scholarly journals The Exon Junction Complex Undergoes a Compositional Switch that Alters mRNP Structure and Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay Activity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin W. Mabin ◽  
Lauren A. Woodward ◽  
Robert Patton ◽  
Zhongxia Yi ◽  
Mengxuan Jia ◽  
...  
2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels H. Gehring ◽  
Joachim B. Kunz ◽  
Gabriele Neu-Yilik ◽  
Stephen Breit ◽  
Marcelo H. Viegas ◽  
...  

Cell Reports ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 2431-2446.e7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin W. Mabin ◽  
Lauren A. Woodward ◽  
Robert D. Patton ◽  
Zhongxia Yi ◽  
Mengxuan Jia ◽  
...  

PLoS Biology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. e1000120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels H. Gehring ◽  
Styliani Lamprinaki ◽  
Matthias W. Hentze ◽  
Andreas E. Kulozik

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (21) ◽  
pp. 2440-2450 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Kashima ◽  
S. Jonas ◽  
U. Jayachandran ◽  
G. Buchwald ◽  
E. Conti ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian W. Popp ◽  
Lynne E. Maquat

AbstractDespite a long appreciation for the role of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) in the destruction of faulty, disease-causing mRNAs, as well as its role in the maintenance of normal, endogenous transcript abundance, systematic unbiased methods for uncovering modifiers of NMD activity in mammalian cells remain scant. Here we present and validate a haploid genetic screening method for identifying proteins and processes that stimulate NMD activity involving a 3′-untranslated region exon-junction complex. This reporterbased screening method can be adapted for interrogating other pathways whose output can be measured by the intracellular production of fluorescent proteins.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. B. Lloyd ◽  
Courtney E. French ◽  
Steven E. Brenner

AbstractNonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a translation-dependent mRNA surveillance pathway that eliminates transcripts with premature termination codons. Several studies have tried defined the features governing which transcripts are targeted to NMD. However, these approaches often rely on inhibiting core NMD factors, which often have roles in non-NMD processes within the cell. Based on reports that NMD-targeted transcripts are often bound by a single ribosome, we analyzed RNA-Seq data from a polysome fractionation experiment (TrlP-Seq) to characterize the features of NMD-targeted transcripts in human cells. This approach alleviates the need to inhibit the NMD pathway. We found that the exon junction complex (EJC) model, wherein an exon-exon junction located ≥50 nucleotides downstream of a stop codon is predicted to elicit NMD, was a powerful predictor of transcripts with high abundance in the monosome fraction (bound by a single ribosome). This was also true for the presence of an upstream open reading frame. In contrast, as 3’ UTR lengths increase, the proportion of transcripts that are most abundant in the monosome fraction does not increase. This suggests that either longer 3’ UTRs do not consistently act as potent triggers of NMD or that the degradation of these transcripts is mechanistically different to other NMD-targeted transcripts. Of the ribosome-associated transcripts annotated as “non-coding”, we find that a majority are bound by a single ribosome. Many of these transcripts increase in response to NMD inhibition, including the oncogenic SHNG15, suggesting many might be NMD targets. Finally, we found that retained intron transcripts without a premature termination codon are over-represented in the monosome fraction, suggesting an alternative mechanism is responsible for the low level of translation of these transcripts. In summary, our analysis finds that the EJC model is a powerful predictor of NMD-targeted transcripts, while the presence of a long 3’ UTR is not.


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