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Published online 8 March 2005

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Developmentally regulated instability of the GPI-PLC mRNA is dependent on a short-lived protein factor

Helena Webb, Roisin Burns, Louise Ellis, Nicola Kimblin and Mark Carrington*

Department of Biochemistry 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK

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Received January 11, 2005. Revised February 4, 2005. Accepted February 23, 2005.

The expression of the vast majority of protein coding genes in trypanosomes is regulated exclusively at the post-transcriptional level. Developmentally regulated mRNAs that vary in levels of expression have provided an insight into one mechanism of regulation; a decrease in abundance is due to a shortened mRNA half-life. The decrease in half-life involves cis-acting elements in the 3' untranslated region of the mRNA. The trans-acting factors necessary for the increased rate of degradation remain uncharacterized. The GPI-PLC gene in Trypanosoma brucei encodes a phospholipase C expressed in mammalian bloodstream form, but not in the insect procyclic form. Here, it is reported that the differential expression of the GPI-PLC mRNA also results from a 10-fold difference in half-life. Second, the instability of the GPI-PLC mRNA in procyclic forms can be reversed by the inhibition of protein synthesis. Third, specifically blocking the translation of the GPI-PLC mRNA in procyclic forms by the inclusion of a hairpin in the 5' untranslated region does not result in stabilization of the mRNA. Thus, the effect of protein synthesis inhibitors in stabilizing the GPI-PLC mRNA operates in trans through a short-lived factor dependent on protein synthesis.


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