Translation (Austin, Tex.)Pub Date : 2017-05-09eCollection Date: 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21690731.2017.1327006
Jun Li, Chi Zhang, Poyi Huang, Erkin Kuru, Eliot T C Forster-Benson, Taibo Li, George M Church
{"title":"Dissecting limiting factors of the Protein synthesis Using Recombinant Elements (PURE) system.","authors":"Jun Li, Chi Zhang, Poyi Huang, Erkin Kuru, Eliot T C Forster-Benson, Taibo Li, George M Church","doi":"10.1080/21690731.2017.1327006","DOIUrl":"10.1080/21690731.2017.1327006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reconstituted cell-free protein synthesis systems such as the Protein synthesis Using Recombinant Elements (PURE) system give high-throughput and controlled access to <i>in vitro</i> protein synthesis. Here we show that compared with the commercial S30 crude extract based RTS 100 <i>E. coli</i> HY system, the PURE system has less mRNA degradation and produces up to ∼6-fold full-length proteins. However the majority of polypeptides PURE produces are partially translated or inactive since the signal from firefly luciferase (Fluc) translated in PURE is only ∼2/3<sup>rd</sup> of that measured using the RTS 100 <i>E. coli</i> HY S30 system. Both of the 2 batch systems suffer from low ribosome recycling efficiency when translating proteins from 82 k<sub>D</sub> to 224 k<sub>D</sub>. A systematic fed-batch analysis of PURE shows replenishment of 6 small molecule substrates individually or in combination before energy depletion increased Fluc protein yield by ∼1.5 to ∼2-fold, while creatine phosphate and magnesium have synergistic effects when added to the PURE system. Additionally, while adding EF-P to PURE reduced full-length protein translated, it increased the fraction of functional protein and reduced partially translated protein probably by slowing down the translation process. Finally, ArfA, rather than YaeJ or PrfH, helped reduce ribosome stalling when translating Fluc and improved system productivity in a template-dependent fashion.</p>","PeriodicalId":90376,"journal":{"name":"Translation (Austin, Tex.)","volume":"5 1","pages":"e1327006"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21690731.2017.1327006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35163467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Translation (Austin, Tex.)Pub Date : 2017-04-03eCollection Date: 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21690731.2017.1314240
Bradley A Carlson, Nirupama Gupta, Mark H Pinkerton, Dolph L Hatfield, Paul R Copeland
{"title":"The utilization of selenocysteine-tRNA<sup>[Ser]Sec</sup> isoforms is regulated in part at the level of translation <i>in vitro</i>.","authors":"Bradley A Carlson, Nirupama Gupta, Mark H Pinkerton, Dolph L Hatfield, Paul R Copeland","doi":"10.1080/21690731.2017.1314240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21690731.2017.1314240","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The tRNA for the 21st proteinogenic amino acid, selenocysteine, exists in mammalian cells as 2 isoforms differing by a single 2'-O-methylribosyl moiety at position 34 (Um34). These isoforms contain either 5-methoxycarbonylmethyluridine (mcm<sup>5</sup>U) or 5-methoxycarbonylmethyl-2'-O-methyluridine (mcm<sup>5</sup>Um) at position 34. The accumulation of the mcm<sup>5</sup>Um isoform is tightly correlated with the expression of nonessential \"stress response\" selenoproteins such as glutathione peroxidase 1 (GPX1). The expression of essential selenoproteins, such as thioredoxin reductase 1 (TXNRD1), is not affected by changes in Sec-tRNA<sup>[Ser]Sec</sup> isoform accumulation. In this work we used purified mcm<sup>5</sup>U and mcm<sup>5</sup>Um Sec-tRNA<sup>[Ser]Sec</sup> isoforms to analyze possible differences in binding to the selenocysteine-specific elongation factor, EEFSEC, and the translation of <i>GPX1</i> and <i>TXNRD1</i><i>in vitro</i>. Our results indicate that no major distinction between mcm<sup>5</sup>U and mcm<sup>5</sup>Um isoforms is made by the translation machinery, but a small consistent increase in <i>GPX1</i> translation is associated with the mcm<sup>5</sup>Um isoform. These results implicate fundamental differences in translation efficiency in playing a role in regulating selenoprotein expression as a function of isoform accumulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":90376,"journal":{"name":"Translation (Austin, Tex.)","volume":"5 1","pages":"e1314240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21690731.2017.1314240","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35163465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Translation (Austin, Tex.)Pub Date : 2017-02-28eCollection Date: 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21690731.2017.1295130
Alex M Tamburino, Ebru Kaymak, Shaleen Shrestha, Amy D Holdorf, Sean P Ryder, Albertha J M Walhout
{"title":"PRIMA: a gene-centered, RNA-to-protein method for mapping RNA-protein interactions.","authors":"Alex M Tamburino, Ebru Kaymak, Shaleen Shrestha, Amy D Holdorf, Sean P Ryder, Albertha J M Walhout","doi":"10.1080/21690731.2017.1295130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21690731.2017.1295130","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interactions between RNA binding proteins (RBPs) and mRNAs are critical to post-transcriptional gene regulation. Eukaryotic genomes encode thousands of mRNAs and hundreds of RBPs. However, in contrast to interactions between transcription factors (TFs) and DNA, the interactome between RBPs and RNA has been explored for only a small number of proteins and RNAs. This is largely because the focus has been on using 'protein-centered' (RBP-to-RNA) interaction mapping methods that identify the RNAs with which an individual RBP interacts. While powerful, these methods cannot as of yet be applied to the entire RBPome. Moreover, it may be desirable for a researcher to identify the repertoire of RBPs that can interact with an mRNA of interest-in a 'gene-centered' manner-yet few such techniques are available. Here, we present Protein-RNA Interaction Mapping Assay (PRIMA) with which an RNA 'bait' can be tested versus multiple RBP 'preys' in a single experiment. PRIMA is a translation-based assay that examines interactions in the yeast cytoplasm, the cellular location of mRNA translation. We show that PRIMA can be used with small RNA elements, as well as with full-length <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> 3' UTRs. PRIMA faithfully recapitulated numerous well-characterized RNA-RBP interactions and also identified novel interactions, some of which were confirmed <i>in vivo</i>. We envision that PRIMA will provide a complementary tool to expand the depth and scale with which the RNA-RBP interactome can be explored.</p>","PeriodicalId":90376,"journal":{"name":"Translation (Austin, Tex.)","volume":"5 1","pages":"e1295130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21690731.2017.1295130","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35163466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Translation (Austin, Tex.)Pub Date : 2017-02-17eCollection Date: 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21690731.2017.1295129
Daniel R Gallie
{"title":"Class II members of the poly(A) binding protein family exhibit distinct functions during Arabidopsis growth and development.","authors":"Daniel R Gallie","doi":"10.1080/21690731.2017.1295129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21690731.2017.1295129","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The poly(A)-binding protein (PABP) binds to the poly(A) tail of eukaryotic cellular mRNAs and contributes to their stability and translational efficiency. In plants, PABP is expressed from an unusually large gene family grouped into 3 classes that expanded during the evolution of land plants. Subsequent to expansion of the family, members diverged in their primary sequence and in expression. Further expansion of the family and divergence of its members in the Brassicaceae demonstrate the continued dynamic evolution of PABP in plants. In this study, the function of the widely-expressed class II PABP family members was examined to determine how individual class II members contribute to plant growth and development. Of the 3 class II PABP members, PAB2 and PAB4 contribute most to vegetative growth and vegetative-to-floral transition whereas PAB2, and the recently-evolved third class II member, PAB8, contribute to inflorescence and silique growth. Interestingly, although class I and class III PABP members are expressed specifically in reproductive organs, class II PABP members are also necessary for fertility in that the combinatorial loss of <i>PAB2</i> and either <i>PAB4</i> or <i>PAB8</i> expression resulted in reduced fertility. Although all 3 class II members are required for protein expression, PAB4 contributes most to the steady-state level of a reporter mRNA and to protein expression. These findings suggest that class II PABP members are partially overlapping in function but also involved in distinct aspects of plant growth and development.</p>","PeriodicalId":90376,"journal":{"name":"Translation (Austin, Tex.)","volume":"5 1","pages":"e1295129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21690731.2017.1295129","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35163537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Translation (Austin, Tex.)Pub Date : 2016-12-01eCollection Date: 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21690731.2016.1265703
Amy Wahba, Stacey L Lehman, Philip J Tofilon
{"title":"Radiation-induced translational control of gene expression.","authors":"Amy Wahba, Stacey L Lehman, Philip J Tofilon","doi":"10.1080/21690731.2016.1265703","DOIUrl":"10.1080/21690731.2016.1265703","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Radiation-induced gene expression has long been hypothesized to protect against cell death. Defining this process would provide not only insight into the mechanisms mediating cell survival after radiation exposure, but also a novel source of targets for radiosensitization. However, whereas the radiation-induced gene expression profiles using total cellular mRNA have been generated for cell lines as well as normal tissues, with few exception, the changes in mRNA do not correlate with changes in the corresponding protein. The traditional approach to profiling gene expression, i.e., using total cellular RNA, does not take into account posttranscriptional regulation. In this review, we describe the use of gene expression profiling of polysome-bound RNA to establish that radiation modifies gene expression via translational control. Because changes in polysome-bound mRNA correlate with changes in protein, analysis of the translational profiles provides a unique data set for investigating the mechanisms mediating cellular radioresponse.</p>","PeriodicalId":90376,"journal":{"name":"Translation (Austin, Tex.)","volume":"5 1","pages":"e1265703"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5501380/pdf/ktrs-05-01-1265703.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35163535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E wears a “cap” for many occasions","authors":"K. Borden","doi":"10.1080/21690731.2016.1220899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21690731.2016.1220899","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E plays important roles in controlling the composition of the proteome. Indeed, dysregulation of eIF4E is associated with poor prognosis cancers. The traditional view has been that eIF4E acts solely in translation. However, over the last ∼25 years, eIF4E was found in the nucleus where it acts in mRNA export and in the last ∼10 years, eIF4E was found in cytoplasmic processing bodies (P-bodies) where it functions in mRNA sequestration and stability. The common biochemical thread for these activities is the ability of eIF4E to bind the 7-methylguanosine cap on the 5′ end of mRNAs. Recently, the possibility that eIF4E directly binds some mRNA elements independently of the cap has also been raised. Importantly, the effects of eIF4E are not genome-wide with a subset of transcripts targeted depending on the presence of specific mRNA elements and context-dependent regulatory factors. Indeed, eIF4E governs RNA regulons through co-regulating the expression of groups of transcripts acting in the same biochemical pathways. In addition, studies over the past ∼15 years indicate that there are multiple strategies that regulatory factors employ to modulate eIF4E activities in context-dependent manners. This perspective focuses on these new findings and incorporates them into a broader model for eIF4E function.","PeriodicalId":90376,"journal":{"name":"Translation (Austin, Tex.)","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81278645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jingwen Song, J. Perreault, I. Topisirovic, S. Richard
{"title":"RNA G-quadruplexes and their potential regulatory roles in translation","authors":"Jingwen Song, J. Perreault, I. Topisirovic, S. Richard","doi":"10.1080/21690731.2016.1244031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21690731.2016.1244031","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT DNA guanine (G)-rich 4-stranded helical nucleic acid structures called G-quadruplexes (G4), have been extensively studied during the last decades. However, emerging evidence reveals that 5′- and 3′-untranslated regions (5′- and 3′-UTRs) as well as open reading frames (ORFs) contain putative RNA G-quadruplexes. These stable secondary structures play key roles in telomere homeostasis and RNA metabolism including pre-mRNA splicing, polyadenylation, mRNA targeting and translation. Interestingly, multiple RNA binding proteins such as nucleolin, FMRP, DHX36, and Aven were identified to bind RNA G-quadruplexes. Moreover, accumulating reports suggest that RNA G-quadruplexes regulate translation in cap-dependent and -independent manner. Herein, we discuss potential roles of RNA G-quadruplexes and associated trans-acting factors in the regulation of mRNA translation.","PeriodicalId":90376,"journal":{"name":"Translation (Austin, Tex.)","volume":"26 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83676349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth Levins, C. Tseng, R. M. Patrick, Laura K. Mayberry, Nicola A. Cole, K. Browning
{"title":"Fusion proteins of Arabidopsis cap-binding proteins: Cautionary “tails” of woe","authors":"Elizabeth Levins, C. Tseng, R. M. Patrick, Laura K. Mayberry, Nicola A. Cole, K. Browning","doi":"10.1080/21690731.2016.1257408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21690731.2016.1257408","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The use of fluorescent proteins fused to other proteins has been very useful in revealing the location and function of many proteins. However, it is very important to show that the fusion of these reporter proteins does not impact the function of the protein of interest. Plants have 2 forms of the cap-binding protein that function in initiation of translation, eIF4E and a plant specific form, eIFiso4E. In an attempt to determine the cellular localization of eIFiso4E, fusions to GFP were made, but were found to not be competent to rescue the lethal phenotype of plants lacking eIF4E and eIFiso4E. This suggested that the GFP fusions at either the N- or C-terminus of eIFiso4E were not functional. Biochemical analysis of the fusions revealed that eIFiso4E•GFP fusions were not able to bind to m7GTP Sepharose indicating that they were not functional as cap-binding proteins. Analysis of eIF4E•GFP fusions, both in yeast and in vitro, showed that the N-terminal fusion may be functional, whereas the C-terminal fusion bound m7GTP Sepharose very poorly and functioned poorly in yeast. These results highlight the importance of verification both biochemically and in vivo that reporter fusions of proteins maintain activity and are stable in order to prevent observations that may result in artifacts.","PeriodicalId":90376,"journal":{"name":"Translation (Austin, Tex.)","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88374643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Shaikho, C. Dobson, Thet Naing, Bahram Samanfar, H. Moteshareie, Maryam Hajikarimloo, A. Golshani, M. Holcik
{"title":"Elevated levels of ribosomal proteins eL36 and eL42 control expression of Hsp90 in rhabdomyosarcoma","authors":"Sarah Shaikho, C. Dobson, Thet Naing, Bahram Samanfar, H. Moteshareie, Maryam Hajikarimloo, A. Golshani, M. Holcik","doi":"10.1080/21690731.2016.1244395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21690731.2016.1244395","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mammalian 90 kDa heat shock protein (Hsp90) is a ubiquitous molecular chaperone whose expression is selectively upregulated during stress, although the precise control mechanism of this increase is yet to be fully elucidated. We used polysome profiling to show that Hsp90α mRNA is selectively translated, while global translation is inhibited during heat stress. Furthermore, we have identified 2 ribosomal proteins, eL36 and eL42 that modulate Hsp90α expression under both normal and heat shock conditions. Importantly, we noted that expression of eL36 and eL42 is elevated in a panel of human rhabdomyosarcomas where it drives high expression of Hsp90 and modulates sensitivity of these cells to an Hsp90 inhibitor 17-AAG.","PeriodicalId":90376,"journal":{"name":"Translation (Austin, Tex.)","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87667770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “periodic table” of the genetic code: A new way to look at the code and the decoding process","authors":"A. Komar","doi":"10.1080/21690731.2016.1234431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21690731.2016.1234431","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Henri Grosjean and Eric Westhof recently presented an information-rich, alternative view of the genetic code, which takes into account current knowledge of the decoding process, including the complex nature of interactions between mRNA, tRNA and rRNA that take place during protein synthesis on the ribosome, and it also better reflects the evolution of the code. The new asymmetrical circular genetic code has a number of advantages over the traditional codon table and the previous circular diagrams (with a symmetrical/clockwise arrangement of the U, C, A, G bases). Most importantly, all sequence co-variances can be visualized and explained based on the internal logic of the thermodynamics of codon-anticodon interactions.","PeriodicalId":90376,"journal":{"name":"Translation (Austin, Tex.)","volume":"196 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83507658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}