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Huntington’s Disease protein huntingtin associates with its own mRNA
Journal of Huntington's Disease, Vol.5(1), pp.39-51
2016
Abstract
Background: The Huntington's disease (HD) protein huntingtin (Htt) plays a role in multiple cellular pathways. Deregulation of one or more of these pathways by the mutant Htt protein has been suggested to contribute to the disease pathogenesis. Our recent discovery-based proteomics studies have uncovered RNA binding proteins and translation factors associated with the endogenous Htt protein purified from mouse brains, suggesting a potential new role for Htt in RNA transport and translation. Objective: To investigate how Htt might affect RNA metabolism we set out to purify and analyze RNA associated with Htt. Methods: RNA was extracted from immunopurified Htt-containing protein complexes and analyzed by microarrays and RNA-Seq. Results: Surprisingly, the most enriched mRNA that co-purified with Htt was Htt mRNA itself. The association of Htt protein and Htt mRNA was detected independent of intact ribosomes suggesting that it is not an RNA undergoing translation. Furthermore, we identified the recently reported mis-spliced Htt mRNA encoding a truncated protein comprised of exon 1 and a portion of the downstream intron in the immunoprecipitates containing mutant Htt protein. We show that Htt protein co-localizes with Htt mRNA and that wild-type Htt reduces expression of a reporter construct harboring the Htt 3' UTR. Conclusions: HD protein is found in a complex with its own mRNA and RNA binding proteins and translation factors. Htt may be involved in modulating its expression through post-transcriptional pathways. It is possible that Htt shares mechanistic properties similar to RNA binding proteins such as TDP-43 and FUS implicated in other neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Title
- Huntington’s Disease protein huntingtin associates with its own mRNA
- Authors/Creators
- B.P. Culver (Author/Creator) - New York UniversityJ. DeClercq (Author/Creator) - New York UniversityI. Dolgalev (Author/Creator) - New York Genome CenterM.S. Yu (Author/Creator) - New York UniversityB. Ma (Author/Creator) - New York UniversityA. Heguy (Author/Creator) - New York UniversityN. Tanese (Author/Creator) - New York University
- Publication Details
- Journal of Huntington's Disease, Vol.5(1), pp.39-51
- Identifiers
- 991005543939107891
- Copyright
- © 2016 - IOS Press and the authors.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Veterinary and Life Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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