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The ribosome assembly gene network is controlled by the feedback regulation of transcription elongation

Macarena Morillo-huescaFernando Gómez-herrerosFrank C. P. HolstegeVicent PelechanoVicent PelechanoGonzalo Millán-zambranoSebastián ChávezMari Cruz Muñoz-centenoOlga Rodríguez-galánThanasis MargaritisVictoria BegleyJosé E. Pérez-ortínJesús De La Cruz

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0301 basic medicineRibosomal ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTranscription Elongation GeneticCèl·lulesÀcids nucleicsGene regulatory networkRibosome biogenesisSaccharomyces cerevisiaeBiologyRibosome assembly03 medical and health sciencesRegulació genèticaGeneticsGene Regulatory NetworksHistone ChaperonesRNA Processing Post-TranscriptionalGeneAdenosine TriphosphatasesFeedback PhysiologicalMessenger RNAOrganelle BiogenesisGene regulation Chromatin and EpigeneticsRNAChromatinCell biology030104 developmental biologyRNA RibosomalMutationATP-Binding Cassette TransportersOrganelle biogenesisTranscriptional Elongation FactorsSynthetic Lethal MutationsTranscriptomeRibosomes

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Ribosome assembly requires the concerted expression of hundreds of genes, which are transcribed by all three nuclear RNA polymerases. Transcription elongation involves dynamic interactions between RNA polymerases and chromatin. We performed a synthetic lethal screening in Saccharomyces cerevisiae with a conditional allele of SPT6, which encodes one of the factors that facilitates this process. Some of these synthetic mutants corresponded to factors that facilitate pre-rRNA processing and ribosome biogenesis. We found that the in vivo depletion of one of these factors, Arb1, activated transcription elongation in the set of genes involved directly in ribosome assembly. Under these depletion conditions, Spt6 was physically targeted to the upregulated genes, where it helped maintain their chromatin integrity and the synthesis of properly stable mRNAs. The mRNA profiles of a large set of ribosome biogenesismutants confirmed the existence of a feedback regulatory network among ribosome assembly genes. The transcriptional response in this network depended on both the specific malfunction and the role of the regulated gene. In accordance with our screening, Spt6 positively contributed to the optimal operation of this global network. On the whole, this work uncovers a feedback control of ribosome biogenesis by fine-tuning transcription elongation in ribosome assembly factor-coding genes. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad BFU2013-48643-C3-1-P, BFU2016-77728-C3-1-P, BFU2013-48643-C3- 3-P, BFU2013-42958-P Junta de Andalucía P12-BIO1938MO, P08-CVI-03508 Comunidad Valenciana 2015/006

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2017-01-01
10.1093/nar/gkx529http://hdl.handle.net/10550/66188