A Feedback Mechanism between Phospholipase D and Deadenylase PARN for the Shortening of Eukaryotic Poly(A) mRNA Tails that is Deregulated in Cancer Cells Taylor E. Miller2 and Julian Gomez-Cambronero1,2* 1Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115. 2Wright State University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dayton, Ohio 45435. *Corresponding author. Address: Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH 45435, USA. Phone: 937-775-4767. Fax: 937-775-3730. E-mail:
[email protected]. © 2016. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. Biology Open • Advance article Abbreviations: BSA, bovine serum albumin; DMEM, Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Media; DOPA, 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphate; EGF, epidermal growth factor; EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor; FCS, fetal calf serum; FITC, fluorescein isothiocyanate; mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin; PA, phosphatidic acid; PARN, poly(A) specific- ribonuclease; PBS, phosphate buffered saline; PC, phosphatidylcholine; PLD, phospholipase D; PH, phox homology domain; PLD2, phospholipase D2; PP2A, phosphoprotein 2A; PVDF, polyvinylidene difluoride; RNase, ribonuclease; TRITC, tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate; PAN, RNA polyadenylated nuclear complex. Biology Open • Advance article ABSTRACT The removal of mRNA transcripts poly(A) tails by 3-5 exonucleases is the rate-limiting step in mRNA decay in eukaryotes.