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Han X, Xing L, Hong Y, Zhang X, Hao B, Lu JY, Huang M, Wang Z, Ma S, Zhan G, Li T, Hao X, Tao Y, Li G, Zhou S, Zheng Z, Shao W, Zeng Y, Ma D, Zhang W, Xie Z, Deng H, Yan J, Deng W, Shen X. Nuclear RNA homeostasis promotes systems-level coordination of cell fate and senescence. Cell Stem Cell 2024; 31:694-716.e11. [PMID: 38631356 DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2024.03.015] [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: 09/22/2023] [Revised: 02/01/2024] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024]
Abstract
Understanding cellular coordination remains a challenge despite knowledge of individual pathways. The RNA exosome, targeting a wide range of RNA substrates, is often downregulated in cellular senescence. Utilizing an auxin-inducible system, we observed that RNA exosome depletion in embryonic stem cells significantly affects the transcriptome and proteome, causing pluripotency loss and pre-senescence onset. Mechanistically, exosome depletion triggers acute nuclear RNA aggregation, disrupting nuclear RNA-protein equilibrium. This disturbance limits nuclear protein availability and hinders polymerase initiation and engagement, reducing gene transcription. Concurrently, it promptly disrupts nucleolar transcription, ribosomal processes, and nuclear exporting, resulting in a translational shutdown. Prolonged exosome depletion induces nuclear structural changes resembling senescent cells, including aberrant chromatin compaction, chromocenter disassembly, and intensified heterochromatic foci. These effects suggest that the dynamic turnover of nuclear RNA orchestrates crosstalk between essential processes to optimize cellular function. Disruptions in nuclear RNA homeostasis result in systemic functional decline, altering the cell state and promoting senescence.
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- Xue Han
- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- SXMU-Tsinghua Collaborative Innovation Center for Frontier Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center (BIOPIC), Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG), Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- SXMU-Tsinghua Collaborative Innovation Center for Frontier Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030001, China
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- Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center (BIOPIC), Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG), Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; SXMU-Tsinghua Collaborative Innovation Center for Frontier Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030001, China.
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Challal D, Menant A, Goksal C, Leroy E, Al-Sady B, Rougemaille M. A dual, catalytic role for the fission yeast Ccr4-Not complex in gene silencing and heterochromatin spreading. Genetics 2023; 224:iyad108. [PMID: 37279920 PMCID: PMC10411572 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyad108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Revised: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
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Heterochromatic gene silencing relies on combinatorial control by specific histone modifications, the occurrence of transcription, and/or RNA degradation. Once nucleated, heterochromatin propagates within defined chromosomal regions and is maintained throughout cell divisions to warrant proper genome expression and integrity. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the Ccr4-Not complex partakes in gene silencing, but its relative contribution to distinct heterochromatin domains and its role in nucleation versus spreading have remained elusive. Here, we unveil major functions for Ccr4-Not in silencing and heterochromatin spreading at the mating type locus and subtelomeres. Mutations of the catalytic subunits Caf1 or Mot2, involved in RNA deadenylation and protein ubiquitinylation, respectively, result in impaired propagation of H3K9me3 and massive accumulation of nucleation-distal heterochromatic transcripts. Both silencing and spreading defects are suppressed upon disruption of the heterochromatin antagonizing factor Epe1. Overall, our results position the Ccr4-Not complex as a critical, dual regulator of heterochromatic gene silencing and spreading.
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- Drice Challal
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette 91198, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette 91198, France
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette 91198, France
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette 91198, France
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Yamamoto T, Asanuma T, Murakami Y. Polymeric nature of tandemly repeated genes enhances assembly of constitutive heterochromatin in fission yeast. Commun Biol 2023; 6:796. [PMID: 37542144 PMCID: PMC10403545 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05154-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 07/18/2023] [Indexed: 08/06/2023] Open
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Motivated by our recent experiments that demonstrate that the tandemly repeated genes become heterochromatin, here we show a theory of heterochromatin assembly by taking into account the connectivity of these genes along the chromatin in the kinetic equations of small RNA production and histone methylation, which are the key biochemical reactions involved in the heterochromatin assembly. Our theory predicts that the polymeric nature of the tandemly repeated genes ensures the steady production of small RNAs because of the stable binding of nascent RNAs produced from the genes to RDRC/Dicers at the surface of nuclear membrane. This theory also predicts that the compaction of the tandemly repeated genes suppresses the production of small RNAs, consistent with our recent experiments. This theory can be extended to the small RNA-dependent gene silencing in higher organisms.
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- Tetsuya Yamamoto
- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 001-0021, Hokkaido, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Hokkaido, Japan
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Smurova K, Damizia M, Irene C, Stancari S, Berto G, Perticari G, Iacovella MG, D'Ambrosio I, Giubettini M, Philippe R, Baggio C, Callegaro E, Casagranda A, Corsini A, Polese VG, Ricci A, Dassi E, De Wulf P. Rio1 downregulates centromeric RNA levels to promote the timely assembly of structurally fit kinetochores. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3172. [PMID: 37263996 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38920-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023] Open
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Kinetochores assemble on centromeres via histone H3 variant CENP-A and low levels of centromere transcripts (cenRNAs). The latter are ensured by the downregulation of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) activity, and cenRNA turnover by the nuclear exosome. Using S. cerevisiae, we now add protein kinase Rio1 to this scheme. Yeast cenRNAs are produced either as short (median lengths of 231 nt) or long (4458 nt) transcripts, in a 1:1 ratio. Rio1 limits their production by reducing RNAPII accessibility and promotes cenRNA degradation by the 5'-3'exoribonuclease Rat1. Rio1 similarly curtails the concentrations of noncoding pericenRNAs. These exist as short transcripts (225 nt) at levels that are minimally two orders of magnitude higher than the cenRNAs. In yeast depleted of Rio1, cen- and pericenRNAs accumulate, CEN nucleosomes and kinetochores misform, causing chromosome instability. The latter phenotypes are also observed with human cells lacking orthologue RioK1, suggesting that CEN regulation by Rio1/RioK1 is evolutionary conserved.
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- Ksenia Smurova
- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy.
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Greenstein RA, Ng H, Barrales RR, Tan C, Braun S, Al-Sady B. Local chromatin context regulates the genetic requirements of the heterochromatin spreading reaction. PLoS Genet 2022; 18:e1010201. [PMID: 35584134 PMCID: PMC9154106 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Heterochromatin spreading, the expansion of repressive chromatin structure from sequence-specific nucleation sites, is critical for stable gene silencing. Spreading re-establishes gene-poor constitutive heterochromatin across cell cycles but can also invade gene-rich euchromatin de novo to steer cell fate decisions. How chromatin context (i.e. euchromatic, heterochromatic) or different nucleation pathways influence heterochromatin spreading remains poorly understood. Previously, we developed a single-cell sensor in fission yeast that can separately record heterochromatic gene silencing at nucleation sequences and distal sites. Here we couple our quantitative assay to a genetic screen to identify genes encoding nuclear factors linked to the regulation of heterochromatin nucleation and the distal spreading of gene silencing. We find that mechanisms underlying gene silencing distal to a nucleation site differ by chromatin context. For example, Clr6 histone deacetylase complexes containing the Fkh2 transcription factor are specifically required for heterochromatin spreading at constitutive sites. Fkh2 recruits Clr6 to nucleation-distal chromatin sites in such contexts. In addition, we find that a number of chromatin remodeling complexes antagonize nucleation-distal gene silencing. Our results separate the regulation of heterochromatic gene silencing at nucleation versus distal sites and show that it is controlled by context-dependent mechanisms. The results of our genetic analysis constitute a broad community resource that will support further analysis of the mechanisms underlying the spread of epigenetic silencing along chromatin. Repressive structures, or heterochromatin, are seeded at specific genome sequences and then “spread” to silence nearby chromosomal regions. While much is known about the factors that seed heterochromatin, the genetic requirements for spreading are less clear. We devised a fission yeast single-cell method to examine how gene silencing is propagated by the heterochromatin spreading process specifically. Here we use this platform to ask if specific genes are required for the spreading process and whether the same or different genes direct spreading from different chromosomal seeding sites. We find a significant number of genes that specifically promote or antagonize the heterochromatin spreading process. However, different genes are required to enact spreading from different seeding sites. These results have potential implications for cell fate specification, where genes are newly silenced by heterochromatin spreading from diverse chromosomal sites. In a central finding, we show that the Clr6 protein complex, which removes chromatin marks linked to active genes, associates with the Forkhead 2 transcription factor to promote spreading of silencing structures from seeding sites at numerous chromosomal loci. In contrast, we show that proteins that remodel chromatin antagonize the spreading of gene silencing.
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- R. A. Greenstein
- Department of Microbiology &Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- TETRAD graduate program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology &Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- TETRAD graduate program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Biomedical Center, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Biomedical Sciences graduate program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Biomedical Center, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- Institute for Genetics, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology &Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Zhou H, Stein CB, Shafiq TA, Shipkovenska G, Kalocsay M, Paulo JA, Zhang J, Luo Z, Gygi SP, Adelman K, Moazed D. Rixosomal RNA degradation contributes to silencing of Polycomb target genes. Nature 2022; 604:167-174. [PMID: 35355014 PMCID: PMC8986528 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04598-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Polycomb repressive complexes 1 and 2 (PRC1 and PRC2) are histone-modifying and -binding complexes that mediate the formation of facultative heterochromatin and are required for silencing of developmental genes and maintenance of cell fate1–3. Multiple pathways of RNA decay work together to establish and maintain heterochromatin in fission yeast, including a recently identified role for a conserved RNA-degradation complex known as the rixosome or RIX1 complex4–6. Whether RNA degradation also has a role in the stability of mammalian heterochromatin remains unknown. Here we show that the rixosome contributes to silencing of many Polycomb targets in human cells. The rixosome associates with human PRC complexes and is enriched at promoters of Polycomb target genes. Depletion of either the rixosome or Polycomb results in accumulation of paused and elongating RNA polymerase at Polycomb target genes. We identify point mutations in the RING1B subunit of PRC1 that disrupt the interaction between PRC1 and the rixosome and result in diminished silencing, suggesting that direct recruitment of the rixosome to chromatin is required for silencing. Finally, we show that the RNA endonuclease and kinase activities of the rixosome and the downstream XRN2 exoribonuclease, which degrades RNAs with 5′ monophosphate groups generated by the rixosome, are required for silencing. Our findings suggest that rixosomal degradation of nascent RNA is conserved from fission yeast to human, with a primary role in RNA degradation at facultative heterochromatin in human cells. The rixosome associates with Polycomb repressive complexes and chromatin and has a role in silencing of Polycomb target gene expression in human cells via degradation of nascent RNA transcripts.
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- Haining Zhou
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Initiative for Genome Editing and Neurodegeneration, Department of Cell Biology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Precision Medicine Institute, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Cell Biology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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La Rocca G, Cavalieri V. Roles of the Core Components of the Mammalian miRISC in Chromatin Biology. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13030414. [PMID: 35327968 PMCID: PMC8954937 DOI: 10.3390/genes13030414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Revised: 02/20/2022] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The Argonaute (AGO) and the Trinucleotide Repeat Containing 6 (TNRC6) family proteins are the core components of the mammalian microRNA-induced silencing complex (miRISC), the machinery that mediates microRNA function in the cytoplasm. The cytoplasmic miRISC-mediated post-transcriptional gene repression has been established as the canonical mechanism through which AGO and TNRC6 proteins operate. However, growing evidence points towards an additional mechanism through which AGO and TNRC6 regulate gene expression in the nucleus. While several mechanisms through which miRISC components function in the nucleus have been described, in this review we aim to summarize the major findings that have shed light on the role of AGO and TNRC6 in mammalian chromatin biology and on the implications these novel mechanisms may have in our understanding of regulating gene expression.
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- Gaspare La Rocca
- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
- Correspondence: (G.L.R.); (V.C.)
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- Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
- Correspondence: (G.L.R.); (V.C.)
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Matkovic R, Morel M, Lanciano S, Larrous P, Martin B, Bejjani F, Vauthier V, Hansen MMK, Emiliani S, Cristofari G, Gallois-Montbrun S, Margottin-Goguet F. TASOR epigenetic repressor cooperates with a CNOT1 RNA degradation pathway to repress HIV. Nat Commun 2022; 13:66. [PMID: 35013187 PMCID: PMC8748822 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27650-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The Human Silencing Hub (HUSH) complex constituted of TASOR, MPP8 and Periphilin recruits the histone methyl-transferase SETDB1 to spread H3K9me3 repressive marks across genes and transgenes in an integration site-dependent manner. The deposition of these repressive marks leads to heterochromatin formation and inhibits gene expression, but the underlying mechanism is not fully understood. Here, we show that TASOR silencing or HIV-2 Vpx expression, which induces TASOR degradation, increases the accumulation of transcripts derived from the HIV-1 LTR promoter at a post-transcriptional level. Furthermore, using a yeast 2-hybrid screen, we identify new TASOR partners involved in RNA metabolism including the RNA deadenylase CCR4-NOT complex scaffold CNOT1. TASOR and CNOT1 synergistically repress HIV expression from its LTR. Similar to the RNA-induced transcriptional silencing complex found in fission yeast, we show that TASOR interacts with the RNA exosome and RNA Polymerase II, predominantly under its elongating state. Finally, we show that TASOR facilitates the association of RNA degradation proteins with RNA polymerase II and is detected at transcriptional centers. Altogether, we propose that HUSH operates at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels to repress HIV proviral expression.
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- Roy Matkovic
- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France.
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France
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- Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, 6525 AM, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France
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Birot A, Kus K, Priest E, Al Alwash A, Castello A, Mohammed S, Vasiljeva L, Kilchert C. RNA-binding protein Mub1 and the nuclear RNA exosome act to fine-tune environmental stress response. Life Sci Alliance 2021; 5:5/2/e202101111. [PMID: 34848435 PMCID: PMC8645331 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202101111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Revised: 11/12/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Comparative RNA interactome capture identifies potential regulators of RNA metabolism in fission yeast and reveals RNA exosome–dependent buffering of stress-responsive gene expression networks. The nuclear RNA exosome plays a key role in controlling the levels of multiple protein-coding and non-coding RNAs. Recruitment of the exosome to specific RNA substrates is mediated by RNA-binding co-factors. The transient interaction between co-factors and the exosome as well as the rapid decay of RNA substrates make identification of exosome co-factors challenging. Here, we use comparative poly(A)+ RNA interactome capture in fission yeast expressing three different mutants of the exosome to identify proteins that interact with poly(A)+ RNA in an exosome-dependent manner. Our analyses identify multiple RNA-binding proteins whose association with RNA is altered in exosome mutants, including the zinc-finger protein Mub1. Mub1 is required to maintain the levels of a subset of exosome RNA substrates including mRNAs encoding for stress-responsive proteins. Removal of the zinc-finger domain leads to loss of RNA suppression under non-stressed conditions, altered expression of heat shock genes in response to stress, and reduced growth at elevated temperature. These findings highlight the importance of exosome-dependent mRNA degradation in buffering gene expression networks to mediate cellular adaptation to stress.
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- Adrien Birot
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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Stirpe A, Guidotti N, Northall SJ, Kilic S, Hainard A, Vadas O, Fierz B, Schalch T. SUV39 SET domains mediate crosstalk of heterochromatic histone marks. eLife 2021; 10:62682. [PMID: 34524082 PMCID: PMC8443253 DOI: 10.7554/elife.62682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
The SUV39 class of methyltransferase enzymes deposits histone H3 lysine 9 di- and trimethylation (H3K9me2/3), the hallmark of constitutive heterochromatin. How these enzymes are regulated to mark specific genomic regions as heterochromatic is poorly understood. Clr4 is the sole H3K9me2/3 methyltransferase in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and recent evidence suggests that ubiquitination of lysine 14 on histone H3 (H3K14ub) plays a key role in H3K9 methylation. However, the molecular mechanism of this regulation and its role in heterochromatin formation remain to be determined. Our structure-function approach shows that the H3K14ub substrate binds specifically and tightly to the catalytic domain of Clr4, and thereby stimulates the enzyme by over 250-fold. Mutations that disrupt this mechanism lead to a loss of H3K9me2/3 and abolish heterochromatin silencing similar to clr4 deletion. Comparison with mammalian SET domain proteins suggests that the Clr4 SET domain harbors a conserved sensor for H3K14ub, which mediates licensing of heterochromatin formation.
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- Alessandro Stirpe
- Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Leicester Institute for Structural and Chemical Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom.,Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- University Medical Center, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Leicester Institute for Structural and Chemical Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom.,Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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Onishi R, Yamanaka S, Siomi MC. piRNA- and siRNA-mediated transcriptional repression in Drosophila, mice, and yeast: new insights and biodiversity. EMBO Rep 2021; 22:e53062. [PMID: 34347367 PMCID: PMC8490990 DOI: 10.15252/embr.202153062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Revised: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
The PIWI‐interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway acts as a self‐defense mechanism against transposons to maintain germline genome integrity. Failures in the piRNA pathway cause DNA damage in the germline genome, disturbing inheritance of “correct” genetic information by the next generations and leading to infertility. piRNAs execute transposon repression in two ways: degrading their RNA transcripts and compacting the genomic loci via heterochromatinization. The former event is mechanistically similar to siRNA‐mediated RNA cleavage that occurs in the cytoplasm and has been investigated in many species including nematodes, fruit flies, and mammals. The latter event seems to be mechanistically parallel to siRNA‐centered kinetochore assembly and subsequent chromosome segregation, which has so far been studied particularly in fission yeast. Despite the interspecies conservations, the overall schemes of the nuclear events show clear biodiversity across species. In this review, we summarize the recent progress regarding piRNA‐mediated transcriptional silencing in Drosophila and discuss the biodiversity by comparing it with the equivalent piRNA‐mediated system in mice and the siRNA‐mediated system in fission yeast.
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- Ryo Onishi
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Habig M, Schotanus K, Hufnagel K, Happel P, Stukenbrock EH. Ago1 Affects the Virulence of the Fungal Plant Pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:1011. [PMID: 34208898 PMCID: PMC8303167 DOI: 10.3390/genes12071011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Revised: 06/23/2021] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
In host-pathogen interactions RNA interference (RNAi) has emerged as a pivotal mechanism to modify both, the immune responses of the host as well as the pathogenicity and virulence of the pathogen. In addition, in some fungi RNAi is also known to affect chromosome biology via its effect on chromatin conformation. Previous studies reported no effect of the RNAi machinery on the virulence of the fungal plant pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici however the role of RNAi is still poorly understood in this species. Herein, we elucidate whether the RNAi machinery is conserved within the genus Zymoseptoria. Moreover, we conduct functional analyses of Argonaute and Dicer-like proteins and test if the RNAi machinery affects chromosome stability. We show that the RNAi machinery is conserved among closely related Zymoseptoria species while an exceptional pattern of allelic diversity was possibly caused by introgression. The deletion of Ago1 reduced the ability of the fungus to produce asexual propagules in planta in a quantitative matter. Chromosome stability of the accessory chromosome of Z. tritici was not prominently affected by the RNAi machinery. These results indicate, in contrast to previous finding, a role of the RNAi pathway during host infection, but not in the stability of accessory chromosomes in Z. tritici.
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- Michael Habig
- Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Environmental Genomics, Am Botanischen Garten 1-11, 24118 Kiel, Germany; (M.H.); (K.S.); (K.H.)
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann-Str. 2, 24306 Plön, Germany
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- Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Environmental Genomics, Am Botanischen Garten 1-11, 24118 Kiel, Germany; (M.H.); (K.S.); (K.H.)
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann-Str. 2, 24306 Plön, Germany
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- Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Environmental Genomics, Am Botanischen Garten 1-11, 24118 Kiel, Germany; (M.H.); (K.S.); (K.H.)
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann-Str. 2, 24306 Plön, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 10, 35043 Marburg, Germany;
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- Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Environmental Genomics, Am Botanischen Garten 1-11, 24118 Kiel, Germany; (M.H.); (K.S.); (K.H.)
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann-Str. 2, 24306 Plön, Germany
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Ban H, Sun W, Chen YH, Chen Y, Li F. Dri1 mediates heterochromatin assembly via RNAi and histone deacetylation. Genetics 2021; 218:6162161. [PMID: 33693625 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyab032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Heterochromatin, a transcriptionally silenced chromatin domain, is important for genome stability and gene expression. Histone 3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me) and histone hypoacetylation are conserved epigenetic hallmarks of heterochromatin. In fission yeast, RNA interference (RNAi) plays a key role in H3K9 methylation and heterochromatin silencing. However, how RNAi machinery and histone deacetylases (HDACs) are coordinated to ensure proper heterochromatin assembly is still unclear. Previously, we showed that Dpb4, a conserved DNA polymerase epsilon subunit, plays a key role in the recruitment of HDACs to heterochromatin during S phase. Here, we identified a novel RNA-binding protein Dri1 that interacts with Dpb4. GFP-tagged Dri1 forms distinct foci mostly in the nucleus, showing a high degree of colocalization with Swi6/Heterochromatin Protein 1. Deletion of dri1+ leads to defects in silencing, H3K9me, and heterochromatic siRNA generation. We also showed that Dri1 physically associates with heterochromatic transcripts, and is required for the recruitment of the RNA-induced transcriptional silencing (RITS) complex via interacting with the complex. Furthermore, loss of Dri1 decreases the association of the Sir2 HDAC with heterochromatin. We further demonstrated that the C-terminus of Dri1 that includes an intrinsically disordered (IDR) region and three zinc fingers is crucial for its role in silencing. Together, our evidences suggest that Dri1 facilitates heterochromatin assembly via the RNAi pathway and HDAC.
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- Hyoju Ban
- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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Hsieh CL, Xia J, Lin H. MIWI prevents aneuploidy during meiosis by cleaving excess satellite RNA. EMBO J 2020; 39:e103614. [PMID: 32677148 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2019103614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Revised: 06/10/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
MIWI, a murine member of PIWI proteins mostly expressed during male meiosis, is crucial for piRNA biogenesis, post-transcriptional regulation, and spermiogenesis. However, its meiotic function remains unknown. Here, we report that MIWI deficiency alters meiotic kinetochore assembly, significantly increases chromosome misalignment at the meiosis metaphase I plate, and causes chromosome mis-segregation. Consequently, Miwi-deficient mice show elevated aneuploidy in metaphase II and spermatid death. Furthermore, in Miwi-null and Miwi slicer-deficient mutants, major and minor satellite RNAs from centromeric and pericentromeric satellite repeats accumulate in excess. Over-expression of satellite repeats in wild-type spermatocytes also causes elevated chromosome misalignment, whereas reduction of both strands of major or minor satellite RNAs results in lower frequencies of chromosome misalignment. We show that MIWI, guided by piRNA, cleaves major satellite RNAs, generating RNA fragments that may form substrates for subsequent Dicer cleavage. Furthermore, Dicer cleaves all satellite RNAs in conjunction with MIWI. These findings reveal a novel mechanism in which MIWI- and Dicer-mediated cleavage of the satellite RNAs prevents the over-expression of satellite RNAs, thus ensuring proper kinetochore assembly and faithful chromosome segregation during meiosis.
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- Chia-Ling Hsieh
- Yale Stem Cell Center and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Yale Stem Cell Center and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Yale Stem Cell Center and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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Kilchert C, Kecman T, Priest E, Hester S, Aydin E, Kus K, Rossbach O, Castello A, Mohammed S, Vasiljeva L. System-wide analyses of the fission yeast poly(A) + RNA interactome reveal insights into organization and function of RNA-protein complexes. Genome Res 2020; 30:1012-1026. [PMID: 32554781 PMCID: PMC7397868 DOI: 10.1101/gr.257006.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2019] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
Large RNA-binding complexes play a central role in gene expression and orchestrate production, function, and turnover of mRNAs. The accuracy and dynamics of RNA–protein interactions within these molecular machines are essential for their function and are mediated by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). Here, we show that fission yeast whole-cell poly(A)+ RNA–protein crosslinking data provide information on the organization of RNA–protein complexes. To evaluate the relative enrichment of cellular RBPs on poly(A)+ RNA, we combine poly(A)+ RNA interactome capture with a whole-cell extract normalization procedure. This approach yields estimates of in vivo RNA-binding activities that identify subunits within multiprotein complexes that directly contact RNA. As validation, we trace RNA interactions of different functional modules of the 3′ end processing machinery and reveal additional contacts. Extending our analysis to different mutants of the RNA exosome complex, we explore how substrate channeling through the complex is affected by mutation. Our data highlight the central role of the RNA helicase Mtl1 in regulation of the complex and provide insights into how different components contribute to engagement of the complex with substrate RNA. In addition, we characterize RNA-binding activities of novel RBPs that have been recurrently detected in the RNA interactomes of multiple species. We find that many of these, including cyclophilins and thioredoxins, are substoichiometric RNA interactors in vivo. Because RBPomes show very good overall agreement between species, we propose that the RNA-binding characteristics we observe in fission yeast are likely to apply to related proteins in higher eukaryotes as well.
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- Cornelia Kilchert
- Institut für Biochemie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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- Institut für Biochemie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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- Institut für Biochemie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, United Kingdom.,Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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Shipkovenska G, Durango A, Kalocsay M, Gygi SP, Moazed D. A conserved RNA degradation complex required for spreading and epigenetic inheritance of heterochromatin. eLife 2020; 9:54341. [PMID: 32491985 PMCID: PMC7269676 DOI: 10.7554/elife.54341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Heterochromatic domains containing histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me) can be epigenetically inherited independently of underlying DNA sequence. To gain insight into the mechanisms that mediate epigenetic inheritance, we used a Schizosaccharomyces pombe inducible heterochromatin formation system to perform a genetic screen for mutations that abolish heterochromatin inheritance without affecting its establishment. We identified mutations in several pathways, including the conserved and essential Rix1-associated complex (henceforth the rixosome), which contains RNA endonuclease and polynucleotide kinase activities with known roles in ribosomal RNA processing. We show that the rixosome is required for spreading and epigenetic inheritance of heterochromatin in fission yeast. Viable rixosome mutations that disrupt its association with Swi6/HP1 fail to localize to heterochromatin, lead to accumulation of heterochromatic RNAs, and block spreading of H3K9me and silencing into actively transcribed regions. These findings reveal a new pathway for degradation of heterochromatic RNAs with essential roles in heterochromatin spreading and inheritance.
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- Gergana Shipkovenska
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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Mattout A, Gaidatzis D, Kalck V, Gasser SM. A Nuclear RNA Degradation Pathway Helps Silence Polycomb/H3K27me3-Marked Loci in Caenorhabditis elegans. COLD SPRING HARBOR SYMPOSIA ON QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY 2020; 84:141-153. [PMID: 32350050 DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2019.84.040238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
In fission yeast and plants, RNA-processing pathways contribute to heterochromatin silencing, complementing well-characterized pathways of transcriptional repression. However, it was unclear whether this additional level of regulation occurs in metazoans. In a genetic screen, we uncovered a pathway of silencing in Caenorhabditis elegans somatic cells, whereby the highly conserved, RNA-binding complex LSM2-8 contributes to the repression of heterochromatic reporters and endogenous genes bearing the Polycomb mark H3K27me3. Importantly, the LSM2-8 complex works cooperatively with a 5'-3' exoribonuclease, XRN-2, and disruption of the pathway leads to selective mRNA stabilization. LSM2-8 complex-mediated RNA degradation does not target nor depend on H3K9me2/me3, unlike previously described pathways of heterochromatic RNA degradation. Up-regulation of lsm-8-sensitive loci coincides with a localized drop in H3K27me3 levels in the lsm-8 mutant. Put into the context of epigenetic control of gene expression, it appears that targeted RNA degradation helps repress a subset of H3K27me3-marked genes, revealing an unappreciated layer of regulation for facultative heterochromatin in animals.
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- Anna Mattout
- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland.,University of Basel, Faculty of Science, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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LSM2-8 and XRN-2 contribute to the silencing of H3K27me3-marked genes through targeted RNA decay. Nat Cell Biol 2020; 22:579-590. [PMID: 32251399 PMCID: PMC7212045 DOI: 10.1038/s41556-020-0504-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
In fission yeast and plants, RNA-processing and degradation contribute to
heterochromatin silencing, alongside conserved pathways of transcriptional
repression. It was unknown if similar pathways exist in metazoans. Here we
describe a pathway of silencing in C. elegans somatic cells, in
which the highly conserved RNA binding complex LSM2-8 contributes selectively to
the repression of heterochromatic reporters and endogenous genes bearing the
Polycomb mark, histone H3K27me3. It acts by degrading selected transcripts
through the XRN-2 exoribonuclease. Disruption of the LSM2-8 pathway leads to
mRNA stabilization. Unlike previously described pathways of heterochromatic RNA
degradation, LSM2-8-mediated RNA degradation does not require nor deposit H3K9
methylation. Rather, loss of this pathway coincides with a localized reduction
in H3K27me3 at lsm-8-sensitive loci. Thus, we have uncovered a
mechanism of RNA degradation that selectively contributes to the silencing of a
subset of H3K27me3-marked genes, revealing a previously unrecognized layer of
post-transcriptional control in metazoan heterochromatin.
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Kordyukova M, Sokolova O, Morgunova V, Ryazansky S, Akulenko N, Glukhov S, Kalmykova A. Nuclear Ccr4-Not mediates the degradation of telomeric and transposon transcripts at chromatin in the Drosophila germline. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:141-156. [PMID: 31724732 PMCID: PMC7145718 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz1072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2018] [Revised: 10/28/2019] [Accepted: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Ccr4-Not is a highly conserved complex involved in cotranscriptional RNA surveillance pathways in yeast. In Drosophila, Ccr4-Not is linked to the translational repression of miRNA targets and the posttranscriptional control of maternal mRNAs during oogenesis and embryonic development. Here, we describe a new role for the Ccr4-Not complex in nuclear RNA metabolism in the Drosophila germline. Ccr4 depletion results in the accumulation of transposable and telomeric repeat transcripts in the fraction of chromatin-associated RNA; however, it does not affect small RNA levels or the heterochromatin state of the target loci. Nuclear targets of Ccr4 mainly comprise active full-length transposable elements (TEs) and telomeric and subtelomeric repeats. Moreover, Ccr4-Not foci localize at telomeres in a Piwi-dependent manner, suggesting a functional relationship between these pathways. Indeed, we detected interactions between the components of the Ccr4-Not complex and piRNA machinery, which indicates that these pathways cooperate in the nucleus to recognize and degrade TE transcripts at transcription sites. These data reveal a new layer of transposon control in the germline, which is critical for the maintenance of genome integrity.
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- Maria Kordyukova
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 123182, Russia
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 123182, Russia
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 123182, Russia
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 123182, Russia
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 123182, Russia
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 123182, Russia
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 123182, Russia
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Stolyarenko AD. Nuclear Argonaute Piwi Gene Mutation Affects rRNA by Inducing rRNA Fragment Accumulation, Antisense Expression, and Defective Processing in Drosophila Ovaries. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21031119. [PMID: 32046213 PMCID: PMC7037970 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21031119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2019] [Revised: 01/27/2020] [Accepted: 02/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Drosophila key nuclear piRNA silencing pathway protein Piwi of the Argonaute family has been classically studied as a factor controlling transposable elements and fertility. Piwi has been shown to concentrate in the nucleolus for reasons largely unknown. Ribosomal RNA is the main component of the nucleolus. In this work the effect of a piwi mutation on rRNA is described. This work led to three important conclusions: A mutation in piwi induces antisense 5S rRNA expression, a processing defect of 2S rRNA orthologous to the 3′-end of eukaryotic 5.8S rRNA, and accumulation of fragments of all five rRNAs in Drosophilamelanogaster ovaries. Hypotheses to explain these phenomena are proposed, possibly involving the interaction of the components of the piRNA pathway with the RNA surveillance machinery.
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- Anastasia D Stolyarenko
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2 Kurchatov Sq., Moscow 123182, Russia
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The RNA exosome is a ribonucleolytic multiprotein complex that is conserved and essential in all eukaryotes. Although we tend to speak of "the" exosome complex, it should be more correctly viewed as several different subtypes that share a common core. Subtypes of the exosome complex are present in the cytoplasm, the nucleus and the nucleolus of all eukaryotic cells, and carry out the 3'-5' processing and/or degradation of a wide range of RNA substrates.Because the substrate specificity of the exosome complex is determined by cofactors, the system is highly adaptable, and different organisms have adjusted the machinery to their specific needs. Here, we present an overview of exosome complexes and their cofactors that have been described in different eukaryotes.
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- Cornelia Kilchert
- Institut für Biochemie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany.
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Jung SJ, Choi Y, Lee D, Roe JH. Nuclear aconitase antagonizes heterochromatic silencing by interfering with Chp1 binding to DNA. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2019; 516:806-811. [PMID: 31255284 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.06.090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, there are two aconitases, Aco1 and Aco2, involved in the Krebs cycle in mitochondria. Interestingly, Aco2 is localized to nucleus as well. Here, we investigated the nuclear role of Aco2 by deleting its nuclear localization signal. The aco2ΔNLS mutation suppressed the gene-silencing defects of RNAi mutants at the centromere, where heterochromatin formation depends on RNAi pathway. In Δago1, the aco2ΔNLS mutation restored heterochromatin through elevating Chp1 binding. Aco2 physically interacted with Chp1 via the N-terminal chromodomain that binds to methylated histone H3K9. In the sub-telomeric region, where heterochromatin forms independent of RNAi pathway, the single aco2ΔNLS mutation caused extra gene silencing via elevating Chp1 binding, without increasing histone methylation. The anti-silencing effect did not require the catalytic function of aconitase. Taken together, Aco2 functions as an epigenetic regulator of gene expression, through associating with chromodomain of Chp1 to maintain heterochromatin.
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- Soo-Jin Jung
- School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Microbiology, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.
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- School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Microbiology, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, South Korea.
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A Non-Dicer RNase III and Four Other Novel Factors Required for RNAi-Mediated Transposon Suppression in the Human Pathogenic Yeast Cryptococcus neoformans. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2019; 9:2235-2244. [PMID: 31092606 PMCID: PMC6643885 DOI: 10.1534/g3.119.400330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The human pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans silences transposable elements using endo-siRNAs and an Argonaute, Ago1. Endo-siRNAs production requires the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, Rdp1, and two partially redundant Dicer enzymes, Dcr1 and Dcr2, but is independent of histone H3 lysine 9 methylation. We describe here an insertional mutagenesis screen for factors required to suppress the mobilization of the C. neoformans HARBINGER family DNA transposon HAR1. Validation experiments uncovered five novel genes (RDE1-5) required for HAR1 suppression and global production of suppressive endo-siRNAs. The RDE genes do not impact transcript levels, suggesting the endo-siRNAs do not act by impacting target transcript synthesis or turnover. RDE3 encodes a non-Dicer RNase III related to S. cerevisiaeRnt1, RDE4 encodes a predicted terminal nucleotidyltransferase, while RDE5 has no strongly predicted encoded domains. Affinity purification-mass spectrometry studies suggest that Rde3 and Rde5 are physically associated. RDE1 encodes a G-patch protein homologous to the S. cerevisiaeSqs1/Pfa1, a nucleolar protein that directly activates the essential helicase Prp43 during rRNA biogenesis. Rde1 copurifies Rde2, another novel protein obtained in the screen, as well as Ago1, a homolog of Prp43, and numerous predicted nucleolar proteins. We also describe the isolation of conditional alleles of PRP43, which are defective in RNAi. This work reveals unanticipated requirements for a non-Dicer RNase III and presumptive nucleolar factors for endo-siRNA biogenesis and transposon mobilization suppression in C. neoformans.
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Peck SA, Hughes KD, Victorino JF, Mosley AL. Writing a wrong: Coupled RNA polymerase II transcription and RNA quality control. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2019; 10:e1529. [PMID: 30848101 PMCID: PMC6570551 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2018] [Revised: 12/27/2018] [Accepted: 02/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Processing and maturation of precursor RNA species is coupled to RNA polymerase II transcription. Co-transcriptional RNA processing helps to ensure efficient and proper capping, splicing, and 3' end processing of different RNA species to help ensure quality control of the transcriptome. Many improperly processed transcripts are not exported from the nucleus, are restricted to the site of transcription, and are in some cases degraded, which helps to limit any possibility of aberrant RNA causing harm to cellular health. These critical quality control pathways are regulated by the highly dynamic protein-protein interaction network at the site of transcription. Recent work has further revealed the extent to which the processes of transcription and RNA processing and quality control are integrated, and how critically their coupling relies upon the dynamic protein interactions that take place co-transcriptionally. This review focuses specifically on the intricate balance between 3' end processing and RNA decay during transcription termination. This article is categorized under: RNA Turnover and Surveillance > Turnover/Surveillance Mechanisms RNA Processing > 3' End Processing RNA Processing > Splicing Mechanisms RNA Processing > Capping and 5' End Modifications.
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- Sarah A Peck
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Okita AK, Zafar F, Su J, Weerasekara D, Kajitani T, Takahashi TS, Kimura H, Murakami Y, Masukata H, Nakagawa T. Heterochromatin suppresses gross chromosomal rearrangements at centromeres by repressing Tfs1/TFIIS-dependent transcription. Commun Biol 2019; 2:17. [PMID: 30652128 PMCID: PMC6329695 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0251-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2018] [Accepted: 12/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Heterochromatin, characterized by histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9) methylation, assembles on repetitive regions including centromeres. Although centromeric heterochromatin is important for correct segregation of chromosomes, its exact role in maintaining centromere integrity remains elusive. Here, we found in fission yeast that heterochromatin suppresses gross chromosomal rearrangements (GCRs) at centromeres. Mutations in Clr4/Suv39 methyltransferase increased the formation of isochromosomes, whose breakpoints were located in centromere repeats. H3K9A and H3K9R mutations also increased GCRs, suggesting that Clr4 suppresses centromeric GCRs via H3K9 methylation. HP1 homologs Swi6 and Chp2 and the RNAi component Chp1 were the chromodomain proteins essential for full suppression of GCRs. Remarkably, mutations in RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) or Tfs1/TFIIS, the transcription factor that facilitates restart of RNAPII after backtracking, specifically bypassed the requirement of Clr4 for suppressing GCRs. These results demonstrate that heterochromatin suppresses GCRs by repressing Tfs1-dependent transcription of centromere repeats.
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- Akiko K. Okita
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810 Japan
- Present Address: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, 526 Campus Road, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
- Present Address: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395 Japan
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- Cell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810 Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
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Schmid M, Jensen TH. The Nuclear RNA Exosome and Its Cofactors. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2019; 1203:113-132. [PMID: 31811632 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31434-7_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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The RNA exosome is a highly conserved ribonuclease endowed with 3'-5' exonuclease and endonuclease activities. The multisubunit complex resides in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm, with varying compositions and activities between the two compartments. While the cytoplasmic exosome functions mostly in mRNA quality control pathways, the nuclear RNA exosome partakes in the 3'-end processing and complete decay of a wide variety of substrates, including virtually all types of noncoding (nc) RNAs. To handle these diverse tasks, the nuclear exosome engages with dedicated cofactors, some of which serve as activators by stimulating decay through oligoA addition and/or RNA helicase activities or, as adaptors, by recruiting RNA substrates through their RNA-binding capacities. Most nuclear exosome cofactors contain the essential RNA helicase Mtr4 (MTR4 in humans). However, apart from Mtr4, nuclear exosome cofactors have undergone significant evolutionary divergence. Here, we summarize biochemical and functional knowledge about the nuclear exosome and exemplify its cofactor variety by discussing the best understood model organisms-the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and human cells.
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- Manfred Schmid
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Tudek A, Lloret-Llinares M, Jensen TH. The multitasking polyA tail: nuclear RNA maturation, degradation and export. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2018; 373:rstb.2018.0169. [PMID: 30397105 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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A polyA (pA) tail is an essential modification added to the 3' ends of a wide range of RNAs at different stages of their metabolism. Here, we describe the main sources of polyadenylation and outline their underlying biochemical interactions within the nuclei of budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, human cells and, when relevant, the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe Polyadenylation mediated by the S. cerevisiae Trf4/5 enzymes, and their human homologues PAPD5/7, typically leads to the 3'-end trimming or complete decay of non-coding RNAs. By contrast, the primary function of canonical pA polymerases (PAPs) is to produce stable and nuclear export-competent mRNAs. However, this dichotomy is becoming increasingly blurred, at least in S. pombe and human cells, where polyadenylation mediated by canonical PAPs may also result in transcript decay.This article is part of the theme issue '5' and 3' modifications controlling RNA degradation'.
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- Agnieszka Tudek
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C. F. Møllers Allé 3, building 1130, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C. F. Møllers Allé 3, building 1130, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, C. F. Møllers Allé 3, building 1130, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Hocquet C, Robellet X, Modolo L, Sun XM, Burny C, Cuylen-Haering S, Toselli E, Clauder-Münster S, Steinmetz L, Haering CH, Marguerat S, Bernard P. Condensin controls cellular RNA levels through the accurate segregation of chromosomes instead of directly regulating transcription. eLife 2018; 7:38517. [PMID: 30230473 PMCID: PMC6173581 DOI: 10.7554/elife.38517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2018] [Accepted: 09/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Condensins are genome organisers that shape chromosomes and promote their accurate transmission. Several studies have also implicated condensins in gene expression, although any mechanisms have remained enigmatic. Here, we report on the role of condensin in gene expression in fission and budding yeasts. In contrast to previous studies, we provide compelling evidence that condensin plays no direct role in the maintenance of the transcriptome, neither during interphase nor during mitosis. We further show that the changes in gene expression in post-mitotic fission yeast cells that result from condensin inactivation are largely a consequence of chromosome missegregation during anaphase, which notably depletes the RNA-exosome from daughter cells. Crucially, preventing karyotype abnormalities in daughter cells restores a normal transcriptome despite condensin inactivation. Thus, chromosome instability, rather than a direct role of condensin in the transcription process, changes gene expression. This knowledge challenges the concept of gene regulation by canonical condensin complexes.
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- Clémence Hocquet
- CNRS Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell, Lyon, France.,Université de Lyon, ENSL, UCBL, Lyon, France
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- CNRS Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell, Lyon, France.,Université de Lyon, ENSL, UCBL, Lyon, France
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- CNRS Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell, Lyon, France.,Université de Lyon, ENSL, UCBL, Lyon, France
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- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, United Kingdom.,Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- CNRS Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell, Lyon, France.,Université de Lyon, ENSL, UCBL, Lyon, France
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- CNRS Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell, Lyon, France.,Université de Lyon, ENSL, UCBL, Lyon, France
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, United Kingdom.,Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- CNRS Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell, Lyon, France.,Université de Lyon, ENSL, UCBL, Lyon, France
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Borsenberger V, Onésime D, Lestrade D, Rigouin C, Neuvéglise C, Daboussi F, Bordes F. Multiple Parameters Drive the Efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9-Induced Gene Modifications in Yarrowia lipolytica. J Mol Biol 2018; 430:4293-4306. [PMID: 30227135 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.08.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Revised: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 08/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Yarrowia lipolytica is an oleaginous yeast of growing industrial interest for biotechnological applications. In the last few years, genome edition has become an easier and more accessible prospect with the world wild spread development of CRISPR/Cas9 technology. In this study, we focused our attention on the production of the two key elements of the CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleic acid protein complex in this non-conventional yeast. The efficiency of NHEJ-induced knockout was measured by time-course monitoring using multiple parameters flow cytometry, as well as phenotypic and genotypic observations, and linked to nuclease production levels showing that its strong overexpression is unnecessary. Thus, the limiting factor for the generation of a functional ribonucleic acid protein complex clearly resides in guide expression, which was probed by testing different linker lengths between the transfer RNA promoter and the sgRNA. The results highlight a clear deleterious effect of mismatching bases at the 5' end of the target sequence. For the first time in yeast, an investigation of its maturation from the primary transcript was undertaken by sequencing multiple sgRNAs extracted from the host. These data provide insights into of the yeast small RNA processing, from synthesis to maturation, and suggests a pathway for their degradation in Y. lipolytica. Subsequently, a whole-genome sequencing of a modified strain detected no abnormal modification due to off-target effects, confirming CRISPR/Cas9 as a safe strategy for editing Y. lipolytica genome. Finally, the optimized system was used to promote in vivo directed mutagenesis via homology-directed repair with a ssDNA oligonucleotide.
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- Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, Paris, France
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- LISBP, Université de Toulouse, INSA, INRA, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, Paris, France
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- LISBP, Université de Toulouse, INSA, INRA, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- LISBP, Université de Toulouse, INSA, INRA, CNRS, Toulouse, France.
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Michelini F, Jalihal AP, Francia S, Meers C, Neeb ZT, Rossiello F, Gioia U, Aguado J, Jones-Weinert C, Luke B, Biamonti G, Nowacki M, Storici F, Carninci P, Walter NG, d'Adda di Fagagna F. From "Cellular" RNA to "Smart" RNA: Multiple Roles of RNA in Genome Stability and Beyond. Chem Rev 2018; 118:4365-4403. [PMID: 29600857 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Coding for proteins has been considered the main function of RNA since the "central dogma" of biology was proposed. The discovery of noncoding transcripts shed light on additional roles of RNA, ranging from the support of polypeptide synthesis, to the assembly of subnuclear structures, to gene expression modulation. Cellular RNA has therefore been recognized as a central player in often unanticipated biological processes, including genomic stability. This ever-expanding list of functions inspired us to think of RNA as a "smart" phone, which has replaced the older obsolete "cellular" phone. In this review, we summarize the last two decades of advances in research on the interface between RNA biology and genome stability. We start with an account of the emergence of noncoding RNA, and then we discuss the involvement of RNA in DNA damage signaling and repair, telomere maintenance, and genomic rearrangements. We continue with the depiction of single-molecule RNA detection techniques, and we conclude by illustrating the possibilities of RNA modulation in hopes of creating or improving new therapies. The widespread biological functions of RNA have made this molecule a reoccurring theme in basic and translational research, warranting it the transcendence from classically studied "cellular" RNA to "smart" RNA.
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- Flavia Michelini
- IFOM - The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology , Milan , 20139 , Italy
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- Single Molecule Analysis Group and Center for RNA Biomedicine, Department of Chemistry , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109-1055 , United States
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- IFOM - The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology , Milan , 20139 , Italy.,Istituto di Genetica Molecolare , CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Pavia , 27100 , Italy
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- School of Biological Sciences , Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , Georgia 30332 , United States
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- Institute of Cell Biology , University of Bern , Baltzerstrasse 4 , 3012 Bern , Switzerland
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- IFOM - The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology , Milan , 20139 , Italy
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- IFOM - The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology , Milan , 20139 , Italy
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology , Johannes Gutenberg University , 55099 Mainz , Germany.,Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) , 55128 Mainz , Germany
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- Istituto di Genetica Molecolare , CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Pavia , 27100 , Italy
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- Institute of Cell Biology , University of Bern , Baltzerstrasse 4 , 3012 Bern , Switzerland
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- School of Biological Sciences , Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , Georgia 30332 , United States
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- RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies , 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku , Yokohama City , Kanagawa 230-0045 , Japan
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- Single Molecule Analysis Group and Center for RNA Biomedicine, Department of Chemistry , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109-1055 , United States
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- IFOM - The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology , Milan , 20139 , Italy.,Istituto di Genetica Molecolare , CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Pavia , 27100 , Italy
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The Conserved RNA Binding Cyclophilin, Rct1, Regulates Small RNA Biogenesis and Splicing Independent of Heterochromatin Assembly. Cell Rep 2018. [PMID: 28636937 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.05.086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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RNAi factors and their catalytic activities are essential for heterochromatin assembly in S. pombe. This has led to the idea that siRNAs can promote H3K9 methylation by recruiting the cryptic loci regulator complex (CLRC), also known as recombination in K complex (RIKC), to the nucleation site. The conserved RNA-binding protein Rct1 (AtCyp59/SIG-7) interacts with splicing factors and RNA polymerase II. Here we show that Rct1 promotes processing of pericentromeric transcripts into siRNAs via the RNA recognition motif. Surprisingly, loss of siRNA in rct1 mutants has no effect on H3K9 di- or tri-methylation, resembling other splicing mutants, suggesting that post-transcriptional gene silencing per se is not required to maintain heterochromatin. Splicing of the Argonaute gene is also defective in rct1 mutants and contributes to loss of silencing but not to loss of siRNA. Our results suggest that Rct1 guides transcripts to the RNAi machinery by promoting splicing of elongating non-coding transcripts.
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The nuclear RNA exosome is an essential and versatile machinery that regulates maturation and degradation of a huge plethora of RNA species. The past two decades have witnessed remarkable progress in understanding the whole picture of its RNA substrates and the structural basis of its functions. In addition to the exosome itself, recent studies focusing on associated co-factors have been elucidating how the exosome is directed towards specific substrates. Moreover, it has been gradually realized that loss-of-function of exosome subunits affect multiple biological processes such as the DNA damage response, R-loop resolution, maintenance of genome integrity, RNA export, translation and cell differentiation. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge of the mechanisms of nuclear exosome-mediated RNA metabolism and discuss their physiological significance.
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Numerous surveillance pathways sculpt eukaryotic transcriptomes by degrading unneeded, defective, and potentially harmful noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). Because aberrant and excess ncRNAs are largely degraded by exoribonucleases, a key characteristic of these RNAs is an accessible, protein-free 5' or 3' end. Most exoribonucleases function with cofactors that recognize ncRNAs with accessible 5' or 3' ends and/or increase the availability of these ends. Noncoding RNA surveillance pathways were first described in budding yeast, and there are now high-resolution structures of many components of the yeast pathways and significant mechanistic understanding as to how they function. Studies in human cells are revealing the ways in which these pathways both resemble and differ from their yeast counterparts, and are also uncovering numerous pathways that lack equivalents in budding yeast. In this review, we describe both the well-studied pathways uncovered in yeast and the new concepts that are emerging from studies in mammalian cells. We also discuss the ways in which surveillance pathways compete with chaperone proteins that transiently protect nascent ncRNA ends from exoribonucleases, with partner proteins that sequester these ends within RNPs, and with end modification pathways that protect the ends of some ncRNAs from nucleases.
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- Cedric Belair
- RNA Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute , National Institutes of Health , Frederick , Maryland 21702 , United States
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- RNA Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute , National Institutes of Health , Frederick , Maryland 21702 , United States
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- RNA Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute , National Institutes of Health , Frederick , Maryland 21702 , United States
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Joh RI, Khanduja JS, Calvo IA, Mistry M, Palmieri CM, Savol AJ, Ho Sui SJ, Sadreyev RI, Aryee MJ, Motamedi M. Survival in Quiescence Requires the Euchromatic Deployment of Clr4/SUV39H by Argonaute-Associated Small RNAs. Mol Cell 2017; 64:1088-1101. [PMID: 27984744 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2016] [Revised: 10/14/2016] [Accepted: 11/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Quiescence (G0) is a ubiquitous stress response through which cells enter reversible dormancy, acquiring distinct properties including reduced metabolism, resistance to stress, and long life. G0 entry involves dramatic changes to chromatin and transcription of cells, but the mechanisms coordinating these processes remain poorly understood. Using the fission yeast, here, we track G0-associated chromatin and transcriptional changes temporally and show that as cells enter G0, their survival and global gene expression programs become increasingly dependent on Clr4/SUV39H, the sole histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9) methyltransferase, and RNAi proteins. Notably, G0 entry results in RNAi-dependent H3K9 methylation of several euchromatic pockets, prior to which Argonaute1-associated small RNAs from these regions emerge. Overall, our data reveal another function for constitutive heterochromatin proteins (the establishment of the global G0 transcriptional program) and suggest that stress-induced alterations in Argonaute-associated sRNAs can target the deployment of transcriptional regulatory proteins to specific sequences.
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- Richard I Joh
- Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Bioinformatics Core, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Bioinformatics Core, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA; Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
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In modern molecular biology, RNA has emerged as a versatile macromolecule capable of mediating an astonishing number of biological functions beyond its role as a transient messenger of genetic information. The recent discovery and functional analyses of new classes of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) have revealed their widespread use in many pathways, including several in the nucleus. This Review focuses on the mechanisms by which nuclear ncRNAs directly contribute to the maintenance of genome stability. We discuss how ncRNAs inhibit spurious recombination among repetitive DNA elements, repress mobilization of transposable elements (TEs), template or bridge DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) during repair, and direct developmentally regulated genome rearrangements in some ciliates. These studies reveal an unexpected repertoire of mechanisms by which ncRNAs contribute to genome stability and even potentially fuel evolution by acting as templates for genome modification.
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Dubey A, Jeon J. Epigenetic regulation of development and pathogenesis in fungal plant pathogens. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2017; 18:887-898. [PMID: 27749982 PMCID: PMC6638268 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2016] [Revised: 10/10/2016] [Accepted: 10/12/2016] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Evidently, epigenetics is at forefront in explaining the mechanisms underlying the success of human pathogens and in the identification of pathogen-induced modifications within host plants. However, there is a lack of studies highlighting the role of epigenetics in the modulation of the growth and pathogenicity of fungal plant pathogens. In this review, we attempt to highlight and discuss the role of epigenetics in the regulation of the growth and pathogenicity of fungal phytopathogens using Magnaporthe oryzae, a devastating fungal plant pathogen, as a model system. With the perspective of wide application in the understanding of the development, pathogenesis and control of other fungal pathogens, we attempt to provide a synthesized view of the epigenetic studies conducted on M. oryzae to date. First, we discuss the mechanisms of epigenetic modifications in M. oryzae and their impact on fungal development and pathogenicity. Second, we highlight the unexplored epigenetic mechanisms and areas of research that should be considered in the near future to construct a holistic view of epigenetic functioning in M. oryzae and other fungal plant pathogens. Importantly, the development of a complete understanding of the modulation of epigenetic regulation in fungal pathogens can help in the identification of target points to combat fungal pathogenesis.
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- Akanksha Dubey
- Department of BiotechnologyCollege of Life and Applied Sciences, Yeungnam UniversityGyeongsanGyeongbuk38541South Korea
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- Department of BiotechnologyCollege of Life and Applied Sciences, Yeungnam UniversityGyeongsanGyeongbuk38541South Korea
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Touat-Todeschini L, Shichino Y, Dangin M, Thierry-Mieg N, Gilquin B, Hiriart E, Sachidanandam R, Lambert E, Brettschneider J, Reuter M, Kadlec J, Pillai R, Yamashita A, Yamamoto M, Verdel A. Selective termination of lncRNA transcription promotes heterochromatin silencing and cell differentiation. EMBO J 2017; 36:2626-2641. [PMID: 28765164 DOI: 10.15252/embj.201796571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2017] [Revised: 06/14/2017] [Accepted: 06/19/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulating gene expression at the chromatin level are widespread among eukaryotes. However, their functions and the mechanisms by which they act are not fully understood. Here, we identify new fission yeast regulatory lncRNAs that are targeted, at their site of transcription, by the YTH domain of the RNA-binding protein Mmi1 and degraded by the nuclear exosome. We uncover that one of them, nam1, regulates entry into sexual differentiation. Importantly, we demonstrate that Mmi1 binding to this lncRNA not only triggers its degradation but also mediates its transcription termination, thus preventing lncRNA transcription from invading and repressing the downstream gene encoding a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MAPKKK) essential to sexual differentiation. In addition, we show that Mmi1-mediated termination of lncRNA transcription also takes place at pericentromeric regions where it contributes to heterochromatin gene silencing together with RNA interference (RNAi). These findings reveal an important role for selective termination of lncRNA transcription in both euchromatic and heterochromatic lncRNA-based gene silencing processes.
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- Leila Touat-Todeschini
- Institut for Advanced Biosciences, UMR InsermU1209/CNRS5309/UGA, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratory of Cell Responses, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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- Institut for Advanced Biosciences, UMR InsermU1209/CNRS5309/UGA, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- TIMC-IMAG, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,CNRS, TIMC-IMAG, UMR CNRS 5525, Grenoble, France
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- CEA, LETI, CLINATEC, MINATEC Campus, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Institut for Advanced Biosciences, UMR InsermU1209/CNRS5309/UGA, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Institut for Advanced Biosciences, UMR InsermU1209/CNRS5309/UGA, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, University of Grenoble Alpes-EMBL-CNRS, Grenoble, France.,Unit for Virus Host-Cell Interactions, University of Grenoble Alpes-EMBL-CNRS, Grenoble, France
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, University of Grenoble Alpes-EMBL-CNRS, Grenoble, France.,Unit for Virus Host-Cell Interactions, University of Grenoble Alpes-EMBL-CNRS, Grenoble, France
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, University of Grenoble Alpes-EMBL-CNRS, Grenoble, France.,Unit for Virus Host-Cell Interactions, University of Grenoble Alpes-EMBL-CNRS, Grenoble, France.,Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), CEA, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), CEA, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Cell Responses, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan.,Department of Basic Biology, School of Life Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Responses, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan.,Department of Basic Biology, School of Life Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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- Institut for Advanced Biosciences, UMR InsermU1209/CNRS5309/UGA, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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Knuckles P, Carl SH, Musheev M, Niehrs C, Wenger A, Bühler M. RNA fate determination through cotranscriptional adenosine methylation and microprocessor binding. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2017; 24:561-569. [PMID: 28581511 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2017] [Accepted: 05/09/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Eukaryotic gene expression is heavily regulated at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. An additional layer of regulation occurs co-transcriptionally through processing and decay of nascent transcripts physically associated with chromatin. This process involves RNA interference (RNAi) machinery and is well documented in yeast, but little is known about its conservation in mammals. Here we show that Dgcr8 and Drosha physically associate with chromatin in murine embryonic stem cells (mES), specifically with a subset of transcribed coding and noncoding genes. Dgcr8 recruitment to chromatin is dependent on transcription as well as methyltransferase-like 3 (Mettl3), which catalyzes RNA N6-methyladenosine (m6A). Intriguingly, we found that acute temperature stress causes radical relocalization of Dgcr8 and Mettl3 to heat-shock genes, where they act to co-transcriptionally mark mRNAs for subsequent RNA degradation. Together, our findings elucidate a novel mode of co-transcriptional gene regulation, in which m6A serves as a chemical mark that instigates subsequent post-transcriptional RNA-processing events.
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- Philip Knuckles
- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.,University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.,University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Science, Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
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- Faculty of Science, Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany.,Division of Molecular Embryology, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.,University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.,University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Tailing and degradation of Argonaute-bound small RNAs protect the genome from uncontrolled RNAi. Nat Commun 2017; 8:15332. [PMID: 28541282 PMCID: PMC5458512 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2016] [Accepted: 03/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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RNAi is a conserved mechanism in which small RNAs induce silencing of complementary targets. How Argonaute-bound small RNAs are targeted for degradation is not well understood. We show that the adenyl-transferase Cid14, a member of the TRAMP complex, and the uridyl-transferase Cid16 add non-templated nucleotides to Argonaute-bound small RNAs in fission yeast. The tailing of Argonaute-bound small RNAs recruits the 3'-5' exonuclease Rrp6 to degrade small RNAs. Failure in degradation of Argonaute-bound small RNAs results in accumulation of 'noise' small RNAs on Argonaute and targeting of diverse euchromatic genes by RNAi. To protect themselves from uncontrolled RNAi, cid14Δ cells exploit the RNAi machinery and silence genes essential for RNAi itself, which is required for their viability. Our data indicate that surveillance of Argonaute-bound small RNAs by Cid14/Cid16 and the exosome protects the genome from uncontrolled RNAi and reveal a rapid RNAi-based adaptation to stress conditions.
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Meola N, Jensen TH. Targeting the nuclear RNA exosome: Poly(A) binding proteins enter the stage. RNA Biol 2017; 14:820-826. [PMID: 28421898 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2017.1312227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Centrally positioned in nuclear RNA metabolism, the exosome deals with virtually all transcript types. This 3'-5' exo- and endo-nucleolytic degradation machine is guided to its RNA targets by adaptor proteins that enable substrate recognition. Recently, the discovery of the 'Poly(A) tail exosome targeting (PAXT)' connection as an exosome adaptor to human nuclear polyadenylated transcripts has relighted the interest of poly(A) binding proteins (PABPs) in both RNA productive and destructive processes.
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- Nicola Meola
- a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics , Aarhus University , Aarhus C , Denmark
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- a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics , Aarhus University , Aarhus C , Denmark
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The eukaryotic genomes are pervasively transcribed. In addition to protein-coding RNAs, thousands of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) modulate key molecular and biological processes. Most lncRNAs are found in the nucleus and associate with chromatin, but lncRNAs can function in both nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments. Emerging work has found that many lncRNAs regulate gene expression and can affect genome stability and nuclear domain organization both in plant and in the animal kingdom. Here, we describe the major plant lncRNAs and how they act, with a focus on research in Arabidopsis thaliana and our emerging understanding of lncRNA functions in serving as molecular sponges and decoys, functioning in regulation of transcription and silencing, particularly in RNA-directed DNA methylation, and in epigenetic regulation of flowering time.
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- Hsiao-Lin V Wang
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, 64110, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, 64110, USA.
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Wasmuth EV, Lima CD. The Rrp6 C-terminal domain binds RNA and activates the nuclear RNA exosome. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 45:846-860. [PMID: 27899565 PMCID: PMC5314766 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2016] [Revised: 10/17/2016] [Accepted: 11/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The eukaryotic RNA exosome is an essential, multi-subunit complex that catalyzes RNA turnover, maturation, and quality control processes. Its non-catalytic donut-shaped core includes 9 subunits that associate with the 3′ to 5′ exoribonucleases Rrp6, and Rrp44/Dis3, a subunit that also catalyzes endoribonuclease activity. Although recent structures and biochemical studies of RNA bound exosomes from S. cerevisiae revealed that the Exo9 central channel guides RNA to either Rrp6 or Rrp44 using partially overlapping and mutually exclusive paths, several issues related to RNA recruitment remain. Here, we identify activities for the highly basic Rrp6 C-terminal tail that we term the ‘lasso’ because it binds RNA and stimulates ribonuclease activities associated with Rrp44 and Rrp6 within the 11-subunit nuclear exosome. Stimulation is dependent on the Exo9 central channel, and the lasso contributes to degradation and processing activities of exosome substrates in vitro and in vivo. Finally, we present evidence that the Rrp6 lasso may be a conserved feature of the eukaryotic RNA exosome.
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- Elizabeth V Wasmuth
- Structural Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Structural Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA .,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
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Yoon JS, Shukla JN, Gong ZJ, Mogilicherla K, Palli SR. RNA interference in the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata: Identification of key contributors. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 78:78-88. [PMID: 27687845 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2016.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2016] [Revised: 09/22/2016] [Accepted: 09/23/2016] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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RNA interference (RNAi) is a useful reverse genetics tool for investigation of gene function as well as for practical applications in many fields including medicine and agriculture. RNAi works very well in coleopteran insects including the Colorado potato beetle (CPB), Leptinotarsa decemlineata. We used a cell line (Lepd-SL1) developed from CPB to identify genes that play key roles in RNAi. We screened 50 genes with potential functions in RNAi by exposing Lepd-SL1 cells to dsRNA targeting one of the potential RNAi pathway genes followed by incubation with dsRNA targeting inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP, silencing of this gene induces apoptosis). Out of 50 genes tested, silencing of 29 genes showed an effect on RNAi. Silencing of five genes (Argonaute-1, Argonaute-2a, Argonaute-2b, Aubergine and V-ATPase 16 kDa subunit 1, Vha16) blocked RNAi suggesting that these genes are essential for functioning of RNAi in Lepd-SL1 cells. Interestingly, Argonaute-1 and Aubergine which are known to function in miRNA and piRNA pathways respectively are also critical to siRNA pathway. Using 32P labeled dsRNA, we showed that these miRNA and piRNA Argonautes but not Argonaute-2 are required for processing of dsRNA to siRNA. Transfection of pIZT/V5 constructs containing these five genes into Sf9 cells (the cells where RNAi does not work well) showed that expression of all genes tested, except the Argonaute-2a, improved RNAi in these cells. Results from Vha16 gene silencing and bafilomycin-A1 treatment suggest that endosomal escape plays an important role in dsRNA-mediated RNAi in Lepd-SL1 cells.
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- June-Sun Yoon
- Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA.
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Maity A, Chaudhuri A, Das B. DRN and TRAMP degrade specific and overlapping aberrant mRNAs formed at various stages of mRNP biogenesis inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Yeast Res 2016; 16:fow088. [DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/fow088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/29/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Collaborative Control of Cell Cycle Progression by the RNA Exonuclease Dis3 and Ras Is Conserved Across Species. Genetics 2016; 203:749-62. [PMID: 27029730 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.187930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2016] [Accepted: 03/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Dis3 encodes a conserved RNase that degrades or processes all RNA species via an N-terminal PilT N terminus (PIN) domain and C-terminal RNB domain that harbor, respectively, endonuclease activity and 3'-5' exonuclease activity. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, dis3 mutations cause chromosome missegregation and failure in mitosis, suggesting dis3 promotes cell division. In humans, apparently hypomorphic dis3 mutations are found recurrently in multiple myeloma, suggesting dis3 opposes cell division. Except for the observation that RNAi-mediated depletion of dis3 function drives larval arrest and reduces tissue growth in Drosophila, the role of dis3 has not been rigorously explored in higher eukaryotic systems. Using the Drosophila system and newly generated dis3 null alleles, we find that absence of dis3 activity inhibits cell division. We uncover a conserved CDK1 phosphorylation site that when phosphorylated inhibits Dis3's exonuclease, but not endonuclease, activity. Leveraging this information, we show that Dis3's exonuclease function is required for mitotic cell division: in its absence, cells are delayed in mitosis and exhibit aneuploidy and overcondensed chromosomes. In contrast, we find that modest reduction of dis3 function enhances cell proliferation in the presence of elevated Ras activity, apparently by accelerating cells through G2/M even though each insult by itself delays G2/M. Additionally, we find that dis3 and ras genetically interact in worms and that dis3 can enhance cell proliferation under growth stimulatory conditions in murine B cells. Thus, reduction, but not absence, of dis3 activity can enhance cell proliferation in higher organisms.
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Tucker JF, Ohle C, Schermann G, Bendrin K, Zhang W, Fischer T, Zhang K. A Novel Epigenetic Silencing Pathway Involving the Highly Conserved 5'-3' Exoribonuclease Dhp1/Rat1/Xrn2 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. PLoS Genet 2016; 12:e1005873. [PMID: 26889830 PMCID: PMC4758730 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 01/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Epigenetic gene silencing plays a critical role in regulating gene expression and contributes to organismal development and cell fate acquisition in eukaryotes. In fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, heterochromatin-associated gene silencing is known to be mediated by RNA processing pathways including RNA interference (RNAi) and a 3’-5’ exoribonuclease complex, the exosome. Here, we report a new RNA-processing pathway that contributes to epigenetic gene silencing and assembly of heterochromatin mediated by 5’-3’ exoribonuclease Dhp1/Rat1/Xrn2. Dhp1 mutation causes defective gene silencing both at peri-centromeric regions and at the silent mating type locus. Intriguingly, mutation in either of the two well-characterized Dhp1-interacting proteins, the Din1 pyrophosphohydrolase or the Rhn1 transcription termination factor, does not result in silencing defects at the main heterochromatic regions. We demonstrate that Dhp1 interacts with heterochromatic factors and is essential in the sequential steps of establishing silencing in a manner independent of both RNAi and the exosome. Genomic and genetic analyses suggest that Dhp1 is involved in post-transcriptional silencing of repetitive regions through its RNA processing activity. The results describe the unexpected role of Dhp1/Rat1/Xrn2 in chromatin-based silencing and elucidate how various RNA-processing pathways, acting together or independently, contribute to epigenetic regulation of the eukaryotic genome. Epigenetic mechanisms regulate when, where, and how an organism uses the genetic information stored in its genome. They are essential to many cellular processes, such as the regulation of gene expression, genome organization, and cell-fate determination. They also govern growth, development, and ultimately human health. Heterochromatin constitutes silenced chromatic domains, in which gene silencing occurs through epigenetic mechanisms. RNA processing pathways, such as RNA interference (RNAi) and the exosome, are known to mediate the silencing of genes via degradation of unwanted or aberrant transcripts. In this study, we describe a new RNA processing mechanism in epigenetic silencing using fission yeast, a premier model for studying these processes. With genetic, cell biology, and genomic approaches, we uncovered a previously unrecognized function of Dhp1, a highly conserved 5’-3’ exoribonuclease and ortholog of budding yeast Rat1 and metazoan Xrn2. We show that Dhp1 mediates a novel RNA processing mechanism in epigenetic silencing which occurs independently of both RNAi and the exosome. Our results clarify how multiple RNA processing pathways are involved in the regulation of eukaryotic gene expression and chromatin organization.
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- James Franklin Tucker
- Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Biochemistry Center (BZH), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Biochemistry Center (BZH), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Biochemistry Center (BZH), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Biochemistry Center (BZH), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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Carlsten JO, Zhu X, Dávila López M, Samuelsson T, Gustafsson CM. Loss of the Mediator subunit Med20 affects transcription of tRNA and other non-coding RNA genes in fission yeast. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2016; 1859:339-47. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2015.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2015] [Revised: 11/17/2015] [Accepted: 11/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Suzuki S, Kato H, Suzuki Y, Chikashige Y, Hiraoka Y, Kimura H, Nagao K, Obuse C, Takahata S, Murakami Y. Histone H3K36 trimethylation is essential for multiple silencing mechanisms in fission yeast. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 44:4147-62. [PMID: 26792892 PMCID: PMC4872076 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2015] [Accepted: 12/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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In budding yeast, Set2 catalyzes di- and trimethylation of H3K36 (H3K36me2 and H3K36me3) via an interaction between its Set2–Rpb1 interaction (SRI) domain and C-terminal repeats of RNA polymerase II (Pol2) phosphorylated at Ser2 and Ser5 (CTD-S2,5-P). H3K36me2 is sufficient for recruitment of the Rpd3S histone deacetylase complex to repress cryptic transcription from transcribed regions. In fission yeast, Set2 is also responsible for H3K36 methylation, which represses a subset of RNAs including heterochromatic and subtelomeric RNAs, at least in part via recruitment of Clr6 complex II, a homolog of Rpd3S. Here, we show that CTD-S2P-dependent interaction of fission yeast Set2 with Pol2 via the SRI domain is required for formation of H3K36me3, but not H3K36me2. H3K36me3 silenced heterochromatic and subtelomeric transcripts mainly through post-transcriptional and transcriptional mechanisms, respectively, whereas H3K36me2 was not enough for silencing. Clr6 complex II appeared not to be responsible for heterochromatic silencing by H3K36me3. Our results demonstrate that H3K36 methylation has multiple outputs in fission yeast; these findings provide insights into the distinct roles of H3K36 methylation in metazoans, which have different enzymes for synthesis of H3K36me1/2 and H3K36me3.
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- Shota Suzuki
- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Shimane University School of Medicine, Izumo 693-8501, Japan PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan
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- Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8562, Japan
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- Advanced ICT Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe 651-2492, Japan
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- Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Japan
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- Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Japan Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, 226-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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The regulation and functions of the nuclear RNA exosome complex. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2016; 17:227-39. [PMID: 26726035 DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2015.15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 267] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
The RNA exosome complex is the most versatile RNA-degradation machine in eukaryotes. The exosome has a central role in several aspects of RNA biogenesis, including RNA maturation and surveillance. Moreover, it is emerging as an important player in regulating the expression levels of specific mRNAs in response to environmental cues and during cell differentiation and development. Although the mechanisms by which RNA is targeted to (or escapes from) the exosome are still not fully understood, general principles have begun to emerge, which we discuss in this Review. In addition, we introduce and discuss novel, previously unappreciated functions of the nuclear exosome, including in transcription regulation and in the maintenance of genome stability.
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