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AUTHOR
Vicente José Pelechano García
Estudio genómico de la trasncripción y de la degradación de los mRNAs en Saccharomyces cerevisiae
RESUMEN En este trabajo se ha realizado un estudio exhaustivo sobre el recambio de los mRNAs a escala genómica en la levadura Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Se ha confirmado que la asunción de estado estacionario para la expresión génica en condiciones de crecimiento exponencial, y por lo tanto la validez del cálculo indirecto de valores de estabilidad de mRNAs a partir de datos de cantidad y tasa de transcripción. También se han caracterizado ligeras desviaciones del estado estacionario específicas de grupos funcionales y se ha calculado la contribución a estas variaciones de mRNA dependientes de cambios en la transcripción o en la estabilidad de mRNAs. Una vez comprobada la validez del estado …
The Lsm1-7/Pat1 complex binds to stress-activated mRNAs and modulates the response to hyperosmotic shock
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) establish the cellular fate of a transcript, but an understanding of these processes has been limited by a lack of identified specific interactions between RNA and protein molecules. Using MS2 RNA tagging, we have purified proteins associated with individual mRNA species induced by osmotic stress, STL1 and GPD1. We found members of the Lsm1-7/Pat1 RBP complex to preferentially bind these mRNAs, relative to the non-stress induced mRNAs, HYP2 and ASH1. To assess the functional importance, we mutated components of the Lsm1-7/Pat1 RBP complex and analyzed the impact on expression of osmostress gene products. We observed a defect in global translation inhibition under…
The transcriptional inhibitor thiolutin blocks mRNA degradation.
Thiolutin is commonly used as a general inhibitor of transcription in yeast. It has been used to calculate mRNA decay rates by stopping the transcription and then determining the relative abundance of individual mRNAs at different times after inhibition. We report here that thiolutin is also an inhibitor of mRNA degradation, and thus its use can lead to miscalculations of mRNA half-lives. The inhibition of mRNA decay seems to affect the mRNA degradation pathway without impeding poly(A) shortening, given that the decay rate of total poly(A) amount is not reduced by thiolutin. Moreover, the thiolutin-dependent inhibition of mRNA degradation has variable effects on different functional groups …