Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

A choreography of centrosomal mRNAs reveals a conserved localization mechanism involving active polysome transport

  • Adham Safieddine,
  • Emeline Coleno,
  • Soha Salloum,
  • Arthur Imbert,
  • Abdel-Meneem Traboulsi,
  • Oh Sung Kwon,
  • Frederic Lionneton,
  • Virginie Georget,
  • Marie-Cécile Robert,
  • Thierry Gostan,
  • Charles-Henri Lecellier,
  • Racha Chouaib,
  • Xavier Pichon,
  • Hervé Le Hir,
  • Kazem Zibara,
  • Florian Mueller,
  • Thomas Walter,
  • Marion Peter,
  • Edouard Bertrand

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21585-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Centrosomes function as microtubule organizing centers where several mRNAs accumulate. By employing high-throughput single molecule FISH screening, the authors discover that 8 human mRNAs localize to centrosomes with unique cell cycle dependent patterns using an active polysome targeting mechanism.