| 2000 |
THOC1 (yeast Tho2/Hpr1 ortholog) is a core component of the THO complex, a nuclear oligomeric complex containing Tho2, Hpr1, Mft1, and Thp2 that physically associates and functions as a unit to connect transcription elongation with mitotic recombination in yeast. |
Affinity purification (His6-HA-tagged THO2), reciprocal co-immunoprecipitation with anti-Mft1 antibodies, genetic deletion phenotyping |
The EMBO journal |
High |
11060033
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| 2005 |
Human THOC1 (hHpr1/p84/Thoc1) associates with elongating RNA polymerase II and the RNA splicing/export factor UAP56 in intact cells, and depletion of THOC1 causes transcriptional elongation defects, indicating THOC1 physically links elongating RNA Pol II with RNA processing factors in a human TREX complex. |
Co-immunoprecipitation in human cells, siRNA depletion with transcriptional elongation assay and cellular phenotype readout |
Molecular and cellular biology |
High |
15870275
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| 2006 |
Thoc1 is essential for early mouse embryonic development; homozygous null Thoc1 embryos are arrested around implantation with inner cell mass cells rapidly losing viability upon Thoc1 protein loss, demonstrating a cell-autonomous requirement for THOC1 in mammalian cell viability. |
Gene knockout in mice, blastocyst outgrowth assay, immunostaining for Thoc1 protein loss |
Molecular and cellular biology |
High |
16705185
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| 2007 |
Depletion of THOC1 (pThoc1) selectively induces apoptotic cell death in neoplastic (oncogene-transformed) cells coincident with increased DNA damage (phospho-H2AX), while normal isogenic cells are largely unaffected; normal cells lacking Thoc1 cannot be transformed by E1A/Ha-ras. |
siRNA depletion, isogenic normal vs. oncogene-transformed cell comparison, apoptosis assay, γ-H2AX immunostaining, transformation assay |
Cancer research |
High |
17638875
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| 2005 |
Yeast Hpr1p (THOC1 ortholog) is poly-ubiquitinated by the HECT ubiquitin ligase Rsp5p (with Ubc4p as conjugating enzyme), leading to proteasomal degradation; Hpr1p degradation is enhanced at high temperature and linked to ongoing RNA Pol II transcription, while other THO subunits are unaffected, suggesting Hpr1p turnover controls THO/TREX complex formation and mRNA export. |
In vivo and in vitro ubiquitylation assays, genetic epistasis, proteasome inhibitor experiments, temperature-shift experiments |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
15713680
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| 2013 |
Mammalian THOC1 protein is poly-ubiquitinated by the NEDD4-1 E3 ubiquitin ligase and degraded by the proteasome; destabilization of Thoc1 upon transcriptional elongation inhibitor treatment is NEDD4-1-dependent, indicating this regulation is evolutionarily conserved from yeast (Rsp5) to mammals. |
In vitro reconstituted ubiquitylation assay, molecularly manipulated cells (NEDD4-1 modulation), proteasome inhibitor treatment, immunoblot |
PloS one |
High |
23460917
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| 2007 |
The UBA domain of the mRNA export factor Mex67 directly interacts with Hpr1 (THOC1 ortholog), and this interaction is required for cotranscriptional recruitment of Mex67 to activated genes; Hpr1 binding modulates Mex67 UBA domain selectivity for polyubiquitin through a helix H4-dependent conformational switch. |
NMR structure of UBA-Mex67 domain, deletion/point mutagenesis, FRET-based binding assays, ChIP for cotranscriptional recruitment, in vivo mRNA export assay |
Molecular biology of the cell |
High |
17475778
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| 2009 |
Hpr1 and FXFG nucleoporin repeats bind to overlapping sites on the Mex67 UBA domain with analogous NMR chemical shift perturbations; Hpr1 binding (unlike FXFG binding) allows the UBA domain to interact with polyubiquitin, demonstrating that substrate identity controls ubiquitin affinity of the UBA domain. |
Solution NMR structure of UBA-Mex67/FXFG peptide complex, NMR titration with Hpr1, FRET-based binding assays |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
19401465
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| 2014 |
Conditional deletion of Thoc1 in the hematopoietic system reveals a cell-autonomous requirement for THOC1 in granulocyte macrophage progenitor growth and viability, while lymphoid lineages are unaffected under homeostatic conditions, indicating THOC1 is selectively required in rapidly proliferating myeloid progenitors. |
Conditional/inducible Thoc1 knockout mice, bone marrow reconstitution, flow cytometry of hematopoietic lineages |
PloS one |
High |
24830368
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| 2014 |
Conditional Thoc1 deletion in an autochthonous mouse prostate cancer model prevents cancer progression but has little effect on normal prostate tissue; prostate cancer cells deprived of Thoc1 show gene expression defects that compromise cell growth, demonstrating THOC1 is required to support the gene expression demands of aggressive cancer. |
Conditional mouse knockout (Cre/lox), autochthonous prostate cancer mouse model, gene expression profiling |
Journal of the National Cancer Institute |
High |
25296641
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| 2007 |
Mice homozygous for a hypomorphic Thoc1 allele are viable but express reduced pThoc1 and exhibit a dwarf phenotype detectable from mid-gestation, indicating THOC1 is required for normal embryonic and postnatal development. |
Generation of hypomorphic and conditional Thoc1 alleles in mice, Cre-mediated recombination phenotyping, developmental staging |
Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) |
High |
17211872
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| 2016 |
THOC1 is required to support increased E2F protein levels and expression of E2F-regulated apoptotic genes (Apaf1, Bak1) upon Rb1 loss; Thoc1 deficiency reduces apoptosis in the Rb1-null embryonic brain, placing THOC1 downstream of Rb1 in regulating E2F-dependent transcription of apoptotic regulators. |
Compound Rb1/Thoc1-hypomorphic mouse mutants, immunostaining for E2F and apoptotic markers, gene expression analysis of E2F targets |
Molecular and cellular biology |
High |
27001308
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| 2020 |
THOC1 deficiency in zebrafish causes hair cell apoptosis through the p53 signaling pathway; knockdown phenotype (reduced hair cell numbers, absent C-startle response) is rescued by wild-type human THOC1 mRNA but not by the p.L183V disease variant, and is suppressed by p53 depletion or the p53 inhibitor Pifithrin-α. |
CRISPR-Cas9 knockout and morpholino knockdown in zebrafish, behavioral testing (C-startle response), transcriptome sequencing, p53 inhibitor rescue, mRNA complementation with wild-type vs. mutant THOC1 |
PLoS genetics |
High |
32776944
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| 2013 |
Nitric oxide (NO) produced by activated macrophages suppresses THOC1 expression via Nrf2 binding to the antioxidant response element (ARE) in the THOC1 promoter; THOC1 downregulation is required for subsequent Bcl-2 suppression and cancer cell apoptosis, placing THOC1 in the NO-Nrf2-THOC1-Bcl2 apoptotic axis. |
Co-culture of macrophages with cancer cells, iNOS inhibitor rescue, NO donor treatment, promoter-reporter ARE mutation, Nrf2 overexpression/knockdown, immunoblot for Bcl-2 |
Biochemical pharmacology |
Medium |
23688498
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| 2006 |
An hpr1-101 point mutation (yeast THOC1 ortholog) impairs transcription and mRNA export without increasing recombination or retarding replication fork progression, and does not cause R-loop accumulation (as shown by AID-induced mutation pattern), demonstrating that THOC1/THO has a transcriptional function separable from R-loop-mediated genome instability. |
Site-directed mutagenesis, transcription elongation assays, mRNA export assays, recombination frequency measurement, DNA replication fork assay, AID-induced mutation spectrum analysis |
Molecular and cellular biology |
High |
16908536 19451165
|
| 2020 |
THOC1 knockdown in hepatocellular carcinoma cells leads to R-loop formation and DNA damage, impairs G2/M cell cycle progression, and sensitizes cells to cisplatin; THOC1 promotes HCC proliferation in vivo. |
siRNA knockdown, R-loop detection (S9.6 antibody), DNA damage assay (γ-H2AX), cell cycle analysis, xenograft mouse model, colony formation assay |
Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR |
Medium |
32669125
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| 2024 |
THOC1 interacts with SIN3A (a histone deacetylase complex component), and THOC1 knockdown leads to elevated R-loop levels (particularly at telomeres), reduced histone deacetylation, and shortened telomeres in glioblastoma cells, placing THOC1 in a SIN3A-dependent pathway that prevents telomeric R-loop accumulation. |
CRISPR-KO screen, co-immunoprecipitation of THOC1-SIN3A, R-loop detection (S9.6), ChIP for histone deacetylation marks, telomere length assay, RNA-sequencing, in vivo PDX survival model |
Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) |
Medium |
41496272
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| 2025 |
THOC1 directly binds U2AF2 (U2 snRNA auxiliary factor 2) at the THOC1-340S interaction site; this interaction regulates U2AF2 expression and suppresses ovarian cancer cell proliferation, migration, and invasion through inhibition of the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway (reduced cyclinD1, c-myc, beta-catenin). |
Co-immunoprecipitation, GST pull-down, immunofluorescence, RNA-seq with KEGG pathway analysis, functional cell assays (proliferation, migration, invasion) |
Cancer cell international |
Medium |
41372894
|
| 2001 |
High-copy expression of Sub2p (yeast UAP56 homolog) suppresses hpr1Δ-mediated genome instability, and conversely high-copy HPR1 suppresses sub2 mutant instability, establishing a genetic epistatic relationship between THOC1 (Hpr1) and the RNA helicase Sub2/UAP56 in maintaining genome stability. |
Genetic suppressor analysis, high-copy suppression, conditional allele experiments in yeast |
Molecular and cellular biology |
Medium |
11463828
|
| 2009 |
Hpr1 (THOC1 yeast ortholog) loss in cells lacking HPR1 results in increased levels of Nab2, Yra1, and Mex67 in nuclear mRNPs; overexpression of Nab2 or Yra1 suppresses the mRNA export defect of hpr1Δ cells and restores normal Mex67 levels in nuclear mRNPs, indicating THOC1/Hpr1 regulates the composition of nuclear mRNPs to permit efficient mRNA export. |
Genetic suppression, mRNP fractionation/immunoblot, mRNA export assay in yeast |
bioRxivpreprint |
Low |
bio_10.1101_2025.02.26.640412
|
| 2022 |
THOC1 promotes triple-negative breast cancer stem cell characteristics and mRNA export of stemness-related genes; THOC1 knockdown reduces mammosphere formation, CSC populations, and lung metastasis in vivo, while THOC1 overexpression promotes TNBC malignancy. NF-κB acts as an upstream transcriptional regulator of THOC1 expression. |
siRNA knockdown, stable overexpression, mammosphere assay, orthotopic mouse tumor model with lung metastasis readout, mRNA export assay for stemness genes, NF-κB reporter/inhibitor |
Biochemical pharmacology |
Medium |
36330949
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