{"title":"Structural insights into human exon-defined spliceosome prior to activation","authors":"Wenyu Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhang, Xiechao Zhan, Rui Bai, Jianlin Lei, Chuangye Yan, Yigong Shi","doi":"10.1038/s41422-024-00949-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41422-024-00949-w","url":null,"abstract":"Spliceosome is often assembled across an exon and undergoes rearrangement to span a neighboring intron. Most states of the intron-defined spliceosome have been structurally characterized. However, the structure of a fully assembled exon-defined spliceosome remains at large. During spliceosome assembly, the pre-catalytic state (B complex) is converted from its precursor (pre-B complex). Here we report atomic structures of the exon-defined human spliceosome in four sequential states: mature pre-B, late pre-B, early B, and mature B. In the previously unknown late pre-B state, U1 snRNP is already released but the remaining proteins are still in the pre-B state; unexpectedly, the RNAs are in the B state, with U6 snRNA forming a duplex with 5′-splice site and U5 snRNA recognizing the 3′-end of the exon. In the early and mature B complexes, the B-specific factors are stepwise recruited and specifically recognize the exon 3′-region. Our study reveals key insights into the assembly of the exon-defined spliceosomes and identifies mechanistic steps of the pre-B-to-B transition.","PeriodicalId":9926,"journal":{"name":"Cell Research","volume":"34 6","pages":"428-439"},"PeriodicalIF":44.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-024-00949-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140661797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell ResearchPub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1038/s41422-024-00958-9
Lingyun Xia, Yuanyuan Zhang, Qiang Zhou
{"title":"Structural basis for the recognition of HCoV-HKU1 by human TMPRSS2","authors":"Lingyun Xia, Yuanyuan Zhang, Qiang Zhou","doi":"10.1038/s41422-024-00958-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41422-024-00958-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9926,"journal":{"name":"Cell Research","volume":"34 7","pages":"526-529"},"PeriodicalIF":28.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-024-00958-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140620457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell ResearchPub Date : 2024-04-12DOI: 10.1038/s41422-024-00960-1
Gray Umbach, Shawn L. Hervey-Jumper
{"title":"Peripheral cancer remodeling of central neural system","authors":"Gray Umbach, Shawn L. Hervey-Jumper","doi":"10.1038/s41422-024-00960-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41422-024-00960-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9926,"journal":{"name":"Cell Research","volume":"34 6","pages":"395-396"},"PeriodicalIF":44.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-024-00960-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140547751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell ResearchPub Date : 2024-04-12DOI: 10.1038/s41422-024-00957-w
Hang Liu, Fan Mei, Rongrong Ye, Xinyu Han, Shudan Wang, Yan Ding, Yun Zhi, Keliang Pang, Wei Guo, Bai Lu
{"title":"APOE3ch alleviates Aβ and tau pathology and neurodegeneration in the human APPNL-G-F cerebral organoid model of Alzheimer’s disease","authors":"Hang Liu, Fan Mei, Rongrong Ye, Xinyu Han, Shudan Wang, Yan Ding, Yun Zhi, Keliang Pang, Wei Guo, Bai Lu","doi":"10.1038/s41422-024-00957-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41422-024-00957-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9926,"journal":{"name":"Cell Research","volume":"34 6","pages":"451-454"},"PeriodicalIF":44.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140550659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell ResearchPub Date : 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1038/s41422-024-00959-8
Jian Huang, Xiao Fan, Xueqin Jin, Chen Lyu, Qinmeng Guo, Tao Liu, Jiaofeng Chen, Amaël Davakan, Philippe Lory, Nieng Yan
{"title":"Structural basis for human Cav3.2 inhibition by selective antagonists","authors":"Jian Huang, Xiao Fan, Xueqin Jin, Chen Lyu, Qinmeng Guo, Tao Liu, Jiaofeng Chen, Amaël Davakan, Philippe Lory, Nieng Yan","doi":"10.1038/s41422-024-00959-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41422-024-00959-8","url":null,"abstract":"The Cav3.2 subtype of T-type calcium channels has been targeted for developing analgesics and anti-epileptics for its role in pain and epilepsy. Here we present the cryo-EM structures of Cav3.2 alone and in complex with four T-type calcium channel selective antagonists with overall resolutions ranging from 2.8 Å to 3.2 Å. The four compounds display two binding poses. ACT-709478 and TTA-A2 both place their cyclopropylphenyl-containing ends in the central cavity to directly obstruct ion flow, meanwhile extending their polar tails into the IV-I fenestration. TTA-P2 and ML218 project their 3,5-dichlorobenzamide groups into the II-III fenestration and place their hydrophobic tails in the cavity to impede ion permeation. The fenestration-penetrating mode immediately affords an explanation for the state-dependent activities of these antagonists. Structure-guided mutational analysis identifies several key residues that determine the T-type preference of these drugs. The structures also suggest the role of an endogenous lipid in stabilizing drug binding in the central cavity.","PeriodicalId":9926,"journal":{"name":"Cell Research","volume":"34 6","pages":"440-450"},"PeriodicalIF":44.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-024-00959-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140580621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"System-level time computation and representation in the suprachiasmatic nucleus revealed by large-scale calcium imaging and machine learning","authors":"Zichen Wang, Jing Yu, Muyue Zhai, Zehua Wang, Kaiwen Sheng, Yu Zhu, Tianyu Wang, Mianzhi Liu, Lu Wang, Miao Yan, Jue Zhang, Ying Xu, Xianhua Wang, Lei Ma, Wei Hu, Heping Cheng","doi":"10.1038/s41422-024-00956-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41422-024-00956-x","url":null,"abstract":"The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is the mammalian central circadian pacemaker with heterogeneous neurons acting in concert while each neuron harbors a self-sustained molecular clockwork. Nevertheless, how system-level SCN signals encode time of the day remains enigmatic. Here we show that population-level Ca2+ signals predict hourly time, via a group decision-making mechanism coupled with a spatially modular time feature representation in the SCN. Specifically, we developed a high-speed dual-view two-photon microscope for volumetric Ca2+ imaging of up to 9000 GABAergic neurons in adult SCN slices, and leveraged machine learning methods to capture emergent properties from multiscale Ca2+ signals as a whole. We achieved hourly time prediction by polling random cohorts of SCN neurons, reaching 99.0% accuracy at a cohort size of 900. Further, we revealed that functional neuron subtypes identified by contrastive learning tend to aggregate separately in the SCN space, giving rise to bilaterally symmetrical ripple-like modular patterns. Individual modules represent distinctive time features, such that a module-specifically learned time predictor can also accurately decode hourly time from random polling of the same module. These findings open a new paradigm in deciphering the design principle of the biological clock at the system level.","PeriodicalId":9926,"journal":{"name":"Cell Research","volume":"34 7","pages":"493-503"},"PeriodicalIF":28.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-024-00956-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140547759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discovery and structural mechanism of DNA endonucleases guided by RAGATH-18-derived RNAs","authors":"Kuan Ren, Fengxia Zhou, Fan Zhang, Mingyu Yin, Yuwei Zhu, Shouyu Wang, Yan Chen, Tengjin Huang, Zixuan Wu, Jiale He, Anqi Zhang, Changyou Guo, Zhiwei Huang","doi":"10.1038/s41422-024-00952-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41422-024-00952-1","url":null,"abstract":"CRISPR-Cas systems and IS200/IS605 transposon-associated TnpBs have been utilized for the development of genome editing technologies. Using bioinformatics analysis and biochemical experiments, here we present a new family of RNA-guided DNA endonucleases. Our bioinformatics analysis initially identifies the stable co-occurrence of conserved RAGATH-18-derived RNAs (reRNAs) and their upstream IS607 TnpBs with an average length of 390 amino acids. IS607 TnpBs form programmable DNases through interaction with reRNAs. We discover the robust dsDNA interference activity of IS607 TnpB systems in bacteria and human cells. Further characterization of the Firmicutes bacteria IS607 TnpB system (ISFba1 TnpB) reveals that its dsDNA cleavage activity is remarkably sensitive to single mismatches between the guide and target sequences in human cells. Our findings demonstrate that a length of 20 nt in the guide sequence of reRNA achieves the highest DNA cleavage activity for ISFba1 TnpB. A cryo-EM structure of the ISFba1 TnpB effector protein bound by its cognate RAGATH-18 motif-containing reRNA and a dsDNA target reveals the mechanisms underlying reRNA recognition by ISFba1 TnpB, reRNA-guided dsDNA targeting, and the sensitivity of the ISFba1 TnpB system to base mismatches between the guide and target DNA. Collectively, this study identifies the IS607 TnpB family of compact and specific RNA-guided DNases with great potential for application in gene editing.","PeriodicalId":9926,"journal":{"name":"Cell Research","volume":"34 5","pages":"370-385"},"PeriodicalIF":44.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-024-00952-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140349225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}