Analysis of Dom34 and Its Function in No-Go Decay Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Eukaryotic mRNAs are subject to quality control mechanisms that degrade defective mRNAs. In yeast, mRNAs with stalls in translation elongation are targeted for endonucleolytic cleavage by No-Go decay (NGD). The cleavage triggered by No-Go decay is dependent on Dom34p and Hbs1p, and Dom34 has been proposed to be the endonuclease responsible for mRNA cleavage. We created several Dom34 mutants and examined their effects on NGD in yeast. We identified mutations in several loops of the Dom34 structure that affect NGD. In contrast, mutations inactivating the proposed nuclease domain do not affect NGD in vivo. Moreover, we observed that overexpression of the Rps30a protein, a high copy suppressor of dom34Δ cold sensitivity, can restore some mRNA cleavage in a dom34Δ strain. These results identify important functional regions of Dom34 and suggest that the proposed endonuclease activity of Dom34 is not required for mRNA cleavage in NGD. We also provide evidence that the process of NGD is conserved in insect cells. On the basis of these results and the process of translation termination, we suggest a multistep model for the process of NGD.

publication date

  • July 1, 2009

has restriction

  • green

Date in CU Experts

  • February 20, 2014 11:13 AM

Full Author List

  • Passos DO; Doma MK; Shoemaker CJ; Muhlrad D; Green R; Weissman J; Hollien J; Parker R

Full Editor List

  • Wickens M

author count

  • 8

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1059-1524

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1939-4586

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 3025

end page

  • 3032

volume

  • 20

issue

  • 13