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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 35, Issue 18, Pages 6249-6258Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm668
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R01AI034552] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI034552, R01 AI034552] Funding Source: Medline
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Nuclear factor 90 (NF90) is a double-stranded RNA-binding protein implicated in multiple cellular functions, but with few identified RNA partners. Using in vivo cross-linking followed by immunoprecipitation, we discovered a family of small NF90-associated RNAs (snaR). These highly structured non-coding RNAs of 117 nucleotides are expressed in immortalized human cell lines of diverse lineages. In human tissues, they are abundant in testis, with minor distribution in brain, placenta and some other organs. Two snaR subsets were isolated from human 293 cells, and additional species were found by bioinformatic analysis. Their genes often occur in multiple copies arranged in two inverted regions of tandem repeats on chromosome 19. snaR-A is transcribed by RNA polymerase III from an intragenic promoter, turns over rapidly, and shares sequence identity with Alu RNA and two potential piRNAs. It interacts with NF90s double-stranded RNA-binding motifs. snaR orthologs are present in chimpanzee but not other mammals, and include genes located in the promoter of two chorionic gonadotropin hormone genes. snaRs appear to have undergone accelerated evolution and differential expansion in the great apes.
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