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SUBMITTER: She M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2323275 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
She Meipei M Decker Carolyn J CJ Svergun Dmitri I DI Round Adam A Chen Nan N Muhlrad Denise D Parker Roy R Song Haiwei H
Molecular cell 20080201 3
A critical step in mRNA degradation is the removal of the 5' cap structure, which is catalyzed by the Dcp1-Dcp2 complex. The crystal structure of an S. pombe Dcp1p-Dcp2n complex combined with small-angle X-ray scattering analysis (SAXS) reveals that Dcp2p exists in open and closed conformations, with the closed complex being, or closely resembling, the catalytically more active form. This suggests that a conformational change between these open and closed complexes might control decapping. A bip ...[more]