Yasuha Kinugasa

The paper develops a semi-automated Ribo-Seq and Disome-Seq platform to analyze translation status across many samples, identifying factors regulating translation and revealing links between stop codon readthrough and mitochondrial translation deficiency in COVID-19.

This study shows Lem2, an inner nuclear membrane protein in S. pombe, recruits exosome co-factors to the nuclear periphery to regulate RNA degradation and coordinate transcripts during the mitosis-to-meiosis switch.