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Polysomes of Trypanosoma brucei: Association with Initiation Factors and RNA-Binding Proteins
We report here the results of experiments designed to identify RNA-binding proteins that might be associated with Trypanosoma brucei polysomes. After some preliminary mass spectrometry of polysomal fractions, we investigated the distributions of selected tagged proteins using sucrose gradients and i...
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2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4545788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26287607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135973 |
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author | Klein, Cornelia Terrao, Monica Inchaustegui Gil, Diana Clayton, Christine |
author_facet | Klein, Cornelia Terrao, Monica Inchaustegui Gil, Diana Clayton, Christine |
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description | We report here the results of experiments designed to identify RNA-binding proteins that might be associated with Trypanosoma brucei polysomes. After some preliminary mass spectrometry of polysomal fractions, we investigated the distributions of selected tagged proteins using sucrose gradients and immunofluorescence. As expected, the polysomal fractions contained nearly all annotated ribosomal proteins, the translation-associated protein folding complex, and many translation factors, but also many other abundant proteins. Results suggested that cap-binding proteins EIF4E3 and EIF4E4 were associated with both free and membrane-bound polysomes. The EIF4E binding partners EIF4G4 and EIF4G3 were present but the other EIF4E and EIF4G paralogues were not detected. The dominant EIF4E in the polysomal fraction is EIF4E4 and very few polysomal mRNAs are associated with EIF4G. Thirteen potential mRNA-binding proteins were detected in the polysomes, including the known polysome-associated protein RBP42. The locations of two of the other proteins were tested after epitope tagging: RBP29 was in the nucleus and ZC3H29 was in the cytoplasm. Quantitative analyses showed that specific association of an RNA-binding protein with the polysome fraction in sucrose gradients will not be detected if the protein is in more than 25-fold molar excess over its target binding sites. |
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spelling | pubmed-45457882015-09-01 Polysomes of Trypanosoma brucei: Association with Initiation Factors and RNA-Binding Proteins Klein, Cornelia Terrao, Monica Inchaustegui Gil, Diana Clayton, Christine PLoS One Research Article We report here the results of experiments designed to identify RNA-binding proteins that might be associated with Trypanosoma brucei polysomes. After some preliminary mass spectrometry of polysomal fractions, we investigated the distributions of selected tagged proteins using sucrose gradients and immunofluorescence. As expected, the polysomal fractions contained nearly all annotated ribosomal proteins, the translation-associated protein folding complex, and many translation factors, but also many other abundant proteins. Results suggested that cap-binding proteins EIF4E3 and EIF4E4 were associated with both free and membrane-bound polysomes. The EIF4E binding partners EIF4G4 and EIF4G3 were present but the other EIF4E and EIF4G paralogues were not detected. The dominant EIF4E in the polysomal fraction is EIF4E4 and very few polysomal mRNAs are associated with EIF4G. Thirteen potential mRNA-binding proteins were detected in the polysomes, including the known polysome-associated protein RBP42. The locations of two of the other proteins were tested after epitope tagging: RBP29 was in the nucleus and ZC3H29 was in the cytoplasm. Quantitative analyses showed that specific association of an RNA-binding protein with the polysome fraction in sucrose gradients will not be detected if the protein is in more than 25-fold molar excess over its target binding sites. Public Library of Science 2015-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4545788/ /pubmed/26287607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135973 Text en © 2015 Klein et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Klein, Cornelia Terrao, Monica Inchaustegui Gil, Diana Clayton, Christine Polysomes of Trypanosoma brucei: Association with Initiation Factors and RNA-Binding Proteins |
title | Polysomes of Trypanosoma brucei: Association with Initiation Factors and RNA-Binding Proteins |
title_full | Polysomes of Trypanosoma brucei: Association with Initiation Factors and RNA-Binding Proteins |
title_fullStr | Polysomes of Trypanosoma brucei: Association with Initiation Factors and RNA-Binding Proteins |
title_full_unstemmed | Polysomes of Trypanosoma brucei: Association with Initiation Factors and RNA-Binding Proteins |
title_short | Polysomes of Trypanosoma brucei: Association with Initiation Factors and RNA-Binding Proteins |
title_sort | polysomes of trypanosoma brucei: association with initiation factors and rna-binding proteins |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4545788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26287607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135973 |
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