Roles of mRNA poly (A) tails in regulation of eukaryotic gene expression

LA Passmore, J Coller - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
In eukaryotes, poly (A) tails are present on almost every mRNA. Early experiments led to the
hypothesis that poly (A) tails and the cytoplasmic polyadenylate-binding protein (PABPC) …

Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation in health and disease

AJ Gruber, M Zavolan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Most human genes have multiple sites at which RNA 3ʹ end cleavage and polyadenylation
can occur, enabling the expression of distinct transcript isoforms under different conditions …

Ultrasensitive Ribo-seq reveals translational landscapes during mammalian oocyte-to-embryo transition and pre-implantation development

Z Xiong, K Xu, Z Lin, F Kong, Q Wang, Y Quan… - Nature Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
In mammals, translational control plays critical roles during oocyte-to-embryo transition
(OET) when transcription ceases. However, the underlying regulatory mechanisms remain …

Single-cell transcriptomic atlas of primate ovarian aging

S Wang, Y Zheng, J Li, Y Yu, W Zhang, M Song, Z Liu… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Molecular mechanisms of ovarian aging and female age-related fertility decline remain
unclear. We surveyed the single-cell transcriptomic landscape of ovaries from young and …

Short poly (A) tails are a conserved feature of highly expressed genes

SA Lima, LB Chipman, AL Nicholson… - Nature structural & …, 2017 - nature.com
Poly (A) tails are important elements in mRNA translation and stability, although recent
genome-wide studies have concluded that poly (A) tail length is generally not associated …

mRNA destabilization by BTG1 and BTG2 maintains T cell quiescence

SS Hwang, J Lim, Z Yu, P Kong, E Sefik, H Xu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
T cells maintain a quiescent state prior to activation. As inappropriate T cell activation can
cause disease, T cell quiescence must be preserved. Despite its importance, the …

Tales of detailed poly (A) tails

AL Nicholson, AE Pasquinelli - Trends in cell biology, 2019 - cell.com
Poly (A) tails are non-templated additions of adenosines at the 3′ ends of most eukaryotic
mRNAs. In the nucleus, these RNAs are co-transcriptionally cleaved at a poly (A) site and …

PABP cooperates with the CCR4-NOT complex to promote mRNA deadenylation and block precocious decay

H Yi, J Park, M Ha, J Lim, H Chang, VN Kim - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Multiple deadenylases are known in vertebrates, the PAN2-PAN3 (PAN2/3) and CCR4-NOT
(CNOT) complexes, and PARN, yet their differential functions remain ambiguous. Moreover …

Remodeling of maternal mRNA through poly (A) tail orchestrates human oocyte-to-embryo transition

Y Liu, H Zhao, F Shao, Y Zhang, H Nie… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Poly (A)-tail-mediated post-transcriptional regulation of maternal mRNAs is vital in
the oocyte-to-embryo transition (OET). Nothing is known about poly (A) tail dynamics during …

The dynamics of cytoplasmic mRNA metabolism

TJ Eisen, SW Eichhorn, AO Subtelny, KS Lin… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
For all but a few mRNAs, the dynamics of metabolism are unknown. Here, we developed an
experimental and analytical framework for examining these dynamics for mRNAs from …