Regulation of Gene Expression, MMG 206 Spring 2009

Lectures and Papers for Sandri-Goldin:

Lecture 1: 5' Capping & 3’ processing   Sandri-Goldin Lecture 1 Power Point

Papers covered in class:

E. Cho, T. Takagi, C. R. Moore, and S. Buratowski. 1997. mRNA capping enzyme is recruited to the transcription complex by phosphorylation of the RNA polymerase II carboxy-terminal domain.
GENES & DEVELOPMENT 11:3319–3326.

 

C. K. Ho and S. Shuman. 1999. Distinct Roles for CTD Ser-2 and Ser-5 Phosphorylation in the Recruitment and Allosteric Activation of Mammalian mRNA Capping Enzyme.  Molecular Cell,  3: 405–411, 1999.

 

 P. Komarnitsky, E.Cho, and S. Buratowski. 2000. Different phosphorylated forms of RNA polymerase II and associated mRNA processing factors during transcription. GENES & DEVELOPMENT 14:2452–2460.

 

 S. H. Ahn, .M. Kim, and S. Buratowski. 2004.  Phosphorylation of Serine 2 within the RNA Polymerase II C-Terminal Domain Couples Transcription and 3’ End Processing. Molecular Cell 13, 67–76.

Z. Ni, B.E. Schwartz, J. Werner, J. Suarez, and J. T. Lis. 2004. Coordination of Transcription, RNA Processing, and Surveillance by P-TEFb Kinase on Heat Shock Genes. Molecular Cell 13,55-65.

H. Zhang, J. Y. Lee and B. Tian. 2005. Biased alternative polyadenylation in human tissues. Genome Biology  6:R100.

Expressed Sequence Tags (EST)

Lecture 2: Mechanism of splicing; Spliceosome Assembly

Sandri-Goldin Lecture 2 Power Point

Papers referenced in class:

Z. Zhou, L. J. Licklider, S. P. Gygi & Robin Reed. 2002. Comprehensive proteomic analysis of the human spliceosome  NATURE  419:182-188.

R. Das, K. Dufu, B.Romney, M. Feldt, M. Elenko and R. Reed. 2006. Functional coupling of RNAP II transcription to spliceosome assembly. Genes & Dev. 2006 20: 1100-1109.

M. J. Hicks, C.-R. Yang, M.V. Kotlajich, and K. J. Hertel. 2006. Linking Splicing to Pol II Transcription Stabilizes Pre-mRNAs and Influences Splicing Patterns. PLoS BIOLOGY 4(6): e147.

Review on Spliceosome Composition by Proteomic analysis:

M. S. Jurica and M. J. Moore. 2003. Pre-mRNA Splicing: Awash in a Sea of Protein  Molecular Cell  12: 5–14.

 

Lecture 3: Splicing Regulation and SR proteins

Sandri-Goldin Lecture 3 Power Point

Papers referenced in lecture 3:

Prasad, J., K. Colwill, T. Pawson, and J.L. Manley.  1999. The protein kinase Clk/Sty directly modulates SR protein activity: both hyper- and hypophosphorylation inhibit splicing.  Molecular and Celluar Biology 19:6991-7000.

P.J. Mintz and D.L. Spector. 2000. Compartmentalization of RNA Processing Factors within Nuclear Speckles. Journal of Structural Biology 129, 241–251

P.J. Smith, C. Zhang, J.Wang, S.L. Chew, M.Q. Zhang and A.R. Krainer. 2006. An increased specificity

score matrix for the prediction of SF2/ASF-specific exonic splicing enhancers. Human Molecular Genetics Vol. 15, 2490-2508.

C.Ma1, A.Velazquez-Dones, J.C. Hagopian, G. Ghosh, X. Fu and J.A. Adams.

  2008. Ordered Multi-site Phosphorylation of the Splicing Factor ASF/SF2 By SRPK1. J. Mol. Biol. 376, 55–68..

R.Das, J. Yu, Z. Zhang, M.P. Gygi, A.R.. Krainer, S.P. Gygi, and R.Reed. 2007. SR Proteins Function in Coupling RNAP II Transcription to Pre-mRNA Splicing. Molecular Cell 26, 867–8.

A. Sapra, M. Anko, I. Grishina, M. Lorenz, M. Pabis, I. Poser, J. Rollins, E. Weiland, K.M. Neugebauer. 2009. SR protein family members display diverse activities in the formation of nascent and mature mRNPs in vivo. Molecular Cell 34:179-190.

SR Protein Reviews:

Gravely, B. 2000. Sorting out the complexity of SR protein functions. RNA 6:1197-1211.

Hertel, K.J. and B. Gravely. 2005. RS domains contact the pre-mRNA throughout spliceosome assembly. Trends Biochem. Sci. 30:115-118.

Lecture 4 Alternative Splicing:

Sandri-Goldin Lecture 4 

Recommended Reviews of Alternative Splicing that you may find helpful and papers that I covered in class.

K. Lynch. Consequences of regulated pre-mRNA splicing in the immune system. 2004. Nature Reviews-Immunology 4:931.

A.J. Matlin, F. Clark and C.W.J. Smith. 2005. Understanding alternative splicing: towards a cellular code. Nature Reviews-Molecular Cellular Biology 6:386.

L. Cartegni & A.R. Krainer. 2002.Disruption of an SF2/ASF-dependent exoninc splicing enhancer in SMN2 causes spinal muscular atrophy in the absence of SMN1. Nature Genetics 30.

 

J. B. Crawford and J.G. Patton. 2006. Activation of -Tropomyosin Exon 2 Is Regulated by the SR Protein 9G8 and Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoproteins H and F (hnRNP H and F). MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY, 26: 8791–8802.

R. Klinck, A. Bramard, L. Inkel, G. Dufresne-Martin, J.Gervais-Bird, R. Madden, E.R. Paquet, C. Koh, J.P. Venables, P. Prinos, M. Jilaveanu-Pelmus, R. Wellinger, C. Rancourt, B. Chabot and S. Elela. 2008. Multiple Alternative Splicing Markers for Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Res. 68: 657-63.

Feng Y, Valley MT, Lazar J, Yang AL, Bronson RT, Firestein S, Coetzee WA, Manley JL. 2009. SRp38 regulates alternative splicing and is required for Ca(2+) handling in the embryonic heart. Dev Cell. 2009 Apr;16(4):528-38.

 

Study Guide:

EXAMS on Post-transcriptional Regulation, from 2004-2008:

MBB 206 Exam 2, May, 2004, answer key

MBB 206 Exam 2, May 2005

MBB 206 Exam 2, May 2006

MBB 206 Exam 2, June 2007, & answer key

MBB 206 Exam 2, May, 2008 & answer key

MMG 206 Exam 2, May 2009 & answer key

 

 Lecture 5: RNA Editing in mammalian cells:

Sandri-Goldin Lecture  5

E. BRATT and M. OHMAN. Coordination of editing and splicing of glutamate receptor pre-mRNA. RNA 2003, 9:309–318.

J. OHLSON, J. S. PEDERSEN,  D. HAUSSLER, and M. O HMAN. 2007.  Editing modifies the GABAA receptor subunit a3. RNA  13:698–703.

Whitney et al. Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors containing Q/R-unedited GluR2 direct human neural progenitor cell differentiation to neurons. 2008. FASEB Journal doi. 10.1096/fj.07-104661.

Y. Kawahara, A. Grimberg, S. Teegarden, C. Mombereau, S. Liu, T.L. Bale, J.A. Blendy, and K. Nishikura1. 2008. Dysregulated Editing of Serotonin 2C Receptor mRNAs Results in Energy Dissipation and Loss of Fat Mass. The Journal of Neuroscience, November 26, 2008 28(48):12834 –12844

Reviews on RNA Editing

Keegan, L.P., A. Gallo and M.A. O'Connell. 2001. The many roles of an RNA editor. Nature Genetics Reviews 2:869-880.

R. A. Reenan. The RNA world meets behavior: A to I pre-mRNA editing in animals. TRENDS in Genetics Vol.17  February 2001.

 

Lecture 6: mRNA Export:

Sandri-Goldin Lecture 6

Papers covered in class:

M. Luo, Z. Zhou, K. Magni, C. Christoforides, J. Rappsilber, M. Mann and R. Reed. 2001. Pre-mRNA splicing and mRNA export linked by direct interactions between UAP56 and Aly/REF. 2001. Nature 413:644-647.

P. Valencia, A.P. Dias and R. Reed. 2008. Splicing promotes rapid and efficient mRNA export in mammalian cells. PNAS 105:3386-3391.

H. Cheng, K. Dufu, C. Lee, J.L Hsu and R. Reed. 2006. Human mRNA export machinery recruited to 5' end of mRNA. Cell 127:1389-1400.

Y. Huang, R. Gattoni, J. Stevenin and J. Steitz. 2003. SR splicing factors serve as adaptor proteins for TAP-dependent mRNA export. Molecular Cell 11:837-843.