Both introns and long 3'-UTRs operate as cis-acting elements to trigger nonsense-mediated decay in plants.
Nucleic Acids Res
; 34(21): 6147-57, 2006.
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Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic quality control mechanism that identifies and eliminates aberrant mRNAs containing a premature termination codon (PTC). Although, key trans-acting NMD factors, UPF1, UPF2 and UPF3 are conserved in yeast and mammals, the cis-acting NMD elements are different. In yeast, short specific sequences or long 3'-untranslated regions (3'-UTRs) render an mRNA subject to NMD, while in mammals' 3'-UTR located introns trigger NMD. Plants also possess an NMD system, although little is known about how it functions. We have elaborated an agroinfiltration-based transient NMD assay system and defined the cis-acting elements that mediate plant NMD. We show that unusually long 3'-UTRs or the presence of introns in the 3'-UTR can subject mRNAs to NMD. These data suggest that both long 3'-UTR-based and intron-based PTC definition operated in the common ancestors of extant eukaryotes (stem eukaryotes) and support the theory that intron-based NMD facilitated the spreading of introns in stem eukaryotes. We have also identified plant UPF1 and showed that tethering of UPF1 to either the 5'- or 3'-UTR of an mRNA results in reduced transcript accumulation. Thus, plant UPF1 might bind to mRNA in a late, irreversible phase of NMD.
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ARN Mensajero
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Intrones
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Regulación de la Expresión Génica de las Plantas
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Codón sin Sentido
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Regiones no Traducidas 3'
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Secuencias Reguladoras de Ácido Ribonucleico
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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En
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Nucleic Acids Res
Año:
2006
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Article
País de afiliación:
Hungria
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido