The noncoding RNA BC200 associates with polysomes to positively regulate mRNA translation in tumor cells

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Abstract

BC200 is a noncoding RNA elevated in a broad spectrum of tumor cells that is critical for cell viability, invasion, and migration. Overexpression studies have implicated BC200 and the rodent analog BC1 as negative regulators of translation in both cell-based and in vitro translation assays. Although these studies are consistent, they have not been confirmed in knockdown studies and direct evidence for this function is lacking. Herein, we have demonstrated that BC200 knockdown is correlated with a decrease in global translation rates. As this conflicts with the hypothesis that BC200 is a translational suppressor, we overexpressed BC200 by transfection of in vitro transcribed RNA and transient expression from transfected plasmids. In this context BC200 suppressed translation; however, an innate immune response confounded the data. To overcome this, breast cancer cells stably overexpressing BC200 and various control RNAs were developed by selection for genomic incorporation of a plasmid coexpressing BC200 and the neomycin resistance gene. Stable overexpression of BC200 was associated with elevated translation levels in pooled stable cell lines and isolated single-cell clones. Cross-linking sucrose density gradient centrifugation demonstrated an association of BC200 and its reported binding partners SRP9/14, CSDE1, DHX36, and PABPC1 with both ribosomal subunits and polysomal RNA, an association not previously observed owing to the labile nature of the interactions. In summary, these data present a novel understanding of BC200 function as well as optimized methodology that has far reaching implications in the study of noncoding RNAs, particularly within the context of translational regulatory mechanisms.

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Booy, E. P., Gussakovsky, D., Choi, T., & McKenna, S. A. (2021). The noncoding RNA BC200 associates with polysomes to positively regulate mRNA translation in tumor cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 296. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA120.015775

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