Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Tia1 dependent regulation of mRNA subcellular location and translation controls p53 expression in B cells

  • Manuel D. Díaz-Muñoz,
  • Vladimir Yu. Kiselev,
  • Nicolas Le Novère,
  • Tomaz Curk,
  • Jernej Ule,
  • Martin Turner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00454-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Sequestering mRNA in cytoplasmic stress granules is a mechanism for translational repression. Here the authors find that p53 mRNA, present in stress granules in activated B lymphocytes, is released upon DNA damage and is translated in a CAP-independent manner.