The PUF Protein Family: Overview on PUF RNA Targets, Biological Functions, and Post Transcriptional Regulation

A Puf RNA-binding protein encoding gene PlM90 regulates the sexual and asexual life stages of the litchi downy blight pathogen Peronophythora litchii

(2017) Liqun Jiang et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

An Arabidopsis divergent pumilio protein, APUM24, is essential for embryogenesis and required for faithful pre-rRNA processing

(2017) Thiruvenkadam Shanmugam et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

An Important Role of Pumilio 1 in Regulating the Development of the Mammalian Female Germline1

(2016) Winifred Mak et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Noncoding RNA NORAD Regulates Genomic Stability by Sequestering PUMILIO Proteins

(2016) Sungyul Lee et al.   CELL

De-coding and re-coding RNA recognition by PUF and PPR repeat proteins

(2016) Traci M Tanaka Hall   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

In Planta Determination of the mRNA-Binding Proteome of Arabidopsis Etiolated Seedlings

(2016) Marlene Reichel et al.   PLANT CELL

Nop9 is a PUF-like protein that prevents premature cleavage to correctly process pre-18S rRNA

(2016) Jun Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Morphotype-specific effector functions of Cryptococcus neoformans PUM1

(2016) Jan Naseer Kaur et al.   Scientific Reports

A Nucleolar PUF RNA-binding Protein with Specificity for a Unique RNA Sequence

(2015) Chi Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

RNA-binding proteins At RZ-1B and At RZ-1C play a critical role in regulation of pre-mRNA splicing and gene expression during Arabidopsis development

(2015) Zhe Wu et al.   PLANT CELL

Target selection by natural and redesigned PUF proteins

(2015) Douglas F. Porter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

RNA regulatory networks diversified through curvature of the PUF protein scaffold

(2015) Daniel Wilinski et al.   Nature Communications

APUM5, encoding a Pumilio RNA binding protein, negatively regulates abiotic stress responsive gene expression

(2014) Sung Huh et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

APUM23, a PUF family protein, functions in leaf development and organ polarity in Arabidopsis

(2014) Tengbo Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

SWISS-MODEL: modelling protein tertiary and quaternary structure using evolutionary information

(2014) Marco Biasini et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

REDUCED DORMANCY5Encodes a Protein Phosphatase 2C That Is Required for Seed Dormancy inArabidopsis

(2014) Yong Xiang et al.   PLANT CELL

A Novel Function of Human Pumilio Proteins in Cytoplasmic Sensing of Viral Infection

(2014) Ryo Narita et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A compendium of RNA-binding motifs for decoding gene regulation

(2013) Debashish Ray et al.   NATURE

A network of PUF proteins and Ras signaling promote mRNA repression and oogenesis in C. elegans

(2012) Arnaud Hubstenberger et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Pumilio facilitates miRNA regulation of the E2F3 oncogene

(2012) W. O. Miles et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Human Pumilio Proteins Recruit Multiple Deadenylases to Efficiently Repress Messenger RNAs

(2012) Jamie Van Etten et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A conserved PUF–Ago–eEF1A complex attenuates translation elongation

(2012) Kyle Friend et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Arabidopsis Pumilio protein APUM5 suppresses Cucumber mosaic virus infection via direct binding of viral RNAs

(2012) S. U. Huh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Patterns and plasticity in RNA-protein interactions enable recruitment of multiple proteins through a single site

(2012) C. T. Valley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PUF-8, a Pumilio Homolog, Inhibits the Proliferative Fate in the Caenorhabditis elegans Germline

(2012) Hilary Racher et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Divergence of Pumilio/fem-3mRNA Binding Factor (PUF) Protein Specificity through Variations in an RNA-binding Pocket

(2011) Chen Qiu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Drosophila Pumilio Protein Contains Multiple Autonomous Repression Domains That Regulate mRNAs Independently of Nanos and Brain Tumor

(2011) C. A. Weidmann et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Saccharomyces Genome Database: the genomics resource of budding yeast

(2011) J. M. Cherry et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Targeted translational regulation using the PUF protein family scaffold

(2011) A. Cooke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Divergent RNA binding specificity of yeast Puf2p

(2011) Y. Yosefzon et al.   RNA

The Puf family of RNA-binding proteins in plants: phylogeny, structural modeling, activity and subcellular localization

(2010) Patrick PC Tam et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Automated comparative protein structure modeling with SWISS-MODEL and Swiss-PdbViewer: A historical perspective

(2010) Nicolas Guex et al.   ELECTROPHORESIS

APUM23, a nucleolar Puf domain protein, is involved in pre-ribosomal RNA processing and normal growth patterning in Arabidopsis

(2010) Nazia Abbasi et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

PUF proteins: repression, activation and mRNA localization

(2010) Tara Quenault et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Understanding and engineering RNA sequence specificity of PUF proteins

(2009) Gang Lu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Molecular characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana PUF proteins - binding specificity and target candidates

(2009) Carlos W. Francischini et al.   FEBS Journal

FBF and Its Dual Control of gld-1 Expression in the Caenorhabditis elegans Germline

(2009) N. Suh et al.   GENETICS

A 3′UTR Pumilio-Binding Element Directs Translational Activation in Olfactory Sensory Neurons

(2009) Julia A. Kaye et al.   NEURON

A 5' cytosine binding pocket in Puf3p specifies regulation of mitochondrial mRNAs

(2009) D. Zhu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Co-occupancy of two Pumilio molecules on a single hunchback NRE

(2009) Y. K. Gupta et al.   RNA

C. elegans RNA-binding proteins PUF-8 and MEX-3 function redundantly to promote germline stem cell mitosis

(2008) Mohd Ariz et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

RNA-binding proteins and post-transcriptional gene regulation

(2008) Tina Glisovic et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Translation of ASH1 mRNA is repressed by Puf6p-Fun12p/eIF5B interaction and released by CK2 phosphorylation

(2008) Y. Deng et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Pumilio Binds para mRNA and Requires Nanos and Brat to Regulate Sodium Current in Drosophila Motoneurons

(2008) N. I. Muraro et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Basis of altered RNA-binding specificity by PUF proteins revealed by crystal structures of yeast Puf4p

(2008) Matthew T Miller et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The SWISS-MODEL Repository and associated resources

(2008) F. Kiefer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Comparative Analysis of mRNA Targets for Human PUF-Family Proteins Suggests Extensive Interaction with the miRNA Regulatory System

(2008) Alessia Galgano et al.   PLoS One

A Caenorhabditis elegans PUF protein family with distinct RNA binding specificity

(2008) C. R. Stumpf et al.   RNA

Structures of Human Pumilio with Noncognate RNAs Reveal Molecular Mechanisms for Binding Promiscuity

(2008) Yogesh K. Gupta et al.   STRUCTURE