The protein Mago provides a link between splicing and mRNA localization
Open Access
- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in EMBO Reports
- Vol. 2 (12), 1119-1124
- https://doi.org/10.1093/embo-reports/kve245
Abstract
The proteins Mago and Y14 are evolutionarily conserved binding partners. Y14 is a component of the exon–exon junction complex (EJC), deposited by the spliceosome upstream of messenger RNA (mRNA) exon–exon junctions. The EJC is implicated in post‐splicing events such as mRNA nuclear export and nonsense‐mediated mRNA decay. Drosophila Mago is essential for the localization of oskar mRNA to the posterior pole of the oocyte, but the functional role of Mago in other species is unknown. We show that Mago is a bona fide component of the EJC. Like Y14, Mago escorts spliced mRNAs to the cytoplasm, providing a direct functional link between splicing and the downstream process of mRNA localization. Mago/Y14 heterodimers are essential in cultured Drosophila cells. Taken together, these results suggest that, in addition to its specialized function in mRNA localization, Mago plays an essential role in other steps of mRNA metabolism.Keywords
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