Y RNA in cell cycle progression and cancer

Roberto Piergentili

Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, Italian National Research Council (CNR-IBPM)

Department of Biology and Biotecnology - Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome - Istituto Genetica, room 1-07 - P.Le A.Moro 5 00185 Roma, Italy roberto.piergentili@cnr.it

February 2020

Abstract

A growing amount of evidence demonstrates the role of non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) in the etiopathogenesis of cancer. ncRNA are the product of the transcription of genes which are not further translated into proteins, thus they exert their functions as they are or - more frequently - after post-transcriptional modifications. In the last decades, several different classes of ncRNA had been described, both long (lncRNA) and short (sncRNA). The former are molecules usually longer than 200 nucleotides (nt), while the latter usually include species of a few tens of nucleotides in length, although exceptions are present (for example, circRNA span a length of 100-1600nt; snoRNA are 60-300nt). Y RNA belong to the sncRNA family and are in the range of ca. 80-120nt. Here we summarize the current knowledge about Y RNA biology, their role in normal cellular homeostasis, and their expression variations in human cancers.

Keywords hY1; hY3; hY4; hY5; RNY1; RNY3, RNY4; RNY5; cell cycle; DNA replication; RO60; ribonucleoprotein particle

Discovery, evolutionary conservation and structure

The first discovery of Y RNA (Lerner et al. 1981) has been made by immunopurification with auto-antibodies in patients affected by the autoimmune diseases systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and subsequently confirmed in (i) primary Sjogren syndrome, (ii) subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus, (iii) neonatal lupus erythematosus, (iv) ANA-negative lupus erythematosus, and (v) systemic lupus erythematosus-like disease. These diseases are characterized by having as autoantigen targets, among the others, the soluble ribonucleoproteins (RNP) RO60 (also known as SSA or TROVE2 - TROVE domain family, member 2) (Deutscher et al. 1988; Ben-Chetrit et al. 1989) and SSB (small RNA-binding exonuclease protection factor - also known as La) (Chambers et al. 1988). Y RNA are small non-coding RNAs that were originally identified as the RNA component of RO60 and SSB in these patients (Lerner et al. 1981; Hendrick et al. 1981). Y RNA, like other small RNAs, are transcribed by RNA Polymerase III (Pol III) (Hendrick et al. 1981; Wolin and Steitz 1983). After transcription, they may either remain inside the nucleus or be exported in the cytoplasm (Kowalski and Krude 2015). They were originally termed as 'Y' RNA to distinguish their cytoplasmic localization from that of the nuclear 'U' RNA (Lerner et al. 1981). There are four known Y RNA members in humans, named hY1 (length: 112 nucleotides, nt), hY3 (101nt), hY4 (93nt) and hY5 (83nt) RNA; the presence of hY2 RNA was later confuted, as it was found that it is a degradation product of hY1. According to ENSEMBL 75, there are also an additional 52 transcripts which are pseudogenes based on the 4 human Y RNA, and a further 966 hYRNA pseudogenes (Perreault et al. 2005), with 878 predicted transcripts, that make up the Y RNA category. In the most common use, hY1-5 are the names of the RNAs, while the HGNC approved gene symbol for the four genes are RNY1-5, respectively (i.e. RNY1, RNY3, RNY4 and RNY5). Y RNA have two recognized functions: repressors of RO60 and other Ro proteins, and initiation factors for DNA replication (Christov et al. 2006; Zhang et al. 2011; Hall et al. 2013). Y RNA are conserved molecules, and confirmed (true Y RNA) or putative (stem-bulge RNAs, sbRNA (Boria et al. 2010)) members of this family are found in mammals, birds, amphibians, fishes, worms, insects, tunicates and even bacteria (Mosig et al. 2007; Perreault et al. 2007; Boria et al. 2010; Duarte Junior et al. 2015, 2019). However, in some lower organisms such as Caenorhabditis elegans (CeY RNA), Branchiostoma floridae (BfY RNA) and Deinococcus radiodurans (DrY RNA) the sequence similarity to vertebrate Y RNA is only partial and does not include the upper stem domain (Gardiner et al. 2009); moreover, their function is not essential in them, since mutant organisms with missing Y RNA are viable. To date, only plants and fungi do not have any candidate Y RNA or sbRNA, thus the evolution of these molecules is still a debated topic in eukaryotes.

The stem-loop organization of Y RNA is conserved as well, and it is schematically reported in Figure 1. Four specific regions can be identified. (i) A poly-uridine tail that is important for SSB binding and for Y RNA stabilization (target of exonucleases); moreover, some authors suggest that, at least hY1 and hY3, potentially contain a variety of 3' ends, with the most abundant species being at positions -5 and -4 relative to the previously mapped 3' ends (Shukla and Parker 2017). (ii) A lower stem domain, which is the binding site of RO60 and is important for nuclear export; this region is frequently flanked by a bulged region that is essential for RO60 binding and separates the lower stem from (iii) an upper stem domain, which is important for the initiation of DNA replication. Finally, (iv) a loop domain, which is the most variable portion of the Y RNA. In particular, the loop domain length and sequence are the most discriminating parameters among the four human Y RNA, the longest loop being that of hY1 (65 nt) and the shortest that of hY5 (31 nt). Also the three-dimensional folded structure of the loops differ significantly among the four hY RNA: it is likely very flexible (Teunissen 2000) and fulfills different tasks such as modulation of chromatin association, protein binding site (such as those reported in Table 1) (Fabini et al. 2001; Fouraux et al. 2002; Belisova et al. 2005; Hogg and Collins 2007; Gallois-Montbrun et al. 2008; Sim et al. 2012; Köhn et al. 2013, 2015; Shukla and Parker 2017; Donovan et al. 2017) and site of cleavage for the formation of YsRNA (Y RNA-derived small RNAs, stretches of 22-36 nucleotides that are produced in apoptotic cells - see the specific section below) (van Gelder et al. 1994; Teunissen 2000; Kowalski and Krude 2015). It is expected that Y RNA contemporarily bind at least two proteins, one of which is a core protein bound on the stem domain (such as RO60) and another on the loop domain; indeed, experiments using gel filtration show that Y RNP range in size from 150 to 550 kDa (see (Köhn et al. 2013) and references therein). All human Y RNA genes map inside the region 7q36.1 (Maraia et al. 1994; Maraia 1996) and, in particular, RNY3 is on the opposing DNA strand from the gene RNY1 (Wolin and Steitz 1983); interestingly, despite their high homology, these two RNAs do not cross-hybridize (Wolin and Steitz 1983). This clustering of Y RNA coding genes on chromosomes has been described also in other vertebrates (O'Brien et al. 1993; Farris et al. 1996; Mosig et al. 2007).

Table 1 - Y RNA binding proteins.

Protein (HGNC)	Synonyms	Interacting Y RNA	Domain involved	Function
APOBEC3G	CEM15	1, 3, 4, 5	unknown	unknown
CPSF4	NEB1	1, 3	loop	histone pre-mRNA processing
DIS3	EXOSC11	(1), (3)	polyU tail	Y RNA stabilization
DIS3L	DIS3L1	1, 3	polyU tail	Y RNA degradation and turnover
EXOSC10	PMSCL2	1, 3, 4, 5	polyU tail	Y RNA trimming, stabilization
HNRNPK	HNRPK	1, 3	loop	unknown
ZBP1	C20ORF183	(1), 3	loop	nuclear Export of RO60 and Y3
NCL	nucleolin, C23	1, 3	loop	unknown
PARN	DAN	1, 3, 4, 5	polyU tail	Y RNA trimming, stabilization
PTBP1	hnRNP I, PTB	1, 3	loop	unknown
PUF60	RoBP1, FIR	(1), (3), 5	unknown	unknown
RNASEL	PRCA1, RNS4	1, (3), 4, 5	loop	cell cycle arrest and apoptosis
SSB	La, LARP3	1, 3, 4, 5	polyU tail	nuclear localization, protection of Y RNA 3' ends
TENT4B	PAPD5	1, 3, 4, 5	polyU tail	Y RNA oligoadenylation, degradation
TOE1	PCH7	1, (3)	polyU tail	Y RNA degradation and turnover
RO60	TROVE2, Ro60, SSA	1, 3, 4, 5	lower stem	stabilization, nuclear export, RNA quality control

Numbers inside parentheses indicate unconfirmed data or minor effects. Protein names (column 1) are those approved by the HUGO (Human Genome Organisation) Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC). Proteins are listed in alphabetical order according to data in column 1.

Role of Y RNA in RO60 function

Ro ribonucleoproteins (Ro RNP) are implicated in RNA processing and quality control (Hogg and Collins 2007; Sim and Wolin 2011), as well as in intracellular transport, bringing other Y RNA binding proteins to their specific targets (Belisova et al. 2005). It has been recently proposed that an evolutionarily conserved function of non-coding RNAs (ncRNA), including Y RNA, might be the assembly and function of RNP complexes; in this case, these molecules could act as scaffolding factors necessary to form functional RNP (Täuber et al. 2019). RO60 is a 60kDa ring-shaped RNA-binding protein (Stein et al. 2005) important in the response to environmental stress, such as exposure to UV radiation or heat, in both animal cells and bacteria. It is highly conserved (Sim and Wolin 2011; Wolin et al. 2013), able to bind aberrant non-coding RNAs such as mis-folded 5S rRNA or U2 snRNA (O'Brien and Wolin 1994; Chen et al. 2003) and possibly acting as a cellular stress sensors (reviewed in (Kowalski and Krude 2015; Boccitto and Wolin 2019)). Structural and biochemical studies have shown that the binding affinity of Y RNA for RO60 is higher than that of mis-folded RNA, suggesting that Y RNA might act as a RO60 repressor (Stein et al. 2005; Fuchs et al. 2006), although some evidence support the hypothesis that these molecules (or, at least, hY5) might also enhance the recognition of mis-folded ncRNA (Hogg and Collins 2007).

It has been suggested that the interaction of Y RNA with nucleolin (NCL), polypyrimidine tract-binding proteins (PTB) and Z-DNA binding protein 1 (ZBP1) (Köhn et al. 2013) might modulate the subcellular localisation of RO60 (Sim and Wolin 2011). Indeed, RO60 can move between nucleus and cytoplasm, in a Y RNA-dependent way (Sim et al. 2009; Sim and Wolin 2011) and, in turn, RO60 protects them from degradation and allows their accumulation in several species (Chen and Wolin 2004). Consequently, some authors suggest a model where Y RNA and bound RO60 can dissociate under certain conditions, so that RO60 can act in cellular recovery by salvaging mis-folded RNAs. In this context, it is possible to hypothesize that other RNA-binding proteins could complex Y RNA in a similar fashion, to fulfill additional tasks, such as mRNA regulation (Köhn et al. 2013).

Role of Y RNA in DNA replication

Y RNA functions during DNA replication seem quite distinct from those related to RO60 functions (Langley et al. 2010). Indeed, Langley and collaborators showed that immunodepletion of RO60 and SSB RNP from human cytosolic extracts does not inhibit DNA replication in human cell nuclei (Langley et al. 2010). Similarly, deletion of RO60 and SSB binding sites on the lower stem domain of vertebrate Y RNA does not inhibit the DNA replication activity of the mutant Y RNA (Christov et al. 2006; Gardiner et al. 2009) indicating that the role of Y RNA in DNA replication is uncoupled from Ro RNP binding. Instead, RNA interference (RNAi)-mediated depletion of either hY1, hY3, or hY4 RNA in cell cultures eliminates or reduces DNA replication in these cells (Christov et al. 2006, 2008; Krude et al. 2009; Collart et al. 2011), and DNA replication is restored back by artificial reintroduction of any of them; the only exception being for hY5, which is consequently thought to be refractory to RNAi. Similarly, functional inactivation of Y RNA (sbRNA in worms (Boria et al. 2010)) via microinjection of antisense morpholino oligonucleotides (MOs) in embryos, is sufficient to impair DNA replication in Xenopus laevis, Danio rerio and Caenorhabditis elegans, where this treatment impairs DNA replication and causes cell cycle arrest and embryonic lethality (Collart et al. 2011; Kowalski et al. 2015). In this context, it is not surprising that Y RNA are over-expressed in some human solid tumors (Christov et al. 2008) (see also the specific sections below).

Y RNA function in DNA replication is fulfilled by the upper stem domain (Gardiner et al. 2009; Wang et al. 2014; Kowalski et al. 2015) which is important also for the recognition of specific chromatin domains and DNA replication initiation proteins (Zhang et al. 2011; Collart et al. 2011). Interestingly, however, this interaction does not include replication fork proteins (Zhang et al. 2011) suggesting that the interaction is restricted to the DNA replication initiation complex (Kheir and Krude 2017). Indeed, Y RNA localize inside nuclei in G1, before DNA replication, and they are displaced upon DNA replication initiation (Zhang et al. 2011). To date, there is no certainty about their role in this process, and only hypotheses may be drawn (Kowalski and Krude 2015). Interestingly, although all Y RNA localize inside the nucleus, only hY1, hY3 and hY4 co-localize with each other on early-replicating euchromatin; instead, hY5 is prevalently localized in nucleoli (Zhang et al. 2011). This different behavior of hY5 is recurrent also in some of the tumors described below. This localization is controlled, in all Y RNA, by the loop domain. Differently, the nuclear export of Y RNA is controlled by the lower stem domain and is dependent on the small GTPase Ran (Rutjes et al. 2001).

Y RNA derivatives

Intracellular localization of Y RNA is dependent on cellular stress (Chen and Wolin 2004); specifically, both RO60 and Y RNA are up-regulated and accumulate inside the nucleus following UV irradiation, starvation, heat stress, γ-irradiation, and desiccation (Sim et al. 2009, 2012; Boccitto and Wolin 2019). However, it has been noted that this phenomenon could also be just a byproduct of the inhibition of RanGTP gradient under stress conditions (Köhn et al. 2013). The RNA component of Ro RNP is partly degraded during apoptosis and generates the so called Y RNA-derived small RNAs (YsRNA), such as miR-1975 and miR-1979. However, DICER1 is not required for the production of these YsRNA (Nicolas et al. 2012; Langenberger et al. 2013) and indeed, after their identification as byproducts of Y RNA degradation, miR-1975 and miR-1979 were removed from miRBase (http://www.mirbase.org/), the primary database for micro RNAs. These shorter fragments are specifically, abundantly and rapidly generated from all four Y RNA during apoptosis, in a caspase-dependent manner (Rutjes et al. 1999), but it is not yet clear if they have any causal role in these phenomena, or are just a product of apoptosis-mediated cellular changes (Rutjes et al. 1999; Meiri et al. 2010). These Y RNA degradation products remain bound to the RO60 protein and, in part, also to the SSB protein (Rutjes et al. 1999). This suggests that the rapid degradation of these molecules might occur at an early step during the systemic deactivation of the dying cell. Despite the role of these molecules is currently unknown, YsRNA have been identified both in healthy tissues (Nicolas et al. 2012; Yamazaki et al. 2014) and in precursor B cells of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia patients (Schotte et al. 2009) as well as in solid tumors (Meiri et al. 2010); for these reasons, they are under investigation as possible biomarkers in cancer and/or other conditions (Meiri et al. 2010; Nicolas et al. 2012; Dhahbi 2014; Vojtech et al. 2014; Ikoma et al. 2018). Indeed, these fragments - especially those derived from hY4 - are particularly abundant in plasma, serum (Dhahbi et al. 2013; Yeri et al. 2017; Umu et al. 2018) and other biofluids (Vojtech et al. 2014; Godoy et al. 2018), where they circulate as part of a complex with a mass between 100 and 300 kDa but not included in exosomes or microvesicles (Dhahbi et al. 2013). Some authors suggest that, beyond what described before, Y RNA and their derivatives might also fulfill a signaling (Dhahbi et al. 2013) or a gene regulation (Van Balkom et al. 2015) function; actually, a role in gene regulation has also been described for the maturation of histone mRNA through hY3 and its derivative, hY3** (a smaller 60nt-long Y RNA) (Köhn et al. 2015; Köhn and Hüttelmaier 2016). Noteworthy, these fragments are not confined inside cells, but can be found also in blood circulation, with a specific enrichment of hY4 derivatives (Dhahbi et al. 2013), and inside extracellular vesicles (EV) for hY5 derivatives (Chakrabortty et al. 2015). More detailed descriptions of these fragments can be found in the following specific sections on human tumors.

Y RNA and human cancer

The role of Y RNA in DNA replication (and, consequently, in the regulation of cell cycle) sets the basis to hypothesize their possible role in cancer etiology. Indeed, there are reports showing that Y RNA are significantly up-regulated (4- to 13-fold for hY4 and hY1, respectively) in human cancer tissues (carcinomas and adenocarcinomas of the lung, kidney, bladder, prostate, colon, and cervix) compared to normal tissues (Christov et al. 2008), and are also required for the proliferation of cancer cells, since their RNA interference (RNAi)-mediated degradation results in a significant cytostatic (but not cytotoxic) effect in cell lines, probably by inducing a significant inhibition of chromosomal DNA replication in cultured human cells (Christov et al. 2008). Interestingly, hY5 seems under control of an independent mechanism since its cellular amount is frequently different from that of the other three Y RNA, although over-expressed as well in at least some tumors (Christov et al. 2008).

As said, it has been reported in 2008 that hY1 and hY3 are highly over-expressed in (Christov et al. 2008). Instead, in 2017 Tolkach and collaborators reported that all Y RNA are down-regulated in BC (Tolkach et al. 2017), with the low abundance of hY1, hY3 and hY4 typical of muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) compared to non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) and that low amount of hY1, hY3 and hY4 also correlates with lymph node metastases and advanced grade. No correlation was found with age or gender. Further studies are needed to assess with certainty if, in bladder cancer, Y RNA are indeed down-regulated.

Dhabi and collaborators detected inside the serum and plasma the presence of RNA fragments, including YsRNA (Dhahbi et al. 2013). Using this approach, they later verified if their abundance can be related to breast cancer (Dhahbi et al. 2014). They found a major population of 30-33nt long fragments mostly derived from Y RNA 5' end, and a minor population of 25-29nt long fragments almost exclusively derived from their 3' end. Interestingly, some fragments increase while other decrease their amount, in a specific pattern. This result is in good agreement with a previous study describing an enrichment of 3'-end fragments - derived from human hY5 - detected in MCF 7 (mammary adenocarcinoma) cells (Nicolas et al. 2012). More recently (Guo et al. 2018), another study on triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) showed similar results for RNY1, RNY5 and, above all, RNY4 expression, while another group (Tosar et al. 2015) found fragments of 31-33nt greatly and significantly enriched in the extracellular space of cultured breast cancer cells, suggesting that this fragments are specifically excreted by these cells.

As for glioma (the most common tumor of the brain), to date, only one manuscript was published, dealing with Y RNA (Wei et al. 2017). In glioma cells, all extracellular fractions, especially non-vesicular RNPs, are highly enriched in specific Y RNA fragments ca. 32nt in length, especially belonging to hY1, hY4 and hY5.

Martinez and collaborators reported that in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC), Y RNA-derived small RNAs are significantly deregulated in the sera of patients (Martinez et al. 2015). These patients have, among the others, an enrichment of 30-33nt-long fragments deriving from Y RNA degradation, and these fragments proportion either increases or decreases significantly for specific RNA species, suggesting a remodeling of the small non-coding RNA networks in HNSCC. Recently, Dhahbi and coworkers analyzed Y RNA fragments in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC), a form of HNSCC and the most common type of head and neck cancer (Dhahbi et al. 2019). Also in this case, the authors found that multiple 5' Y RNA fragments displayed significant differential expression levels in circulation and/or tumor tissue, as compared to their control counterparts.

Bernatsky and collaborators demonstrated that many cancer types, and hematologic malignancies in particular, are substantially increased in patients affected by systemic lupus erythematosus (Bernatsky et al. 2013). Chakrabortty and coworkers (Chakrabortty et al. 2015) demonstrated that primary cell cultures are sensitive to apoptosis induction either by treatment with K562 myelogenous leukemia cells EV, or by the ectopic over-expression of 31nt-processed fragments of hY5. Instead, this treatment is inefficient on cancer cells, suggesting that this might be a way for cancer cells to create a favorable microenvironment (Chakrabortty et al. 2015). More recently, a study on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) (Haderk et al. 2017) revealed that (i) hY4 is highly enriched in exosomes; (ii) it is sufficient to activate cytokine release in monocytes and trigger in these cells the activation of Toll-like receptor 7 ( TLR7), (iii) the pharmacologic inhibition of endosomal TLR attenuates CLL development in vivo; (iv) in CLL patients, the PD-L1 pathway is activated, allowing the tumor cells to escape the immune response.

It has been shown (Nientiedt et al. 2018) that in (ccRCC) patients, the expression of RNY3 and RNY4 is significantly increased and that the expression levels of RNY4 alone is inversely correlated with ccRCC stage and the presence of lymph node metastases.

In lung adenocarcinoma (ADC) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (SQCC) patients, Li and collaborators (Li et al. 2018) showed that 5' hY4-derived fragments have a significantly higher expression in plasma EV compared to controls, while they are down-regulated inside cancer; moreover, over-expressing hY4 inhibits the proliferation of lung cancer cell line A549, suggesting for hY4 fragments a role of tumor suppressors in this pathology. These results show evident differences from those reported before (Christov et al. 2008), thus a further validation of either data is advisable.

The analysis of ncRNA content of EV of the melanoma cell line MML-1 (Lunavat et al. 2015) demonstrated that there is a specific signature of Y RNA present in EV, with hY1, hY4 and hY5 significantly more abundant in EV than inside melanoma cells, while hY3 amount is similar inside EV and MML-1 cells. These data were partly validated by the recent work of Sole and collaborators (Sole et al. 2019) who found an enrichment of hY4 and, to a lesser extent, of hY1 and hY3, but only in patients with stage 0 disease.

Quantification of Y RNA in prostate adenocarcinoma samples (Tolkach et al. 2018) revealed a down-regulation of these molecules two to fourfold, compared to normal tissue. The authors also found that higher RNY5 expression is associated with poor prognosis, measured as biochemical recurrence-free survival. Interestingly, these results are in contrast with those found for bladder cancer (see above), further supporting the use of Y RNA as a valid biomarker for cancer identification. Also for prostate cancer, these data contrast with those reported before (Christov et al. 2008) thus a more in depth analysis is required to validate either results.

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Written	2020-02	Roberto Piergentili
		of Biology and Biotecnology - Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome - Istituto Genetica, room 1-07 - P.Le A.Moro 5 00185 Roma, Italy roberto.piergentili@cnr.it Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, Italian National Research Council (CNR-IBPM)

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Y RNA in cell cycle progression and cancer

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