Nutrient stress diverts RRN3 from rRNA transcription to alternative polyadenylation of autophagy mRNAs in ovarian cancer.

ABSTRACT: Stress-induced alternative processing of mRNA is emerging as an essential mechanism to drive almost every hallmark of cancer. Through a genome-wide screening based on an abnormal transcriptional readthrough event favoring the malignant progression of ovarian carcinoma (OC), we identified novel mRNA processing regulators including RRN3, an essential factor for the transcriptional initiation of rRNA. The long-read RNA sequencing and PAR-CLIP analyses revealed that RRN3 was involved in the usage of alternative polyadenylation (APA) sites, resulting in the altered stability of autophagy-related mRNAs. More interestingly, we discovered that nutrient-deprivation-induced phosphorylation of RRN3 at serine 199 was sufficient to divert RRN3 out of the nucleolus to the nuclear plasma, where RRN3 regu

SUBMITTER: Lv J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12638823 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature