Horsch A, Martins de Sa C, Dineva B, Spindler E, Schmid H P
Biologisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, FRG.
FEBS Lett. 1989 Mar 27;246(1-2):131-6. doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(89)80268-6.
Prosomes are small cytoplasmic RNP complexes associated with repressed mRNA. In in vitro translation, they discriminate between the mRNA of adenovirus-infected HeLa cells and those of uninfected cells grown under normal conditions. Prosomes as well as their RNA constituents interact much more strongly with poly(A)+ mRNA of infected cells and inhibit their translation in vitro preferentially. A possible role of prosomes in the differential regulation of translation is discussed.