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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 298, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101648
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA [1R01GM124183]
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Translation of HAC1 mRNA in budding yeast is regulated by nonconventional splicing and interactions between the 5'-UTR and intron. At least 11-base-pairing interactions between the 5'-UTR and intron are sufficient to repress HAC1 translation, and overexpression of the helicase eukaryotic initiation factor 4A can derepress translation of unspliced HAC1 mRNA with 11-bp interactions.
Translation of HAC1 mRNA in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is derepressed when RNase Ire1 removes its intron via nonconventional cytosolic splicing in response to accumulation of unfolded proteins inside the endoplasmic reticulum. The spliced HAC1 mRNA is translated into a transcription factor that changes the cellular gene expression patterns to increase the protein folding capacity of cells. Previously, we showed that a segment of the intronic sequence interacts with the 5'-UTR of the unspliced mRNA, resulting in repression of HAC1 translation at the initiation stage. However, the exact mechanism of translational derepression is not clear. Here, we show that at least 11-base-pairing interactions between the 5'-UTR and intron (UI) are sufficient to repress HAC1 translation. We also show that overexpression of the helicase eukaryotic initiation factor 4A derepressed translation of an unspliced HAC1 mRNA containing only 11-bp interactions between the 5'-UTR and intronic sequences. In addition, our genetic screen identifies that single mutations in the UI interaction site could derepress translation of the unspliced HAC1 mRNA. Furthermore, we show that the addition of 24 RNA bases between the mRNA 5'-cap and the UI interaction site derepressed translation of the unspliced HAC1 mRNA. Together, our data provide a mechanistic explanation for why the cap-proximal UI-RNA duplex inhibits the recruitment of translating ribosomes to HAC1 mRNA, thus keeping mRNA translationally repressed.
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