Nature Communications (May 2020)

The Perlman syndrome DIS3L2 exoribonuclease safeguards endoplasmic reticulum-targeted mRNA translation and calcium ion homeostasis

  • Mehdi Pirouz,
  • Chih-Hao Wang,
  • Qi Liu,
  • Aref G. Ebrahimi,
  • Farnaz Shamsi,
  • Yu-Hua Tseng,
  • Richard I. Gregory

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16418-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The DIS3L2 exonuclease degrades aberrant 7SL RNAs tagged by an oligouridine 3′-tail. Here the authors analyze DIS3L2 knockout mouse embryonic stem cells and suggest that DIS3L2-mediated quality control of 7SL RNA is important for ER-mediated translation and calcium ion homeostasis.