1. Systemic Reprogramming of Translation Efficiencies on Oxygen Stimulus.
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Ho JJD, Wang M, Audas TE, Kwon D, Carlsson SK, Timpano S, Evagelou SL, Brothers S, Gonzalgo ML, Krieger JR, Chen S, Uniacke J, and Lee S
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- Cell Hypoxia, Cell Line, Tumor, Epithelial Cells cytology, Epithelial Cells drug effects, Epithelial Cells metabolism, Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-4F metabolism, Evolution, Molecular, Humans, Neuroglia cytology, Neuroglia drug effects, Neuroglia metabolism, RNA, Messenger metabolism, Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-4F genetics, Oxygen pharmacology, Protein Biosynthesis drug effects, RNA, Messenger genetics
- Abstract
Protein concentrations evolve under greater evolutionary constraint than mRNA levels. Translation efficiency of mRNA represents the chief determinant of basal protein concentrations. This raises a fundamental question of how mRNA and protein levels are coordinated in dynamic systems responding to physiological stimuli. This report examines the contributions of mRNA abundance and translation efficiency to protein output in cells responding to oxygen stimulus. We show that changes in translation efficiencies, and not mRNA levels, represent the major mechanism governing cellular responses to [O2] perturbations. Two distinct cap-dependent protein synthesis machineries select mRNAs for translation: the normoxic eIF4F and the hypoxic eIF4F(H). O2-dependent remodeling of translation efficiencies enables cells to produce adaptive translatomes from preexisting mRNA pools. Differences in mRNA expression observed under different [O2] are likely neutral, given that they occur during evolution. We propose that mRNAs contain translation efficiency determinants for their triage by the translation apparatus on [O2] stimulus., (Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2016
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