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ArticleNature communications2021

Selectivity of mRNA degradation by autophagy in yeast.

Shiho Makino, Tomoko Kawamata, Shintaro Iwasaki, Yoshinori Ohsumi

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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34 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Shiho MakinoCell Biology Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6147-737X
Tomoko KawamataCell Biology Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.
Shintaro IwasakiRNA Systems Biochemistry Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Saitama, Japan. shintaro.iwasaki@riken.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7724-3754
Yoshinori OhsumiCell Biology Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan. yohsumi@iri.titech.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-2166
Tokyo Institute of Technology · JPPioneer (United States) · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthesis and degradation of cellular constituents must be balanced to maintain cellular homeostasis, especially during adaptation to environmental stress. The role of autophagy in the degradation of proteins and organelles is well-characterized. However, autophagy-mediated RNA degradation in response to stress and the potential preference of specific RNAs to undergo autophagy-mediated degradation have not been examined. In this study, we demonstrate selective mRNA degradation by rapamycin-induced autophagy in yeast. Profiling of mRNAs from the vacuole reveals that subsets of mRNAs, such as those encoding amino acid biosynthesis and ribosomal proteins, are preferentially delivered to the vacuole by autophagy for degradation. We also reveal that autophagy-mediated mRNA degradation is tightly coupled with translation by ribosomes. Genome-wide ribosome profiling suggested a high correspondence between ribosome association and targeting to the vacuole. We propose that autophagy-mediated mRNA degradation is a unique and previously-unappreciated function of autophagy that affords post-transcriptional gene regulation.

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AutophagyBlotting, NorthernReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRibosomal ProteinsRibosomesRNA, FungalRNA, MessengerRNA-SeqRNA StabilitySaccharomyces cerevisiaeVacuolesRibosomal ProteinsRNA, FungalRNA, Messenger

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PMID33875662
PMCPMC8055698
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