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Advantages of C. elegans : 1. rapid life cycle 2. hermaphrodite 3. prolific reproduction 4. transparent 5. only ~1000 cells 6. laser ablation 7. complete cell lineage map 8. genetics. RNA interference: A type of gene regulation Involving small RNA molecules - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Advantages of C. elegans:
1. rapid life cycle
2. hermaphrodite
3. prolific reproduction
4. transparent
5. only ~1000 cells
6. laser ablation
7. complete cell lineage map
8. genetics
RNA interference:
A type of gene regulation Involving small RNA molecules and induced by double stranded RNA
Adding a Chalcone synthase gene from Petunia fused to a strong viral promoterto transgenic Petunia interfered with expressionof the native homologous’gene.
Gene Silencing
Gene Silencing
1.More common from strong promoters. 2. More common from inverted repeat inserts
(could make a double stranded RNA).
3. Induced by RNA viruses (have double stranded RNA replication intermediates).
Tobacco plant expressing GFP proteinInfected with RNA virus with GFP geneVirus infection travels through veinsGFP expression inhibited starting at veins.
RNA viruses can block expression of a transgene if a copy of the transgene has been added
Double stranded RNA is common to Viruses that can silence host gene expression
And to transgenes that can silence host gene expression
Transgenes insert into chromosomal DNA randomly
or
Transgenes often integrate in complexes
Gene silencing and RNA virusesshare potential to produce dsRNA
Fire and Mello used C. elegans to prove that dsRNA inhibits expression of endogenous genes homologous to that dsRNA
Double stranded GFP RNA interferes with expression of GFP in transgenic C. elegans
GFP expressed in nuclei After adding dsRNA for GFP
Features of RNAi
Induced by dsRNA with homology to exons
Catalytic: very small amounts of ds RNA are sufficient
Spreads: injection into gut silences genes in embryos
Small RNAs produced
Mechanism of RNAi
Dicer binds dsRNAAnd cleaves makingsiRNA
siRNAs direct Risc to bind homologous mRNA and cleave it.
Catalysis: RdRP copies mRNA making more ds RNA. Dicer cuts that generating more siRNA
More RdRP is activated and more dsRNA is made.
Spread: dsRNA transported to other cells.Not in Drosophila or mammals
Double stranded GFP RNA interferes with expression of GFP in transgenic C. elegans
GFP expressed in nuclei After adding dsRNA for GFP
How would you design a genetic screen to identify the genes involved in the RNAi mechanism?
How would you set up a genetic screen to investigate the mechanism of RNAi?
Design a screen for mutants in genes required for RNAi
Easy to induce RNAi in C. elegans by feeding them E. coli engineered to express a transgene in both directions – sense and antisense
A real genetic screen for C. elegans genes essential for RNAi
A real genetic screen for C. elegans genes essential for RNAi
Candidate mutants isolated after feeding E. coli producing double stranded RNA
How could double stranded RNA be made in E. coli?
Checked candidate mutants by microinjection into gut
The listed mutants passed the secondary test
Different mutants had Specific Phenotypes For activation of Transposable elements and silencing of transgenes
Functions of genes in RNAi decifered
Rde4 = Initiating RNA binding protein
Rde1 = Argonaut
Rde2 = ?
Mut7 = endonuclease
What is the function of RNAi mechanism in non-transgenic organisms?
Protection against viruses
Keep Transposable elements inactive
Gene regulation
Gene regulation by small RNAs
SiRNAs degrade mRNAto stop gene expression quickly
StRNAs prevent translation to stop gene expression quickly
MIRNA gene
HASTY
5’
3’
CC UU C C AUGAGAGAGU CU GAUAUUGGC UGGUUCA UCAGAU |:|||||||| || ||||||||| :||:||| |||||| 44nt loop UGCUCUCUCA GA CUAUAACCG GCCGAGU AGUCUA U CU C U
C C 5' UAUUGGC UGGUUCA UCACU 3' ||||||| ||||||| |||3' CUAUAACCG GCCGAGU AGU 5' C U
5’
3’
CC UU C C AUGAGAGAGU CU GAUAUUGGC UGGUUCA UCAGAU |:|||||||| || ||||||||| :||:||| |||||| 44nt loop UGCUCUCUCA GA CUAUAACCG GCCGAGU AGUCUA U CU C U
AAA
Pol II
DCL1
HEN1, HYL1
C C 5' UAUUGGC UGGUUCA UCACU 3' ||||||| ||||||| |||3' CUAUAACCG GCCGAGU AGU 5' C U
AGO1
AGO1
CUAUAACCGCGCCGAGUUAGU
UAUUGGCCUGGUUCACUCCACU
AGO1
CUAUAACCGCGCCGAGUUAGU
AAA ..... .............
AAA
DCL1
miRNA*
RISCcomponents
RISCmiRNA
Target
Cleaved target
57 unique miRNAs from 26 families
~200 MIRNA genes**
**Cumulative data from Bartels, Carrington, Chen, Weigel, Zhu, others
m7GpppN AAAAA
5’ Cap
Introns
Poly(A) tailmiRNA Precursor
Transcript
MIRNA genes are PolII genes that encode a hairpin shaped mRNA.Dicer cleaves the double stranded portion to makea short dsRNA.That combines with the RISC complex and directs cleavage of a specific target mRNA
HYL1
miRNAs and Targets in Animals
C. elegans 114Drosophila 78Zebrafish 362Mouse 245Human 321
Registered miRNAs
Fig. 3 from Lewis, Burge and Bartel (2005) Cell 120, 15-20
May target 1/3 of all genes
Development - e.g. timing, stem cell function, differentiationCell and organ identityCancer - mis-regulation, deletion, duplication of MIRNA genes
HerpesvirusesSV40
Transcriptional gene silencing is initiated by RNA directed methylation of promoter regions
dsRNA homologous to promoters leads to methylation and inactivation by recruitment of chromatin remodeling enzymes.
Centromeres are transcriptionally inactive. They have condensed chromatinRepeated sequences lead to production of double stranded RNAsThe dsRNAs maintain the condensed state of the centromeres
Transcriptional Gene silencing requires dsRNA, DNA methyltransferases, histone methylation and histone deacetylation.
RNA directed DNA methylation
DNA methylases associate with histone modification enzymes leading to changes in histone methlyation patterns and histone deacetylation.Condensed chromatin results.
Histone methylation
RNA is a gene regulator as well as a carrier of information
Transcriptional gene silencing is initiated by RNA directed methylation of promoter regions
dsRNA homologous to promoters leads to methylation and inactivation by recruitment of chromatin remodeling enzymes.
Imprinting is another form of epigenetic gene regulation
ICR – imprintingControl region
Differential methylationleads to differential expression of Maternal and paternal alleles
Establishment of differential methylation
CTCF zinc finger proteinProtects ICR in femalegermline
Denovo methylases Cannot methylate H19
Igf2 insulin-related growth factorRepressed in extraembryonic tissuesand in some embryo tissues
Imprinting
RNA directed methylases also affect methylation of genes in germline.
May be important to imprinting
RNA can mediate differential expression of genes on same chromosome
Mechanism not like RNAi because it works in cis.
Like X inactivation
Extraembryonic tissues:
Igf2r and distant, linked genes Maternal ICR is methylated,Paternal alleles are not expressed.
Paternal X chromosome Not expressed.
RNA directed regulation of gene expression is more common than we thought.