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A conserved sequence in Drosophila Argonaute1 mRNA contributes to stress response via inducing miR-999 degradation

Sheng, P.; Li, L.; Li, T.; Wang, Y.; Hiers, N. M.; Mejia, J. S.; Sanchez, J. S.; Zhou, L.; Xie, M.

2022-11-16 molecular biology
10.1101/2022.11.16.515324 bioRxiv
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) load onto Argonaute (AGO) proteins and target messenger RNAs (mRNA) to directly suppress gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. However, miRNA degradation can be triggered when there is extended base-pairing between miRNAs and the target RNAs. Such base-pairing can induce confirmational change of AGO and recruitment of ZSWIM8 ubiquitin ligase to mark AGO for proteasomal degradation, while the miRNAs are subsequently degraded. This target RNA-directed miRNA degradation (TDMD) mechanism appears to be an evolutionary conserved mechanism, but recent studies have focused on identifying endogenous TDMD events in the mammalian systems. Here, we performed AGO1-CLASH (crosslinking and sequencing of miRNA-mRNA hybrids) in Drosophila S2 cells, with Dora (ortholog of vertebrate ZSWIM8) knockout (KO) mediated by CRISPR-Cas9 to identify five TDMD triggers (sequences that can induce miRNA degradation). Interestingly, one trigger residing in the 3' UTR of AGO1 mRNA induces miR-999 degradation. CRISPR-Cas9 KO of the AGO1 trigger in S2 cells and in Drosophila elevates miR-999 abundance, with concurrent repression of the miR-999 targets. AGO1 trigger-KO flies respond poorly to hydrogen peroxide-induced stress, demonstrating the physiological importance of a single TDMD event.

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