Chen Yu, Varani Gabriele
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Chem Biol. 2011 Jul 29;18(7):821-3. doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2011.07.001.
Pumilio and FBF homology (PUF) proteins represent highly promising candidates for engineering sequence-specific RNA recognition, but were only known to recognize G, A, and U, significantly limiting applications. Two groups (Filipovska et al., 2011; Dong et al., 2011) have now reported the discovery of the cytosine-recognition code for PUF proteins.
Pumilio和FBF同源(PUF)蛋白是工程化序列特异性RNA识别中极具潜力的候选蛋白,但此前仅知其能识别鸟嘌呤(G)、腺嘌呤(A)和尿嘧啶(U),这极大地限制了其应用。现在有两个研究小组(菲利波夫斯卡等人,2011年;董等人,2011年)报告了PUF蛋白胞嘧啶识别密码的发现。