Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

P-body proteins regulate transcriptional rewiring to promote DNA replication stress resistance

  • Raphael Loll-Krippleber,
  • Grant W. Brown

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00632-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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P-bodies form in response to stress and act as sites of mRNA storage and degradation. Here the authors identify the mRNA targets of P-bodies during DNA replication stress, and show that P-body proteins act to prevent toxic accumulation of these target transcripts.