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ArticleJournal of cellular physiology2025

Dynamic mRNA Stability Buffer Transcriptional Activation During Neuronal Differentiation and Is Regulated by SAMD4A.

Yuan Zhou, Sherif Rashad, Daisuke Ando, Yuki Kobayashi, Teiji Tominaga, Kuniyasu Niizuma

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Yuan ZhouDepartment of Neurosurgical Engineering and Translational Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Sherif RashadDepartment of Neurosurgical Engineering and Translational Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Daisuke AndoDepartment of Neurosurgical Engineering and Translational Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Yuki KobayashiDepartment of Neurosurgical Engineering and Translational Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Teiji TominagaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Kuniyasu NiizumaDepartment of Neurosurgical Engineering and Translational Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9282-6499

Funding

This work was supported by JST, the establishment of university fellowships towards the creation of science technology innovation (Grand Number JPMJFS2102) for Yuan Zhou, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science grants number 20K16323, 20KK0338, and 23H02741 for Sherif Rashad, and by JST Moonshot R&D project number JPMJPS2023 for Kuniyasu Niizuma.
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Abstract

Neurons are exceptionally sensitive to oxidative stress, which is the basis for many neurodegenerative disease pathophysiologies. The posttranscriptional basis for neuronal differentiation and behavior is not well characterized. The steady-state levels of mRNA are outcomes of an interplay between RNA transcription and decay. However, the correlation between mRNA transcription, translation, and stability remains elusive. We utilized a SH-SY5Y-based neural differentiation model that is widely used to study neurodegenerative diseases. After neuronal differentiation, we observed enhanced sensitivity of mature neurons to mitochondrial stresses and ferroptosis induction. We employed a newly developed simplified mRNA stability profiling technique to explore the role of mRNA stability in SH-SY5Y neuronal differentiation model. Transcriptome-wide mRNA stability analysis revealed neural-specific RNA stability kinetics. Our analysis revealed that mRNA stability could either exert the buffering effect on gene products or change in the same direction as transcription. Importantly, we observed that changes in mRNA stability corrected over or under transcription of mRNAs to maintain mRNA translation dynamics. Furthermore, we conducted integrative analysis of our mRNA stability data set, and a published CRISPR-i screen focused on neuronal oxidative stress responses. Our analysis unveiled novel neuronal stress response genes that were not evident at the transcriptional or translational levels. SEPHS2 emerged as an important neuronal stress regulator based on this integrative analysis. Motif analysis unveiled SAMD4A as a major regulator of the dynamic changes in mRNA stability observed during differentiation. Knockdown of SAMD4A impaired neuronal differentiation and influenced the response to oxidative stress. Mechanistically, SAMD4A was found to alter the stability of several mRNAs. The novel insights into the interplay between mRNA stability and cellular behaviors provide a foundation for understanding neurodevelopmental processes and neurodegenerative disorders and highlight dynamic mRNA stability as an important layer of gene expression.

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Cell DifferentiationNeuronsRNA, MessengerRNA StabilityTranscriptional ActivationCell Line, TumorHumansMitochondriaOxidative StressRNA, MessengermRNA stabilitymRNA translationneuronal differentiationoxidative stressSAMD4A

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PMCPMC11747957

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