Project description:The budding yeast E3 SUMO ligase Mms21, a component of the Smc5-6 complex, regulates sister chromatid cohesion, DNA replication, and DNA repair. We identify a role for Mms21 in ribosome biogenesis. The mms21RINGD mutant exhibits reduced rRNA production, nuclear accumulation of 60S and 40S ribosomal proteins, and elevated Gcn4 translation. Genes involved in ribosome biogenesis and translation are down-regulated in the mms21RINGD mutant. Examining gene expression profile of mms21RINGD mutant compared to wild-type by RNA Seq using Ilumina sequencing
Project description:The budding yeast E3 SUMO ligase Mms21, a component of the Smc5-6 complex, regulates sister chromatid cohesion, DNA replication, and DNA repair. We identify a role for Mms21 in ribosome biogenesis. The mms21RINGD mutant exhibits reduced rRNA production, nuclear accumulation of 60S and 40S ribosomal proteins, and elevated Gcn4 translation. Genes involved in ribosome biogenesis and translation are down-regulated in the mms21RINGD mutant.
Project description:mRNA profiling of WI38 wild-type or overexpressiong the SUMO E3 ligase PIASy in human primary fibroblasts 24h post-infection. The goal of this study is to analyse transcriptional changes in cells over-expressing the SUMO E3 ligase PIASy and to compare them with ChIPseq data for several histones marks and proteins of the SUMO machinery including PIASy
Project description:Proteomic Analysis of the total proteome from Arabidopsis thaliana SUMO E3 Ligase mutants siz1-2 and mms21-1 and wild-type (Col-0) 8-day old seedlings
Project description:We study the role of the protein Trim28 in the maintenance of sexual identity of the adult ovary. With the help of conditional knock out (cKO) of Trim28 using the Nr5a1:Cre, we observed that deletion of the Trim28 gene in granulosa cells of the adult ovary induces their transdifferentiation into Sertoli cells, the supporting cell lineage of the testicular seminiferous tubules. FOXL2 expression has disappeared and follicles were completely remodeled into tubular structures with cells that expressed the Sertoli cell markers SOX8, SOX9 and DMRT1. Histological analysis confirmed the progressive reorganization of ovarian follicles into tubular structures and the and the transdifferentiation of granulosa cells by cells with a Sertoli cell morphology. TRIM28 acts as a SUMO-E3 ligase by interacting with the SUMO-E2 conjugating enzyme UBC9 (encoded by the Ube2i gene) via the Plant homeodomain (PHD), and can self-SUMOylate. To study in vivo the role of TRIM28-dependent SUMOylation, we generated a point mutation in exon 13 of mouse Trim28 within the PHD domain of the TRIM28 protein (C651F) that abrogates its SUMO-E3 ligase activity. We generated Trim28Phd/cKO mice (termed PHD mutant). Like in cKO ovaries, FOXL2 expression was undetectable, whereas we observed expression of the Sertoli cell markers SOX9, SOX8 and DMRT1 within structures organized in pseudo-tubules in PHD ovaries. Our results indicate that maintenance of the female pathway in the adult ovary depends on the E3-SUMO ligase activity of TRIM28.
Project description:Abf1 and Reb1, two general regulatory factors playing roles at promoters and other genome functional sites in budding yeast, were mapped genome-wide by ChIP-sequencing using strains expressing TAP-tagged versions of the proteins. As expected on the basis of previous in silico analysis of promoter regions, we found that these factors are enriched at the promoters of ribosome biogenesis (Ribi) genes, a large regulon of more than 200 genes required for ribosome biosynthesis and assembly, and known to be coordinately regulated in response to nutrient availability and cellular growth rate.
Project description:Ligation is accomplished by a small set of SUMO E3 ligases, with the SAP-MIZ domain-containing (SIZ)-1 and METHYL METHANESULFONATE-SENSITIVE (MMS)-21 ligases having critical roles in stress protection and DNA endoreduplication, respectively. To help identify their corresponding Arabidopsis targets, we combined siz1 and mms21 mutants with proteomic analyses of SUMOylated proteins enriched using an engineered 6His-SUMO1. Through multiple datasets from seedlings grown at normal temperatures or exposed to heat stress, we identified over 1,000 SUMO targets, most of which are nuclear localized. Whereas no targets could be assigned to MMS21, suggesting that it modifies only one or a few low abundance proteins, numerous targets could be assigned to SIZ1, including major transcription factors, co-activators/repressors, and chromatin modifiers connected to abiotic and biotic stress defense, some of which associate into multi-subunit regulatory complexes.
Project description:The conserved SUMO ligase Zip3 protein associates differentially with meiotic double-strand break sites and reveals regional variations in the outcome of meiotic recombination