Pelota interacts with HAX1, EIF3G and SRPX and the resulting protein complexes are associated with the actin cytoskeleton.
BACKGROUND
Pelota (PELO) is an evolutionary conserved protein, which has been reported to be involved in the regulation of cell proliferation and stem cell self-renewal. Recent studies revealed the essential role of PELO in the No-Go mRNA decay, by which mRNA with translational stall are endonucleotically cleaved and degraded. Further, PELO-deficient mice die early during gastrulation due to defects in cell proliferation and/or differentiation.


RESULTS
We show here that PELO is associated with actin microfilaments of mammalian cells. Overexpression of human PELO in Hep2G cells had prominent effect on cell growth, cytoskeleton organization and cell spreading. To find proteins interacting with PELO, full-length human PELO cDNA was used as a bait in a yeast two-hybrid screening assay. Partial sequences of HAX1, EIF3G and SRPX protein were identified as PELO-interacting partners from the screening. The interactions between PELO and HAX1, EIF3G and SRPX were confirmed in vitro by GST pull-down assays and in vivo by co-immunoprecipitation. Furthermore, the PELO interaction domain was mapped to residues 268-385 containing the c-terminal and acidic tail domain. By bimolecular fluorescence complementation assay (BiFC), we found that protein complexes resulting from the interactions between PELO and either HAX1, EIF3G or SRPX were mainly localized to cytoskeletal filaments.


CONCLUSIONS
We could show that PELO is subcellularly localized at the actin cytoskeleton, interacts with HAX1, EIF3G and SRPX proteins and that this interaction occurs at the cytoskeleton. Binding of PELO to cytoskeleton-associated proteins may facilitate PELO to detect and degrade aberrant mRNAs, at which the ribosome is stalled during translation.
Burnicka-Turek
Ozanna
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Institute of Human Genetics, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany.
Kata
Aleksandra
A
Buyandelger
Byambajav
B
Ebermann
Linda
L
Kramann
Nadine
N
Burfeind
Peter
P
Hoyer-Fender
Sigrid
S
Engel
Wolfgang
W
Adham
Ibrahim M
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D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism*; D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / Q000378:metabolism*; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000378:metabolism; D004720:Endonucleases; D039621:Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-3 / Q000378:metabolism*; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D047468:Immunoprecipitation; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008840:Microfilament Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D020798:Two-Hybrid System Techniques
D000199:Actins; D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D039621:Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-3; C104759:HAX1 protein, human; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D008840:Microfilament Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; C486297:SRPX protein, human; D004720:Endonucleases; C550527:pelo protein, human
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