Dissection of affinity captured LINE-1 macromolecular complexes
Abstract
Long Interspersed Nuclear Element-1 (LINE-1, L1) is a mobile genetic element active in human genomes. L1-encoded ORF1 and ORF2 proteins bind L1 RNAs, forming ribonucleoproteins (RNPs). These RNPs interact with diverse host proteins, some repressive and others required for the L1 lifecycle. Using differential affinity purifications, quantitative mass spectrometry, and next generation RNA sequencing, we have characterized the proteins and nucleic acids associated with distinctive, enzymatically active L1 macromolecular complexes. Among them, we describe a cytoplasmic intermediate that we hypothesize to be the canonical ORF1p/ORF2p/L1-RNA-containing RNP, and we describe a nuclear population containing ORF2p, but lacking ORF1p, which likely contains host factors participating in target-primed reverse transcription.
Data availability
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RNA-seq FASTAQ filesPublicly available at ProteomeXchange (accession no: PXD008542).
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RNAs associated with affinity captured LINE-1 ribonucleoproteinsPublicly available at the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (accession no: GSE108270).
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Funding
National Institutes of Health (P41GM109824)
- Michael P Rout
National Institutes of Health (P41GM103314)
- Brian T Chait
National Institutes of Health (P50GM107632)
- Jef D Boeke
National Institutes of Health (R01GM654321)
- Jef D Boeke
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Reviewing Editor
- Stephen P Goff, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, United States
Publication history
- Received: July 1, 2017
- Accepted: December 18, 2017
- Accepted Manuscript published: January 8, 2018 (version 1)
- Accepted Manuscript updated: January 10, 2018 (version 2)
- Version of Record published: February 21, 2018 (version 3)
- Version of Record updated: May 15, 2018 (version 4)
- Version of Record updated: September 11, 2018 (version 5)
- Version of Record updated: January 8, 2019 (version 6)
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© 2018, Taylor 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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