Insights into the assembly and architecture of a Staufen-mediated mRNA decay (SMD)-competent mRNP

The Staufen proteins recognize secondary structures in 3’-untranslated regions in mRNA transcripts and induce degradation of these mRNAs with the help of the RNA helicase UPF1. Here the authors report that the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay factor UPF2 mediates the interaction between Stau1 and UPF1 i...

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Main Authors: Manjeera Gowravaram, Juliane Schwarz, Sana K. Khilji, Henning Urlaub, Sutapa Chakrabarti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13080-x
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Summary:The Staufen proteins recognize secondary structures in 3’-untranslated regions in mRNA transcripts and induce degradation of these mRNAs with the help of the RNA helicase UPF1. Here the authors report that the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay factor UPF2 mediates the interaction between Stau1 and UPF1 in Staufen-mediated mRNA decay.
ISSN:2041-1723