RNAs associated with Upf1, Pab1, Rpl16a, Lsm1 proteins in yeast

Nonsense mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a translation-dependent surveillance pathway that eliminates RNAs with short open reading frames (ORFs) and long 3' untranslated regions (UTRs). Upf1 is the key protein of this degradation pathway and we were interested to purify the associated RNAs. Moreover we have done purifications of two proteins from the general mRNA turnover in yeast : Pab1 and Lsm1 that both bind RNAs poly(A) tails. We have also done a purification with a protein from the small ribosomal subunit (40S) in order to have a look at the translated RNAs. Upf1, Pab1, Rpl16a, Lsm1 associated RNAs