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Brandão-Teles C, Antunes ASLM, de Moraes Vrechi TA, Martins-de-Souza D. The Roles of hnRNP Family in the Brain and Brain-Related Disorders. Mol Neurobiol 2024; 61:3578-3595. [PMID: 37999871 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-023-03747-4] [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: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/25/2023]
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Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) belong to a complex family of RNA-binding proteins that are essential to control alternative splicing, mRNA trafficking, synaptic plasticity, stress granule formation, cell cycle regulation, and axonal transport. Over the past decade, hnRNPs have been associated with different brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and schizophrenia. Given their essential role in maintaining cell function and integrity, it is not surprising that dysregulated hnRNP levels lead to neurological implications. This review aims to explore the primary functions of hnRNPs in neurons, oligodendrocytes, microglia, and astrocytes, and their roles in brain disorders. We also discuss proteomics and other technologies and their potential for studying and evaluating hnRNPs in brain disorders, including the discovery of new therapeutic targets and possible pharmacological interventions.
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- Caroline Brandão-Teles
- Laboratory of Neuroproteomics, Department of Biochemistry and Tissue Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
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- Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neuroproteomics, Department of Biochemistry and Tissue Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neuroproteomics, Department of Biochemistry and Tissue Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
- D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), São Paulo, Brazil.
- Experimental Medicine Research Cluster (EMRC), University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, 13083-862, Brazil.
- INCT in Modelling Human Complex Diseases with 3D Platforms (Model3D), São Paulo, Brazil.
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Instituto Nacional de Biomarcadores em Neuropsiquiatria, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Gatti da Silva GH, Jurica MS, Chagas da Cunha JP, Oliveira CC, Coltri PP. Human RNF113A participates of pre-mRNA splicing in vitro. J Cell Biochem 2019; 120:8764-8774. [PMID: 30506991 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.28163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Accepted: 11/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Pre-messenger RNA (mRNA) splicing is an essential step in the control of eukaryotic gene expression. During splicing, the introns are removed from the gene transcripts as the exons are ligated to create mature mRNA sequences. Splicing is performed by the spliceosome, which is a macromolecular complex composed of five small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs) and more than 100 proteins. Except for the core snRNP proteins, most spliceosome proteins are transiently associated and presumably involved with the regulation of spliceosome activity. In this study, we explored the association and participation of the human protein RNF113A in splicing. The addition of excess recombinant RNF113A to in vitro splicing reactions results in splicing inhibition. In whole-cell lysates, RNF113A co-immunoprecipitated with U2, U4, and U6 snRNAs, which are components of the tri-snRNP, and with proteins PRP19 and BRR2. When HeLa cells were CRISPR-edited to reduce the RNF113A levels, the in vitro splicing efficiency was severely affected. Consistently, the splicing activity was partially restored after the addition of the recombinant GST-RNF113A. On the basis on these results, we propose a model in which RNF113A associates with the spliceosome by interacting with PRP19, promoting essential rearrangements that lead to splicing.
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- Guilherme H Gatti da Silva
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California
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- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California.,Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Zhou R, Chun RF, Lisse TS, Garcia AJ, Xu J, Adams JS, Hewison M. Vitamin D and alternative splicing of RNA. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2015; 148:310-7. [PMID: 25447737 PMCID: PMC4361308 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2014.09.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2014] [Revised: 09/23/2014] [Accepted: 09/26/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The active form of vitamin D (1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, 1,25(OH)2D) exerts its genomic effects via binding to a nuclear high-affinity vitamin D receptor (VDR). Recent deep sequencing analysis of VDR binding locations across the complete genome has significantly expanded our understanding of the actions of vitamin D and VDR on gene transcription. However, these studies have also promoted appreciation of the extra-transcriptional impact of vitamin D on gene expression. It is now clear that vitamin D interacts with the epigenome via effects on DNA methylation, histone acetylation, and microRNA generation to maintain normal biological functions. There is also increasing evidence that vitamin D can influence pre-mRNA constitutive splicing and alternative splicing, although the mechanism for this remains unclear. Pre-mRNA splicing has long been thought to be a post-transcription RNA processing event, but current data indicate that this occurs co-transcriptionally. Several steroid hormones have been recognized to coordinately control gene transcription and pre-mRNA splicing through the recruitment of nuclear receptor co-regulators that can both control gene transcription and splicing. The current review will discuss this concept with specific reference to vitamin D, and the potential role of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C (hnRNPC), a nuclear factor with an established function in RNA splicing. hnRNPC, has been shown to be involved in the VDR transcriptional complex as a vitamin D-response element-binding protein (VDRE-BP), and may act as a coupling factor linking VDR-directed gene transcription with RNA splicing. In this way hnRNPC may provide an additional mechanism for the fine-tuning of vitamin D-regulated target gene expression. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled '17th Vitamin D Workshop'.
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- Rui Zhou
- UCLA Orthopaedic Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Hospital, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Department of Orthopaedics, the Orthopedic Surgery Center of Chinese PLA, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- UCLA Orthopaedic Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Hospital, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, 159 Old Bar Harbor Road, Salisbury Cove, ME 04672, USA
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- UCLA Orthopaedic Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Hospital, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedics, the Orthopedic Surgery Center of Chinese PLA, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- UCLA Orthopaedic Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Hospital, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- UCLA Orthopaedic Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Hospital, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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Venables JP, Koh CS, Froehlich U, Lapointe E, Couture S, Inkel L, Bramard A, Paquet ER, Watier V, Durand M, Lucier JF, Gervais-Bird J, Tremblay K, Prinos P, Klinck R, Elela SA, Chabot B. Multiple and specific mRNA processing targets for the major human hnRNP proteins. Mol Cell Biol 2008; 28:6033-43. [PMID: 18644864 PMCID: PMC2547008 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00726-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2008] [Revised: 05/30/2008] [Accepted: 07/11/2008] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Alternative splicing is a key mechanism regulating gene expression, and it is often used to produce antagonistic activities particularly in apoptotic genes. Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoparticle (hnRNP) proteins form a family of RNA-binding proteins that coat nascent pre-mRNAs. Many but not all major hnRNP proteins have been shown to participate in splicing control. The range and specificity of hnRNP protein action remain poorly documented, even for those affecting splice site selection. We used RNA interference and a reverse transcription-PCR screening platform to examine the implications of 14 of the major hnRNP proteins in the splicing of 56 alternative splicing events in apoptotic genes. Out of this total of 784 alternative splicing reactions tested in three human cell lines, 31 responded similarly to a knockdown in at least two different cell lines. On the other hand, the impact of other hnRNP knockdowns was cell line specific. The broadest effects were obtained with hnRNP K and C, two proteins whose role in alternative splicing had not previously been firmly established. Different hnRNP proteins affected distinct sets of targets with little overlap even between closely related hnRNP proteins. Overall, our study highlights the potential contribution of all of these major hnRNP proteins in alternative splicing control and shows that the targets for individual hnRNP proteins can vary in different cellular contexts.
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- Julian P Venables
- Département de Microbiologie et d'Infectiologie, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, 3001, 12th Avenue Nord, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec J1H 5N4, Canada
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Martinez-Contreras R, Cloutier P, Shkreta L, Fisette JF, Revil T, Chabot B. hnRNP proteins and splicing control. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2007; 623:123-47. [PMID: 18380344 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-77374-2_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 289] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Proteins of the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoparticles (hnRNP) family form a structurally diverse group of RNA binding proteins implicated in various functions in metazoans. Here we discuss recent advances supporting a role for these proteins in precursor-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing. Heterogeneous nuclear RNP proteins can repress splicing by directly antagonizing the recognition of splice sites, or can interfere with the binding of proteins bound to enhancers. Recently, hnRNP proteins have been shown to hinder communication between factors bound to different splice sites. Conversely, several reports have described a positive role for some hnRNP proteins in pre-mRNA splicing. Moreover, cooperative interactions between bound hnRNP proteins may encourage splicing between specific pairs of splice sites while simultaneously hampering other combinations. Thus, hnRNP proteins utilize a variety of strategies to control splice site selection in a manner that is important for both alternative and constitutive pre-mRNA splicing.
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Wei CC, Guo DF, Zhang SL, Ingelfinger JR, Chan JSD. Heterogenous nuclear ribonucleoprotein F modulates angiotensinogen gene expression in rat kidney proximal tubular cells. J Am Soc Nephrol 2005; 16:616-28. [PMID: 15659559 DOI: 10.1681/asn.2004080715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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An insulin-responsive element (IRE) in the rat angiotensinogen (ANG) gene promoter that binds to two nuclear proteins with apparent molecular weights of 48 and 70 kD was identified previously from rat immortalized renal proximal tubular cells (IRPTC). The present studies aimed to identify and clone the 48-kD nuclear protein and to define its action on ANG gene expression. Nuclear proteins were isolated from IRPTC and subjected to two-dimensional electrophoresis. The 48-kD nuclear protein was detected by Southwestern blotting and subsequently identified by mass spectrometry, revealing that it was identical to 46-kD heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein F (hnRNP F), a nuclear protein that binds to TATA-binding protein and associates with RNA polymerase II and also interacts with nuclear cap-binding complex. The hnRNP F cDNA was cloned from IRPTC by reverse transcriptase-PCR. Bacterially expressed recombinant hnRNP F bound to the rat ANG-IRE, as revealed by gel mobility shift assay. The addition of polyclonal antibodies against hnRNP F yielded a supershift in gel mobility. Transient transfer of sense and antisense hnRNP F cDNA in IRPTC inhibited and enhanced ANG gene expression, respectively. High glucose stimulated and insulin inhibited hnRNP F expression in IRPTC. Expression studies indicated that hnRNP F is present in the kidney, testis, liver, lung, and brain but not in the spleen. In conclusion, these studies demonstrate that hnRNP F binds to rANG-IRE and modulates renal ANG gene expression, implicating that dysregulation of hnRNP F might affect renin-angiotensin system activation and, subsequently, kidney injury in diabetes.
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- Chih-Chang Wei
- Centre de recherche, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Hôtel-Dieu Pavillon Masson, 3850 Saint Urbain Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2W 1T8
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Sueoka E, Yukitake M, Iwanaga K, Sueoka N, Aihara T, Kuroda Y. Autoantibodies against heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein B1 in CSF of MS patients. Ann Neurol 2005; 56:778-86. [PMID: 15497154 DOI: 10.1002/ana.20276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) play an important role as the autoantigens in certain autoimmune disorders including neurological diseases such as HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis and paraneoplastic neurological syndromes. To clarify their implication in multiple sclerosis (MS), we assayed antibodies (Abs) against hnRNP A and B proteins in sera and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of MS patients and compared the results with 25 patients with other neurological diseases (ONDs). Using recombinant hnRNP A1, A2, and B1 proteins and Western blotting for the assay, we found Abs against hnRNP B1 in CSF from 32 of 35 MS patients (91.4%) but not in any sera or CSF of the 25 OND patients. Most notably, no Abs against hnRNP B1 were found in sera of all 22 MS patients examined. Although Abs against hnRNP A1 and A2 were concomitantly found in CSF reacting with B1, their incidence and immunoreactivity were lower or weaker than those of anti-hnRNP B1 Abs. There was no correlation between the reactivity of CSF with hnRNP B1 and CSF parameters-such as the number of the cells and the IgG level-or clinical parameters-such as duration of illness and disease activity. The selective generation of Abs against hnRNP B1 in CSF was shown to be highly specific for MS, which makes them a disease marker.
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- Eisaburo Sueoka
- Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, 849-8501 Saga, Japan.
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Chabot B, LeBel C, Hutchison S, Nasim FH, Simard MJ. Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle A/B proteins and the control of alternative splicing of the mammalian heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle A1 pre-mRNA. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR AND SUBCELLULAR BIOLOGY 2003; 31:59-88. [PMID: 12494763 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-09728-1_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2023]
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- B Chabot
- Département de Microbiologie et d'Infectiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1H 5N4
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Kafasla P, Patrinou-Georgoula M, Lewis JD, Guialis A. Association of the 72/74-kDa proteins, members of the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein M group, with the pre-mRNA at early stages of spliceosome assembly. Biochem J 2002; 363:793-9. [PMID: 11964181 PMCID: PMC1222533 DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3630793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We have investigated the role played in precursor mRNA (pre-mRNA) splicing by the protein pair of molecular size 72/74 kDa, which are integral components of a discrete subset of heterogeneous nuclear (hn) ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) named large heterogeneous nuclear RNP (LH-nRNP). This 72/74 kDa pair of proteins has been shown to belong to the hnRNP M group, and are referred to as 72/74(M). By applying specific immunoprecipitation assays in a consecutive series of splicing reactions in vitro, the antigenic 72/74(M) protein species were found to associate with the pre-mRNA and not the intermediate or final products of splicing. Kinetic studies, combined with isolation of pre-spliceosomal and spliceosomal complexes from the splicing reaction, indicated a loose association of 72/74(M) with both the initially formed H assembly and the first splicing-committed E complex. Stable binding was seen at a later stage of the reaction, well in advance of the appearance of the first intermediate products of RNA splicing. Evidence is provided that supports the almost exclusive association of 72/74(M) with pre-mRNA within the pre-spliceosomal A complex. This dynamic binding appeared to involve pre-mRNA sites similar to those of spliceosomal U1 and U2 small nuclear RNP complexes. Moreover, a preferential binding to a truncated RNA containing the 5' exon-intron part, rather than the intron-3' exon part, of pre-mRNA was observed.
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- Panayiota Kafasla
- Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, The National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vas. Constantinou Ave., 11635 Athens, Greece
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Percipalle P, Jonsson A, Nashchekin D, Karlsson C, Bergman T, Guialis A, Daneholt B. Nuclear actin is associated with a specific subset of hnRNP A/B-type proteins. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:1725-34. [PMID: 11937625 PMCID: PMC113215 DOI: 10.1093/nar/30.8.1725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2002] [Revised: 02/22/2002] [Accepted: 02/22/2002] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Pre-mRNP complexes were isolated from rat liver nuclei as 40S hnRNP particles, and actin-binding proteins were collected by DNase I affinity chromatography. The bound proteins were analyzed by 2D gel electrophoresis, and the following five hnRNP A/B-type proteins were identified by tandem mass spectrometry: DBP40/CBF-A (CArG binding factor A), a minor hnRNP A2 variant and three minor hnRNP A3 (mBx) variants. DBP40 was chosen for further analysis of the association of actin with the pre-mRNP complex. It was shown in vitro that purified actin binds to recombinant DBP40 suggesting that the interaction between actin and DBP40 is direct in the pre-mRNP particles. The association of actin with DBP40 was further explored in vivo. It was shown in a transfection study that DBP40 appears both in the nucleus and cytoplasm. Microinjection experiments revealed that DBP40 is exported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. Finally, RNA-protein and protein-protein cross-linking experiments showed that DBP40 interacts with poly(A)(+) RNA as well as actin, both in the nucleus and cytoplasm. We propose that actin associated with DBP40, and perhaps with additional hnRNP A/B-type proteins, is transferred from nucleus to cytoplasm bound to mRNA.
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- Piergiorgio Percipalle
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Box 285, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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Kafasla P, Patrinou-Georgoula M, Guialis A. The 72/74-kDa polypeptides of the 70-110 S large heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein complex (LH-nRNP) represent a discrete subset of the hnRNP M protein family. Biochem J 2000; 350 Pt 2:495-503. [PMID: 10947964 PMCID: PMC1221277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Pre-mRNA processing in eukaryotes is thought to take place on a multitude of nuclear ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes, the most abundant of them being the heterogeneous nuclear (hn) RNP complexes. The identification in mammalian nuclear extracts of a novel, less-abundant 70-110 S heterogeneous RNP, named large heterogeneous nuclear RNP (LH-nRNP), has previously been reported by Aidinis, Sekeris and Guialis (1995) Nucleic Acids Res. 23, 2742-2753. The structural composition of the LH-nRNP complex has been determined following the production of polyclonal antibodies against the major protein constituents of the complex, the pair of the 72/74-kDa polypeptides. In the present study evidence is shown to prove that the 72/74-kDa proteins are members of the hnRNP M protein family, hereafter referred to as 72/74(M) polypeptides. The extensive application of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, combined with specific immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting assays, has allowed the assignment of the 72/74(M) proteins to a subset of the hnRNP M family, characteristic of the presence of the LH-nRNP complex and distinct from the hnRNP-associated M1-M4 components. Moreover, the immunoselection of the LH-nRNP complex from [(32)P]orthophosphate-labelled HeLa cells, with the parallel application of UV irradiation, has permitted the identification of the 72/74(M) polypeptides as the sole protein constituents of the complex in direct contact with the RNA. It is proposed that LH-nRNP constitutes a discrete subset of hnRNP complexes, having a possible role in establishing specific interactions between hnRNP and nuclear-matrix protein components.
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- P Kafasla
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, The National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vas. Constantinou Avenue, Athens 11635, Greece
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Mammalian genes are characterized by relatively small exons surrounded by variable lengths of intronic sequence. Sequences similar to the splice signals that define the 5' and 3' boundaries of these exons are also present in abundance throughout the surrounding introns. What causes the real sites to be distinguished from the multitude of pseudosites in pre-mRNA is unclear. Much progress has been made in defining additional sequence elements that enhance the use of particular sites. Less work has been done on sequences that repress the use of particular splice sites. To find additional examples of sequences that inhibit splicing, we searched human genomic DNA libraries for sequences that would inhibit the inclusion of a constitutively spliced exon. Genetic selection experiments suggested that such sequences were common, and we subsequently tested randomly chosen restriction fragments of about 100 bp. When inserted into the central exon of a three-exon minigene, about one in three inhibited inclusion, revealing a high frequency of inhibitory elements in human DNA. In contrast, only 1 in 27 Escherichia coli DNA fragments was inhibitory. Several previously identified silencing elements derived from alternatively spliced exons functioned weakly in this constitutively spliced exon. In contrast, a high-affinity site for U2AF65 strongly inhibited exon inclusion. Together, our results suggest that splicing occurs in a background of repression and, since many of our inhibitors contain splice like signals, we suggest that repression of some pseudosites may occur through an inhibitory arrangement of these sites.
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- W G Fairbrother
- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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Plomaritoglou A, Choli-Papadopoulou T, Guialis A. Molecular characterization of a murine, major A/B type hnRNP protein: mBx. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2000; 1490:54-62. [PMID: 10786617 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(99)00054-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have previously identified a discrete hnRNP polypeptide of the A/B type, named mBx, as an abundant protein species in murine cells. The molecular characterization of this protein is now accomplished. From all evidence provided, mBx polypeptide represents a new gene product, distinct from the known members of the A/B family A1 and A2/B1. It is, instead, mostly related to a still hypothetical human protein of A/B type, as well as to the Xenopus hnRNPA3 protein species.
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- A Plomaritoglou
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, The National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
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Yoshida T, Kokura K, Makino Y, Ossipow V, Tamura T. Heterogeneous nuclear RNA-ribonucleoprotein F binds to DNA via an oligo(dG)-motif and is associated with RNA polymerase II. Genes Cells 1999; 4:707-19. [PMID: 10620016 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00295.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND The heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein F (hnRNP-F) is one of the constituents of the splicing-related hnRNP complex. Recent studies suggest that pre-mRNA modification and splicing factors are associated with transcriptional initiation factors and RNA polymerase II (RNA pol II) at a promoter, implying that pre-mRNA-engaged factors might be associated with a promoter. RESULTS We isolated a cDNA of rat hnRNP-F and expressed the recombinant protein. HnRNP-F selectively bound to oligo(dG) in constructions with other oligohomonucleotides. The ssDNA of an SV40 promoter sequence having the GC-boxes was bound to hnRNP-F, while hnRNP-F bound to the (G/C)-stretch as dsDNA. Consequently, hnRNP-F was designated as an oligo(dG)-binding protein. None of the RNA-binding domains (RBDs) in hnRNP-F were critical for the oligo(dG)-binding. In contrast, the GY-rich region that exists between RBD-II and -III exhibited an oligo(dG)-binding ability. We suggest that the GY-rich region is a novel DNA-binding motif. HnRNP-F was shown to contain two types of binding motifs for RNA and DNA. Additionally, we found that hnRNP-F was co-precipitated with RNA pol II. Interestingly, the RNA pol II holoenzyme also contained hnRNP-F. The tissue distribution profile of hnRNP-F was similar to that of both RNA pol II and TBP. CONCLUSION The above results suggest that hnRNP-F is associated with a transcriptional initiation apparatus that includes RNA pol II. The DNA-binding ability of hnRNP-F might facilitate the entry of pre-mRNA modification/splicing factors at a promoter.
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- T Yoshida
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiba University, Japan
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Sun X, Alzhanova-Ericsson AT, Visa N, Aissouni Y, Zhao J, Daneholt B. The hrp23 protein in the balbiani ring pre-mRNP particles is released just before or at the binding of the particles to the nuclear pore complex. J Cell Biol 1998; 142:1181-93. [PMID: 9732280 PMCID: PMC2149341 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.142.5.1181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/1998] [Revised: 07/07/1998] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Balbiani ring (BR) pre-mRNP particles reside in the nuclei of salivary glands of the dipteran Chironomus tentans and carry the message for giant-sized salivary proteins. In the present study, we identify and characterize a new protein component in the BR ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particles, designated hrp23. The protein with a molecular mass of 20 kD has a single RNA-binding domain and a glycine-arginine-serine-rich auxiliary domain. As shown by immunoelectron microscopy, the hrp23 protein is added to the BR transcript concomitant with transcription, is still present in the BR particles in the nucleoplasm, but is absent from the BR particles that are bound to the nuclear pore complex or are translocating through the central channel of the complex. Thus, hrp23 is released just before or at the binding of the particles to the nuclear pore complex. It is noted that hrp23 behaves differently from two other BR RNP proteins earlier studied: hrp36 and hrp45. These proteins both reach the nuclear pore complex, and hrp36 even accompanies the RNA into the cytoplasm. It is concluded that each BR RNA-binding protein seems to have a specific flow pattern, probably related to the particular role of the protein in gene expression.
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- X Sun
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Medical Nobel Institute, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
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Bhatia R, Gaur A, Lemanski LF, Dube DK. Cloning and sequencing of the cDNA for an RNA-binding protein from the Mexican axolotl: binding affinity of the in vitro synthesized protein. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1398:265-74. [PMID: 9655917 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(98)00071-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A full length cDNA for an RNA-binding protein (axolotl RBP) with consensus sequence (RNP-CS) from the Mexican axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum, has been cloned from a subtraction library. In vitro translation with synthetic mRNA and subsequent hybrid-arrested translation with a specific antisense oligonucleotide confirms that the axolotl RBP cDNA encodes an approx. 16 kDa polypeptide. Computer-assisted analyses revealed amino acid similarities of 58-60% to various RNA-binding proteins and a 90 amino acid region at the amino-terminal end constituting the putative RNA-binding domain (RNP-CS) with two highly conserved motifs, RNP2 and RNP1. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that the putative RNA-binding protein from axolotl is unique. A binding assay with radiolabeled axolotl RBP showed that this RNA-binding protein bound strongly with poly(A) and to a lesser degree with poly(U), but not at all with poly(G), poly(C), or DNA.
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- R Bhatia
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
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Hassfeld W, Chan EK, Mathison DA, Portman D, Dreyfuss G, Steiner G, Tan EM. Molecular definition of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein R (hnRNP R) using autoimmune antibody: immunological relationship with hnRNP P. Nucleic Acids Res 1998; 26:439-45. [PMID: 9421497 PMCID: PMC147279 DOI: 10.1093/nar/26.2.439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Serum from a patient showing symptoms related to autoimmunity was found to contain autoantibodies to the nuclear mitotic apparatus (NuMA) protein and to several novel nuclear antigens with estimated molecular weights of 40, 43, 72, 74 and 82 kDa. Using this serum for screening a human cDNA expression library a 2.5 kb cDNA clone was isolated which encoded the complete sequence of a protein of 633 amino acids. Sequence analysis revealed a modular structure of the protein: an acidic N-terminal region of approximately 150 amino acids was followed by three adjacent consensus sequence RNA binding domains located in the central part of the protein. In the C-terminal portion a nuclear localization signal and an octapeptide (PPPRMPPP) with similarity to a major B cell epitope of the snRNP core protein B were identified. This was followed by a glycine- and arginine-rich section of approximately 120 amino acids forming another type of RNA binding motif, a RGG box. Interestingly, three copies of a tyrosine-rich decapeptide were found interspersed in the RGG box region. The major in vitro translation product of the cDNA co-migrated in SDS-PAGE with the 82 kDa polypeptide that was recognized by autoantibodies. The structural motifs as well as the immunofluorescence pattern generated by anti-82 kDa antibodies suggested that the antigen was one of the proteins of the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) complex. Subsequently the 82 kDa antigen was identified as hnRNP R protein by its presence in immunoprecipitated hnRNP complexes and co-migration of the recombinant protein with this hitherto uncharacterized hnRNP constituent in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The concomitant autoimmune response to a hnRNP component of the pre-mRNA processing machinery and to NuMA, a protein engaged in mitotic events and reported to be associated with mRNA splicing complexes in interphase, may indicate physical and functional association of these antigens. Support for this notion comes from observations that concomitant or coupling of autoantibody responses to proteins which are associated with each other as components of subcellular particles are often found in autoimmune diseases.
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- W Hassfeld
- W. M. Keck Autoimmune Disease Center and DNA Core Laboratory for Structural Analysis, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Dangli A, Plomaritoglou A, Boutou E, Vassiliadou N, Moutsopoulos HM, Guialis A. Recognition of subsets of the mammalian A/B-type core heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein polypeptides by novel autoantibodies. Biochem J 1996; 320 ( Pt 3):761-7. [PMID: 9003360 PMCID: PMC1217995 DOI: 10.1042/bj3200761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The structurally related A/B-type core heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) polypeptides of 34-39 kDa (A1, A2, B1 and B2) belong to a family of RNA-binding proteins that are major components of 40 S hnRNP complexes. By two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and peptide mapping analysis we compared each member of the A/B-type core proteins in the human and rat liver cells. This comparison revealed the unique presence in rat cells of major protein species, referred to as mBx polypeptides, that appeared as three charge isoforms at a position corresponding to the minor HeLa B1b protein spot. In addition, clear differences in the ratios of the A1 polypeptide to the A1b isoform were observed. The detection, in sera of patients with rheumatic autoimmune diseases, of two novel autoantibody specificities, one recognizing solely B2 protein and the second both the B2 and mBx polypeptides, helped to identify mBx proteins as new A/B-type hnRNP components, immunologically related to B2 protein. A common immunoreactive V8 protease peptide of approx. 17 kDa has been identified in B2 and mBx hnRNP polypeptides. mBx protein species are identified in cells of murine origin, and have a ubiquitous tissue distribution and developmental appearance.
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- A Dangli
- Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
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Temsamani J, Pederson T. The C-group heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein proteins bind to the 5' stem-loop of the U2 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:24922-6. [PMID: 8798770 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.40.24922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The C-group heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) proteins bind to nascent pre-messenger RNA. In vitro studies have indicated that the C hnRNP proteins bind particularly strongly to the intron polypyrimidine tract of pre-mRNA and may be important for pre-mRNA splicing. In addition, there is evidence that the interaction of the C hnRNP proteins with pre-mRNA is facilitated by the U1 and U2 small nuclear RNPs (snRNPs). In the present study, we have uncovered another feature of the C hnRNP proteins that may provide a unifying framework for these previous observations; the C hnRNP proteins bind to the 5' stem-loop of the U2 snRNP. This was detected by incubating human 32P-labeled U2 snRNP in micrococcal nuclease-treated HeLa nuclear extracts, followed by UV-mediated protein-RNA cross-linking, which revealed that C hnRNP proteins were cross-linked to 32P-nucleotides in the U2 snRNP. In similar experiments, no cross-linking of C hnRNP proteins to 32P-labeled U1 or U4 snRNPs was observed. The observed cross-linking of C hnRNP proteins to U2 snRNP was efficiently competed by excess U2 RNA and by poly(U) but not by poly(A). No competition was observed with an RNA molecule comprising U2 nucleotides 105-189, indicating that the C hnRNP protein interactive regions of U2 RNA reside solely in the 5' half of the molecule. Oligodeoxynucleotide-mediated RNase H cleavage experiments revealed that a 5' region of U2 RNA including nucleotides 15-28 is essential for the observed C hnRNP protein cross-linking. C hnRNP protein cross-linking to U2 snRNP was efficiently competed by a mini-RNA corresponding to the first 29 nucleotides of U2 RNA, whereas no competition was observed with a variant of this mini-RNA in which the UUUU loop of stem-loop I was mutationally configured into a single-stranded RNA by replacing the stem with non-pairing nucleotides. Competition experiments with another mutant mini-U2 RNA in which the UUUU loop was replaced by AAAA indicated that both the UUUU loop and the stem are important for C hnRNP protein cross-linking, a finding consistent with other recent data on the RNA sequence specificity of C hnRNP protein binding.
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- J Temsamani
- Cell Biology Group, Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts 01545, USA
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Kiseleva E, Nacheva G, Alzhanova-Ericcson A, Rosén A, Daneholt B. Identification of two RNA-binding proteins in Balbiani ring premessenger ribonucleoprotein granules and presence of these proteins in specific subsets of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles. Mol Cell Biol 1996; 16:1425-35. [PMID: 8657116 PMCID: PMC231127 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.16.4.1425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Balbiani ring (BR) granules are premessenger ribonucleoprotein particles (RNPs) generated in giant chromosomal puffs, the BRs, in the larval salivary glands of the dipteran chironomus tentans. Monoclonal antibodies were raised against nuclear proteins collected on a single-stranded-DNA-agarose affinity column, and two of them were used to identify RNA-binding proteins in BR granules. First, in Western blots (immunoblots), one of the antibodies recognized a 36-kDa protein and the other recognized a 45-KDa protein. Second, both antibodies bound to the BRs in immunocytological experiments. It was shown in cross-linking experiments that the two proteins are associated with heterogeneous nuclear RNP (hnRNP) complexes extracted from C. tentans nuclei. By immunoelectron microscopy of isolated and partly unfolded BR RNPs, it was specifically demonstrated that the BR granules contain the two proteins and, in addition, that both proteins are distributed frequently along the RNP fiber of the particles. Thus, the 36- and 45-KDa proteins are likely to be abundant, RNA-binding proteins in the BR particles. To elucidate to what extent the two proteins are also present in other hnRNPs, we studied the binding of the antibodies to chromosomal puffs in general. It was observed that many puffs in addition to the BRs harbor the two proteins, but there are also puffs containing only one of the components, either the 36- or the 45-kDa protein. We conclude that the two proteins are not randomly bound to all hnRNPs but that each of them seems to be linked to a specific subset of the particles.
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Mayrand SH, Fung PA, Pederson T. A discrete 3' region of U6 small nuclear RNA modulates the phosphorylation cycle of the C1 heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle protein. Mol Cell Biol 1996; 16:1241-6. [PMID: 8622668 PMCID: PMC231106 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.16.3.1241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The C heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein particle (hnRNP) protein bind to nascent pre-mRNA and may participate in assembly of the early prespliceosome. Ser/Thr phosphorylation of the C1 hnRNP protein in HeLa nuclear extracts regulates its binding to pre-mRNA (S. H. Mayrand, P. Dwen, and T. Pederson, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:7764-7768, 1993). We have now further investigated the phosphorylation cycle of the C1 hnRNP protein, with emphasis on its regulation. Pretreatment of nuclear extracts with micrococcal nuclease eliminated the phosphorylation of C1 hnRNP protein, but pretreatment with DNase did not, suggesting a dependence on RNA. Oligodeoxynucleotide-targeted RNase H cleavage of U1, U2, and U4 small nuclear RNAs did not affect the phosphorylation of C1 hnRNP protein. However, cleavage of nucleotides 78 to 95, but not other regions, of U6 small nuclear RNA resulted in an inhibition of the dephosphorylation step of the C1 hnRNP protein phosphorylation cycle. This inhibition was as pronounced as that seen with the serine/threonine protein phosphatase inhibitor okadaic acid. C1 hnRNP protein dephosphorylation could be completely restored by the addition of intact U6 RNA. Add-back experiments with mutant RNAs further delineated the minimal region essential for C1 protein dephosphorylation as residing in nucleotides 85 to 92 of U6 RNA. These results illuminate a hitherto unanticipated function of U6 RNA: the modulation of a phosphorylation-dephosphorylation cycle of C1 hnRNP protein that influences the binding affinity of this protein for pre-mRNA. This newly revealed function of U6 RNA is likely to play a very early role in the prespliceosome assembly pathway, prior to U6 RNA's entry into the mature spliceosome's active center.
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- S H Mayrand
- Cell Biology Group, Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts 01545, USA
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Black AC, Luo J, Chun S, Bakker A, Fraser JK, Rosenblatt JD. Specific binding of polypyrimidine tract binding protein and hnRNP A1 to HIV-1 CRS elements. Virus Genes 1996; 12:275-85. [PMID: 8883365 DOI: 10.1007/bf00284648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Rev and human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV) Rex proteins regulate viral RNA processing. Both proteins act to overcome the block to viral structural gene expression, at least in part, by reversing the inhibitory effect of intronic RNA sequences, termed cis-acting repressive (CRS) sequences. Using HTLV type II (HTLV-II) as a model, we recently showed that the function of a 5' long terminal repeat (LTR) CRS correlates with in vitro binding by both polypyrimidine tract binding (PTB) protein (also known as hnRNP I) and hnRNP A1 to CRS RNA (1,2). Using radioimmunoprecipitation of proteins ultraviolet (UV) crosslinked to each HIV CRS RNA with monoclonal anti-hnRNP antibodies, we now demonstrate that hnRNP I and hnRNP A1 bind to two different HIV-1 CRS RNAs. In addition, we show that hnRNP I and hnRNP A1 binding to HIV-1 CRS RNAs can be specifically competed by HTLV-II CRS RNAs using electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA)/UV crosslinking assays. Binding by both hnRNP I and hnRNP A1 to HIV-1 and HTLV-II CRS RNAs suggests a role for these proteins in CRS function that may be influenced by the Rev and Rex proteins, respectively.
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Badolato J, Gardiner E, Morrison N, Eisman J. Identification and characterisation of a novel human RNA-binding protein. Gene 1995; 166:323-7. [PMID: 8543184 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00571-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The processing of heterogeneous nuclear RNA (hnRNA) into a mature message occurs within a number of different nuclear ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes which bind to the hnRNA and provide the machinery for these modifying events. Although some components of the nuclear RNP complexes have been isolated, many remain to be elucidated. We report here the isolation of a novel human nucleic-acid-binding protein isolated by screening a lambda gt11 expression library with an oligodeoxyribonucleotide probe. The complete cDNA clone (E5.1) is homologous to a recently published murine sequence. The human gene encodes a ubiquitously expressed mRNA sequence with a putative open reading frame of 305 amino acids and contains a number of domains found in well characterised RNA-binding proteins. The E5.1-derived RNA recognition motif (RRM) is phylogenetically most related to the hnRNP C protein, a component of heterogeneous nuclear RNP particles which participates in mRNA splicing in vitro. E5.1 may, therefore, represent a novel gene, encoding a protein involved in processing of precursor RNAs into mature mRNA.
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- J Badolato
- Bone and Mineral Research Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia
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Black AC, Luo J, Watanabe C, Chun S, Bakker A, Fraser JK, Morgan JP, Rosenblatt JD. Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein and heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1 bind to human T-cell leukemia virus type 2 RNA regulatory elements. J Virol 1995; 69:6852-8. [PMID: 7474099 PMCID: PMC189599 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.11.6852-6858.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Efficient expression of human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV) and human immunodeficiency virus structural proteins requires Rx and Rev proteins, respectively. Decreased expression of Gag and Env appears to be due, in part, to intragenic RNA sequences, termed cis-acting repressive sequences (CRS), and may be mediated by binding of specific cellular factors. We demonstrated previously that two cellular proteins, p60CRS and p40CRS, interact with HTLV type 2.5' long terminal repeat CRS RNA and that the interaction of both proteins with CRS RNA correlates with function (A. C. Black, C. T. Ruland, J. Luo, A. Bakker, J. K. Fraser, and J. D. Rosenblatt, Virology 200:29-41, 1994). By radioimmunoprecipitation of HeLa nuclear proteins UV cross-linked to CRS RNAs with murine monoclonal antibodies, we now show that p40CRS is heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) A1 and p60CRS is polypyrimidine tract-binding protein or hnRNP I. These immunoprecipitation results were confirmed by an immunobinding assay with hnRNP I and hnRNP AI antibodies and by cross-competition electrophoretic mobility shift experiments. In addition, we mapped a putative hnRNP A1 binding site in U5 RNA and demonstrated that p40CRS (hnRNP A1) binding to that site correlates with CRS function. Since both hnRNP I and hnRNP A1 have been shown to influence splicing and potentially other steps in RNA processing, the binding of both hnRNP I and hnRNP A1 to HTLV RNA regulatory elements may alter retrovirus RNA processing and may be involved in regulation by Rex.
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- A C Black
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095-1678, USA
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Kajita Y, Nakayama J, Aizawa M, Ishikawa F. The UUAG-specific RNA binding protein, heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein D0. Common modular structure and binding properties of the 2xRBD-Gly family. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:22167-75. [PMID: 7673195 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.38.22167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Human cDNA clones encoding the UUAG-binding heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) D0 protein have been isolated and expressed. The protein has two RNA-binding domains (RBDs) in the middle part of the protein and an RGG box, a region rich in glycine and arginine residues, in the C-terminal part ("2xRBD-Gly" structure). The hnRNP A1, A2/B1, and D0 proteins, all possess common features of the 2xRBD-Gly structure and binding specificity toward RNA. Together, they form a subfamily of RBD class RNA binding proteins (the 2xRBD-Gly family). One of the structural characteristics shared by these proteins is the presence of several isoforms presumably resulting from alternative splicing. Filter binding assays, using the recombinant hnRNP D0 proteins that have one of the two RBDs, indicated that one RBD specifically binds to the UUAG sequence. However, two isoforms with or without a 19-amino acid insertion at the N-terminal RBD showed different preference toward mutant RNA substrates. The 19-amino acid insertion is located in the N-terminal end of the first RBD. This result establishes the participation of the N terminus of RBD in determining the sequence specificity of binding. A similar insertion was also reported with the hnRNP A2/B1 proteins. Thus, it might be possible that this type of insertion with the 2xRBD-Gly type RNA binding proteins plays a role in "fine tuning" the specificity of RNA binding. RBD is supposed to bind with RNA in general and sequence-specific manners. These two discernible binding modes are proposed to be performed by different regions of the RBD. A structural model of these two binding sites is presented.
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- Y Kajita
- Department of Life Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
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Rajpurohit R, Paik WK, Kim S. Effect of enzymic methylation of heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein particle A1 on its nucleic-acid binding and controlled proteolysis. Biochem J 1994; 304 ( Pt 3):903-9. [PMID: 7818496 PMCID: PMC1137418 DOI: 10.1042/bj3040903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Recombinant unmethylated heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle (hnRNP) protein A1 was enzymatically methylated by nuclear protein/histone protein methylase I [Rajpurohit, Lee, Park, Paik and Kim (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 1057-1082] and the effect of methylation on several physiocochemical properties was studied. The relative binding-affinity of methylated and unmethylated protein A1 to nucleic acid was quite different. This was observed by the elution behaviour of the protein A1 on a single-stranded DNA/cellulose column; the concentration of NaCl required to release the bound protein A1 was 0.59 M for the methylated and 0.63 M for the unmethylated, respectively. Employing isoelectrofocusing, pI values of the methylated and unmethylated proteins were found to be 9.41 and 9.48, respectively. Maximum fluorescence quenching of protein A1 in the presence of coliphage MS2-RNA was found to be 40% with methylated and 45% with unmethylated. When both species of protein A1 were subjected to controlled trypsin digestion, t1/2 of the methylated protein was 1.31 min and the unmethylated, 1.63 min. The difference in their t1/2 values was much greater in the presence of MS2-RNA; 2.4 min for the former and 4.3 min for the latter, indicating that the methylated species was less stabilized by the RNA than the unmethylated. All of the above results consistently suggested that the binding-property of hnRNP protein A1 to single-stranded nucleic acid was significantly reduced subsequent to its arginine-methylation. The biological significance of this observation is discussed.
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- R Rajpurohit
- Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Temple Univerisity School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19140
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Wilson SM, Datar KV, Paddy MR, Swedlow JR, Swanson MS. Characterization of nuclear polyadenylated RNA-binding proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1994; 127:1173-84. [PMID: 7962083 PMCID: PMC2120247 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.127.5.1173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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To study the functions of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs), we have characterized nuclear polyadenylated RNA-binding (Nab) proteins from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nab1p, Nab2p, and Nab3p were isolated by a method which uses UV light to cross-link proteins directly bound to poly(A)+ RNA in vivo. We have previously characterized Nab2p, and demonstrated that it is structurally related to human hnRNPs. Here we report that Nab1p is identical to the Np13p/Nop3p protein recently implicated in both nucleocytoplasmic protein shuttling and pre-rRNA processing, and characterize a new nuclear polyadenylated RNA-binding protein, Nab3p. The intranuclear distributions of the Nab proteins were analyzed by three-dimensional immunofluorescence optical microscopy. All three Nab proteins are predominantly localized within the nucleoplasm in a pattern similar to the distribution of hnRNPs in human cells. The NAB3 gene is essential for cell viability and encodes an acidic ribonucleoprotein. Loss of Nab3p by growth of a GAL::nab3 mutant strain in glucose results in a decrease in the amount of mature ACT1, CYH2, and TPI1 mRNAs, a concomitant accumulation of unspliced ACT1 pre-mRNA, and an increase in the ratio of unspliced CYH2 pre-mRNA to mRNA. These results suggest that the Nab proteins may be required for packaging pre-mRNAs into ribonucleoprotein structures amenable to efficient nuclear RNA processing.
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- S M Wilson
- Department of Immunology and Medical Microbiology, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville 32610-0266
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RNA-protein interactions in the nuclei of Xenopus oocytes: complex formation and processing activity on the regulatory intron of ribosomal protein gene L1. Mol Cell Biol 1994. [PMID: 7935414 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.10.6975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The gene encoding ribosomal protein L1 in Xenopus laevis is known to be posttranscriptionally regulated; the third intron can be processed from the pre-mRNA in two alternative ways, resulting either in the production of L1 mRNA or in the release of a small nucleolar RNA (U16). The formation of splicing complexes was studied in vivo by oocyte microinjection. We show that spliceosome assembly is impaired on the L1 third intron and that the low efficiency of the process is due to the presence of suboptimal consensus sequences. An analysis of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) distribution was also performed, revealing a distinct site for hnRNP C binding proximal to the 5' end of the L1 third intron. Cleavage, leading to the production of the small nucleolar RNA U16, occurs in the same position, and we show that conditions under which hnRNP C binding is reduced result in an increase of the processing activity of the intron.
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Santoro B, De Gregorio E, Caffarelli E, Bozzoni I. RNA-protein interactions in the nuclei of Xenopus oocytes: complex formation and processing activity on the regulatory intron of ribosomal protein gene L1. Mol Cell Biol 1994; 14:6975-82. [PMID: 7935414 PMCID: PMC359228 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.10.6975-6982.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The gene encoding ribosomal protein L1 in Xenopus laevis is known to be posttranscriptionally regulated; the third intron can be processed from the pre-mRNA in two alternative ways, resulting either in the production of L1 mRNA or in the release of a small nucleolar RNA (U16). The formation of splicing complexes was studied in vivo by oocyte microinjection. We show that spliceosome assembly is impaired on the L1 third intron and that the low efficiency of the process is due to the presence of suboptimal consensus sequences. An analysis of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) distribution was also performed, revealing a distinct site for hnRNP C binding proximal to the 5' end of the L1 third intron. Cleavage, leading to the production of the small nucleolar RNA U16, occurs in the same position, and we show that conditions under which hnRNP C binding is reduced result in an increase of the processing activity of the intron.
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- B Santoro
- Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Hirose T, Sugita M, Sugiura M. Characterization of a cDNA encoding a novel type of RNA-binding protein in tobacco: its expression and nucleic acid-binding properties. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1994; 244:360-6. [PMID: 8078461 DOI: 10.1007/bf00286687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A cDNA encoding an RNA-binding protein (ribonucleoprotein or RNP) was isolated from a tobacco (Nicotiana sylvestris) cDNA library. The predicted protein (termed RGP-2) is 259 amino acids in length and consists of an N-terminal sequence of 39 amino acids, a consensus sequence type RNA-binding domain of 82 amino acids, a glycine-rich domain of 83 amino acids and an acidic C-terminal domain of 46 amino acids. It is distinct from the RGP-1 proteins previously reported, which consist of an RNA-binding domain in the N-terminal half and a glycine-rich domain in the C-terminal half. Homology searches revealed that RGP-2 is a novel consensus sequence-type RNA-binding protein. Its RNA-binding domain is structurally related to those of some chloroplast RNPs, while the amino acid composition of its glycine-rich domain (rich in glycine and asparagine) is similar to those in animal heterogeneous nuclear RNPs (hnRNP) A1 and A2/B1. The RGP-2 gene seems to be a single-copy gene, and its transcripts accumulate mainly in cultured cells and roots. A nucleic acid-binding assay using RGP-2 protein synthesized in vitro confirmed that it is an RNA-binding protein. Based on its greater affinity for total tobacco RNA than for poly(G) and poly(U), RGP-2 is suggested to bind to specific RNA sequences, probably G/U-rich regions. Quantitative analysis of the nucleic acid-binding properties of RGP-2 and RGP-1b indicates that they bind differently to nucleic acids. A possible role for RGP-2 is discussed in relation to known functions of animal hnRNP proteins.
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- T Hirose
- Center for Gene Research, Nagoya University, Japan
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Yang X, Bani MR, Lu SJ, Rowan S, Ben-David Y, Chabot B. The A1 and A1B proteins of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoparticles modulate 5' splice site selection in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:6924-8. [PMID: 8041722 PMCID: PMC44310 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.15.6924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Recent in vitro results suggest that the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoparticle (hnRNP) A1 protein modulates alternative splicing by favoring distal 5' splice site (5'SS) selection and exon skipping. We used a mouse erythroleukemia (MEL) cell line (CB3C7) deficient in the expression of hnRNP A1 to test whether variations in hnRNP A1 and AlB protein levels affected alternative splicing in vivo. In contrast to A1-expressing MEL cell lines, CB3C7 cells preferentially selected the proximal 13S and 12S 5'SS on the adenovirus E1A pre-mRNA. Transiently expressing the A1 or A1B cDNA in CB3C7 cells shifted 5'SS selection toward the more distal 9S donor site. A1 protein synthesis was required for this effect since the expression of a mutated A1 cDNA did not affect 5'SS selection. These results demonstrate that in vivo variations in hnRNP A1 protein levels can influence 5'SS selection.
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- X Yang
- Département de Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, PQ Canada
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Siebel CW, Kanaar R, Rio DC. Regulation of tissue-specific P-element pre-mRNA splicing requires the RNA-binding protein PSI. Genes Dev 1994; 8:1713-25. [PMID: 7958851 DOI: 10.1101/gad.8.14.1713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Binding of a multiprotein complex to a 5' exon inhibitory element appears to repress splicing of the Drosophila P-element third intron (IVS3) in the soma. We have purified 97- and 50-kD proteins that interact specifically with the inhibitory element using RNA affinity chromatography. Antibodies specific for the 97-kD protein relieve inhibition of IVS3 splicing in somatic extracts, providing direct evidence that inhibition requires this protein, P-element somatic inhibitor (PSI). We identify the 50-kD protein as hrp48, a protein similar to the mammalian splicing factor hnRNP A1, and show that hrp48 recognizes specific nucleotides in a pseudo-5' splice site within the inhibitory element. The results indicate that PSI is an alternative splicing factor that regulates tissue-specific splicing, probably through interactions with generally expressed factors such as hrp48.
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- C W Siebel
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720
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Cusick ME. RNP1, a new ribonucleoprotein gene of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Res 1994; 22:869-77. [PMID: 8139928 PMCID: PMC307894 DOI: 10.1093/nar/22.5.869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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A previously unidentified ribonucleoprotein (RNP) gene of yeast has been cloned and sequenced. The gene, named RNP1, was found adjacent to a previously sequenced gene encoding the second gene for ribosomal protein L4. RNP1 contains two RNA Recognition Motifs (RRM), [alternatively known as RNA binding Domains (RBD)], but unlike most RNP genes does not contain any auxiliary simple sequence domains. The first RRM (RRM1) most resembles RRM domains found in the hnRNP A/B class of RNP proteins. The second RRM (RRM2) most resembles a RRM so far seen only in the single RRM of the yeast SSB1 gene. Two null mutants of RNP1 that were created, a frameshift disruption and a complete deletion of the gene, were viable, demonstrating that the gene is not essential for cell growth. Two double null mutants of yeast RNP genes that were created (delta RNP1/delta SSB1 and delta SSB1/delta NPL3) were also viable. A fragment identical in size to the RRM1 domain could be amplified by PCR from the DNA of fungi, plants, and animals, using primers matching the ends of this domain, indicating that the structure of RRM1 is conserved. Another potential open reading frame on the same cloned fragment of DNA encodes a gene product whose structure resembles that of a seven-transmembrane-segment membrane receptor protein.
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- M E Cusick
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, Texas A&M College of Medicine, College Station 77843-1114
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Celis JE, Olsen E. A qualitative and quantitative protein database approach identifies individual and groups of functionally related proteins that are differentially regulated in simian virus 40 (SV40) transformed human keratinocytes: an overview of the functional changes associated with the transformed phenotype. Electrophoresis 1994; 15:309-44. [PMID: 8055864 DOI: 10.1002/elps.1150150153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A qualitative and quantitative two-dimensional (2-D) gel database approach has been used to identify individual and groups of proteins that are differentially regulated in simian virus 40 (SV40) transformed human keratinocytes (K14). Five hundred and sixty [35S]methionine-labeled proteins (462 isoelectric focusing, IEF; 98 nonequilibrium pH gradient electrophoresis, NEPHGE), out of the 3038 recorded in the master keratinocyte database, were excised from dry, silver-stained gels of normal proliferating primary keratinocytes and K14 cells and the radioactivity was determined by liquid scintillation counting. Two hundred and thirty five proteins were found to be either up- (177) or down-regulated (58) in the transformed cells by 50% or more, and of these, 115 corresponded to known proteins in the keratinocyte database (J.E. Celis et al., Electrophoresis 1993, 14, 1091-1198). The lowest abundance acidic protein quantitated was present in about 60,000 molecules per cell, assuming a value of 10(8) molecules per cell for total actin. The results identified individual, and groups of functionally related proteins that are differentially regulated in K14 keratinocytes and that play a role in a variety of cellular activities that include general metabolism, the cytoskeleton, DNA replication and cell proliferation, transcription and translation, protein folding, assembly, repair and turnover, membrane traffic, signal transduction, and differentiation. In addition, the results revealed several transformation sensitive proteins of unknown identity in the database as well as known proteins of yet undefined functions. Within the latter group, members of the S100 protein family--whose genes are clustered on human chromosome 1q21--were among the highest down-regulated proteins in K14 keratinocytes. Visual inspection of films exposed for different periods of time revealed only one new protein in the transformed K14 keratinocytes and this corresponded to keratin 18, a cytokeratin expressed mainly by simple epithelia. Besides providing with the first global overview of the functional changes associated with the transformed phenotype of human keratinocytes, the data strengthened previous evidence indicating that transformation results in the abnormal expression of normal genes rather than in the expression of new ones.
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- J E Celis
- Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Purification and identification of two major single-stranded binding proteins of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as ribosomal protein L4 and histone H2B. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(94)90121-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Hodges D, Bernstein SI. Genetic and biochemical analysis of alternative RNA splicing. ADVANCES IN GENETICS 1994; 31:207-81. [PMID: 8036995 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2660(08)60399-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- D Hodges
- Biology Department, San Diego State University, California 92182-0057
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Birney E, Kumar S, Krainer AR. Analysis of the RNA-recognition motif and RS and RGG domains: conservation in metazoan pre-mRNA splicing factors. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 21:5803-16. [PMID: 8290338 PMCID: PMC310458 DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.25.5803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 547] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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We present a systematic analysis of sequence motifs found in metazoan protein factors involved in constitutive pre-mRNA splicing and in alternative splicing regulation. Using profile analysis we constructed a database enriched in protein sequences containing one or more presumptive copies of the RNA-recognition motif (RRM). We provide an accurate alignment of RRMs and structure-based criteria for identifying new RRMs, including many that lack the prototype RNP-1 submotif. We present a comprehensive table of 125 sequences containing 252 RRMs, including 22 previously unreported RRMs in 17 proteins. The presence of a putative RRM in these proteins, which are implicated in a variety of cellular processes, strongly suggests that their function involves binding to RNA. Unreported homologies in the RRM-enriched database to the metazoan SR family of splicing factors are described for an Arg-rich human nuclear protein and two yeast proteins (S. pombe mei2 and S. cerevisiae Npl3). We have rigorously tested the phylogenetic relationships of a large sample of RRMs. This analysis indicates that the RRM is an ancient conserved region (ACR) that has diversified by duplication of genes and intragenic domains. Statistical analyses and classification of repeated Arg-Ser (RS) and RGG domains in various protein splicing factors are presented.
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- E Birney
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY 11724-2208
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PUB1 is a major nuclear and cytoplasmic polyadenylated RNA-binding protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol 1993. [PMID: 8413212 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.10.6102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Proteins that directly associate with nuclear polyadenylated RNAs, or heterogeneous nuclear RNA-binding proteins (hnRNPs), and those that associate with cytoplasmic mRNAs, or mRNA-binding proteins (mRNPs), play important roles in regulating gene expression at the posttranscriptional level. Previous work with a variety of eukaryotic cells has demonstrated that hnRNPs are localized predominantly within the nucleus whereas mRNPs are cytoplasmic. While studying proteins associated with polyadenylated RNAs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we discovered an abundant polyuridylate-binding protein, PUB1, which appears to be both an hnRNP and an mRNP. PUB1 and PAB1, the polyadenylate tail-binding protein, are the two major proteins cross-linked by UV light to polyadenylated RNAs in vivo. The deduced primary structure of PUB1 indicates that it is a member of the ribonucleoprotein consensus sequence family of RNA-binding proteins and is structurally related to the human hnRNP M proteins. Even though the PUB1 protein is a major cellular polyadenylated RNA-binding protein, it is nonessential for cell growth. Indirect cellular immunofluorescence combined with digital image processing allowed a detailed comparison of the intracellular distributions of PUB1 and PAB1. While PAB1 is predominantly, and relatively uniformly, distributed within the cytoplasm, PUB1 is localized in a nonuniform pattern throughout both the nucleus and the cytoplasm. The cytoplasmic distribution of PUB1 is considerably more discontinuous than that of PAB1. Furthermore, sucrose gradient sedimentation analysis demonstrates that PAB1 cofractionates with polyribosomes whereas PUB1 does not. These results suggest that PUB1 is both an hnRNP and an mRNP and that it may be stably bound to a translationally inactive subpopulation of mRNAs within the cytoplasm.
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Anderson JT, Paddy MR, Swanson MS. PUB1 is a major nuclear and cytoplasmic polyadenylated RNA-binding protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol 1993; 13:6102-13. [PMID: 8413212 PMCID: PMC364670 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.10.6102-6113.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Proteins that directly associate with nuclear polyadenylated RNAs, or heterogeneous nuclear RNA-binding proteins (hnRNPs), and those that associate with cytoplasmic mRNAs, or mRNA-binding proteins (mRNPs), play important roles in regulating gene expression at the posttranscriptional level. Previous work with a variety of eukaryotic cells has demonstrated that hnRNPs are localized predominantly within the nucleus whereas mRNPs are cytoplasmic. While studying proteins associated with polyadenylated RNAs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we discovered an abundant polyuridylate-binding protein, PUB1, which appears to be both an hnRNP and an mRNP. PUB1 and PAB1, the polyadenylate tail-binding protein, are the two major proteins cross-linked by UV light to polyadenylated RNAs in vivo. The deduced primary structure of PUB1 indicates that it is a member of the ribonucleoprotein consensus sequence family of RNA-binding proteins and is structurally related to the human hnRNP M proteins. Even though the PUB1 protein is a major cellular polyadenylated RNA-binding protein, it is nonessential for cell growth. Indirect cellular immunofluorescence combined with digital image processing allowed a detailed comparison of the intracellular distributions of PUB1 and PAB1. While PAB1 is predominantly, and relatively uniformly, distributed within the cytoplasm, PUB1 is localized in a nonuniform pattern throughout both the nucleus and the cytoplasm. The cytoplasmic distribution of PUB1 is considerably more discontinuous than that of PAB1. Furthermore, sucrose gradient sedimentation analysis demonstrates that PAB1 cofractionates with polyribosomes whereas PUB1 does not. These results suggest that PUB1 is both an hnRNP and an mRNP and that it may be stably bound to a translationally inactive subpopulation of mRNAs within the cytoplasm.
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- J T Anderson
- Department of Immunology and Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610-0266
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A unique ribonucleoprotein complex assembles preferentially on ecdysone-responsive sites in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Cell Biol 1993. [PMID: 8355684 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.9.5323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The protein on ecdysone puffs (PEP) is associated preferentially with active ecdysone-inducible puffs on Drosophila polytene chromosomes and contains sequence motifs characteristic of transcription factors and RNA-binding proteins (S. A. Amero, S. C. R. Elgin, and A. L. Beyer, Genes Dev. 5:188-200, 1991). PEP is associated with RNA in vivo, as demonstrated here by the sensitivity of PEP-specific chromosomal immunostaining in situ to RNase digestion and by the immunopurification of PEP in Drosophila cell extract with heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) complexes. As revealed by sequential immunostaining, PEP is found on a subset of chromosomal sites bound by the HRB (heterogeneous nuclear RNA-binding) proteins, which are basic Drosophila hnRNPs. These observations lead us to suggest that a unique, PEP-containing hnRNP complex assembles preferentially on the transcripts of ecdysone-regulated genes in Drosophila melanogaster presumably to expedite the transcription and/or processing of these transcripts.
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Amero SA, Matunis MJ, Matunis EL, Hockensmith JW, Raychaudhuri G, Beyer AL. A unique ribonucleoprotein complex assembles preferentially on ecdysone-responsive sites in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Cell Biol 1993; 13:5323-30. [PMID: 8355684 PMCID: PMC360230 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.9.5323-5330.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The protein on ecdysone puffs (PEP) is associated preferentially with active ecdysone-inducible puffs on Drosophila polytene chromosomes and contains sequence motifs characteristic of transcription factors and RNA-binding proteins (S. A. Amero, S. C. R. Elgin, and A. L. Beyer, Genes Dev. 5:188-200, 1991). PEP is associated with RNA in vivo, as demonstrated here by the sensitivity of PEP-specific chromosomal immunostaining in situ to RNase digestion and by the immunopurification of PEP in Drosophila cell extract with heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) complexes. As revealed by sequential immunostaining, PEP is found on a subset of chromosomal sites bound by the HRB (heterogeneous nuclear RNA-binding) proteins, which are basic Drosophila hnRNPs. These observations lead us to suggest that a unique, PEP-containing hnRNP complex assembles preferentially on the transcripts of ecdysone-regulated genes in Drosophila melanogaster presumably to expedite the transcription and/or processing of these transcripts.
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- S A Amero
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois 60153
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Mayrand SH, Dwen P, Pederson T. Serine/threonine phosphorylation regulates binding of C hnRNP proteins to pre-mRNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:7764-8. [PMID: 8356082 PMCID: PMC47223 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.16.7764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The C hnRNP proteins bind to nascent pre-mRNA and are thought to participate in an early step of the pre-mRNA splicing pathway. We report here that C hnRNP proteins are phosphorylated by a casein kinase II activity in a HeLa cell nuclear extract and that dephosphorylation of C hnRNP proteins is inhibited by the specific protein-serine/threonine-phosphatase 1/2A inhibitor okadaic acid. We further find that dephosphorylation of C hnRNP proteins is required for their binding to adenovirus and human beta-globin pre-mRNAs. These results indicate that the participation of C hnRNP proteins in pre-spliceosome assembly is coupled to a dynamic cycle of their phosphorylation and dephosphorylation.
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- S H Mayrand
- Cell Biology Group, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, MA 01545
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- M Görlach
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia
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Riley D, Flint SJ. RNA-binding properties of a translational activator, the adenovirus L4 100-kilodalton protein. J Virol 1993; 67:3586-95. [PMID: 8497066 PMCID: PMC237706 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.67.6.3586-3595.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The adenovirus L4 100-kDa nonstructural protein (100K protein) is required for efficient initiation of translation of viral late mRNA species during the late mRNA species during the late phase of infection (B. W. Hayes, G. C. Telling, M. M. Myat, J. F. Williams, and S. J. Flint, J. Virol. 64:2732-2742, 1990). The RNA-binding properties of this protein were analyzed in an immunoprecipitation assay with the 100K-specific monoclonal antibody 2100K-1 (C. L. Cepko and P. A. Sharp, Virology 129:137-154, 1983). Coprecipitation of the 100K protein and 3H-infected cell RNA was demonstrated. The RNA-binding activity of the 100K protein was inhibited by single-stranded DNA but not by double-stranded DNA, double-stranded RNA, or tRNA. Competition assays were used to investigate the specificity with which the 100K protein binds to RNA in vitro. Although the protein exhibited a strong preference for the ribohomopolymer poly(U) or poly(G), no specific binding to viral mRNA species could be detected; uninfected or adenovirus type 5-infected HeLa cell poly(A)-containing and poly(A)-lacking RNAs were all effective inhibitors of binding of the protein to viral late mRNA. Similar results were obtained when the binding of the 100K protein to a single, in vitro-synthesized L2 mRNA was assessed. The poly(U)-binding activity of the 100K protein was used to compare the RNA-binding properties of the 100K protein prepared from cells infected by adenovirus type 5 and the H5ts1 mutant (B. W. Hayes, G. C. Telling, M. M. Myat, J. F. Williams, and S. J. Flint, J. Virol. 64:2732-2742, 1990). A temperature-dependent decrease in H5ts1 100K protein binding was observed, correlating with the impaired translational function of this protein in vivo. By contrast, wild-type 100K protein RNA binding was unaffected by temperature. These data suggest that the 100K protein acts to increase the translational efficiency of viral late mRNA species by a mechanism that involves binding to RNA.
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- D Riley
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544
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Datar KV, Dreyfuss G, Swanson MS. The human hnRNP M proteins: identification of a methionine/arginine-rich repeat motif in ribonucleoproteins. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 21:439-46. [PMID: 8441656 PMCID: PMC309137 DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.3.439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Recent reports indicate that proteins which directly bind to nascent RNA polymerase II transcripts, the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs), play an important role in both transcript-specific packaging and alternative splicing of pre-mRNAs. Here we describe the isolation and characterization of a group of abundant hnRNPs, the M1-M4 proteins, which appear as a cluster of four proteins of 64,000-68,000 daltons by two-dimensional electrophoresis. The M proteins are pre-mRNA binding proteins in vivo, and they bind avidly to poly(G) and poly(U) RNA homopolymers in vitro. Covalently associated polyadenylated RNA-protein complexes, generated by irradiating living HeLa cells with UV light, were purified and used to elicit antibodies in mice. The resulting antisera were then employed to isolate cDNA clones for the largest M protein, M4, by immunological screening. The deduced amino acid sequence of M4 indicates that the M proteins are members of the ribonucleoprotein consensus sequence family of RNA-binding proteins with greatest similarity to a hypothetical RNA-binding protein from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The M proteins also possess an unusual hexapeptide-repeat region rich in methionine and arginine residues (MR repeat motif) that resembles a repeat in the 64,000 dalton subunit of cleavage stimulation factor, which is involved in 3'-end maturation of pre-mRNAs. Proteins immunologically related to M exist in divergent eukaryotes ranging from human to yeast.
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- K V Datar
- Department of Immunology and Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610-0266
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Cusick ME. Purification of ribonucleoproteins by a novel approach: isolation of the SSB1 ribonucleoprotein from yeast and demonstration that it has no role in mRNA splicing. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1171:176-86. [PMID: 1482680 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(92)90118-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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A novel approach is described to purify potential ribonucleoproteins (RNP) of yeast. The method assays a yeast RNP complex, assembled in vitro on actin pre-mRNA, by low-ionic strength acrylamide gel electrophoresis. The minimal protein components of this RNP complex were three proteins, one of 30 kDa and two at 42-44 kDa, defined by formation of the complex on biotinylated-RNA, binding of this complex to avidin-agarose, and salt elution of the protein in the biotinylated-RNP complex. Using the assay for RNP complex formation, an RNP protein was purified to homogeneity on the basis of its affinity towards single-stranded DNA and RNA. This RNP protein turned out to be identical to a known RNP protein, the single-stranded binding protein 1 (ssb1) of yeast, on the basis of identical gel electrophoretic migration, antibody cross-reactivity, and identical properties on the gel complex formation assay. In vitro mRNA splicing was normal in extracts made from a yeast strain missing ssb1 (ssb1- strain). Addition of anti-ssb1 antibody to splicing extracts made from a wild type strain did not inhibit or diminish splicing. Instead, mRNA splicing was reproducibly stimulated several fold, indicating competition between ssb1 and splicing factors for binding to single-stranded RNA in the extracts. RNP complexes still formed in the ssb1- strain, demonstrating that it would be possible to purify other RNP proteins from this strain using the gel complex formation assay.
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- M E Cusick
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, Texas A&M College of Medicine, College Station 77843-1114
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Ye L, Sugiura M. Domains required for nucleic acid binding activities in chloroplast ribonucleoproteins. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:6275-9. [PMID: 1475188 PMCID: PMC334516 DOI: 10.1093/nar/20.23.6275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Five ribonucleoproteins (or RNA-binding proteins) from tobacco chloroplasts have been identified to date; each of these contains an acidic N-terminal domain (24-64 amino acids) and two conserved RNA-binding domains (82-83 amino acids). All five ribonucleoproteins can bind to ssDNA and dsDNA but show high specificity for poly(G) and poly(U). Here we present the nucleic acid binding activity of each domain using a series of deletion mutant proteins made in vitro from the chloroplast 29 kDa ribonucleoproteins. The acidic domain does not have a positive effect on binding activities and proteins lacking this domain show higher affinities for nucleic acids than the wild-type proteins. Mutant proteins containing single RNA-binding domains can bind to poly(G) and poly(U), though with lower affinities than proteins containing two RNA-binding domains. The spacer region (11-37 amino acids) between the two RNA-binding domains does not interact with poly(G) or poly(U) by itself, but is required for the additive activity of the two RNA-binding domains. Proteins consisting of two RNA-binding domains but lacking the spacer have the same activity as those containing only one RNA-binding domain. Possible roles for each domain in chloroplast ribonucleoproteins are discussed.
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- L Ye
- Center for Gene Research, Nagoya University, Japan
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Mulligan G, Guo W, Wormsley S, Helfman D. Polypyrimidine tract binding protein interacts with sequences involved in alternative splicing of beta-tropomyosin pre-mRNA. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)74066-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Purification of splicing factor SF1, a heat-stable protein that functions in the assembly of a presplicing complex. Mol Cell Biol 1992. [PMID: 1406644 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.10.4545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Splicing factor SF1 represents one of the proteins that function early in the splicing of nuclear pre-mRNA in the formation of a presplicing complex. SF1 was purified to homogeneity from HeLa cell nuclear extracts by column chromatography. It consists of a single polypeptide of 75 kDa and is distinct from other protein factors that function early in spliceosome assembly. SF1 activity is completely resistant to temperatures of up to 100 degrees C. The purified protein does not appear to be associated with RNA-binding, RNA-annealing, or ATPase activity.
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Buvoli M, Cobianchi F, Riva S. Interaction of hnRNP A1 with snRNPs and pre-mRNAs: evidence for a possible role of A1 RNA annealing activity in the first steps of spliceosome assembly. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:5017-25. [PMID: 1329035 PMCID: PMC334278 DOI: 10.1093/nar/20.19.5017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The in vitro interaction of recombinant hnRNP A1 with purified snRNPs and with pre-mRNAs was investigated. We show that protein A1 can stably bind U2 and U4 snRNP but not U1. Oligo-RNAse H cleavage of U2 nucleotides involved in base pairing with the branch site, totally eliminates the A1-U2 interaction. RNase T1 protection and immunoprecipitation experiments demonstrate that recombinant protein A1 specifically binds the 3'-end regions of both beta-globin and Ad-2 introns. However, while on the beta-globin intron only binding to the polypyrimidine tract was observed, on the Ad-2 intron a 32 nt fragment encompassing the branch point and the AG splice-site dinucleotide was bound and protected. Such protection was drastically reduced in the presence of U2 snRNP. Altogether these results indicate that protein A1 can establish a different pattern of association with different pre-mRNAs and support the hypothesis that this protein could play a role in the annealing of U2 to the branch site and hence in the early events of pre-splicing complex assembly.
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- M Buvoli
- Istituto di Genetica Biochimica ed Evoluzionistica, CNR, Pavia, Italy
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