Abstract
The synthesis of least three proteins involved in iron metabolism is coordinately regulated in animals through noncoding sequences in mRNA, the IREs; the transcription of the genes encoding the proteins are also regulated. Cellular iron is the best known effector of changes in regulation of mRNA with IREs. A hairpin loop is the secondary structure of IRES which conserve the hairpin loop sequence, CAGUGU/C. However, variable stem sequences, apparently related to mRNA-specific function, create a family of IRE regulatory sequences. At least three types of proteins recognize IRE regions: (1) Nucleases which degrade mRNAs with 3' noncoding IRES; the IRE/IRE-BP stabilizes mRNAs with 3' noncoding IRES (transferrin receptor mRNA). (2) Initiation factors/ribosomes; the IRE/IRE-BP blocks ribosome binding of mRNAs with 5' noncoding IREs (ferritin, eALAS mRNAs). (3) Initiation factors to enhance translation (ferritin mRNA) when the IRE-BP does not bind; the ferritin IRE is thus both a negative and positive control element depending on which type of protein is bound. The IRE in ferritin mRNA is the most studied IRE to date. Site-directed mutagenesis shows that sites throughout the IRE alter negative control and IRE-BP binding reflecting the fact that the footprint of the IRE-BP is over the entire IRE. Base paired flanking regions (FL) which are ferritin IRE specific, enhance the effects of IRE-BP binding on negative control. Positive control is altered by modifying the single sites in stem/internal loop but not in the hairpin loop.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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