient cryptochrome 2 clustering and introduce a new CRY2 module, named ‘‘CRY2clust’’, to induce rapid and efficient homo-oligomerization of target proteins by employing diverse fluorescent proteins and an extremely short peptide. Furthermore, we demonstrate advancement and versatility of CRY2clust by comparing against previously reported optogenetic tools. Our work not only expands the optogenetic clustering toolbox but also provides a guideline for designing CRY2-based new optogenetic modules. Cryptochrome 2 (CRY2) from A. thaliana can be used to control light-dependent protein homo-oligomerization, but the molecular mechanism of CRY2 clustering is not known, limiting its application. Here the authors identify determinants of CRY2 clustering and engineer fusion partners to modulate clustering efficiency.
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- Hyerim Park
- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Cognition and Sociality, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Cognition and Sociality, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea. .,Center for Cognition and Sociality, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.
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Santamaria N, Alhothali M, Alfonso MH, Breydo L, Uversky VN. Intrinsic disorder in proteins involved in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Cell Mol Life Sci 2017; 74:1297-1318. [PMID: 27838743 PMCID: PMC11107678 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-016-2416-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2016] [Revised: 10/17/2016] [Accepted: 11/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Five structurally and functionally different proteins, an enzyme superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1), a TAR-DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43), an RNA-binding protein FUS, a cofilin-binding protein C9orf72, and polypeptides generated as a result of its intronic hexanucleotide expansions, and to lesser degree actin-binding profilin-1 (PFN1), are considered to be the major drivers of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. One of the features common to these proteins is the presence of significant levels of intrinsic disorder. The goal of this study is to consider these neurodegeneration-related proteins from the intrinsic disorder perspective. To this end, we employed a broad set of computational tools for intrinsic disorder analysis and conducted intensive literature search to gain information on the structural peculiarities of SOD1, TDP-43, FUS, C9orf72, and PFN1 and their intrinsic disorder predispositions, and the roles of intrinsic disorder in their normal and pathological functions.
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- Nikolas Santamaria
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. MDC07, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. MDC07, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. MDC07, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. MDC07, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
- USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. MDC07, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.
- USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.
- Laboratory of Structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Lo Piccolo L, Attardi A, Bonaccorso R, Li Greci L, Giurato G, Ingrassia AMR, Onorati MC. ISWI ATP-dependent remodeling of nucleoplasmic ω-speckles in the brain of Drosophila melanogaster. J Genet Genomics 2016; 44:85-94. [PMID: 28209301 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2016.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2016] [Revised: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 12/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) belong to the RNA-binding proteins family. They are involved in processing heterogeneous nuclear RNAs (hnRNAs) into mature mRNAs. These proteins participate in every step of mRNA cycle, such as mRNA export, localization, translation, stability and alternative splicing. At least 14 major hnRNPs, which have structural and functional homologues in mammals, are expressed in Drosophila melanogaster. Until now, six of these hnRNPs are known to be nucleus-localized and associated with the long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) heat shock responsive ω (hsrω) in the omega speckle compartments (ω-speckles). The chromatin remodeler ISWI is the catalytic subunit of several ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling complexes, and it is an essential factor for organization of ω-speckles. Indeed, in ISWI null mutant, severe defects in ω-speckles structure are detectable. Here, we clarify the role of ISWI in the hnRNPs‒hsrω interaction. Moreover, we describe how ISWI by its remodeling activity, controls hsrω and hnRNPs engagement in ω-speckles. Finally, we demonstrate that the sequestration of hnRNPs in ω-speckles nuclear compartment is a fundamental event in gene expression control and represents a key step in the regulation of several pathways.
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- Luca Lo Piccolo
- STEBICEF Department, University of Palermo, Palermo 90128, Italy
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- STEBICEF Department, University of Palermo, Palermo 90128, Italy
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- STEBICEF Department, University of Palermo, Palermo 90128, Italy
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- STEBICEF Department, University of Palermo, Palermo 90128, Italy
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- Genomix4Life Srl, University of Salerno, Baronissi Campus, Salerno 84081, Italy
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Pedley AM, Benkovic SJ. A New View into the Regulation of Purine Metabolism: The Purinosome. Trends Biochem Sci 2016; 42:141-154. [PMID: 28029518 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2016.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 333] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2016] [Revised: 09/23/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Other than serving as building blocks for DNA and RNA, purine metabolites provide a cell with the necessary energy and cofactors to promote cell survival and proliferation. A renewed interest in how purine metabolism may fuel cancer progression has uncovered a new perspective into how a cell regulates purine need. Under cellular conditions of high purine demand, the de novo purine biosynthetic enzymes cluster near mitochondria and microtubules to form dynamic multienzyme complexes referred to as 'purinosomes'. In this review, we highlight the purinosome as a novel level of metabolic organization of enzymes in cells, its consequences for regulation of purine metabolism, and the extent that purine metabolism is being targeted for the treatment of cancers.
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- Anthony M Pedley
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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Höfer CT, Jolmes F, Haralampiev I, Veit M, Herrmann A. Influenza A virus nucleoprotein targets subnuclear structures. Cell Microbiol 2016; 19. [PMID: 27696627 DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2015] [Revised: 09/20/2016] [Accepted: 09/30/2016] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The Influenza A virus nucleoprotein (NP) is the major protein component of the genomic viral ribonucleoprotein (vRNP) complexes, which are the replication- and transcription-competent units of Influenza viruses. Early during infection, NP mediates import of vRNPs into the host cell nucleus where viral replication and transcription take place; also newly synthesized NP molecules are targeted into the nucleus, enabling coreplicational assembly of progeny vRNPs. NP reportedly acts as regulatory factor during infection, and it is known to be involved in numerous interactions with host cell proteins. Yet, the NP-host cell interplay is still poorly understood. Here, we report that NP significantly interacts with the nuclear compartment and displays distinct affinities for different subnuclear structures. NP subnuclear behavior was studied by expression of fluorescent NP fusion proteins - including obligate monomeric NP - and site-specific fluorescence photoactivation measurements. We found that NP constructs accumulate in subnuclear domains frequently found adjacent to or overlapping with promyelocytic leukemia bodies and Cajal bodies. Targeting of NP to Cajal bodies could further be demonstrated in the context of virus infection. We hypothesize that by targeting functional nuclear organization, NP might either link viral replication to specific cellular machinery or interfere with host cell processes.
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- Chris T Höfer
- IRI Life Sciences, Department of Biology, Molecular Biophysics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Virology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- IRI Life Sciences, Department of Biology, Molecular Biophysics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- IRI Life Sciences, Department of Biology, Molecular Biophysics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Virology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- IRI Life Sciences, Department of Biology, Molecular Biophysics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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