Y-box protein 1 is required to sort microRNAs into exosomes in cells and in a cell-free reaction
- University of California, Berkeley, United States
- University of Oregon, United States
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, United States
Abstract
Exosomes are small vesicles that are secreted from metazoan cells and may convey selected membrane proteins and small RNAs to target cells for the control of cell migration, development and metastasis. To study the mechanisms of RNA packaging into exosomes, we devised a purification scheme based on the membrane marker CD63 to isolate a single exosome species secreted from HEK293T cells. Using immunoisolated CD63-containing exosomes we identified a set of miRNAs that are highly enriched with respect to their cellular levels. To explore the biochemical requirements for exosome biogenesis and RNA packaging, we devised a cell-free reaction that recapitulates the species-selective enclosure of miR-223 in isolated membranes supplemented with cytosol. We found that the RNA-binding protein Y-box protein I (YBX1) binds to and is required for the sorting of miR-223 in the cell-free reaction. Furthermore, YBX1 serves an important role in the secretion of miRNAs in exosomes by HEK293T cells.
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HEK293T cell small RNA-seqAvailable at Dryad Digital Repository under a CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
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Exosomes from HEK293T cells small RNA-seq readsAvailable at Dryad Digital Repository under a CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
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Author details
Matthew J Shurtleff
Funding
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Investigator)
- Randy Schekman
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Reviewing Editor
- Timothy W Nilsen, Case Western Reserve University, United States
Publication history
- Received: June 30, 2016
- Accepted: August 24, 2016
- Accepted Manuscript published: August 25, 2016 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: October 3, 2016 (version 2)
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© 2016, Shurtleff et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Y-box protein 1 is required to sort microRNAs into exosomes in cells and in a cell-free reaction
eLife 5:e19276.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19276
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