Messenger RNA Destabilization by -1 Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting

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dc.contributor.advisorDinman, Jonathan Den_US
dc.contributor.authorBelew, Ashton Treyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCell Biology & Molecular Geneticsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-07T05:51:02Z
dc.date.available2012-07-07T05:51:02Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractAlthough first discovered in viruses, previous studies have identified programmed -1 ribosomal frameshifting (-1 PRF) signals in eukaryotic genomic sequences, and suggested a role in mRNA stability. This work improves and extends the computational methods used to search for potential -1 PRF signals. It continues to examine four yeast -1 PRF signals and show that they promote significant mRNA destabilization through the nonsense mediated (NMD) and no-go (NGD) decay pathways. Yeast EST2 mRNA is highly unstable and contains up to five -1 PRF signals. Ablation of the -1 PRF signals or of NMD stabilizes this mRNA. These same computational methods identified an operational programmed -1 ribosomal frameshift (-1 PRF) signal in the human mRNA encoding CCR5. A -1 PRF event on the CCR5 mRNA directs translating ribosomes to a premature termination codon, destabilizing it through the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway. CCR5-mediated -1 PRF is stimulated by at least two miRNAs, one of which is shown to directly interact with the CCR5 -1 PRF signal. Structural analyses reveal a complex and dynamic mRNA structure in the -1 PRF signal, suggesting structural plasticity as the underlying biophysical basis for regulation of -1 PRF.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/12658
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCellular biologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledBioinformaticsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMolecular biologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFrameshiftingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmRNAen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRibosomeen_US
dc.titleMessenger RNA Destabilization by -1 Programmed Ribosomal Frameshiftingen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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