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SUBMITTER: Hilliker A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3268518 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hilliker Angela A Gao Zhaofeng Z Jankowsky Eckhard E Parker Roy R
Molecular cell 20110901 6
The translation, localization, and degradation of cytoplasmic mRNAs are controlled by the formation and rearrangement of their mRNPs. The conserved Ded1/DDX3 DEAD-box protein functions in an unknown manner to affect both translation initiation and repression. We demonstrate that Ded1 first functions by directly interacting with eIF4G to assemble a Ded1-mRNA-eIF4F complex, which accumulates in stress granules. After ATP hydrolysis by Ded1, the mRNP exits stress granules and completes translation ...[more]