title: Polysomes, P bodies and stress granules: states and fates of eukaryotic mRNAs.
abstract: The control of translation and mRNA degradation plays a key role in the regulation of eukaryotic gene expression. In the cytosol, mRNAs engaged in translation are distributed throughout the cytosol, while translationally inactive mRNAs can accumulate in P bodies, in complex with mRNA degradation and translation repression machinery, or in stress granules, which appear to be mRNAs stalled in translation initiation. Here we discuss how these different granules suggest a dynamic model for the metabolism of cytoplasmic mRNAs wherein they cycle between different mRNP states with different functional properties and subcellular locations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0206, USA.
authors.forename: Vidya
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Balagopal
authors.forename: Roy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Parker
mesh_terms: D003594:Cytoplasmic Granules / Q000378:metabolism*; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D011132:Polyribosomes / Q000378:metabolism*; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D012315:RNA Caps / Q000378:metabolism*; D020871:RNA Stability; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism*; D012261:Ribonucleoproteins / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D012315:RNA Caps; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012261:Ribonucleoproteins; C026452:messenger ribonucleoprotein