NKAP is a novel RS-related protein that interacts with RNA and RNA binding proteins.
In: Nucleic acids research, Jg. 42 (2014-03-01), Heft 5, S. 3177-93
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NKAP is a highly conserved protein with roles in transcriptional repression, T-cell development, maturation and acquisition of functional competency and maintenance and survival of adult hematopoietic stem cells. Here we report the novel role of NKAP in splicing. With NKAP-specific antibodies we found that NKAP localizes to nuclear speckles. NKAP has an RS motif at the N-terminus followed by a highly basic domain and a DUF 926 domain at the C-terminal region. Deletion analysis showed that the basic domain is important for speckle localization. In pull-down experiments, we identified RNA-binding proteins, RNA helicases and splicing factors as interaction partners of NKAP, among them FUS/TLS. The FUS/TLS-NKAP interaction takes place through the RS domain of NKAP and the RGG1 and RGG3 domains of FUS/TLS. We analyzed the ability of NKAP to interact with RNA using in vitro splicing assays and found that NKAP bound both spliced messenger RNA (mRNA) and unspliced pre-mRNA. Genome-wide analysis using crosslinking and immunoprecipitation-seq revealed NKAP association with U1, U4 and U5 small nuclear RNA, and we also demonstrated that knockdown of NKAP led to an increase in pre-mRNA percentage. Our results reveal NKAP as nuclear speckle protein with roles in RNA splicing and processing.
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NKAP is a novel RS-related protein that interacts with RNA and RNA binding proteins.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Burgute, BD ; Peche, VS ; Steckelberg, AL ; Glöckner, G ; Gaßen, B ; Gehring, NH ; Noegel, AA |
Zeitschrift: | Nucleic acids research, Jg. 42 (2014-03-01), Heft 5, S. 3177-93 |
Veröffentlichung: | 1992- : Oxford : Oxford University Press ; <i>Original Publication</i>: London, Information Retrieval ltd., 2014 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1362-4962 (electronic) |
DOI: | 10.1093/nar/gkt1311 |
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