The long noncoding RNA Lnczc3h7a promotes a TRIM25-mediated RIG-I antiviral innate immune response

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The helicase RIG-I initiates an antiviral immune response after recognition of pathogenic RNA. TRIM25, an E3 ubiquitin ligase, mediates K63-linked ubiquitination of RIG-I, which is crucial for RIG-I downstream signaling and the antiviral innate immune response. The components and mode of the RIG-I-initiated innate signaling remain to be fully understood. Here we identify a novel long noncoding RNA (Lnczc3h7a) that binds to TRIM25 and promotes RIG-I-mediated antiviral innate immune responses. Depletion of Lnczc3h7a impairs RIG-I signaling and the antiviral innate response to RNA viruses in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, Lnczc3h7a binds to both TRIM25 and activated RIG-I, serving as a molecular scaffold for stabilization of the RIG-I-TRIM25 complex at the early stage of viral infection. Lnczc3h7a facilitates TRIM25-mediated K63-linked ubiquitination of RIG-I and thus promotes downstream signaling transduction. Our findings reveal that host RNAs can enhance the response of innate immune sensors to foreign RNAs, ensuring effective antiviral defense.

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Michael Lin, Irwin Jungreis, Manolis Kellis (2011)

Motivation: As high-throughput transcriptome sequencing provides evidence for novel transcripts in many species, there is a renewed need for accurate methods to classify small genomic regions as protein coding or non-coding. We present PhyloCSF, a novel comparative genomics method that analyzes a multispecies nucleotide sequence alignment to determine whether it is likely to represent a conserved protein-coding region, based on a formal statistical comparison of phylogenetic codon models. Results: We show that PhyloCSF's classification performance in 12-species Drosophila genome alignments exceeds all other methods we compared in a previous study. We anticipate that this method will be widely applicable as the transcriptomes of many additional species, tissues and subcellular compartments are sequenced, particularly in the context of ENCODE and modENCODE, and as interest grows in long non-coding RNAs, often initially recognized by their lack of protein coding potential rather than conserved RNA secondary structures. Availability and Implementation: The Objective Caml source code and executables for GNU/Linux and Mac OS X are freely available at http://compbio.mit.edu/PhyloCSF Contact: mlin@mit.edu; manoli@mit.edu

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Gene regulation in the immune system by long noncoding RNAs

Ansuman Satpathy, Y. Chen, Howard Y. Chang (2017)

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are being increasingly appreciated as important regulators of gene expression. Chang and colleagues review the roles identified for lncRNAs in the immune system and discuss models for how lncRNAs mediate their effects.

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Structural basis for the activation of innate immune pattern-recognition receptor RIG-I by viral RNA.

Eva Kowalinski, Thomas Lunardi, Andrew A. McCarthy … (2011)

RIG-I is a key innate immune pattern-recognition receptor that triggers interferon expression upon detection of intracellular 5'triphosphate double-stranded RNA (5'ppp-dsRNA) of viral origin. RIG-I comprises N-terminal caspase activation and recruitment domains (CARDs), a DECH helicase, and a C-terminal domain (CTD). We present crystal structures of the ligand-free, autorepressed, and RNA-bound, activated states of RIG-I. Inactive RIG-I has an open conformation with the CARDs sequestered by a helical domain inserted between the two helicase moieties. ATP and dsRNA binding induce a major rearrangement to a closed conformation in which the helicase and CTD bind the blunt end 5'ppp-dsRNA with perfect complementarity but incompatibly with continued CARD binding. We propose that after initial binding of 5'ppp-dsRNA to the flexibly linked CTD, co-operative tight binding of ATP and RNA to the helicase domain liberates the CARDs for downstream signaling. These findings significantly advance our molecular understanding of the activation of innate immune signaling helicases. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.