Composition of Staufen2 ribonucleoprotein particles in neurons
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ABSTRACT: In neurons, many mRNAs are transported along neuronal dendrites to their site of translation by ribonucleoprotein complexes (mRNPs). Numerous mRNA-binding, motor and regulatory proteins within mRNPs finely regulate the fate of each of these mRNAs and their specific combination is likely to define different types of mRNA complexes and their neuronal functions. Staufen2 is a well known mRNA-binding protein present in distinct population of mRNPs in neurons and is implicated in the transport of mRNAs along the dendritic microtubules. However, little is known about the associated mRNAs in Staufen2 neuronal mRNPs complexes. As a means to understand its role in neuronal processes, a genome wide approach has been used to identify mRNAs that are co-immunoprecipitated with Staufen2 complexes from embryonic rat brains. The genome wide approach identified 1780 mRNAs associated with Staufen2 mRNPs that code for proteins involved in cellular processes such as post-translational protein modifications, RNA metabolism, intracellular transport and translation. All these mRNAs are consistent with the role of Staufen2 in synaptogenesis.
ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus
PROVIDER: GSE16437 | GEO | 2010/07/06
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA116385
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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