Rufener, Simone (14 June 2013). eIF4E‐bound mRNPs are substrates for nonsense‐mediated mRNA decay in mammalian cells (Unpublished). In: RNA Meeting 2013. Davos, Schweiz. 14.06.2013.
Eukaryotic mRNAs with premature translation-termination codons (PTCs) are recognized and degraded by a process referred to as nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). The evolutionary conservation of the core NMD factors UPF1, UPF2 and UPF3 would imply a similar basic mechanism of PTC recognition in all eukaryotes. However, unlike NMD in yeast, which targets PTC-containing mRNAs irrespectively of whether their 5' cap is bound by the cap-binding complex (CBC) or by the eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E), mammalian NMD has been claimed to be restricted to CBC-bound mRNAs during the pioneer round of translation. In our recent study we compared decay kinetics of two NMD reporter systems in mRNA fractions bound to either CBC or eIF4E in human cells. Our findings reveal that NMD destabilizes eIF4E bound transcripts as efficiently as those associated with CBC. These results corroborate an emerging unified model for NMD substrate recognition, according to which NMD can ensue at every aberrant translation termination event.
Additionally, our results indicate that the closed loop structure of mRNA forms only after the replacement of CBC with eIF4E at the 5' cap.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (DCBP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Rufener, Simone |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology 500 Science > 540 Chemistry |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Christina Schüpbach |
Date Deposited: |
05 Aug 2014 13:24 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:36 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/57484 |
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