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ArticleRNA (New York, N.Y.)2012

Sequential RNA degradation pathways provide a fail-safe mechanism to limit the accumulation of unspliced transcripts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Shakir Sayani, Guillaume F Chanfreau

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Article in RNA (New York, N.Y.), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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  1. Transcription termination promotes splicing efficiency and fidelity in a compact genome.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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2 authors.

Shakir SayaniDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
Guillaume F Chanfreau

Funding

THE CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION BY EUKARYOTIC RNASE IIIR01GM061518 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI CHANFREAU, GUILLAUME F · 2000 to 2017
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NIGMS NIH HHS 5R01GM061518-11NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM061518
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nuclear exosome and the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathways have been implicated in the degradation of distinct unspliced transcripts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this study we show that these two systems can act sequentially on specific unspliced pre-mRNAs to limit their accumulation. Using steady-state and decay analyses, we show that while specific unspliced transcripts rely mostly on NMD or on the nuclear exosome for their degradation, some unspliced RNAs are stabilized only when both the nuclear exosome and NMD are inactivated. We found that the mechanism of degradation of these unspliced pre-mRNAs is not influenced by promoter identity. However, the specificity in the pre-mRNAs degradation pathways can be manipulated by changing the rate of export or retention of these mRNAs. For instance, reducing the nuclear export of pre-mRNAs mostly degraded by NMD results in a higher fraction of unspliced transcripts degraded by the nuclear exosome. Reciprocally, inactivating the Mlp retention factors results in a higher fraction of unspliced transcripts degraded by NMD for precursors normally targeted by the nuclear exosome. Overall, these results demonstrate that a functional redundancy exists between nuclear and cytoplasmic degradation pathways for unspliced pre-mRNAs, and suggest that the degradation routes of these species are mainly determined by the efficiency of their nuclear export rates. The presence of these two sequential degradation pathways for unspliced pre-mRNAs underscores the importance of limiting their accumulation and might serve as a fail-safe mechanism to prevent the expression of these nonfunctional RNAs.

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Blotting, NorthernCell NucleusCodon, NonsenseCytoplasmExosomesNonsense Mediated mRNA DecayRNA, FungalRNA, MessengerRNA PrecursorsRNA SplicingRNA StabilitySaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsCodon, NonsenseRNA, FungalRNA, MessengerRNA PrecursorsSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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PMID22753783
PMCPMC3404376

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