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ArticleMolecular and cellular biology2003

The KH-domain protein alpha CP has a direct role in mRNA stabilization independent of its cognate binding site.

Jian Kong, Xinjun Ji, Stephen A Liebhaber

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Article in Molecular and cellular biology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jian KongDepartment of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Xinjun Ji
Stephen A Liebhaber
Pediatrics and Genetics · US

Funding

VAV ANTISENSE ODN--A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC FOR HUMAN LEUKEMIASP01CA072765 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GEWIRTZ, ALAN M · 1997 to 2007
$8.5M
Post-Transcriptional controls in Mammalian Erythroid DifferentiationR01HL065449 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LIEBHABER, STEPHEN AARON · 2000 to 2019
$4.1M
Alpha-Globin expression: Post transcriptional mechanismsR37HL065449 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LIEBHABER, STEPHEN AARON · 2004 to 2013
$3.9M
NCI NIH HHS CA72765NCI NIH HHS P01 CA072765NHLBI NIH HHS HL 65449NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL065449NHLBI NIH HHS R37 HL065449
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies suggest that high-level stability of a subset of mammalian mRNAs is linked to a C-rich motif in the 3' untranslated region (3'UTR). High-level expression of human alpha-globin mRNA (h alpha-globin mRNA) in erythroid cells has been specifically attributed to formation of an RNA-protein complex comprised of a 3'UTR C-rich motif and an associated 39-kDa poly(C) binding protein, alpha CP. Documentation of this RNA-protein alpha-complex has been limited to in vitro binding studies, and its impact has been monitored by alterations in steady-state mRNA. Here we demonstrate that alpha CP is stably bound to h alpha-globin mRNA in vivo, that alpha-complex assembly on the h alpha-globin mRNA is restricted to the 3'UTR C-rich motif, and that alpha-complex assembly extends the physical half-life of h alpha-globin mRNA selectively in erythroid cells. Significantly, these studies also reveal that an artificially tethered alpha CP has the same mRNA-stabilizing activity as the native alpha-complex. These data demonstrate a unique contribution of the alpha-complex to h alpha-globin mRNA stability and support a model in which the sole function of the C-rich motif is to selectively tether alpha CP to a subset of mRNAs. Once bound, alpha CP appears to be fully sufficient to trigger downstream events in the stabilization pathway.

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3' Untranslated RegionsAnimalsBinding SitesCells, CulturedDNA-Binding ProteinsErythrocytesGlobinsHeterogeneous-Nuclear RibonucleoproteinsHumansMicePyrimidinesRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, MessengerRNA Stability3' Untranslated RegionsDNA-Binding ProteinsGlobinsHeterogeneous-Nuclear RibonucleoproteinsPCBP1 protein, humanpyrimidinePyrimidinesRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, Messenger

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PMID12556474
PMCPMC141145
OpenAlexW2170877733

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