Journal: Life science alliance
Article Title: N -6-methyladenosine (m6A) promotes the nuclear retention of mRNAs with intact 5' splice site motifs.
doi: 10.26508/lsa.202403142
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 3. YTHDC1/YTHDC2 and ALKBH5 are required for the nuclear retention of 59SS motif containing mRNAs. (A) U2OS cells were treated with different lentivirus shRNAs against YTHDC1, YTHDC2, ALKBH5, ZFC3H1, or scrambled control. Note that “ZFC3H1-2” denotes shRNA #2 against ZFC3H1 as described previously (Lee et al, 2022). Lysates were collected after 96 h, separated by SDS–PAGE and immunoprobed for YTHDC1, YTHDC2, ALKBH5, ZFC3H1, tubulin, or mAb414, which recognizes FG-nucleoporin proteins. To effectively deplete YTHDC1 and YTHDC2, cells were treated with lentivirus containing two shRNAs against YTHDC1 and another two against YTHDC2. (B, C) Control- or YTHDC1/2-, ALKBH5-, ZFC3H1-depleted U2OS cells were transfected with the intronless ftz reporter plasmid (±59SS) and 59SS motif containing reporter that lacks m6A methylation sites (no-m6A-ftz-Δi-59SS). 18–24 h later the cells were fixed and the mRNA was visualized by FISH. Representative images are shown in (B), scale bar = 20 μm, and quantification is shown in (C). Each bar represents the average and standard error of three independent experiments, each experiment consisting of at least 30–60 cells. t test was performed, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001. (D) Schematic of PCF11-IPA RNA reporter. The position of the FISH probe used to visualize the IPA transcript is marked in gray and the position of the 39 cleavage site in the intron is as indicated. (E, F) Similar to (B, C), except that Control-, YTHDC1/YTHDC2-, or ALKBH5-depleted cells were transfected with the PCF11-IPA RNA reporter. (G, H) Total RNA was isolated from whole cell lysates (G) or nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions (H) from control- or YTHDC1/2-, ZFC3H1-depleted U2OS cells. PCF11-IPA was assessed by qRT-PCR using oligo- dT to generate cDNA and intronic-specific primers for the amplicon. Levels were normalized to the control depletion. Note that no signal was detected in reactions lacking reverse transcriptase (not shown). Each bar represents the average and standard error of three (G) or two (H) independent experiments. Source data are available for this figure.
Article Snippet: The FLAG-HA-tagged YTHDC1 plasmid was purchased from Addgene (plasmid #85167).
Techniques: Control, shRNA, SDS Page, Transfection, Plasmid Preparation, Methylation, Isolation, Quantitative RT-PCR, Amplification, Reverse Transcription