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Transcript-Specific Decapping and Regulated Stability by the Human Dcp2 Decapping Protein

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Pages 939-948 | Received 20 Sep 2007, Accepted 07 Nov 2007, Published online: 27 Mar 2023
 

Abstract

mRNA decapping is a critical step in the control of mRNA stability and gene expression and is carried out by the Dcp2 decapping enzyme. Dcp2 is an RNA binding protein that must bind RNA in order to recognize the cap for hydrolysis. We demonstrate that human Dcp2 (hDcp2) preferentially binds to a subset of mRNAs and identify sequences at the 5′ terminus of the mRNA encoding Rrp41, a core subunit component of the RNA exosome, as a specific hDcp2 substrate. A 60-nucleotide element at the 5′ end of Rrp41 mRNA was identified and shown to confer more efficient decapping on a heterologous RNA both in vitro and upon transfection into cells. Moreover, reduction of hDcp2 protein levels in cells resulted in a selective stabilization of the Rrp41 mRNA, confirming it as a downstream target of hDcp2 regulation. These findings demonstrate that hDcp2 can specifically bind to and regulate the stability of a subset of mRNAs, and its intriguing regulation of the 3′-to-5′ exonuclease exosome subunit suggests a potential interplay between 5′-end mRNA decapping and 3′-end mRNA decay.

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL

Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://mcb.asm.org/ .

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank Xinfu Jiao for assistance with the hDcp2-bound mRNA coimmunopurification and RNA transfection experiments, as well as members of the Kiledjian laboratory for helpful discussions and critical reading of the manuscript.

This work was supported by NIH grant GM67005 to M.K.

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