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Bioessays ; : e2400101, 2024 Jun 25.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38922969

ABSTRACT

Enhancers are short segments of regulatory DNA that control when and in which cell-type genes should be turned on in response to a variety of extrinsic and intrinsic signals. At the molecular level, enhancers serve as a genomic scaffold that recruits sequence-specific transcription factors and co-activators to facilitate transcription from linked promoters. However, it remains largely unclear how enhancers communicate with appropriate target promoters in the context of higher-order genome topology. In this review, we discuss recent progress in our understanding of the functional interplay between enhancers, genome topology, and the molecular properties of transcription machineries in gene regulation. We suggest that the activities of transcription hubs are highly regulated through the dynamic rearrangement of enhancer-promoter and promoter-promoter connectivity during animal development.

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Nat Commun ; 14(1): 826, 2023 02 20.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36805453

ABSTRACT

Non-coding transcription at the intergenic regulatory regions is a prevalent feature of metazoan genomes, but its biological function remains uncertain. Here, we devise a live-imaging system that permits simultaneous visualization of gene activity along with intergenic non-coding transcription at single-cell resolution in Drosophila. Quantitative image analysis reveals that elongation of RNA polymerase II across the internal core region of enhancers leads to suppression of transcriptional bursting from linked genes. Super-resolution imaging and genome-editing analysis further demonstrate that enhancer transcription antagonizes molecular crowding of transcription factors, thereby interrupting the formation of a transcription hub at the gene locus. We also show that a certain class of developmental enhancers are structurally optimized to co-activate gene transcription together with non-coding transcription effectively. We suggest that enhancer function is flexibly tunable through the modulation of hub formation via surrounding non-coding transcription during development.


Subject(s)
Drosophila , Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid , Animals , DNA, Intergenic/genetics , Drosophila/genetics , Gene Editing , RNA Polymerase II/genetics
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J Biol Chem ; 298(12): 102641, 2022 12.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36306824

ABSTRACT

Autophagy is a major cellular degradation pathway that is highly conserved among eukaryotes. The identification of cargos captured by autophagosomes is critical to our understanding of the physiological significance of autophagy in cells, but these studies can be challenging because autophagosomes disintegrate easily. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, cells deficient in the vacuolar lipase Atg15 accumulate autophagic bodies (ABs) within the vacuole following the induction of autophagy. As ABs contain cytosolic components including proteins, RNAs, and lipids, their purification allows the identification of material targeted by autophagy for degradation. In this study, we demonstrate a method to purify intact ABs using isolated vacuoles from atg15Δ cells. Taking advantage of the size discrepancy between the vacuoles and ABs, the vacuolar membrane was disrupted by filtration to release ABs. Filtered vacuolar lysates were subjected to density gradient centrifugation to obtain AB fractions. Purified ABs retain membrane integrity and contain autophagic cargos. This technique offers a valuable tool for the identification of the cargos of autophagy, examination of autophagic cargo selectivity, and biochemical characterization of autophagosome membranes.


Subject(s)
Autophagosomes , Saccharomyces cerevisiae , Autophagosomes/metabolism , Autophagy , Phagosomes/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/cytology , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism , Vacuoles/enzymology , Vacuoles/metabolism
4.
Nat Commun ; 12(1): 2316, 2021 04 19.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33875662

ABSTRACT

Synthesis and degradation of cellular constituents must be balanced to maintain cellular homeostasis, especially during adaptation to environmental stress. The role of autophagy in the degradation of proteins and organelles is well-characterized. However, autophagy-mediated RNA degradation in response to stress and the potential preference of specific RNAs to undergo autophagy-mediated degradation have not been examined. In this study, we demonstrate selective mRNA degradation by rapamycin-induced autophagy in yeast. Profiling of mRNAs from the vacuole reveals that subsets of mRNAs, such as those encoding amino acid biosynthesis and ribosomal proteins, are preferentially delivered to the vacuole by autophagy for degradation. We also reveal that autophagy-mediated mRNA degradation is tightly coupled with translation by ribosomes. Genome-wide ribosome profiling suggested a high correspondence between ribosome association and targeting to the vacuole. We propose that autophagy-mediated mRNA degradation is a unique and previously-unappreciated function of autophagy that affords post-transcriptional gene regulation.


Subject(s)
Autophagy/genetics , RNA Stability/genetics , Ribosomes/genetics , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics , Vacuoles/genetics , Blotting, Northern , RNA, Fungal/genetics , RNA, Fungal/metabolism , RNA, Messenger/genetics , RNA, Messenger/metabolism , RNA-Seq/methods , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , Ribosomal Proteins/genetics , Ribosomal Proteins/metabolism , Ribosomes/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism , Vacuoles/metabolism
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J Biol Chem ; 290(26): 16021-30, 2015 Jun 26.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25971974

ABSTRACT

The tRNA splicing endonuclease (Sen) complex is located on the mitochondrial outer membrane and splices precursor tRNAs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Here, we demonstrate that the Sen complex cleaves the mitochondria-localized mRNA encoding Cbp1 (cytochrome b mRNA processing 1). Endonucleolytic cleavage of this mRNA required two cis-elements: the mitochondrial targeting signal and the stem-loop 652-726-nt region. Mitochondrial localization of the Sen complex was required for cleavage of the CBP1 mRNA, and the Sen complex cleaved this mRNA directly in vitro. We propose that the Sen complex cleaves the CBP1 mRNA, which is co-translationally localized to mitochondria via its mitochondrial targeting signal.


Subject(s)
Endoribonucleases/metabolism , Mitochondria/metabolism , Mitochondrial Proteins/genetics , RNA, Messenger/genetics , RNA-Binding Proteins/genetics , Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzymology , Base Sequence , Endoribonucleases/genetics , Mitochondria/genetics , Mitochondrial Proteins/chemistry , Mitochondrial Proteins/metabolism , Molecular Sequence Data , Nucleic Acid Conformation , RNA Splicing , RNA, Messenger/chemistry , RNA, Messenger/metabolism , RNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry , RNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/chemistry , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/chemistry , Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism
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J Biol Chem ; 290(13): 8331-47, 2015 Mar 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25657010

ABSTRACT

The CCR4-NOT complex, the major deadenylase in eukaryotes, plays crucial roles in gene expression at the levels of transcription, mRNA decay, and protein degradation. GW182/TNRC6 proteins, which are core components of the microRNA-induced silencing complex in animals, stimulate deadenylation and repress translation via recruitment of the CCR4-NOT complex. Here we report a heterologous experimental system that recapitulates the recruitment of CCR4-NOT complex by TNRC6 in S. cerevisiae. Using this system, we characterize conserved functions of the CCR4-NOT complex. The complex stimulates degradation of mRNA from the 5' end by Xrn1, in a manner independent of both translation and deadenylation. This degradation pathway is probably conserved in miRNA-mediated gene silencing in zebrafish. Furthermore, the mRNA fate modulators Dhh1 and Pat1 redundantly stimulate mRNA decay, but both factors are required for poly(A) tail-independent translation repression by tethered TNRC6A. Our tethering-based reconstitution system reveals that the conserved architecture of Not1/CNOT1 provides a binding surface for TNRC6, thereby connecting microRNA-induced silencing complex to the decapping machinery as well as the translation apparatus.


Subject(s)
Autoantigens/physiology , DEAD-box RNA Helicases/physiology , RNA-Binding Proteins/physiology , Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/physiology , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics , Zebrafish Proteins/physiology , Animals , Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism , Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism , Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal , Polyadenylation , Protein Biosynthesis , RNA Interference , RNA Stability , RNA, Fungal/genetics , RNA, Fungal/metabolism , RNA, Messenger/genetics , RNA, Messenger/metabolism , Ribonucleases/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism , Transcription Factors/metabolism , Zebrafish/genetics , Zebrafish/metabolism
7.
Front Genet ; 5: 135, 2014.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24904636

ABSTRACT

The CCR4-NOT complex is a highly conserved specific gene silencer that also serves more general post-transcriptional functions. Specific regulatory proteins including the miRNA-induced silencing complex and its associated proteins, bind to 3'-UTR elements of mRNA and recruit the CCR4-NOT complex thereby promoting poly(A) shortening and repressing translation and/or mRNA degradation. Recent studies have shown that the CCR4-NOT complex that is tethered to mRNA by such regulator(s) represses translation and facilitates mRNA decay independent of a poly(A) tail and its shortening. In addition to deadenylase activity, the CCR4-NOT complex also has an E3 ubiquitin ligase activity and is involved in a novel protein quality control system, i.e., co-translational proteasomal-degradation of aberrant proteins. In this review, we describe recent progress in elucidation of novel roles of the multi-functional complex CCR4-NOT in post-transcriptional regulation.

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Mol Cell ; 46(4): 518-29, 2012 May 25.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22503425

ABSTRACT

Translation arrest leads to an endonucleolytic cleavage of mRNA that is termed no-go decay (NGD). It has been reported that the Dom34:Hbs1 complex stimulates this endonucleolytic cleavage of mRNA induced by translation arrest in vivo and dissociates subunits of a stalled ribosome in vitro. Here we report that Dom34:Hbs1 dissociates the subunits of a ribosome that is stalled at the 3' end of mRNA in vivo, and has a crucial role in both NGD and nonstop decay. Dom34:Hbs1-mediated dissociation of a ribosome that is stalled at the 3' end of mRNA is required for degradation of a 5'-NGD intermediate. Dom34:Hbs1 facilitates the decay of nonstop mRNAs from the 3' end by exosomes and is required for the complete degradation of nonstop mRNA decay intermediates. We propose that Dom34:Hbs1 stimulates degradation of the 5'-NGD intermediate and of nonstop mRNA by dissociating the ribosome that is stalled at the 3' end of the mRNA.


Subject(s)
Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics , Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism , Endoribonucleases/genetics , Endoribonucleases/metabolism , GTP-Binding Proteins/genetics , GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism , HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins/genetics , HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins/metabolism , Peptide Elongation Factors/genetics , Peptide Elongation Factors/metabolism , RNA Stability , RNA, Fungal/genetics , RNA, Fungal/metabolism , RNA, Messenger/genetics , RNA, Messenger/metabolism , Ribosomes/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics , Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism , Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/chemistry , Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics , Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism , Base Sequence , Cell Cycle Proteins/chemistry , Endoribonucleases/chemistry , GTP-Binding Proteins/chemistry , HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins/chemistry , Multiprotein Complexes/chemistry , Multiprotein Complexes/genetics , Multiprotein Complexes/metabolism , Nonsense Mediated mRNA Decay , Peptide Chain Elongation, Translational , Peptide Elongation Factors/chemistry , Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics , Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/chemistry
9.
Masui ; 58(2): 209-11, 2009 Feb.
Article in Japanese | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19227180

ABSTRACT

We report a case of conversion disorder after spinal anesthesia. A 16-year-old healthy woman underwent arthroscopic surgery under spinal anesthesia. She showed tremor all over and it did not stop. We sedated her with propofol during the operation. After the operation, her involuntary tremble continued. We consulted with a pediatrician who diagnosed her as conversion disorder. Magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography were performed to rule out some pathological changes and abnormality in her head. As a result, Rathke cleft cyst was suspected but it could not explain this episode. We consider that her stress for the operation under spinal anesthesia caused this episode. In a case of a younger patient, it is necessary to consider mental support. And we need to suspect conversion disorder when we see tremor during operation under regional anesthesia.


Subject(s)
Anesthesia, Spinal/adverse effects , Conversion Disorder/etiology , Adolescent , Arthroscopy , Female , Humans
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