UMMS Affiliation
Program in Molecular Medicine
Publication Date
2021-09-07
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins | Cell Biology | Developmental Biology | Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides
Abstract
Lin28/LIN-28 is a conserved RNA-binding protein that promotes proliferation and pluripotency and can be oncogenic in mammals. Mammalian Lin28 and C. elegans LIN-28 have been shown to inhibit biogenesis of the conserved cellular differentiation-promoting microRNA let-7 by directly binding to unprocessed let-7 transcripts. Lin28/LIN-28 also bind and regulate many mRNAs in diverse cell types. However, the determinants and consequences of LIN-28-mRNA interactions are not well understood. Here, we report that C. elegans LIN-28 represses the expression of LIN-46, a downstream protein in the heterochronic pathway. We find that lin-28 and sequences within the lin-46 5' UTR are required to prevent LIN-46 expression at early larval stages. Moreover, we find that precocious LIN-46 expression caused by mutations in the lin-46 5' UTR is sufficient to cause precocious heterochronic defects similar to those of lin-28(lf) animals. Thus, our findings demonstrate the biological importance of the regulation of individual target mRNAs by LIN-28.
Keywords
5′ UTR, LIN-28, LIN-46, Lin28, cell fate progression, cell proliferation, heterochronic, let-7, mRNA, pluripotency
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Copyright 2021 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109670
Source
Ilbay O, Nelson C, Ambros V. C. elegans LIN-28 controls temporal cell fate progression by regulating LIN-46 expression via the 5' UTR of lin-46 mRNA. Cell Rep. 2021 Sep 7;36(10):109670. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109670. PMID: 34496246; PMCID: PMC8445076. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Cell reports
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PubMed ID
34496246
Repository Citation
Ilbay O, Nelson CJ, Ambros VR. (2021). C. elegans LIN-28 controls temporal cell fate progression by regulating LIN-46 expression via the 5' UTR of lin-46 mRNA. Open Access Publications by UMass Chan Authors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109670. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/4933
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