Browsing by keyword "messenger ribonucleoprotein"

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    • Higher-Order Organization Principles of Pre-translational mRNPs [preprint]
      Metkar, Mihir; Ozadam, Hakan; Lajoie, Bryan R.; Imakaev, Maxim; Mirny, Leonid A.; Dekker, Job; Moore, Melissa J. (2018-03-08)
      Compared to noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) such as rRNAs and ribozymes, for which high resolution structures abound, little is known about the tertiary structures of mRNAs. In eukaryotic cells, newly made mRNAs are packaged with proteins in highly compacted mRNPs, but the manner of this mRNA compaction is unknown. Here we developed and implemented RIPPLiT (RNA ImmunoPrecipitation and Proximity Ligation in Tandem), a transcriptome-wide method for probing the 3D conformations of RNAs stably-associated with defined proteins, in this case exon junction complex (EJC) core factors. EJCs multimerize with other mRNP components to form megadalton sized complexes that protect large swaths of newly synthesized mRNAs from endonuclease digestion. Unlike ncRNAs, mRNAs behave more like flexible polymers without strong locus-specific interactions. Polymer analysis of proximity ligation data for hundreds of mRNA species demonstrates that pre-translational mammalian mRNPs fold as linear rod-like structures with no strong propensity for 5' and 3' end interaction.

    • In vivo single-particle imaging of nuclear mRNA export in budding yeast demonstrates an essential role for Mex67p
      Smith, Carlas; Lari, Azra; Derrer, Carina Patrizia.; Ouwehand, Anette; Rossouw, Ammeret; Huisman, Maximiliaan; Dange, Thomas; Hopman, Mark; Joseph, Aviva; Zenklusen, Daniel; et al. (2015-12-21)
      Many messenger RNA export proteins have been identified; yet the spatial and temporal activities of these proteins and how they determine directionality of messenger ribonucleoprotein (mRNP) complex export from the nucleus remain largely undefined. Here, the bacteriophage PP7 RNA-labeling system was used in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to follow single-particle mRNP export events with high spatial precision and temporal resolution. These data reveal that mRNP export, consisting of nuclear docking, transport, and cytoplasmic release from a nuclear pore complex (NPC), is fast ( approximately 200 ms) and that upon arrival in the cytoplasm, mRNPs are frequently confined near the nuclear envelope. Mex67p functions as the principal mRNP export receptor in budding yeast. In a mex67-5 mutant, delayed cytoplasmic release from NPCs and retrograde transport of mRNPs was observed. This proves an essential role for Mex67p in cytoplasmic mRNP release and directionality of transport.