Knockdown of Muscle-Specific Ribosomal Protein L3-Like Enhances Muscle Function in Healthy and Dystrophic Mice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty R. Kao ◽  
Alberto Malerba ◽  
Ngoc B. Lu-Nguyen ◽  
Pradeep Harish ◽  
John J. McCarthy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ribosomal Protein ◽  
Muscle Function ◽  
Ribosomal Protein L3 ◽  
Dystrophic Mice

scholarly journals Yeast NOP2 encodes an essential nucleolar protein with homology to a human proliferation marker.

1994 ◽  
Vol 127 (6) ◽  
pp. 1799-1813 ◽  
Author(s):  
E de Beus ◽  
J S Brockenbrough ◽  
B Hong ◽  
J P Aris
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acid ◽  
Amino Acid Sequence ◽  
Ribosomal Protein ◽  
Nucleolar Protein ◽  
Mrna Levels ◽  
Multicopy Plasmid ◽  
Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Protein Levels ◽  
Significant Amino Acid Sequence ◽  
Ribosomal Protein L3

We have isolated a gene (NOP2) encoding a nucleolar protein during a search for previously unidentified nuclear proteins in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The protein encoded by NOP2 (Nop2p) has a predicted molecular mass of 70 kD, migrates at 90 kD by SDS-PAGE, and is essential for cell viability. Nop2p shows significant amino acid sequence homology to a human proliferation-associated nucleolar protein, p120. Approximately half of Nop2p exhibits 67% amino acid sequence identity to p120. Analysis of subcellular fractions indicates that Nop2p is located primarily in the nucleus, and nuclear fractionation studies suggest that Nop2p is associated with the nucleolus. Indirect immunofluorescence localization of Nop2p shows a nucleolar-staining pattern, which is heterogeneous in appearance, and a faint staining of the cytoplasm. The expression of NOP2 during the transition from stationary phase growth arrest to rapid growth was measured, and compared to the expression of TCM1, which encodes the ribosomal protein L3. Nop2p protein levels are markedly upregulated during the onset of growth, compared to the levels of ribosomal protein L3, which remain relatively constant. NOP2 mRNA levels also increase during the onset of growth, accompanied by a similar increase in the levels of TCM1 mRNA. The consequences of overexpressing NOP2 from the GAL10 promoter on a multicopy plasmid were investigated. Although NOP2 overexpression produced no discernible growth phenotype and had no effect on ribosome subunit synthesis, overexpression was found to influence the morphology of the nucleolus, as judged by electron microscopy. Overexpression caused the nucleolus to become detached from the nuclear envelope and to become more rounded and/or fragmented in appearance. These findings suggest roles for NOP2 in nucleolar function during the onset of growth, and in the maintenance of nucleolar structure.

scholarly journals Forced Myofiber Regeneration Promotes Dystrophin Gene Transfer and Improved Muscle Function Despite Advanced Disease in Old Dystrophic Mice

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 499-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghiabe H. Guibinga ◽  
Satoru Ebihara ◽  
Josephine Nalbantoglu ◽  
Paul Holland ◽  
George Karpati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Transfer ◽  
Muscle Function ◽  
Advanced Disease ◽  
Dystrophin Gene ◽  
Dystrophic Mice

scholarly journals Expression of a Truncated Form of Ribosomal Protein L3 Confers Resistance to Pokeweed Antiviral Protein and the Fusarium Mycotoxin Deoxynivalenol

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 762-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong Di ◽  
Nilgun E. Tumer
Keyword(s):  
Ribosomal Protein ◽  
Fusarium Species ◽  
Common Mechanism ◽  
Pokeweed Antiviral Protein ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Antiviral Protein ◽  
Trichothecene Mycotoxin ◽  
Truncated Form ◽  
Fusarium Mycotoxin ◽  
Ribosomal Protein L3

The contamination of important agricultural products such as wheat, barley, or maize with the trichothecene mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) due to infection with Fusarium species is a worldwide problem. Trichothecenes inhibit protein synthesis by targeting ribosomal protein L3. Pokeweed antiviral protein (PAP), a ribosome-inactivating protein binds to L3 to depurinate the α–sarcin/loop of the large rRNA. Plants transformed with the wild-type PAP show lesions and express very low levels of PAP because PAP autoregulates its expression by destabilizing its own mRNA. We show here that transgenic tobacco plants expressing both the wild-type PAP and a truncated form of yeast L3 (L3δ) are phenotypically normal. PAP mRNA and protein levels are very high in these plants, indicating that L3δ suppresses the autoregulation of PAP mRNA expression. Ribosomes are not depurinated in the transgenic plants expressing PAP and L3δ, even though PAP is associated with ribosomes. The expression of the endogenous tobacco ribosomal protein L3 is up-regulated in these plants and they are resistant to the Fusarium mycotoxin DON. These results demonstrate that expression of an N-terminal fragment of yeast L3 leads to trans-dominant resistance to PAP and the trichothecene mycotoxin DON, providing evidence that both toxins target L3 by a common mechanism.

scholarly journals AAV CRISPR editing rescues cardiac and muscle function for 18 months in dystrophic mice

JCI Insight ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chady H. Hakim ◽  
Nalinda B. Wasala ◽  
Christopher E. Nelson ◽  
Lakmini P. Wasala ◽  
Yongping Yue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Muscle Function ◽  
Dystrophic Mice

scholarly journals Chronic Losartan Administration Reduces Mortality and Preserves Cardiac but Not Skeletal Muscle Function in Dystrophic Mice

PLoS ONE ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. e20856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence T. Bish ◽  
Mark Yarchoan ◽  
Meg M. Sleeper ◽  
Jeffrey A. Gazzara ◽  
Kevin J. Morine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Muscle Function ◽  
Skeletal Muscle Function ◽  
Dystrophic Mice

scholarly journals Resistance to the Peptidyl Transferase Inhibitor Tiamulin Caused by Mutation of Ribosomal Protein L3

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 2892-2896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Bøsling ◽  
Susan M. Poulsen ◽  
Birte Vester ◽  
Katherine S. Long
Keyword(s):  
Ribosomal Protein ◽  
Drug Binding ◽  
Mechanisms Of Resistance ◽  
Peptidyl Transferase ◽  
Peptidyl Transferase Center ◽  
Resistance Determinants ◽  
Drug Binding Site ◽  
Gene Coding ◽  
Bacterial Ribosome ◽  
Ribosomal Protein L3

ABSTRACT The antibiotic tiamulin targets the 50S subunit of the bacterial ribosome and interacts at the peptidyl transferase center. Tiamulin-resistant Escherichia coli mutants were isolated in order to elucidate mechanisms of resistance to the drug. No mutations in the rRNA were selected as resistance determinants using a strain expressing only a plasmid-encoded rRNA operon. Selection in a strain with all seven chromosomal rRNA operons yielded a mutant with an A445G mutation in the gene coding for ribosomal protein L3, resulting in an Asn149Asp alteration. Complementation experiments and sequencing of transductants demonstrate that the mutation is responsible for the resistance phenotype. Chemical footprinting experiments show a reduced binding of tiamulin to mutant ribosomes. It is inferred that the L3 mutation, which points into the peptidyl transferase cleft, causes tiamulin resistance by alteration of the drug-binding site. This is the first report of a mechanism of resistance to tiamulin unveiled in molecular detail.

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