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Silverman SK. Rube Goldberg goes (ribo)nuclear? Molecular switches and sensors made from RNA. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2003; 9:377-83. [PMID: 12649489 PMCID: PMC1370404 DOI: 10.1261/rna.2200903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Switches and sensors play important roles in our everyday lives. The chemical properties of RNA make it amenable for use as a switch or sensor, both artificially and in nature. This review focuses on recent advances in artificial RNA switches and sensors. Researchers have been applying classical biochemical principles such as allostery in elegant ways that are influencing the development of biosensors and other applications. Particular attention is given here to allosteric ribozymes (aptazymes) that are regulated by small organic molecules, by proteins, or by oligonucleotides. Also discussed are ribozymes whose activities are controlled by various nonallosteric strategies.
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- Scott K Silverman
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
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Small RNAs can act to regulate both the synthesis of proteins, by affecting mRNA transcription, translation and stability, and the activity of specific proteins by binding to them. As a result of recent genome-wide screens, around 50 small RNAs have now been identified in Escherichia coli. These include many that require the RNA-binding protein Hfq for their activity; most of these RNAs act by pairing with their target mRNAs. Small RNAs can both positively and negatively regulate translation, can simultaneously regulate multiple mRNA targets, and can change the pattern of polarity within an operon.
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- Eric Massé
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Yamamoto Y, Sunohara T, Jojima K, Inada T, Aiba H. SsrA-mediated trans-translation plays a role in mRNA quality control by facilitating degradation of truncated mRNAs. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2003; 9:408-18. [PMID: 12649493 PMCID: PMC1370408 DOI: 10.1261/rna.2174803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2002] [Accepted: 12/16/2002] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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An important unsolved question regarding the bacterial SsrA system is the fate of target mRNAs replaced by SsrA RNA during trans-translation. The aim of the present study is to address the potential role of SsrA system in mRNA quality control, focusing on truncated mRNAs that are expected to arise from 3'-to-5' exonucleolytic attack. We found that significant amounts of truncated mRNAs and polypeptides were produced from genes lacking a rho-independent terminator in SsrA-deficient cells. These truncated mRNAs, hence truncated polypeptides, were no longer observed in the presence of SsrA RNA. The data indicate that the SsrA system facilitates degradation of "nonstop" mRNAs by presumably removing the stalled ribosomes. Furthermore, analysis of affinity-purified proteins indicated that truncated polypeptides could be produced even from a gene with an intact rho-independent terminator, although less efficiently, implying that C-terminally truncated proteins and 3'-truncated mRNA may be produced from virtually all protein-coding genes. We conclude that the SsrA system not only promotes the degradation of incomplete polypeptides but also minimizes the synthesis of incomplete polypeptides by facilitating the degradation of truncated mRNAs that are produced in cells.
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- Yasufumi Yamamoto
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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Huang W, Flint SJ. Unusual properties of adenovirus E2E transcription by RNA polymerase III. J Virol 2003; 77:4015-24. [PMID: 12634361 PMCID: PMC150658 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.7.4015-4024.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2002] [Accepted: 12/23/2002] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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In adenovirus type 5-infected cells, RNA polymerase III transcription of a gene superimposed on the 5' end of the E2E RNA polymerase II transcription unit produces two small (<100-nucleotide) RNAs that accumulate to low steady-state concentrations (W. Huang, R. Pruzan, and S. J. Flint, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:1265-1269, 1984). To gain a better understanding of the function of this RNA polymerase III transcription, we have examined the properties of the small E2E RNAs and E2E RNA polymerase III transcription in more detail. The accumulation of cytoplasmic E2E RNAs and the rates of E2E transcription by the two RNA polymerases during the infectious cycle were analyzed by using RNase T(1) protection and run-on transcription assays, respectively. Although the RNA polymerase III transcripts were present at significantly lower concentrations than E2E mRNA throughout the period examined, E2E transcription by RNA polymerase III was found to be at least as efficient as that by RNA polymerase II. The short half-lifes of the small E2E RNAs estimated by using the actinomycin D chase method appear to account for their limited accumulation. The transcription of E2E sequences by RNA polymerase II and III in cells infected by recombinant adenoviruses carrying ectopic E2E-CAT (chloramphenicol transferase) reporter genes with mutations in E2E promoter sequences was also examined. The results of these experiments indicate that recognition of the E2E promoter by the RNA polymerase II transcriptional machinery in infected cells limits transcription by RNA polymerase III, and vice versa. Such transcriptional competition and the properties of E2E RNAs made by RNA polymerase III suggest that the function of this viral RNA polymerase III transcription unit is unusual.
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- Wenlin Huang
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544-1014, USA
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Hershberg R, Altuvia S, Margalit H. A survey of small RNA-encoding genes in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:1813-20. [PMID: 12654996 PMCID: PMC152812 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 214] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Small RNA (sRNA) molecules have gained much interest lately, as recent genome-wide studies have shown that they are widespread in a variety of organisms. The relatively small family of 10 known sRNA-encoding genes in Escherichia coli has been significantly expanded during the past two years with the discovery of 45 novel genes. Most of these genes are still uncharacterized and their cellular roles are unknown. In this survey we examined the sequence and genomic features of the 55 currently known sRNA-encoding genes in E.coli, attempting to identify their common characteristics. Such characterization is important for both expanding our understanding of this unique gene family and for improving the methods to predict and identify sRNA-encoding genes based on genomic information.
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- Ruth Hershberg
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, POB 12272, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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Xue SA, Jones MD, Lu QL, Middeldorp JM, Griffin BE. Genetic diversity: frameshift mechanisms alter coding of a gene (Epstein-Barr virus LF3 gene) that contains multiple 102-base-pair direct sequence repeats. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:2192-201. [PMID: 12612089 PMCID: PMC149476 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.6.2192-2201.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Frameshift mutations provide recognized mechanisms for changing the coding potential of an organism. Here, multiple frameshifts are identified in repetitive sequences within an Epstein-Barr virus unspliced early gene, LF3, which is associated with the viral replicative cycle and also transcriptionally expressed in many virally associated tumors. On the DNA strand encoding LF3, there are three open reading frames, only one of which contains an initiation codon. Most (>95%) of the gene consists of numerous (>20, varying with cell source) GC-rich copies of a 102-bp direct repeat (called IR 4) flanked by small unique sequences. LF3 may express a protein if its initiation and termination codons reside in the same reading frame, but this is not always the case. Frameshifting events, occurring in short runs of pyrimidines (mainly C residues) in the repeats, give rise to mutations which may provide a mechanism for escape of an LF3 function from host surveillance. Sequence studies link these frameshifts to DNA replication errors. Notably, the number of sites in LF3 at which such mutations can occur permits a very large amount of diversity in this gene. Our data also suggest a second degeneracy mechanism within the protein itself, which influences its stability and may reflect a host defense mechanism. LF3 thus provides a potentially important model for studying the quest for supremacy between a virus and its host.
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- Shao-An Xue
- Viral Oncology Unit, Division of Medicine, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine at St. Mary's, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
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Emberley E, Huang GJ, Hamedani MK, Czosnek A, Ali D, Grolla A, Lu B, Watson PH, Murphy LC, Leygue E. Identification of new human coding steroid receptor RNA activator isoforms. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2003; 301:509-15. [PMID: 12565891 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(02)03070-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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SRA is a steroid receptor co-activator which acts as a functional RNA and is classified as belonging to the growing family of functional non-coding RNAs. None of the different SRA transcripts described to date encode a detectable SRA protein following in vitro and in vivo translation experiments. We have identified three new SRA-RNA isoforms differing mainly from the originally cloned SRA by an extended 5(') extremity. These long SRA isoforms, able to encode a stable protein in vitro, led to the production in vivo of a nuclear protein when transfected into the MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line. Reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction and Western blot analysis of RNA and protein extracts from different breast cancer cell lines confirmed the presence of endogenous coding SRA isoforms and their corresponding proteins. Our results demonstrate that full-length SRA-RNAs likely to encode stable proteins are widely expressed in breast cancer cell lines.
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- Ethan Emberley
- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3EOW3
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Tereshko V, Skripkin E, Patel DJ. Encapsulating streptomycin within a small 40-mer RNA. CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY 2003; 10:175-87. [PMID: 12618190 PMCID: PMC4693641 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-5521(03)00024-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We describe a 2.9 A X-ray structure of a complex between the aminocyclitol antibiotic streptomycin and an in vitro selected RNA aptamer, solved using the anomalous diffraction properties of Ba cations. The RNA aptamer, which contains two asymmetric internal loops, adopts a distinct cation-stabilized fold involving a series of S-shaped backbone turns anchored by canonical and noncanonical pairs and triples. The streptomycin streptose ring is encapsulated by stacked arrays of bases from both loops at the elbow of the L-shaped RNA architecture. Specificity is defined by direct hydrogen bonds between all streptose functional groups and base edges that line the inner walls of the cylindrical binding pocket. By contrast, the majority of intermolecular interactions involve contacts to backbone phosphates in the published structure of streptomycin bound to the 16S rRNA.
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- Wayne A Decatur
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
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The noncoding RNAs database is a collection of currently available sequence data on RNAs, which have no protein-coding capacity and have been implicated in regulation of cellular processes. The RNAs included in the database form very heterogenous group of molecules that act on different levels of information transmission in the cell. It includes RNAs acting on the level of chromatin structure, transcriptional and translational regulation of gene expression, modulation of protein function and regulation of subcellular distribution of RNAs and proteins. Those RNAs, with potential regulatory functions have been identified in prokaryotic, animal and plant cells. The database can be accessed at http://biobases.ibch.poznan.pl/ncRNA/.
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- Maciej Szymański
- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznań, Poland
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Brosius J. The contribution of RNAs and retroposition to evolutionary novelties. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2003. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0229-5_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Chakkalakal JV, Jasmin BJ. Localizing synaptic mRNAs at the neuromuscular junction: it takes more than transcription. Bioessays 2003; 25:25-31. [PMID: 12508279 DOI: 10.1002/bies.10205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The neuromuscular junction has been used for several decades as an excellent model system to examine the cellular and molecular events involved in the formation and maintenance of a differentiated chemical synapse. In this context, several laboratories have focused their efforts over the last 15 years on the important contribution of transcriptional mechanisms to the regulation of the development and plasticity of the postsynaptic apparatus in muscle fibers. Converging lines of evidence now indicate that post-transcriptional events, operating at the level of mRNA stability and targeting, are likely to also play key roles at the neuromuscular junction. Here, we present the recent findings highlighting the role of these additional molecular events and extend our review to include data showing that post-transcriptional events are also important in the control of the expression of genes encoding synaptic proteins in muscle cells placed under different conditions. Finally, we discuss the possibility that mis-regulation of post-transcriptional events can occur in certain neuromuscular diseases and cause abnormalities of the neuromuscular junction.
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- Joe V Chakkalakal
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Birth of ‘human-specific’ genes during primate evolution. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2003. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0229-5_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Wang Y, Davies KJA, Melendez JA, Crawford DR. Characterization of adapt33, a stress-inducible riboregulator. Gene Expr 2003; 11:85-94. [PMID: 12837039 PMCID: PMC5991141 DOI: 10.3727/000000003108748982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/10/2003] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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We have identified adapt33 as a multiple stress-responsive gene that is induced under conditions of a cytoprotective "adaptive response." adapt33 RNA does not contain any appreciable open reading frame nor produce a protein product and is therefore classified as a stress-inducible riboregulator. Although a number of oxidant stress-modulated, protein-encoding genes have been reported and characterized, very few stress-inducible riboregulator RNAs are known. Here we extend previous studies toward understanding the underlying regulation of expression and function of this rare mammalian riboregulator. mRNA stability and transcription studies determined that adapt33 induction by hydrogen peroxide is at the mRNA stability level, and that adapt33 has a very short half-life. Surprisingly, adapt33 mRNA also exhibits altered electrophoretic migration in response to both hydrogen peroxide and cis-platinum treatment. Although no transcriptional modulation in response to hydrogen peroxide was observed, fusion promoter constructs revealed that adapt33 has an unusually strong promoter that is active in both hamster and human cells. Analysis of expression following the stimulation of apoptosis with hydrogen peroxide and staurosporine revealed a strong correlation with apoptosis, suggesting a possible novel, noncoding RNA component of the apoptotic mechanism. We conclude that adapt33 is a stress-inducible, apoptosis-associated RNA with unique structural and gene promoter characteristics.
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- Yanhong Wang
- *Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, The Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 12208
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- †Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center and Division of Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- *Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, The Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 12208
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- *Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, The Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 12208
- Address correspondence to Dana R. Crawford, Ph.D., Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, The Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 12208. Tel: (518) 262-6652; Fax: (518) 262-5689; E-mail:
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Griffiths-Jones S, Bateman A, Marshall M, Khanna A, Eddy SR. Rfam: an RNA family database. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:439-41. [PMID: 12520045 PMCID: PMC165453 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1041] [Impact Index Per Article: 49.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Rfam is a collection of multiple sequence alignments and covariance models representing non-coding RNA families. Rfam is available on the web in the UK at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Rfam/ and in the US at http://rfam.wustl.edu/. These websites allow the user to search a query sequence against a library of covariance models, and view multiple sequence alignments and family annotation. The database can also be downloaded in flatfile form and searched locally using the INFERNAL package (http://infernal.wustl.edu/). The first release of Rfam (1.0) contains 25 families, which annotate over 50 000 non-coding RNA genes in the taxonomic divisions of the EMBL nucleotide database.
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- Sam Griffiths-Jones
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.
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In recent years, noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been shown to constitute key elements implicated in a number of regulatory mechanisms in the cell. They are present in bacteria and eukaryotes. The ncRNAs are involved in regulation of expression at both transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels, by mediating chromatin modifications, modulating transcription factor activity, and influencing mRNA stability, processing, and translation. Noncoding RNAs play a key role in genetic imprinting, dosage compensation of X-chromosome-linked genes, and many processes of differentiation and development.
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- Maciej Szymański
- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznań, Poland
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In neurons, local protein synthesis in synaptodendritic microdomains has been implicated in the growth and plasticity of synapses. Prerequisites for local translation are the targeted transport of RNAs to distal sites of synthesis in dendrites and translational control mechanisms to limit synthesis to times of demand. Here we identify dendritic BC1 RNA as a specific repressor of translation. Experimental use of internal ribosome entry mechanisms and sucrose density gradient centrifugation showed that BC1-mediated repression targets translation at the level of initiation. Specifically, BC1 RNA inhibited formation of the 48S preinitiation complex, i.e., recruitment of the small ribosomal subunit to the messenger RNA (mRNA). However, 48S complex formation that is independent of the eukaryotic initiation factor 4 (eIF4) family of initiation factors was found to be refractory to inhibition by BC1 RNA, a result that implicates at least one of these factors in the BC1 repression pathway. Biochemical experiments indicated a specific interaction of BC1 RNA with eIF4A, an RNA unwinding factor, and with poly(A)-binding protein. Both proteins were found enriched in synaptodendritic microdomains. Significantly, BC1-mediated repression was shown to be effective not only in cap-dependent translation initiation but also in eIF4-dependent internal initiation. The results suggest a functional role of BC1 RNA as a mediator of translational control in local protein synthesis in nerve cells.
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Aufsatz W, Mette M, van der Winden J, Matzke M, Matzke AJ. HDA6, a putative histone deacetylase needed to enhance DNA methylation induced by double-stranded RNA. EMBO J 2002; 21:6832-41. [PMID: 12486004 PMCID: PMC139084 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdf663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 233] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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To analyze relationships between RNA signals, DNA methylation and chromatin modifications, we performed a genetic screen to recover Arabidopsis mutants defective in RNA-directed transcriptional silencing and methylation of a nopaline synthase promoter-neomycinphosphotransferase II (NOSpro- NPTII) target gene. Mutants were identified by screening for recovery of kanamycin resistance in the presence of an unlinked silencing complex encoding NOSpro double-stranded RNA. One mutant, rts1 (RNA-mediated transcriptional silencing), displayed moderate recovery of NPTII gene expression and partial loss of methylation in the target NOSpro, predominantly at symmetrical C(N)Gs. The RTS1 gene was isolated by positional cloning and found to encode a putative histone deacetylase, HDA6. The more substantial decrease in methylation of symmetrical compared with asymmetrical cytosines in rts1 mutants suggests that HDA6 is dispensable for RNA-directed de novo methylation, which results in intermediate methylation of cytosines in all sequence contexts, but is necessary for reinforcing primarily C(N)G methylation induced by RNA. Because CG methylation in centromeric and rDNA repeats was not reduced in rts1 mutants, HDA6 might be specialized for the RNA- directed pathway of genome modification.
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Billrothstrasse 11, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
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Waterston RH, Lindblad-Toh K, Birney E, Rogers J, Abril JF, Agarwal P, Agarwala R, Ainscough R, Alexandersson M, An P, Antonarakis SE, Attwood J, Baertsch R, Bailey J, Barlow K, Beck S, Berry E, Birren B, Bloom T, Bork P, Botcherby M, Bray N, Brent MR, Brown DG, Brown SD, Bult C, Burton J, Butler J, Campbell RD, Carninci P, Cawley S, Chiaromonte F, Chinwalla AT, Church DM, Clamp M, Clee C, Collins FS, Cook LL, Copley RR, Coulson A, Couronne O, Cuff J, Curwen V, Cutts T, Daly M, David R, Davies J, Delehaunty KD, Deri J, Dermitzakis ET, Dewey C, Dickens NJ, Diekhans M, Dodge S, Dubchak I, Dunn DM, Eddy SR, Elnitski L, Emes RD, Eswara P, Eyras E, Felsenfeld A, Fewell GA, Flicek P, Foley K, Frankel WN, Fulton LA, Fulton RS, Furey TS, Gage D, Gibbs RA, Glusman G, Gnerre S, Goldman N, Goodstadt L, Grafham D, Graves TA, Green ED, Gregory S, Guigó R, Guyer M, Hardison RC, Haussler D, Hayashizaki Y, Hillier LW, Hinrichs A, Hlavina W, Holzer T, Hsu F, Hua A, Hubbard T, Hunt A, Jackson I, Jaffe DB, Johnson LS, Jones M, Jones TA, Joy A, Kamal M, Karlsson EK, Karolchik D, Kasprzyk A, Kawai J, Keibler E, Kells C, Kent WJ, Kirby A, Kolbe DL, Korf I, Kucherlapati RS, Kulbokas EJ, Kulp D, Landers T, Leger JP, Leonard S, Letunic I, Levine R, Li J, Li M, Lloyd C, Lucas S, Ma B, Maglott DR, Mardis ER, Matthews L, Mauceli E, Mayer JH, McCarthy M, McCombie WR, McLaren S, McLay K, McPherson JD, Meldrim J, Meredith B, Mesirov JP, Miller W, Miner TL, Mongin E, Montgomery KT, Morgan M, Mott R, Mullikin JC, Muzny DM, Nash WE, Nelson JO, Nhan MN, Nicol R, Ning Z, Nusbaum C, O'Connor MJ, Okazaki Y, Oliver K, Overton-Larty E, Pachter L, Parra G, Pepin KH, Peterson J, Pevzner P, Plumb R, Pohl CS, Poliakov A, Ponce TC, Ponting CP, Potter S, Quail M, Reymond A, Roe BA, Roskin KM, Rubin EM, Rust AG, Santos R, Sapojnikov V, Schultz B, Schultz J, Schwartz MS, Schwartz S, Scott C, Seaman S, Searle S, Sharpe T, Sheridan A, Shownkeen R, Sims S, Singer JB, Slater G, Smit A, Smith DR, Spencer B, Stabenau A, Stange-Thomann N, Sugnet C, Suyama M, Tesler G, Thompson J, Torrents D, Trevaskis E, Tromp J, Ucla C, Ureta-Vidal A, Vinson JP, Von Niederhausern AC, Wade CM, Wall M, Weber RJ, Weiss RB, Wendl MC, West AP, Wetterstrand K, Wheeler R, Whelan S, Wierzbowski J, Willey D, Williams S, Wilson RK, Winter E, Worley KC, Wyman D, Yang S, Yang SP, Zdobnov EM, Zody MC, Lander ES. Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome. Nature 2002; 420:520-62. [PMID: 12466850 DOI: 10.1038/nature01262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4849] [Impact Index Per Article: 220.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2002] [Accepted: 10/31/2002] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The sequence of the mouse genome is a key informational tool for understanding the contents of the human genome and a key experimental tool for biomedical research. Here, we report the results of an international collaboration to produce a high-quality draft sequence of the mouse genome. We also present an initial comparative analysis of the mouse and human genomes, describing some of the insights that can be gleaned from the two sequences. We discuss topics including the analysis of the evolutionary forces shaping the size, structure and sequence of the genomes; the conservation of large-scale synteny across most of the genomes; the much lower extent of sequence orthology covering less than half of the genomes; the proportions of the genomes under selection; the number of protein-coding genes; the expansion of gene families related to reproduction and immunity; the evolution of proteins; and the identification of intraspecies polymorphism.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Composition
- Chromosomes, Mammalian/genetics
- Conserved Sequence/genetics
- CpG Islands/genetics
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genes/genetics
- Genetic Variation/genetics
- Genome
- Genome, Human
- Genomics
- Humans
- Mice/classification
- Mice/genetics
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Models, Animal
- Multigene Family/genetics
- Mutagenesis
- Neoplasms/genetics
- Physical Chromosome Mapping
- Proteome/genetics
- Pseudogenes/genetics
- Quantitative Trait Loci/genetics
- RNA, Untranslated/genetics
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid/genetics
- Selection, Genetic
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sex Chromosomes/genetics
- Species Specificity
- Synteny
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Geiser V, Inman M, Zhang Y, Jones C. The latency-related gene of bovine herpesvirus-1 can inhibit the ability of bICP0 to activate productive infection. J Gen Virol 2002; 83:2965-2971. [PMID: 12466472 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-83-12-2965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Transfection of bovine cells with bovine herpesvirus-1 genomic DNA yields low levels of infectious virus. Cotransfection with the bICP0 gene enhances productive infection and virus yield because bICP0 can activate viral gene expression. Since the latency-related (LR) gene overlaps and is antisense to bICP0, the effects of LR gene products on productive infection were tested. The intact LR gene inhibited productive infection in a dose-dependent fashion but LR protein expression was not required. Further studies indicated that LR gene sequences near the 3' terminus of the LR RNA are necessary for inhibiting productive infection. When cotransfected with the bICP0 gene, the LR gene inhibited bICP0 RNA and protein expression in transiently transfected cells. Taken together, these results suggest that abundant LR RNA expression in sensory neurons is one factor that has the potential to inhibit productive infection and consequently promote the establishment and maintenance of latency.
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- Vicki Geiser
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE 68588, USA1
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Fair Street at East Campus Loop, Lincoln, NE 68583-0905, USA2
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Fair Street at East Campus Loop, Lincoln, NE 68583-0905, USA2
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Fair Street at East Campus Loop, Lincoln, NE 68583-0905, USA2
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Calin GA, Dumitru CD, Shimizu M, Bichi R, Zupo S, Noch E, Aldler H, Rattan S, Keating M, Rai K, Rassenti L, Kipps T, Negrini M, Bullrich F, Croce CM. Frequent deletions and down-regulation of micro- RNA genes miR15 and miR16 at 13q14 in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:15524-9. [PMID: 12434020 PMCID: PMC137750 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.242606799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3679] [Impact Index Per Article: 167.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Micro-RNAs (miR genes) are a large family of highly conserved noncoding genes thought to be involved in temporal and tissue-specific gene regulation. MiRs are transcribed as short hairpin precursors ( approximately 70 nt) and are processed into active 21- to 22-nt RNAs by Dicer, a ribonuclease that recognizes target mRNAs via base-pairing interactions. Here we show that miR15 and miR16 are located at chromosome 13q14, a region deleted in more than half of B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemias (B-CLL). Detailed deletion and expression analysis shows that miR15 and miR16 are located within a 30-kb region of loss in CLL, and that both genes are deleted or down-regulated in the majority ( approximately 68%) of CLL cases.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- B-Lymphocytes/chemistry
- B-Lymphocytes/cytology
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- CD5 Antigens/analysis
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13/genetics
- Gene Deletion
- Gene Expression Regulation, Leukemic
- Humans
- Hybrid Cells/chemistry
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/genetics
- MicroRNAs/biosynthesis
- MicroRNAs/genetics
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasms/genetics
- Neoplasms/pathology
- Neoplastic Stem Cells/chemistry
- Palatine Tonsil/cytology
- RNA, Neoplasm/biosynthesis
- RNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Transcription, Genetic
- Tumor Cells, Cultured/chemistry
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Affiliation(s)
- George Adrian Calin
- Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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- Susan Gottesman
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Abstract
The capability of polyribonucleotide chains to form unique, compactly folded structures is considered the basis for diverse non-genetic functions of RNA, including the function of recognition of various ligands and the catalytic function. Together with well-known genetic functions of RNA - coding and complementary replication - this has led to the concept of the functional omnipotence of RNA and the hypothesis that an ancient RNA world supposedly preceded the contemporary DNA-RNA-protein life. It is proposed that the Woese universal precursor in the ancient RNA world could be a cell-free community of mixed RNA colonies growing and multiplying on solid surfaces.
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- Alexander S Spirin
- Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia.
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Iseni F, Garcin D, Nishio M, Kedersha N, Anderson P, Kolakofsky D. Sendai virus trailer RNA binds TIAR, a cellular protein involved in virus-induced apoptosis. EMBO J 2002; 21:5141-50. [PMID: 12356730 PMCID: PMC129035 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdf513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Sendai virus (SeV) leader (le) and trailer (tr) RNAs are short transcripts generated during abortive antigenome and genome synthesis, respectively. Recom binant SeV (rSeV) that express tr-like RNAs from the leader region are non-cytopathic and, moreover, prevent wild-type SeV from inducing apoptosis in mixed infections. These rSeV thus appear to have gained a function. Here we report that tr RNA binds to a cellular protein with many links to apoptosis (TIAR) via the AU-rich sequence 5' UUUUAAAUUUU. Duplication of this AU-rich sequence alone within the le RNA confers TIAR binding on this le* RNA and a non-cytopathic phenotype to these rSeV in cell culture. Transgenic overexpression of TIAR during SeV infection promotes apoptosis and reverses the anti-apoptotic effects of le* RNA expression. More over, TIAR overexpression and SeV infection act synergistically to induce apoptosis. These short viral RNAs may act by sequestering TIAR, a multivalent RNA recognition motif (RRM) family RNA-binding protein involved in SeV-induced apoptosis. In this view, tr RNA is not simply a by-product of abortive genome synthesis, but is also an antigenome transcript that modulates the cellular antiviral response.
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Geneva School of Medicine CMU, 9 Avenue de Champel, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland and
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, One Jimmy Fund Way, Boston, MA 02115, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Geneva School of Medicine CMU, 9 Avenue de Champel, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland and
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, One Jimmy Fund Way, Boston, MA 02115, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Geneva School of Medicine CMU, 9 Avenue de Champel, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland and
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, One Jimmy Fund Way, Boston, MA 02115, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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Dubessay P, Ravel C, Bastien P, Crobu L, Dedet JP, Pagès M, Blaineau C. The switch region on Leishmania major chromosome 1 is not required for mitotic stability or gene expression, but appears to be essential. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:3692-7. [PMID: 12202753 PMCID: PMC137432 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The Leishmania genome project reference strain, Leishmania major Friedlin, is trisomic for chromosome 1. The complete sequence of this chromosome has revealed that the genes are grouped into two large clusters of the polycistronic type, each borne by one DNA strand and located on each side of a 1.6-kb sequence often termed the switch region. Several hypotheses concerning the role of this switch region have been put forward (region of initiation of transcription for both gene clusters, origin of replication or centromeric sequence). In the present study, we have deleted this region on the three copies of chromosome 1 by sequential targeted replacements. The absence of the switch region did not alter the mitotic stability of the three deleted chromosomes. This region therefore does not appear necessary for chromosomal replication or segregation. However, during the third targeting round, which aimed at knocking out the last switch region, a fourth copy of chromosome 1 that retained this region appeared in all clones analysed. This suggests that the persistence of this switch region is necessary for parasite survival. We then showed that the presence/absence of the switch region did not act upon the expression of a resistance marker gene inserted beforehand into the left gene cluster of the same chromosomal molecule. This result suggests that the presence of this 1.6-kb sequence is not necessary for the expression of all genes on chromosome 1.
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- Pascal Dubessay
- CNRS UMR5093 'Génome et Biologie Moléculaire des Protozoaires Parasites', Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Faculté de Médecine, 163 Rue Auguste Broussonet, F-34090 Montpellier, France
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The Transcription of Genes. Biochemistry 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-012492543-4/50031-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Metzler DE, Metzler CM, Sauke DJ. Growth and Development. Biochemistry 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-012492543-4/50035-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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