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- Title
Combinatorial recognition of clustered RNA elements by the multidomain RNA-binding protein IMP3.
- Authors
Schneider, Tim; Hung, Lee-Hsueh; Aziz, Masood; Wilmen, Anna; Thaum, Stephanie; Wagner, Jacqueline; Janowski, Robert; Müller, Simon; Schreiner, Silke; Friedhoff, Peter; Hüttelmaier, Stefan; Niessing, Dierk; Sattler, Michael; Schlundt, Andreas; Bindereif, Albrecht
- Abstract
How multidomain RNA-binding proteins recognize their specific target sequences, based on a combinatorial code, represents a fundamental unsolved question and has not been studied systematically so far. Here we focus on a prototypical multidomain RNA-binding protein, IMP3 (also called IGF2BP3), which contains six RNA-binding domains (RBDs): four KH and two RRM domains. We establish an integrative systematic strategy, combining single-domain-resolved SELEX-seq, motif-spacing analyses, in vivo iCLIP, functional validation assays, and structural biology. This approach identifies the RNA-binding specificity and RNP topology of IMP3, involving all six RBDs and a cluster of up to five distinct and appropriately spaced CA-rich and GGC-core RNA elements, covering a >100 nucleotide-long target RNA region. Our generally applicable approach explains both specificity and flexibility of IMP3-RNA recognition, allows the prediction of IMP3 targets, and provides a paradigm for the function of multivalent interactions with multidomain RNA-binding proteins in gene regulation. Multidomain RNA-binding proteins recognize specific target sequences through mechanisms that are not well understood. Here the authors present an integrated approach to define the RNA-binding specificity and RNP topology and apply it to the analysis of the prototypical multidomain RNA-binding protein IMP3.
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-019-09769-8