Inhibiting eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis: Mining new tools for basic research and medical applications

August 20, 2019

This article comments on work published by Awad et al (BMC Biology, 2019), which screened for novel inhibitors of the ribosome biogenesis pathway in yeast.

Post-transcriptional regulation of ribosome biogenesis in yeast

May 1, 2017

Microorganisms adapt to environmental changes by regulating their metabolism, and one key survival strategy is to decrease energy use during adverse conditions by halting ribosome production, with recent findings showing yeast can switch between pre-rRNA processing pathways in response to environmental shifts, adding complexity to ribosome biogenesis regulation.