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The E3 and RNA-binding ZNF598 orchestrates ribosome quality control of premature polyadenylated mRNAs.

Garzia, A., Jafarnejad, SM., Meyer, C., Chapat, C., Gogakos, T., Morozov, P., ... Sonenberg, N. (2017). The E3 and RNA-binding protein ZNF598 orchestrates ribosome quality control of premature polyadenylated mRNAs. Nature Communications, 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16056

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Received 6 Mar 2017 | Accepted 16 May 2017 | Published 7 Jul 2017 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16056 OPEN The E3 ubiquitin ligase and RNA-binding protein ZNF598 orchestrates ribosome quality control of premature polyadenylated mRNAs

Aitor Garzia1,*, Seyed Mehdi Jafarnejad2,*, Cindy Meyer1, Cle´ment Chapat2, Tasos Gogakos1, Pavel Morozov1, Mehdi Amiri2, Maayan Shapiro2, Henrik Molina3, Thomas Tuschl1 & Nahum Sonenberg2

Cryptic polyadenylation within coding sequences (CDS) triggers ribosome-associated quality control (RQC), followed by degradation of the aberrant mRNA and polypeptide, ribosome disassembly and recycling. Although ribosomal subunit dissociation and nascent peptide degradation are well-understood, the molecular sensors of aberrant mRNAs and their mechanism of action remain unknown. We studied the Zinc Finger Protein 598 (ZNF598) using PAR-CLIP and revealed that it cross-links to tRNAs, mRNAs and rRNAs, thereby placing the protein on translating ribosomes. Cross-linked reads originating from AAA-decoding tRNALys(UUU) were 10-fold enriched over its cellular abundance, and poly- encoded by poly(AAA) induced RQC in a ZNF598-dependent manner. Encounter with translated polyA segments by ZNF598 triggered ubiquitination of several ribosomal , requiring the E2 ubiquitin ligase UBE2D3 to initiate RQC. Considering that human CDS are devoid of 44 consecutive AAA codons, sensing of prematurely placed polyA tails by a specialized RNA- binding protein is a novel nucleic-acid-based surveillance mechanism of RQC.

1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Laboratory for RNA Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave, Box 186, New York, New York 10065, USA. 2 Department of Biochemistry and Goodman Cancer Research Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A3, Canada. 3 Proteomics Resource Center, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA. * These authors contributed equally to this work. Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to T.T. (email: [email protected]) or to N.S. (email: [email protected]).

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ryptic polyadenylation within coding sequences (CDS) or dependent as runs of poly-lysine residues coded by AAA codons incompletely removed introns produce aberrant tran- induced ribosome stalling much more efficiently than equivalent Cscripts that lack in-frame stop codons1. of runs of poly-lysine encoded by AAG codons15. These results such mRNAs may result in proteins prone to malfunction and indicate that sensing A-rich mRNA sequence in mammalian cells deleterious effects on cells2–4. To mitigate these errors, cells have dominates over general polybasic amino-acid-triggered translational developed quality-control processes to monitor translating regulation. Nevertheless, the mechanisms by which premature mRNAs and detect aberrant mRNAs, such as those with polyA sequences are detected in aberrant mRNAs and the following premature polyA tails within their CDS. Defects in components molecular events leading to ribosome stalling are not known. of the surveillance machineries have been implicated in several In yeast, the E3 ubiquitin ligase Hel2 has been implicated in types of diseases including neurodegeneration and cancer5,6. facilitating the earlier steps of RQC at polybasic sequences8. The ribosome-associated quality control (RQC) is a mechan- Notably, Hel2-dependent K63 polyubiquitination is necessary for ism that senses the state of mRNA translation and detects the initial processes involved in stalled translation surveillance16. ribosome stalling at the site of defective mRNAs, which results in However, the precise functions of Hel2 in detection of stalled targeting of both the translating mRNA and nascent peptide for ribosomes or its ubiquitination substrates have not been degradation7. RQC can be divided into several steps, surveillance identified. The Zinc Finger Protein 598 (ZNF598) is the human of the translating mRNA and detection of stalled ribosome, ortholog of Hel2 and contains a RING domain characteristic of ribosomal subunit dissociation, and degradation of the defective E3 ubiquitin and several C2H2-type zinc finger motifs, mRNA and nascent peptide. Although the processes of ribosomal commonly found in nucleic acid-binding proteins17,18.We subunit dissociation and nascent peptide degradation are well previously described ZNF598 protein in a complex with studied8–12, the mechanism of surveillance of the translating the translation repressor proteins EIF4E2/4EHP and GIGYF2 mRNA and detection of stalled ribosome, in particular the (ref. 19). Two recent reports showed that ZNF598 is also required molecular sensors of aberrant mRNAs and their mechanism of for stalling at polyA sequences and linked its E3 ubiquitin ligase action, remain largely unknown. Earlier studies suggested that activity to translation arrest through ubiquitinating the 40S presence of the polyA sequences within the CDS causes ribosome subunit ribosomal proteins RPS10 and RPS20 (refs 20,21). stalling through interactions between the positively charged Here, we reveal that ZNF598 directly binds to the translating peptide (poly-lysine) and the negatively charged exit channel of mRNA and tRNAs on ribosomes and triggers ribosome stalling the ribosome8,13,14. However, others showed that at least in and RQC at premature polyA sequences. We further identified mammalian cells RQC at poly-lysine sites is codon-sequence RPS3A as an additional substrate of ZNF598 E3 ubiquitin ligase

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Figure 1 | ZNF598 is a translation repressor that sediments with polysomes. (a) Domain organization of the human ZNF598 protein and its yeast orthologue Hel2 as determined by Interpro. The protein length in amino acids (aa) is indicated. (b) Polysome profiles of empty vector (EV) and ZNF598-OE HEK293 cells. (c) Polysome profiles of parental (CTR) and ZNF598-KO HEK293 cells. (d) Western blot analysis of ZNF598 expression and EIF2S1 (p-EIF2S1) to probe for proteotoxic stress in ZNF598-OE and ZNF598-KO cells and controls. * Indicates a non-specific band recognizedby the anti-ZNF598 antibody (GeneTex). Numbers indicate the ratio of ZNF598 expression relative to CTR cells. (e) Western blot analysis with the indicated antibodies of fractions of the ZNF598-OE HEK293 cell lysates after separation over a 10–50% sucrose gradient. The position of 80S ribosomes and polysomes in the gradient is indicated.

2 NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | 8:16056 | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16056 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16056 ARTICLE activity, and UBE2D3 as the ZNF598-interacting E2 ubiquitin rich proteins that would induce ribosome stalling and RQC ligase. Our findings establish a link between the RNA-binding pathway7,13. The transcript abundance of ZNF598 is B10-fold properties and ubiquitin ligase activity of a uniquely conserved below the average of transcripts encoding ribosomal proteins but protein in monitoring mRNA translation. similar in abundance to other proteins implicated in RQC (Supplementary Data 3). Considering that direct molecular Results contacts are required for photo-cross-linking of ZNF598 to the ZNF598 associates with translating ribosomes. Human ZNF598 CDS of mRNAs, tRNAs and rRNAs, we conclude that ZNF598 protein is associated with translating ribosomes and intimately encodes a ubiquitously expressed 904 amino acid (aa) protein containing one N-terminal RING domain characteristic of E3 monitors the CDS of translated mRNAs and/or identity of tRNAs occupying the ribosome and triggering RQC upon encounter with ubiquitin ligases and four N-terminal and one C-terminal C2H2- type zinc finger motifs (Fig. 1a & Supplementary Fig. 1). To premature polyA tails. evaluate its potential role in translational control, we performed polysome profiling using ZNF598 overexpression (ZNF598-OE) ZNF598 initiates RQC at premature polyA sequences. In yeast, or ZNF598 knockout HEK293 cells (ZNF598-KO; Supplementary Hel2 facilitates ribosome stalling at both poly-lysine and poly- Fig. 2). ZNF598-OE induced a shift from heavy polysomes to arginine polybasic amino-acid coding sites8,16,25,26. Polybasic monosomes and ZNF598-KO induced a shift to heavier poly- peptides are lysine- (AAA or AAG codons) and/or arginine-rich somes, indicating translational repression (Fig. 1b,c). This effect (CGU, CGC, CGA, CGG, AGG or AGA codons). To determine was independent of EIF4E2 (Supplementary Fig. 3) and was whether the amino acid or the mRNA sequence is responsible for neither due to general translational repression mediated by ribosome stalling, we generated stable HEK293 reporter cell lines phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor 2a EIF2S1/eIF2a for parental (CTR) and ZNF598-KO expressing GFP and (Fig. 1d) under stress condition. Western blot analysis of the mCherry fusion proteins separated by a 12 aa spacer composed polysome fractions showed that a proportion of ZNF598 protein of various lysine, arginine or control threonine-serine codon was associated with heavy polysomes in ZNF598-OE cells repeats (Fig. 3a). We observed fourfold decreased expression of (Fig. 1e). Size exclusion chromatography also revealed that the fusion protein separated by a (AAA)12 poly-lysine-coding ZNF598 protein co-fractionated with ribosomes in a Z2 MDa sequence as compared with either control poly-threonine-serine- complex (Supplementary Fig. 4), suggesting that ZNF598 either coding (ACT AGC)6, poly-lysine-coding (AAG)12, poly-arginine interacted transiently with assembled ribosomes or associated (AGA)12, or poly-arginine-coding combinations of CGC, CGA with a subset of actively translating ribosomes. Immuno- and CGG. Importantly, expression of the (AAA)12 reporter fluorescence analysis of ZNF598 upon exposure to arsenite- reverted to the level of the (ACT AGC)6 control in ZNF598-KO induced stress did not reveal any change in its cytosolic dis- cells (Fig. 3b & Supplementary Fig. 10b left panels), tribution, unlike many known cytosolic RNA-binding proteins or demonstrating ZNF598-dependent repression of the (AAA)12 18S ribosomal RNA which accumulate in stress granules22,23 reporter. The expression of the reporter fusion proteins was also (Supplementary Fig. 5). Together, these observations support a studied in ZNF598-OE and its empty vector control (EV) using role of ZNF598 in translation. transient reporter plasmid transfection, revealing further decreased (AAA)12 reporter expression as compared with the (ACT AGC) control (Fig. 3b & Supplementary Fig. 10b right ZNF598 binds to RNAs associated with translating ribosomes. 6 panels). The increased repression of the (AAA) reporter in To investigate ZNF598 function and identify its target RNAs, we 12 ZNF598-OE cells also suggests that ZNF598 protein is sub- performed 4-thiouridine (4SU) photoactivatable ribonucleoside- stoichiometric to ribosomes at standard conditions. Translational enhanced cross-linking and immunoprecipitation (PAR-CLIP)24 repression of the (AAA) reporter was not associated with an in ZNF598-OE HEK293 cells (Supplementary Figs. 2a and 6a). We 12 imbalance of the GFP to mCherry signal ratio (Fig. 3b) or observed that ZNF598 cross-linked to tRNAs, mRNAs and rRNAs accumulation of truncated fusion protein (Supplementary (Fig. 2a, Supplementary Fig. 6b–g & Supplementary Data 1). The Fig. 10b), which is consistent with activation of the RQC average ratio of cross-linked reads annotated as tRNAs, mRNAs pathway and destruction of the nascent reporter GFP segment8. and rRNAs was B4:2:1. Cross-linked reads derived from mRNAs These results demonstrate that whereas both poly-lysine and showed evenly distributed enrichment for CDS over untranslated poly-arginine sequences induce ribosome stalling and RQC in regions (UTRs) (Fig. 2a,b). The cross-linked mRNA read yeast8,16,26, only poly-lysine, encoded by the AAA codon induces abundance resembled the overall mRNA abundance in HEK293 RQC in mammalian cells in a ZNF598-dependent manner. cells as determined by polyA mRNA-Seq (Supplementary Fig. 7). Therefore, sensing A-rich mRNA sequence in mammalian cells The reads mapped to nuclear encoded cytoplasmic tRNAs dominates over general polybasic amino-acid-triggered originated predominantly from their 50 halves, which were translational regulation, as reported previously15. cross-linked to ZNF598 via their D-loops (Fig. 2c,d). Although Interestingly, although there are 7,433 (AAA) and 175 (AAA) ZNF598 protein cross-linked to every cytoplasmic tRNA, cross- 2 3 consecutive codons in human CDS, multiple consecutive (AAA) linked reads unique to tRNALys(UUU) were B10-fold enriched codons are scarce and do not exceed more than four relative to their total cellular abundance, whereas cross-linked (Supplementary Fig. 11 and Supplementary Data 4). This implies reads to tRNALys(CUU) only displayed an average twofold that ZNF598 protein may be directly involved in detecting enrichment (Fig. 2e & Supplementary Data 2). Cross-linked aberrant CDS containing Z12 nt polyA during translation, and/ reads to rRNA (Fig. 2f) originated predominantly from 5S (pos. or senses the simultaneous occupation of the ribosomal A, P and 96–121) and 18S rRNAs (pos. 686–707 and 745–778) and to a E sites with tRNALys(UUU), and/or a translating ribosome lesser extent from 5.8S and 28S (Supplementary Figs. 8 and 9). conformational transition as a consequence of the above. The Taken together, the cross-linked RNA targets and positional multiple C2H2-type zinc fingers positioned along the protein may cross-linking spectra indicate that a fraction of ZNF598 protein be implicated in such function. was bound to translating ribosomes. In light of the enrichment of cross-linking to (AAA)-decoding tRNALys(UUU), we hypothesized that ZNF598 may have a role in detecting The N-terminal RING domain is critical for ZNF598 function. premature polyA tails or protein-folding problems of poly-lysine To identify the protein domains of ZNF598 critical for triggering

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32 Percent T-to-C 32 Y R conversions Position (nt) U R 025% e f tRNALys(UUU) K23 Lys tRNA (CUU) K15 Arg S2 rRNA tRNA K17 d1 other 4 All other I21 R16 K8 0.10 G39 K1 d1 T-to-C d0 0

0.05 −4 Read frequency (PAR-CLIP vs HydroSeq) log2 fold-change in read frequency −16 −12 −8 −4 0 Top 85% 5 15253545 tRNA abundance log2 (average read frequency) Read length

Figure 2 | PAR-CLIP RNA targets of ZNF598 in HEK293 cells. (a) Relative composition of ZNF598 PAR-CLIP sequence reads mapping to each RNA category with up to two mismatches. The reads mapped to nuclear encoded mRNAs are further subdivided into functional regions. (b) Meta- plot of PAR-CLIP reads mapping to mRNA defined by at least one read with T-to-C conversion. Each row in the matrix represents the relative coverage over each mRNA. mRNAs are ranked by the number of mapped T-to-C reads for the 3,000 most abundant mRNAs. The upper panel depicts the average coverage over the top 3,000 mRNAs. (c) Bin-normalized distribution of ZNF598 PAR-CLIP T-to-C reads mapping to tRNAs. (d) Schematic diagram of the secondary structure of tRNAs. Conserved nucleotides across cytosolic tRNAs are spelled out in letters, while non-conserved nucleotides are depicted by circles. The colour-code indicates the T-to-C conversion ratio. Filled circles at the 50 end represent nucleotides covered by ZNF598 PAR-CLIP sequence reads (32 nt of the 50 end). (e) Relative changes in tRNA abundance in ZNF598 PAR-CLIP versus HydroSeq (total cellular tRNA). All tRNALys(UUU) sequence variants are coloured in red, tRNALys(CUU) variants are coloured in orange, and all tRNAArg variants are coloured in blue. tRNAs, which are over-represented in PAR- CLIP with a false discovery rate (FDR) of o5% are labelled by their corresponding gene names. tRNAs collecting the top 85% of sequencing reads are to the right and residual tRNAs are to the left of the dotted vertical line. (f) Average read composition of two replicates of ZNF598 PAR-CLIP experiments for the rRNA category. Reads were assigned as d0 (dark grey), d1 T-to-C (red), d1 other than T-to-C and (light grey).

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a Peptide Nucleotide # sequence sequence

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37 50 100 WB % cells 75 anti-HA HC 0 37 GFP/mCh negative GFP positive GFP/mCh positive mCh positive

Figure 3 | The RING domain of ZNF598 is essential for ribosome stalling at polyA residing within coding sequences. (a) Schematic diagram of the reporter constructs sandwiching a polybasic oligopeptide track between the fluorescent GFP and mCherry (mCh) fusion protein. (ACT AGC)6 [(ThrSer)6] encoded a neutrally charged amino-acid tract that served as a control. (b) Detection of GFP and mCherry fluorescent signals by FACS analyses in samples from (a) shown as relative cell numbers. Each experiment was performed in triplicates. (c) Domain structures of ZNF598 full-length and truncation mutants, with numbers referring to the position of amino acids. (d) Detection of GFP and mCherry fluorescent signals by FACS analyses in samples expressing full-length or truncated versions of ZNF598 and transiently transfected with GFP-mCherry reporter with (ACT AGC)6 and (AAA)12 linkers. Each experiment was performed in triplicate. (e) Upper panel: autoradiograph of cross-linked, 32P-labelled, RNA- Flag/HA-ZNF598 immunoprecipitate. Flag/HA-tagged full-length ZNF598 or truncated versions were separated by SDS-PAGE after 4SU PAR-CLIP. Lower panel: Anti-HA Western blot analyses of the cross-linked RNA-protein immunoprecipitates; HC, antibody heavy chain. premature polyA-dependent ribosome stalling and RQC, we Ubiquitination of ribosomal proteins is required for RQC. complemented the ZNF598-KO cells with full-length or a series RING finger proteins coordinate the transfer of ubiquitin to of truncated mutants of ZNF598 (Fig. 3c). Although the C- substrate proteins by the recruitment of E2 ubiquitin ligases27. terminal C2H2 domain (aa 864–904) was dispensable for RQC of Although Hel2-dependent ubiquitination has been implicated in the reporter without compromising RNA cross-linking, the N- the initial surveillance process of stalled ribosomes in yeast16, the terminal RING domain (lacking in the 81–904 truncation) was target substrates of Hel2 or its corresponding E2 ubiquitin ligase required for RQC (Fig. 3d), albeit RNA cross-linking and thus were not known. The N-terminal domains of Hel2, including the translating ribosome binding was unaffected by deletion of the RING domain, are the most conserved in ZNF598 RING domain (Fig. 3e & Supplementary Fig. 12). These func- (Supplementary Fig. 1), suggesting a similar E3 ligase activity tional observations were corroborated by polysome profiling, for ZNF598. To identify proteins targeted by ZNF598-dependent which show the requirement of the RING domain and unstruc- ubiquitination, we used ubiquitin remnant immuno-affinity tured central domain, but not the C-terminal C2H2 motif profiling28 in control, ZNF598-OE and ZNF598-KO HEK293 for translational repression of the endogenous mRNAs cells. Three small ribosomal subunit proteins RPS3A (eS1), RPS10 (Supplementary Fig. 13). (eS10) and RPS20 (uS10), and the heat-shock protein HSPH1

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | 8:16056 | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16056 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications 5 ARTICLE NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16056 were enriched more than fourfold in ZNF598-OE cells and been reported in mammalian cells32. Western blot analysis decreased more than fourfold in ZNF598-KO cells as compared revealed that overexpression or depletion of ZNF598 failed to with CTR cells (Fig. 4a and Supplementary Data 5). In addition to affect the expression of RPS3A, RPS10 and RPS20 proteins priming the target proteins to degradation, (Supplementary Fig. 14), indicating that the ZNF598-regulated ubiquitination also has a regulatory function in diverse ubiquitination of small ribosomal subunit proteins is likely a molecular pathways such as DNA repair29, anti-viral signalling event rather than inducing protein degradation by the immunity30 and signal transduction31. Evolutionarily conserved, proteasome. regulatory ubiquitination of the small ribosomal subunit proteins Further biochemical experiments were performed to investigate induced by inhibitors of translation elongation has previously the functional consequence of ZNF598-mediated ubiquitination

ab RPS3A RPS10 RPS20 HSPH1 6 K249 K138/139 K4/8 K234 iBAQ HSPA9 20 25 TUBB8 5 30 4 35 FDR <0.05 USP9X

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Figure 4 | Ribosome stalling at coding polyA sequences requires the E3 ubiquitin ligase activity of ZNF598 and the E2 ubiquitin ligase UBE2D3. (a) Identification of differentially ubiquitinated proteins by ubiquitin remnant immuno-affinity profiling. Log2 ratios of the enrichment of the quantified diGly-containing peptides are shown. Only peptides with an average log2 Z2 upregulation for ZNF598OE/CTR and downregulation for ZNF598KO/CTR are shown. Error bars represent the s.d. (n ¼ 2). See Supplementary Data 5 for a complete list of all detected peptides. (b) Volcano plots of the quantitative proteomic analysis of the ZNF598 interactome. The t-test difference based on label free quantitation for each detected protein is plotted against the negative logarithmic P value of a Welch’s t-test. The intensity based absolute quantitation (iBAQ)51 values correspond to the sum of all the peptide intensities divided by the number of observable peptides of a protein and are represented by point size. Proteins with a permutation-based FDR-value of o5% and t-test difference 40 are labelled in red and represent putative ZNF598 interactors (see also Supplementary Fig. 15 and Supplementary Data 6). (c) Analysis of siRNA-mediated knockdown of UBE2D2, UBE2D3 or both UBE2D2 and UBE2D3 in HEK293 cells by western blot. C indicates mock transfection. (d) Detection of GFP and mCherry fluorescent signals by FACS analyses in samples from (c), for reporter constructs containing (ACT AGC)6 and (AAA)12 linkers. Each experiment was performed in triplicate. (e) Model for ZNF598-dependent ribosome stalling and RQC at cryptic polyadenylated protein-coding mRNAs.

6 NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | 8:16056 | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16056 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16056 ARTICLE of RPS3A, RPS10 and RPS20. We generated stable cell lines among translating polysomes divide the labour of detecting faulty expressing the C-terminus Myc-DDK-tagged wild-type or mutant mRNAs. The study of molecular and functional ribosome RPS3A, RPS20 or RPS10 in which that are subject to heterogeneity36 will provide further direction in elucidating ubiquitination were substituted by arginine. For RPS10 and mechanisms of RQC. Although the encodes RPS20, where multiple lysines were ubiquitinated (RPS10; K138, 864 proteins with RING domain and 2,474 proteins containing at K139 and RPS20; K4, K8), we also created double mutants. least one C2H2 domain, only three additional proteins, TRIM23, Western blot analysis confirmed that the mutant proteins were at ZNF645 and CBLL1, carry a combination of RING and C2H2 least as abundantly expressed as the wild-type proteins domains (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/protein/), but none is as (Supplementary Fig. 15a–c). However, only RPS10 K138R, and strongly evolutionarily conserved as ZNF598 (Supplementary the double mutant K138R/K139R, partially impaired RQC for the Fig. 20). In as much these proteins contribute to other possibly (AAA)12 reporter, whereas mutations in RPS20 and RPS3A failed less conserved ubiquitination-dependent RNA pathways outside to effect (AAA)12 reporter expression (Supplementary Fig. 15d). of translation, it poses an intriguing question. In summary, we This indicates that downstream ribosomal protein ubiquitination showed that ribosome stalling and RQC in mammalian cells at of RPS10 contributes to RQC. premature polyA-containing mRNAs involved recognition of the Recent reports also identified ZNF598-dependent ubiquitina- tRNALys(UUU) and/or the mRNA (AAA) codon repeats by the tion of ribosomal proteins RPS10 and RPS20 as ZNF598- unique RNA-binding and E3 ligase protein ZNF598 (see model; stimulated ubiquitin conjugates; although these studies differ Fig. 4e). with respect to the relative importance of the two proteins as well 20,21 as their ubiquitination sites . Both studies showed the Methods requirement for ubiquitination of RPS10 in polyA-induced Cell lines and culture conditions. Flp-In T-REx 293 cells (Thermo Fisher Sci- ribosome stalling. Nevertheless, while Juszkiewicz and Hegde21 entific, R78007) were grown in high glucose Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium (DMEM) (Thermo Fisher Scientific, 11965118) supplemented with 10% v/v fetal observed only a partial effect in RPS20 K4R/K8R double mutant, 1 1 Sundaramoorthy, et al.20 observed that both RPS20 and RPS10 bovine serum (FBS), 100 U ml penicillin, 100 mgml streptomycin, 2 mM L- glutamine, 100 mgml 1 zeocin and 15 mgml 1 blasticidin. Presence of myco- mutants displayed enhanced readthrough of the polyA sequence. plasma contamination in cells was tested by mRNA-Seq. Cell lines inducibly We detected RPS3A as an additional target of ZNF598-regulated expressing 3xFlag-ZNF598 or Flag/HA-tagged truncated ZNF598 variants were ubiquitination, which is surprising considering its distance from generated as described previously37 and selected and maintained in media 1 RPS10 and RPS20 in the ribosome33,34. However, as mutations in supplemented with 100 mgml hygromycin. Expression of tagged proteins was induced for 24 h by the addition of doxycycline at 1 mgml 1 final concentration. In RPS3A did not impact the polyA-induced ribosome stalling, it is the text, figures and tables, parental Flp-In T-REx 293 cells are labelled as CTR and likely that ubiquitination of this protein occurs or has a role in the CRISPR-Cas9-mediated knockout as ZNF598-KO. 3xFlag-ZNF598 cells are downstream events such as during ribosomal subunit labelled as ZNF598-OE. Because they were grown in different media than the CTR dissociation. and ZNF598-KO cells, ZNF598-OE cells were always compared with control cells RING family E3 ubiquitin ligases catalyse the transfer of expressing 3xFlag EV, labelled as EV. For experiments with truncated variants, cells 35 expressing full-length or truncated variants of ZNF598 were established using ubiquitin from an E2 to target proteins . To identify the ZNF598-KO cells. E2 ligase for ZNF598 we performed immunoprecipitation (IP) in ZNF598-OE HEK293 cells followed by mass spectrometry (IP/ Antibodies and RNA interferences. The following antibodies were used: mouse MS) analysis of the immunoprecipitate. We identified the 97% anti-b-tubulin (Sigma, T4026; 1:5,000 dilution), mouse anti-a-tubulin (Santa Cruz, identical UBE2D2 and UBE2D3 E2 ligases among the most sc-23948; 1:1,000 dilution), mouse anti-b-actin (Sigma, A5441; 1:1,000 dilution), significant hits (Fig. 4b, Supplementary Figs. 16 and 17a & mouse anti-Flag M2 (Sigma, F3165; 1:2,000 dilution), mouse anti-RPS6 (Cell Supplementary Data 6). Their interactions with ZNF598 were Signaling, C-8; 1:2,000 dilution), rabbit anti-RPS3A (Abcam, ab171742; 1: 2,000 dilution), rabbit anti-RPS10 (Abcam, ab151550; 1: 2,000 dilution), rabbit anti- verified by IP and western blot analysis, which revealed that RPS20 (Abcam, ab133776; 1: 2,000 dilution), rabbit anti-Rack1 (Cell Signaling, UBE2D3 (the most abundant homologue in HEK293 cells; 4716; 1:2,000 dilution), rabbit anti-EEF2 (Cell Signaling, 2332; 1:1,000 dilution), Supplementary Fig. 17b), but not UBE2D2, specifically interacted rabbit anti-4EHP (GeneTex, GTX103977; 1:500 dilution), mouse anti-HA (Fisher; with ZNF598 (Supplementary Fig. 17c,d). UBE2D3 also co- 50-103-0108; 1:2,000 dilution), rabbit anti-UBE2D2 (Abcam, ab155088; 1:2,000 Z dilution), mouse anti-UBE2D3 (Abcam, ab58251; 1:2,000 dilution), mouse anti- fractionated with ZNF598 and ribosomal proteins in 2 MDa GFP (Clontech, 632375; 1:1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-ZNF598 (Abcam, ab135921; complexes (Supplementary Fig. 18), but failed to co-fractionate in 1:500 dilution), rabbit anti-ZNF598 (a gift from Jianxin Xie at Cell Signaling heavy complexes with the DRING mutant (aa 81–904) of ZNF598 Technology; 1:1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-ZNF598 (GeneTex, GTX119245; 1:500 (Supplementary Fig. 12). In addition, knockdown of UBE2D3, dilution). For ZNF598 the Cell Signaling antibody was used in most experiments, unless stated otherwise. Uncropped images of all of the immune-blots in this but not UBE2D2, partially abrogated RQC on the (AAA)12 manuscript are shown in Supplementary Figs 21 and 22. reporter (Fig. 4c,d) or translational repression of endogenous The following siRNA and shRNAs were used: ON-TARGETplus Non-targeting mRNAs in ZNF598-OE cells (Supplementary Fig. 19). These Control Pool (Dharmacon, D-001810-10-05), UBE2D2 siRNA SMARTpool results underscore the requirement of the E3 ligase activity of (Dharmacon, L-010383-00-0005), UBE2D3 siRNA SMARTpool (Dharmacon, L-008478-00-0005), Non-Targeting shRNA Controls (Sigma, SHC002) and EIF4E2 ZNF598 and highlight the regulatory ubiquitination of the shRNA (Sigma, TRCN0000152006). ribosomal proteins RPS3A, RPS10 and RPS20 in ribosome stalling and RQC. 6 Although ZNF598 was originally identified as a component of Lentivirus production. A total of 8 10 293FT (Thermo Fisher Scientific, R70007) cells were cultured in a 10-cm dish for 24 h in high-glucose DMEM the ZNF598/GIGYF2/EIF4E2 complex, we showed that ZNF598- supplemented with 10% v/v FBS. Medium was replaced by OptiMEM (Thermo dependent translational repression was independent of the cap- Fisher Scientific, 51985091) 30 min before transfection. Lentivirus particles were binding EIF4E2 protein. Considering that EIF4E2 represses produced by transfecting the 293FT cells using Lipofectamine 2000 (Thermo Fisher mRNA translation19, we propose that this complex may have a Scientific, 11668019) and 10 mg shRNA plasmid, 6.5 mg psPAX2 (Addgene, plasmid 12260) and 3.5 mg pMD2.G (Addgene, plasmid 12259) packaging plasmids. 5 h post role in downstream degradation of premature polyadenylated transfection, the medium was replaced with fresh high-glucose DMEM supple- mRNAs via displacement of the canonical cap-binding protein mented with 10% v/v FBS. Supernatant was collected at 48 h post transfection, EIF4E by the repressive EIF4E2 homolog. The sub-stoichiometric replaced with fresh medium and harvested again after 24 h. Viral particles were abundance of ZNF598 as well as other proteins implicated in cleared by filtration (45 mm; Fisher Scientific, 09-720-005) and virus titre was measured by colony formation assay using 293FT cells. The multiplicity of infec- RQC sensing deleterious amino-acid repeats, premature stop tion was adjusted to B5. Virus solution was stored at 80 °C without cryopre- codons or truncated non-polyadenylated mRNAs, suggest that servative in 1 ml aliquots or used to infect the cells directly in the presence of subpopulations of error-sensing ribosomes distributed randomly 6 mgml 1 polybrene (Sigma, H9268).

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