Abstract
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a cellular response mechanism that eliminates aberrant mRNA transcripts and thereby prevents the production of potentially deleterious C-terminally truncated proteins. The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-related protein kinase SMG1 is considered to be an essential factor in the NMD pathway. We demonstrate that the brain-enriched microRNA, miRNA-125 (miRNA-125a and miRNA-125b) is a bona fide negative regulator of SMG1 in humans. Down-regulation of SMG1 expression is mediated by miRNA-125 binding to a microRNA response element in the 3′ untranslated region of SMG1 mRNA, which leads to degradation of the SMG1 mRNA. In human cells, overexpression of miR-125 represses the endogenous levels of SMG1 protein and suppresses the NMD pathway; however, knockdown of miR-125 up-regulates the NMD pathway. These results suggest the existence of an RNA circuit linking the microRNA and NMD pathways.
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