... 7Spre-rRNA, and as Nop53p interacts with the exosomesubunit Rrp6p and activates the RNase activity of the complex in vitro, Nop53p may be involved in recruit-ment of the exosome to the 7S pre-rRNA ... two-hybrid analyses and into YCplac33GAL-A, fusedto the protein A tag, under the control of the GAL1promoter [31]. Subsequently, the fragments coding for the N- and C-terminal regions of NOP53 were ... of 7S, a phenotypesimilar to that caused by the depletion of core exo-some subunits [31]. Nop53p interacts with the nucleo-lar proteins Nop17p and Nip7p [31], both of whichinteract with the...