Expression data from HeLa cells transiently transfected with control siRNA or SON siRNA
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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE26888 | GEO | 2011/04/01
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA135949
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:SON is a large Ser/Arg (SR)-related protein localized in nuclear speckles. SON siRNA causes defects in mitotic progression and genome instability. We used microarrays to detail the pattern of gene expression after SON knockdown. HeLa cells were grown in 100 mm dishes and transfected with negative control siRNA or SON siRNA (400 pmol). Then, cells were harvested after 66 hours and RNAs were isolated. Microarrays were performed using GeneChip Human Genome U133A 2.0 (Affymetrix).
2011-04-01 | E-GEOD-26888 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Exon and expression analysis of HeLa cells after knockdown of SON Serine-arginine-rich (SR) proteins play a key role in alternative pre-mRNA splicing in eukaryotes. Our laboratory recently showed that a large SR protein called Son has unique repeat motifs that are essential for maintaining the subnuclear organization of pre-mRNA processing factors in nuclear speckles. Motif analysis of Son highlights putative RNA interaction domains that suggest a direct role for Son in pre-mRNA splicing. A genome-wide screen was performed to identify putative human transcription and splicing targets of Son.
2011-12-22 | GSE28672 | GEO
Project description:Exon and expression analysis of HeLa cells after knockdown of SON Serine-arginine-rich (SR) proteins play a key role in alternative pre-mRNA splicing in eukaryotes. Our laboratory recently showed that a large SR protein called Son has unique repeat motifs that are essential for maintaining the subnuclear organization of pre-mRNA processing factors in nuclear speckles. Motif analysis of Son highlights putative RNA interaction domains that suggest a direct role for Son in pre-mRNA splicing. A genome-wide screen was performed to identify putative human transcription and splicing targets of Son. HeLa cells were transfected with siRNA against SON or a control siRNA (siLuciferase) for 48 hours. Five biological replicates were used for each condition.
2011-12-22 | E-GEOD-28672 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:The nucleus of higher eukaryotes is a highly compartmentalized and dynamic organelle consisting of several biological condensates that regulate gene expression at multiple levels. First reported more than 100 years ago by Ramón y Cajal, nuclear speckles (NS) are among the most prominent of such condensates, which were independently rediscovered multiple times and are also known as interchromatin granule clusters (ICGs), splicing speckles, or SC35 domains. Despite their prevalence, research on the function of NS is virtually restricted to colocalization analyses, since an organizing core, without which NS cannot form, remains unidentified. The monoclonal antibody SC35, which was raised against a spliceosomal extract, is a frequently used reagent to mark NS since its debut in 1990. Despite its prolific use, and the consensus regarding its primary target as SRSF2, clear inconsistencies between observations made with mAb SC35, and transgenic SRSF2 constructs in the same experiment are noted. Intrigued by these disparities, we carried out a systematic re-characterization of this monoclonal antibody and its cellular targets. Unexpectedly, we found no evidence for SC35 mAb recognizing SRSF2 in human cells. In contrast, our results show that the 35 kDa namesake protein recognized by SC35 mAb is SRSF7, a related but distinct SR protein. More importantly, using mass-spectrometry, CRISPR-mediated knock-ins, immunoblotting and fluorescence microscopy, we show that the main target of SC35 mAb is SRRM2, a large (300 kDa), spliceosome-associated protein with prominent intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) that sharply localizes to NS. Analysis of protein length evolution among metazoa revealed a peculiar IDR extension specifically for SRRM2 and SON in vertebrates, a hallmark of condensate formation. Combining these results, we tested a long-standing question in the study of NS: whether NS are formed around a specific core, or various SR-proteins self-assemble into a phase-separated compartment without the need for a defined core. Here we show that, the elusive core of NS is formed by SON and SRRM2, since depletion of SON leads only to a partial disassembly of NS, while combined depletion of SON together with SRRM2, but not other NS associated factors, or depletion of SON in a cell line where IDRs of SRRM2 are genetically deleted, leads to a near-complete dissolution of NS. This work, therefore, paves the way to study the role of NS under diverse physiological and stress conditions.
2020-10-26 | PXD021814 | Pride
Project description:A high incidence of acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL) in Down syndrome patients implies that chromosome 21 genes have a pivotal role in AMKL development, but the functional contribution of individual genes remains elusive. Here, we report that SON, a chromosome 21-encoded DNA- and RNA-binding protein, inhibits megakaryocytic differentiation by suppressing RUNX1 and the megakaryocytic gene expression program. As megakaryocytic progenitors differentiate, SON expression is drastically reduced, with mature megakaryocytes having the lowest levels. In contrast, AMKL cells express an aberrantly high level of SON, and knockdown of SON induced the onset of megakaryocytic differentiation in AMKL cell lines. Genome-wide transcriptome analyses revealed that SON knockdown turns on the expression of pro-megakaryocytic genes while reducing erythroid gene expression. Mechanistically, SON represses RUNX1 expression by directly binding to the proximal promoter and two enhancer regions, the known +23 kb enhancer and the novel +139 kb enhancer, at the RUNX1 locus to suppress H3K4 methylation. In addition, SON represses the expression of the AP-1 complex subunits JUN, JUNB and FOSB which are required for late megakaryocytic gene expression. Our findings define SON as a negative regulator of RUNX1 and megakaryocytic differentiation, implicating SON overexpression in impaired differentiation during AMKL development.
2020-09-01 | GSE157178 | GEO
Project description:Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) harbor the ability to undergo lineage-specific differentiation into clinically relevant cell types. Transcription factors and epigenetic modifiers are known to play important roles in the maintenance of pluripotency of hESCs. However, little is known about regulation of pluripotency through splicing. In this study, we identify the spliceosome-associated factor SON as a novel factor essential for the maintenance of hESCs. Depletion of SON in hESCs results in the loss of pluripotency and cell death. Using genome-wide RNA profiling, we identified transcripts that are regulated by SON. Importantly, we confirmed that SON regulates the proper splicing of transcripts encoding for pluripotency regulators such as PRDM14, OCT4, E4F1 and MED24. Furthermore, we show that SON is bound to these transcripts in vivo. In summary, we connect a splicing-regulatory network for accurate transcription production to the maintenance of pluripotency and self-renewal of hESCs.
2013-08-29 | E-MTAB-1687 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:SRSF1 is an abundant RNA-binding protein with functions in mRNA splicing, stability, translation and transcription of cellular and viral genes. We analyzed the role that SRSF1 plays in cellular gene transcription and splicing by transfecting HEK293 cells with a SRSF1 expression plasmid and by analyzing the transcriptome of the transiently transfected cells 15 hrs and 48 hrs post transfection. We also explored the role of the SRSF1 domains by transfecting a deletion clone of SRSF1 carrying only the RNA Recognition Motifs 1 and 2 (RRM1,2) but not the Arg-Ser rich (SR) domain.
2019-03-20 | GSE124397 | GEO
Project description:Dysregulation of MLL complex-mediated histone methylation plays a pivotal role in gene expression associated with diseases, but little is known about cellular factors modulating MLL complex activity. Here, we report that SON, previously known as an RNA splicing factor, controls MLL complex-mediated transcriptional initiation. SON binds to DNA near transcription start sites, interacts with menin, and inhibits MLL complex assembly, resulting in decreased H3K4me3 and transcriptional repression. Importantly, alternatively spliced short isoforms of SON are markedly upregulated in acute myeloid leukemia. The short isoforms compete with full-length SON for chromatin occupancy, but lack the menin-binding ability, thereby antagonizing full-length SON function in transcriptional repression while not impairing full-length SON-mediated RNA splicing. Furthermore, overexpression of a short isoform of SON enhances replating potential of hematopoietic progenitors. Our findings define SON as a fine-tuner of the MLL-menin interaction and reveal short SON overexpression as a marker indicating aberrant transcriptional initiation in leukemia.
2016-03-24 | GSE76910 | GEO
Project description:Control of the number of centrosomes is critical for cell division, trafficking and cilia. Regulation of centrosome number occurs through the precise duplication of centrioles that reside in the center of centrosomes. Here we explored transcriptional control of centriole assembly by focusing on alternative splicing factors in isolation from other cell cycle processes. Of five splicing factors originally identified as required for centriole assembly, only SON is specifically required. Procentriole assembly is severely disrupted when SON is reduced but early centriole assembly events still occur. Whole genome mRNA sequencing identified thousands of genes whose splicing and expression are affected by the reduction of SON, with an enrichment of genes involved in the microtubule cytoskeleton. SON is required for the proper splicing and expression of the centriolar satellite protein, CEP131. Fluorescence microscopy and electron tomography establish key differences to the trafficking and microtubule network around the centrosomes that contribute to the centriole assembly defects. This establishes SON as required for centriole assembly, partially through its activity in splicing CEP131 and through control of microtubules organized by the centrosome.
2021-12-22 | GSE164278 | GEO
Project description:Alternative splicing is a key process underlying the evolution of increased proteomic and functional complexity and is especially prevalent in the mammalian nervous system. However, the factors and mechanisms governing nervous system-specific alternative splicing are not well understood. Through a genome-wide computational and expression profiling strategy, we have identified a tissue- and vertebrate-restricted Ser/Arg (SR)-repeat splicing factor, the neural-specific SR-related protein of 100 kDa (nSR100). We show that nSR100 regulates an extensive network of brain-specific alternative exons enriched in genes that function in neural cell differentiation. nSR100 acts by increasing the levels of the neural/brain-enriched polypyrimidine tract binding protein and by interacting with its target transcripts. Disruption of nSR100 prevents neural cell differentiation in cell culture and in the developing zebrafish. Our results thus reveal a critical neural-specific alternative splicing regulator, the evolution of which has contributed to increased complexity in the vertebrate nervous system. A microarray platform to profile alternative splicing levels for 8714 cassette-type alternative exons across a diverse spectrum of mouse tissues.
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