WRAP53 Is Essential for Cajal Body Formation and for Targeting the Survival of Motor Neuron Complex to Cajal Bodies

Mahmoudi, Salah (author)

Weibrecht, Irene (author): Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för genetik och patologi

Söderberg, Ola (author): Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för genetik och patologi

Strömblad, Staffan (author)

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2010-11-02
2010
English.
In: PLoS biology. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1544-9173 .- 1545-7885. ; 8:11, s. e1000521-

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Abstract Subject headings

The WRAP53 gene gives rise to a p53 antisense transcript that regulates p53. This gene also encodes a protein that directs small Cajal body-specific RNAs to Cajal bodies. Cajal bodies are nuclear organelles involved in diverse functions such as processing ribonucleoproteins important for splicing. Here we identify the WRAP53 protein as an essential factor for Cajal body maintenance and for directing the survival of motor neuron (SMN) complex to Cajal bodies. By RNA interference and immunofluorescence we show that Cajal bodies collapse without WRAP53 and that new Cajal bodies cannot be formed. By immunoprecipitation we find that WRAP53 associates with the Cajal body marker coilin, the splicing regulatory protein SMN, and the nuclear import receptor importin beta, and that WRAP53 is essential for complex formation between SMN-coilin and SMN-importin beta. Furthermore, depletion of WRAP53 leads to accumulation of SMN in the cytoplasm and prevents the SMN complex from reaching Cajal bodies. Thus, WRAP53 mediates the interaction between SMN and associated proteins, which is important for nuclear targeting of SMN and the subsequent localization of the SMN complex to Cajal bodies. Moreover, we detect reduced WRAP53-SMN binding in patients with spinal muscular atrophy, which is the leading genetic cause of infant mortality worldwide, caused by mutations in SMN1. This suggests that loss of WRAP53-mediated SMN trafficking contributes to spinal muscular atrophy.

By the author/editor: Mahmoudi, Salah; Henriksson, Sofi ...; Weibrecht, Irene; Smith, Stephen; Söderberg, Ola; Strömblad, Staff ...; show more...; Wiman, Klas G.; Farnebo, Mariann ...; show less...

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