期刊
RNA
卷 15, 期 3, 页码 362-366出版社
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1500809
关键词
FMRP; phosphorylation; Dicer; miRNA
资金
- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD041591] Funding Source: Medline
- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH &HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R01HD041591] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Fragile X syndrome is caused by an absence of the protein product of the fragile X mental retardation gene (FMR1). The fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) is an RNA-binding protein that regulates translation of associated mRNAs; however, the mechanism for this regulation remains unknown. Constitutively, phosphorylated FMRP (P-FMRP) is found associated with stalled untranslating polyribosomes, and translation of at least one mRNA is down-regulated when FMRP is phosphorylated. Based on our hypothesis that translational regulation by P-FMRP is accomplished through association with the microRNA (miRNA) pathway, we developed a phospho-specific antibody to P-FMRP and showed that P-FMRP associates with increased amounts of precursor miRNAs (pre-miRNA) compared with total FMRP. Furthermore, P-FMRP does not associate with Dicer or Dicer-containing complexes in coimmunoprecipitation experiments or in an in vitro capture assay using a P-FMRP peptide sequence bound to agarose beads. These data show that Dicer-containing complexes bind FMRP at amino acids 496-503 and that phosphorylation disrupts this association with a consequent increase in association with pre-miRNAs. In sum, we propose that in addition to regulating translation, phosphorylation of FMRP regulates its association with the miRNA pathway by modulating association with Dicer.
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