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ArticleCell reports2015

Differential Stoichiometry among Core Ribosomal Proteins.

Nikolai Slavov, Stefan Semrau, Edoardo Airoldi, Bogdan Budnik, Alexander van Oudenaarden

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Article in Cell reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 128 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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128citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

128 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 212 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Nikolai SlavovDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Statistics and FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: nslavov@alum.mit.edu.
Stefan SemrauLeiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University, 2333 CC Leiden, the Netherlands.
Edoardo AiroldiDepartment of Statistics and FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Bogdan BudnikDepartment of Statistics and FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Alexander van OudenaardenHubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and University Medical Center Utrecht, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Harvard University · USCenter for Systems Biology · USLeiden University · NLUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NL

Funding

Multistability and noise in gene regulatory modulesR01GM068957 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI HORVITZ, H ROBERT · 2003 to 2014
$4.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM068957NIGMS NIH HHS R01-GM068957
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the regulation and structure of ribosomes is essential to understanding protein synthesis and its dysregulation in disease. While ribosomes are believed to have a fixed stoichiometry among their core ribosomal proteins (RPs), some experiments suggest a more variable composition. Testing such variability requires direct and precise quantification of RPs. We used mass spectrometry to directly quantify RPs across monosomes and polysomes of mouse embryonic stem cells (ESC) and budding yeast. Our data show that the stoichiometry among core RPs in wild-type yeast cells and ESC depends both on the growth conditions and on the number of ribosomes bound per mRNA. Furthermore, we find that the fitness of cells with a deleted RP-gene is inversely proportional to the enrichment of the corresponding RP in polysomes. Together, our findings support the existence of ribosomes with distinct protein composition and physiological function.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsCell LineEmbryonic Stem CellsMiceMolecular Sequence DataProtein BindingRibosomal ProteinsRNA, MessengerSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsRibosomal ProteinsRNA, MessengerSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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PMID26565899
PMCPMC4644233
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