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Chitra Togra1, Riya Dhage1, Purusharth I Rajyaguru1
1Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
Abstract:
Arginine-glycine-glycine motif proteins play a crucial role in determining mRNA fate. Suppressor of clathrin deficiency 6 (Scd6) is a conserved arginine-glycine-glycine motif containing ribonucleoprotein (RNP) condensate-resident, translation repressor, and decapping activator protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Identifying protein factors that can modulate Scd6 function is critical to understanding the regulation of mRNA fate by Scd6. In this study, using an approach that combined mRNA tethering assay with flow cytometry, we screened 50 genes for their role in modulating the translation repression activity of Scd6. We identified 8 conserved modulators with human homologs. Of these, we further characterized in detail guanine nucleotide exchange factor Rho1 multicopy suppressor 2 (Rom2) and glycolytic enzyme triose phosphate dehydrogenase 3 (Tdh3), which, respectively, impede and promote translation repression activity of Scd6. Our study reveals that Rom2 negatively regulates the arginine methylation of Scd6 and antagonizes its localization to P-bodies. Tdh3, on the other hand, promotes Scd6 interaction with Hmt1, thereby promoting the arginine methylation of Scd6 and enhanced eIF4G1 interaction, which is known to promote its repression activity. Identifying these novel modulators provides exciting new insights into the role of a metabolic enzyme of the glycolytic pathway and guanine nucleotide exchange factor implicated in the cell wall integrity pathway in regulating Scd6 function and, thereby, cytoplasmic mRNA fate.
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