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Jiang 2019 EMBO Rep

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Jiang S, Koolmeister C, Misic J, Siira S, Kühl I, Silva Ramos E, Miranda M, Jiang M, Posse V, Lytovchenko O, Atanassov I, Schober FA, Wibom R, Hultenby K, Milenkovic D, Gustafsson CM, Filipovska A, Larsson NG (2019) TEFM regulates both transcription elongation and RNA processing in mitochondria. EMBO Rep 20:e48101.

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Jiang S, Koolmeister C, Misic J, Siira S, Kuehl I, Silva Ramos E, Miranda M, Jiang M, Posse V, Lytovchenko O, Atanassov I, Schober FA, Wibom R, Hultenby K, Milenkovic D, Gustafsson CM, Filipovska A, Larsson NG (2019) EMBO Rep

Abstract: Regulation of replication and expression of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is essential for cellular energy conversion via oxidative phosphorylation. The mitochondrial transcription elongation factor (TEFM) has been proposed to regulate the switch between transcription termination for replication primer formation and processive, near genome-length transcription for mtDNA gene expression. Here, we report that Tefm is essential for mouse embryogenesis and that levels of promoter-distal mitochondrial transcripts are drastically reduced in conditional Tefm-knockout hearts. In contrast, the promoter-proximal transcripts are much increased in Tefm knockout mice, but they mostly terminate before the region where the switch from transcription to replication occurs, and consequently, de novo mtDNA replication is profoundly reduced. Unexpectedly, deep sequencing of RNA from Tefm knockouts revealed accumulation of unprocessed transcripts in addition to defective transcription elongation. Furthermore, a proximity-labeling (BioID) assay showed that TEFM interacts with multiple RNA processing factors. Our data demonstrate that TEFM acts as a general transcription elongation factor, necessary for both gene transcription and replication primer formation, and loss of TEFM affects RNA processing in mammalian mitochondria.

© 2019 The Authors. Published under the terms of the CC BY NC ND 4.0 license. Keywords: RNA processing, mtDNA replication, Transcription elongation Bioblast editor: Plangger M O2k-Network Lab: DE Cologne Larsson NG, AU Perth Filipovska A


Labels: MiParea: Respiration, mtDNA;mt-genetics, Genetic knockout;overexpression 


Organism: Mouse  Tissue;cell: Heart  Preparation: Isolated mitochondria 


Coupling state: LEAK, OXPHOS, ET  Pathway: N, S  HRR: Oxygraph-2k