Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

A CAF40-binding motif facilitates recruitment of the CCR4-NOT complex to mRNAs targeted by Drosophila Roquin

  • Annamaria Sgromo,
  • Tobias Raisch,
  • Praveen Bawankar,
  • Dipankar Bhandari,
  • Ying Chen,
  • Duygu Kuzuoğlu-Öztürk,
  • Oliver Weichenrieder,
  • Elisa Izaurralde

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14307
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Roquin proteins downregulate target mRNA expression by recruiting effectors such as the CCR4-NOT deadenylase complex. Here the authors provide molecular details of how Roquin proteins recruit the CCR4-NOT complex to repress the expression of its targets.