Nucleases: diversity of structure, function and mechanism

W Yang - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2011 - cambridge.org
Nucleases cleave the phosphodiester bonds of nucleic acids and may be endo or exo,
DNase or RNase, topoisomerases, recombinases, ribozymes, or RNA splicing enzymes. In …

RNA decay machines: Deadenylation by the Ccr4–Not and Pan2–Pan3 complexes

E Wahle, GS Winkler - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2013 - Elsevier
Shortening and removal of the 3′ poly (A) tail of mature mRNA by poly (A)-specific 3′
exonucleases (deadenylases) is the initial and often rate-limiting step in mRNA degradation …

The Ccr4–not complex

MA Collart, OO Panasenko - Gene, 2012 - Elsevier
The Ccr4–Not complex is a unique, essential and conserved multi-subunit complex that acts
at the level of many different cellular functions to regulate gene expression. Two enzymatic …

Proteins involved in the degradation of cytoplasmic mRNA in the major eukaryotic model systems

A Siwaszek, M Ukleja, A Dziembowski - RNA biology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The process of mRNA decay and surveillance is considered to be one of the main
posttranscriptional gene expression regulation platforms in eukaryotes. The degradation of …

PDE12 removes mitochondrial RNA poly (A) tails and controls translation in human mitochondria

J Rorbach, TJJ Nicholls, M Minczuk - Nucleic acids research, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Polyadenylation of mRNA in human mitochondria is crucial for gene expression and
perturbation of poly (A) tail length has been linked to a human neurodegenerative disease …

The intrinsic structure of poly (A) RNA determines the specificity of Pan2 and Caf1 deadenylases

TTL Tang, JAW Stowell, CH Hill… - Nature structural & …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The 3′ poly (A) tail of messenger RNA is fundamental to regulating eukaryotic
gene expression. Shortening of the poly (A) tail, termed deadenylation, reduces transcript …

Reconstitution of targeted deadenylation by the Ccr4-Not complex and the YTH domain protein Mmi1

JAW Stowell, MW Webster, A Kögel, J Wolf, KL Shelley… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Ccr4-Not is a conserved protein complex that shortens the 3′ poly (A) tails of eukaryotic
mRNAs to regulate transcript stability and translation into proteins. RNA-binding proteins are …

The Ccr4-Not complex: architecture and structural insights

MA Collart, OO Panasenko - Macromolecular Protein Complexes: Structure …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Ccr4-Not complex is an essential multi-subunit protein complex that plays a
fundamental role in eukaryotic mRNA metabolism and has a multitude of different roles that …

Poly (A)-specific ribonuclease (PARN): an allosterically regulated, processive and mRNA cap-interacting deadenylase

A Virtanen, N Henriksson, P Nilsson… - Critical reviews in …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Deadenylation of eukaryotic mRNA is a mechanism critical for mRNA function by influencing
mRNA turnover and efficiency of protein synthesis. Here, we review poly (A)-specific …

Crystal structure and functional properties of the human CCR4-CAF1 deadenylase complex

Y Chen, E Khazina, E Izaurralde… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The CCR4 and CAF1 deadenylases physically interact to form the CCR4-CAF1 complex
and function as the catalytic core of the larger CCR4-NOT complex. Together, they are …