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Hrp1-Saccharomyces cervisiae

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Hrp1 is a heterogeneous ribonuclear protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, baker’s yeast. Hrp1 is an essential component of 3’ pre-mRNA processing and contributes to the preparatory cleavage required for polyadenylation. The gene expressed as Hrp1, HRP1, was first isolated by Henry, et al. and was later attributed to the Hrp1 protein by Kessler, et al. Hrp1 also participates in the regulation of the 3’ end.

Function

Polyadenylation Complex

Hrp1 is a member of yeast mRNA cleavage factor 1 (CF1), which, along with the cleavage stimulatory factor (CstF), processes the 3’ end, most notably through polyadenylation. Though crucial in eukaryotic pre-mRNA processing, polyadenylation is especially important in yeast, where intron splicing is far less frequent than in higher eukaryotes (Guisbert). CF1 binds mRNA upstream of the cleavage site (Kessler, et al. 1996) and is divided into two components, CF1a and b, the former of which contains Rna14, Rna15, Clp1 and Pfc11 (Minvielle-Sebastia, et al. 1998). Hrp1 is the sole polypeptide of cleavage factor 1b (CF1b) (Kessler, et al. 1997). Hrp1 interacts with the CF1a proteins Rna14 and Rna15 in an inverted U-like structure in the presence of mRNA (Barnwal). Rna15 interacts with both RNA recognition motifs (RRMs) of Hrp15 (Barnwal), while Rna14 contacts Hrp1 in such a way that maximizes the distance between the negative domains of each protein (Leeper).

Specificity and Location

Yeast hnRNPs, including Hrp1, are specific to certain mRNA strands. Hrp1 is specific to an mRNA efficiency element consisting of alternating UA sequencing (Gusibert) approximately seven nucleotides in length (Chen). This sequence specificity, among other observational data, has given credence to the notion, first proposed by Minvielle-Sebastia, et al., that Hrp1 is not totally essential to the 3’ processing of every mRNA (Minvielle-Sebastia). This notion is further supported by the ability of yeast cells to survive hyperosmotic stress-induced extranuclear export of Hrp1 (Henry 2003).

Hrp1 participates in mRNA processing within the nucleus, but it may be found endo- or exonuclearly (Kessler, 1996, Henry 2003). A nuclear localization signal (NLS) at the C-terminal end of Hrp1 is essential to its recognition by the nuclear transportin receptor Kap104. The receptor and NLS are orthologous to human karyopherin B2 and hnRNP A1 (Lange).

Regulatory Function

Hrp1 participates in multiple regulatory pathways involving 3’ processing (Tuck, Tollervy). It has been implicated in the inhibition of transcription by the Sen-1 helicase as mediated by Nrd-1 (Kuehner, Brow). Hrp1 also activates the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway, which monitors translation and degrades incorrect mRNA (Gonzalez). Hrp1, along with Rna14, competes with Npl13, which inhibits cleavage at the polyadenylation site (Bucheli).

Disease

Though Hrp1 is not analogous to any mammalian hnRNP (Gross, Moore), the protein and its corresponding gene are occasionally studied as orthologues to human hnRNPs. HNRPDL is one such family of human hnRNPs. Mutations to several members of this class of hnRNPs result in many facets of muscular dystrophy. A study by Vieira, et al. found that elimination of Hrp1 had profound effects on protein localization and activation, and these results were used as a model for the genotypic causation of muscular dystrophy.

Structural highlights

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