Publication Date:
1994-01-07
Description:
U6 RNA contains two regions that are essential for proper splicing of nuclear precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA). A comparison of putative secondary structures of the U6-U4 RNA complexes from different phyla revealed a conserved domain that is similar to the catalytic hammerhead RNA motif. Although no catalytic activity was detected in the mammalian U6-U4 RNA complexes, two nucleotide changes in U6 RNA and one in U4 RNA conferred cleavage activity to the complex. Furthermore, the highly conserved domain of the wild-type complex, without the accompanying flanking regions, cleaved an RNA substrate and exhibited other characteristics of the hammerhead ribozyme. The possible involvement of this structure in pre-mRNA splicing is also discussed.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yang, J H -- Cedergren, R -- Nadal-Ginard, B -- R01 AR36865-08/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jan 7;263(5143):77-81.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8272868" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Base Sequence
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Humans
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Introns
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Magnesium/metabolism
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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RNA Splicing
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RNA, Catalytic/chemistry/*metabolism
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RNA, Small Nuclear/chemistry/*metabolism
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Yeasts/genetics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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