Post-transcriptional control of gene expression is critical for normal cellular function and viability and many of the proteins that mediate post-transcriptional control are themselves subject to regulation by post-translational modification (PTM), e.g. phosphorylation. However, proteome-wide studies are revealing new complexities in the PTM status of mammalian proteins, in particular large numbers of novel methylated and acetylated residues are being identified. Here we review studied examples of methylation/acetylation-dependent regulation of post-transcriptional regulatory protein (PTRP) function and present collated PTM data that points to the huge potential for regulation of mRNA fate by these PTMs.
Keywords: arginine methylation; lysine acetylation; lysine methylation; messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) translation; messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) turnover; post-transcriptional control; post-translational modification; ribonucleic acid (RNA)-binding proteins.
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