Identification of in vivo mRNA decay intermediates corresponding to sites of in vitro cleavage by polysomal ribonuclease 1.

Autor: Hanson MN; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210., Schoenberg DR
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of biological chemistry [J Biol Chem] 2001 Apr 13; Vol. 276 (15), pp. 12331-7. Date of Electronic Publication: 2001 Jan 04.
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M010483200
Abstrakt: Previous work from this laboratory identified a polysome-associated endonuclease whose activation by estrogen correlates with the coordinate destabilization of serum protein mRNAs. This enzyme, named polysomal ribonuclease 1, or PMR-1, is a novel member of the peroxidase gene family. A characteristic feature of PMR-1 is its ability to generate in vitro degradation intermediates by cleaving within overlapping APyrUGA elements in the 5'-coding region of albumin mRNA. The current study sought to determine whether the in vivo destabilization of albumin mRNA following estrogen administration involves the generation of decay intermediates that could be identified as products of PMR-1 cleavage. A sensitive ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction technique was developed to identify labile decay intermediates, and its validity in identifying PMR-1-generated decay intermediates of albumin mRNA was confirmed by primer extension experiments performed with liver RNA that was isolated from estrogen-treated frogs or digested in vitro with the purified endonuclease. Ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction was also used to identify decay intermediates from the 3'-end of albumin mRNA, and as a final proof of principle it was employed to identify in vivo decay intermediates of the c-myc coding region instability determinant corresponding to sites of in vitro cleavage by a polysome-associated endonuclease.
Databáze: MEDLINE