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Overview
• Timing• Mechanisms• Long non-coding RNA– Xist– Air– HOTAIR
• Short non-coding RNA– siRNA– miRNA– piRNA
Timing/Location of RNA silencing
Nucleus• CDGS: chromatin-dependent gene silencing– TGS: Transcriptional gene silencing– CTGS: Co-transcriptional gene silencing
Cytoplasm• PTGS: post-transcriptional gene silencing
Mechanisms of RNA silencing
• Heterochromatin Formation – TGS, CTGS
• Enhancer - repression of silencing
• Transcript degradation– PTGS
• Translational arrest – PTGS
Mechanisms of RNA silencing
• Heterochromatin Formation – TGS, CTGS
Adapted from: Kevin V. Morris. Oligonucleotides. 2009 December;19(4):299-305.
Mechanisms of RNA silencing
• Heterochromatin Formation – TGS, CTGS
• Enhancer - repression of silencing
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XAdapted from: Kevin V. Morris. Oligonucleotides. 2009 December;19(4):299-305.
Mechanisms of RNA silencing
• Transcript degradation– PTGS
• Translational arrest – PTGS
Moazed, D. Nature. 2009 Jan 22;457(7228):413-20.
(arrest)
Long non-coding RNA’s
Abbreviated as lncRNA,or lincRNA (long intergenic non-coding RNA)
• Defined as:– >200 bp in length (can be up to 100 kb)– Not processed – Non-protein coding
• Very prevalent in genome
How do they work?• chromatin regulator recruitment• RNA binding protein recruitment
RNA binding protein inhibits HATs
Mercer et al., NRG 2009
How do they work?• chromatin regulator recruitment• RNA binding protein recruitment• TF recruitment/nuclear import
Mercer et al., NRG 2009
Enhancer RNA
Some lncRNA in HOX cluster interact with Trithorx resulting in H3K4me3
How do they work?• chromatin regulator recruitment• RNA binding protein recruitment• TF recruitment (triple helix)• interference with binding or activity of the general transcriptional machinery
Mercer et al., NRG 2009
Mechanisms of Chromatin Regulation
Koziol and Rinn COGD, 2010
• Tethers: sequence specificity
• Acts as Scaffold
Mechanisms of Chromatin Regulation
Koziol and Rinn COGD, 2010
• Tethers: sequence specificity
• Acts as Scaffold
• Regulates activity
Mechanisms of Chromatin Regulation
Koziol and Rinn COGD, 2010
• Tethers: sequence specificity
• Acts as Scaffold
• Regulates activity
• Mediates long range interactions
Mechanisms of Chromatin Regulation
• Tethers: sequence specificity
• Acts as Scaffold
• Regulates activity
• Mediates long range interactions
Means of carrying epigenetic information from mother to daughter cell
X inactivation
Pontier, DB and Gribnau, J. Hum Genet. 2011 August; 130(2): 223–236.
FISH = fluorescent in situ hybridization
polycomb
Magenta: Jpx RNA, green XISTTian et al. Cell 2010
X inactivation: additional players
X-inactivation center4 ncRNAs• Xi : Xist and RepA– RepA binds PRC2
• Xa: Tsix• cis-Xist repressor
• Both: Jpx • cis- and trans-Xist
activator
Xist only expressed in heterochromatinRepA stem loop binds PRC2 – leading to H3K27me3 in cis on XiAllows activation by JPX
Caley et al., The Scientific World Journal 2010
X inactivation: additional playersTsix recruits Dnmt3a– Methylates Xist promoterActivation by JPX is blocked
Ideraabdullah, Mut. Res., 2008
AIR recruits G9a (HMT)
Results in H3K9me at imprinted gene promoters in cis
Igf2r/Air - lncRNA mediated imprinting
HOTAIR
Gupta et al. Nature 2101
• Expressed from HOXC locus
• Represses in trans
Developmentally regulated (Hox genes)
Tsai et al., Science 2010
HOTAIR
• Binds: – PRC2– EZH2 (HMT)– CoREST
(HDAC)– LSD1
(H3K4me demethlase)
RNAi = RNA-interference
Double stranded (ds) RNA induces homology-dependent degradation of cognate RNA and depletion of protein over time
Andrew Z. Fire Craig C. Mello1/2 of the prize 1/2 of the prizeUSA USAStanford University University of MassachusettsSchool of Medicine Medical SchoolStanford, CA, USA Worcester, MA, USA
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"
Functions:
viral silencing in plants
suppression of transposable elements
silencing of repetitive sequences
heterochromatin formation
transgene silencing
Small interfering RNAs: siRNAs
How are small ncRNA generated?
• siRNA– natural cis antisense siRNAs
– repeat associated siRNA
• Result in dsRNA products
• PolII/V transcribed or bi-directional transcription
Moazed Nature 2009
Moazed Nature 2009
How are small ncRNA generated?
• From aberrant transcripts• By RdRp: RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
How are small ncRNA generated?
• miRNA– from miRNA genes (non-coding)– found within lncRNAs and coding genes– PolII transcribed– Forms a hairpin
Tamari and ZamorePrespectives: machines for RNAiGenes &Dev.19:517-529 (2005)
Processing of small ncRNAs
DCL Arabidopsisinitially isolated as developmental mutant!
Dicer Ribonuclease III homolog; helicaseDrosophila, C.elegans, mouse, fungi
Role for a bidentate ribonuclease in the initiation step of RNA interferenceEmily Bernstein, Amy A. Caudy, Scott M. Hammond & Gregory J. Hannon
NATURE | VOL 409 | 18 JANUARY 2001
Processing of miRNAs
Binds precursor ds or miRNA through PAZ domainCleaves precursor through ribonuclease III domainSpacing between PAZ and RIII domains determine size and cut location resulting in staggered cuts
Moazed Nature 2009
Processing of miRNAs
• Argonaute family of proteins– bind miRNA or siRNA
or piRNA• At least two classes– AGO-like– PIWI-like
Important Components
Important Components
• AGO (Argonaute)• PIWI domain binds 5’ end small RNA (RNAse H-like fold)• PAZ domain binds 3’ end small RNA guide strand• Mid domain binds CAP
• Slicer activity (some AGOs)required for siRNA, most plant miRNAmakes a cut in target RNA leading to degradation
• Catalytically inactive AGOs lead to inhibition of translation (stalling)
• Multi turnover enzyme
RNA-directed RNA polymerase RdRP:
AmplificationTransport (systemic RNAi)Heterochromatin formation
Not required for Drosophila or mammalian RNAi
Important Components
Moazed Nature 2009
RITS complex
RNA induced transcriptional silencingAgo1 (Argonaute, binds siRNAs)Chp1 (chromodomain, binds H3K9me)Tas3 (binds Ago1 and Chp1, spreading)siRNAs (small inhibitory RNA)
Like RISC: effector complex, bind small RNA
Important Components
initiation
amplification
de novo DNA methylationSimon and Meyers COPB 2011
RNA induced DNA Methylation
-- Role of siRNAs in ESTABLISHMENT of transcriptional gene
-- silencing first discovered in plants
RNA methods of TGS
Khraiwesh et al., Cell 2010
High levels of miRNA:
Cause miRNA:mRNA duplex formation
Trigger DNA methylation
(for example in response to hormone treatment)
Also described in mammalsKim et al, PNAS 2008
In moss: role of miRNA in DNA methylation
RNA methods of TGS (in plants)
Role of siRNAs in silencing (plants)
triggers DNA methylation
recruitment of H3K9me
role in maintenance of DNA methylation
spreading
Role of siRNAs in silencing (S. pombe)
initiation of all heterochromatintogether with Clr4 (HMT)!
maintentance of centromeric heterochromatin
tethered via RITS, Clr4-dependent
RITS brings in nascent transcript
RNA methods of TGS (S. pombe)
Potential for Inheritance?
1.siRNAs inherited, trigger H3K9me
2.Positive feedback between siRNAs and H3K9me: amplification and stabilization
YES!
piRNAFound in animalsRole in germline
Silencing of of repetitive DNAtransposons, subtelomeric regionspericentromeric regions
PROTECTING THE GERMLINE
PIWI associates with HP1
D.m. piRNAs from follicle cells into oocytes
also linked to triggering DNA methylation
Accumulate at time of erasure and re-establishment of DNA methylation
PROTECTING THE GERMLINE
In mammals: TE silencing via DNA methylation
pericentromeric RNA involved
Occurs early after fertilization
Satenard et al. Nat. Cell. Biol. 2010Probst et al. Dev Cell 2010
PROTECTING THE GERMLINE
PolIV
PolII
TGS
PTGS (post transcriptional gene silencing)message cleavage inhibition of translation
(small and large ncRNAs)
PTGS
• RISC complex RNA-induced silencing complex
• si RNA– AGO– DCR– dsRNA binding protein (TRBP)
• miRNA– AGO– GW182
Small ncRNA movement
some miRNAs can move (short distance)
siRNAs can move: systemic responses
Systemic Silencing