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The fate of notch-1 transcript is linked to cell cycle dynamics by activity of a natural antisense transcript

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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 49, Issue 18, Pages 10419-10430

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab800

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  1. NIDCR [R01 DE015272]
  2. Australian National Health and Medical Research Council [512524.3]

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This study uncovers a natural antisense transcript, nAS25, which regulates the fate of notch-1 transcript in daughter cells to compensate for perturbations of cell cycle in mother cells. This mechanism stabilizes gene expression in future generations by transmitting antisense transcripts, ensuring coordination of cell cycle within cell lineage.
A core imprint of metazoan life is that perturbations of cell cycle are offset by compensatory changes in successive cellular generations. This trait enhances robustness of multicellular growth and requires transmission of signaling cues within a cell lineage. Notably, the identity and mode of activity of transgenerational signals remain largely unknown. Here we report the discovery of a natural antisense transcript encoded in exon 25 of notch-1 locus (nAS25) by which mother cells control the fate of notch-1 transcript in daughter cells to buffer against perturbations of cell cycle. The antisense transcript is transcribed at G1 phase of cell cycle from a bi-directional E2F1-dependent promoter in the mother cell where the titer of nAS25 is calibrated to the length of G1. Transmission of the antisense transcript from mother to daughter cells stabilizes notch-1 sense transcript in G0 phase of daughter cells by masking it from RNA editing and resultant nonsense-mediated degradation. In consequence, nAS25-mediated amplification of notch-1 signaling reprograms G1 phase in daughter cells to compensate for the altered dynamics of the mother cell. The function of nAS25/notch-1 in integrating G1 phase history of the mother cell into that of daughter cells is compatible with the predicted activity of a molecular oscillator, slower than cyclins, that coordinates cell cycle within cell lineage.

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