Abstract
RNA-binding proteins are important for core cellular processes such as mRNA transcription, splicing, transport, translation, and degradation. Recently, hundreds of novel RNA-binders have been identified in vivo in various organisms and cell types. We discuss the RNA interactome capture technique which enabled this boost in identifying new RNA-binding proteins in eukaryotes. A focus of this chapter, however, is the presentation of different challenges and problems that need to be addressed to be able to understand the conserved mRNA-bound proteomes from yeast to man.
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B.M.B. wishes to thank Matthias Hentze for discussions and comments on the chapter.
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Beckmann, B.M., Granneman, S. (2019). Probing the RNA-Binding Proteome from Yeast to Man: Major Advances and Challenges. In: Oliver, S.G., Castrillo, J.I. (eds) Yeast Systems Biology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2049. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9736-7_13
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