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NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 346-351Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb750
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM53007] Funding Source: Medline
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The exon junction complex (EJC), a set of proteins deposited on mRNAs as a consequence of pre-mRNA splicing, is a key effector of downstream mRNA metabolism. We have identified eIF4AIII, a member of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A family of RNA helicases (also known as DExH/D box proteins), as a novel EJC core component. Crosslinking and antibody inhibition studies suggest that eIF4AIII constitutes at least part of the platform anchoring other EJC components to spliced mRNAs. A nucleocytoplasmic shuttling protein, eIF4AIII associates in vitro and in vivo with two other EJC core factors, Y14 and Magoh. In mammalian cells, eIF4AIII is essential for nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). Finally, a model is proposed by which eIF4AIII represents a new functional class of DExH/D box proteins that act as RNA clamps or place holders for the sequence-independent attachment of additional factors to RNAs.
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