Involvement of PARP1 in the Regulation of Alternative Splicing

Authors

Elena Matveeva, University of KentuckyFollow
John Maiorano, University of KentuckyFollow
Qingyang Zhang, Northwestern University
Abdallah M. Eteleeb, University of Louisville
Paolo Convertini, University of KentuckyFollow
Jing Chen, University of KentuckyFollow
Vittoria Infantino, University of Basilicata, Italy
Stefan Stamm, University of KentuckyFollow
Jiping Wang, Northwestern University
Eric C. Rouchka, University of Louisville
Yvonne N. Fondufe-Mittendorf, University of KentuckyFollow

Abstract

Specialized chromatin structures such as nucleosomes with specific histone modifications decorate exons in eukaryotic genomes, suggesting a functional connection between chromatin organization and the regulation of pre-mRNA splicing. Through profiling the functional location of Poly (ADP) ribose polymerase, we observed that it is associated with the nucleosomes at exon/intron boundaries of specific genes, suggestive of a role for this enzyme in alternative splicing. Poly (ADP) ribose polymerase has previously been implicated in the PARylation of splicing factors as well as regulation of the histone modification H3K4me3, a mark critical for co-transcriptional splicing. In light of these studies, we hypothesized that interaction of the chromatin-modifying factor, Poly (ADP) ribose polymerase with nucleosomal structures at exon–intron boundaries, might regulate pre-mRNA splicing. Using genome-wide approaches validated by gene-specific assays, we show that depletion of PARP1 or inhibition of its PARylation activity results in changes in alternative splicing of a specific subset of genes. Furthermore, we observed that PARP1 bound to RNA, splicing factors and chromatin, suggesting that Poly (ADP) ribose polymerase serves as a gene regulatory hub to facilitate co-transcriptional splicing. These studies add another function to the multi-functional protein, Poly (ADP) ribose polymerase, and provide a platform for further investigation of this protein’s function in organizing chromatin during gene regulatory processes.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-16-2016

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Cell Discovery, v. 2, article no. 15046, p. 1-19.

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2015.46

Funding Information

This research was supported by NIH grants P20 GM103436 (ECR); 2P20 RR020171, 1RO1ES024478, NSF and IRSF grant (YNF-M).

Related Content

Data analyzed have been deposited in GEO with accession numbers GSE56120 and GSE56073.

Repository Citation

Matveeva, Elena; Maiorano, John; Zhang, Qingyang; Eteleeb, Abdallah M.; Convertini, Paolo; Chen, Jing; Infantino, Vittoria; Stamm, Stefan; Wang, Jiping; Rouchka, Eric C.; and Fondufe-Mittendorf, Yvonne N., "Involvement of PARP1 in the Regulation of Alternative Splicing" (2016). Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Faculty Publications. 97.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/biochem_facpub/97