Single-Molecule Analysis of the Influenza Virus Replication Initiation Mechanism
Single-Molecule Analysis of the Influenza Virus Replication Initiation Mechanism
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流感病毒复制启动机制的单分子分析
DOI:
10.1016/j.bpj.2017.11.1370
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发表时间:
2018
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3.4
通讯作者:
Robb N
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Robb N
1240-Pos Board B149 Transcription Enhancement by Nuclear Speckle Association Jiah Kim, Nimish Khanna, Andrew S. Belmont. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. The textbook view of nuclear speckles is that they serve primarily as storage sites for RNA processing factors. A long-standing competing model has been that nuclear speckles act as a transcriptional hub for a subset of active genes; however, this hub model was based on analysis of just a few genes. The assignment by TSA-Seq of the Hi-C A1 active subcompartment as corresponding to genomic regions positioned close to nuclear speckles, now greatly bolsters this model of nuclear speckles as a transcriptional hub, yet this TSA-Seq mapping remains correlative. Here we demonstrate a tight temporal relationship between speckle association and heat-shock induced transcriptional activation using a BAC transgene system that closely recapitulates the transcriptional induction kinetics of the endogenous Hsp70 locus. smRNA FISH shows that both Hsp70 BAC transgenes and the endogenous Hsp70 locus synchronously activate transcription between 3-5 minutes after heat shock. However, speckleassociated transgenes have 4, 12, and 50-fold increased levels of nascent transcripts compared to non-associated ones at 30 mins, 1 hr, and 2 hrs after heat shock, respectively; a 13-fold difference at 2 hrs is observed for the endogenous Hsp70 loci. Moreover, live-cell imaging reveals several minute delays in robust transcriptional activation correlate with the time required for a BAC transgene to move to a nuclear speckle. Further analysis of live-cell data reveals examples where transcription decreases after BAC transgenes move away from speckles, and even increase again or restart after the BAC transgene forms a new speckle association. This strong temporal correlation between speckle association and changes in gene expression suggests that stochastic variations in gene expression may be related to spatial positioning relative to nuclear speckles for a subset of active genes.