Translational regulation of protrusion-localized RNAs involves silencing and clustering after transport

  1. Konstadinos Moissoglu
  2. Kyota Yasuda
  3. Tianhong Wang
  4. George Chrisafis
  5. Stavroula Mili  Is a corresponding author
  1. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States

Abstract

Localization of RNAs to various subcellular destinations is a widely used mechanism that regulates a large proportion of transcripts in polarized cells. In many cases, such localized transcripts mediate spatial control of gene expression by being translationally silent while in transit and locally activated at their destination. Here, we investigate the translation of RNAs localized at dynamic cellular protrusions of human and mouse, migrating, mesenchymal cells. In contrast to the model described above, we find that protrusion-localized RNAs are not locally activated solely at protrusions, but can be translated with similar efficiency in both internal and peripheral locations. Interestingly, protrusion-localized RNAs are translated at extending protrusions, they become translationally silenced in retracting protrusions and this silencing is accompanied by coalescence of single RNAs into larger heterogeneous RNA clusters. This work describes a distinct mode of translational regulation of localized RNAs, which we propose is used to regulate protein activities during dynamic cellular responses.

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  1. Konstadinos Moissoglu

    Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
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  2. Kyota Yasuda

    Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
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  3. Tianhong Wang

    Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
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  4. George Chrisafis

    Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
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  5. Stavroula Mili

    Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
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    voula.mili@nih.gov
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National Cancer Institute (Intramural Research Program of the Center for Cancer Research)

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  1. Konstadinos Moissoglu
  2. Kyota Yasuda
  3. Tianhong Wang
  4. George Chrisafis
  5. Stavroula Mili
(2019)
Translational regulation of protrusion-localized RNAs involves silencing and clustering after transport
eLife 8:e44752.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.44752

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