Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

The nucleolus is the site for inflammatory RNA decay during infection

  • Taeyun A. Lee,
  • Heonjong Han,
  • Ahsan Polash,
  • Seok Keun Cho,
  • Ji Won Lee,
  • Eun A. Ra,
  • Eunhye Lee,
  • Areum Park,
  • Sujin Kang,
  • Junhee L. Choi,
  • Ji Hyun Kim,
  • Ji Eun Lee,
  • Kyung-Won Min,
  • Seong Wook Yang,
  • Markus Hafner,
  • Insuk Lee,
  • Je-Hyun Yoon,
  • Sungwook Lee,
  • Boyoun Park

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32856-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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The nucleolus is the traditional site for ribosomal RNA biogenesis. Here, the authors find that the nucleolus is a site of inflammatory pre-mRNA turnover and elucidated how immune homeostasis can be maintained by controlling inflammatory gene expression.