Stress granules and processing bodies are dynamically linked sites of mRNP remodeling

By N. Kedersha, G. Stoecklin, M. Ayodele, P. Yacono, J. Lykke-Andersen, M. Fritzler, D. Scheuner, R. Kaufman, D. Golan, Paul Anderson. Journal of Cell Biology, 2005

1,509 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Stress granules (SGs) are cytoplasmic aggregates of stalled translational preinitiation complexes that accumulate during stress. GW bodies/processing bodies (PBs) are distinct cytoplasmic sites of mRNA degradation. In this study, we show that SGs and PBs are spatially, compositionally, and functionally linked. SGs and PBs are induced by stress, but SG assembly requires eIF2α phosphorylation, whereas PB assembly does not. They are also dispersed by inhibitors of translational elongation and share several protein components, including Fas-activated serine/threonine phosphoprotein, XRN1, eIF4E, and tristetraprolin (TTP). In contrast, eIF3, G3BP, eIF4G, and PABP-1 are restricted to SGs, whereas DCP1a and 2 are confined to PBs. SGs and PBs also can harbor the same species of mRNA and physically associate with one another in vivo, an interaction that is promoted by the related mRNA decay factors TTP and BRF1. We propose that mRNA released from disassembled polysomes is sorted and remodeled at SGs, from which selected transcripts are delivered to PBs for degradation.

Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/803d08a68a9989b324fcdb8697cc25ec41446ae1

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

  1. Nahum Sonenberg
  2. W. Filipowicz

In Molecular Biology

  1. R. Parker
  2. W. Filipowicz
  3. Nahum Sonenberg
  4. C. Brangwynne
  5. S. Alberti
  6. Elisa Izaurralde
  7. R. Pillai
  8. Yongdae Shin

Citations in the corpus