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HnRNP C promotes APP translation by competing with FMRP for APP mRNA recruitment to P bodies

  • Eun Kyung Lee
  • , Hyeon Ho Kim
  • , Yuki Kuwano
  • , Kotb Abdelmohsen
  • , Subramanya Srikantan
  • , Sarah S. Subaran
  • , Marc Gleichmann
  • , Mohamed R. Mughal
  • , Jennifer L. Martindale
  • , Xiaoling Yang
  • , Paul F. Worley
  • , Mark P. Mattson
  • , Myriam Gorospe
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Johns Hopkins University

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Abstract

Amyloid precursor protein (APP) regulates neuronal synapse function, and its cleavage product AΒ is linked to Alzheimer's disease. Here, we present evidence that the RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) C and fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) associate with the same APP mRNA coding region element, and they influence APP translation competitively and in opposite directions. Silencing hnRNP C increased FMRP binding to APP mRNA and repressed APP translation, whereas silencing FMRP enhanced hnRNP C binding and promoted translation. Repression of APP translation was linked to colocalization of FMRP and tagged APP RNA within processing bodies; this colocalization was abrogated by hnRNP C overexpression or FMRP silencing. Our findings indicate that FMRP represses translation by recruiting APP mRNA to processing bodies, whereas hnRNP C promotes APP translation by displacing FMRP, thereby relieving the translational block.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)732-739
Number of pages8
JournalNature Structural and Molecular Biology
Volume17
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2010

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank F.E. Indig and M.H. Dehoff for assistance with experiments. This research was supported by the National Institute on Aging-Intramural Research Program, US National Institutes of Health. P.F.W. is suppported by DA00266.

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