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EMBO J ; 31(10): 2296-308, 2012 May 16.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22522705

RESUMEN

RNA interference (RNAi) silences gene expression by acting both at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels in a broad range of eukaryotes. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe the RNA-Induced Transcriptional Silencing (RITS) RNAi complex mediates heterochromatin formation at non-coding and repetitive DNA. However, the targeting and role of RITS at other genomic regions, including protein-coding genes, remain unknown. Here we show that RITS localizes to specific meiotic genes and mRNAs. Remarkably, RITS is guided to these meiotic targets by the RNA-binding protein Mmi1 and its associated RNA surveillance machinery that together degrade selective meiotic mRNAs during vegetative growth. Upon sexual differentiation, RITS localization to the meiotic genes and mRNAs is lost. Large-scale identification of Mmi1 RNA targets reveals that RITS subunit Chp1 associates with the vast majority of them. In addition, loss of RNAi affects the effective repression of sexual differentiation mediated by the Mmi1 RNA surveillance machinery. These findings uncover a new mechanism for recruiting RNAi to specific meiotic genes and suggest that RNAi participates in the control of sexual differentiation in fission yeast.


Asunto(s)
Regulación Fúngica de la Expresión Génica , Genes Fúngicos , Complejo Silenciador Inducido por ARN/metabolismo , Proteínas de Schizosaccharomyces pombe/metabolismo , Schizosaccharomyces/genética , Schizosaccharomyces/metabolismo , Factores de Escisión y Poliadenilación de ARNm/metabolismo , Modelos Biológicos , Unión Proteica , ARN de Hongos/metabolismo
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Open Biol ; 2(3): 120014, 2012 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22645662

RESUMEN

The selective elimination system blocks the accumulation of meiosis-specific mRNAs during the mitotic cell cycle in fission yeast. These mRNAs harbour a region, the determinant of selective removal (DSR), which is recognized by a YTH-family RNA-binding protein, Mmi1. Mmi1 directs target transcripts to destruction in association with nuclear exosomes. Hence, the interaction between DSR and Mmi1 is crucial to discriminate mitosis from meiosis. Here, we show that Mmi1 interacts with repeats of the hexanucleotide U(U/C)AAAC that are enriched in the DSR. Disruption of this 'DSR core motif' in a target mRNA inhibits its elimination. Tandem repeats of the motif can function as an artificial DSR. Mmi1 binds to it in vitro. Thus, a core motif cluster is responsible for the DSR activity. Furthermore, certain variant hexanucleotide motifs can augment the function of the DSR core motif. Notably, meiRNA, which composes the nuclear Mei2 dot required to suppress Mmi1 activity during meiosis, carries numerous copies of the core/augmenting motifs on its tail and is indeed degraded by the Mmi1/exosome system, indicating its likely role as decoy bait for Mmi1.


Asunto(s)
ARN de Hongos/genética , ARN de Hongos/metabolismo , Schizosaccharomyces/genética , Schizosaccharomyces/metabolismo , Secuencia de Bases , Exosomas/metabolismo , Silenciador del Gen , Genes Fúngicos , Meiosis/genética , Mutagénesis , ARN de Hongos/química , Schizosaccharomyces/citología , Proteínas de Schizosaccharomyces pombe/genética , Proteínas de Schizosaccharomyces pombe/metabolismo , Secuencias Repetidas en Tándem , Factores de Escisión y Poliadenilación de ARNm/genética , Factores de Escisión y Poliadenilación de ARNm/metabolismo
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Int J Dev Biol ; 53(2-3): 245-57, 2009.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19412884

RESUMEN

Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) act through RNA interference (RNAi) pathways to silence gene expression either at the transcriptional or post-transcriptional level. Here, we review mechanisms and functions of siRNA-mediated silencing pathways that promote chromatin modifications in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, plants and animals. In fission yeast, siRNAs are involved in heterochromatin formation and key aspects of the underlying siRNA-dependent pathway have been uncovered. Two RNAi complexes, the RNA-Induced Transcriptional Silencing complex (RITS), which contains a siRNA bound to an Argonaute protein, and the RNA-Directed RNA polymerase Complex (RDRC) are critical components of the pathway. In addition, this pathway implicates non-coding nascent transcripts synthesized by RNA polymerase II (RNApII) and the RNApII itself. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway appears to share a similar set of proteins and enzymatic activities, suggesting that, beyond certain aspects that are specific to each pathway, part of the siRNA-mediated epigenetic silencing mechanisms are conserved between fission yeast and plants. Moreover, in both organisms the pathways target repetitive DNA sequences. This conservation of mechanisms and genomic targets might actually extend to animals as recent investigations revealed the existence of endogenous siRNA-based pathways directed against repetitive DNA sequences in flies and mammals.


Asunto(s)
Interferencia de ARN , ARN Interferente Pequeño/metabolismo , Complejo Silenciador Inducido por ARN/metabolismo , Animales , Cromatina/metabolismo , Proteínas de Drosophila/genética , Proteínas de Drosophila/metabolismo , Modelos Biológicos , Proteínas de Plantas/genética , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo , ARN Interferente Pequeño/genética , Complejo Silenciador Inducido por ARN/genética , Proteínas de Schizosaccharomyces pombe/genética , Proteínas de Schizosaccharomyces pombe/metabolismo , Transducción de Señal
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J Soc Biol ; 201(4): 401-10, 2007.
Artículo en Francés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18533101

RESUMEN

In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, formation of pericentromeric heterochromatin involves RNA interference (RNAi). Recent data indicate that two RNAi complexes, RITS (RNA-induced transcriptional silencing complex) and RDRC (RNA-directed RNA polymerase complex), their respective enzymatic activity, and RNA polymerase II are essential for RNAi-mediated heterochromatin formation. At the site where heterochromatin formation takes place, RNA polymerase II synthesizes an RNA that would serve as an RNA platform to recruit in a siRNA-dependent manner RITS and RDRC, and thereby initiate heterochromatin assembly. Once recruited, RITS and RDRC seem to also contribute to the processing of the RNA platform. Therefore, RNAi-driven heterochromatin assembly appears to take place through a dynamic process of RNA synthesis, RNA-dependant recruitment of RNAi complexes and RNA degradation that all occur in cis.


Asunto(s)
Regulación Fúngica de la Expresión Génica/genética , Heterocromatina/genética , Interferencia de ARN , ARN de Hongos/genética , Schizosaccharomyces/genética , Núcleo Celular/metabolismo , Endorribonucleasas/fisiología , Modelos Genéticos , Nucleosomas/ultraestructura , ARN Polimerasa II/genética , Estabilidad del ARN , ARN Bicatenario/biosíntesis , ARN Bicatenario/genética , ARN de Hongos/biosíntesis , ARN Polimerasa Dependiente del ARN/genética , Complejo Silenciador Inducido por ARN/genética , Proteínas de Schizosaccharomyces pombe/genética , Proteínas de Schizosaccharomyces pombe/fisiología
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