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RNA ; 29(2): 228-240, 2023 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36400448

RESUMO

Mitochondrial gene expression in trypanosomes requires numerous multiprotein complexes that are unique to kinetoplastids. Among these, the most well characterized are RNA editing catalytic complexes (RECCs) that catalyze the guide RNA (gRNA)-specified insertion and deletion of uridines during mitochondrial mRNA maturation. This post-transcriptional resequencing of mitochondrial mRNAs can be extensive, involving dozens of different gRNAs and hundreds of editing sites with most of the mature mRNA sequences resulting from the editing process. Proper coordination of the editing with the cognate gRNAs is attributed to RNA editing substrate-binding complexes (RESCs), which are also required for RNA editing. Although the precise mechanism of RESC function is less well understood, their affinity for binding both editing substrates and products suggests that these complexes may provide a scaffold for RECC catalytic processing. KRGG1 has been shown to bind RNAs, and although affinity purification co-isolates RESC complexes, its role in RNA editing remains uncertain. We show here that KRGG1 is essential in BF parasites and required for normal editing. KRGG1 repression results in reduced amounts of edited A6 mRNA and increased amounts of edited ND8 mRNA. Sequence and structure analysis of KRGG1 identified a region of homology with RESC6, and both proteins have predicted tandem helical repeats that resemble ARM/HEAT motifs. The ARM/HEAT-like region is critical for function as exclusive expression of mutated KRGG1 results in growth inhibition and disruption of KRGG1 association with RESCs. These results indicate that KRGG1 is critical for RNA editing and its specific function is associated with RESC activity.


Assuntos
Edição de RNA , Trypanosoma brucei brucei , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/metabolismo , RNA/genética , RNA Mensageiro/genética , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , RNA Guia de Cinetoplastídeos/genética , RNA de Protozoário/genética , RNA de Protozoário/metabolismo , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo
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RNA ; 29(10): 1591-1609, 2023 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37474258

RESUMO

The gRNA directed U-insertion and deletion editing of mitochondrial mRNAs that is essential in different life-cycle stages for the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei is performed by three similar multiprotein catalytic complexes (CCs) that contain the requisite enzymes. These CCs also contain a common set of eight proteins that have no apparent direct catalytic function, including six that have an OB-fold domain. We show here that one of these OB-fold proteins, KREPA3 (A3), has structural homology to other editing proteins, is essential for editing, and is multifunctional. We investigated A3 function by analyzing the effects of single amino acid loss of function mutations, most of which were identified by screening bloodstream form (BF) parasites for loss of growth following random mutagenesis. Mutations in the zinc fingers (ZFs), an intrinsically disordered region (IDR), and several within or near the carboxy-terminal OB-fold domain variably impacted CC structural integrity and editing. Some mutations resulted in almost complete loss of CCs and its proteins and editing, whereas others retained CCs but had aberrant editing. All but a mutation which is near the OB-fold affected growth and editing in BF but not procyclic form (PF) parasites. These data indicate that multiple positions within A3 have essential functions that contribute to the structural integrity of CCs, the precision of editing and the developmental differences in editing between BF and PF stages.


Assuntos
RNA , Trypanosoma brucei brucei , RNA/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/metabolismo , Edição de RNA , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Mutação , RNA de Protozoário/genética , RNA de Protozoário/metabolismo
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PLoS Pathog ; 19(5): e1011051, 2023 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37195999

RESUMO

Understanding immune mechanisms that mediate malaria protection is critical for improving vaccine development. Vaccination with radiation-attenuated Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites (PfRAS) induces high level of sterilizing immunity against malaria and serves as a valuable tool for the study of protective mechanisms. To identify vaccine-induced and protection-associated responses during malarial infection, we performed transcriptome profiling of whole blood and in-depth cellular profiling of PBMCs from volunteers who received either PfRAS or noninfectious mosquito bites, followed by controlled human malaria infection (CHMI) challenge. In-depth single-cell profiling of cell subsets that respond to CHMI in mock-vaccinated individuals showed a predominantly inflammatory transcriptome response. Whole blood transcriptome analysis revealed that gene sets associated with type I and II interferon and NK cell responses were increased in prior to CHMI while T and B cell signatures were decreased as early as one day following CHMI in protected vaccinees. In contrast, non-protected vaccinees and mock-vaccinated individuals exhibited shared transcriptome changes after CHMI characterized by decreased innate cell signatures and inflammatory responses. Additionally, immunophenotyping data showed different induction profiles of vδ2+ γδ T cells, CD56+ CD8+ T effector memory (Tem) cells, and non-classical monocytes between protected vaccinees and individuals developing blood-stage parasitemia, following treatment and resolution of infection. Our data provide key insights in understanding immune mechanistic pathways of PfRAS-induced protection and infective CHMI. We demonstrate that vaccine-induced immune response is heterogenous between protected and non-protected vaccinees and that inducted-malaria protection by PfRAS is associated with early and rapid changes in interferon, NK cell and adaptive immune responses. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01994525.


Assuntos
Vacinas Antimaláricas , Malária Falciparum , Malária , Humanos , Animais , Malária Falciparum/prevenção & controle , Plasmodium falciparum/genética , Vacinação , Interferons , Imunidade , Esporozoítos
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PLoS Pathog ; 18(2): e1010282, 2022 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35108339

RESUMO

Immunization with radiation-attenuated sporozoites (RAS) can confer sterilizing protection against malaria, although the mechanisms behind this protection are incompletely understood. We performed a systems biology analysis of samples from the Immunization by Mosquito with Radiation Attenuated Sporozoites (IMRAS) trial, which comprised P. falciparum RAS-immunized (PfRAS), malaria-naive participants whose protection from malaria infection was subsequently assessed by controlled human malaria infection (CHMI). Blood samples collected after initial PfRAS immunization were analyzed to compare immune responses between protected and non-protected volunteers leveraging integrative analysis of whole blood RNA-seq, high parameter flow cytometry, and single cell CITEseq of PBMCs. This analysis revealed differences in early innate immune responses indicating divergent paths associated with protection. In particular, elevated levels of inflammatory responses early after the initial immunization were detrimental for the development of protective adaptive immunity. Specifically, non-classical monocytes and early type I interferon responses induced within 1 day of PfRAS vaccination correlated with impaired immunity. Non-protected individuals also showed an increase in Th2 polarized T cell responses whereas we observed a trend towards increased Th1 and T-bet+ CD8 T cell responses in protected individuals. Temporal differences in genes associated with natural killer cells suggest an important role in immune regulation by these cells. These findings give insight into the immune responses that confer protection against malaria and may guide further malaria vaccine development. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01994525.


Assuntos
Imunidade , Inflamação , Vacinas Antimaláricas/imunologia , Malária Falciparum/imunologia , Plasmodium falciparum/imunologia , Esporozoítos/imunologia , Adulto , Animais , Anopheles/parasitologia , Feminino , Humanos , Imunização/métodos , Mordeduras e Picadas de Insetos/imunologia , Malária Falciparum/parasitologia , Masculino , Mosquitos Vetores/parasitologia , Linfócitos T/imunologia , Vacinação/métodos , Vacinas Atenuadas/imunologia
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 50(17): 10123-10139, 2022 Sep 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36095119

RESUMO

Each of the three similar RNA Editing Catalytic Complexes (RECCs) that perform gRNA-directed uridine insertion and deletion during Trypanosoma brucei mitochondrial (mt) mRNA editing has a distinct endonuclease activity that requires two related RNase III proteins, with only one competent for catalysis. We identified multiple loss-of-function mutations in the RNase III and other motifs of the non-catalytic KREPB6, KREPB7, and KREPB8 components by random mutagenesis and screening. These mutations had various effects on growth, editing, and both the abundances and RECC associations of these RNase III protein pairs in bloodstream form (BF) and procyclic form (PF) cells. Protein structure modelling predicted that the Zinc Finger (ZnF) of each paired RNase III protein contacts RNA positioned at the heterodimeric active site which is flanked by helices of a novel RNase III-Associated Motif (RAM). The results indicate that the protein domains of the non-catalytic subunits function together in RECC integrity, substrate binding, and editing site recognition during the multistep RNA editing process. Additionally, several mutants display distinct functional consequences in different life cycle stages. These results highlight the complementary roles of protein pairs and three RECCs within the complicated T. brucei mRNA editing machinery that matures mt mRNAs differentially between developmental stages.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Ribonuclease III/metabolismo , Trypanosoma brucei brucei , Endonucleases/genética , Endonucleases/metabolismo , RNA/metabolismo , Edição de RNA , RNA Guia de Cinetoplastídeos/genética , RNA Guia de Cinetoplastídeos/metabolismo , RNA Mensageiro/genética , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , RNA de Protozoário/genética , RNA de Protozoário/metabolismo , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/metabolismo , Uridina/metabolismo
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RNA ; 25(9): 1150-1163, 2019 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31171708

RESUMO

Multiprotein editosomes catalyze gRNA-specified insertion and deletion of uridines to create functional mitochondrial mRNAs in Trypanosoma brucei Three functionally distinct editosomes are distinguished by their single KREN1, KREN2, or KREN3 RNase III endonuclease and, respectively, KREPB8, KREPB7, and KREPB6 partner proteins. These endonucleases perform the first catalytic step of editing, cleaving mRNA in diverse mRNA/gRNA heteroduplex substrates. We identified divergent and likely noncatalytic RNase III domains in KREPB4, KREPB5, KREPB6, KREPB7, KREPB8, KREPB9, and KREPB10 editosome proteins. Because known RNase III endonuclease functional domains are dimeric, the editing endonucleases may form heterodimers with one or more of these divergent RNase III proteins. We show here using conditional null cell lines that KREPB6, KREPB7, and KREPB8 are essential in both procyclic form (PF) and bloodstream (BF) cells. Loss of these proteins results in growth defects and loss of editing in vivo, as does mutation of their RNase III domain that is predicted to prevent dimerization. Loss of KREPB6, KREPB7, or KREPB8 also dramatically reduces cognate endonuclease abundance, as does the RNase III mutation, indicating that RNase III interactions with their partner proteins stabilize the endonucleases. The phenotypic consequences of repression are more severe in BF than in PF, indicating differences in endonuclease function between developmental stages that could impact regulation of editing. These results suggest that KREPB6, KREPB7, and KREPB8 form heterodimers with their respective endonucleases to perform mRNA cleavage. We also present a model wherein editosome proteins with divergent RNase III domains function in substrate selection via enzyme-pseudoenzyme interactions.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , Edição de RNA/genética , Ribonuclease III/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genética , Animais , Linhagem Celular , Endonucleases/genética , Mutação/genética , RNA Guia de Cinetoplastídeos/genética , RNA Mensageiro/genética , RNA Mitocondrial/genética , RNA de Protozoário/genética , Uridina/genética
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Malar J ; 20(1): 308, 2021 Jul 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34243763

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Vaccination with radiation-attenuated Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites is known to induce protective immunity. However, the mechanisms underlying this protection remain unclear. In this work, two recent radiation-attenuated sporozoite vaccination studies were used to identify potential transcriptional correlates of vaccination-induced protection. METHODS: Longitudinal whole blood RNAseq transcriptome responses to immunization with radiation-attenuated P. falciparum sporozoites were analysed and compared across malaria-naïve adult participants (IMRAS) and malaria-experienced adult participants (BSPZV1). Parasite dose and method of delivery differed between trials, and immunization regimens were designed to achieve incomplete protective efficacy. Observed protective efficacy was 55% in IMRAS and 20% in BSPZV1. Study vaccine dosings were chosen to elicit both protected and non-protected subjects, so that protection-associated responses could be identified. RESULTS: Analysis of comparable time points up to 1 week after the first vaccination revealed a shared cross-study transcriptional response programme, despite large differences in number and magnitude of differentially expressed genes between trials. A time-dependent regulatory programme of coherent blood transcriptional modular responses was observed, involving induction of inflammatory responses 1-3 days post-vaccination, with cell cycle responses apparent by day 7 in protected individuals from both trials. Additionally, strongly increased induction of inflammation and interferon-associated responses was seen in non-protected IMRAS participants. All individuals, except for non-protected BSPZV1 participants, showed robust upregulation of cell-cycle associated transcriptional responses post vaccination. CONCLUSIONS: In summary, despite stark differences between the two studies, including route of vaccination and status of malaria exposure, responses were identified that were associated with protection after PfRAS vaccination. These comprised a moderate early interferon response peaking 2 days post vaccination, followed by a later proliferative cell cycle response steadily increasing over the first 7 days post vaccination. Non-protection is associated with deviations from this model, observed in this study with over-induction of early interferon responses in IMRAS and failure to mount a cell cycle response in BSPZV1.


Assuntos
Vacinas Antimaláricas/uso terapêutico , Malária Falciparum/prevenção & controle , Anticorpos Antiprotozoários/sangue , Ensaios Clínicos como Assunto , Humanos , Vacinas Antimaláricas/administração & dosagem , Plasmodium falciparum/genética , Plasmodium falciparum/imunologia , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , Esporozoítos/genética , Esporozoítos/imunologia , Transcrição Gênica , Vacinas Atenuadas/administração & dosagem , Vacinas Atenuadas/uso terapêutico
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 45(8): 4667-4686, 2017 05 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28334821

RESUMO

RNA editing is an essential post-transcriptional process that creates functional mitochondrial mRNAs in Kinetoplastids. Multiprotein editosomes catalyze pre-mRNA cleavage, uridine (U) insertion or deletion, and ligation as specified by guide RNAs. Three functionally and compositionally distinct editosomes differ by the mutually exclusive presence of the KREN1, KREN2 or KREN3 endonuclease and their associated partner proteins. Because endonuclease cleavage is a likely point of regulation for RNA editing, we elucidated endonuclease specificity in vivo. We used a mutant gamma ATP synthase allele (MGA) to circumvent the normal essentiality of the editing endonucleases, and created cell lines in which both alleles of one, two or all three of the endonucleases were deleted. Cells lacking multiple endonucleases had altered editosome sedimentation on glycerol gradients and substantial defects in overall editing. Deep sequencing analysis of RNAs from such cells revealed clear discrimination by editosomes between sites of deletion versus insertion editing and preferential but overlapping specificity for sites of insertion editing. Thus, endonuclease specificities in vivo are distinct but with some functional overlap. The overlapping specificities likely accommodate the more numerous sites of insertion versus deletion editing as editosomes collaborate to accurately edit thousands of distinct editing sites in vivo.


Assuntos
Endonucleases/genética , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , Edição de RNA , RNA Mensageiro/genética , RNA de Protozoário/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genética , Sequência de Bases , Endonucleases/metabolismo , Deleção de Genes , Glicerol/farmacologia , Isoenzimas/genética , Isoenzimas/metabolismo , ATPases Mitocondriais Próton-Translocadoras/genética , ATPases Mitocondriais Próton-Translocadoras/metabolismo , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Clivagem do RNA , Precursores de RNA/genética , Precursores de RNA/metabolismo , RNA Guia de Cinetoplastídeos/genética , RNA Guia de Cinetoplastídeos/metabolismo , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , RNA Mitocondrial , RNA de Protozoário/metabolismo , Alinhamento de Sequência , Especificidade por Substrato , Transfecção , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/efeitos dos fármacos , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/enzimologia
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 113(42): E6476-E6485, 2016 10 18.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27708162

RESUMO

Uridine insertion and deletion RNA editing generates functional mitochondrial mRNAs in Trypanosoma brucei Editing is catalyzed by three distinct ∼20S editosomes that have a common set of 12 proteins, but are typified by mutually exclusive RNase III endonucleases with distinct cleavage specificities and unique partner proteins. Previous studies identified a network of protein-protein interactions among a subset of common editosome proteins, but interactions among the endonucleases and their partner proteins, and their interactions with common subunits were not identified. Here, chemical cross-linking and mass spectrometry, comparative structural modeling, and genetic and biochemical analyses were used to define the molecular architecture and subunit organization of purified editosomes. We identified intra- and interprotein cross-links for all editosome subunits that are fully consistent with editosome protein structures and previously identified interactions, which we validated by genetic and biochemical studies. The results were used to create a highly detailed map of editosome protein domain proximities, leading to identification of molecular interactions between subunits, insights into the functions of noncatalytic editosome proteins, and a global understanding of editosome architecture.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Edição de RNA , RNA de Protozoário/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/metabolismo , Biologia Computacional/métodos , Endonucleases/metabolismo , Modelos Moleculares , Complexos Multiproteicos/metabolismo , Ligação Proteica , Conformação Proteica , Domínios e Motivos de Interação entre Proteínas , Mapas de Interação de Proteínas , Proteoma , Proteômica/métodos , Proteínas de Protozoários/química , Proteínas de Ligação a RNA/metabolismo , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes
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RNA ; 21(1): 28-35, 2015 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25404564

RESUMO

Mitochondrial RNA processing in the kinetoplastid parasite Trypanosoma brucei involves numerous specialized catalytic activities that are incompletely understood. The mitochondrial genome consists of maxicircles that primarily encode rRNAs and mRNAs, and minicircles that encode a diverse array of guide RNAs (gRNAs). RNA editing uses these gRNAs as templates to recode mRNAs by insertion and deletion of uridine (U) residues. While the multiprotein complex that catalyzes RNA editing has been extensively studied, other players involved in mitochondrial RNA processing have remained enigmatic. The proteins required for processing mitochondrial polycistronic transcripts into mature species was essentially unknown until an RNase III endonuclease, called mRPN1, was reported to be involved in gRNA processing in procyclic form parasites. In this work, we examine the role of mRPN1 in gRNA processing in bloodstream form parasites, and show that complete elimination of mRPN1 by gene knockout does not alter gRNA maturation. These results indicate that another enzyme must be involved in gRNA processing.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , RNA Guia de Cinetoplastídeos/metabolismo , Ribonuclease III/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/enzimologia , Linhagem Celular , Técnicas de Inativação de Genes , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Processamento Pós-Transcricional do RNA , Ribonuclease III/metabolismo
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J Biol Chem ; 290(41): 24914-31, 2015 Oct 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26304125

RESUMO

Uridine insertion and deletion RNA editing generates functional mitochondrial mRNAs in Trypanosoma brucei. The mRNAs are differentially edited in bloodstream form (BF) and procyclic form (PF) life cycle stages, and this correlates with the differential utilization of glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation between the stages. The mechanism that controls this differential editing is unknown. Editing is catalyzed by multiprotein ∼20S editosomes that contain endonuclease, 3'-terminal uridylyltransferase, exonuclease, and ligase activities. These editosomes also contain KREPB5 and KREPA3 proteins, which have no functional catalytic motifs, but they are essential for parasite viability, editing, and editosome integrity in BF cells. We show here that repression of KREPB5 or KREPA3 is also lethal in PF, but the effects on editosome structure differ from those in BF. In addition, we found that point mutations in KREPB5 or KREPA3 differentially affect cell growth, editosome integrity, and RNA editing between BF and PF stages. These results indicate that the functions of KREPB5 and KREPA3 editosome proteins are adjusted between the life cycle stages. This implies that these proteins are involved in the processes that control differential editing and that the 20S editosomes differ between the life cycle stages.


Assuntos
Estágios do Ciclo de Vida , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Edição de RNA , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genética , Motivos de Aminoácidos , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Sangue/parasitologia , Linhagem Celular , Resistência a Medicamentos/genética , Estágios do Ciclo de Vida/efeitos dos fármacos , Modelos Moleculares , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mutação , Estrutura Terciária de Proteína , Proteínas de Protozoários/química , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , Ribonuclease III/química , Ribonuclease III/metabolismo , Tetraciclina/farmacologia , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/efeitos dos fármacos , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/metabolismo
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RNA ; 18(2): 308-20, 2012 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22184461

RESUMO

Three distinct editosomes are required for the uridine insertion/deletion editing that creates translatable mitochondrial mRNAs in Trypanosoma brucei. They contain KREPB6, KREPB7, or KREPB8 proteins and their respective endonucleases KREN3, KREN2, or KREN1. RNAi knockdowns of KREPB6, KREPB7, and KREPB8 variably affect growth and RNA editing. KREPB6 and KREPB7 knockdowns substantially reduced in vitro insertion site cleavage activity of their respective editosomes, while KREPB8 knockdown did not affect its editosome deletion site cleavage activity despite inhibition of growth and editing. KREPB6, KREPB7, and KREPB8 knockdowns disrupted tagged KREN3, KREN2, or KREN1 editosomes, respectively, to varying degrees, and in the case of KREN1 editosomes, the deletion editing site cleavage activity shifted to a smaller S value. The varying effects correlate with a combination of the relative abundances of the KREPB6-8 proteins and of the different insertion and deletion sites. Tagged KREPB6-8 were physically associated with deletion subcomplexes upon knockdown of the centrally interactive KREPA3 protein, while KREN1-3 endonucleases were associated with insertion subcomplexes. The results indicate that KREPB6-8 occupy similar positions in editosomes and are important for the activity and specificity of their respective endonucleases. This suggests that they contribute to the accurate recognition of the numerous similar but diverse editing site substrates.


Assuntos
Endonucleases/genética , Endonucleases/metabolismo , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Edição de RNA , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/metabolismo , Técnicas de Silenciamento de Genes/métodos , Mutagênese Insercional , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , RNA Mensageiro/genética , RNA Mitocondrial , RNA de Protozoário/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/enzimologia , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Uridina/metabolismo
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RNA ; 18(10): 1897-909, 2012 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22919050

RESUMO

The transcriptome of kinetoplastid mitochondria undergoes extensive RNA editing that inserts and deletes uridine residues (U's) to produce mature mRNAs. The editosome is a multiprotein complex that provides endonuclease, TUTase, exonuclease, and ligase activities required for RNA editing. The editosome's KREPB4 and KREPB5 proteins are essential for editosome integrity and parasite viability and contain semi-conserved motifs corresponding to zinc finger, RNase III, and PUF domains, but to date no functional analysis of these domains has been reported. We show here that various point mutations to KREPB4 and KREPB5 identify essential domains, and suggest that these proteins do not themselves perform RNase III catalysis. The zinc finger of KREPB4 but not KREPB5 is essential for editosome integrity and parasite viability, and mutation of the RNase III signature motif in KREPB5 prevents integration into editosomes, which is lethal. Isolated TAP-tagged KREPB4 and KREPB5 complexes preferentially associate with components of the deletion subcomplex, providing additional insights into editosome architecture. A new alignment of editosome RNase III sequences from several kinetoplastid species implies that KREPB4 and KREPB5 lack catalytic activity and reveals that the PUF motif is present in the editing endonucleases KREN1, KREN2, and KREN3. The data presented here are consistent with the hypothesis that KREPB4 and KREPB5 form intermolecular heterodimers with the catalytically active editing endonucleases, which is unprecedented among known RNase III proteins.


Assuntos
Edição de RNA/genética , RNA de Protozoário/genética , Ribonucleoproteínas/genética , Ribonucleoproteínas/fisiologia , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genética , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Substituição de Aminoácidos/fisiologia , Domínio Catalítico/genética , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Genoma de Protozoário , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mutagênese Sítio-Dirigida , Estrutura Terciária de Proteína/genética , Estrutura Terciária de Proteína/fisiologia , Proteínas de Protozoários/química , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , RNA Mensageiro/análise , RNA Mensageiro/genética , Ribonucleoproteínas/química , Ribonucleoproteínas/metabolismo , Homologia de Sequência , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/metabolismo
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Eukaryot Cell ; 12(7): 970-8, 2013 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23650088

RESUMO

The mitochondrial DNA of trypanosomatid protozoa consists of a complex, intercatenated network of tens of maxicircles and thousands of minicircles. This structure, called kinetoplast DNA (kDNA), requires numerous proteins and multiprotein complexes for replication, segregation, and transcription. In this study, we used a proteomic approach to identify proteins that are associated with the kDNA network. We identified a novel protein encoded by Tb927.2.6100 that was present in a fraction enriched for kDNA and colocalized the protein with kDNA by fluorescence microscopy. RNA interference (RNAi) knockdown of its expression resulted in a growth defect and changes in the proportion of kinetoplasts and nuclei in the cell population. RNAi also resulted in shrinkage and loss of the kinetoplasts, loss of maxicircle and minicircle components of kDNA at similar rates, and (perhaps secondarily) loss of edited and pre-edited mRNA. These results indicate that the Tb927.2.6100 protein is essential for the maintenance of kDNA.


Assuntos
DNA de Cinetoplasto/metabolismo , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/metabolismo , Cromatografia de Afinidade , DNA Mitocondrial/metabolismo , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Transporte Proteico , Interferência de RNA , RNA de Protozoário/metabolismo , Frações Subcelulares/metabolismo , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/citologia , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/efeitos dos fármacos , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/crescimento & desenvolvimento
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Front Cell Infect Microbiol ; 14: 1381155, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38650737

RESUMO

Kinetoplastid pathogens including Trypanosoma brucei, T. cruzi, and Leishmania species, are early diverged, eukaryotic, unicellular parasites. Functional understanding of many proteins from these pathogens has been hampered by limited sequence homology to proteins from other model organisms. Here we describe the development of a high-throughput deep mutational scanning approach in T. brucei that facilitates rapid and unbiased assessment of the impacts of many possible amino acid substitutions within a protein on cell fitness, as measured by relative cell growth. The approach leverages several molecular technologies: cells with conditional expression of a wild-type gene of interest and constitutive expression of a library of mutant variants, degron-controlled stabilization of I-SceI meganuclease to mediate highly efficient transfection of a mutant allele library, and a high-throughput sequencing readout for cell growth upon conditional knockdown of wild-type gene expression and exclusive expression of mutant variants. Using this method, we queried the effects of amino acid substitutions in the apparently non-catalytic RNase III-like domain of KREPB4 (B4), which is an essential component of the RNA Editing Catalytic Complexes (RECCs) that carry out mitochondrial RNA editing in T. brucei. We measured the impacts of thousands of B4 variants on bloodstream form cell growth and validated the most deleterious variants containing single amino acid substitutions. Crucially, there was no correlation between phenotypes and amino acid conservation, demonstrating the greater power of this method over traditional sequence homology searching to identify functional residues. The bloodstream form cell growth phenotypes were combined with structural modeling, RECC protein proximity data, and analysis of selected substitutions in procyclic form T. brucei. These analyses revealed that the B4 RNaseIII-like domain is essential for maintenance of RECC integrity and RECC protein abundances and is also involved in changes in RECCs that occur between bloodstream and procyclic form life cycle stages.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Protozoários , Edição de RNA , Ribonuclease III , Trypanosoma brucei brucei , Substituição de Aminoácidos , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Mutação , Domínios Proteicos/genética , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Ribonuclease III/genética , Ribonuclease III/metabolismo , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/metabolismo , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/crescimento & desenvolvimento
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Eukaryot Cell ; 11(7): 832-43, 2012 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22562468

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Multiprotein complexes, called editosomes, catalyze the uridine insertion and deletion RNA editing that forms translatable mitochondrial mRNAs in kinetoplastid parasites. We have identified here two new U1-like zinc finger proteins that associate with editosomes and have shown that they are related to KREPB6, KREPB7, and KREPB8, and thus we have named them Kinetoplastid RNA Editing Proteins, KREPB9 and KREPB10. They are conserved and syntenic in trypanosomatids although KREPB10 is absent in Trypanosoma vivax and both are absent in Leishmania. Tandem affinity purification (TAP)-tagged KREPB9 and KREPB10 incorporate into ~20S editosomes and/or subcomplexes thereof and preferentially associate with deletion subcomplexes, as do KREPB6, KREPB7, and KREPB8. KREPB10 also associates with editosomes that are isolated via a chimeric endonuclease, KREN1 in KREPB8 RNA interference (RNAi) cells, or MEAT1. The purified complexes have precleaved editing activities and endonuclease cleavage activity that appears to leave a 5' OH on the 3' product. RNAi knockdowns did not affect growth but resulted in relative reductions of both edited and unedited mitochondrial mRNAs. The similarity of KREPB9 and KREPB10 to KREPB6, KREPB7, and KREPB8 suggests they may be accessory factors that affect editing endonuclease activity and as a consequence may affect mitochondrial mRNA stability. KREPB9 and KREPB10, along with KREPB6, KREPB7, and KREPB8, may enable the endonucleases to discriminate among and accurately cleave hundreds of different editing sites and may be involved in the control of differential editing during the life cycle of T. brucei.


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Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Edição de RNA , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/enzimologia , Mutagênese Insercional , Proteínas de Protozoários/química , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , RNA de Protozoário/química , RNA de Protozoário/genética , RNA de Protozoário/metabolismo , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/química , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/metabolismo , Dedos de Zinco
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Mol Biochem Parasitol ; 256: 111596, 2023 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37742784

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RNA editing generates mature mitochondrial mRNAs in T. brucei by extensive uridine insertion and deletion at numerous editing sites (ESs) as specified by guide RNAs (gRNAs). The editing is performed by three RNA Editing Catalytic Complexes (RECCs) which each have a different endonuclease in addition to 12 proteins in common resulting in RECC1 that is specific for deletion ESs and RECC2 and RECC3 that are specific for insertion ESs. Thus, different RECCs are required for editing of mRNA sequence regions where single gRNAs specify a combination of insertion and deletion ESs. We investigated how the three different RECCs might edit combinations of insertion and deletion ESs that are specified by single gRNAs by testing whether their endonuclease compositions are stable or dynamic during editing. We analyzed in vivo BirA* proximity labeling and found that the endonucleases remain associated with their set of common RECC proteins during editing when expressed at normal physiological levels. We also found that overexpression of endonuclease components resulted in minor effects on RECCs but did not affect growth. Thus, the protein stoichiometries that exist within each RECC can be altered by perturbations of RECC expression levels. These results indicate that editing of consecutive insertion and deletion ESs occurs by successive engagement and disengagement of RECCs, i.e., is non-processive, which is likely the case for consecutive pairs of insertion or deletion ESs. This clarifies the nature of the complex patterns of partially edited mRNAs that occur in vivo.


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RNA , Trypanosoma brucei brucei , RNA/genética , RNA/metabolismo , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/metabolismo , Edição de RNA , RNA Guia de Cinetoplastídeos/genética , RNA Mensageiro/genética , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Endonucleases/genética , Endonucleases/metabolismo , RNA de Protozoário/genética , RNA de Protozoário/metabolismo , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo
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bioRxiv ; 2023 Apr 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37131796

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The gRNA directed U-insertion and deletion editing of mitochondrial mRNAs that is essential in different life cycle stages for the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei is performed by three similar multi-protein catalytic complexes (CCs) that contain the requisite enzymes. These CCs also contain a common set of eight proteins that have no apparent direct catalytic function, including six that have an OB-fold domain. We show here that one of these OB-fold proteins, KREPA3 (A3), has structural homology to other editing proteins, is essential for editing and is multifunctional. We investigated A3 function by analyzing the effects of single amino acid loss of function mutations most of which were identified by screening bloodstream form (BF) parasites for loss of growth following random mutagenesis. Mutations in the ZFs, an intrinsically disordered region (IDR) and several within or near the C-terminal OB-fold domain variably impacted CC structural integrity and editing. Some mutations resulted in almost complete loss of CCs and its proteins and editing whereas others retained CCs but had aberrant editing. All but a mutation which is near the OB-fold affected growth and editing in BF but not procyclic form (PF) parasites. These data indicate that multiple positions within A3 have essential functions that contribute to the structural integrity of CCs, the precision of editing and the developmental differences in editing between BF and PF stages.

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J Biol Chem ; 286(22): 19320-30, 2011 Jun 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21474442

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Three distinct editosomes, typified by mutually exclusive KREN1, KREN2, or KREN3 endonucleases, are essential for mitochondrial RNA editing in Trypanosoma brucei. The three editosomes differ in substrate endoribonucleolytic cleavage specificity, which may reflect the vast number of editing sites that need insertion or deletion of uridine nucleotides (Us). Each editosome requires the single RNase III domain in each endonuclease for catalysis. Studies reported here show that the editing endonucleases do not form homodimeric domains, and may therefore function as intermolecular heterodimers, perhaps with KREPB4 and/or KREPB5. Editosomes isolated via TAP tag fused to KREPB6, KREPB7, or KREPB8 have a common set of 12 proteins. In addition, KREN3 is only found in KREPB6 editosomes, KREN2 is only found in KREPB7 editosomes, and KREN1 is only found in KREPB8 editosomes. These are the same associations previously found in editosomes isolated via the TAP-tagged endonucleases KREN1, KREN2, or KREN3. Furthermore, TAP-tagged KREPB6, KREPB7, and KREPB8 complexes isolated from cells in which expression of their respective endonuclease were knocked down were disrupted and lacked the heterotrimeric insertion subcomplex (KRET2, KREPA1, and KREL2). These results and published data suggest that KREPB6, KREPB7, and KREPB8 associate with the deletion subcomplex, whereas the KREN1, KREN2, and KREN3 endonucleases associate with the insertion subcomplex.


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Endonucleases/metabolismo , Complexos Multienzimáticos/metabolismo , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Edição de RNA/fisiologia , RNA de Protozoário/metabolismo , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/enzimologia , Endonucleases/genética , Complexos Multienzimáticos/genética , Estrutura Terciária de Proteína , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , RNA de Protozoário/genética , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genética
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Front Immunol ; 13: 1042741, 2022.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36591224

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Background: Identifying immune processes required for liver-stage sterilizing immunity to malaria remains an open problem. The IMRAS trial comprised 5x immunizations with radiation-attenuated sporozoites resulting in 55% protection from subsequent challenge. Methods: To identify correlates of vaccination and protection, we performed detailed systems immunology longitudinal profiling of the entire trial time course including whole blood transcriptomics, detailed PBMC cell phenotyping and serum antigen array profiling of 11 IMRAS radiation-attenuated sporozoite (RAS) vaccinees at up to 21 timepoints each. Results: RAS vaccination induced serum antibody responses to CSP, TRAP, and AMA1 in all vaccinees. We observed large numbers of differentially expressed genes associated with vaccination response and protection, with distinctly differing transcriptome responses elicited after each immunization. These included inflammatory and proliferative responses, as well as increased abundance of monocyte and DC subsets after each immunization. Increases in Vδ2 γδ; T cells and MAIT cells were observed in response to immunization over the course of study, and CD1c+ CD40+ DC abundance was significantly associated with protection. Interferon responses strongly differed between protected and non-protected individuals with high interferon responses after the 1st immunization, but not the 2nd-5th. Blood transcriptional interferon responses were correlated with abundances of different circulating classical and non-classical monocyte populations. Conclusions: This study has revealed multiple coordinated immunological processes induced by vaccination and associated with protection. Our work represents the most detailed immunological profiling of a RAS vaccine trial performed to date and will guide the design and interpretation of future malaria vaccine trials.


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Malária , Esporozoítos , Animais , Humanos , Linfócitos T CD8-Positivos , Imunidade , Interferons , Leucócitos Mononucleares , Malária/prevenção & controle , Vacinação/métodos , Ensaios Clínicos como Assunto
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