HSP90 and its R2TP/Prefoldin-like cochaperone are involved in the cytoplasmic assembly of RNA polymerase II

Séverine Boulon, Bérengère Pradet-Balade, Céline Verheggen, Dorothée Molle, Stéphanie Boireau, Marya Georgieva, Karim Azzag, Marie Cécile Robert, Yasmeen Ahmad, Henry Neel, Angus I. Lamond, Edouard Bertrand

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Abstract

RNA polymerases are key multisubunit cellular enzymes. Microscopy studies indicated that RNA polymerase I assembles near its promoter. However, the mechanism by which RNA polymerase II is assembled from its 12 subunits remains unclear. We show here that RNA polymerase II subunits Rpb1 and Rpb3 accumulate in the cytoplasm when assembly is prevented and that nuclear import of Rpb1 requires the presence of all subunits. Using MS-based quantitative proteomics, we characterized assembly intermediates. These included a cytoplasmic complex containing subunits Rpb1 and Rpb8 associated with the HSP90 cochaperone hSpagh (RPAP3) and the R2TP/Prefoldin-like complex. Remarkably, HSP90 activity stabilized incompletely assembled Rpb1 in the cytoplasm. Our data indicate that RNA polymerase II is built in the cytoplasm and reveal quality-control mechanisms that link HSP90 to the nuclear import of fully assembled enzymes. hSpagh also bound the free RPA194 subunit of RNA polymerase I, suggesting a general role in assembling RNA polymerases.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)912-924
Number of pages13
JournalMolecular Cell
Volume39
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2010
Externally publishedYes

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Funding Information:
We thank M. Kress for the gift of DsRed2-p54/RCK and the idea of using it to target fusion proteins to P-bodies. We thank M. Vidal for the gift of the human ORFeome 3.1 and U. Rothbauer and H. Leonhardt for the gift of GFP-TRAP beads. We thank R. Bordonné for critical reading of the manuscript. A.I.L. is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. S. Boulon is a long-term fellow of the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), and D.M. had a fellowship from ANRS. This work was supported by grants from SIDACTION; ANRS; La Ligue Contre le Cancer; ARC; ANR; Eurasnet; PROSPECTS (PROteomics SPECification in Time and Space), which stems from the European Commission's FP7 (GA HEALTH-F4-2008-201648); and RASOR (Radical Solutions for Researching the proteome).

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