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NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue 10, Pages 1015-1023Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1481
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- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Novartis Research Foundation
- Swiss National Science Foundation SNF
- US National Institutes of Health
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the RNA interference (RNAi) machinery is required to generate small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) that mediate heterochromatic gene silencing. Efficient silencing also requires the TRAMP complex, which contains the noncanonical Cid14 poly(A) polymerase and targets aberrant RNAs for degradation. Here we use high-throughput sequencing to analyze Argonaute-associated small RNAs (sRNAs) in both the presence and absence of Cid14. Most sRNAs in fission yeast start with a 5' uracil, and we argue these are loaded most efficiently into Argonaute. In wild-type cells most sRNAs match to repeated regions of the genome, whereas in cid14 Delta cells the sRNA profile changes to include major new classes of sRNAs originating from ribosomal RNAs and a tRNA. Thus, Cid14 prevents certain abundant RNAs from becoming substrates for the RNAi machinery, thereby freeing the RNAi machinery to act on its proper targets.
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