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Crystal structure of TDRD3 and methyl-arginine binding characterization of TDRD3, SMN and SPF30. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
SMN (Survival motor neuron protein) was characterized as a dimethyl-arginine binding protein over ten years ago. TDRD3 (Tudor domain-containing protein 3) and SPF30 (Splicing factor 30 kDa) were found to bind to various methyl-arginine proteins including
Ke Liu   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multiprotein Complexes of the Survival of Motor Neuron Protein SMN with Gemins Traffic to Neuronal Processes and Growth Cones of Motor Neurons [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Neuroscience, 2006
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting motor neurons, is caused by mutations or deletions of theSMN1gene encoding the survival of motor neuron (SMN) protein. In immortalized non-neuronal cell lines, SMN has been shown to form a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex with Gemin proteins, which is essential for the ...
Honglai, Zhang   +5 more
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Structural basis for the recognition of spliceosomal SmN/B/B’ proteins by the RBM5 OCRE domain in splicing regulation

open access: yeseLife, 2016
The multi-domain splicing factor RBM5 regulates the balance between antagonistic isoforms of the apoptosis-control genes FAS/CD95, Caspase-2 and AID. An OCRE (OCtamer REpeat of aromatic residues) domain found in RBM5 is important for alternative splicing
André Mourão   +6 more
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Pseudophosphorylated αB-crystallin is a nuclear chaperone imported into the nucleus with help of the SMN complex. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
The human small heat shock protein αB-crystallin (HspB5) is a molecular chaperone which is mainly localized in the cytoplasm. A small fraction can also be found in nuclear speckles, of which the localization is mediated by successional phosphorylation at
John den Engelsman   +4 more
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Sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: is SMN-Gemins protein complex of importance for the relative resistance of oculomotor nucleus motoneurons to degeneration? [PDF]

open access: yesFolia Neuropathologica, 2018
Lower motoneurons (MNs) show varied vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): those of non-ocular brainstem nuclei and most of those of the spinal cord are highly vulnerable, while those of extraocular brainstem nuclei are quite resistant. Results of our former study on the immunoexpression of the survival of motor neuron protein (SMN) and ...
Dorota Sulejczak   +3 more
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Identification of gemin5 as a novel 7-methylguanosine cap-binding protein. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2009
A unique attribute of RNA molecules synthesized by RNA polymerase II is the presence of a 7-methylguanosine (m(7)G) cap structure added co-transcriptionally to the 5' end.
Shelton S Bradrick, Matthias Gromeier
doaj   +1 more source

Gemin4 is an essential gene in mice, and its overexpression in human cells causes relocalization of the SMN complex to the nucleoplasm

open access: yesBiology Open, 2018
Gemin4 is a member of the Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein complex, which is responsible for the assembly and maturation of Sm-class small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs).
Ingo D. Meier   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dysfunctional mitochondria accumulate in a skeletal muscle knockout model of Smn1, the causal gene of spinal muscular atrophy

open access: yesCell Death and Disease, 2023
The approved gene therapies for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), caused by loss of survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1), greatly ameliorate SMA natural history but are not curative.
Francesco Chemello   +10 more
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Absence of gemin5 from SMN complexes in nuclear Cajal bodies

open access: yesBMC Cell Biology, 2007
Background Spinal muscular atrophy is caused by reduced levels of the survival of motor neurons (SMN) protein. SMN is found in large complexes with Sm proteins and at least eight other proteins, including seven "gemins".
Burghes Arthur HM   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disruption of snRNP biogenesis factors Tgs1 and pICln induces phenotypes that mirror aspects of SMN-Gemins complex perturbation in Drosophila, providing new insights into spinal muscular atrophy

open access: yesNeurobiology of Disease, 2016
The neuromuscular disorder, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), results from insufficient levels of the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. Together with Gemins 2–8 and Unrip, SMN forms the large macromolecular SMN-Gemins complex, which is known to be ...
Rebecca M. Borg   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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