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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 43, 期 18, 页码 9017-9027出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv819
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- National Institutes of Health
- Swedish Research Council BILS
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences MSTP [T32GM007618]
- National Center for Research Resources [5P41RR011823-17]
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [8P41GM103533-17]
- National Institute on Aging [R01AG027463-04]
- National Institutes of Health, USA
Despite conservation of the signal recognition particle (SRP) from bacteria to man, computational approaches have failed to identify SRP components from genomes of many lower eukaryotes, raising the possibility that they have been lost or altered in those lineages. We report purification and analysis of SRP in the human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, providing the first description of SRP in basidiomycetous yeast. The C. neoformans SRP RNA displays a predicted structure in which the universally conserved helix 8 contains an unprecedented stem-loop insertion. Guided by this sequence, we computationally identified 152 SRP RNAs throughout the phylum Basidiomycota. This analysis revealed additional helix 8 alterations including single and double stemloop insertions as well as loop diminutions affecting RNA structural elements that are otherwise conserved from bacteria to man. Strikingly, these SRP RNA features in Basidiomycota are accompanied by phylum-specific alterations in the RNA-binding domain of Srp54, the SRP protein subunit that directly interacts with helix 8. Our findings reveal unexpected fungal SRP diversity and suggest coevolution of the two most conserved SRP features--SRP RNA helix 8 and Srp54--in basidiomycetes. Because members of this phylum include important human and plant pathogens, these noncanonical features provide new targets for antifungal compound development.
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