Garber Lab Publications
Title
Gene expression is circular: factors for mRNA degradation also foster mRNA synthesis
UMMS Affiliation
Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology; Garber Lab
Publication Date
2013-05-23
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Bioinformatics | Cell Biology | Computational Biology | Genetic Phenomena | Genomics | Molecular Biology
Abstract
Maintaining proper mRNA levels is a key aspect in the regulation of gene expression. The balance between mRNA synthesis and decay determines these levels. We demonstrate that most yeast mRNAs are degraded by the cytoplasmic 5'-to-3' pathway (the "decaysome"), as proposed previously. Unexpectedly, the level of these mRNAs is highly robust to perturbations in this major pathway because defects in various decaysome components lead to transcription downregulation. Moreover, these components shuttle between the cytoplasm and the nucleus, in a manner dependent on proper mRNA degradation. In the nucleus, they associate with chromatin-preferentially approximately 30 bp upstream of transcription start-sites-and directly stimulate transcription initiation and elongation. The nuclear role of the decaysome in transcription is linked to its cytoplasmic role in mRNA decay; linkage, in turn, seems to depend on proper shuttling of its components. The gene expression process is therefore circular, whereby the hitherto first and last stages are interconnected.
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.012
Source
Cell. 2013 May 23;153(5):1000-11. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.012. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Cell
Related Resources
PubMed ID
23706738
Repository Citation
Haimovich G, Medina DA, Causse SZ, Garber M, Millan-Zambrano G, Barkai O, Chavez S, Perez-Ortin JE, Darzacq X, Choder M. (2013). Gene expression is circular: factors for mRNA degradation also foster mRNA synthesis. Garber Lab Publications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.012. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/garber_lab_pubs/1