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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 60, Issue 1, Pages 118-130Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.08.014
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- California Institute of Regenerative Medicine [CIRM:RB4-05779]
- National Institutes of Health [NIH R01AR066530-01A1]
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In adult tissues, stem and progenitor cells must balance proliferation and differentiation to maintain homeostasis. How this is done is unclear. Here, we show that the DEAD box RNA helicase, DDX6 is necessary for maintaining adult progenitor cell function. DDX6 loss results in premature differentiation and decreased proliferation of epidermal progenitor cells. To maintain self-renewal, DDX6 associates with YBX1 to bind the stem loops found in the 30 UTRs of regulators of proliferation/self-renewal (CDK1, EZH2) and recruit them to EIF4E to facilitate their translation. To prevent premature differentiation of progenitor cells, DDX6 regulates the 50 UTR of differentiation inducing transcription factor, KLF4 and degrades its transcripts through association with mRNA degradation proteins. Our results demonstrate that progenitor function is maintained by DDX6 complexes through two distinct pathways that include the degradation of differentiation-inducing transcripts and by promoting the translation of self-renewal and proliferation mRNAs.
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