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The Eif3 Complex of Typanosoma Brucei: Composition Conservation Does Not Imply the Conservation of Structural Assembly and Subunits Function Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on October 1, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1 The eIF3 complex of Typanosoma brucei: composition conservation does not imply the 2 conservation of structural assembly and subunits function 3 4 Kunrao Li,1,2 Shuru Zhou,1,2 Qixuan Guo,3 Xin Chen,1,2 Dehua Lai,2,4 Zhaorong Lun,2,4,5 and 5 Xuemin Guo1,2,5 6 7 1Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, 8 Guangzhou, China 9 2Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-Sen University), Ministry of Education, 10 Guangzhou, China 11 3Chengde Nursing Vocational College, Chende, China 12 4Center for Parasitic Organisms, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, 13 Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China 14 15 5Corresponding author. Email, [email protected]; or [email protected] 16 K.L. and S.Z. contributed equally to this work 17 18 Running head: Characterization of the eIF3 of Trypanosoma brucei 19 Keywords: Translation, Eukaryotic initiation factor 3, Trypanosome 20 1 Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on October 1, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 21 ABSTRACT 22 The multisubunit eukaryotic initiation factor 3 (eIF3) plays multiple roles in translation, but 23 poorly understood in trypanosomes. The putative subunits eIF3a and eIF3f of Trypanosoma 24 brucei (TbIF3a and TbIF3f) were overexpressed and purified, and 11 subunits were identified, 25 TbIF3a through l minus j, which form a tight complex. Both TbIF3a and TbIF3f are essential for 26 viability of T. brucei. RNAi knockdown of either of them severely reduced total translation and 27 the ratio of polysome/80S peak area. TbIF3f and TbIF3a RNAi cell lines were modified to 28 express tagged-TbIF3a and -TbIF3f, respectively. RNAi in combination with affinity 29 purification assays indicated that both subunits are variably required for TbIF3 stability and 30 integrity. The relative abundance of other subunits in the TbIF3f-tag complex changed little 31 upon TbIF3a depletion; while only subunits TbIF3b, i and e co-purified comparably with 32 TbIF3a-tag upon TbIF3f depletion. A genome-wide UV-crosslinking assay showed that several 33 TbIF3 subunits have direct RNA-binding activity, with TbIF3c showing the strongest signal. In 34 addition, CrPV IRES, but neither EMCV IRES nor HCV IRES, was found to mediate 35 translation in T. brucei. These results together imply that the structure of TbIF3 and the subunits 36 function have trypanosome-specific features, although the composition is evolutionally 37 conserved. 38 2 Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on October 1, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 39 INTRODUCTION 40 Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania major can cause African sleeping 41 sickness, American trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis, respectively. They are unicellular 42 protozoans and cycle between mammals and blood sucking insects. The proliferating forms of T. 43 brucei in mammal blood and in tsetse fly intestine are designated bloodstream form (BF) and 44 procyclic form (PF), respectively. 45 As anciently diverged organisms, trypanosomes possess many unique biological and 46 metabolism features, such as tandem genes arrangement and polycistronic transcription 47 (Opperdoes 1994; Martinez-Calvillo et al. 2004; Siegel et al. 2009). The production of mature 48 mRNAs are through the coupled trans-splicing and polyadenylation (Matthews et al. 1994; 49 Siegel et al. 2010). The resulted cap structure, named cap 4, is unusual and highly methylated in 50 the first four nucleotides following the methylated guanosine (Bangs et al. 1992; Mair et al. 51 2000), whose fully methylation is essential for maximized translation (Zamudio et al. 2009). 52 Accordingly, the cap-binding translation initiation factor of trypanosomes, i.e. eIF4F, has 53 unusual aspects as well, shown by an expanding number of subunit variants and different 54 combination (Dhalia et al. 2006; Freire et al. 2014; Moura et al. 2015). These unique features 55 imply some trypanosome-specific translation patterns, however, little is known about the 56 translation apparatus of trypanosomes, especially which initiating translation. 57 Translation initiation is a complicated and highly ordered process, and has been extensively 58 studied in yeast and mammals. The largest translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3) plays multiple 3 Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on October 1, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 59 roles as a scaffold and a coordinator through the whole process (Hinnebusch 2006; Aitken and 60 Lorsch 2012; Hinnebusch 2014). Briefly, eIF3 mediates a multifactor complex 61 eIF1-eIF1A-eIF3-eIF5 binding to a 40S ribosomal subunit and then recruits a ternary complex 62 eIF2-GTP-Met-tRNAi to the 40S subunit (Sun et al. 2011; Sokabe et al. 2012). The resulting 63 43S preinitiation complex (PIC) attaches to the 5’-proximal region of an mRNA through 64 eIF3-eIF4F interaction, and then scans downstream along the mRNA until the initiation codon, 65 where it stops and results in 48S PIC. Finally, eIF5B promotes the joining of a 60S subunit into 66 an 80S initiation complex and starts the translation. Beyond translation initiation, eIF3 has also 67 been implicated to function at termination stage and is required for ribosome dissociation and 68 recycling (Pisarev et al. 2007; Beznoskova et al. 2013). 69 Mammalian eIF3 is composed of 13 subunits, eIF3a through m. Based on a series of 70 biochemical and cryo-EM reconstruction assays (Pisarev et al. 2008; Zhou et al. 2008; Elantak 71 et al. 2010; Sun et al. 2011; Querol-Audi et al. 2013; des Georges et al. 2015), the structural 72 assembly of human eIF3 and its interaction with 40S ribosomal subunit have been elucidated 73 clearly. 6 PCI domain-containing subunits (eIF3a, c, e, k, l, and m) and two MPN 74 domain-containing subunits eFI3f and h are arranged into a stable octamer; eIF3b, i, and g form 75 a separate module, which adheres to the octamer through interacting with eIF3a; eIF3d attaches 76 to the octamer through binding to eIF3e (Zhou et al. 2008; Karaskova et al. 2012; Querol-Audi 77 et al. 2013; Aylett et al. 2015); while eFI3j is just loosely attached to the octamer by potentially 78 interacting with eIF3a and b (Elantak et al. 2010). The PCI/MPN octamer resides on the solvent 4 Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on October 1, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 79 side of the 40S ribosomal subunit in a five-lobed shape with eIF3a and eIF3c establishing two 80 contact points; the eIF3b-i-g module resides at the mRNA entrance with eIF3b interacting 81 directly with the 40S subunit; eIF3d is located near the mRNA exit (Pisarev et al. 2008; des 82 Georges et al. 2015). eIF3c, e and d associate into a module and are involved in the 83 eIF4G-binding and the subsequent mRNA recruitment to the ribosome (Villa et al. 2013). 84 The functions of individual eIF3 subunits have been underscored. Although not fully 85 characterized, many of them appear to have additional functions out scoping their general 86 scaffolding roles in eIF3 and PIC assembly by showing essentiality for normal growth, 87 development and differentiation (Dong et al. 2004; Liu et al. 2007; Dong et al. 2009; Choudhuri 88 et al. 2013) or over-expression in some disease conditions (Zhang et al. 2007). The underlying 89 mechanisms were proposed to involve the specific RNA-binding activity and the selective 90 translation control shown by some eIF3 subunits, particularly those not essential for protein 91 synthesis and eIF3 activity, such as eIF3d, g, h, i, k and l, etc (Masutani et al. 2007; Choudhuri 92 et al. 2013; Yin et al. 2013). RNA-binding assay and target mRNA determination are helpful to 93 elucidate the function of eIF3 subunits. Accordingly, a recent genome-wide UV crosslinking 94 assay showed that four human eIF3 subunitseIF3a, b, d, and g could bind specifically to some 95 cell growth control-related mRNAs at the 5’-untranslated regions (5’-UTRs), and thus 96 potentially endow eIF3 with positive or negative translation control on these genes expression 97 (Lee et al. 2015). eIF3a has been suggested to regulate translation of a subset of messenger 5 Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on October 1, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 98 RNAs important for tumorigenesis, metastasis, cell cycle progression, drug response and DNA 99 repair (Dong et al. 2009). 100 The composition of trypanosomatid eIF3 was investigated, whereas the structure and function 101 have not been characterized yet. Twelve eIF3 subunits, eIF3a through l, were predicted in T. 102 brucei eIF3 and L. major eIF3 (termed as TbIF3 and LeishIF3, respectively) by deep informatics 103 analysis, and further confirmed by affinity purification and mass spectrometry (MS) assay of the 104 LeishIF3 complex (Rezende et al. 2014; Meleppattu et al. 2015). The gene encoding eIF3m was 105 proposed to be absent in trypanosomatids. Although evolutionarily conserved in complex 106 composition and in some characteristic motifs/domains within various subunits, such as PCI and 107 MPN domains, each LeishIF3 or TbIF3 subunit displays very low level of sequence identity 108 when compared with their homologues from human and some other lower eukaryotes (Rezende 109 et al. 2014). Among all the subunits, TbIF3f shows the lowest sequence identity at 9% in 110 comparison with human eIF3f, while LeishIF3f shows 29% (Rezende et al. 2014). Meanwhile, 111 it is worth noting that LeishIF3a and TbIF3a proteins lack a large fragment corresponding to 112 ~620-amino acid length of C-terminal region of human eIF3a, which was supposed to interact 113 with eIF4B (Methot et al. 1996) and 18S rRNA (Valasek et al. 2003) directly.
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