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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 979-989Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.21.4.979-989.2001
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM034231, GM34231] Funding Source: Medline
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Kinetoplastid RNA editing is a posttranscriptional insertion and deletion of U residues in mitochondrial transcripts that involves RNA ligase. A complex of seven different polypeptides purified from Trypanosoma brucei mitochondria that catalyzes accurate RNA editing contains RNA ligases of similar to 57 kDa (band IV) and similar to 50 kDa (band V). From a partial amino acid sequence, cDNA and genomic clones of band IV were isolated, making it the first cloned component of the minimal RNA editing complex. It is indeed an RNA ligase, for when expressed in Escherichia coli, the protein autoadenylylates and catalyzes RNA joining, Overexpression studies revealed that T. brucei can regulate of total band TV protein at the level of translation or protein stability, even upon massively increased mRNA levels. The protein's mitochondrial targeting was confirmed by its location, size when expressed in T, brucei and E. coli, and N-terminal sequence. Importantly, genetic knockout studies demonstrated that the gene for band IV Is essential in procyclic trypanosomes, The band IV and band V RNA ligases of the RNA editing complex therefore serve different functions. We also identified the gene for band V RNA ligase, a protein much more homologous to band TV than to other known ligases.
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