Presence of a Poly(A) Binding Protein and Two Proteins with Cell Cycle-Dependent Phosphorylation in Crithidia fasciculata mRNA Cycling Sequence Binding Protein II
AUTOR(ES)
Mittra, Bidyottam
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Crithidia fasciculata cycling sequence binding proteins (CSBP) have been shown to bind with high specificity to sequence elements present in several mRNAs that accumulate periodically during the cell cycle. The first described CSBP has subunits of 35.6 (CSBPA) and 42 kDa (CSBPB). A second distinct binding protein termed CSBP II has been purified from CSBPA null mutant cells, lacking both CSBPA and CSBPB proteins, and contains three major polypeptides with predicted molecular masses of 63, 44.5, and 33 kDa. Polypeptides of identical size were radiolabeled in UV cross-linking assays performed with purified CSBP II and 32P-labeled RNA probes containing six copies of the cycling sequence. The CSBP II binding activity was found to cycle in parallel with target mRNA levels during progression through the cell cycle. We have cloned genes encoding these three CSBP II proteins, termed RBP63, RBP45, and RBP33, and characterized their binding properties. The RBP63 protein is a member of the poly(A) binding protein family. Homologs of RBP45 and RBP33 proteins were found only among the kinetoplastids. Both RBP45 and RBP33 proteins and their homologs have a conserved carboxy-terminal half that contains a PSP1-like domain. All three CSBP II proteins show specificity for binding the wild-type cycling sequence in vitro. RBP45 and RBP33 are phosphoproteins, and RBP45 has been found to bind in vivo specifically to target mRNA containing cycling sequences. The levels of phosphorylation of both RBP45 and RBP33 were found to cycle during the cell cycle.
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