Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Goodman Cancer Center, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Dec 29;106(52):22217-22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0909773106. Epub 2009 Dec 11.
Translational control plays an important role in cell growth and tumorigenesis. Cap-dependent translation initiation of mammalian mRNAs with structured 5'UTRs requires the DExH-box protein, DHX29, in vitro. Here we show that DHX29 is important for translation in vivo. Down-regulation of DHX29 leads to impaired translation, resulting in disassembly of polysomes and accumulation of mRNA-free 80S monomers. DHX29 depletion also impedes cancer cell growth in culture and in xenografts. Thus, DHX29 is a bona fide translation initiation factor that potentially can be exploited as a target to inhibit cancer cell growth.
翻译控制在细胞生长和肿瘤发生中起着重要作用。体外实验表明,具有结构 5'UTR 的哺乳动物 mRNAs 的帽依赖性翻译起始需要 DExH 盒蛋白 DHX29。在这里,我们表明 DHX29 对体内翻译很重要。DHX29 的下调导致翻译受损,导致多核糖体解体和无 mRNA 的 80S 单体积累。DHX29 耗尽也会阻碍培养和异种移植中的癌细胞生长。因此,DHX29 是一种真正的翻译起始因子,可能可被用作抑制癌细胞生长的靶标。