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ArticleNucleic acids research2001

The fragile X mental retardation protein inhibits translation via interacting with mRNA.

Z Li, Y Zhang, L Ku, K D Wilkinson, S T Warren, Y Feng

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 225 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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225citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
16.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

225 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 443 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Z LiDepartment of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, 1510 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Y Zhang
L Ku
K D Wilkinson
S T Warren
Y Feng
Emory University · US

Funding

TRANSCRIPTION AND RNA BINDING IN FRAGILE X SYNDROMEP01HD035576 · NICHD · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI WARREN, STEPHEN T. · 1997 to 2005
$5.0M
MOLECULAR CLONING OF THE FRAGILE X SITER01HD020521 · NICHD · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI WARREN, STEPHEN T. · 1986 to 2011
$2.8M
MOLECULAR CLONING OF THE FRAGILE X SITER37HD020521 · NICHD · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI WARREN, STEPHEN T. · 1996 to 2005
$1.7M
NICHD NIH HHS HD20521NICHD NIH HHS HD35576NICHD NIH HHS P01 HD035576NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD020521NICHD NIH HHS R37 HD020521
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fragile X syndrome is a frequent form of inherited mental retardation caused by functional loss of the fragile X mental retardation protein, FMRP. The function of FMRP is unknown, as is the mechanism by which its loss leads to cognitive deficits. Recent studies have determined that FMRP is a selective RNA-binding protein associated with polyribosomes, leading to the hypothesis that FMRP may be involved in translational regulation. Here we show that purified recombinant FMRP causes a dose-dependent translational inhibition of brain poly(A) RNA in rabbit reticulocyte lysate without accelerated mRNA degradation. In our translation reaction FMRP interacts with other messenger ribonucleoproteins and pre-exposure of FMRP to mRNA significantly increased the potency of FMRP as a translation inhibitor. Translation suppression by FMRP is reversed in a trans-acting manner by the 3'-untranslated portion of the Fmr1 message, which binds FMRP, suggesting that FMRP inhibits translation via interacting with mRNA. Consistently FMRP suppresses translation of the parathyroid hormone transcript, which binds FMRP, but not the beta-globin transcript, which does not bind FMRP. Moreover, removing the FMRP-binding site on a translation template abolishes the inhibitory effect of FMRP. Taken together, our results support the hypothesis that FMRP inhibits translation via interactions with the translation template.

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RNA-Binding ProteinsAnimalsBinding SitesBrainCell LineDose-Response Relationship, DrugFragile X Messenger Ribonucleoprotein 1MaleNerve Tissue ProteinsProtein BindingProtein BiosynthesisRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyRecombinant ProteinsReticulocytesRNAFmr1 protein, ratFragile X Messenger Ribonucleoprotein 1Nerve Tissue ProteinsRecombinant ProteinsRNARNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, Messenger

Identifiers

PMID11376146
PMCPMC55699
OpenAlexW2099503180

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