Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

A cryptic RNA-binding domain mediates Syncrip recognition and exosomal partitioning of miRNA targets

  • Fruzsina Hobor,
  • Andre Dallmann,
  • Neil J. Ball,
  • Carla Cicchini,
  • Cecilia Battistelli,
  • Roksana W. Ogrodowicz,
  • Evangelos Christodoulou,
  • Stephen R. Martin,
  • Alfredo Castello,
  • Marco Tripodi,
  • Ian A. Taylor,
  • Andres Ramos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03182-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Syncrip is a conserved RNA-binding protein that mediates selective miRNA loading into cell-secreted exosomes, which is important for cell–cell communication. Here the authors provide mechanistic insights into how Syncrip recognises its target miRNAs by combining NMR and crystallography.