Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

ANGEL2 phosphatase activity is required for non-canonical mitochondrial RNA processing

  • Paula Clemente,
  • Javier Calvo-Garrido,
  • Sarah F. Pearce,
  • Florian A. Schober,
  • Megumi Shigematsu,
  • Stefan J. Siira,
  • Isabelle Laine,
  • Henrik Spåhr,
  • Christian Steinmetzger,
  • Katja Petzold,
  • Yohei Kirino,
  • Rolf Wibom,
  • Oliver Rackham,
  • Aleksandra Filipovska,
  • Joanna Rorbach,
  • Christoph Freyer,
  • Anna Wredenberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33368-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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A subset of mitochondrial transcripts is not flanked by tRNAs and thus does not conform to the canonical mode of processing. Here, Clemente et al. demonstrate that phosphatase activity of ANGEL2 is required for correct processing of these transcripts.