Schlautmann, Lena Pia ORCID: 0000-0001-7439-7723 (2023). Proteomic and transcriptomic characterization of RNPS1: A sequence-independent regulator of mRNA fate. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
Due to the genome complexity, the processes of gene expression require tight regulation especially in mammalian cells. Many regulatory proteins have the dedicated purpose to ensure the production of correct mature mRNAs or to otherwise degrade faulty transcripts. One key factor in these processes is the exon junction complex (EJC), which is deposited on the mRNA during the splicing process in a sequence-independent manner. This enables the EJC to orchestrate a variety of co- and posttranscriptional processes, including alternative splicing, mRNA export and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). To fulfill this wide range of regulatory functions the EJC serves as a binding platform for various regulatory proteins and complexes, including the ASAP- and PSAP-component RNPS1. Previously, RNPS1 was reported to act on alternative splicing regulation as well as NMD. Here, transcriptome-wide analyses were combined with interactome studies to further enlighten the role RNPS1 plays in these processes. Differential gene expression and differential transcript usage analyses revealed that RNPS1 mildly influences NMD of specific targets rather than being a globally essential NMD factor. However, alternative splicing analyses confirmed that RNPS1 is an important regulator of various types of alternative splicing. Mechanistically, intron retention reporters revealed that RNPS1 positioned at a downstream splice junction can activate splicing of an upstream intron and thereby prevent intron retention. RNPS1 normally requires the assembly of the ASAP or PSAP complex to be recruited to the EJC. However, individual depletion of the ASAP/PSAP components ACIN1 or PNN affected splicing only mildly, suggesting that the complexes might be able to function redundantly. Moreover, the alternative splicing analyses and further knockdown and rescue experiments indicated that, contrary to previous hypotheses, not only the RNPS1 RRM, but also its C-terminus and S domain are involved in splicing regulation. Investigation of the interactome of different RNPS1 deletion mutants revealed that RNPS1 can interact with a large variety of splicing-related factors and that these interactions were reduced or completely abolished, when one or more of its domains are deleted. Thus, a picture emerges in which RNPS1 promotes correct splicing by gathering varying splicing competent or enhancing complexes on the mRNA by making use of the distinct binding capacities of its domains.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-648091 | ||||||||
Date: | 2023 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Biology > Institute for Genetics | ||||||||
Subjects: | Life sciences | ||||||||
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Date of oral exam: | 11 January 2023 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/64809 |
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