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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13694
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- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)/ERC [309509]
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale
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The RNA-binding protein TRBP is a central component of the Dicer complex. Despite a decade of biochemical and structural studies, the essential functionality of TRBP in microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis remains unknown. Here we show that TRBP is an integral cofactor for time-efficient Dicer processing in RNA-crowded environments. We competed for Dicer processing of pre-miRNA with a large amount of cellular RNA species and found that Dicer-TRBP, but not Dicer alone, remains resilient. To apprehend the mechanism of this substrate selectivity, we use single-molecule fluorescence. The real-time observation reveals that TRBP acts as a gatekeeper, precluding Dicer from engaging with pre-miRNA-like substrates. TRBP acquires the selectivity using the PAZ domain of Dicer, whereas Dicer moderates the RNA-binding affinity of TRBP for fast turnover. This coordinated action between TRBP and Dicer accomplishes an efficient way of discarding pre-miRNA-like substrates.
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