“…These molecular functions are best defined in yeast, but many are conserved in human cells (Staals and Pruijn, 2011). In human patients, different mutations that affect RNA exosome activity are associated with distinct human diseases: multiple myeloma (Weissbach et al, 2015), pontocerebellar hypoplasia (Boczonadi et al, 2014; Wan et al, 2012), trichohepatoenteric syndrome (Fabre et al, 2012; Hartley et al, 2010), and most recently, a distinct disorder that has not yet been named (Di Donato et al, 2016). A thorough investigation of the structure and function of the RNA exosome is essential to understand how the RNA exosome carries out all of these functions, and how RNA exosome defects cause these very diverse diseases.…”