TY - JOUR
T1 - UBL5 is essential for pre-mRNA splicing and sister chromatid cohesion in human cells
AU - Oka, Yasuyoshi
AU - Varmark, Hanne
AU - Vitting-Seerup, Kristoffer
AU - Beli, Petra
AU - Waage, Johannes Eichler
AU - Hakobyan, Anna
AU - Mistrik, Martin
AU - Choudhary, Chuna Ram
AU - Rohde, Mikkel
AU - Bekker-Jensen, Simon
AU - Mailand, Niels
N1 - © 2014 The Authors.
PY - 2014/9
Y1 - 2014/9
N2 - UBL5 is an atypical ubiquitin-like protein, whose function in metazoans remains largely unexplored. We show that UBL5 is required for sister chromatid cohesion maintenance in human cells. UBL5 primarily associates with spliceosomal proteins, and UBL5 depletion decreases pre-mRNA splicing efficiency, leading to globally enhanced intron retention. Defective sister chromatid cohesion is a general consequence of dysfunctional pre-mRNA splicing, resulting from the selective downregulation of the cohesion protection factor Sororin. As the UBL5 yeast orthologue, Hub1, also promotes spliceosome functions, our results show that UBL5 plays an evolutionary conserved role in pre-mRNA splicing, the integrity of which is essential for the fidelity of chromosome segregation.
AB - UBL5 is an atypical ubiquitin-like protein, whose function in metazoans remains largely unexplored. We show that UBL5 is required for sister chromatid cohesion maintenance in human cells. UBL5 primarily associates with spliceosomal proteins, and UBL5 depletion decreases pre-mRNA splicing efficiency, leading to globally enhanced intron retention. Defective sister chromatid cohesion is a general consequence of dysfunctional pre-mRNA splicing, resulting from the selective downregulation of the cohesion protection factor Sororin. As the UBL5 yeast orthologue, Hub1, also promotes spliceosome functions, our results show that UBL5 plays an evolutionary conserved role in pre-mRNA splicing, the integrity of which is essential for the fidelity of chromosome segregation.
U2 - 10.15252/embr.201438679
DO - 10.15252/embr.201438679
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25092792
SN - 1469-221X
VL - 15
SP - 956
EP - 964
JO - E M B O Reports
JF - E M B O Reports
IS - 9
ER -