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Genomes and Genes | polyribosomesSummarySummary: A multiribosomal structure representing a linear array of RIBOSOMES held together by messenger RNA; (RNA, MESSENGER); They represent the active complexes in cellular protein synthesis and are able to incorporate amino acids into polypeptides both in vivo and in vitro. (From Rieger et al., Glossary of Genetics: Classical and Molecular, 5th ed) Top Publications
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Trapping of messenger RNA by Fragile X Mental Retardation protein into cytoplasmic granules induces translation repressionRachid Mazroui
, , 10 rue de l'Espinay, , PQ, Canada
Hum Mol Genet 11:3007-17. 2002..The FMRP-containing mRNPs are dynamic structures that oscillate between polyribosomes and cytoplasmic granules reminiscent of the Stress Granules that contain repressed mRNAs...
FMRP stalls ribosomal translocation on mRNAs linked to synaptic function and autismJennifer C Darnell
Laboratory of Molecular Neuro Oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
Cell 146:247-61. 2011..In addition, they provide insight into the molecular basis of the cognitive and allied defects in FXS and ASD and suggest multiple targets for clinical intervention...
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decapping occurs on polyribosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiaeWenqian Hu
Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Nat Struct Mol Biol 17:244-7. 2010..We show decapped nonsense-containing mRNA associate with polyribosomes, indicating that recognition and degradation are tightly coupled and that polyribosomes are major sites for ..
Differential mRNA translation contributes to gene regulation under non-stress and dehydration stress conditions in Arabidopsis thalianaRiki Kawaguchi
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0124, USA
Plant J 38:823-39. 2004..Thus, the abundance of PS mRNA may provide a more accurate estimate of gene expression than total cellular mRNA because of extensive differential translational regulation...
Translational regulation of the human achaete-scute homologue-1 by fragile X mental retardation proteinMichael Fähling
Charite, Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Institut für Vegetative Physiologie, Tucholskystrasse 2, D 10117 Berlin
J Biol Chem 284:4255-66. 2009..In conclusion, we identified hASH1 as a novel downstream target of FMRP. Improved translation efficiency of hASH1 mRNA by FMRP may represent an important regulatory switch in neuronal differentiation...
Analysis of polysomal mRNA populations of mouse oocytes and zygotes: dynamic changes in maternal mRNA utilization and functionSanthi Potireddy
The Department of Biochemistry, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
Dev Biol 298:155-66. 2006..We observe global transitions in the functional classes of translated MmRNAs and apparent changes in the underlying cis-regulatory mechanisms...
Biochemical evidence for the association of fragile X mental retardation protein with brain polyribosomal ribonucleoparticlesEdouard W Khandjian
Unite de Recherche en Genetique Humaine et Moleculaire, Centre de recherche Hôpital Saint François d Assise, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Quebec, Quebec, QC, Canada G1L 3L5
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:13357-62. 2004..We demonstrate that, in the brain, FMRP is present in actively translating polyribosomes, and we show that this association is acutely sensitive to the type of detergent required to release ..
PKCbetaII modulates translation independently from mTOR and through RACK1Stefano Grosso
Molecular Histology and Cell Growth, HSR, 20132 Milan, Italy
Biochem J 415:77-85. 2008..Taken together the results of the present study show that PKCbetaII can act as a specific PKC isoform regulating translation, in an mTOR-independent fashion, possibly close to the ribosomal machinery...
In vivo stabilization of preinitiation complexes by formaldehyde cross-linkingLEOS VALASEK
Institute of Microbiology, AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic
Methods Enzymol 429:163-83. 2007..In addition, different conditions for displaying the polysome profile or PIC analysis by SDC, used to address different questions, will be outlined...
Mammalian Smaug is a translational repressor that forms cytoplasmic foci similar to stress granulesMaría V Baez
Fundacion Instituto Leloir, IIBBA CONICET and IIB Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, University of Buenos Aires, C1405BWE Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Biol Chem 280:43131-40. 2005..Biochemical analysis indicated that mSmaug 1 is present in synaptoneurosomal 20 S particles. These results suggest a role for mammalian Smaug 1 in RNA granule formation and translation regulation in neurons...
RAS/ERK signaling promotes site-specific ribosomal protein S6 phosphorylation via RSK and stimulates cap-dependent translationPhilippe P Roux
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Institut de recherche en immunologie et en cancérologie IRIC, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Biol Chem 282:14056-64. 2007..These data demonstrate that RSK provides an mTOR-independent pathway linking the Ras/ERK signaling cascade to the translational machinery...
Nip7p interacts with Nop8p, an essential nucleolar protein required for 60S ribosome biogenesis, and the exosome subunit Rrp43pN I Zanchin
Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
Mol Cell Biol 19:1518-25. 1999..Distinct pools of Rrp43p may interact both with the exosome and with Nip7p, possibly both in the nucleus and in the cytoplasm, to catalyze analogous reactions in the multistep process of 60S ribosome biogenesis and mRNA turnover...
The translational efficiencies of the two Leishmania infantum HSP70 mRNAs, differing in their 3'-untranslated regions, are affected by shifts in the temperature of growth through different mechanismsCristina Folgueira
, , 28049 Madrid, Spain
J Biol Chem 280:35172-83. 2005..Remarkably, the deltaHSP70 mutant synthesizes HSP70 at a lower rate than the wild-type parasites. Overall, our data suggest that the biological function of the HSP70-II gene is to top up HSP70 levels under conditions of stress...
Immunopurification of polyribosomal complexes of Arabidopsis for global analysis of gene expressionMaria Eugenia Zanetti
Department of Botany and Plant Science, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 0124, USA
Plant Physiol 138:624-35. 2005Immunoaffinity purification of polyribosomes (polysomes) from crude leaf extracts of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) was achieved with transgenic genotypes that overexpress a translational fusion of a ribosomal protein (RP) with a His(..
Stress granules and processing bodies are dynamically linked sites of mRNP remodelingNancy Kedersha
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Cell Biol 169:871-84. 2005..We propose that mRNA released from disassembled polysomes is sorted and remodeled at SGs, from which selected transcripts are delivered to PBs for degradation...
TOPs and their regulationT L Hamilton
School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
Biochem Soc Trans 34:12-6. 2006....
Novel zinc-responsive post-transcriptional mechanisms reciprocally regulate expression of the mouse Slc39a4 and Slc39a5 zinc transporters (Zip4 and Zip5)Benjamin P Weaver
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160 7421, USA
Biol Chem 388:1301-12. 2007..After zinc-gavage, ZIP5 is rapidly resynthesized and targeted to the basolateral membranes of these cell types...
Aldosterone and vasopressin affect {alpha}- and {gamma}-ENaC mRNA translationAndrea Perlewitz
Institut für Vegetative Physiologie, Universitatsmedizin Berlin Charite, D 10117 Berlin, Germany
Nucleic Acids Res 38:5746-60. 2010..Immunoprecipitation and UV-crosslinking analysis of γ-ENaC-mRNA/HuR complexes document the significance of γ-ENaC-mRNA-3'-UTR/HuR interaction for hormonal control of ENaC synthesis...
Developmental expression of the fragile X-related 1 proteins in mouse testis: association with microtubule elementsM E Huot
, , 10, rue de l'Espinay, , Canada
Hum Mol Genet 10:2803-11. 2001..Since the cytoskeletal framework is implicated in cellular plasticity as well as in mRNA transport, we propose new possibilities for the function(s) of the FXR proteins...
Inhibition of polysome assembly enhances imatinib activity against chronic myelogenous leukemia and overcomes imatinib resistanceMin Zhang
Division of Hematology Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
Mol Cell Biol 28:6496-509. 2008..Together, this work supports the inhibition of translation initiation as a therapeutic strategy for treating cancers fueled by dysregulated translation...
The RACK1 signal anchor protein from Trypanosoma brucei associates with eukaryotic elongation factor 1A: a role for translational control in cytokinesisSandesh Regmi
Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
Mol Microbiol 70:724-45. 2008..The synergy between anisomycin and TbRACK1 RNAi suggests that continued translation is required for complete ingression of the cleavage furrow...
Co-translational mRNA decay in Saccharomyces cerevisiaeWenqian Hu
Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
Nature 461:225-9. 2009..The data indicate that dissociation of ribosomes from mRNA is not a prerequisite for decay and we suggest that the 5'-3' polarity of mRNA degradation has evolved to ensure that the last translocating ribosome can complete translation...
mRNPs, polysomes or granules: FMRP in neuronal protein synthesisFrancesca Zalfa
Dipartimento di Biologia, , Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Roma, Italy
Curr Opin Neurobiol 16:265-9. 2006....
AU-rich-element-mediated upregulation of translation by FXR1 and Argonaute 2Shobha Vasudevan
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06536, USA
Cell 128:1105-18. 2007..This novel cell-growth-dependent translation activation role for FXR1 and AGO2 allows new insights into ARE-mediated signaling and connects two important posttranscriptional regulatory systems in an unexpected way...
Global translational responses to oxidative stress impact upon multiple levels of protein synthesisDaniel Shenton
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 281:29011-21. 2006..In summary, oxidative stress elicits complex translational reprogramming that is fundamental for adaptation to the stress...
Genome-wide analysis of mRNA translation profiles in Saccharomyces cerevisiaeYoav Arava
Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5307, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:3889-94. 2003..Global analysis revealed an unexpected correlation: Ribosome density decreases with increasing ORF length. Models to account for this surprising observation are discussed...
A network of multiple regulatory layers shapes gene expression in fission yeastDaniel H Lackner
Cancer Research UK Fission Yeast Functional Genomics Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Mol Cell 26:145-55. 2007..These rich data sets, all acquired under a standardized condition, reveal a substantial coordination between regulatory layers and provide a basis for a systems-level understanding of multilayered gene-expression programs...
Evidence that microRNAs are associated with translating messenger RNAs in human cellsPatricia A Maroney
Center for RNA Molecular Biology and Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, W127 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4973, USA
Nat Struct Mol Biol 13:1102-7. 2006..Several lines of evidence indicate that most of these mRNAs, including a known miRNA-regulated target (KRAS mRNA), are actively being translated...
Fragile X mental retardation protein shifts between polyribosomes and stress granules after neuronal injury by arsenite stress or in vivo hippocampal electrode insertionSoong Ho Kim
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
J Neurosci 26:2413-8. 2006..by virtue of their TIA-1 (T-cell intracellular antigen 1) protein component, and found that FMRP moved out of polyribosomes and into SGs subsequent to oxidative stress...
The Shwachman-Bodian-Diamond syndrome associated protein interacts with HsNip7 and its down-regulation affects gene expression at the transcriptional and translational levelsCédric Hesling
Center for Structural Molecular Biology, Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, LNLS Rua Giuseppe Maximo Scolfaro 10000, PO Box 6192, CEP 13084 971, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Exp Cell Res 313:4180-95. 2007..These results indicate that SBDS is required for accurate expression of genes important for proper brain, skeletal, and blood cell development...
Cell cycle-regulated modification of the ribosome by a variant multiubiquitin chainJ Spence
Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cell 102:67-76. 2000..L28, like other ribosomal proteins, is metabolically stable. Therefore, these data suggest a regulatory role for multiubiquitin chains that is reversible and does not function to target the acceptor protein for degradation...
Staufen recruitment into stress granules does not affect early mRNA transport in oligodendrocytesMaría G Thomas
Fundacion Instituto Leloir, IIB Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, University of Buenos Aires, IIBBA CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mol Biol Cell 16:405-20. 2005....
eIF4GI links nutrient sensing by mTOR to cell proliferation and inhibition of autophagyFrancisco Ramírez-Valle
Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
J Cell Biol 181:293-307. 2008..The majority of mRNAs that were translationally impaired with eIF4GI depletion were excluded from polyribosomes due to the presence of multiple upstream open reading frames and low mRNA abundance...
Gonadotropin-regulated testicular RNA helicase (GRTH/Ddx25) is a transport protein involved in gene-specific mRNA export and protein translation during spermatogenesisYi Sheng
Section on Molecular Endocrinology, Endocrinology and Reproduction Research Branch, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4510, USA
J Biol Chem 281:35048-56. 2006..The phosphorylated cytoplasmic 61-kDa species was associated with polyribosomes. Confocal studies on COS-1 cells showed that GRTH-GFP was retained in the nucleus by treatment with a RNA ..
Selective mRNA translation coordinates energetic and metabolic adjustments to cellular oxygen deprivation and reoxygenation in Arabidopsis thalianaCristina Branco-Price
Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Plant J 56:743-55. 2008..Hypoxia stress and reoxygenation promoted adjustments in the levels of polyribosomes (polysomes) that were highly coordinated with cellular ATP content...
A novel function for fragile X mental retardation protein in translational activationElias G Bechara
Institut de Pharmacologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Valbonne, France
PLoS Biol 7:e16. 2009....
The three-dimensional organization of polyribosomes in intact human cellsFlorian Brandt
Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
Mol Cell 39:560-9. 2010..The distinct neighbor orientations found in situ resemble configurations of bacterial polysomes in vitro, indicating a conserved supramolecular organization with implications for nascent polypeptide folding...
Why Dom34 stimulates growth of cells with defects of 40S ribosomal subunit biosynthesisArpita Bhattacharya
Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Mol Cell Biol 30:5562-71. 2010....
The mechanism of micro-RNA-mediated translation repression is determined by the promoter of the target geneYi Wen Kong
School of Pharmacy, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:8866-71. 2008..Overall, these data establish a link between the nuclear history of an mRNA and the mechanism of miRNA-mediated translational regulation in the cytoplasm...
Identification and stage-specific association with the translational apparatus of TbZFP3, a CCCH protein that promotes trypanosome life-cycle developmentAthina Paterou
Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, Ashworth Laboratories, King s Buildings, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, Scotland, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 281:39002-13. 2006..although TbZFP3 is constitutively expressed, it exhibits developmentally regulated association with polyribosomes, and mutational analysis demonstrates that this association is essential for the expression of phenotype...
IMP dehydrogenase type 1 associates with polyribosomes translating rhodopsin mRNASarah E Mortimer
Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454 9110, USA
J Biol Chem 283:36354-60. 2008..Here we show that both IMPDH type 1 (IMPDH1) and IMPDH type 2 are associated with polyribosomes, suggesting that these housekeeping proteins have an unanticipated role in translation regulation...
A model for protein translation: polysome self-organization leads to maximum protein synthesis ratesHermioni Zouridis
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Biophys J 92:717-30. 2007....
Lost once, the Fragile X Mental Retardation protein is now back onto brain polyribosomesLaetitia Davidovic
, , le CHUQ, , Canada
RNA Biol 2:1-3. 2005..is not associated with the translation machinery, but is part of repressed small RNP complexes excluded from polyribosomes.(27) To elucidate this puzzling result, Stefani et al.(17) and Khandjian et al...
A functional RNAi screen links O-GlcNAc modification of ribosomal proteins to stress granule and processing body assemblyTakbum Ohn
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1 Jimmy Fund Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Nat Cell Biol 10:1224-31. 2008..The lack of enzymes of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway in budding yeast may contribute to differences between mammalian SGs and related yeast EGP (eIF4E, 4G and Pab1 containing) bodies...
Stm1p alters the ribosome association of eukaryotic elongation factor 3 and affects translation elongationNatalya Van Dyke
Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, Unit 079, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030 4009, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 37:6116-25. 2009..In addition, ribosomes with increased levels of Stm1p exhibit decreased association with eEF3. Taken together, our data indicate that Stm1p plays a complementary role to eEF3 in translation...
Arginines of the RGG box regulate FMRP association with polyribosomes and mRNAErnest Blackwell
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA
Hum Mol Genet 19:1314-23. 2010..Finally, we show that PRMT1 methylates FMRP in cells, suggesting a model where methylation of the RGG box modulates either the quantity or the identity of the RNAs bound by FMRP...
Polyribosome analysis for investigating mRNA translation in Xenopus oocytes, eggs and embryosM D Sheets
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Methods 51:152-6. 2010..assay of an mRNA's translational state is polyribosome association; mRNAs actively translated are engaged with polyribosomes while mRNAs translationally repressed are not...
The virion-packaged endoribonuclease of herpes simplex virus 1 cleaves mRNA in polyribosomesBrunella Taddeo
The Marjorie B Kovler Viral Oncology Laboratories, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:12139-44. 2009..Additional studies revealed that polyribosomes extracted from cytoplasm of wild-type virus-infected cells treated with CHX and displayed in sucrose gradients ..
Translation of a small subset of Caenorhabditis elegans mRNAs is dependent on a specific eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E isoformTzvetanka D Dinkova
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130 3932, USA
Mol Cell Biol 25:100-13. 2005..The functions of these proteins can explain some phenotypes observed in ife-4 knockout mutants. These results indicate that translation of a limited subset of mRNAs is dependent on a specific isoform of eIF4E...
mRNA sequence features that contribute to translational regulation in ArabidopsisRiki Kawaguchi
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 33:955-65. 2005..Notably, the mRNA features that contribute to translational regulation could not fully explain the variation in ribosome loading, indicating that additional factors contribute to translational regulation in Arabidopsis...
Identification of many microRNAs that copurify with polyribosomes in mammalian neuronsJohn Kim
Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:360-5. 2004..Moreover, all of the miRNAs that were tested cofractionate with polyribosomes, the sites of active translation...
Step-wise formation of eukaryotic double-row polyribosomes and circular translation of polysomal mRNAGelina S Kopeina
Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia
Nucleic Acids Res 36:2476-88. 2008..Removal or replacements of 5' and 3' UTRs affected the initial phase of translation, but did not prevent the formation of the double-row polysomes during translation...
Genome-wide analysis of mRNA polysomal profiles with spotted DNA microarraysDaniel Melamed
Department of Biology, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Methods Enzymol 431:177-201. 2007..We then provide a detailed protocol for analysis of polysomal fractions using spotted DNA microarrays...
Fragile X mental retardation protein induces synapse loss through acute postsynaptic translational regulationBrad E Pfeiffer
Center for Basic Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
J Neurosci 27:3120-30. 2007..K homology domain 2 (KH2) RNA-binding domain and dephosphorylation of FMRP at S500 were required for the effects of FMRP on synapse number, indicating that FMRP interaction with RNA and translating polyribosomes leads to synapse loss.
The 39-kilodalton subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 is essential for the complex's integrity and for cell viability in Saccharomyces cerevisiaeT Naranda
Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
Mol Cell Biol 17:145-53. 1997....
The duplicated Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene SSM1 encodes a eucaryotic homolog of the eubacterial and archaebacterial L1 ribosomal proteinsA Petitjean
Centre de Genetique Moleculaire, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Gif sur Yvette, France
Mol Cell Biol 15:5071-81. 1995..Polysome profile analysis suggests that the primary defect caused by the depletion in Ssm1p is at the level of translation initiation...
Isolation of polysomal RNA for microarray analysisYoav Arava
Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Methods Mol Biol 224:79-87. 2003
Preferential translation of internal ribosome entry site-containing mRNAs during the mitotic cycle in mammalian cellsXiaoli Qin
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
J Biol Chem 279:13721-8. 2004..However, not all known mRNAs that contain IRES elements were actively translated during mitosis, arguing that specific IRES sequences are differentially regulated during mitosis...
Oncogenic Ras and Akt signaling contribute to glioblastoma formation by differential recruitment of existing mRNAs to polysomesVinagolu K Rajasekhar
Department of Surgery Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
Mol Cell 12:889-901. 2003..These data support a model whereby Ras and Akt signaling primarily lead to cellular transformation by altering the transcriptome and producing a radical shift in the composition of mRNAs associated with actively translating polysomes...
Decapping and decay of messenger RNA occur in cytoplasmic processing bodiesUjwal Sheth
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Science 300:805-8. 2003..These results define the flux of mRNAs between polysomes and P bodies as a critical aspect of cytoplasmic mRNA metabolism and a possible site for regulation of mRNA degradation...
DCL is a plant-specific protein required for plastid ribosomal RNA processing and embryo developmentMohammed Bellaoui
Institute of Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Plant Mol Biol 53:531-43. 2003..These results suggest that DCL is required for chloroplast rRNA processing, and emphasize the importance of plastid function during embryogenesis...
Asc1p, a WD40-domain containing adaptor protein, is required for the interaction of the RNA-binding protein Scp160p with polysomesSonja Baum
Center of Molecular Biology at University of Heidelberg (ZMBH, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Biochem J 380:823-30. 2004..These interactions might regulate the translation activity of ribosomes programmed with specific mRNAs...
RU5 of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus 5' long terminal repeat enhances cytoplasmic expression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gag-pol and nonviral reporter RNAStacey Hull
Center for Retrovirus Research, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, 1925 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210-1093, USA
J Virol 76:10211-8. 2002..profile analysis demonstrates that MPMV RU5 directs subcellular localization of the luc transcript to polyribosomes. Our findings have a number of similarities with those of reports on 5' terminal posttranscriptional control ..
Localization-dependent oskar protein accumulation; control after the initiation of translationArie Koen Braat
Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Dev Cell 7:125-31. 2004..Thus, the mechanisms that prevent accumulation of Oskar protein until it can be secured at the posterior pole of the oocyte include regulated degradation or inhibition of translational elongation...
Global mRNA stabilization preferentially linked to translational repression during the endoplasmic reticulum stress responseTomoko Kawai
Box 12, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Institute on Aging-IRP, National Institutes of Health, 5600 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224-6825, USA
Mol Cell Biol 24:6773-87. 2004..The cDNA array-based approach described here can be applied to global analyses of mRNA turnover and translation and can serve to investigate subsets of mRNAs subject to joint posttranscriptional control...
Epigenetic activation of a subset of mRNAs by eIF4E explains its effects on cell proliferationYael Mamane
Department of Biochemistry, McGill Cancer Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
PLoS ONE 2:e242. 2007..eIF4E, the mRNA 5' cap-binding protein, plays a major role in translational control. To understand how eIF4E affects cell proliferation and survival, we studied mRNA targets that are translationally responsive to eIF4E...
The shuttling SR protein 9G8 plays a role in translation of unspliced mRNA containing a constitutive transport elementJennifer E Swartz
Myles H Thaler Center for AIDS and Human Retrovirus Research and Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
J Biol Chem 282:19844-53. 2007..Hyperphosphorylated 9G8 was present in monosomes and small polyribosomes, whereas soluble fractions contained only hypophosphorylated protein...
Cerebral ischemia induces neuronal expression of novel VL30 mouse retrotransposons bound to polyribosomesWillard J Costain
Institute for Biological Sciences M54, National Research Council, Montreal Road Laboratories, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0R6
Brain Res 1094:24-37. 2006..Paradoxically, this non-coding RNA was found bound to polyribosomes. Further analysis revealed that multiple retrotransposon species (BVL-1-like and mVL30-1-like) were bound to ..
Ribosomal slowdown mediates translational arrest during cellular divisionGilad Sivan
Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mol Cell Biol 27:6639-46. 2007..Stalling translating ribosomes during mitosis may protect mRNAs and allow rapid resumption of translation immediately upon entry into the G(1) phase...
Adenovirus virus-associated RNAII-derived small RNAs are efficiently incorporated into the rna-induced silencing complex and associate with polyribosomesNing Xu
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala Biomedical Center, Husargatan 3, S 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
J Virol 81:10540-9. 2007..Potentially, they function as miRNAs, regulating translation of cellular mRNAs. In support of this hypothesis, we detected a fraction of the VA RNAII-derived mivaRNAs on polyribosomes.
Messenger RNAs under differential translational control in Ki-ras-transformed cellsJean Spence
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA, USA
Mol Cancer Res 4:47-60. 2006....
Direct stimulation of translation by the multifunctional herpesvirus ICP27 proteinOsmany Larralde
MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, Scotland, United Kingdom
J Virol 80:1588-91. 2006..The region of ICP27 required for translational stimulation maps to the C terminus. Furthermore, in infected cells, ICP27 is associated with polyribosomes, indicating a function in translation during the lytic cycle.
Scp160p, a multiple KH-domain protein, is a component of mRNP complexes in yeastB D Lang
Graduate Program in Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 28:1576-84. 2000..studies we have demonstrated that Scp160p in cytoplasmic lysates is predominantly associated with polyribosomes. Furthermore, we have found that Scp160p is released from polyribosomes by EDTA in the form of a large complex ..
The discovery of polyribosomesHans Noll
American Cancer Society, USA
Bioessays 30:1220-34. 2008....
ACCUMULATION OF PHOTOSYSTEM ONE1, a member of a novel gene family, is required for accumulation of [4Fe-4S] cluster-containing chloroplast complexes and antenna proteinsKatrin Amann
Ludwig Maximilians Universitat Munchen, Department Biologie I, Botanik, 80638 Munich, Germany
Plant Cell 16:3084-97. 2004..Taken together, our findings suggest that APO1 is involved in the stable assembly of several [4Fe-4S] cluster-containing complexes of chloroplasts and interferes with translational events probably in association with plastid nucleoids...
The native 3D organization of bacterial polysomesFlorian Brandt
Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, Martinsried 82152, Germany
Cell 136:261-71. 2009....
Characterization of Staufen 1 ribonucleoprotein complexesCornelia Brendel
Institute for Cell Biochemistry and Clinical Neurobiology, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, D 20246 Hamburg, Germany
Biochem J 384:239-46. 2004....
Chloroplast biogenesis of photosystem II cores involves a series of assembly-controlled steps that regulate translationLimor Minai
, , Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, France
Plant Cell 18:159-75. 2006..De novo synthesis and repair of photosystem II complexes are independently controlled...
Transient dissociation of polyribosomes and concurrent recruitment of calreticulin and calmodulin transcripts in gravistimulated maize pulviniI Heilmann
Department of Botany, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 7612, USA
Plant Physiol 127:1193-203. 2001..During the initial 15 min of gravistimulation, the amount of large polyribosomes transiently decreased...
Thymidylate synthase protein and p53 mRNA form an in vivo ribonucleoprotein complexE Chu
Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, Yale Cancer Center and VA CT Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Mol Cell Biol 19:1582-94. 1999..This study identifies a novel pathway for regulating p53 gene expression and expands current understanding of the potential role of TS as a regulator of cellular gene expression...
A plant viral "reinitiation" factor interacts with the host translational machineryH S Park
Friedrich Miescher-Institute, P.O. Box 2543, CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland
Cell 106:723-33. 2001....
Regulation of the mRNAs encoding proteins of the BMP signaling pathway during the maternal stages of Xenopus developmentB R Fritz
Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Dev Biol 236:230-43. 2001..The implications of our findings for translational regulation of maternal mRNAs during embryogenesis and for the activation of the BMP pathway are discussed...
Yeast dom34 mutants are defective in multiple developmental pathways and exhibit decreased levels of polyribosomesL Davis
Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Graduate Program in Genetics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
Genetics 149:45-56. 1998..Heterologous expression of pelota in dom34delata mutants restores wild-type growth and differentiation, suggesting conservation of function between the eukaryotic members of the gene family...
Sequence-independent assembly of spermatid mRNAs into messenger ribonucleoprotein particlesE E Schmidt
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
Mol Cell Biol 19:3904-15. 1999..Our findings reveal a fundamental similarity between the mechanisms of translational control used in spermatogenesis and oogenesis...
Global and specific translational regulation in the genomic response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to a rapid transfer from a fermentable to a nonfermentable carbon sourceK M Kuhn
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Mol Cell Biol 21:916-27. 2001..cerevisiae reacts to the carbon source shift with a remarkable variety of responses, including translational regulation of specific mRNAs and activation of specific enzymes involved in a nonconventional splicing mechanism...
FMRP associates with polyribosomes as an mRNP, and the I304N mutation of severe fragile X syndrome abolishes this associationY Feng
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Mol Cell 1:109-18. 1997..We show here that normal FMRP associates with elongating polyribosomes via large mRNP particles...
Differential effects of aromatic and charged residue substitutions in the RNA binding domains of the yeast poly(A)-binding proteinJ A Deardorff
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, 94720, USA
J Mol Biol 269:67-81. 1997....
Functional implications of ribosomal protein L2 in protein biosynthesis as shown by in vivo replacement studiesM Uhlein
Max Delbruck Centrum fur Molekulare Medizin, Robert Rossle Str 10, D 13125 Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany
Biochem J 331:423-30. 1998..Replacement of this histidine residue in the human and archaebacterial proteins by glycine, arginine or alanine had no effect on ribosome assembly, but strongly reduced the translational activity of ribosomes containing these mutants...
Orphan receptor DAX-1 is a shuttling RNA binding protein associated with polyribosomes via mRNAE Lalli
Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS, INSERM, Universite Louis Pasteur, Illkirch Strasbourg, France
Mol Cell Biol 20:4910-21. 2000..A significant proportion of DAX-1 is associated with polyribosomes and is found complexed with polyadenylated RNA...
Nog2p, a putative GTPase associated with pre-60S subunits and required for late 60S maturation stepsC Saveanu
Genetique des Interactions Macromoleculaires, Institut Pasteur CNRS URA2171, 25 28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
EMBO J 20:6475-84. 2001..These results suggest that transient, possibly GTP-dependent association of Nog2p with the pre-ribosomes might trigger late rRNA maturation steps in ribosomal large subunit biogenesis...
Depletion of Saccharomyces cerevisiae ribosomal protein L16 causes a decrease in 60S ribosomal subunits and formation of half-mer polyribosomesM O Rotenberg
Department of Biological Sciences, Carmegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
Genes Dev 2:160-72. 1988..43S preinitiation complexes accumulate in half-mer polyribosomes in the absence of sufficient 60S subunits...
The poly(A) binding protein is required for poly(A) shortening and 60S ribosomal subunit-dependent translation initiationA B Sachs
Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University Medical Center, California 94305
Cell 58:857-67. 1989..These data suggest that the 60S subunit mediates the PAB requirement of translation initiation, thereby ensuring that only intact poly(A)+ mRNA will be translated efficiently in vivo...
Association of the mouse infertility factor DAZL1 with actively translating polyribosomesS Tsui
Department of Pediatrics, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 90509, USA
Biol Reprod 62:1655-60. 2000..The sedimentation profiles of DAZL1 in sucrose gradients indicate that DAZL1 is associated with polyribosomes, and further capture of DAZL1 on oligo(dT) beads demonstrates that the association is mediated through the ..
Arrest of transcription following anoxic exposure in a marine molluscKevin Larade
Institute of Biochemistry and Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Mol Cell Biochem 303:243-9. 2007..Since gene transcription is an ATP expensive process in cells, suppression of transcription to minimum levels provides substantial energy savings for the hepatopancreas, and the organism as a whole, under anoxic conditions...
Translational deregulation in PDK-1-/- embryonic stem cellsYuichi Tominaga
Cancer Research Institute, University of California, 2340 Sutter St N319, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Mol Cell Biol 25:8465-75. 2005..addition to the decreased translation of many RNAs, a smaller number of RNAs show increased association with polyribosomes in PDK-1-/- ES cells relative to PDK-1+/+ ES cells...
Movement of eukaryotic mRNAs between polysomes and cytoplasmic processing bodiesMuriel Brengues
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0106, USA
Science 310:486-9. 2005..Moreover, the presence of related proteins in P-bodies and maternal mRNA storage granules suggests this mechanism is widely adapted for mRNA storage...
The RNA polymerase II CTD kinase Ctk1 functions in translation elongationSusanne Röther
Gene Center and Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
Genes Dev 21:1409-21. 2007....
Polypyrimidine tract binding protein regulates IRES-mediated gene expression during apoptosisMartin Bushell
School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
Mol Cell 23:401-12. 2006..Finally, the data showed that polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB, a known IRES trans-acting factor or ITAF) is pivotal in regulating the apoptotic process by controlling IRES function...
Tagging ribosomal protein S7 allows rapid identification of mutants defective in assembly and function of 30 S subunitsK Fredrick
Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
J Mol Biol 298:379-94. 2000..In addition, an S7 derivative lacking the N-terminal 17 residues causes ribosomes to accumulate on mRNA to abnormally high levels, indicating that our approach can yield interesting mutant ribosomes...
Methods to analyze microRNA-mediated control of mRNA translationJennifer L Clancy
Molecular Genetics Program, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute VCCRI, Sydney, Australia
Methods Enzymol 431:83-111. 2007..We describe protocols for each of these procedures...
Fibronectin controls cap-dependent translation through beta1 integrin and eukaryotic initiation factors 4 and 2 coordinated pathwaysChiara Gorrini
Molecular Histology Unit, San Raffaele Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:9200-5. 2005..These findings indicate that integrins may recruit the translational machinery in a unique way and that FN-dependent translation cannot be blocked by mammalian target of rapamycin inhibition...
Research Grants
- RiboTag: A novel technique to profile cell type specific gene expression and invGEORGE STANLEY contact MCKNIGHT; Fiscal Year: 2010..The polyribosomes containing the transcribed and translatable mRNAs are isolated by immunological techniques and then the RNA is ..
- Distance-Dependent Structure and Function of Neuronal DendritesKristen Harris; Fiscal Year: 2007..along dendrites and into dendritic spines that host excitory synapses, including microtubules for transport, polyribosomes for protein synthesis, Golgi apparatus for posttranslational modifications, endosomes for membrane recycling, ..
- Distance-Dependent Structure and Function of Neuronal DendritesKristen M Harris; Fiscal Year: 2010..along dendrites and into dendritic spines that host excitory synapses, including microtubules for transport, polyribosomes for protein synthesis, Golgi apparatus for posttranslational modifications, endosomes for membrane recycling, ..
- Distance-Dependent Structure and Function of Neuronal DendritesKristen Harris; Fiscal Year: 2009..along dendrites and into dendritic spines that host excitory synapses, including microtubules for transport, polyribosomes for protein synthesis, Golgi apparatus for posttranslational modifications, endosomes for membrane recycling, ..
- Selective Degradation of mRNA by Herpes Simplex Virus 1Bernard Roizman; Fiscal Year: 2010..Both class A and class B mRNAs are degraded in polyribosomes. Class C includes mRNAs that are not degraded...
- PROBES FOR FLOW CYTOMETRYZbigniew Darzynkiewicz; Fiscal Year: 1993..from solid tumors; b) studies of mechanisms responsible for differential staining of rRNA in ribosomes vs polyribosomes in situ with pyronin Y, and application of this phenomenon to a new lymphocyte stimulation assay; (3) studies ..
- TARGETING OF HUMAN OTC TO THE MITOCHONDRIAL MATRIXArthur Horwich; Fiscal Year: 1992..whereby mitochondrial protein precursors, encoded in the nucleus and synthesized on cytoplasmic polyribosomes, are posttranslationally recognized via their NH2- terminal leader peptides, translocated across one or both ..
- Replication Control in Fragile X SyndromeBARBARA BOGGS; Fiscal Year: 2004..particles in the cell and it appears to specifically interact with a subset of mRNA species on translating polyribosomes; loss of functional protein then may result in translation dysregulation of these downstream genes...
- Translational Regulation of Fragile X Syndrome GeneJAE LIM; Fiscal Year: 2006..function of FMRP has not yet been elucidated, it is believed to be a RNA-binding protein that associates with polyribosomes and the rough endoplasmic reticulum...
- Dissecting the molecular basis of fragile X syndrome in DrosophilaPeng Jin; Fiscal Year: 2007..is a selective RNA-binding protein that forms a messenger ribonucleoprotein (mRNP) complex associating with polyribosomes. Evidence suggests that FMRP is involved in local regulation of protein synthesis at synapses...
- Translational Regulation in Adult Neural Stem CellsXinyu Zhao; Fiscal Year: 2009..is a selective RNA-binding protein that forms a messenger ribonucleoprotein (mRNP) complex associating with polyribosomes. FMRP regulates protein translation and the loss of FMRP leads to abnormal translation of selective mRNAs, ..
- Translational Regulation in Adult Neural Stem CellsXinyu Zhao; Fiscal Year: 2007..is a selective RNA-binding protein that forms a messenger ribonucleoprotein (mRNP) complex associating with polyribosomes. FMRP regulates protein translation and the loss of FMRP leads to abnormal translation of selective mRNAs, ..
- UNDERSTANDING TRAIL SENSITIVITY IN HUMAN GLIOMARUSSELL PIEPER; Fiscal Year: 2007..not associated with increased FLIPs mRNA levels, but with increased association of FLIPs mRNA with translating polyribosomes. FLIPs mRNA translation is in turn influenced by two arms of the Ras pathway, both activated in GBM: the Ras-..
- Dendritic Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal NeuronsErin Schuman; Fiscal Year: 2007..The discovery of polyribosomes at the base of neuronal synapses suggested the possibility that proteins might be synthesized in dendrites in ..
- Dendritic Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal NeuronsErin Schuman; Fiscal Year: 2009..The discovery of polyribosomes at the base of neuronal synapses suggested the possibility that proteins might be synthesized in dendrites in ..
- IMP DehydrogenaseLizbeth Hedstrom; Fiscal Year: 2009..We have recently discovered that this enzyme associates with polyribosomes, suggesting that it also plays a role in the regulation of translation...
- Lafora's Progressive Myoclonus EpilepsyAntonio Delgado Escueta; Fiscal Year: 2003..specificity protein tyrosine phosphatase (ds-PTP), 38 kDa in size and cytoplasmic in location, associated with polyribosomes. Phenotype-genotype correlations and intracellular targeting with two natural mutants in exon 3 or exon 4 ..
- REGULATION OF OVARIAN FUNCTION BY GONADOTROPINJAIRAM MENON; Fiscal Year: 2001..destabilization of the LHR mRNA will be facilitated by our development of an in vitro decay system employing polyribosomes from the rat ovary, in which we demonstrated hCG-induced down-regulation of LHR mRNA...
- The Roles of Steel Factor in Germ Cell Behavior in the MouseChristopher Wylie; Fiscal Year: 2009The frag ile X mental re tardation protein (FMRP) binds mRNA and micro RNA, is associated with polyribosomes, and is localized in dendrites and axons...
- The Roles of Steel Factor in Germ Cell Behavior in the MouseChristopher C Wylie; Fiscal Year: 2010The frag ile X mental re tardation protein (FMRP) binds mRNA and micro RNA, is associated with polyribosomes, and is localized in dendrites and axons...
- UNDERSTANDING TRAIL SENSITIVITY IN HUMAN GLIOMARussell O Pieper; Fiscal Year: 2010..not associated with increased FLIPs mRNA levels, but with increased association of FLIPs mRNA with translating polyribosomes. FLIPs mRNA translation is in turn influenced by two arms of the Ras pathway, both activated in GBM: the Ras-..
- LOCALIZATION OF MRNAS AT SYNAPTIC SITES ON DENDRITESOswald Steward; Fiscal Year: 2001..of the synaptic site and for modifying existing synapses; 3) that the synthetic activity of synapse associated polyribosomes is regulated in part by synaptic activity...
- Dendritic Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal NeuronsKAI G ZINN; Fiscal Year: 2010..The discovery of polyribosomes at the base of neuronal synapses suggested the possibility that proteins might be synthesized in dendrites in ..
- Dissecting the molecular basis of fragile X syndrome in DrosophilaPeng Jin; Fiscal Year: 2010..is a selective RNA-binding protein that forms a messenger ribonucleoprotein (mRNP) complex associating with polyribosomes. Evidence suggests that FMRP is involved in local regulation of protein synthesis at synapses...
