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Higdon AL, Won NH, Brar GA. Truncated protein isoforms generate diversity of protein localization and function in yeast. Cell Syst 2024; 15:388-408.e4. [PMID: 38636458 PMCID: PMC11075746 DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2024.03.005] [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: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 01/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024]
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Genome-wide measurement of ribosome occupancy on mRNAs has enabled empirical identification of translated regions, but high-confidence detection of coding regions that overlap annotated coding regions has remained challenging. Here, we report a sensitive and robust algorithm that revealed the translation of 388 N-terminally truncated proteins in budding yeast-more than 30-fold more than previously known. We extensively experimentally validated them and defined two classes. The first class lacks large portions of the annotated protein and tends to be produced from a truncated transcript. We show that two such cases, Yap5truncation and Pus1truncation, have condition-specific regulation and distinct functions from their respective annotated isoforms. The second class of truncated protein isoforms lacks only a small region of the annotated protein and is less likely to be produced from an alternative transcript isoform. Many display different subcellular localizations than their annotated counterpart, representing a common strategy for dual localization of otherwise functionally identical proteins. A record of this paper's transparent peer review process is included in the supplemental information.
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- Andrea L Higdon
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Herridge RP, Dolata J, Migliori V, de Santis Alves C, Borges F, Schorn AJ, Van Ex F, Parent JS, Lin A, Bajczyk M, Leonardi T, Hendrick A, Kouzarides T, Martienssen RA. Pseudouridine guides germline small RNA transport and epigenetic inheritance. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.05.27.542553. [PMID: 37398006 PMCID: PMC10312437 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.27.542553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/04/2023]
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Epigenetic modifications that arise during plant and animal development, such as DNA and histone modification, are mostly reset during gamete formation, but some are inherited from the germline including those marking imprinted genes1. Small RNAs guide these epigenetic modifications, and some are also inherited by the next generation2,3. In C. elegans, these inherited small RNAs have poly (UG) tails4, but how inherited small RNAs are distinguished in other animals and plants is unknown. Pseudouridine (Ψ) is the most abundant RNA modification but has not been explored in small RNAs. Here, we develop novel assays to detect Ψ in short RNA sequences, demonstrating its presence in mouse and Arabidopsis microRNAs and their precursors. We also detect substantial enrichment in germline small RNAs, namely epigenetically activated siRNAs (easiRNAs) in Arabidopsis pollen, and piwi-interacting piRNAs in mouse testis. In pollen, pseudouridylated easiRNAs are localized to sperm cells, and we found that PAUSED/HEN5 (PSD), the plant homolog of Exportin-t, interacts genetically with Ψ and is required for transport of easiRNAs into sperm cells from the vegetative nucleus. We further show that Exportin-t is required for the triploid block: chromosome dosage-dependent seed lethality that is epigenetically inherited from pollen. Thus, Ψ has a conserved role in marking inherited small RNAs in the germline.
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- Rowan P Herridge
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
- Department of Gene Expression, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
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- The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Department of Gene Expression, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
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- The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK
- Center for Genomic Science of IIT@SEMM, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), 20139 Milan, Italy
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- Storm Therapeutics, Ltd., Moneta Building (B280), Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK
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- The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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Higdon AL, Won NH, Brar GA. Truncated protein isoforms generate diversity of protein localization and function in yeast. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.07.13.548938. [PMID: 37503254 PMCID: PMC10369987 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.13.548938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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Genome-wide measurements of ribosome occupancy on mRNA transcripts have enabled global empirical identification of translated regions. These approaches have revealed an unexpected diversity of protein products, but high-confidence identification of new coding regions that entirely overlap annotated coding regions - including those that encode truncated protein isoforms - has remained challenging. Here, we develop a sensitive and robust algorithm focused on identifying N-terminally truncated proteins genome-wide, identifying 388 truncated protein isoforms, a more than 30-fold increase in the number known in budding yeast. We perform extensive experimental validation of these truncated proteins and define two general classes. The first set lack large portions of the annotated protein sequence and tend to be produced from a truncated transcript. We show two such cases, Yap5 truncation and Pus1 truncation , to have condition-specific regulation and functions that appear distinct from their respective annotated isoforms. The second set of N-terminally truncated proteins lack only a small region of the annotated protein and are less likely to be regulated by an alternative transcript isoform. Many localize to different subcellular compartments than their annotated counterpart, representing a common strategy for achieving dual localization of otherwise functionally identical proteins.
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Keszthelyi TM, Tory K. The importance of pseudouridylation: human disorders related to the fifth nucleoside. Biol Futur 2023:10.1007/s42977-023-00158-3. [PMID: 37000312 DOI: 10.1007/s42977-023-00158-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 04/01/2023]
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Pseudouridylation is one of the most abundant RNA modifications in eukaryotes, making pseudouridine known as the "fifth nucleoside." This highly conserved alteration affects all non-coding and coding RNA types. Its role and importance have been increasingly widely researched, especially considering that its absence or damage leads to serious hereditary diseases. Here, we summarize the human genetic disorders described to date that are related to the participants of the pseudouridylation process.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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Levi O, Arava YS. Pseudouridine-mediated translation control of mRNA by methionine aminoacyl tRNA synthetase. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:432-443. [PMID: 33305314 PMCID: PMC7797078 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2020] [Revised: 11/06/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Modification of nucleotides within an mRNA emerges as a key path for gene expression regulation. Pseudouridine is one of the most common RNA modifications; however, only a few mRNA modifiers have been identified to date, and no one mRNA pseudouridine reader is known. Here, we applied a novel genome-wide approach to identify mRNA regions that are bound by yeast methionine aminoacyl tRNAMet synthetase (MetRS). We found a clear enrichment to regions that were previously described to contain pseudouridine (Ψ). Follow-up in vitro and in vivo analyses on a prime target (position 1074 within YEF3 mRNA) demonstrated the importance of pseudouridine for MetRS binding. Furthermore, polysomal and protein analyses revealed that Ψ1074 mediates translation. Modification of this site occurs presumably by Pus6, a pseudouridine synthetase known to modify MetRS cognate tRNA. Consistently, the deletion of Pus6 leads to a decrease in MetRS association with both tRNAMet and YEF3 mRNA. Furthermore, while global protein synthesis decreases in pus6Δ, translation of YEF3 increases. Together, our data imply that Pus6 ‘writes’ modifications on tRNA and mRNA, and both types of RNAs are ‘read’ by MetRS for translation regulation purposes. This represents a novel integrated path for writing and reading modifications on both tRNA and mRNA, which may lead to coordination between global and gene-specific translational responses.
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- Ofri Levi
- Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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Impact of Pus1 Pseudouridine Synthase on Specific Decoding Events in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biomolecules 2020; 10:biom10050729. [PMID: 32392804 PMCID: PMC7277083 DOI: 10.3390/biom10050729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Pus1-dependent pseudouridylation occurs in many tRNAs and at multiple positions, yet the functional impact of this modification is incompletely understood. We analyzed the consequences of PUS1 deletion on the essential decoding of CAG (Gln) codons by tRNAGlnCUG in yeast. Synthetic lethality was observed upon combining the modification defect with destabilized variants of tRNAGlnCUG, pointing to a severe CAG-decoding defect of the hypomodified tRNA. In addition, we demonstrated that misreading of UAG stop codons by a tRNAGlnCUG variant is positively affected by Pus1. Genetic approaches further indicated that mildly elevated temperature decreases the decoding efficiency of CAG and UAG via destabilized tRNAGlnCAG variants. We also determined the misreading of CGC (Arg) codons by tRNAHisGUG, where the CGC decoder tRNAArgICG contains Pus1-dependent pseudouridine, but not the mistranslating tRNAHis. We found that the absence of Pus1 increased CGC misreading by tRNAHis, demonstrating a positive role of the modification in the competition against non-synonymous near-cognate tRNA. Part of the in vivo decoding defects and phenotypes in pus1 mutants and strains carrying destabilized tRNAGlnCAG were suppressible by additional deletion of the rapid tRNA decay (RTD)-relevant MET22, suggesting the involvement of RTD-mediated tRNA destabilization.
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The emerging impact of tRNA modifications in the brain and nervous system. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2018; 1862:412-428. [PMID: 30529455 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2018.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2018] [Revised: 11/21/2018] [Accepted: 11/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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A remarkable number of neurodevelopmental disorders have been linked to defects in tRNA modifications. These discoveries place tRNA modifications in the spotlight as critical modulators of gene expression pathways that are required for proper organismal growth and development. Here, we discuss the emerging molecular and cellular functions of the diverse tRNA modifications linked to cognitive and neurological disorders. In particular, we describe how the structure and location of a tRNA modification influences tRNA folding, stability, and function. We then highlight how modifications in tRNA can impact multiple aspects of protein translation that are instrumental for maintaining proper cellular proteostasis. Importantly, we describe how perturbations in tRNA modification lead to a spectrum of deleterious biological outcomes that can disturb neurodevelopment and neurological function. Finally, we summarize the biological themes shared by the different tRNA modifications linked to cognitive disorders and offer insight into the future questions that remain to decipher the role of tRNA modifications. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: mRNA modifications in gene expression control edited by Dr. Soller Matthias and Dr. Fray Rupert.
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Sokołowski M, Klassen R, Bruch A, Schaffrath R, Glatt S. Cooperativity between different tRNA modifications and their modification pathways. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2017; 1861:409-418. [PMID: 29222069 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2017.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2017] [Revised: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 12/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Ribonucleotide modifications perform a wide variety of roles in synthesis, turnover and functionality of tRNA molecules. The presence of particular chemical moieties can refine the internal interaction network within a tRNA molecule, influence its thermodynamic stability, contribute novel chemical properties and affect its decoding behavior during mRNA translation. As the lack of specific modifications in the anticodon stem and loop causes disrupted proteome homeostasis, diminished response to stress conditions, and the onset of human diseases, the underlying modification cascades have recently gained particular scientific and clinical interest. Nowadays, a complicated but conclusive image of the interconnectivity between different enzymatic modification cascades and their resulting tRNA modifications emerges. Here we summarize the current knowledge in the field, focusing on the known instances of cross talk among the enzymatic tRNA modification pathways and the consequences on the dynamic regulation of the tRNA modificome by various factors. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: SI: Regulation of tRNA synthesis and modification in physiological conditions and disease edited by Dr. Boguta Magdalena.
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- Mikołaj Sokołowski
- Max Planck Research Group at the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institut für Biologie, Fachgebiet Mikrobiologie, Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie, Fachgebiet Mikrobiologie, Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie, Fachgebiet Mikrobiologie, Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany.
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- Max Planck Research Group at the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
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All types of nucleic acids in cells undergo naturally occurring chemical modifications, including DNA, rRNA, mRNA, snRNA, and most prominently tRNA. Over 100 different modifications have been described and every position in the purine and pyrimidine bases can be modified; often the sugar is also modified [1]. In tRNA, the function of modifications varies; some modulate global and/or local RNA structure, and others directly impact decoding and may be essential for viability. Whichever the case, the overall importance of modifications is highlighted by both their evolutionary conservation and the fact that organisms use a substantial portion of their genomes to encode modification enzymes, far exceeding what is needed for the de novo synthesis of the canonical nucleotides themselves [2]. Although some modifications occur at exactly the same nucleotide position in tRNAs from the three domains of life, many can be found at various positions in a particular tRNA and their location may vary between and within different tRNAs. With this wild array of chemical diversity and substrate specificities, one of the big challenges in the tRNA modification field has been to better understand at a molecular level the modes of substrate recognition by the different modification enzymes; in this realm RNA binding rests at the heart of the problem. This chapter will focus on several examples of modification enzymes where their mode of RNA binding is well understood; from these, we will try to draw general conclusions and highlight growing themes that may be applicable to the RNA modification field at large.
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Rintala-Dempsey AC, Kothe U. Eukaryotic stand-alone pseudouridine synthases - RNA modifying enzymes and emerging regulators of gene expression? RNA Biol 2017; 14:1185-1196. [PMID: 28045575 PMCID: PMC5699540 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2016.1276150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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For a long time, eukaryotic stand-alone pseudouridine synthases (Pus enzymes) were neglected as non-essential enzymes adding seemingly simple modifications to tRNAs and small nuclear RNAs. Most studies were limited to the identification and initial characterization of the yeast Pus enzymes. However, recent transcriptome-wide mapping of pseudouridines in yeast and humans revealed pervasive modification of mRNAs and other non-coding RNAs by Pus enzymes which is dynamically regulated in response to cellular stress. Moreover, mutations in at least 2 genes encoding human Pus enzymes cause inherited diseases affecting muscle and brain function. Together, the recent findings suggest a broader-than-anticipated role of the Pus enzymes which are emerging as potential regulators of gene expression. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge on Pus enzymes, generate hypotheses regarding their cellular function and outline future areas of research of pseudouridine synthases.
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- Anne C Rintala-Dempsey
- a Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Lethbridge , Lethbridge , AB , Canada
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- a Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Lethbridge , Lethbridge , AB , Canada
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Pseudouridine synthase 1 deficient mice, a model for Mitochondrial Myopathy with Sideroblastic Anemia, exhibit muscle morphology and physiology alterations. Sci Rep 2016; 6:26202. [PMID: 27197761 PMCID: PMC4873756 DOI: 10.1038/srep26202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/28/2016] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Mitochondrial myopathy with lactic acidosis and sideroblastic anemia (MLASA) is an oxidative phosphorylation disorder, with primary clinical manifestations of myopathic exercise intolerance and a macrocytic sideroblastic anemia. One cause of MLASA is recessive mutations in PUS1, which encodes pseudouridine (Ψ) synthase 1 (Pus1p). Here we describe a mouse model of MLASA due to mutations in PUS1. As expected, certain Ψ modifications were missing in cytoplasmic and mitochondrial tRNAs from Pus1−/− animals. Pus1−/− mice were born at the expected Mendelian frequency and were non-dysmorphic. At 14 weeks the mutants displayed reduced exercise capacity. Examination of tibialis anterior (TA) muscle morphology and histochemistry demonstrated an increase in the cross sectional area and proportion of myosin heavy chain (MHC) IIB and low succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) expressing myofibers, without a change in the size of MHC IIA positive or high SDH myofibers. Cytochrome c oxidase activity was significantly reduced in extracts from red gastrocnemius muscle from Pus1−/− mice. Transmission electron microscopy on red gastrocnemius muscle demonstrated that Pus1−/− mice also had lower intermyofibrillar mitochondrial density and smaller mitochondria. Collectively, these results suggest that alterations in muscle metabolism related to mitochondrial content and oxidative capacity may account for the reduced exercise capacity in Pus1−/− mice.
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Huang HY, Hopper AK. Multiple Layers of Stress-Induced Regulation in tRNA Biology. Life (Basel) 2016; 6:life6020016. [PMID: 27023616 PMCID: PMC4931453 DOI: 10.3390/life6020016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2016] [Revised: 03/14/2016] [Accepted: 03/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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tRNAs are the fundamental components of the translation machinery as they deliver amino acids to the ribosomes during protein synthesis. Beyond their essential function in translation, tRNAs also function in regulating gene expression, modulating apoptosis and several other biological processes. There are multiple layers of regulatory mechanisms in each step of tRNA biogenesis. For example, tRNA 3′ trailer processing is altered upon nutrient stress; tRNA modification is reprogrammed under various stresses; nuclear accumulation of tRNAs occurs upon nutrient deprivation; tRNA halves accumulate upon oxidative stress. Here we address how environmental stresses can affect nearly every step of tRNA biology and we describe the possible regulatory mechanisms that influence the function or expression of tRNAs under stress conditions.
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- Hsiao-Yun Huang
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, 915 E third St., Myers 300, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Van Haute L, Pearce SF, Powell CA, D’Souza AR, Nicholls TJ, Minczuk M. Mitochondrial transcript maturation and its disorders. J Inherit Metab Dis 2015; 38:655-80. [PMID: 26016801 PMCID: PMC4493943 DOI: 10.1007/s10545-015-9859-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2015] [Revised: 04/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiencies exhibit a wide spectrum of clinical presentations owing to defective mitochondrial energy production through oxidative phosphorylation. These defects can be caused by either mutations in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or mutations in nuclear genes coding for mitochondrially-targeted proteins. The underlying pathomechanisms can affect numerous pathways involved in mitochondrial biology including expression of mtDNA-encoded genes. Expression of the mitochondrial genes is extensively regulated at the post-transcriptional stage and entails nucleolytic cleavage of precursor RNAs, RNA nucleotide modifications, RNA polyadenylation, RNA quality and stability control. These processes ensure proper mitochondrial RNA (mtRNA) function, and are regulated by dedicated, nuclear-encoded enzymes. Recent growing evidence suggests that mutations in these nuclear genes, leading to incorrect maturation of RNAs, are a cause of human mitochondrial disease. Additionally, mutations in mtDNA-encoded genes may also affect RNA maturation and are frequently associated with human disease. We review the current knowledge on a subset of nuclear-encoded genes coding for proteins involved in mitochondrial RNA maturation, for which genetic variants impacting upon mitochondrial pathophysiology have been reported. Also, primary pathological mtDNA mutations with recognised effects upon RNA processing are described.
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- MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY UK
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- MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY UK
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- MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY UK
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY UK
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Schwartz S, Bernstein DA, Mumbach MR, Jovanovic M, Herbst RH, León-Ricardo BX, Engreitz JM, Guttman M, Satija R, Lander ES, Fink G, Regev A. Transcriptome-wide mapping reveals widespread dynamic-regulated pseudouridylation of ncRNA and mRNA. Cell 2014; 159:148-162. [PMID: 25219674 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.08.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 661] [Impact Index Per Article: 66.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2014] [Revised: 08/21/2014] [Accepted: 08/22/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Pseudouridine is the most abundant RNA modification, yet except for a few well-studied cases, little is known about the modified positions and their function(s). Here, we develop Ψ-seq for transcriptome-wide quantitative mapping of pseudouridine. We validate Ψ-seq with spike-ins and de novo identification of previously reported positions and discover hundreds of unique sites in human and yeast mRNAs and snoRNAs. Perturbing pseudouridine synthases (PUS) uncovers which pseudouridine synthase modifies each site and their target sequence features. mRNA pseudouridinylation depends on both site-specific and snoRNA-guided pseudouridine synthases. Upon heat shock in yeast, Pus7p-mediated pseudouridylation is induced at >200 sites, and PUS7 deletion decreases the levels of otherwise pseudouridylated mRNA, suggesting a role in enhancing transcript stability. rRNA pseudouridine stoichiometries are conserved but reduced in cells from dyskeratosis congenita patients, where the PUS DKC1 is mutated. Our work identifies an enhanced, transcriptome-wide scope for pseudouridine and methods to dissect its underlying mechanisms and function.
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan 00931, Puerto Rico
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Division of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 4000 Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA.
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Transfer RNA post-transcriptional processing, turnover, and subcellular dynamics in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2013; 194:43-67. [PMID: 23633143 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.147470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are essential for protein synthesis. In eukaryotes, tRNA biosynthesis employs a specialized RNA polymerase that generates initial transcripts that must be subsequently altered via a multitude of post-transcriptional steps before the tRNAs beome mature molecules that function in protein synthesis. Genetic, genomic, biochemical, and cell biological approaches possible in the powerful Saccharomyces cerevisiae system have led to exciting advances in our understandings of tRNA post-transcriptional processing as well as to novel insights into tRNA turnover and tRNA subcellular dynamics. tRNA processing steps include removal of transcribed leader and trailer sequences, addition of CCA to the 3' mature sequence and, for tRNA(His), addition of a 5' G. About 20% of yeast tRNAs are encoded by intron-containing genes. The three-step splicing process to remove the introns surprisingly occurs in the cytoplasm in yeast and each of the splicing enzymes appears to moonlight in functions in addition to tRNA splicing. There are 25 different nucleoside modifications that are added post-transcriptionally, creating tRNAs in which ∼15% of the residues are nucleosides other than A, G, U, or C. These modified nucleosides serve numerous important functions including tRNA discrimination, translation fidelity, and tRNA quality control. Mature tRNAs are very stable, but nevertheless yeast cells possess multiple pathways to degrade inappropriately processed or folded tRNAs. Mature tRNAs are also dynamic in cells, moving from the cytoplasm to the nucleus and back again to the cytoplasm; the mechanism and function of this retrograde process is poorly understood. Here, the state of knowledge for tRNA post-transcriptional processing, turnover, and subcellular dynamics is addressed, highlighting the questions that remain.
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Motorin Y, Helm M. RNA nucleotide methylation. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2011; 2:611-31. [PMID: 21823225 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.79] [Citation(s) in RCA: 332] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Methylation of RNA occurs at a variety of atoms, nucleotides, sequences and tertiary structures. Strongly related to other posttranscriptional modifications, methylation of different RNA species includes tRNA, rRNA, mRNA, tmRNA, snRNA, snoRNA, miRNA, and viral RNA. Different catalytic strategies are employed for RNA methylation by a variety of RNA-methyltransferases which fall into four superfamilies. This review outlines the different functions of methyl groups in RNA, including biophysical, biochemical and metabolic stabilization of RNA, quality control, resistance to antibiotics, mRNA reading frame maintenance, deciphering of normal and altered genetic code, selenocysteine incorporation, tRNA aminoacylation, ribotoxins, splicing, intracellular trafficking, immune response, and others. Connections to other fields including gene regulation, DNA repair, stress response, and possibly histone acetylation and exocytosis are pointed out. WIREs RNA 2011 2 611-631 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.79 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website.
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- Yuri Motorin
- Laboratoire ARN-RNP Maturation-Structure-Fonction, Enzymologie Moléculaire et Structurale (AREMS), Université Henri Poincaré, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
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Post-transcriptional ribonucleotide modification is a phenomenon best studied in tRNA, where it occurs most frequently and in great chemical diversity. This paper reviews the intrinsic network of modifications in the structural core of the tRNA, which governs structural flexibility and rigidity to fine-tune the molecule to peak performance and to regulate its steady-state level. Structural effects of RNA modifications range from nanometer-scale rearrangements to subtle restrictions of conformational space on the angstrom scale. Structural stabilization resulting from nucleotide modification results in increased thermal stability and translates into protection against unspecific degradation by bases and nucleases. Several mechanisms of specific degradation of hypomodified tRNA, which were only recently discovered, provide a link between structural and metabolic stability.
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- Yuri Motorin
- Laboratoire ARN-RNP Maturation-Structure-Fonction, Enzymologie Moléculaire et Structurale (AREMS), UMR 7214 CNRS-UHP Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1, Bld des Aiguillettes, BP 70239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
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Phizicky EM, Alfonzo JD. Do all modifications benefit all tRNAs? FEBS Lett 2009; 584:265-71. [PMID: 19931536 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.11.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2009] [Revised: 11/12/2009] [Accepted: 11/13/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Despite the universality of tRNA modifications, some tRNAs lacking specific modifications are subject to degradation pathways, while other tRNAs lacking the same modifications are resistant. Here, we suggest a model in which some modifications have minor, possibly redundant, roles in specific tRNAs. This model is consistent with the low specificity of some modification enzymes. Limitations of this model include the limited assays and growth conditions on which these conclusions are based, as well as the high specificity exhibited by many modification enzymes with important roles in translation. The specificity of these enzymes is often enhanced by complex substrate recognition patterns and sub-cellular compartmentalization.
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- Eric M Phizicky
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
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Wohlgamuth-Benedum JM, Rubio MAT, Paris Z, Long S, Poliak P, Lukes J, Alfonzo JD. Thiolation controls cytoplasmic tRNA stability and acts as a negative determinant for tRNA editing in mitochondria. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:23947-53. [PMID: 19574216 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.029421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Kinetoplastids encode a single nuclear tryptophanyl tRNA that contains a CCA anticodon able to decode the UGG codons used in cytoplasmic protein synthesis but cannot decode the mitochondrial UGA codons. Following mitochondrial import, this problem is circumvented in Trypanosoma brucei by specifically editing the tRNA(Trp) anticodon to UCA, which can now decode the predominant mitochondrial UGA tryptophan codons. This tRNA also undergoes an unusual thiolation at position 33 of the anticodon loop, the only known modification at U33 in any tRNA. In other organisms, tRNA thiolation is mediated by the cysteine desulfurase, Nfs1 (IscS). However, T. brucei encodes two Nfs homologues, one cytoplasmic and the other mitochondrial. We show by a combination of RNA interference and Northern and Western analyses that the mitochondria-targeted TbNfs, and not TbNfs-like protein, is essential for thiolation of both cytosolic and mitochondrial tRNAs. Given the exclusive mitochondrial localization of TbNfs, how it mediates thiolation in the cytoplasm remains unclear. Furthermore, thiolation specifically affects thiolated tRNA stability in the cytoplasm but more surprisingly acts as a negative determinant for the essential C to U editing in T. brucei. This provides a first line of evidence for mitochondrial C to U editing regulation in this system.
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- Jessica M Wohlgamuth-Benedum
- Department of Microbiology and The Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Durairaj A, Limbach PA. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry screening for pseudouridine in mixtures of small RNAs by chemical derivatization, RNase digestion and signature products. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2008; 22:3727-34. [PMID: 18973194 PMCID: PMC3009585 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.3789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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We have developed a method to screen for pseudouridines in complex mixtures of small RNAs using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS). First, the unfractionated crude mixture of tRNAs is digested to completion with an endoribonuclease, such as RNase T1, and the digestion products are examined using MALDI-MS. Individual RNAs are identified by their signature digestion products, which arise through the detection of unique mass values after nuclease digestion. Next, the endonuclease digest is derivatized using N-cyclohexyl-N'-(2-morpholinoethyl)carbodiimide metho-p-toluenesulfonate (CMCT), which selectively modifies all pseudouridine, thiouridine and 2-methylthio-6-isopentenyladenosine nucleosides. MALDI-MS determination of the CMCT-derivatized endonuclease digest reveals the presence of pseudouridine through a 252 Da mass increase over the underivatized digest. Proof-of-concept experiments were conducted using a mixture of Escherichia coli transfer RNAs and endoribonucleases T1 and A. More than 80% of the expected pseudouridines from this mixture were detected using this screening approach, even on an unfractionated sample of tRNAs. This approach should be particularly useful in the identification of putative pseudouridine synthases through detection of their target RNAs and can provide insight into specific small RNAs that may contain pseudouridine.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Phone (513) 556-1871, Fax (513) 556-9239,
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Gustavsson M, Ronne H. Evidence that tRNA modifying enzymes are important in vivo targets for 5-fluorouracil in yeast. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2008; 14:666-74. [PMID: 18314501 PMCID: PMC2271368 DOI: 10.1261/rna.966208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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We have screened a collection of haploid yeast knockout strains for increased sensitivity to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). A total of 138 5-FU sensitive strains were found. Mutants affecting rRNA and tRNA maturation were particularly sensitive to 5-FU, with the tRNA methylation mutant trm10 being the most sensitive mutant. This is intriguing since trm10, like many other tRNA modification mutants, lacks a phenotype under normal conditions. However, double mutants for nonessential tRNA modification enzymes are frequently temperature sensitive, due to destabilization of hypomodified tRNAs. We therefore tested if the sensitivity of our mutants to 5-FU is affected by the temperature. We found that the cytotoxic effect of 5-FU is strongly enhanced at 38 degrees C for tRNA modification mutants. Furthermore, tRNA modification mutants show similar synthetic interactions for temperature sensitivity and sensitivity to 5-FU. A model is proposed for how 5-FU kills these mutants by reducing the number of tRNA modifications, thus destabilizing tRNA. Finally, we found that also wild-type cells are temperature sensitive at higher concentrations of 5-FU. This suggests that tRNA destabilization contributes to 5-FU cytotoxicity in wild-type cells and provides a possible explanation why hyperthermia can enhance the effect of 5-FU in cancer therapy.
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MESH Headings
- Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
- Drug Resistance, Fungal/genetics
- Fluorouracil/pharmacology
- Gene Deletion
- Genes, Fungal
- Haploidy
- Humans
- Models, Biological
- Models, Molecular
- Mutation
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
- RNA Stability
- RNA, Fungal/chemistry
- RNA, Fungal/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/metabolism
- RNA, Transfer/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer/genetics
- RNA, Transfer/metabolism
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/drug effects
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism
- Temperature
- tRNA Methyltransferases/genetics
- tRNA Methyltransferases/metabolism
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- Marie Gustavsson
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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Kotelawala L, Grayhack EJ, Phizicky EM. Identification of yeast tRNA Um(44) 2'-O-methyltransferase (Trm44) and demonstration of a Trm44 role in sustaining levels of specific tRNA(Ser) species. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2008; 14:158-69. [PMID: 18025252 PMCID: PMC2151035 DOI: 10.1261/rna.811008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2007] [Accepted: 10/07/2007] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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A characteristic feature of tRNAs is the numerous modifications found throughout their sequences, which are highly conserved and often have important roles. Um(44) is highly conserved among eukaryotic cytoplasmic tRNAs with a long variable loop and unique to tRNA(Ser) in yeast. We show here that the yeast ORF YPL030w (now named TRM44) encodes tRNA(Ser) Um(44) 2'-O-methyltransferase. Trm44 was identified by screening a yeast genomic library of affinity purified proteins for activity and verified by showing that a trm44-delta strain lacks 2'-O-methyltransferase activity and has undetectable levels of Um(44) in its tRNA(Ser) and by showing that Trm44 purified from Escherichia coli 2'-O-methylates U(44) of tRNA(Ser) in vitro. Trm44 is conserved among metazoans and fungi, consistent with the conservation of Um(44) in eukaryotic tRNAs, but surprisingly, Trm44 is not found in plants. Although trm44-delta mutants have no detectable growth defect, TRM44 is required for survival at 33 degrees C in a tan1-delta mutant strain, which lacks ac(4)C12 in tRNA(Ser) and tRNA(Leu). At nonpermissive temperature, a trm44-delta tan1-delta mutant strain has reduced levels of tRNA(Ser(CGA)) and tRNA(Ser(UGA)), but not other tRNA(Ser) or tRNA(Leu) species. The trm44-delta tan1-delta growth defect is suppressed by addition of multiple copies of tRNA(Ser(CGA)) and tRNA(Ser(UGA)), directly implicating these tRNA(Ser) species in this phenotype. The reduction of specific tRNA(Ser) species in a trm44-delta tan1-delta mutant underscores the importance of tRNA modifications in sustaining tRNA levels and further emphasizes that tRNAs undergo quality control.
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- Lakmal Kotelawala
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
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Behm-Ansmant I, Branlant C, Motorin Y. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pus2 protein encoded by YGL063w ORF is a mitochondrial tRNA:Psi27/28-synthase. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2007; 13:1641-7. [PMID: 17684231 PMCID: PMC1986808 DOI: 10.1261/rna.605607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The RNA:pseudouridine (Psi)-synthase family is one of the most complex families of RNA modification enzymes. Ten genes encoding putative RNA:Psi-synthases have been identified in S. cerevisiae. Most of the encoded enzymes have been characterized experimentally. Only the putative RNA:Psi-synthase Pus2p (encoded by the YGL063w ORF) had no identified substrate. Here, we analyzed Psi residues in cytoplasmic and mitochondrial tRNAs extracted from S. cerevisiae strains, carrying disruptions in the PUS1 and/or PUS2 ORFs. Our results demonstrate that Pus2p is a mitochondrial-specific tRNA:Psi-synthase acting at positions 27 and 28 in tRNAs. The importance of the Asp56 residue in the conserved ARTD motif of the Pus2p catalytic site is demonstrated in vivo. Interestingly, in spite of the absence of a characteristic N-terminal targeting signal, our data strongly suggest an efficient and rapid targeting of Pus2p in yeast mitochondria. In contradiction with the commonly held idea that a unique nuclear gene encodes the enzyme required for both cytoplasmic and mitochondrial tRNA modifications, here we show the existence of an enzyme specifically dedicated to mitochondrial tRNA modification (Pus2p), the corresponding modification in cytoplasmic tRNAs being catalyzed by another protein (Pus1p).
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- Isabelle Behm-Ansmant
- Laboratoire de Maturation des ARN et Enzymologie Moléculaire, UMR 7567 CNRS-UHP Nancy I, Faculté des Sciences, BP 239,54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, France
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Hamma T, Ferré-D'Amaré AR. Pseudouridine synthases. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 13:1125-35. [PMID: 17113994 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2006.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 213] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2006] [Revised: 09/15/2006] [Accepted: 09/18/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Pseudouridine synthases are the enzymes responsible for the most abundant posttranscriptional modification of cellular RNAs. These enzymes catalyze the site-specific isomerization of uridine residues that are already part of an RNA chain, and appear to employ both sequence and structural information to achieve site specificity. Crystallographic analyses have demonstrated that all pseudouridine synthases share a common core fold and active site structure and that this core is modified by peripheral domains, accessory proteins, and guide RNAs to give rise to remarkable substrate versatility.
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- Tomoko Hamma
- Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
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Fernandez-Vizarra E, Berardinelli A, Valente L, Tiranti V, Zeviani M. Nonsense mutation in pseudouridylate synthase 1 (PUS1) in two brothers affected by myopathy, lactic acidosis and sideroblastic anaemia (MLASA). J Med Genet 2006; 44:173-80. [PMID: 17056637 PMCID: PMC2598032 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2006.045252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Myopathy, lactic acidosis and sideroblastic anaemia (MLASA) is a rare condition that combines early-onset myopathy with lactic acidosis and sideroblastic anaemia. MLASA has been associated with a missense mutation in pseudouridylate synthase 1 (PUS1), an enzyme located in both nucleus and mitochondria, which converts uridine into pseudouridine in several cytosolic and mitochondrial tRNA positions and increases the efficiency of protein synthesis in both compartments. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We have identified two Italian brothers, offspring of distantly related parents, both of whom are affected by MLASA. The six exons of the PUS1 gene were analysed by automated sequencing. RESULTS We found combined defects in mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes in muscle and fibroblast homogenates of both patients, and low levels of mtDNA translation products in fibroblast mitochondria. A novel, homozygous stop mutation was present in PUS1 (E220X). We have investigated the structural and mechanistic aspects of the double localisation of PUS1, demonstrating that the isoform located in the nucleus contains an N-terminal extension which is absent in the mature mitochondrial isoform. CONCLUSIONS The stop mutation in PUS1 is likely to determine the loss of function of the protein, since it predicts the synthesis of a protein missing 208/427 amino acid residues on the C terminus, and was associated with low mtDNA translation. The structural differences in nuclear versus mitochondrial isoforms of PUS1 may be implicated in the variability of the clinical presentations in MLASA.
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MESH Headings
- Acidosis, Lactic/enzymology
- Acidosis, Lactic/genetics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Anemia, Sideroblastic/enzymology
- Anemia, Sideroblastic/genetics
- Cell Nucleus/enzymology
- Codon, Nonsense
- Consanguinity
- Cytochrome-c Oxidase Deficiency/genetics
- Electron Transport Complex I/deficiency
- Fatal Outcome
- Fibroblasts/enzymology
- Fibroblasts/pathology
- HeLa Cells
- Human Growth Hormone/deficiency
- Humans
- Hydro-Lyases/chemistry
- Hydro-Lyases/deficiency
- Hydro-Lyases/genetics
- Infant, Newborn
- Intellectual Disability/genetics
- Male
- Mitochondria, Muscle/enzymology
- Mitochondrial Myopathies/enzymology
- Mitochondrial Myopathies/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muscle, Skeletal/enzymology
- Muscle, Skeletal/pathology
- Phenotype
- Protein Isoforms/analysis
- Protein Isoforms/genetics
- Protein Precursors/metabolism
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational
- Protein Transport/drug effects
- Syndrome
- Transcription, Genetic
- Transfection
- Valinomycin/pharmacology
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- Erika Fernandez-Vizarra
- Division of Molecular Neurogenetics, Pierfranco and Luisa Mariani Center for the Study of Mitochondrial Disorders of Infancy and Childhood, National Institute of Neurology C. Besta, Milan, Italy
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Copela LA, Chakshusmathi G, Sherrer RL, Wolin SL. The La protein functions redundantly with tRNA modification enzymes to ensure tRNA structural stability. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2006; 12:644-54. [PMID: 16581807 PMCID: PMC1421099 DOI: 10.1261/rna.2307206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Although the La protein stabilizes nascent pre-tRNAs from nucleases, influences the pathway of pre-tRNA maturation, and assists correct folding of certain pre-tRNAs, it is dispensable for growth in both budding and fission yeast. Here we show that the Saccharomyces cerevisiae La shares functional redundancy with both tRNA modification enzymes and other proteins that contact tRNAs during their biogenesis. La is important for growth in the presence of mutations in either the arginyl tRNA synthetase or the tRNA modification enzyme Trm1p. In addition, two pseudouridine synthases, PUS3 and PUS4, are important for growth in strains carrying a mutation in tRNA(Arg)(CCG) and are essential when La is deleted in these strains. Depletion of Pus3p results in accumulation of the aminoacylated mutant tRNA(Arg)(CCG) in nuclei, while depletion of Pus4p results in decreased stability of the mutant tRNA. Interestingly, the degradation of mutant unstable forms of tRNA(Arg)(CCG) does not require the Trf4p poly(A) polymerase, suggesting that yeast cells possess multiple pathways for tRNA decay. These data demonstrate that La functions redundantly with both tRNA modifications and proteins that associate with tRNAs to achieve tRNA structural stability and efficient biogenesis.
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- Laura A Copela
- Department of Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06536, USA
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Alexandrov A, Chernyakov I, Gu W, Hiley SL, Hughes TR, Grayhack EJ, Phizicky EM. Rapid tRNA decay can result from lack of nonessential modifications. Mol Cell 2006; 21:87-96. [PMID: 16387656 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2005.10.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 357] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2005] [Revised: 10/18/2005] [Accepted: 10/28/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The biological role of many nonessential tRNA modifications outside of the anticodon remains elusive despite their evolutionary conservation. We show here that m7G46 methyltransferase Trm8p/Trm82p acts as a hub of synthetic interactions with several tRNA modification enzymes, resulting in temperature-sensitive growth. Analysis of three double mutants indicates reduced levels of tRNA(Val(AAC)), consistent with a role of the corresponding modifications in maintenance of tRNA levels. Detailed examination of a trm8-delta trm4-delta double mutant demonstrates rapid degradation of preexisting tRNA(Val(AAC)) accompanied by its de-aminoacylation. Multiple copies of tRNA(Val(AAC)) suppress the trm8-delta trm4-delta growth defect, directly implicating this tRNA in the phenotype. These results define a rapid tRNA degradation (RTD) pathway that is independent of the TRF4/RRP6-dependent nuclear surveillance pathway. The degradation of an endogenous tRNA species at a rate typical of mRNA decay demonstrates a critical role of nonessential modifications for tRNA stability and cell survival.
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- Andrei Alexandrov
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
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Patton JR, Bykhovskaya Y, Mengesha E, Bertolotto C, Fischel-Ghodsian N. Mitochondrial Myopathy and Sideroblastic Anemia (MLASA). J Biol Chem 2005; 280:19823-8. [PMID: 15772074 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m500216200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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A missense mutation in the PUS1 gene affecting a highly conserved amino acid has been associated with mitochondrial myopathy and sideroblastic anemia (MLASA), a rare autosomal recessive oxidative phosphorylation disorder. The PUS1 gene encodes the enzyme pseudouridine synthase 1 (Pus1p) that is known to pseudouridylate tRNAs in other species. Total RNA was isolated from lymphoblastoid cell lines established from patients, parents, unaffected siblings, and unrelated controls, and the tRNAs were assayed for the presence of pseudouridine (Psi) at the expected positions. Mitochondrial and cytoplasmic tRNAs from MLASA patients are lacking modification at sites normally modified by Pus1p, whereas tRNAs from controls, unaffected siblings, or parents all have Psi at these positions. In addition, there was no Pus1p activity in an extract made from a cell line derived from a patient with MLASA. Immunohistochemical staining of Pus1p in cell lines showed nuclear, cytoplasmic, and mitochondrial distribution of the protein, and there is no difference in staining between patients and unaffected family members. MLASA is thus associated with absent or greatly reduced tRNA pseudouridylation at specific sites, implicating this pathway in its molecular pathogenesis.
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MESH Headings
- Anemia, Sideroblastic/complications
- Anemia, Sideroblastic/enzymology
- Anemia, Sideroblastic/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Cell Line
- Genes, Recessive
- Humans
- Hydro-Lyases/genetics
- Mitochondrial Myopathies/complications
- Mitochondrial Myopathies/enzymology
- Mitochondrial Myopathies/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation, Missense
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Pseudouridine/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer/genetics
- RNA, Transfer, Lys/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer, Lys/genetics
- RNA, Transfer, Ser/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer, Ser/genetics
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- Jeffrey R Patton
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, USA
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Alexandrov A, Grayhack EJ, Phizicky EM. tRNA m7G methyltransferase Trm8p/Trm82p: evidence linking activity to a growth phenotype and implicating Trm82p in maintaining levels of active Trm8p. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2005; 11:821-30. [PMID: 15811913 PMCID: PMC1370766 DOI: 10.1261/rna.2030705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We show that Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains lacking Trm8p/Trm82p tRNA m7G methyltransferase are temperature-sensitive in synthetic media containing glycerol. Bacterial TRM8 orthologs complement the growth defect of trm8-Delta, trm82-Delta, and trm8-Delta trm82-Delta double mutants, suggesting that bacteria employ a single subunit for Trm8p/Trm82p function. The growth phenotype of trm8 mutants correlates with lack of tRNA m7G methyltransferase activity in vitro and in vivo, based on analysis of 10 mutant alleles of trm8 and bacterial orthologs, and suggests that m7G modification is the cellular function important for growth. Initial examination of the roles of the yeast subunits shows that Trm8p has most of the functions required to effect m7G modification, and that a major role of Trm82p is to maintain cellular levels of Trm8p. Trm8p efficiently cross-links to pre-tRNAPhe in vitro in the presence or absence of Trm82p, in addition to its known residual tRNA m7G modification activity and its SAM-binding domain. Surprisingly, the levels of Trm8p, but not its mRNA, are severely reduced in a trm82-Delta strain. Although Trm8p can be produced in the absence of Trm82p by deliberate overproduction, the resulting protein is inactive, suggesting that a second role of Trm82p is to stabilize Trm8p in an active conformation.
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- Andrei Alexandrov
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine, 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 712, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Modification and editing of RNA: historical overview and important facts to remember. FINE-TUNING OF RNA FUNCTIONS BY MODIFICATION AND EDITING 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/b106848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Transfer RNA modifications and modifying enzymes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FINE-TUNING OF RNA FUNCTIONS BY MODIFICATION AND EDITING 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/b105814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Stanford DR, Whitney ML, Hurto RL, Eisaman DM, Shen WC, Hopper AK. Division of labor among the yeast Sol proteins implicated in tRNA nuclear export and carbohydrate metabolism. Genetics 2004; 168:117-27. [PMID: 15454531 PMCID: PMC1448090 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.030452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2004] [Accepted: 06/09/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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SOL1, the founding member of the S. cerevisiae SOL family, was previously identified as a multi-copy suppressor of the los1 defect in tRNA-mediated nonsense suppression. Here we report that the four-member SOL family is not essential and that individual family members appear to have distinct functions. SOL1-SOL4 are homologous to genes encoding 6-phosphogluconolactonase (6Pgl) involved in the pentose phosphate pathway. Both Sol3p and Sol4p affect this activity. However, Sol4p does not act as a los1 multi-copy suppressor. In contrast, neither Sol1p nor Sol2p, both of which correct the los1 defect in nonsense suppression, possess detectable 6Pgl activity. Rather, Sol1p and Sol2p appear to function in tRNA nuclear export as sol1 and sol2 mutants possess elevated levels of nuclear tRNA. Members of the Sol protein family appear to have different subcellular distributions. Thus, Sol3p and Sol4p likely function in carbohydrate metabolism, while Sol1p and Sol2p appear to have roles in tRNA function and nuclear export, thereby defining an unusual protein family whose individual members are biochemically distinct and spatially dispersed.
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- D R Stanford
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey 17033, USA
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Zhao X, Patton JR, Davis SL, Florence B, Ames SJ, Spanjaard RA. Regulation of nuclear receptor activity by a pseudouridine synthase through posttranscriptional modification of steroid receptor RNA activator. Mol Cell 2004; 15:549-58. [PMID: 15327771 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2004.06.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2004] [Revised: 06/08/2004] [Accepted: 06/17/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
Nuclear receptors (NRs) induce transcription through association with coactivator complexes. We identified a pseudouridine synthase (PUS), mPus1p, as a coactivator for retinoic acid receptor (mRAR)gamma and other NR-dependent transactivation. mPus1p is a member of the truA subfamily of PUSs, a class of enzymes that isomerize uridine to pseudouridine in noncoding RNAs, such as tRNA, to ensure proper folding and function. mPus1p binds the first zinc finger of mRARgamma and also associates with other NRs. Interestingly, mPus1p pseudouridylates coactivator Steroid Receptor RNA Activator (SRA), and when coexpressed, mPus1p and SRA cooperatively enhance mRARgamma-mediated transcription. mPus1p, mRARgamma, and SRA exist in a retinoid-independent, promoter bound complex in the nucleus although mPus1p is also expressed in the nucleolus, where it likely modifies tRNA. Finally, we show that mPus1p-coactivator function required SRA, mPus1p-associated mRARgamma binding, and PUS activities. mPus1p-dependent pseudouridylation of SRA represents an additional type of posttranscriptional modification of a NR-coactivator complex that is important for NR signaling.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Humans
- Hydro-Lyases/genetics
- Hydro-Lyases/metabolism
- Macromolecular Substances
- Mice
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Protein Binding
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Pseudouridine/metabolism
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
- RNA, Long Noncoding
- RNA, Untranslated/metabolism
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/genetics
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/metabolism
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid/genetics
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid/metabolism
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- Transcription, Genetic
- Transcriptional Activation
- Two-Hybrid System Techniques
- Retinoic Acid Receptor gamma
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- Xiansi Zhao
- Department of Otolaryngology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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Bykhovskaya Y, Casas K, Mengesha E, Inbal A, Fischel-Ghodsian N. Missense mutation in pseudouridine synthase 1 (PUS1) causes mitochondrial myopathy and sideroblastic anemia (MLASA). Am J Hum Genet 2004; 74:1303-8. [PMID: 15108122 PMCID: PMC1182096 DOI: 10.1086/421530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2004] [Accepted: 04/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial myopathy and sideroblastic anemia (MLASA) is a rare, autosomal recessive oxidative phosphorylation disorder specific to skeletal muscle and bone marrow. Linkage analysis and homozygosity testing of two families with MLASA localized the candidate region to 1.2 Mb on 12q24.33. Sequence analysis of each of the six known genes in this region, as well as four putative genes with expression in bone marrow or muscle, identified a homozygous missense mutation in the pseudouridine synthase 1 gene (PUS1) in all patients with MLASA from these families. The mutation is the only amino acid coding change in these 10 genes that is not a known polymorphism, and it is not found in 934 controls. The amino acid change affects a highly conserved amino acid, and appears to be in the catalytic center of the protein, PUS1p. PUS1 is widely expressed, and quantitative expression analysis of RNAs from liver, brain, heart, bone marrow, and skeletal muscle showed elevated levels of expression in skeletal muscle and brain. We propose deficient pseudouridylation of mitochondrial tRNAs as an etiology of MLASA. Identification of the pathophysiologic pathways of the mutation in these families may shed light on the tissue specificity of oxidative phosphorylation disorders.
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- Yelena Bykhovskaya
- Ahmanson Department of Pediatrics, Steven Spielberg Pediatric Research Center, and Medical Genetics Birth Defects Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles; and Institute of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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- Ahmanson Department of Pediatrics, Steven Spielberg Pediatric Research Center, and Medical Genetics Birth Defects Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles; and Institute of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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- Ahmanson Department of Pediatrics, Steven Spielberg Pediatric Research Center, and Medical Genetics Birth Defects Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles; and Institute of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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- Ahmanson Department of Pediatrics, Steven Spielberg Pediatric Research Center, and Medical Genetics Birth Defects Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles; and Institute of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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- Ahmanson Department of Pediatrics, Steven Spielberg Pediatric Research Center, and Medical Genetics Birth Defects Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles; and Institute of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Steiner-Mosonyi M, Leslie DM, Dehghani H, Aitchison JD, Mangroo D. Utp8p is an essential intranuclear component of the nuclear tRNA export machinery of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:32236-45. [PMID: 12794079 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m302779200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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A yeast tRNA three-hybrid interaction approach and an in vivo nuclear tRNA export assay based on amber suppression was used to identify proteins that participate in the nuclear tRNA export process in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. One of the proteins identified by this strategy is Utp8p, an essential 80-kDa nucleolar protein that has been implicated in 18 S ribosomal RNA biogenesis. Our characterization indicated that the major function of Utp8p is in nuclear tRNA export. Like the S. cerevisiae Los1p and the mammalian exportin-t, which are proteins known to facilitate nuclear tRNA export, overexpression of Utp8p restored export of tRNAamTyr mutants defective in nuclear export. Furthermore, depletion of Utp8p blocked nuclear export of mature tRNAs derived from both intronless and intron-containing pre-tRNAs but did not affect tRNA and rRNA maturation, nuclear export of mRNA and ribosomes, or nuclear tRNA aminoacylation. Overexpression of Utp8p also alleviated nuclear retention of non-aminoacylated tRNATyr in a tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase mutant strain. Utp8p binds tRNA directly and saturably, indicating that it has a tRNA-binding site. Utp8p does not appear to function as a tRNA export receptor, because it does not shuttle between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Taken together, the results suggest that Utp8p is an essential intranuclear component of the nuclear tRNA export machinery, which may channel tRNA to the various tRNA export pathways operating in S. cerevisiae.
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- Marta Steiner-Mosonyi
- Guelph-Waterloo Center for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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Patton JR, Padgett RW. Caenorhabditis elegans pseudouridine synthase 1 activity in vivo: tRNA is a substrate, but not U2 small nuclear RNA. Biochem J 2003; 372:595-602. [PMID: 12597772 PMCID: PMC1223395 DOI: 10.1042/bj20021938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2002] [Revised: 02/12/2003] [Accepted: 02/21/2003] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The formation of pseudouridine (Psi) from uridine is post-transcriptional and catalysed by pseudouridine synthases, several of which have been characterized from eukaryotes. Pseudouridine synthase 1 (Pus1p) has been well characterized from yeast and mice. In yeast, Pus1p has been shown to have dual substrate specificity, modifying uridines in tRNAs and at position 44 in U2 small nuclear RNA (U2 snRNA). In order to study the in vivo activity of a metazoan Pus1p, a knockout of the gene coding for the homologue of Pus1p in Caenorhabditis elegans was obtained. The deletion encompasses the first two putative exons and includes the essential aspartate that is required for activity in truA pseudouridine synthases. The locations of most modified nucleotides on small RNAs in C. elegans are not known, and the positions of Psi were determined on four tRNAs and U2 snRNA. The uridine at position 27 of tRNA(Val) (AAC), a putative Pus1p-modification site, was converted into Psi in the wild-type worms, but the tRNA(Val) (AAC) from mutant worms lacked the modification. Psi formation at positions 13, 32, 38 and 39, all of which should be modified by other pseudouridine synthases, was not affected by the loss of Pus1p. The absence of Pus1p in C. elegans had no effect on the modification of U2 snRNA in vivo, even though worm U2 snRNA has a Psi at position 45 (the equivalent of yeast U2 snRNA position 44) and at four other positions. This result was unexpected, given the known dual specificity of yeast Pus1p.
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- Jeffrey R Patton
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Columbia 29208, USA.
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Jackman JE, Montange RK, Malik HS, Phizicky EM. Identification of the yeast gene encoding the tRNA m1G methyltransferase responsible for modification at position 9. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2003; 9:574-85. [PMID: 12702816 PMCID: PMC1370423 DOI: 10.1261/rna.5070303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2003] [Accepted: 02/10/2003] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Methylation of tRNA at the N-1 position of guanosine to form m(1)G occurs widely in nature. It occurs at position 37 in tRNAs from all three kingdoms, and the methyltransferase that catalyzes this reaction is known from previous work of others to be critically important for cell growth in Escherichia coli and the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. m(1)G is also widely found at position 9 in eukaryotic tRNAs, but the corresponding methyltransferase was unknown. We have used a biochemical genomics approach with a collection of purified yeast GST-ORF fusion proteins to show that m(1)G(9) formation of yeast tRNA(Gly) is associated with ORF YOL093w, named TRM10. Extracts lacking Trm10p have undetectable levels of m(1)G(9) methyltransferase activity but retain normal m(1)G(37) methyltransferase activity. Yeast Trm10p purified from E. coli quantitatively modifies the G(9) position of tRNA(Gly) in an S-adenosylmethionine-dependent fashion. Trm10p is responsible in vivo for most if not all m(1)G(9) modification of tRNAs, based on two results: tRNA(Gly) purified from a trm10-Delta/trm10-Delta strain is lacking detectable m(1)G; and a primer extension block occurring at m(1)G(9) is removed in trm10-Delta/trm10-Delta-derived tRNAs for all 9 m(1)G(9)-containing species that were testable by this method. There is no obvious growth defect of trm10-Delta/trm10-Delta strains. Trm10p bears no detectable resemblance to the yeast m(1)G(37) methyltransferase, Trm5p, or its orthologs. Trm10p homologs are found widely in eukaryotes and many archaea, with multiple homologs in several metazoans, including at least three in humans.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Escherichia coli/metabolism
- Genes, Fungal
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Open Reading Frames
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Fungal/chemistry
- RNA, Fungal/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/metabolism
- RNA, Transfer/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer/genetics
- RNA, Transfer/metabolism
- RNA, Transfer, Gly/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer, Gly/genetics
- RNA, Transfer, Gly/metabolism
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzymology
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- tRNA Methyltransferases/genetics
- tRNA Methyltransferases/metabolism
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- Jane E Jackman
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
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King TH, Liu B, McCully RR, Fournier MJ. Ribosome structure and activity are altered in cells lacking snoRNPs that form pseudouridines in the peptidyl transferase center. Mol Cell 2003; 11:425-35. [PMID: 12620230 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(03)00040-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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One of the oldest questions in RNA science is the role of nucleotide modification. Here, the importance of pseudouridine formation (Psi) in the peptidyl transferase center of rRNA was examined by depleting yeast cells of 1-5 snoRNAs that guide a total of six Psi modifications. Translation was impaired substantially with loss of a conserved Psi in the A site of tRNA binding. Depletion of other Psis had subtle or no apparent effect on activity; however, synergistic effects were observed in some combinations. Pseudouridines are proposed to enhance ribosome activity by altering rRNA folding and interactions, with some Psis having greater effects than others. The possibility that modifying snoRNPs might affect ribosome structure in other ways is also discussed.
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MESH Headings
- Base Sequence
- Cell Division
- Models, Molecular
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Peptidyl Transferases/chemistry
- Peptidyl Transferases/metabolism
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Pseudouridine/metabolism
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
- RNA, Fungal/chemistry
- RNA, Fungal/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/metabolism
- RNA, Small Nucleolar/chemistry
- RNA, Small Nucleolar/genetics
- RNA, Small Nucleolar/metabolism
- Ribonucleoproteins, Small Nucleolar/metabolism
- Ribosomes/chemistry
- Ribosomes/metabolism
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism
- RNA, Small Untranslated
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- Thomas H King
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Active Transport, Cell Nucleus
- Endoribonucleases/metabolism
- Genes, Fungal
- Mitochondria/metabolism
- Models, Biological
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Protein Biosynthesis
- RNA Editing
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
- RNA Splicing
- RNA, Catalytic/metabolism
- RNA, Fungal/chemistry
- RNA, Fungal/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/metabolism
- RNA, Transfer/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer/genetics
- RNA, Transfer/metabolism
- Ribonuclease P
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism
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- Anita K Hopper
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA.
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Lecointe F, Namy O, Hatin I, Simos G, Rousset JP, Grosjean H. Lack of pseudouridine 38/39 in the anticodon arm of yeast cytoplasmic tRNA decreases in vivo recoding efficiency. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:30445-53. [PMID: 12058040 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m203456200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Many different modified nucleotides are found in naturally occurring tRNA, especially in the anticodon region. Their importance for the efficiency of the translational process begins to be well documented. Here we have analyzed the in vivo effect of deleting genes coding for yeast tRNA-modifying enzymes, namely Pus1p, Pus3p, Pus4p, or Trm4p, on termination readthrough and +1 frameshift events. To this end, we have transformed each of the yeast deletion strains with a lacZ-luc dual-reporter vector harboring selected programmed recoding sites. We have found that only deletion of the PUS3 gene, encoding the enzyme that introduces pseudouridines at position 38 or 39 in tRNA, has an effect on the efficiency of the translation process. In this mutant, we have observed a reduced readthrough efficiency of each stop codon by natural nonsense suppressor tRNAs. This effect is solely due to the absence of pseudouridine 38 or 39 in tRNA because the inactive mutant protein Pus3[D151A]p did not restore the level of natural readthrough. Our results also show that absence of pseudouridine 39 in the slippery tRNA(UAG)(Leu) reduces +1 frameshift efficiency. Therefore, the presence of pseudouridine 38 or 39 in the tRNA anticodon arm enhances misreading of certain codons by natural nonsense tRNAs as well as promotes frameshifting on slippery sequences in yeast.
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- François Lecointe
- Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et de Biochimie Structurales, CNRS, Avenue de la Terrasse, Bat. 34, F-91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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Current awareness on yeast. Yeast 2002; 19:651-8. [PMID: 11967835 DOI: 10.1002/yea.824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Current awareness on yeast. Yeast 2002; 19:565-72. [PMID: 11921105 DOI: 10.1002/yea.823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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