RESEARCH ARTICLE Strap associates with Csde1 and affects expression of select Csde1-bound transcripts Kat S. Moore1, Nurcan Yagci1, Floris van Alphen2, Alexander B. Meijer2,3, Peter A. C. `t Hoen4, Marieke von Lindern1* 1 Sanquin Research, Department of Hematopoiesis, and Landsteiner Laboratory Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2 Sanquin Research, Department of Research Facilities, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3 Department of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 4 Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands *
[email protected] a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 Abstract a1111111111 Erythropoiesis is regulated at many levels, including control of mRNA translation. Changing environmental conditions, such as hypoxia or the availability of nutrients and growth factors, require a rapid response enacted by the enhanced or repressed translation of existing tran- scripts. Cold shock domain protein e1 (Csde1/Unr) is an RNA-binding protein required for OPEN ACCESS erythropoiesis and strongly upregulated in erythroblasts relative to other hematopoietic pro- Citation: Moore KS, Yagci N, van Alphen F, Meijer genitors. The aim of this study is to identify the Csde1-containing protein complexes and AB, `t Hoen PAC, von Lindern M (2018) Strap associates with Csde1 and affects expression of investigate their role in post-transcriptional expression control of Csde1-bound transcripts. select Csde1-bound transcripts. PLoS ONE 13(8): We show that Serine/Threonine kinase receptor-associated protein (Strap/Unrip), was the e0201690. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. protein most strongly associated with Csde1 in erythroblasts. Strap is a WD40 protein pone.0201690 involved in signaling and RNA splicing, but its role when associated with Csde1 is unknown.