Processing bodies, P and GW, are cytoplasmic entities that act as a foci for mRNA turnover and degradation and in some instances are vehicles for mRNA reinitiating processes within the cell cycle.
P Bodies as cellular enzymatic bundles also mediate the degrading of nonsense mediated mRNA and are implicated in the process of mRNA silencing.
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PABP Antibody- Mouse Anti-PABP
The poly(A)-binding protein (PABP) which is found complexed to the 3-prime poly(A) tail of eukaryotic mRNA is required for poly(A) shortening and translation initiation Grange et al (1987) isolated a melanoma cell cDNA encoding human PABP The predicted 633-amino acid protein contains 4 repeats of an approximately 80-amino acid unit in its N-terminal half The authors found that this repeat region is highly conserved between human and yeast PABP and is sufficient for poly(A) binding In vitro translation of the human PABP cDNA yielded a protein with an apparent molecular mass of 73 kD by SDS-PAGE Northern blot analysis indicated that PABP is expressed as a 29-kb mRNA in human melanoma cells Gorlach et al (1994) noted that each of the 4 repeats of PABP is a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) consensus sequence RNA-binding domain They determined that PABP has a pI of approximately 103 and is a very abundant stable protein Immunofluorescence studies of mammalian cells indicated that PABP is located exclusively in the cytoplasm However using both indirect immunofluorescence and tagging of PABP1 by fusion to the green fluorescent protein (GFP) Afonina et al (1998) demonstrated that PABP1 shuttles between the nucleus and cytoplasm PABP1 accumulated in the nucleus when transcription was inhibited suggesting that active transcription is required for nuclear export of PABP1
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