A small molecule antagonist of SMN disrupts the interaction between SMN and RNAP II

A small molecule antagonist of SMN disrupts the interaction between SMN and RNAP II

The SMN protein recognizes symmetric dimethylarginine by its Tudor domain, and SMN deficiency leads to spinal muscular atrophy. Here, Liu et al. discover a small molecule that binds to the SMN Tudor domain and disrupts the interaction between SMN and RNA Polymerase II.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yanli Liu, Aman Iqbal, Weiguo Li, Zuyao Ni, Yalong Wang, Jurupula Ramprasad, Karan Joshua Abraham, Mengmeng Zhang, Dorothy Yanling Zhao, Su Qin, Peter Loppnau, Honglv Jiang, Xinghua Guo, Peter J. Brown, Xuechu Zhen, Guoqiang Xu, Karim Mekhail, Xingyue Ji, Mark T. Bedford, Jack F. Greenblatt, Jinrong Min
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33229-5

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33229-5

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