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Molecular and Cellular Biology, February 2006, p. 1272-1287, Vol. 26, No. 4
0270-7306/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.26.4.1272-1287.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

hUPF2 Silencing Identifies Physiologic Substrates of Mammalian Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay{dagger}

Jürgen Wittmann,1 Elly M. Hol,2 and Hans-Martin Jäck1*

Division of Molecular Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Nikolaus Fiebiger Center, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany,1 Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Research Team Cellular Quality Control, Meibergdreef 33, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands2

Received 21 December 2004/ Returned for modification 22 January 2005/ Accepted 28 November 2005

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a conserved eukaryotic surveillance pathway that selectively degrades aberrant mRNAs with premature termination codons (PTCs). Although a small number of cases exist in mammals, where NMD controls levels of physiologic PTC transcripts, it is still unclear whether the engagement of NMD in posttranscriptional control of gene expression is a more prevalent phenomenon. To identify physiologic NMD substrates and to study how NMD silencing affects the overall dynamics of a cell, we stably down-regulated hUPF2, the human homolog of the yeast NMD factor UPF2, by RNA interference. As expected, hUPF2-silenced HeLa cells were impaired in their ability to recognize ectopically expressed aberrant PTC transcripts. Surprisingly, hUPF2 silencing did not affect cell growth and viability but clearly diminished phosphorylation of hUPF1, suggesting a role of hUPF2 in modulating NMD activity through phosphorylation of hUPF1. Genome-wide DNA microarray expression profiling identified 37 novel up-regulated and 57 down-regulated transcripts in hUPF2-silenced cells. About 60% of the up-regulated mRNAs carry typical NMD motifs. Hence, NMD is important not only for maintaining the transcriptome integrity by removing nonfunctional and aberrant PTC-bearing transcripts but also for posttranscriptional control of selected physiologic transcripts with NMD features.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Molecular Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Nikolaus Fiebiger Center, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Glückstraße 6, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. Phone: 49-9131-8535912. Fax: 49-9131-8539343. E-mail: hjaeck{at}molmed.uni-erlangen.de.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://mcb.asm.org/.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, February 2006, p. 1272-1287, Vol. 26, No. 4
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