ICE1 promotes the link between splicing and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay
- National Institutes of Health, United States
Abstract
The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway detects aberrant transcripts containing premature termination codons (PTCs) and regulates expression of 5-10% of non-aberrant human mRNAs. To date, most proteins involved in NMD have been identified by genetic screens in model organisms; however, the increased complexity of gene expression regulation in human cells suggests that additional proteins may participate in the human NMD pathway. To identify proteins required for NMD, we performed a genome-wide RNAi screen against >21,000 genes. Canonical members of the NMD pathway were highly enriched as top hits in the siRNA screen, along with numerous candidate NMD factors, including the conserved ICE1/KIAA0947 protein. RNAseq studies reveal that depletion of ICE1 globally enhances accumulation and stability of NMD-target mRNAs. Further, our data suggest that ICE1 uses a putative MIF4G domain to interact with exon junction complex (EJC) proteins and promotes the association of the NMD protein UPF3B with the EJC.
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ICE1 promotes the link between splicing and nonsense- mediated mRNA decayPublicly available at the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (accession no: GSE105436).
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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Intramural Research Program)
- Thomas D Baird
- J Robert Hogg
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (Intramural Research Program)
- Ken Chih-Chien Cheng
- Yu-Chi Chen
- Eugen Buehler
- Scott E Martin
- James Inglese
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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ICE1 promotes the link between splicing and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay
eLife 7:e33178.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.33178
