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Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published online on October 16, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkm736
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Trypanosome MTR4 is involved in rRNA processing

Marina Cristodero and Christine E. Clayton*

Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +49 6221 546 876; Fax: +49 6221 545 894; Email: cclayton{at}zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de

Received January 31, 2007. Revised September 5, 2007. Accepted September 5, 2007.

The yeast putative RNA helicase Mtr4p is implicated in exosome-mediated RNA quality control in the nucleus, interacts with the exosome, and is found in the ‘TRAMP’ complex with a yeast nuclear poly(A) polymerase (Trf4p/Pap2p or Trf5p) and a putative RNA-binding protein, Air1p or Air2p. Depletion of the Trypanosoma brucei MTR4-like protein TbMTR4 caused growth arrest and defects in 5.8S rRNA processing similar to those seen after depletion of the exosome. TbNPAPL, a nuclear protein which is a putative homolog of Trf4p/Pap2p, was required for normal cell growth. Depletion of MTR4 resulted in the accumulation of polyadenylated rRNA precursors, while depletion of TbNPAPL had little effect. These results suggest that polyadenylation-dependent nuclear rRNA quality control is conserved in eukaryotic evolution. In contrast, there was no evidence for a trypanosome TRAMP complex since no stable interactions between TbMTR4 and the exosome, TbNPAPL or RNA-binding proteins were detected.


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