RRC ID 51460
著者 Akay A, Di Domenico T, Suen KM, Nabih A, Parada GE, Larance M, Medhi R, Berkyurek AC, Zhang X, Wedeles CJ, Rudolph KLM, Engelhardt J, Hemberg M, Ma P, Lamond AI, Claycomb JM, Miska EA.
タイトル The Helicase Aquarius/EMB-4 Is Required to Overcome Intronic Barriers to Allow Nuclear RNAi Pathways to Heritably Silence Transcription.
ジャーナル Dev Cell
Abstract Small RNAs play a crucial role in genome defense against transposable elements and guide Argonaute proteins to nascent RNA transcripts to induce co-transcriptional gene silencing. However, the molecular basis of this process remains unknown. Here, we identify the conserved RNA helicase Aquarius/EMB-4 as a direct and essential link between small RNA pathways and the transcriptional machinery in Caenorhabditis elegans. Aquarius physically interacts with the germline Argonaute HRDE-1. Aquarius is required to initiate small-RNA-induced heritable gene silencing. HRDE-1 and Aquarius silence overlapping sets of genes and transposable elements. Surprisingly, removal of introns from a target gene abolishes the requirement for Aquarius, but not HRDE-1, for small RNA-dependent gene silencing. We conclude that Aquarius allows small RNA pathways to compete for access to nascent transcripts undergoing co-transcriptional splicing in order to detect and silence transposable elements. Thus, Aquarius and HRDE-1 act as gatekeepers coordinating gene expression and genome defense.
巻・号 42(3)
ページ 241-255.e6
公開日 2017-8-7
DOI 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.07.002
PII S1534-5807(17)30544-0
PMID 28787591
PMC PMC5554785
MeSH Animals Argonaute Proteins / genetics* Argonaute Proteins / metabolism Caenorhabditis elegans / genetics* Caenorhabditis elegans / metabolism Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins / genetics* Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins / metabolism DNA Transposable Elements Introns Nuclear Proteins / genetics* Nuclear Proteins / metabolism Protein Binding RNA Interference*
IF 10.092
引用数 17
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