TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hacht, Annekathrin von
A1  - Seifert, Oliver
A1  - Menger, Marcus
A1  - Schütze, Tatjana
A1  - Arora, Amit
A1  - Konthur, Zoltán
A1  - Neubauer, Peter
A1  - Wagner, Anke
A1  - Weise, Christoph
A1  - Kurreck, Jens
T1  - Identification and characterization of RNA guanine-quadruplex binding proteins
T2  - Nucleic acids research
N2  - Guanine quadruplex (G-quadruplex) motifs in the 5′ untranslated region (5′-UTR) of mRNAs were recently shown to influence the efficiency of translation. In the present study, we investigate the interaction between cellular proteins and the G-quadruplexes located in two mRNAs (MMP16 and ARPC2). Formation of the G-quadruplexes was confirmed by biophysical characterization and the inhibitory activity on translation was shown by luciferase reporter assays. In experiments with whole cell extracts from different eukaryotic cell lines, G-quadruplex-binding proteins were isolated by pull-down assays and subsequently identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry. The binding partners of the RNA G-quadruplexes we discovered included several heterogenous nuclear ribonucleoproteins, ribosomal proteins, and splicing factors, as well as other proteins that have previously not been described to interact with nucleic acids. While most of the proteins were specific for either of the investigated G-quadruplexes, some of them bound to both motifs. Selected candidate proteins were subsequently produced by recombinant expression and dissociation constants for the interaction between the proteins and RNA G-quadruplexes in the low nanomolar range were determined by surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. The present study may thus help to increase our understanding of the mechanisms by which G-quadruplexes regulate translation.
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34235
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-342356
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4041461/
SN  - 1362-4962
SN  - 0305-1048
N1  - Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 42
IS  - 10
SP  - 6630
EP  - 6644
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -