Interaction between mRNA, ribosomes and the cytoskeleton.
Interaction between mRNA, ribosomes and the cytoskeleton.
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mRNA、核糖体和细胞骨架之间的相互作用。
作者:
J. Hesketh;I. Pryme
A major logistical problem for all cells is how newly synthesized proteins are directed to their appropriate subcellular location. Currently, little is known of how the majority of proteins are targeted to their site of function. In the case of membrane and secretory proteins it is known that the first step in such targeting is achieved by synthesis in a distinct polyribosome (polysome) compartment. It is well documented that membrane and secreted proteins are synthesized on polysomes bound to rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes (membrane-bound polysomes; MBP) and it has been proposed that the other cell proteins are made on the so-called 'free' cytosolic polysomes (FP) (see reviews by Shires & Pitot, 1973; Svardal & Pryme, 1980). Thus, mRNAs were envisaged as being segregated into two distinct populations of polysomes depending on the ultimate cellular localization of the encoded protein (the signal hypothesis; see Blobel & Dobberstein, 1975). It has been calculated that some 500-2000 mRNA species, out of a total of 15000 (Adesnik & Maschio, 1981) that are released from the nucleus in liver cells, contain a signal sequence and are so selected for translation on MBP. It has been assumed until recently that the remaining mRNAs, which code for the bulk of cell proteins, are translated on FP. A simple division of protein synthesis between these two polysome populations has been questioned during the past 10 years, however, since evidence has accumulated which suggests that some mRNAs and polysomes are associated with the cytoskeleton (cytoskeletal-bound polysomes; CBP). The cytoskeleton consists of cytoplasmic networks of microfilaments, intermediate filaments and microtubules together with the postulated microtrabecular lattice. The implications of interactions between the translational apparatus and the filament systems of the cytoskeleton are of considerable significance concerning the organization of protein synthesis. Thus if FP, CBP and MBP synthesize different proteins, then an association of a population of polysomes with the cytoskeleton could be a key feature in the way the cell is able to sort its newly synthesized proteins. Alternatively the association of mRNAs with the cytoskeleton might be important in the transport ofmRNA from nucleus to cytoplasm (Agutter, 1988, 1990). The aims of the present review are to evaluate the evidence for the association of components of the translational apparatus with the cytoskeleton (reviewed earlier by Nielsen et al., 1983) and then to discuss what is known about the biochemical nature and physiological significance of such interactions.