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ArticleCold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology2019

Recognition of Poly(A) RNA through Its Intrinsic Helical Structure.

Terence T L Tang, Lori A Passmore

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Article in Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. RNA folding kinetics control riboswitch sensitivity in vivo.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  17. Single-Molecular Dissection of Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2023
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  19. Thoughts on how to think (and talk) about RNA structure.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  20. Advances in COVID-19 mRNA vaccine development.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Terence T L TangMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.
Lori A PassmoreMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

European Research Council 725685Medical Research Council MC_U105192715
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The polyadenosine (poly(A)) tail, which is found on the 3' end of almost all eukaryotic messenger RNAs (mRNAs), plays an important role in the posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression. Shortening of the poly(A) tail, a process known as deadenylation, is thought to be the first and rate-limiting step of mRNA turnover. Deadenylation is performed by the Pan2-Pan3 and Ccr4-Not complexes that contain highly conserved exonuclease enzymes Pan2, and Ccr4 and Caf1, respectively. These complexes have been extensively studied, but the mechanisms of how the deadenylase enzymes recognize the poly(A) tail were poorly understood until recently. Here, we summarize recent work from our laboratory demonstrating that the highly conserved Pan2 exonuclease recognizes the poly(A) tail, not through adenine-specific functional groups, but through the conformation of poly(A) RNA. Our biochemical, biophysical, and structural investigations suggest that poly(A) forms an intrinsic base-stacked, single-stranded helical conformation that is recognized by Pan2, and that disruption of this structure inhibits both Pan2 and Caf1. This intrinsic structure has been shown to be important in poly(A) recognition in other biological processes, further underlining the importance of the unique conformation of poly(A).

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PMID32295929
PMCPMC7116106
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