Structural highlights
Function
[SRRT_HUMAN] Acts as a mediator between the cap-binding complex (CBC) and the primary microRNAs (miRNAs) processing machinery during cell proliferation. Contributes to the stability and delivery of capped primary miRNA transcripts to the primary miRNA processing complex containing DGCR8 and DROSHA, thereby playing a role in RNA-mediated gene silencing (RNAi) by miRNAs. Binds capped RNAs (m7GpppG-capped RNA); however interaction is probably mediated via its interaction with NCBP1/CBP80 component of the CBC complex. Involved in cell cycle progression at S phase. Does not directly confer arsenite resistance but rather modulates arsenic sensitivity. Independently of its activity on miRNAs, necessary and sufficient to promote neural stem cell self-renewal. Does so by directly binding SOX2 promoter and positively regulating its transcription (By similarity).[1]
Publication Abstract from PubMed
ARS2 is a highly conserved metazoan protein involved in numerous aspects of nuclear RNA metabolism. As a direct partner of the nuclear cap-binding complex (CBC), it mediates interactions with diverse RNA processing and transport machineries in a transcript-dependent manner. Here, we present the human ARS2 crystal structure, which exhibits similarities and metazoan-specific differences to the plant homologue SERRATE, most notably an additional RRM domain. We present biochemical, biophysical and cellular interactome data comparing wild type and mutant ARS2 that identify regions critical for interactions with FLASH (involved in histone mRNA biogenesis), NCBP3 (a putative cap-binding protein involved in mRNA export) and single-stranded RNA. We show that FLASH and NCBP3 have overlapping binding sites on ARS2 and that CBC-ARS2-NCBP3 form a ternary complex that is mutually exclusive with CBC-ARS-PHAX (involved in snRNA export). Our results support that mutually exclusive higher-order CBC-ARS2 complexes are critical in determining Pol II transcript fate.
Structural analysis of human ARS2 as a platform for co-transcriptional RNA sorting.,Schulze WM, Stein F, Rettel M, Nanao M, Cusack S Nat Commun. 2018 Apr 27;9(1):1701. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04142-7. PMID:29703953[2]
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References
- ↑ Gruber JJ, Zatechka DS, Sabin LR, Yong J, Lum JJ, Kong M, Zong WX, Zhang Z, Lau CK, Rawlings J, Cherry S, Ihle JN, Dreyfuss G, Thompson CB. Ars2 links the nuclear cap-binding complex to RNA interference and cell proliferation. Cell. 2009 Jul 23;138(2):328-39. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.04.046. PMID:19632182 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2009.04.046
- ↑ Schulze WM, Stein F, Rettel M, Nanao M, Cusack S. Structural analysis of human ARS2 as a platform for co-transcriptional RNA sorting. Nat Commun. 2018 Apr 27;9(1):1701. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04142-7. PMID:29703953 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04142-7
