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The miRNA biogenesis factors, p72/DDX17 and KHSRP regulate the protein level of Ago2 in human cells
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The miRNA biogenesis factors, p72/DDX17 and KHSRP regulate the protein level of Ago2 in human cells

Patrick Connerty, Sarah Bajan, Judit Remenyi, Frances V Fuller-Pace and Gyorgy Hutvagner
BBA - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, Vol.1859(10), pp.1299-1305
2016
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Abstract

DDX17 miRNA p72 KHSRP Argonaute
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short (21–23nt long) RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate gene expression in plants and animals. They are key regulators in all biological processes. In mammalian cells miRNAs are loaded into one of the four members of the Argonaute (Ago) protein family to form the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC). RISCs inhibit the translation of mRNAs that share sequence complementarity with their loaded miRNAs. miRNA processing and miRNA-mediated gene regulation are highly regulated processes and involve many RNA-binding proteins as auxiliary factors. Here we show that the two RNA-binding proteins, p72 and KHSRP, both with known roles in promoting miRNA biogenesis, regulate the protein level of human Ago2 in transformed human cells. We determined that p72 and KHSRP influence Ago2 stability by regulating miRNA levels in the cell and that loss of p72/KHSRP results in a decrease of unloaded Ago2. •p72 and KHSRP are RNA binding proteins (RNP) that promote the processing of abundant miRNA in human cells.•We have shown that both RNPs stabilize human Argonaute 2 in multiple human cell lines.•The inhibition of p72 and KHSRP resulted in the decrease of the protein level of Argonaute 2.•Argonaute 2 is destabilized post-transcriptionally when p72 and KHSRP was inhibited.•We have shown that the degradation of Argonaute is the result of the decreased level of loadable miRNA pool.•Inhibition of p72 and KHSRP destabilized unloaded Argonaute 2.•Unloaded Argonaute 2 is degraded by the proteasome.

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