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ArticleCell2008

3' end processing of a long nuclear-retained noncoding RNA yields a tRNA-like cytoplasmic RNA.

Jeremy E Wilusz, Susan M Freier, David L Spector

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Article in Cell, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 440 papers.

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440citing papers in PubMed
11.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

440 citing papers in PubMed, 706 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jeremy E WiluszWatson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
Susan M Freier
David L Spector
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · USIonis Pharmaceuticals (United States) · US

Funding

Spatial Organization of Gene ExpressoinR01GM042694 · NIGMS · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI SPECTOR, DAVID L · 1990 to 2018
$12.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM042694PHS HHS 42694
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MALAT1 is a long noncoding RNA known to be misregulated in many human cancers. We have identified a highly conserved small RNA of 61 nucleotides originating from the MALAT1 locus that is broadly expressed in human tissues. Although the long MALAT1 transcript localizes to nuclear speckles, the small RNA is found exclusively in the cytoplasm. RNase P cleaves the nascent MALAT1 transcript downstream of a genomically encoded poly(A)-rich tract to simultaneously generate the 3' end of the mature MALAT1 transcript and the 5' end of the small RNA. Enzymes involved in tRNA biogenesis then further process the small RNA, consistent with its adoption of a tRNA-like structure. Our findings reveal a 3' end processing mechanism by which a single gene locus can yield both a stable nuclear-retained noncoding RNA with a short poly(A) tail-like moiety and a small tRNA-like cytoplasmic RNA.

Indexed as

RNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBase SequenceCell Line, TumorCell NucleusCytoplasmEndoribonucleasesHeLa CellsHumansMiceMolecular Sequence DataNeoplasmsRibonuclease PRNA, TransferRNA, UntranslatedEndoribonucleasesRibonuclease PRNase ZRNA, TransferRNA, Untranslated

Identifiers

PMID19041754
PMCPMC2722846
OpenAlexW2005636452

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