Publication Date:
2010-11-27
Description:
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus produces a highly abundant, nuclear noncoding RNA, polyadenylated nuclear (PAN) RNA, which contains an element that prevents its decay. The 79-nucleotide expression and nuclear retention element (ENE) was proposed to adopt a secondary structure like that of a box H/ACA small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA), with a U-rich internal loop that hybridizes to and protects the PAN RNA poly(A) tail. The crystal structure of a complex between the 40-nucleotide ENE core and oligo(A)(9) RNA at 2.5 angstrom resolution reveals that unlike snoRNAs, the U-rich loop of the ENE engages its target through formation of a major-groove triple helix. A-minor interactions extend the binding interface. Deadenylation assays confirm the functional importance of the triple helix. Thus, the ENE acts as an intramolecular RNA clamp, sequestering the PAN poly(A) tail and preventing the initiation of RNA decay.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074936/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074936/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mitton-Fry, Rachel M -- DeGregorio, Suzanne J -- Wang, Jimin -- Steitz, Thomas A -- Steitz, Joan A -- CA16038/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM022778/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA016038/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA016038-38/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 EB009998/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM026154/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Nov 26;330(6008):1244-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1195858.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (MB&B), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Yale University School of Medicine, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06536-9812, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21109672" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Base Pairing
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Cell Nucleus/genetics/metabolism
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Herpesvirus 8, Human/*genetics
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Mutation
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*Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Poly A/chemistry/*metabolism
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*RNA Stability
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RNA, Messenger/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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RNA, Nuclear/*chemistry/metabolism
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RNA, Untranslated/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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RNA, Viral/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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*Regulatory Sequences, Ribonucleic Acid
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Riboswitch
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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