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SUBMITTER: Trotman JB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6294674 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trotman Jackson B JB Schoenberg Daniel R DR
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. RNA 20180905 1
The N7-methylguanosine cap is a hallmark of the 5' end of eukaryotic mRNAs and is required for gene expression. Loss of the cap was believed to lead irreversibly to decay. However, nearly a decade ago, it was discovered that mammalian cells contain enzymes in the cytoplasm that are capable of restoring caps onto uncapped RNAs. In this review, we summarize recent advances in our understanding of cytoplasmic RNA recapping and discuss the biochemistry of this process and its impact on regulating an ...[more]