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<p>The fast and transient induction of immediate early genes orchestrates the cellular response to various stimuli. These stimuli trigger phosphorylation cascades that promote immediate early gene transcription independent of de novo protein synthesis. Here we show that the same phosphorylation cascades also target the splicing machinery, inducing an analogous splicing switch that we call immediate early splicing (IES). We characterize hnRNPC2-controlled IES, which depends on the MEK-ERK pathway and the T cell-specific kinase PKCθ. This splicing switch mainly targets components of the translation machinery, such as mRNAs encoding ribosomal proteins and eIF5A. Inducing the eIF5A IES protein variant is by itself sufficient to reduce global translation, and consistently, we observe reduced de novo protein synthesis early after T cell activation. We suggest that immediate early splicing and the ensuing transient decrease in translation efficiency help to coordinate the extensive changes in gene expression during T cell activation. Together, these findings set a paradigm for fast and transient alternative splicing in the immediate cellular response to activation, and provide evidence for its functional relevance during T-cell stimulation.</p>

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Immediate early splicing controls translation in activated T-cells and is mediated by hnRNPC2 phosphorylation

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    2025年2月13日

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  • Mateusz Dróżdż,
  • Luíza Zuvanov,
  • Gopika Sasikumar,
  • Debojit Bose,
  • Franziska Bruening,
  • Maria S Robles,
  • Marco Preußner,
  • Markus Wahl,
  • Florian Heyd

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The fast and transient induction of immediate early genes orchestrates the cellular response to various stimuli. These stimuli trigger phosphorylation cascades that promote immediate early gene transcription independent of de novo protein synthesis. Here we show that the same phosphorylation cascades also target the splicing machinery, inducing an analogous splicing switch that we call immediate early splicing (IES). We characterize hnRNPC2-controlled IES, which depends on the MEK-ERK pathway and the T cell-specific kinase PKCθ. This splicing switch mainly targets components of the translation machinery, such as mRNAs encoding ribosomal proteins and eIF5A. Inducing the eIF5A IES protein variant is by itself sufficient to reduce global translation, and consistently, we observe reduced de novo protein synthesis early after T cell activation. We suggest that immediate early splicing and the ensuing transient decrease in translation efficiency help to coordinate the extensive changes in gene expression during T cell activation. Together, these findings set a paradigm for fast and transient alternative splicing in the immediate cellular response to activation, and provide evidence for its functional relevance during T-cell stimulation.