DDX6 Orchestrates Mammalian Progenitor Function through the mRNA Degradation and Translation Pathways.
DDX6 Orchestrates Mammalian Progenitor Function through the mRNA Degradation and Translation Pathways.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.molcel.2015.08.014
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发表时间:
2015-10-01
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16
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Sen GL
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作者:
Wang Y;Arribas-Layton M;Chen Y;Lykke-Andersen J;Sen GL
In adult tissues, stem and progenitor cells must balance proliferation and differentiation to maintain homeostasis. How this is done is unclear. Here, we show that the DEAD box RNA helicase, DDX6 is necessary for maintaining adult progenitor cell function. DDX6 loss results in premature differentiation and decreased proliferation of epidermal progenitor cells. To maintain self-renewal, DDX6 associates with YBX1 to bind the stem loops found in the 3′ untranslated regions (UTRs) of regulators of proliferation/self-renewal (CDK1, EZH2) and recruit them to EIF4E to facilitate their translation. To prevent premature differentiation of progenitor cells, DDX6 regulates the 5′UTR of differentiation inducing transcription factor, KLF4 and degrades its transcripts through association with mRNA degradation proteins. Our results demonstrate that progenitor function is maintained by DDX6 complexes through two distinct pathways which include the degradation of differentiation inducing transcripts as well as promoting the translation of self-renewal and proliferation mRNAs.