Ribosome assembly coming into focus

S Klinge, JL Woolford Jr - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
In the past 25 years, genetic and biochemical analyses of ribosome assembly in yeast have
identified most of the factors that participate in this complex pathway and have generated …

Eukaryotic ribosome assembly, transport and quality control

C Peña, E Hurt, VG Panse - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2017 - nature.com
Eukaryotic ribosome synthesis is a complex, energy-consuming process that takes place
across the nucleolus, nucleoplasm and cytoplasm and requires more than 200 conserved …

A puzzle of life: crafting ribosomal subunits

D Kressler, E Hurt, J Baßler - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2017 - cell.com
The biogenesis of eukaryotic ribosomes is a complicated process during which the
transcription, modification, folding, and processing of the rRNA is coupled with the ordered …

Molecular architecture of the 90S small subunit pre-ribosome

Q Sun, X Zhu, J Qi, W An, P Lan, D Tan, R Chen… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Eukaryotic small ribosomal subunits are first assembled into 90S pre-ribosomes. The
complete 90S is a gigantic complex with a molecular mass of approximately five …

Quality control ensures fidelity in ribosome assembly and cellular health

MD Parker, K Karbstein - Journal of Cell Biology, 2023 - rupress.org
The coordinated integration of ribosomal RNA and protein into two functional ribosomal
subunits is safeguarded by quality control checkpoints that ensure ribosomes are correctly …

Visualizing late states of human 40S ribosomal subunit maturation

M Ameismeier, J Cheng, O Berninghausen… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The formation of eukaryotic ribosomal subunits extends from the nucleolus to the cytoplasm
and entails hundreds of assembly factors. Despite differences in the pathways of ribosome …

Architecture of the yeast small subunit processome

M Chaker-Margot, J Barandun, M Hunziker, S Klinge - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The eukaryotic ribosome is assembled through an intricate process that
involves in excess of 250 nonribosomal proteins and small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) …

3.2-Å-resolution structure of the 90S preribosome before A1 pre-rRNA cleavage

J Cheng, N Kellner, O Berninghausen, E Hurt… - Nature structural & …, 2017 - nature.com
The 40S small ribosomal subunit is cotranscriptionally assembled in the nucleolus as part of
a large chaperone complex called the 90S preribosome or small-subunit processome. Here …

Structure of a eukaryotic cytoplasmic pre‐40S ribosomal subunit

A Scaiola, C Peña, M Weisser, D Böhringer… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
Final maturation of eukaryotic ribosomes occurs in the cytoplasm and requires the
sequential removal of associated assembly factors and processing of the immature 20S pre …

Cryo-EM structure of a late pre-40S ribosomal subunit from Saccharomyces cerevisiae

A Heuer, E Thomson, C Schmidt, O Berninghausen… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Mechanistic understanding of eukaryotic ribosome formation requires a detailed structural
knowledge of the numerous assembly intermediates, generated along a complex pathway …