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ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): Illumina HiSeq 2000
ORGANISM(S): Trypanosoma brucei
SUBMITTER: Christine Clayton
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-5613 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Jha Bhaskar Anand BA Fadda Abeer A Merce Clementine C Mugo Elisha E Droll Dorothea D Clayton Christine C
Eukaryotic cell 20140328 5
Pumilio domain RNA-binding proteins are known mainly as posttranscriptional repressors of gene expression that reduce mRNA translation and stability. Trypanosoma brucei has 11 PUF proteins. We show here that PUF2 is in the cytosol, with roughly the same number of molecules per cell as there are mRNAs. Although PUF2 exhibits a low level of in vivo RNA binding, it is not associated with polysomes. PUF2 also decreased reporter mRNA levels in a tethering assay, consistent with a repressive role. Dep ...[more]