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Submitted on October 2, 2006
Accepted on December 8, 2006
Departments of Otolaryngology and Biochemistry, Cancer Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118; Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC 29208; Department of Medicine, Cancer Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118; Department of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90048
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rspan{at}bu.edu.
It was previously shown that mPus1p, a pseudouridine synthase (PUS) known to modify certain tRNAs, can also bind with nuclear receptors (NRs) and function as a coactivator through pseudouridylation and likely activation of an RNA coactivator called Steroid receptor RNA Activator (SRA). Utilization of cell extract devoid of hPus1p activity derived from patients with mitochondrial myopathy and sideroblastic anemia, however, still showed SRA-modifying activity suggesting that other PUS(s) can also target this coactivator. Here we show that related mPus3p, which has a different tRNA specificity than mPus1p, also serves as a NR coactivator. However, in contrast to mPus1p, it does not stimulate sex steroid receptor activity which is likely due to lack of binding to this class of NRs. As expected from their tRNA activities, in vitro pseudouridylation assays show that mPus3p and mPus1p modify different positions in SRA although some may be commonly targeted. Interestingly, the order in which these enzymes modify SRA determines the total number of pseudouridines. mPus3p and SRA are mainly cytoplasmic, however mPus3p and SRA are also localized in distinct nuclear subcompartments. Finally, we identified an in vivo modified position in SRA, U206, which is likely a common target for both mPus1p and mPus3p. When U206 is mutated to A, SRA becomes hyperpseudouridylated in vitro and it acquires dominant negative activity in vivo. Thus, Pus1p and Pus3p-dependent pseudouridylation of SRA is a highly complex posttranscriptional mechanism that controls a coactivator-corepressor switch in SRA with major consequences for NR-signaling.
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