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Due to a large and growing collection of genomic and experimental resources, Brachypodium distachyon has emerged as a powerful experimental model for the grasses. To add to these resources we sequenced 21 165 T‐DNA lines, 15 569 of which were produced in this study. This increased the number of unique insertion sites in the T‐DNA collection by 21 078, bringing the overall total to 26 112. Thirty‐seven per cent (9754) of these insertion sites are within genes (including untranslated regions and introns) and 28% (7217) are within 500 bp of a gene. Approximately 31% of the genes in the v.2.1 annotation have been tagged in this population. To demonstrate the utility of this collection, we phenotypically characterized six T‐DNA lines with insertions in genes previously shown in other systems to be involved in cellulose biosynthesis, hemicellulose biosynthesis, secondary cell wall development, DNA damage repair, wax biosynthesis and chloroplast synthesis. In all cases, the phenotypes observed supported previous studies, demonstrating the utility of this collection for plant functional genomics. The Brachypodium T‐DNA collection can be accessed at http://jgi.doe.gov/our-science/science-programs/plant-genomics/brachypodium/brachypodium-t-dna-collection/ .  相似文献   

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The Simian picornavirus type 9 (SPV9) 5'-untranslated region (5' UTR) has been predicted to contain an internal ribosomal entry site (IRES) with structural elements that resemble domains of hepacivirus/pestivirus (HP) IRESs. In vitro reconstitution of initiation confirmed that this 5' UTR contains an IRES and revealed that it has both functional similarities and differences compared to HP IRESs. Like HP IRESs, the SPV9 IRES bound directly to 40S subunits and eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF) 3, depended on the conserved domain IIId for ribosomal binding and consequently for function, and additionally required eIF2/initiator tRNA to yield 48S complexes that formed elongation-competent 80S ribosomes in the presence of eIF5, eIF5B, and 60S subunits. Toeprinting analysis revealed that eIF1A stabilized 48S complexes, whereas eIF1 induced conformational changes in the 40S subunit, likely corresponding to partial opening of the entry latch of the mRNA-binding channel, that were exacerbated by eIF3 and suppressed by eIF1A. The SPV9 IRES differed from HP IRESs in that its function was enhanced by eIF4A/eIF4F when the IRES was adjacent to the wild-type coding sequence, but was less affected by these factors or by a dominant negative eIF4A mutant when potentially less structured coding sequences were present. Exceptionally, this IRES promoted binding of initiator tRNA to the initiation codon in the P site of 40S subunits independently of eIF2. Although these 40S/IRES/tRNA complexes could not form active 80S ribosomes, this constitutes a second difference between the SPV9 and HP IRESs. eIF1 destabilized the eIF2-independent ribosomal binding of initiator tRNA.  相似文献   

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Death‐associated protein 5 (DAP5) is a member of the eIF4G family of scaffolding proteins that mediate cap‐independent translation initiation by recruiting the translational machinery to internal ribosomal entry sites (IRESs) on mRNA. The MIF4G domain of DAP5 directly interacts with the eukaryotic initiation factors eIF4A and eIF3 and enhances the translation of several viral and cellular IRESs. Here, the crystallization and preliminary X‐ray diffraction analysis of the MIF4G domain of DAP5 is presented.  相似文献   

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Activating mutations of the NRAS (neuroblastoma rat sarcoma viral oncogene) protein kinase, present in many cancers, induce a constitutive activation of both the RAS-RAF-MEK-ERK mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signal transduction pathway and the PI(3)K-AKT-mTOR, pathway. This in turn regulates the formation of the eIF4F eukaryotic translation initiation complex, comprising the eIF4E cap-binding protein, the eIF4G scaffolding protein and the eIF4A RNA helicase, which binds to the 7-methylguanylate cap (m(7)G) at the 5′ end of messenger RNAs. Small molecules targeting MEK (MEKi: MEK inhibitors) have demonstrated activity in NRAS-mutant cell lines and tumors, but resistance sets in most cases within months of treatment. Using proximity ligation assays, that allows visualization of the binding of eIF4E to the scaffold protein eIF4G, generating the active eIF4F complex, we have found that resistance to MEKi is associated with the persistent formation of the eIF4F complex in MEKi-treated NRAS-mutant cell lines. Furthermore, inhibiting the eIF4A component of the eIF4F complex, with a small molecule of the flavagline/rocaglate family, synergizes with inhibiting MEK to kill NRAS-mutant cancer cell lines.  相似文献   

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《Cell reports》2020,30(8):2481-2488.e5
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An Arabidopsis thaliana line bearing a transposon insertion in the gene coding for the isozyme form of the plant-specific cap-binding protein, eukaryotic initiation factor (iso) 4E (eIF (iso) 4E), has been isolated. This mutant line completely lacks both eIF(iso)4E mRNA and protein, but was found to have a phenotype and fertility indistinguishable from wild-type plants under standard laboratory conditions. In contrast, the amount of the related eIF4E protein was found to increase in seedling extracts. Furthermore, polysome analysis shows that the mRNA encoding eIF4E was being translated at increased levels. Given the known interaction between cap-binding proteins and potyviral genome-linked proteins (VPg), this plant line was challenged with two potyviruses, Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) and Lettuce mosaic virus (LMV) and was found resistant to both, but not to the Nepovirus, Tomato black ring virus (TBRV) and the Cucumovirus, Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV). Together with previous data showing that the VPg-eIF4E interaction is necessary for virus infectivity and upregulates genome amplification, this shows that the eIF4E proteins are specifically recruited for the replication cycle of potyviruses.  相似文献   

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To try to resolve the loss of stability in the temperature‐sensitive mutant of T4 lysozyme, Arg 96 → His, all of the remaining 18 naturally occurring amino acids were substituted at site 96. Also, in response to suggestions that the charged residues Lys85 and Asp89, which are 5–8 Å away, may have important effects, each of these amino acids was replaced with alanine. Crystal structures were determined for many of the variants. With the exception of the tryptophan and valine mutants R96W and R96V, the crystallographic analysis shows that the substituted side chain following the path of Arg96 in wildtype (WT). The melting temperatures of the variants decrease by up to ~16°C with WT being most stable. There are two site 96 replacements, with lysine or glutamine, that leave the stability close to that of WT. The only element that the side chains of these residues have in common with the WT arginine is the set of three carbon atoms at the Cα, Cβ, and Cγ positions. Although each side chain is long and flexible with a polar group at the distal position, the details of the hydrogen bonding to the rest of the protein differ in each case. Also, the glutamine replacement lacks a positive charge. This shows that there is some adaptability in achieving full stabilization at this site. At the other extreme, to be maximally destabilizing a mutation at site 96 must not only eliminate favorable interactions but also introduce an unfavorable element such as steric strain or a hydrogen‐bonding group that remains unsatisfied. Overall, the study highlights the essential need for atomic resolution site‐specific structural information to understand and to predict the stability of mutant proteins. It can be very misleading to simply assume that conservative amino acid substitutions cause small changes in stability, whereas large stability changes are associated with nonconservative replacements.  相似文献   

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Localisation and regulation of the eIF4E-binding protein 4E-BP3   总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3  
The cap-binding protein eIF4E-binding protein 3 (4E-BP3) was identified some years ago, but its properties have not been investigated in detail. In this report, we investigated the regulation and localisation of 4E-BP3. We show that 4E-BP3 is present in the nucleus as well as in the cytoplasm in primary T cells, HEK293 cells and HeLa cells. 4E-BP3 was associated with eIF4E in both cell compartments. Furthermore, 4E-BP3/eIF4E association in the cytoplasm was regulated by serum or interleukin-2 starvation in the different cell types. Rapamycin did not affect the association of eIF4E with 4E-BP3 in the cytoplasm or in the nucleus.  相似文献   

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Ribonucleoprotein complexes (RNP) remodeling by DEAD-box proteins is required at all stages of cellular RNA metabolism. These proteins are composed of a core helicase domain lacking sequence specificity; flanking protein sequences or accessory proteins target and affect the core's activity. Here we examined the interaction of eukaryotic initiation factor 4AI (eIF4AI), the founding member of the DEAD-box family, with two accessory factors, eIF4B and eIF4H. We find that eIF4AI forms a stable complex with RNA in the presence of AMPPNP and that eIF4B or eIF4H can add to this complex, also dependent on AMPPNP. For both accessory factors, the minimal stable complex with eIF4AI appears to have 1:1 protein stoichiometry. However, because eIF4B and eIF4H share a common binding site on eIF4AI, their interactions are mutually exclusive. The eIF4AI:eIF4B and eIF4AI:eIF4H complexes have the same RNase resistant footprint as does eIF4AI alone (9–10 nucleotides [nt]). In contrast, in a selective RNA binding experiment, eIF4AI in complex with either eIF4B or eIF4H preferentially bound RNAs much longer than those bound by eIF4AI alone (30–33 versus 17 nt, respectively). The differences between the RNase resistant footprints and the preferred RNA binding site sizes are discussed, and a model is proposed in which eIF4B and eIF4H contribute to RNA affinity of the complex through weak interactions not detectable in structural assays. Our findings mirror and expand on recent biochemical and structural data regarding the interaction of eIF4AI's close relative eIF4AIII with its accessory protein MLN51.  相似文献   

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In this study, we document that the overall rate of protein synthesis decreases during in vitro maturation (IVM) of pig oocytes despite enhanced formation of the 5' cap structure eIF4F. Within somatic/interphase cells, formation of the eIF4F protein complex correlates very well with overall rates of protein translation, and the formation of this complex is controlled primarily by the availability of the 5' cap binding protein eIF4E. We show that the eIF4E inhibitory protein, 4E-BP1, becomes phosphorylated during IVM, which results in gradual release of eIF4E from 4E-BP1, as documented by immunoprecipitation analyses. Isoelectric focusing and Western blotting experiments show conclusively that eIF4E becomes gradually phosphorylated with a maximum at metaphase II (M II). The activity of eIF4E and its ability to bind mRNA also increases during oocyte maturation as documented in experiments with m7-methyl GTP-Sepharose, which mimics the cap structure of mRNA. Complementary analysis of flow-through fraction for 4E-BP1, and eIF4G proteins additionally provides evidence for enhanced formation of cap-binding protein complex eIF4F. Altogether, our results bring new insights to the regulation of translation initiation during meiotic division, and more specifically clarify that 4E-BP1 hyper-phosphorylation is not the cause of the observed suppression of overall translation rates.  相似文献   

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The DNA replication-related element-binding factor (DREF) regulates cell proliferation-related gene expression in Drosophila. We have carried out a genetic screening, taking advantage of the rough eye phenotype of transgenic flies that express full-length DREF in the eye imaginal discs and identified the eukaryotic initiation factor 4A (eIF4A) gene as a dominant suppressor of the DREF-induced rough eye phenotype. The eIF4A gene was here found to carry three DRE sequences, DRE1 (-40 to -47), DRE2 (-48 to -55), and DRE3 (-267 to -274) in its promoter region, these all being important for the eIF4A gene promoter activity in cultured Drosophila Kc cells and in living flies. Knockdown of DREF in Drosophila S2 cells decreased the eIF4A mRNA level and the eIF4A gene promoter activity. Furthermore, specific binding of DREF to genomic regions containing DRE sequences was demonstrated by chromatin immunoprecipitation assays using anti-DREF antibodies. Band mobility shift assays using Kc cell nuclear extracts revealed that DREF could bind to DRE1 and DRE3 sequences in the eIF4A gene promoter in vitro, but not to the DRE2 sequence. The results suggest that the eIF4A gene is under the control of the DREF pathway and DREF is therefore involved in the regulation of protein synthesis.  相似文献   

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神经生长因子(NGF)结合细胞表面受体p75NTR(p75神经营养素受体)和TrkA(酪氨酸蛋白激酶A)后介导了细胞分化、细胞生存、凋亡、增殖和侵袭等多个重要的生理病理过程. TrKA能与细胞内多个蛋白质相互作用,但是由于NGF信号通路的复杂性,现在仍有必要发现与之相互作用的蛋白质以更准确地了解NGF信号通路. 本研究中我们通过酵母双杂交的方法筛选到了一个新的与TrKA相互作用的蛋白质——真核生物翻译起始因子4A1(eIF4A1),然后通过谷胱甘肽巯基转移酶融合蛋白沉降实验(GST-pull-down)和免疫共沉淀实验(Co-IP)证明了TrkA和eIF4A1的相互作用. 此外NGF能够增强TrkA和eIF4A1的相互作用. 在鉴定相互作用位点实验中,我们发现eIF4A1的氨基端结构域和TrkA的TK结构域参与了相互作用. TrkA和eIF4A1共定位在细胞膜上. NGF能够引起TrkA与泛素蛋白63位的赖氨酸连接,而eIF4A1与TrkA相互作用后能够抑制TrkA与泛素蛋白63位的赖氨酸连接. 综上,得出结论 eIF4A1通过与TrkA相互作用抑制其泛素化调控NGF信号通路.  相似文献   

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Plastid DNA is absent in pollen or sperm cells of Arabidopsis thaliana. Accordingly, plastids and mitochondria, in a standard genetic cross, are transmitted to the seed progeny by the maternal parent only. Our objective was to test whether paternal plastids are transmitted by pollen as an exception. The maternal parent in our cross was a nuclear male sterile (ms1-1/ms1-1), spectinomycin-sensitive Ler plant. It was fertilized with pollen of a male fertile RLD-Spc1 plant carrying a plastid-encoded spectinomycin resistance mutation. Seedlings with paternal plastids were selected by spectinomycin resistance encoded in the paternal plastid DNA. Our data, in general, support maternal inheritance of plastids in A. thaliana. However, we report that paternal plastids are transmitted to the seed progeny in Arabidopsis at a low (3.9 x 10(-5)) frequency. This observation extends previous reports in Antirrhinum majus, Epilobium hirsutum, Nicotiana tabacum, Petunia hybrida, and the cereal crop Setaria italica to a cruciferous species suggesting that low-frequency paternal leakage of plastids via pollen may be universal in plants previously thought to exhibit strict maternal plastid inheritance. The genetic tools employed here will facilitate testing the effect of Arabidopsis nuclear mutations on plastid inheritance and allow for the design of mutant screens to identify nuclear genes controlling plastid inheritance.  相似文献   

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The poly(A)‐binding protein (PABP) simultaneously interacts with the poly(A) tail of mRNAs and the scaffolding protein eIF4G to mediate mRNA circularization, resulting in stimulation of protein translation. PABP is regulated by the PABP‐interacting protein Paip1. Paip1 is thought to act as a translational activator in 5′ cap‐dependent translation by interacting with PABP and the initiation factors eIF4A and eIF3. Here, the crystallization and preliminary diffraction analysis of the middle domain of Paip1 (Paip1M), which produces crystals that diffract to a resolution of 2.2 Å, are presented.  相似文献   

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Pdcd4 is a novel gene first identified as a differentially expressed protein during apoptosis. In the meantime not only the impact of Pdcd4 in programmed cell death but also an implication in transformation suppression by inhibition of protein translation is discussed. These features implicate a potential value of Pdcd4 as a molecular target in cancer therapy. This review summarizes the current knowledge about expression, structure and function of Pdcd4.  相似文献   

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In higher plants, pollen tubes and root hairs share an ancient growth process named tip growth. We have isolated three allelic Arabidopsis mutant lines showing kinky-shaped pollen tubes and, when homozygous, showing shorter and thicker root hairs. The ultrastructure of pollen tubes in these kinky pollen (kip) mutants is similar to that of the wild type; however, time-lapse studies suggest that aberrant pollen tube shape is caused by periodic growth arrests alternated with phases of tube axis reorientation. The KIP gene encodes a protein of 2587 amino acids that is predicted to be targeted to the secretory pathway. KIP mRNA was detected in all organs investigated but was most abundant in pollen and roots. KIP has putative homologues in many eukaryotes, including mammals and yeast, and is similar to the Arabidopsis SABRE gene, whose mutation causes a dwarf phenotype. The phenotype of the kip/sab double mutant suggests related functions for both genes, however, the KIP protein is mostly required for tip-growth.  相似文献   

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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A (eIF5A) is a highly conserved protein essential for eukaryotic cell proliferation and is the only protein containing hypusine, [Nε-(4-amino-2-hydroxybutyl)lysine]. eIF5A is activated by the post-translational synthesis of hypusine. eIF5A also undergoes an acetylation at specific Lys residue(s). In this study, we have investigated the effect of hypusine modification and acetylation on the subcellular localization of eIF5A. Immunocytochemical analyses showed differences in the distribution of non-hypusinated eIF5A precursor and the hypusine-containing mature eIF5A. While the precursor is found in both cytoplasm and nucleus, the hypusinated eIF5A is primarily localized in cytoplasm. eIF5A mutant proteins, defective in hypusine modification (K50A, K50R) were localized in a similar manner to the eIF5A precursor, whereas hypusine-modified mutant proteins (K47A, K47R, K68A) were localized mainly in the cytoplasm. These findings provide strong evidence that the hypusine modification of eIF5A dictates its localization in the cytoplasmic compartment where it is required for protein synthesis.  相似文献   

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We have designed a novel tiling array, AtMap1, for genomic deletion mapping. AtMap1 is a 60-mer oligonucleotide microarray consisting of 42 497 data probes designed from the genomic sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0. The average probe interval is 2.8 kb. The performance of the AtMap1 array was assessed using the deletion mutants mag2-2, rot3-1 and zig-2. Eight of the probes showed threefold lower signals in mag2-2 than Col-0. Seven of these probes were located in one region on chromosome 3. We considered these adjacent probes to represent one deletion. This deletion was consistent with a reported deleted region. The other probe was located near the end of chromosome 4. A newly identified deletion around the probe was confirmed by PCR. We also detected the responsible deletions for rot3-1 and zig-2. Thus we concluded that the AtMap1 array was sufficiently sensitive to identify a deletion without any a priori knowledge of the deletion. An analysis of the result of hybridization of Ler and previously reported polymorphism data revealed that the signal decrease tended to depend on the overlap size of sequence polymorphisms. Mutation mapping is time-consuming, laborious and costly. The AtMap1 array removes these limitations.  相似文献   

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Ito H  Tanaka S  Miyasaka M 《Biopolymers》2002,65(2):61-80
We utilize electrophoresis and find that a thermally treated equimolar mixture of the oligonucleotide d(G(5)T(5)) and its complementary oligonucleotide d(A(5)C(5)) exhibits either two bands or a single band in one lane, depending on the conditions of the incubation solutions. The thermally treated d(G(5)T(5)) solution loaded in a different lane exhibits a single band of the parallel quadruplex [d(G(5)T(5))](4), which is composed of homocyclic hydrogen-bonded G(4) and T(4) tetrads previously proposed. For the thermally treated equimolar mixture of d(G(5)T(5)) and d(A(5)C(5)), the fast band is assigned to a Watson-Crick d(G(5)T(5)). d(A(5)C(5)) duplex, so that the slow band with the same low mobility as that of [d(G(5)T(5))](4) may be assigned to either [d(G(5)T(5))](4) itself or a [d(G(5)T(5)). d(A(5)C(5))](2) quadruplex. If the latter compound is true, this may be the antiparallel quadruplex composed of the heterocyclic hydrogen-bonded G-C-G-C and T-A-T-A tetrads proposed previously. After removing these three bands for the duplex and two kinds of hypothetical quadruplexes, we electrophoretically elute the corresponding compounds in the same electrophoresis buffer using an electroeluter. The eluted compounds are ascertained to be stable by electrophoresis. The circular dichroism (CD) and UV absorption spectra measured for the three isolated compounds are found to be clearly different. For the electrophoretic elution of the hypothetical [d(G(5)T(5))](4) quadruplex, the result of the molecularity of n = 4 obtained from the CD melting curve analysis provides further support for the formation of the parallel [d(G(5)T(5))](4) quadruplex already proposed. For the thermally treated equimolar mixture of d(G(5)T(5)) and d(C(5)A(5)), the fast band with a molecularity of n = 2 corresponds to the Watson-Crick duplex, d(G(5)T(5)). d(A(5)C(5)). The slow band with a molecularity of n = 4 indicates the antiparallel quadruplex [d(G(5)T(5)). d(A(5)C(5))](2), whose observed CD and UV spectra are different from those of [d(G(5)T(5))](4). By electrophoresis, after reannealing the eluted compound [d(G(5)T(5)). d(A(5)C(5))](2), a distinct photograph showing the band splitting of this quadruplex band into the lower duplex and upper quadruplex bands is not possible; but by a transilluminator, we occasionally observe this band splitting with the naked eye. The linear response polarizability tensor calculations for the thus determined structures of the [d(G(5)T(5))](4) quadruplex, the McGavin-like [d(G(5)T(5)). d(A(5)C(5))](2) quadruplex, and the Watson-Crick d(G(5)T(5)). d(A(5)C(5)) duplex are found to qualitatively predict the observed CD and UV spectra.  相似文献   

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