MTA1 interacts with primary RNAs to regulate expression and AS by protein dependent manner [ChIP]

MTA1 is known as its metastatic and invasive function in cancers and the core member of NuRD complex. But the mechanism of regulating gene expression by MTA1 is limited. Besides the interaction with chromosome, MTA1 may play important role at the transcriptional level. We performed co- immunoprecipitation (co-IP) on HCT116 cells and found numerous RNA binding proteins (RBPs), which functions as spliceosome and RNA transport. We then validated that MTA1 interacts with RBPs by RNA dependent manner. By performing the CLIP-seq of MTA1, ten thousands of peaks and thousands of genes were emerged. More detailed analysis and high level of intronic peaks reveal MTA1 prefers to bind pre-mRNAs and regulate the alternative splicing progression by binding the splice site. High overlapping between MTA1 binding and MTA1 regulated genes highlights the direct regulation of RNAs by MTA1 coupling with RBPs. LTK is one of the obvious examples regulated by MTA1. Together, these findings uncover a novel mechanism of MTA1 regulation in transcriptional level as RBPs, and suggest MTA1 regulates pre-mRNA splicing with other RBPs. ChIP-seq experiments performed on MTA1 protein. Input was performed with the same steps as control.Each was with two replicates.