Cells seem to leave nothing to chance, including the quality control at all steps of information transfer. RNA maturation involves extensive processing that has a relatively high error rate. Cells have developed an RNA quality control mechanism which identifies improperly processed RNAs and subsequently degrades them. This mechanism ensures that only properly processed RNAs are engaged in protein synthesis. The exosome and Trf4 complex are the central molecular machines in this process. The Trf4 complex recognizes and polyadenylates the aberrant RNAs, whereas the exosome is responsible for their degradation. We propose here to use multidimensional NMR spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structure of several protein-RNA complexes that are involved in RNA quality control. The proposed project will reveal the mechanism by which the Trf4 complex identifies the aberrant RNAs and thus recruit them for the degradation machinery. (en)
Budou získány strukturní informace o tom jak proteiny účastnící se kontroly kvality RNA rozpoznávají poškozenou či mutovanou RNA.
Tento projekt se zabýval studiem mechnismu interakcí mezi proteiny a RNA na strukturní úrovni. Zjistili jsme jak proteiny, které se účastní transkční terminace a editace RNA, rozpoznávají své substráty.Výsledky tohoto projektu byly publikovány ve formě 4 článků v mezinárodních recenzovaných časopisech (Cell, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biomolecular NMR Assignments). (cs)
In this project, we used structural biology approach to study protein-RNA interactions. We solved two protein-RNA structures involved in transcription termination and RNA editing. These structures provided structural basis for how their RNA substrates are recognized. The results from this project were published in peer-reviewed journals (Cell, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biomol NMR Assign). (en)