Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Axonal G3BP1 stress granule protein limits axonal mRNA translation and nerve regeneration

  • Pabitra K. Sahoo,
  • Seung Joon Lee,
  • Poonam B. Jaiswal,
  • Stefanie Alber,
  • Amar N. Kar,
  • Sharmina Miller-Randolph,
  • Elizabeth E. Taylor,
  • Terika Smith,
  • Bhagat Singh,
  • Tammy Szu-Yu Ho,
  • Anatoly Urisman,
  • Shreya Chand,
  • Edsel A. Pena,
  • Alma L. Burlingame,
  • Clifford J. Woolf,
  • Mike Fainzilber,
  • Arthur W. English,
  • Jeffery L. Twiss

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05647-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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G3BP1 is RasGAP SH3 domain binding protein 1 that interacts with 48S pre-initiation complex when translation is stalled. Here, Twiss and colleagues show that neuronal G3BP1 can negatively regulate axonal mRNA translation, and inhibit axonal regeneration after injury.