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SUBMITTER: Paez-Moscoso DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5805746 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Páez-Moscoso Diego J DJ Pan Lili L Sigauke Rutendo F RF Schroeder Morgan R MR Tang Wen W Baumann Peter P
Nature communications 20180208 1
Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and the non-coding telomerase RNA subunit (TR) constitute the core of telomerase. Here we now report that the putative F-box protein Pof8 is also a constitutive component of active telomerase in fission yeast. Pof8 functions in a hierarchical assembly pathway by promoting the binding of the Lsm2-8 complex to telomerase RNA, which in turn promotes binding of the catalytic subunit. Loss of Pof8 reduces TER1 stability, causes a severe assembly defect, and res ...[more]