The mRNA stability factor Khd4 defines a specific mRNA regulon for membrane trafficking in the pathogen Ustilago maydis

S Sankaranarayanan, C Haag… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Fungal pathogens depend on sophisticated gene expression programs for successful
infection. A crucial component is RNA regulation mediated by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) …

The response to single-gene duplication implicates translation as a key vulnerability in aneuploid yeast

HA Dutcher, J Hose, H Howe, J Rojas, AP Gasch - PLoS genetics, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Aneuploidy produces myriad consequences in health and disease, yet models of the
deleterious effects of chromosome amplification are still widely debated. To distinguish the …

Nonlethal furfural exposure causes genomic alterations and adaptability evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

L Qi, YX Zhu, YK Wang, XX Tang, KJ Li… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Furfural is a major inhibitor found in lignocellulosic hydrolysate, a promising feedstock for
the biofermentation industry. In this study, we aimed to investigate the potential impact of this …

[HTML][HTML] Post-transcriptional control of fungal cell wall synthesis

RA Hall, EWJ Wallace - The Cell Surface, 2022 - Elsevier
Pathogenic fungi hide from their hosts by camouflage, obscuring immunogenic cell wall
components such as beta-glucan with innocuous coverings such as mannoproteins and …

HELZ2: a new, interferon-regulated, human 3′-5′ exoribonuclease of the RNB family is expressed from a non-canonical initiation codon

E Huntzinger, J Sinteff, B Morlet… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Proteins containing a RNB domain, originally identified in Escherichia coli RNase II, are
widely present throughout the tree of life. Many RNB proteins have 3′-5 …

Investigating the role of RNA-binding protein Ssd1 in aneuploidy tolerance through network analysis

HA Dutcher, AP Gasch - RNA, 2025 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) play critical cellular roles by mediating various stages of RNA
life cycles. Ssd1, an RBP with pleiotropic effects, has been implicated in aneuploidy …

Antisense non-coding transcription represses the PHO5 model gene at the level of promoter chromatin structure

A Novačić, D Menéndez, J Ljubas, S Barbarić… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Pervasive transcription of eukaryotic genomes generates non-coding transcripts with
regulatory potential. We examined the effects of non-coding antisense transcription on the …

Targeting APEX2 to the mRNA encoding fatty acid synthase β in yeast identifies interacting proteins that control its abundance in the cell cycle

HM Blank, WP Griffith, M Polymenis - Molecular Biology of the …, 2023 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Profiling the repertoire of proteins associated with a given mRNA during the cell cycle is
unstudied. Furthermore, it is easier to ask and answer what mRNAs a specific protein might …

Post-transcriptional mechanisms modulate the consequences of adaptive copy number variation

P Spealman, C de Santana, T De, D Gresham - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Copy-number variants (CNVs) are large-scale amplifications or deletions of DNA that can
drive rapid adaptive evolution and result in large-scale changes in gene expression …

[HTML][HTML] A posttranscriptional pathway regulates cell wall mRNA expression in budding yeast

S Bresson, V Shchepachev, D Tollervey - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
The fungal cell wall provides protection and structure and is an important target for
antifungal compounds. A mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase cascade termed the cell …