Identifying eIF4E-binding protein translationally-controlled transcripts reveals links to mRNAs bound by specific PUF proteins

eIF4E-binding proteins (4E-BPs) regulate translation of mRNAs in eukaryotes. However the extent to which specific mRNA targets are regulated by 4E-BPs remains unknown. We performed translational profiling by microarray analysis of polysome and monosome associated mRNAs in wild-type and mutant cells...

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Published inNucleic acids research Vol. 38; no. 22; pp. 8039 - 8050
Main Authors Cridge, Andrew G, Castelli, Lydia M, Smirnova, Julia B, Selley, Julian N, Rowe, William, Hubbard, Simon J, McCarthy, John E G, Ashe, Mark P, Grant, Christopher M, Pavitt, Graham D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Oxford University Press 01.12.2010
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Summary:eIF4E-binding proteins (4E-BPs) regulate translation of mRNAs in eukaryotes. However the extent to which specific mRNA targets are regulated by 4E-BPs remains unknown. We performed translational profiling by microarray analysis of polysome and monosome associated mRNAs in wild-type and mutant cells to identify mRNAs in yeast regulated by the 4E-BPs Caf20p and Eap1p; the first-global comparison of 4E-BP target mRNAs. We find that yeast 4E-BPs modulate the translation of >1000 genes. Most target mRNAs differ between the 4E-BPs revealing mRNA specificity for translational control by each 4E-BP. This is supported by observations that eap1Δ and caf20Δ cells have different nitrogen source utilization defects, implying different mRNA targets. To account for the mRNA specificity shown by each 4E-BP, we found correlations between our data sets and previously determined targets of yeast mRNA-binding proteins. We used affinity chromatography experiments to uncover specific RNA-stabilized complexes formed between Caf20p and Puf4p/Puf5p and between Eap1p and Puf1p/Puf2p. Thus the combined action of each 4E-BP with specific 3'-UTR-binding proteins mediates mRNA-specific translational control in yeast, showing that this form of translational control is more widely employed than previously thought.
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Present address: Andrew G. Cridge, Massey University, Institute of Natural Sciences, Albany, New Zealand.
The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first three authors should be regarded as joint First Authors.
ISSN:0305-1048
1362-4962
1362-4962
DOI:10.1093/nar/gkq686