PUBLICATION

Translation initiation factor eIF3h targets specific transcripts to polysomes during embryogenesis

Authors
Choudhuri, A., Maitra, U., and Evans, T.
ID
ZDB-PUB-130708-17
Date
2013
Source
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   110(24): 9818-9823 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Evans, Todd
Keywords
RNA sequencing, Crygm2d
Datasets
GEO:GSE44584
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Blotting, Western
  • Embryo, Nonmammalian/embryology
  • Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism*
  • Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-3/genetics
  • Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-3/metabolism*
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
  • Gene Knockdown Techniques
  • Polyribosomes/genetics
  • Polyribosomes/metabolism*
  • Protein Biosynthesis
  • Protein Subunits/genetics
  • Protein Subunits/metabolism
  • RNA, Messenger/genetics
  • RNA, Messenger/metabolism*
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Transcription, Genetic
  • Zebrafish/embryology
  • Zebrafish/genetics
  • Zebrafish/metabolism
  • Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
  • Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
  • gamma-Crystallins/genetics
  • gamma-Crystallins/metabolism
PubMed
23716667 Full text @ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Abstract

Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3) plays a central role in translation initiation and consists of five core (conserved) subunits present in both budding yeast and higher eukaryotes. Higher eukaryotic eIF3 contains additional (noncore or nonconserved) subunits of poorly defined function, including sub-unit h (eIF3h), which in zebrafish is encoded by two distinct genes (eif3ha and eif3hb). Previously we showed that eif3ha encodes the predominant isoform during zebrafish embryogenesis and that depletion of this factor causes defects in the development of the brain and eyes. To investigate the molecular mechanism governing this regulation, we developed a genome-wide polysome-profiling strategy using stage-matched WT and eif3ha morphant zebrafish embryos. This strategy identified a large set of predominantly neural-associated translationally regulated mRNAs. A striking finding was a cohort of lens-associated crystallin isoform mRNAs lost from the eif3ha morphant polysomes, revealing a mechanism by which lens development is translationally controlled. We show that both UTR sequences of a targeted crystallin transcript are necessary but not sufficient for translational regulation by eif3ha. Therefore, our study reveals the role of a noncore eIF3 subunit in modulating a specific developmental program by regulating translation of defined transcripts and highlights the potential of the zebrafish system to identify translational regulatory mechanisms controlling vertebrate development.

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