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Tresenrider A, Hooper M, Todd L, Kierney F, Blasdel N, Trapnell C, Reh TA. A multiplexed, single-cell sequencing screen identifies compounds that increase neurogenic reprogramming of murine Muller glia. bioRxiv 2024:2023.09.26.559569. [PMID: 37808650 PMCID: PMC10557658 DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.26.559569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
Abstract
Retinal degeneration in mammals causes permanent loss of vision, due to an inability to regenerate naturally. Some non-mammalian vertebrates show robust regeneration, via Muller glia (MG). We have recently made significant progress in stimulating adult mouse MG to regenerate functional neurons by transgenic expression of the proneural transcription factor Ascl1. While these results showed that MG can serve as an endogenous source of neuronal replacement, the efficacy of this process is limited. With the goal of improving this in mammals, we designed a small molecule screen using sci-Plex, a method to multiplex up to thousands of single nucleus RNA-seq conditions into a single experiment. We used this technology to screen a library of 92 compounds, identified, and validated two that promote neurogenesis in vivo. Our results demonstrate that high-throughput single-cell molecular profiling can substantially improve the discovery process for molecules and pathways that can stimulate neural regeneration and further demonstrate the potential for this approach to restore vision in patients with retinal disease.
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- Amy Tresenrider
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Brotman-Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Tresenrider A, Sridhar A, Eldred KC, Cuschieri S, Hoffer D, Trapnell C, Reh TA. Single-cell sequencing of individual retinal organoids reveals determinants of cell-fate heterogeneity. Cell Rep Methods 2023; 3:100548. [PMID: 37671011 PMCID: PMC10475847 DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/07/2023]
Abstract
With a critical need for more complete in vitro models of human development and disease, organoids hold immense potential. Their complex cellular composition makes single-cell sequencing of great utility; however, the limitation of current technologies to a handful of treatment conditions restricts their use in screens or studies of organoid heterogeneity. Here, we apply sci-Plex, a single-cell combinatorial indexing (sci)-based RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) multiplexing method to retinal organoids. We demonstrate that sci-Plex and 10× methods produce highly concordant cell-class compositions and then expand sci-Plex to analyze the cell-class composition of 410 organoids upon modulation of critical developmental pathways. Leveraging individual organoid data, we develop a method to measure organoid heterogeneity, and we identify that activation of Wnt signaling early in retinal organoid cultures increases retinal cell classes up to 6 weeks later. Our data show sci-Plex's potential to dramatically scale up the analysis of treatment conditions on relevant human models.
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- Amy Tresenrider
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Tresenrider A, Sridhar A, Eldred KC, Cuschieri S, Hoffer D, Trapnell C, Reh TA. Single-cell sequencing of individual retinal organoids reveals determinants of cell fate heterogeneity. bioRxiv 2023:2023.05.31.543087. [PMID: 37398481 PMCID: PMC10312535 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.31.543087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/04/2023]
Abstract
With a critical need for more complete in vitro models of human development and disease, organoids hold immense potential. Their complex cellular composition makes single-cell sequencing of great utility; however, the limitation of current technologies to a handful of treatment conditions restricts their use in screens or studies of organoid heterogeneity. Here, we apply sci-Plex, a single-cell combinatorial indexing (sci)-based RNA-seq multiplexing method to retinal organoids. We demonstrate that sci-Plex and 10x methods produce highly concordant cell class compositions and then expand sci-Plex to analyze the cell class composition of 410 organoids upon modulation of critical developmental pathways. Leveraging individual organoid data, we develop a method to measure organoid heterogeneity, and we identify that activation of Wnt signaling early in retinal organoid cultures increases retinal cell classes up to six weeks later. Our data show sci-Plex's potential to dramatically scale-up the analysis of treatment conditions on relevant human models.
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Affiliation(s)
- Amy Tresenrider
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Tresenrider A, Chia M, van Werven FJ, Ünal E. Long undecoded transcript isoform (LUTI) detection in meiotic budding yeast by direct RNA and transcript leader sequencing. STAR Protoc 2022; 3:101145. [PMID: 35169715 PMCID: PMC8829799 DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
LUTIs (Long Undecoded Transcript Isoforms) are 5'-extended and poorly translated mRNAs that can downregulate transcription from promoters more proximal to a gene's coding sequence (CDS). In this protocol, polyA RNA is extracted from budding yeast cells undergoing highly synchronized meiosis. Using a combination of long-read direct RNA sequencing and transcript leader sequencing (TL-seq), meiosis-specific LUTIs are systematically identified. Following identification, TL-seq is used to quantify the abundance of both LUTI and the more canonical gene-proximal (PROX) transcripts. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Tresenrider et al. (2021).
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Affiliation(s)
- Amy Tresenrider
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA,Department of Genome Sciences, Foege Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA,Corresponding author
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, 60 Biopolis Street, Genome, #02-01, Singapore 138672, Singapore,The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, NW1 1AT London, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA,Corresponding author
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Kuzmin E, VanderSluis B, Nguyen Ba AN, Wang W, Koch EN, Usaj M, Khmelinskii A, Usaj MM, van Leeuwen J, Kraus O, Tresenrider A, Pryszlak M, Hu MC, Varriano B, Costanzo M, Knop M, Moses A, Myers CL, Andrews BJ, Boone C. Exploring whole-genome duplicate gene retention with complex genetic interaction analysis. Science 2020; 368:eaaz5667. [PMID: 32586993 PMCID: PMC7539174 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz5667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2019] [Accepted: 05/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Whole-genome duplication has played a central role in the genome evolution of many organisms, including the human genome. Most duplicated genes are eliminated, and factors that influence the retention of persisting duplicates remain poorly understood. We describe a systematic complex genetic interaction analysis with yeast paralogs derived from the whole-genome duplication event. Mapping of digenic interactions for a deletion mutant of each paralog, and of trigenic interactions for the double mutant, provides insight into their roles and a quantitative measure of their functional redundancy. Trigenic interaction analysis distinguishes two classes of paralogs: a more functionally divergent subset and another that retained more functional overlap. Gene feature analysis and modeling suggest that evolutionary trajectories of duplicated genes are dictated by combined functional and structural entanglement factors.
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- Elena Kuzmin
- Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Center for Analysis of Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Cell Morphogenesis and Signal Transduction, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Center for Analysis of Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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- Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada.
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada.
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
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Hollerer I, Barker JC, Jorgensen V, Tresenrider A, Dugast-Darzacq C, Chan LY, Darzacq X, Tjian R, Ünal E, Brar GA. Evidence for an Integrated Gene Repression Mechanism Based on mRNA Isoform Toggling in Human Cells. G3 (Bethesda) 2019; 9:1045-1053. [PMID: 30723103 PMCID: PMC6469420 DOI: 10.1534/g3.118.200802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2018] [Accepted: 01/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
We recently described an unconventional mode of gene regulation in budding yeast by which transcriptional and translational interference collaborate to down-regulate protein expression. Developmentally timed transcriptional interference inhibited production of a well translated mRNA isoform and resulted in the production of an mRNA isoform containing inhibitory upstream open reading frames (uORFs) that prevented translation of the main ORF. Transcriptional interference and uORF-based translational repression are established mechanisms outside of yeast, but whether this type of integrated regulation was conserved was unknown. Here we find that, indeed, a similar type of regulation occurs at the locus for the human oncogene MDM2 We observe evidence of transcriptional interference between the two MDM2 promoters, which produce a poorly translated distal promoter-derived uORF-containing mRNA isoform and a well-translated proximal promoter-derived transcript. Down-regulation of distal promoter activity markedly up-regulates proximal promoter-driven expression and results in local reduction of histone H3K36 trimethylation. Moreover, we observe that this transcript toggling between the two MDM2 isoforms naturally occurs during human embryonic stem cell differentiation programs.
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- Ina Hollerer
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Li Ka Shing Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Li Ka Shing Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Li Ka Shing Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Chia M, Tresenrider A, Chen J, Spedale G, Jorgensen V, Ünal E, van Werven FJ. Transcription of a 5' extended mRNA isoform directs dynamic chromatin changes and interference of a downstream promoter. eLife 2017; 6:e27420. [PMID: 28906248 PMCID: PMC5655139 DOI: 10.7554/elife.27420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2017] [Accepted: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Cell differentiation programs require dynamic regulation of gene expression. During meiotic prophase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, expression of the kinetochore complex subunit Ndc80 is downregulated by a 5' extended long undecoded NDC80 transcript isoform. Here we demonstrate a transcriptional interference mechanism that is responsible for inhibiting expression of the coding NDC80 mRNA isoform. Transcription from a distal NDC80 promoter directs Set1-dependent histone H3K4 dimethylation and Set2-dependent H3K36 trimethylation to establish a repressive chromatin state in the downstream canonical NDC80 promoter. As a consequence, NDC80 expression is repressed during meiotic prophase. The transcriptional mechanism described here is rapidly reversible, adaptable to fine-tune gene expression, and relies on Set2 and the Set3 histone deacetylase complex. Thus, expression of a 5' extended mRNA isoform causes transcriptional interference at the downstream promoter. We demonstrate that this is an effective mechanism to promote dynamic changes in gene expression during cell differentiation.
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- Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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Chen J, Tresenrider A, Chia M, McSwiggen DT, Spedale G, Jorgensen V, Liao H, van Werven FJ, Ünal E. Kinetochore inactivation by expression of a repressive mRNA. eLife 2017; 6:e27417. [PMID: 28906249 PMCID: PMC5655150 DOI: 10.7554/elife.27417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2017] [Accepted: 09/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Differentiation programs such as meiosis depend on extensive gene regulation to mediate cellular morphogenesis. Meiosis requires transient removal of the outer kinetochore, the complex that connects microtubules to chromosomes. How the meiotic gene expression program temporally restricts kinetochore function is unknown. We discovered that in budding yeast, kinetochore inactivation occurs by reducing the abundance of a limiting subunit, Ndc80. Furthermore, we uncovered an integrated mechanism that acts at the transcriptional and translational level to repress NDC80 expression. Central to this mechanism is the developmentally controlled transcription of an alternate NDC80 mRNA isoform, which itself cannot produce protein due to regulatory upstream ORFs in its extended 5' leader. Instead, transcription of this isoform represses the canonical NDC80 mRNA expression in cis, thereby inhibiting Ndc80 protein synthesis. This model of gene regulation raises the intriguing notion that transcription of an mRNA, despite carrying a canonical coding sequence, can directly cause gene repression.
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- Jingxun Chen
- Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Li Ka Shing CenterUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- The Paul F. Glenn Center for Aging ResearchUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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