Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Exon junction complex dependent mRNA localization is linked to centrosome organization during ciliogenesis

  • Oh Sung Kwon,
  • Rahul Mishra,
  • Adham Safieddine,
  • Emeline Coleno,
  • Quentin Alasseur,
  • Marion Faucourt,
  • Isabelle Barbosa,
  • Edouard Bertrand,
  • Nathalie Spassky,
  • Hervé Le Hir

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21590-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Exon junction complexes (EJCs) that mark untranslated mRNA are involved in transport, translation and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Here the authors show centrosomal localization of EJCs which appears to be required for both the localization of NIN mRNA around centrosomes and ciliogenesis.