polyribosomes

Summary

Summary: 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

  1. ncbi Trapping of messenger RNA by Fragile X Mental Retardation protein into cytoplasmic granules induces translation repression
    Rachid Mazroui
    , , 10 rue de l'Espinay, , PQ, Canada
    Hum Mol Genet 11:3007-17. 2002
  2. ncbi FMRP stalls ribosomal translocation on mRNAs linked to synaptic function and autism
    Jennifer C Darnell
    Laboratory of Molecular Neuro Oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
    Cell 146:247-61. 2011
  3. ncbi Nonsense-mediated mRNA decapping occurs on polyribosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Wenqian Hu
    Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
    Nat Struct Mol Biol 17:244-7. 2010
  4. ncbi Differential mRNA translation contributes to gene regulation under non-stress and dehydration stress conditions in Arabidopsis thaliana
    Riki 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
  5. ncbi Translational regulation of the human achaete-scute homologue-1 by fragile X mental retardation protein
    Michael Fähling
    Charite, Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Institut für Vegetative Physiologie, Tucholskystrasse 2, D 10117 Berlin
    J Biol Chem 284:4255-66. 2009
  6. ncbi Analysis of polysomal mRNA populations of mouse oocytes and zygotes: dynamic changes in maternal mRNA utilization and function
    Santhi Potireddy
    The Department of Biochemistry, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
    Dev Biol 298:155-66. 2006
  7. ncbi Biochemical evidence for the association of fragile X mental retardation protein with brain polyribosomal ribonucleoparticles
    Edouard 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
  8. ncbi PKCbetaII modulates translation independently from mTOR and through RACK1
    Stefano Grosso
    Molecular Histology and Cell Growth, HSR, 20132 Milan, Italy
    Biochem J 415:77-85. 2008
  9. ncbi In vivo stabilization of preinitiation complexes by formaldehyde cross-linking
    LEOS VALASEK
    Institute of Microbiology, AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic
    Methods Enzymol 429:163-83. 2007
  10. ncbi Mammalian Smaug is a translational repressor that forms cytoplasmic foci similar to stress granules
    María 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

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  1. ncbi Trapping of messenger RNA by Fragile X Mental Retardation protein into cytoplasmic granules induces translation repression
    Rachid 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...
  2. ncbi FMRP stalls ribosomal translocation on mRNAs linked to synaptic function and autism
    Jennifer 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...
  3. ncbi Nonsense-mediated mRNA decapping occurs on polyribosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Wenqian 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 ..
  4. ncbi Differential mRNA translation contributes to gene regulation under non-stress and dehydration stress conditions in Arabidopsis thaliana
    Riki 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...
  5. ncbi Translational regulation of the human achaete-scute homologue-1 by fragile X mental retardation protein
    Michael 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...
  6. ncbi Analysis of polysomal mRNA populations of mouse oocytes and zygotes: dynamic changes in maternal mRNA utilization and function
    Santhi 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...
  7. ncbi Biochemical evidence for the association of fragile X mental retardation protein with brain polyribosomal ribonucleoparticles
    Edouard 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 ..
  8. ncbi PKCbetaII modulates translation independently from mTOR and through RACK1
    Stefano 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...
  9. ncbi In vivo stabilization of preinitiation complexes by formaldehyde cross-linking
    LEOS 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...
  10. ncbi Mammalian Smaug is a translational repressor that forms cytoplasmic foci similar to stress granules
    María 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...
  11. ncbi RAS/ERK signaling promotes site-specific ribosomal protein S6 phosphorylation via RSK and stimulates cap-dependent translation
    Philippe 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...
  12. ncbi Nip7p interacts with Nop8p, an essential nucleolar protein required for 60S ribosome biogenesis, and the exosome subunit Rrp43p
    N 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...
  13. ncbi 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 mechanisms
    Cristina 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...
  14. ncbi Immunopurification of polyribosomal complexes of Arabidopsis for global analysis of gene expression
    Maria 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. 2005
    Immunoaffinity 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(..
  15. ncbi Stress granules and processing bodies are dynamically linked sites of mRNP remodeling
    Nancy 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...
  16. ncbi TOPs and their regulation
    T L Hamilton
    School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
    Biochem Soc Trans 34:12-6. 2006
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  17. ncbi 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...
  18. ncbi Aldosterone and vasopressin affect {alpha}- and {gamma}-ENaC mRNA translation
    Andrea 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...
  19. ncbi Developmental expression of the fragile X-related 1 proteins in mouse testis: association with microtubule elements
    M 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...
  20. ncbi Inhibition of polysome assembly enhances imatinib activity against chronic myelogenous leukemia and overcomes imatinib resistance
    Min 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...
  21. ncbi The RACK1 signal anchor protein from Trypanosoma brucei associates with eukaryotic elongation factor 1A: a role for translational control in cytokinesis
    Sandesh 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...
  22. ncbi Co-translational mRNA decay in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Wenqian 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...
  23. ncbi mRNPs, polysomes or granules: FMRP in neuronal protein synthesis
    Francesca Zalfa
    Dipartimento di Biologia, , Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Roma, Italy
    Curr Opin Neurobiol 16:265-9. 2006
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  24. ncbi AU-rich-element-mediated upregulation of translation by FXR1 and Argonaute 2
    Shobha 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...
  25. ncbi Global translational responses to oxidative stress impact upon multiple levels of protein synthesis
    Daniel 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...
  26. ncbi Genome-wide analysis of mRNA translation profiles in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Yoav 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...
  27. ncbi A network of multiple regulatory layers shapes gene expression in fission yeast
    Daniel 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...
  28. ncbi Evidence that microRNAs are associated with translating messenger RNAs in human cells
    Patricia 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...
  29. ncbi Fragile X mental retardation protein shifts between polyribosomes and stress granules after neuronal injury by arsenite stress or in vivo hippocampal electrode insertion
    Soong 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...
  30. ncbi The Shwachman-Bodian-Diamond syndrome associated protein interacts with HsNip7 and its down-regulation affects gene expression at the transcriptional and translational levels
    Cédric 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...
  31. ncbi Cell cycle-regulated modification of the ribosome by a variant multiubiquitin chain
    J 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...
  32. ncbi Staufen recruitment into stress granules does not affect early mRNA transport in oligodendrocytes
    María 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
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  33. ncbi eIF4GI links nutrient sensing by mTOR to cell proliferation and inhibition of autophagy
    Francisco 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...
  34. ncbi Gonadotropin-regulated testicular RNA helicase (GRTH/Ddx25) is a transport protein involved in gene-specific mRNA export and protein translation during spermatogenesis
    Yi 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 ..
  35. ncbi Selective mRNA translation coordinates energetic and metabolic adjustments to cellular oxygen deprivation and reoxygenation in Arabidopsis thaliana
    Cristina 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...
  36. ncbi A novel function for fragile X mental retardation protein in translational activation
    Elias G Bechara
    Institut de Pharmacologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Valbonne, France
    PLoS Biol 7:e16. 2009
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  37. ncbi The three-dimensional organization of polyribosomes in intact human cells
    Florian 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...
  38. ncbi Why Dom34 stimulates growth of cells with defects of 40S ribosomal subunit biosynthesis
    Arpita Bhattacharya
    Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
    Mol Cell Biol 30:5562-71. 2010
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  39. ncbi The mechanism of micro-RNA-mediated translation repression is determined by the promoter of the target gene
    Yi 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...
  40. ncbi Identification and stage-specific association with the translational apparatus of TbZFP3, a CCCH protein that promotes trypanosome life-cycle development
    Athina 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...
  41. ncbi IMP dehydrogenase type 1 associates with polyribosomes translating rhodopsin mRNA
    Sarah 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...
  42. ncbi A model for protein translation: polysome self-organization leads to maximum protein synthesis rates
    Hermioni 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
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  43. ncbi Lost once, the Fragile X Mental Retardation protein is now back onto brain polyribosomes
    Laetitia 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...
  44. ncbi A functional RNAi screen links O-GlcNAc modification of ribosomal proteins to stress granule and processing body assembly
    Takbum 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...
  45. ncbi Stm1p alters the ribosome association of eukaryotic elongation factor 3 and affects translation elongation
    Natalya 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...
  46. ncbi Arginines of the RGG box regulate FMRP association with polyribosomes and mRNA
    Ernest 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...
  47. ncbi Polyribosome analysis for investigating mRNA translation in Xenopus oocytes, eggs and embryos
    M 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...
  48. ncbi The virion-packaged endoribonuclease of herpes simplex virus 1 cleaves mRNA in polyribosomes
    Brunella 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 ..
  49. ncbi Translation of a small subset of Caenorhabditis elegans mRNAs is dependent on a specific eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E isoform
    Tzvetanka 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...
  50. ncbi mRNA sequence features that contribute to translational regulation in Arabidopsis
    Riki 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...
  51. ncbi Identification of many microRNAs that copurify with polyribosomes in mammalian neurons
    John 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...
  52. ncbi Step-wise formation of eukaryotic double-row polyribosomes and circular translation of polysomal mRNA
    Gelina 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...
  53. ncbi Genome-wide analysis of mRNA polysomal profiles with spotted DNA microarrays
    Daniel 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...
  54. ncbi Fragile X mental retardation protein induces synapse loss through acute postsynaptic translational regulation
    Brad 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.
  55. ncbi The 39-kilodalton subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 is essential for the complex's integrity and for cell viability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    T Naranda
    Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
    Mol Cell Biol 17:145-53. 1997
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  56. ncbi The duplicated Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene SSM1 encodes a eucaryotic homolog of the eubacterial and archaebacterial L1 ribosomal proteins
    A 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...
  57. ncbi Isolation of polysomal RNA for microarray analysis
    Yoav Arava
    Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
    Methods Mol Biol 224:79-87. 2003
  58. ncbi Preferential translation of internal ribosome entry site-containing mRNAs during the mitotic cycle in mammalian cells
    Xiaoli 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...
  59. ncbi Oncogenic Ras and Akt signaling contribute to glioblastoma formation by differential recruitment of existing mRNAs to polysomes
    Vinagolu 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...
  60. ncbi Decapping and decay of messenger RNA occur in cytoplasmic processing bodies
    Ujwal 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...
  61. ncbi DCL is a plant-specific protein required for plastid ribosomal RNA processing and embryo development
    Mohammed 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...
  62. ncbi Asc1p, a WD40-domain containing adaptor protein, is required for the interaction of the RNA-binding protein Scp160p with polysomes
    Sonja 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...
  63. ncbi RU5 of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus 5' long terminal repeat enhances cytoplasmic expression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gag-pol and nonviral reporter RNA
    Stacey 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 ..
  64. ncbi Localization-dependent oskar protein accumulation; control after the initiation of translation
    Arie 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...
  65. ncbi Global mRNA stabilization preferentially linked to translational repression during the endoplasmic reticulum stress response
    Tomoko 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...
  66. ncbi Epigenetic activation of a subset of mRNAs by eIF4E explains its effects on cell proliferation
    Yael 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...
  67. ncbi The shuttling SR protein 9G8 plays a role in translation of unspliced mRNA containing a constitutive transport element
    Jennifer 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...
  68. ncbi Cerebral ischemia induces neuronal expression of novel VL30 mouse retrotransposons bound to polyribosomes
    Willard 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 ..
  69. ncbi Ribosomal slowdown mediates translational arrest during cellular division
    Gilad 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...
  70. ncbi Adenovirus virus-associated RNAII-derived small RNAs are efficiently incorporated into the rna-induced silencing complex and associate with polyribosomes
    Ning 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.
  71. ncbi Messenger RNAs under differential translational control in Ki-ras-transformed cells
    Jean Spence
    Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA, USA
    Mol Cancer Res 4:47-60. 2006
    ....
  72. ncbi Direct stimulation of translation by the multifunctional herpesvirus ICP27 protein
    Osmany 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.
  73. ncbi Scp160p, a multiple KH-domain protein, is a component of mRNP complexes in yeast
    B 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 ..
  74. ncbi The discovery of polyribosomes
    Hans Noll
    American Cancer Society, USA
    Bioessays 30:1220-34. 2008
    ....
  75. ncbi ACCUMULATION OF PHOTOSYSTEM ONE1, a member of a novel gene family, is required for accumulation of [4Fe-4S] cluster-containing chloroplast complexes and antenna proteins
    Katrin 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...
  76. ncbi The native 3D organization of bacterial polysomes
    Florian Brandt
    Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, Martinsried 82152, Germany
    Cell 136:261-71. 2009
    ....
  77. ncbi Characterization of Staufen 1 ribonucleoprotein complexes
    Cornelia Brendel
    Institute for Cell Biochemistry and Clinical Neurobiology, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, D 20246 Hamburg, Germany
    Biochem J 384:239-46. 2004
    ....
  78. ncbi Chloroplast biogenesis of photosystem II cores involves a series of assembly-controlled steps that regulate translation
    Limor 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...
  79. ncbi Transient dissociation of polyribosomes and concurrent recruitment of calreticulin and calmodulin transcripts in gravistimulated maize pulvini
    I 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...
  80. ncbi Thymidylate synthase protein and p53 mRNA form an in vivo ribonucleoprotein complex
    E 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...
  81. ncbi A plant viral "reinitiation" factor interacts with the host translational machinery
    H S Park
    Friedrich Miescher-Institute, P.O. Box 2543, CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland
    Cell 106:723-33. 2001
    ....
  82. ncbi Regulation of the mRNAs encoding proteins of the BMP signaling pathway during the maternal stages of Xenopus development
    B 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...
  83. ncbi Yeast dom34 mutants are defective in multiple developmental pathways and exhibit decreased levels of polyribosomes
    L 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...
  84. ncbi Sequence-independent assembly of spermatid mRNAs into messenger ribonucleoprotein particles
    E 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...
  85. ncbi Global and specific translational regulation in the genomic response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to a rapid transfer from a fermentable to a nonfermentable carbon source
    K 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...
  86. ncbi FMRP associates with polyribosomes as an mRNP, and the I304N mutation of severe fragile X syndrome abolishes this association
    Y 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...
  87. ncbi Differential effects of aromatic and charged residue substitutions in the RNA binding domains of the yeast poly(A)-binding protein
    J A Deardorff
    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, 94720, USA
    J Mol Biol 269:67-81. 1997
    ....
  88. ncbi Functional implications of ribosomal protein L2 in protein biosynthesis as shown by in vivo replacement studies
    M 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...
  89. ncbi Orphan receptor DAX-1 is a shuttling RNA binding protein associated with polyribosomes via mRNA
    E 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...
  90. ncbi Nog2p, a putative GTPase associated with pre-60S subunits and required for late 60S maturation steps
    C 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...
  91. ncbi Depletion of Saccharomyces cerevisiae ribosomal protein L16 causes a decrease in 60S ribosomal subunits and formation of half-mer polyribosomes
    M 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...
  92. ncbi The poly(A) binding protein is required for poly(A) shortening and 60S ribosomal subunit-dependent translation initiation
    A 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...
  93. ncbi Association of the mouse infertility factor DAZL1 with actively translating polyribosomes
    S 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 ..
  94. ncbi Arrest of transcription following anoxic exposure in a marine mollusc
    Kevin 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...
  95. ncbi Translational deregulation in PDK-1-/- embryonic stem cells
    Yuichi 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...
  96. ncbi Movement of eukaryotic mRNAs between polysomes and cytoplasmic processing bodies
    Muriel 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...
  97. ncbi The RNA polymerase II CTD kinase Ctk1 functions in translation elongation
    Susanne 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
    ....
  98. ncbi Polypyrimidine tract binding protein regulates IRES-mediated gene expression during apoptosis
    Martin 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...
  99. ncbi Tagging ribosomal protein S7 allows rapid identification of mutants defective in assembly and function of 30 S subunits
    K 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...
  100. ncbi Methods to analyze microRNA-mediated control of mRNA translation
    Jennifer 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...
  101. ncbi Fibronectin controls cap-dependent translation through beta1 integrin and eukaryotic initiation factors 4 and 2 coordinated pathways
    Chiara 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 Grants79

  1. RiboTag: A novel technique to profile cell type specific gene expression and inv
    GEORGE STANLEY contact MCKNIGHT; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..The polyribosomes containing the transcribed and translatable mRNAs are isolated by immunological techniques and then the RNA is ..
  2. Distance-Dependent Structure and Function of Neuronal Dendrites
    Kristen 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, ..
  3. Distance-Dependent Structure and Function of Neuronal Dendrites
    Kristen 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, ..
  4. Distance-Dependent Structure and Function of Neuronal Dendrites
    Kristen 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, ..
  5. Selective Degradation of mRNA by Herpes Simplex Virus 1
    Bernard Roizman; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Both class A and class B mRNAs are degraded in polyribosomes. Class C includes mRNAs that are not degraded...
  6. PROBES FOR FLOW CYTOMETRY
    Zbigniew 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 ..
  7. TARGETING OF HUMAN OTC TO THE MITOCHONDRIAL MATRIX
    Arthur 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 ..
  8. Replication Control in Fragile X Syndrome
    BARBARA 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...
  9. Translational Regulation of Fragile X Syndrome Gene
    JAE 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...
  10. Dissecting the molecular basis of fragile X syndrome in Drosophila
    Peng 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...
  11. Translational Regulation in Adult Neural Stem Cells
    Xinyu 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, ..
  12. Translational Regulation in Adult Neural Stem Cells
    Xinyu 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, ..
  13. UNDERSTANDING TRAIL SENSITIVITY IN HUMAN GLIOMA
    RUSSELL 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-..
  14. Dendritic Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal Neurons
    Erin 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 ..
  15. Dendritic Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal Neurons
    Erin 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 ..
  16. IMP Dehydrogenase
    Lizbeth 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...
  17. Lafora's Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy
    Antonio 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 ..
  18. REGULATION OF OVARIAN FUNCTION BY GONADOTROPIN
    JAIRAM 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...
  19. The Roles of Steel Factor in Germ Cell Behavior in the Mouse
    Christopher Wylie; Fiscal Year: 2009
    The frag ile X mental re tardation protein (FMRP) binds mRNA and micro RNA, is associated with polyribosomes, and is localized in dendrites and axons...
  20. The Roles of Steel Factor in Germ Cell Behavior in the Mouse
    Christopher C Wylie; Fiscal Year: 2010
    The frag ile X mental re tardation protein (FMRP) binds mRNA and micro RNA, is associated with polyribosomes, and is localized in dendrites and axons...
  21. UNDERSTANDING TRAIL SENSITIVITY IN HUMAN GLIOMA
    Russell 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-..
  22. LOCALIZATION OF MRNAS AT SYNAPTIC SITES ON DENDRITES
    Oswald 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...
  23. Dendritic Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal Neurons
    KAI 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 ..
  24. Dissecting the molecular basis of fragile X syndrome in Drosophila
    Peng 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...