Abstract
Nuclear degradation of pre-HAC1 mRNA and its subsequent targeting plays a vital role in the activation as well as attenuation of Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Accurate measurement of the degradation of precursor HAC1 mRNA therefore appears vital to determine the phase of activation or attenuation of this important intracellular signaling pathway. Typically, pre-HAC1 mRNA degradation is measured by the transcription shut-off experiment in which RNA Polymerase II transcription is inhibited by a potent transcription inhibitor to prevent the de novo synthesis of all Polymerase II transcripts followed by the measurement of the steady-state levels of a specific (e.g., pre-HAC1) mRNA at different times after the inhibition of the transcription. The rate of the decay is subsequently determined from the slope of the decay curve and is expressed as half-life (T1/2). Estimation of the half-life values and comparison of this parameter determined under different physiological cues (such as in absence or presence of redox/ER/heat stress) gives a good estimate of the stability of the mRNA under these conditions and helps gaining an insight into the mechanism of the biological process such as activation or attenuation of UPR.
Intra-nuclear targeting of the pre-HAC1 mRNA from the site of its transcription to the site of non-canonical splicing, where the kinase-endonuclease Ire1p clusters into the oligomeric structures constitutes an important aspect of the activation of Unfolded Protein Response pathway. These oligomeric structures are detectable as the Ire1p foci/spot in distinct locations across the nuclear-ER membrane under confocal micrograph using immunofluorescence procedure. Extent of the targeting of the pre-HAC1 mRNA is measurable in a quantified manner by co-expressing fluorescent-labeled pre-HAC1 mRNA and Ire1p protein followed by estimating their co-localization using FACS (Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorter) analysis. Here, we describe detailed protocol of both determination of intra-nuclear decay rate and targeting-frequency of pre-HAC1 mRNA that were optimized in our laboratory.
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Acknowledgment
We thank Profs. Kazutoshi Mori, (Kyoto University, Japan), Peter Walter (University of California San Francisco, USA), Martin Schroeder (University of Durham, UK), Drs. Madhusudan Dey and Anish Anshu (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA), Prof. J. Scott Butler (University of Rochester, Rochester, USA) for various yeast strains and plasmids. We are grateful to all the anonymous reviewers for their critical comments and constructive criticisms. Research in the laboratory of the authors is supported by the research grants from CSIR (Ref. No 38/1280/11/EMR-II and 38/1427/16/EMR-II), DST (File No. SR/SO/BB/0066/2012), DBT (BT/PR6078/BRB/10/ 1114/2012 and BT/PR27917/BRB/ 10/1673/2018) to B.D. SP is partially supported by the DST-PURSE program from Jadavpur University.
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Paira, S., Das, B. (2022). Determination of the Stability and Intracellular (Intra-Nuclear) Targeting and Recruitment of Pre-HAC1 mRNA in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae During the Activation of UPR. In: Pérez-Torrado, R. (eds) The Unfolded Protein Response. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2378. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1732-8_9
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