HITS-CLIP analysis of human ALKBH8 reveals interactions with fully processed substrate tRNAs and with specific noncoding RNAs

  • Ivana Cavallin
  • , Marek Bartosovic
  • , Tomas Skalicky
  • , Praveenkumar Rengaraj
  • , Martin Demko
  • , Martina Christina Schmidt-Dengler
  • , Aleksej Drino
  • , Mark Helm
  • , Stepanka Vanacova

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Abstract

Transfer RNAs acquire a large plethora of chemical modifications. Among those, modifications of the anticodon loop play important roles in translational fidelity and tRNA stability. Four human wobble U–containing tRNAs obtain 5-methoxycar-bonylmethyluridine (mcm5U34) or 5-methoxycarbonylmethyl-2-thiouridine (mcm5s2U34), which play a role in decoding. This mark involves a cascade of enzymatic activities. The last step is mediated by alkylation repair homolog 8 (ALKBH8). In this study, we performed a transcriptome-wide analysis of the repertoire of ALKBH8 RNA targets. Using a combination of HITS-CLIP and RIP-seq analyses, we uncover ALKBH8-bound RNAs. We show that ALKBH8 targets fully processed and CCA modified tRNAs. Our analyses uncovered the previously known set of wobble U–containing tRNAs. In addition, both our approaches revealed ALKBH8 binding to several other types of noncoding RNAs, in particular C/D box snoRNAs.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1568-1581
Number of pages14
JournalRNA
Volume28
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2022
Externally publishedYes

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Funding

We want to thank Karolina Vavrouskova for excellent technical support, Dasa Zigackova for help with cell fractionation and Hana Macickova Cahova for helpful advice on tRNA modifications. This work was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (19-21829S to S.V.; T.S. was supported by 20-19617S), the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports within program INTER-COST (LTC18052) and the institutional support of CEITEC 2020 (LQ1601). M.B. was supported by Brno City Municipality Scholarship for Talented Ph.D. Students. We further acknowledge the CELLIM core facility supported by MEYS CR (LM2018129 Czech-BioImaging). Computational resources were provided by the project “e-Infrastruktura CZ” (e-INFRA LM2018140) provided within the program Projects of Large Research, Development, and Innovations Infrastructures.

FundersFunder number
CEITEC 2020LQ1601
INTER-COSTLTC18052
Innovations Infrastructures
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a TělovýchovyLM2018129, LM2018140
Grantová Agentura České Republiky20-19617S, 19-21829S

    Keywords

    • ALKBH8
    • HITS-CLIP
    • Trm9
    • mcmU
    • mcmsU
    • wobble uridine modification

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