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J Biol Chem ; 289(20): 13701-5, 2014 May 16.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24692555

ABSTRACT

The inflammatory cytokine IL-1ß is critical for host responses against many human pathogens. Here, we define Group B Streptococcus (GBS)-mediated activation of the Nod-like receptor-P3 (NLRP3) inflammasome in macrophages. NLRP3 activation requires GBS expression of the cytolytic toxin, ß-hemolysin, lysosomal acidification, and leakage. These processes allow the interaction of GBS RNA with cytosolic NLRP3. The present study supports a model in which GBS RNA, along with lysosomal components including cathepsins, leaks out of lysosomes and interacts with NLRP3 to induce IL-1ß production.


Subject(s)
Bacterial Proteins/metabolism , Carrier Proteins/metabolism , Hemolysin Proteins/metabolism , Inflammasomes/metabolism , Interleukin-1beta/biosynthesis , Macrophages/metabolism , RNA, Bacterial/metabolism , Streptococcus agalactiae/physiology , Animals , Humans , Interleukin-1beta/metabolism , Lysosomes/metabolism , Lysosomes/microbiology , Macrophages/cytology , Macrophages/microbiology , Mice , NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein , Phagosomes/metabolism , Phagosomes/microbiology , Streptococcus agalactiae/metabolism
2.
Curr Opin Microbiol ; 16(1): 23-31, 2013 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23318142

ABSTRACT

The inflammasome has emerged as an important molecular protein complex which initiates proteolytic processing of pro-IL-1ß and pro-IL-18 into mature inflammatory cytokines. In addition, inflammasomes initiate pyroptotic cell death that may be independent of those cytokines. Inflammasomes are central to elicit innate immune responses against many pathogens, and are key components in the induction of host defenses following bacterial infection. Here, we review recent discoveries related to NLRP1, NLRP3, NLRC4, NLRP6, NLRP7, NLRP12 and AIM2-mediated recognition of bacteria. Mechanisms for inflammasome activation and regulation are now suggested to involve kinases such as PKR and PKCδ, ligand binding proteins such as the NAIPs, and caspase-11 and caspase-8 in addition to caspase-1. Future research will determine how specific inflammasome components pair up in optimal responses to specific bacteria.


Subject(s)
Bacterial Infections/immunology , Inflammasomes/immunology , Animals , Humans , Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/metabolism , Models, Biological , Signal Transduction
3.
Wiley Interdiscip Rev RNA ; 1(3): 351-61, 2010.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21132108

ABSTRACT

Maintenance of cellular function relies on the expression of genetic information with high fidelity, a process in which RNA molecules form an important link. mRNAs are intermediates that define the proteome, rRNAs and tRNAs are effector molecules that act together to decode mRNA sequence information, and small noncoding RNAs can regulate mRNA half-life and translatability. The steady-state levels of these RNAs occur through transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms, of which RNA decay pathways are integral components. RNA decay can initiate from the ends of a transcript or through endonucleolytic cleavage, and numerous factors that catalyze or promote these reactions have been identified and characterized. The rate at which decay occurs depends on RNA sequence or structural elements and usually requires the RNA to be modified in a way that allows recruitment of the decay machinery to the transcript through the binding of accessory factors or small RNAs. The major RNA decay pathways also play important roles in the quality control (QC) of gene expression. Acting in both the nucleus and cytoplasm, multiple QC factors monitor newly synthesized transcripts, or mRNAs undergoing translation, for properties essential to function, including structural integrity or the presence of complete open-reading frames. Transcripts targeted by these surveillance mechanisms are rapidly shunted into conventional decay pathways where they are degraded rapidly to ensure that they do not interfere with the normal course of gene expression. Collectively, degradative mechanisms are important determinants of the extent of gene expression and play key roles in maintaining its accuracy.


Subject(s)
Gene Expression/genetics , Protein Biosynthesis/genetics , RNA Stability/physiology , Animals , Humans , Models, Biological , Protein Binding/physiology , Protein Biosynthesis/physiology , Quality Control , RNA, Messenger/metabolism , RNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism , Transcription, Genetic/genetics , Transcription, Genetic/physiology
4.
RNA ; 16(9): 1832-47, 2010 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20675403

ABSTRACT

In addition to their well-documented roles in the promotion of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), yeast Upf proteins (Upf1, Upf2/Nmd2, and Upf3) also manifest translational regulatory functions, at least in vitro, including roles in premature translation termination and subsequent reinitiation. Here, we find that all upf Delta strains also fail to reinitiate translation after encountering a premature termination codon (PTC) in vivo, a result that led us to seek a unifying mechanism for all of these translation phenomena. Comparisons of the in vitro translational activities of wild-type (WT) and upf1 Delta extracts were utilized to test for a Upf1 role in post-termination ribosome reutilization. Relative to WT extracts, non-nucleased extracts lacking Upf1 had approximately twofold decreased activity for the translation of synthetic CAN1/LUC mRNA, a defect paralleled by fewer ribosomes per mRNA and reduced efficiency of the 60S joining step at initiation. These deficiencies could be complemented by purified FLAG-Upf1, or 60S subunits, and appeared to reflect diminished cycling of ribosomes from endogenous PTC-containing mRNAs to exogenously added synthetic mRNA in the same extracts. This hypothesis was tested, and supported, by experiments in which nucleased WT or upf1 Delta extracts were first challenged with high concentrations of synthetic mRNAs that were templates for either normal or premature translation termination and then assayed for their capacity to translate a normal mRNA. Our results indicate that Upf1 plays a key role in a mechanism coupling termination and ribosome release at a PTC to subsequent ribosome reutilization for another round of translation initiation.


Subject(s)
Codon, Nonsense , Protein Biosynthesis , RNA Helicases/metabolism , Ribosomes/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism , Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism , RNA Stability , RNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
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Nature ; 453(7199): 1276-80, 2008 Jun 26.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18496529

ABSTRACT

Efficient translation initiation and optimal stability of most eukaryotic messenger RNAs depends on the formation of a closed-loop structure and the resulting synergistic interplay between the 5' m(7)G cap and the 3' poly(A) tail. Evidence of eIF4G and Pab1 interaction supports the notion of a closed-loop mRNP, but the mechanistic events that lead to its formation and maintenance are still unknown. Here we use toeprinting and polysome profiling assays to delineate ribosome positioning at initiator AUG codons and ribosome-mRNA association, respectively, and find that two distinct stable (resistant to cap analogue) closed-loop structures are formed during initiation in yeast cell-free extracts. The integrity of both forms requires the mRNA cap and poly(A) tail, as well as eIF4E, eIF4G, Pab1 and eIF3, and is dependent on the length of both the mRNA and the poly(A) tail. Formation of the first structure requires the 48S ribosomal complex, whereas the second requires an 80S ribosome and the termination factors eRF3/Sup35 and eRF1/Sup45. The involvement of the termination factors is independent of a termination event.


Subject(s)
Protein Biosynthesis , Ribonucleoproteins/chemistry , Ribonucleoproteins/metabolism , Ribosomal Proteins/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics , Animals , Base Sequence , Codon, Initiator/genetics , Cycloheximide/pharmacology , Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-4G/metabolism , Peptide Termination Factors/genetics , Peptide Termination Factors/metabolism , Poly(A)-Binding Proteins/metabolism , Polyribosomes/genetics , Polyribosomes/metabolism , Prions/metabolism , RNA Caps/genetics , RNA Caps/metabolism , RNA, Messenger/genetics , RNA, Messenger/metabolism , Ribonucleoproteins/genetics , Ribosomal Proteins/chemistry , Ribosomal Proteins/genetics , Ribosomes/chemistry , Ribosomes/genetics , Ribosomes/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics , Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism
6.
J Bacteriol ; 188(22): 7957-62, 2006 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16950919

ABSTRACT

We have purified a fimbrial shaft protein (MrxA) of Xenorhabdus nematophila. The soluble monomeric protein lysed larval hemocytes of Helicoverpa armigera. Osmotic protection of the cells with polyethylene glycol suggested that the 17-kDa MrxA subunit makes pores in the target cell membrane. The internal diameter of the pores was estimated to be >2.9 nm. Electron microscopy confirmed the formation of pores by the fimbrial subunit. MrxA protein oligomerized in the presence of liposomes. Electrophysiological studies demonstrated that MrxA formed large, voltage-gated passive-diffusion channels in lipid bilayers.


Subject(s)
Fimbriae Proteins/pharmacology , Hemolysin Proteins/pharmacology , Protein Subunits/pharmacology , Xenorhabdus/chemistry , Animals , Cell Membrane/metabolism , Fimbriae Proteins/chemistry , Fimbriae Proteins/isolation & purification , Fimbriae, Bacterial/chemistry , Hemocytes/drug effects , Hemocytes/metabolism , Hemocytes/ultrastructure , Hemolysin Proteins/chemistry , Hemolysin Proteins/isolation & purification , Insecta/cytology , Larva/cytology , Lipid Bilayers/metabolism , Microscopy, Electron , Molecular Weight , Protein Subunits/chemistry , Protein Subunits/isolation & purification
7.
Nature ; 432(7013): 112-8, 2004 Nov 04.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15525991

ABSTRACT

Nonsense-mediated messenger RNA decay (NMD) is triggered by premature translation termination, but the features distinguishing premature from normal termination are unknown. One model for NMD suggests that decay-inducing factors bound to mRNAs during early processing events are routinely removed by elongating ribosomes but remain associated with mRNAs when termination is premature, triggering rapid turnover. Recent experiments challenge this notion and suggest a model that posits that mRNA decay is activated by the intrinsically aberrant nature of premature termination. Here we use a primer extension inhibition (toeprinting) assay to delineate ribosome positioning and find that premature translation termination in yeast extracts is indeed aberrant. Ribosomes encountering premature UAA or UGA codons in the CAN1 mRNA fail to release and, instead, migrate to upstream AUGs. This anomaly depends on prior nonsense codon recognition and is eliminated in extracts derived from cells lacking the principal NMD factor, Upf1p, or by flanking the nonsense codon with a normal 3'-untranslated region (UTR). Tethered poly(A)-binding protein (Pab1p), used as a mimic of a normal 3'-UTR, recruits the termination factor Sup35p (eRF3) and stabilizes nonsense-containing mRNAs. These findings indicate that efficient termination and mRNA stability are dependent on a properly configured 3'-UTR.


Subject(s)
3' Untranslated Regions/metabolism , Codon, Nonsense/genetics , Peptide Chain Termination, Translational/genetics , RNA Stability , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics , 3' Untranslated Regions/genetics , Base Sequence , Binding Sites , Cell Extracts , Cycloheximide/pharmacology , RNA, Fungal/genetics , RNA, Fungal/metabolism
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