Electrophoretic mobility shift assay
NS1 mRNA sequence were synthesized, using a T7
in vitro transcription synthesized with biotinylation at
5′ end, following the manufacturer’s instruction. Glu-
tathione (GST) and GST-SYNCRIP proteins were puri-
fied using the GST protein purification kit (P2262;
Beyotime, China), and further incubated with biotinyla-
tion NS1 mRNA. Gel shift assays were performed using
the Chemiluminescent EMSA Kit (GS009, Beyotime,
China).
Purification of GST‑tagged SYNCRIP protein
Bacterially optimized SYNCRIP ORF (1–1689 bp) was
cloned in pGEX-4 T-1 vector between Sal I and Not I
restriction sites to express GST-SYNCRIP protein. The
positive plasmids were transformed into bacteria strain
Rosetta (DE3)plys. To induce fusion protein expres-
sion, isopropul β-d-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) was
added to bacteria culture medium at a final concentration
of 1.0 mM for 6 h at 28 ℃. GST-SYNCRIP protein was
purified as previously described [
34
].
Statistics
These data are shown as means ± SEM (SD) values from
the three independent experiments. Statistical analyses
were performed with GraphPad Prism 5 software. Immu-
nofluorescence values were calculated using Image-Pro
Plus 6.0. A value of p < 0.05 was considered as significant.
Results
PPV NS1 mRNA can specifically interact with SYNCRIP
Since NS2 mRNA is completely contained in NS1 mRNA,
to determine how PPV NS1 mRNA regulate NS2 expres-
sion through alternative splicing, we sought to identify
intracellular NS1 mRNA binding factors using an unbi-
ased approach. Full-length NS1 mRNA was transcribed
with biotinylated nucleotides in vitro. Used partial LacZ
mRNA without protein-coding potential served as a neg-
ative control. Biotinylated NS1 mRNA or LacZ mRNA
were incubated with total protein extracted from PK-15
cells and pulled down with streptavidin (Figure
2
A). The
associated proteins were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and
Coomassie blue staining. Two different strips specifically
presented in the NS1 mRNA pull-down not LacZ mRNA
samples were excised and analyzed by mass spectrometry
(Figure
2
B), which identified sixty-four potential binding
proteins (Additional file
1
), six of them were identified
to be involved in mRNA processing using gene ontology
(Figure
2
C).
To determine potential proteins that specifically
interact with NS1 mRNA, first, we used online soft-
ware catRAPID to predict the interaction between NS1
mRNA and the six host proteins. The results show that
only SYNCRIP could interact with NS1 mRNA (Data
not shown). In agreement with that, RNA-pulldown
assay shows that only SYNCRIP could interact with NS1
mRNA in HEK293 cells, but not DHX29, PRPF40A,
SFPQ, NOP56, DDX21 (Figure
2
D). In addition, bioti-
nylated NS1 mRNA was also confirmed to interact with
the endogenous SYNCRIP protein in PK-15 cells (Fig-
ure
2
E). To substantiate this interaction, anti-SYNCRIP
antibody was used to immunoprecipitate endogenous
SYNCRIP and its binding RNA from the nuclear extracts
of PPV-infected PK-15 cells, and RNA interacting with
SYNCRIP were collected and analyzed. We detected
the enrichment of NS1 mRNA, but not control GAPDH
RNA, in the immunoprecipitates of anti-SYNCRIP com-
pared with the IgG control (Figure
2
F). Furthermore,
fluorescence in situ hybridization assay showed that
SYNCRIP and NS1 mRNA co-localized in PPV-infected
PK-15 cells (Figure
2
G). Meanwhile, purified GST-tagged
SYNCRIP directly binded with NS1 mRNA in vitro (Fig-
ure
2
H). Electrophoretic mobility shift assay shows that
shift speed of biotinylated NS1 mRNA was slowed down
with the increase of GST-SYNCRIP concentration (Fig-
ure
2
I lines 3–6), suggesting that SYNCRIP can specifi-
cally interact with NS1 mRNA.
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