Cellular functions of eukaryotic RNA helicases and their links to human diseases

KE Bohnsack, S Yi, S Venus, E Jankowsky… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
RNA helicases are highly conserved proteins that use nucleoside triphosphates to bind or
remodel RNA, RNA–protein complexes or both. RNA helicases are classified into the DEAD …

Ribosome biogenesis factors—from names to functions

K Dörner, C Ruggeri, I Zemp, U Kutay - The EMBO journal, 2023 - embopress.org
The assembly of ribosomal subunits is a highly orchestrated process that involves a huge
cohort of accessory factors. Most eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis factors were first identified …

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

J Baßler, E Hurt - Annual review of biochemistry, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Ribosomes, which synthesize the proteins of a cell, comprise ribosomal RNA and ribosomal
proteins, which coassemble hierarchically during a process termed ribosome biogenesis …

Deregulation of ribosomal protein expression and translation promotes breast cancer metastasis

RY Ebright, S Lee, BS Wittner, KL Niederhoffer… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are shed into the bloodstream from primary tumors, but only a
small subset of these cells generates metastases. We conducted an in vivo genome-wide …

Cryo-EM in drug discovery: achievements, limitations and prospects

JP Renaud, A Chari, C Ciferri, W Liu… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of non-crystalline single particles is a biophysical
technique that can be used to determine the structure of biological macromolecules and …

Assembly landscape for the bacterial large ribosomal subunit

K Sheng, N Li, JN Rabuck-Gibbons, X Dong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Assembly of ribosomes in bacteria is highly efficient, taking~ 2-3 min, but this makes the
abundance of assembly intermediates very low, which is a challenge for mechanistic …

In situ cryo-electron tomography reveals gradient organization of ribosome biogenesis in intact nucleoli

PS Erdmann, Z Hou, S Klumpe, S Khavnekar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Ribosomes comprise a large (LSU) and a small subunit (SSU) which are synthesized
independently in the nucleolus before being exported into the cytoplasm, where they …

Principles of human pre-60S biogenesis

A Vanden Broeck, S Klinge - Science, 2023 - science.org
During the early stages of human large ribosomal subunit (60 S) biogenesis, an ensemble of
assembly factors establishes and fine-tunes the essential RNA functional centers of pre-60 S …

Cryo-EM captures early ribosome assembly in action

B Qin, SM Lauer, A Balke, CH Vieira-Vieira… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ribosome biogenesis is a fundamental multi-step cellular process in all domains of life that
involves the production, processing, folding, and modification of ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) …