Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Decoding non-canonical mRNA decay by the endoplasmic-reticulum stress sensor IRE1α

  • Adrien Le Thomas,
  • Elena Ferri,
  • Scot Marsters,
  • Jonathan M. Harnoss,
  • David A. Lawrence,
  • Iratxe Zuazo-Gaztelu,
  • Zora Modrusan,
  • Sara Chan,
  • Margaret Solon,
  • Cécile Chalouni,
  • Weihan Li,
  • Hartmut Koeppen,
  • Joachim Rudolph,
  • Weiru Wang,
  • Thomas D. Wu,
  • Peter Walter,
  • Avi Ashkenazi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27597-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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IRE1 helps mitigate endoplasmic-reticulum stress by cleaving specific mRNAs at a conserved sequence endomotif via regulated IRE1-dependent decay (RIDD). Here the authors discover a more promiscuous IRE1 activity dubbed RIDD lacking endomotif (RIDDLE).