Department of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Spemannstrasse 35, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2012 Dec 1;4(12):a012328. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a012328.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a large family of endogenous noncoding RNAs that, together with the Argonaute family of proteins (AGOs), silence the expression of complementary mRNA targets posttranscriptionally. Perfectly complementary targets are cleaved within the base-paired region by catalytically active AGOs. In the case of partially complementary targets, however, AGOs are insufficient for silencing and need to recruit a protein of the GW182 family. GW182 proteins induce translational repression, mRNA deadenylation and exonucleolytic target degradation. Recent work has revealed a direct molecular link between GW182 proteins and cellular deadenylase complexes. These findings shed light on how miRNAs bring about target mRNA degradation and promise to further our understanding of the mechanism of miRNA-mediated repression.
微小 RNA(miRNAs)是一大类内源性非编码 RNA,它们与 Argonaute 家族蛋白(AGOs)一起,在后转录水平上沉默互补 mRNA 靶标的表达。完全互补的靶标在碱基配对区域被具有催化活性的 AGO 切割。然而,对于部分互补的靶标,AGO 不足以沉默,需要招募 GW182 家族的蛋白质。GW182 蛋白诱导翻译抑制、mRNA 去腺苷酸化和外切核酸酶靶标降解。最近的工作揭示了 GW182 蛋白和细胞脱腺苷酸酶复合物之间的直接分子联系。这些发现揭示了 miRNA 如何导致靶 mRNA 降解,并有望进一步加深我们对 miRNA 介导的抑制机制的理解。