Abstract
The RNA exosome is a multisubunit protein complex that exhibits a 3′ to 5′ exoribonuclease activity, endoribonuclease activity, and participates in a variety of RNA processing and degradation pathways in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Exosomes interact with various cofactors which target them to specific RNA substrates and processes. Investigation of the mechanisms by which mammalian RNA exosomes are targeted to specific RNA substrates requires the development of in vitro approaches for purification of exosomes and their co-factors, assembly of substrates and monitoring of the exosomal activity. Here, we describe protocols for in vitro reconstitution of ribosomal 80S elongation complexes on cap-labeled mRNAs and for assaying exosomal degradation of mRNAs in such complexes depending on the presence of GTPBP1, which has previously been implicated in directing the exosome to mRNA targets.
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This work was supported by NIH grant GM80623 to T.V.P. and NIH grant AI123406 to C.U.T.H.
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Zinoviev, A., Hellen, C.U.T., Pestova, T.V. (2020). In Vitro Characterization of the Activity of the Mammalian RNA Exosome on mRNAs in Ribosomal Translation Complexes. In: LaCava, J., Vaňáčová, Š. (eds) The Eukaryotic RNA Exosome. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2062. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9822-7_16
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