Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

A scaffold lncRNA shapes the mitosis to meiosis switch

  • Vedrana Andric,
  • Alicia Nevers,
  • Ditipriya Hazra,
  • Sylvie Auxilien,
  • Alexandra Menant,
  • Marc Graille,
  • Benoit Palancade,
  • Mathieu Rougemaille

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21032-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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In fission yeast, the antagonistic RNA-binding proteins Mmi1 and Mei2 respectively promote and inhibit meiotic mRNA degradation during mitotic growth. Here the authors show that the lncRNA mamRNA scaffolds Mmi1 and Mei2 proteins to enable their mutual controls.