RESUMO
The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9 system is a revolutionary tool for precise genome editing across various cell types. Ribonucleoproteins (RNPs), encompassing the Cas9 protein and guide RNA (gRNA), have emerged as a promising technique due to their increased specificity and reduced off-target effects. This method eliminates the need for plasmid DNA introduction, thereby preventing potential integration of foreign DNA into the target cell genome. Given the requirement for large quantities of highly purified protein in various Cas9 studies, we present an efficient and simple method for the preparation of recombinant Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) protein. This method leverages the Small Ubiquitin Like Modifier(SUMO) tag system, which includes metal-affinity chromatography followed by anion-exchange chromatography purification. Furthermore, we compare two methods of CRISPR-Cas9 system delivery into cells: transfection with plasmid DNA encoding the CRISPR-Cas9 system and RNP transfection with the Cas9-gRNA complex. We estimate the efficiency of genomic editing and protein lifespan post-transfection. Intriguingly, we found that RNP treatment of cells, even in the absence of a transfection system, is a relatively efficient method for RNP delivery into cell culture. This discovery is particularly promising as it can significantly reduce cytotoxicity, which is crucial for certain cell cultures such as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).
Assuntos
Sistemas CRISPR-Cas , RNA Guia de Sistemas CRISPR-Cas , Sistemas CRISPR-Cas/genética , Ribonucleoproteínas/genética , Ribonucleoproteínas/metabolismo , Edição de Genes/métodos , Proteína 9 Associada à CRISPR/genética , Proteína 9 Associada à CRISPR/metabolismo , DNARESUMO
eIF3j is one of the eukaryotic translation factors originally reported as the labile subunit of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF3. The yeast homolog of this protein, Hcr1, has been implicated in stringent AUG recognition as well as in controlling translation termination and stop codon readthrough. Using a reconstituted mammalian in vitro translation system, we showed that the human protein eIF3j is also important for translation termination. We showed that eIF3j stimulates peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis induced by a complex of eukaryotic release factors, eRF1-eRF3. Moreover, in combination with the initiation factor eIF3, which also stimulates peptide release, eIF3j activity in translation termination increases. We found that eIF3j interacts with the pre-termination ribosomal complex, and eRF3 destabilises this interaction. In the solution, these proteins bind to each other and to other participants of translation termination, eRF1 and PABP, in the presence of GTP. Using a toe-printing assay, we determined the stage at which eIF3j functions - binding of release factors to the A-site of the ribosome before GTP hydrolysis. Based on these data, we assumed that human eIF3j is involved in the regulation of translation termination by loading release factors into the ribosome.
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Fator de Iniciação 3 em Eucariotos/genética , Terminação Traducional da Cadeia Peptídica , Fatores de Terminação de Peptídeos/genética , Proteína I de Ligação a Poli(A)/genética , Ribossomos/genética , Animais , Sistema Livre de Células , Clonagem Molecular , Escherichia coli/genética , Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Fator de Iniciação 3 em Eucariotos/química , Fator de Iniciação 3 em Eucariotos/metabolismo , Expressão Gênica , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Vetores Genéticos/química , Vetores Genéticos/metabolismo , Guanosina Trifosfato/metabolismo , Humanos , Hidrólise , Modelos Moleculares , Fatores de Terminação de Peptídeos/metabolismo , Proteína I de Ligação a Poli(A)/metabolismo , Ligação Proteica , Conformação Proteica , Isoformas de Proteínas , Coelhos , Proteínas Recombinantes/química , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo , Reticulócitos/química , Reticulócitos/metabolismo , Ribossomos/metabolismo , Transdução de SinaisRESUMO
Nsp1 of SARS-CoV-2 regulates the translation of host and viral mRNAs in cells. Nsp1 inhibits host translation initiation by occluding the entry channel of the 40S ribosome subunit. The structural study of the Nsp1-ribosomal complexes reported post-termination 80S complex containing Nsp1, eRF1 and ABCE1. Considering the presence of Nsp1 in the post-termination 80S ribosomal complex, we hypothesized that Nsp1 may be involved in translation termination. Using a cell-free translation system and reconstituted in vitro translation system, we show that Nsp1 stimulates peptide release and formation of termination complexes. Detailed analysis of Nsp1 activity during translation termination stages reveals that Nsp1 facilitates stop codon recognition. We demonstrate that Nsp1 stimulation targets eRF1 and does not affect eRF3. Moreover, Nsp1 increases amount of the termination complexes at all three stop codons. The activity of Nsp1 in translation termination is provided by its N-terminal domain and the minimal required part of eRF1 is NM domain. We assume that the biological meaning of Nsp1 activity in translation termination is binding with the 80S ribosomes translating host mRNAs and remove them from the pool of the active ribosomes.