The long non-coding RNA Cerox1 is a post transcriptional regulator of mitochondrial complex I catalytic activity
- University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Abstract
To generate energy efficiently, the cell is uniquely challenged to co-ordinate the abundance of electron transport chain protein subunits expressed from both nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. How an effective stoichiometry of this many constituent subunits is co-ordinated post-transcriptionally remains poorly understood. Here we show that Cerox1, an unusually abundant cytoplasmic long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), modulates the levels of mitochondrial complex I subunit transcripts in a manner that requires binding to microRNA-488-3p. Increased abundance of Cerox1 cooperatively elevates complex I subunit protein abundance and enzymatic activity, decreases reactive oxygen species production, and protects against the complex I inhibitor rotenone. Cerox1 function is conserved across placental mammals: human and mouse orthologues effectively modulate complex I enzymatic activity in mouse and human cells, respectively. Cerox1 is the first lncRNA demonstrated, to our knowledge, to regulate mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and, with miR-488-3p, represent novel targets for the modulation of complex I activity.
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Microarray data are available through ArrayExpress, accession code E-MATB-6792
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Ana Claudia Marques
Funding
Wellcome (WT106956/Z/15/Z)
- Tamara M Sirey
- Oscar Bedoya-Reina
- Sebastian Rogatti-Granados
- Chris P Ponting
European Research Council (249869)
- Tamara M Sirey
- Kenny Roberts
- Ana Claudia Marques
- Chris P Ponting
Wellcome (WT100981/z/13/z)
- Roderick N Carter
- Nicholas M Morton
Medical Research Council
- Wilfried Haerty
- Chris P Ponting
Diabetes UK
- Lisa C Heather
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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© 2019, Sirey et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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The long non-coding RNA Cerox1 is a post transcriptional regulator of mitochondrial complex I catalytic activity
eLife 8:e45051.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.45051
