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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 732-739 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Nature Structural and Molecular Biology |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 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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