作者
Carlos I González, María J Ruiz-Echevarría, Shobha Vasudevan, Michael F Henry, Stuart W Peltz
发表日期
2000/3/1
期刊
Molecular cell
卷号
5
期号
3
页码范围
489-499
出版商
Elsevier
简介
The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway monitors premature translation termination and degrades aberrant mRNAs. In yeast, it has been proposed that a surveillance complex searches 3′ of a nonsense codon for a downstream sequence element (DSE) associated with RNA-binding proteins. An interaction between the complex and the DSE-binding protein(s) triggers NMD. Here we describe the identification and characterization of the Hrp1/Nab4 protein as a DSE-binding factor that activates NMD. Mutations in HRP1 stabilize nonsense-containing transcripts without affecting the decay of wild-type mRNAs. Hrp1p binds specifically to a DSE-containing RNA and interacts with Upf1p, a component of the surveillance complex. A mutation in HRP1 that stabilizes nonsense-containing mRNAs abolishes its affinity for the DSE and fails to interact with Upf1p. We present a model describing how Hrp1p marks …
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