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3'-Untranslated regions of oxidative phosphorylation mRNAs function in vivo, as enhancers of translation
José M. IzquierdoAnja RantanenJosé M. CuezvaCarlo Maria Di LiegroMarianna Bellafioresubject
Untranslated regionTranscription GeneticProtein subunitBlotting WesternGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMitochondrionKidneyTransfectionBiochemistryOxidative PhosphorylationCell LineElectron Transport Complex IVMitochondrial ProteinsMitochondrial transcription factor AGenes ReporterAnimalsCytochrome c oxidaseGreen fluorescent proteinRNA MessengerEnhancer3' Untranslated RegionsMolecular BiologyCell NucleusAU-rich elementMessenger RNAbiologyThree prime untranslated regionNuclear ProteinsCell BiologyH+-ATP synthaseMolecular biologyRatsMitochondriaDNA-Binding ProteinsLuminescent ProteinsProton-Translocating ATPasesLiverMicroscopy FluorescenceProtein Biosynthesisbiology.proteinElectrophoresis Polyacrylamide GelResearch ArticlePlasmidsTranscription FactorsCytochrome c oxidasedescription
Recent findings have indicated that the 3´-untranslated region (3´-UTR) of the mRNA encoding the β-catalytic subunit of the mitochondrial H+-ATP synthase has an in vitro translation-enhancing activity (TEA) [Izquierdo and Cuezva, Mol. Cell. Biol. (1997) 17, 5255–5268; Izquierdo and Cuezva, Biochem. J. (2000) 346, 849–855]. In the present work, we have expressed chimaeric plasmids that encode mRNA variants of green fluorescent protein in normal rat kidney and liver clone 9 cells to determine whether the 3´-UTRs of nuclear-encoded mRNAs involved in the biogenesis of mitochondria have an intrinsic TEA. TEA is found in the 3´-UTR of the mRNAs encoding the α- and β-subunits of the rat H+-ATP synthase complex, as well as in subunit IV of cytochrome c oxidase. No TEA is present in the 3´-UTR of the somatic mRNA encoding rat mitochondrial transcription factor A. Interestingly, the TEA of the 3´-UTR of mRNAs of oxidative phosphorylation is different, depending upon the cell type analysed. These data provide the first in vivo evidence of a novel cell-specific mechanism for the control of the translation of mRNAs required in mitochondrial function.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2000-11-15 |