期刊
RNA BIOLOGY
卷 10, 期 6, 页码 1003-1009出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/rna.24454
关键词
long non-coding RNA; 5-methylcytosine; RNA methylation; chromatin; polycomb repressive complex 2; XIST RNA; HOTAIR RNA
资金
- Austrian Science Fund [START Y275-B12, P21641, M1449]
- EMBO Long-Term Fellowship
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [Y 275] Funding Source: researchfish
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [M1449, Y275] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Post-synthetic modifications of nucleic acids have long been known to affect their functional and structural properties. For instance, numerous different chemical modifications modulate the structural organization, stability or translation efficiency of tRNAs and rRNAs. In contrast, little is known about modifications of poly(A)RNAs. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that the two well-studied regulatory long non-coding RNAs HOTAIR and XIST are targets of site-specific cytosine methylation. In both XIST and HOTAIR, we found methylated cytosines located within or near functionally important regions that are known to mediate interaction with chromatin-associated protein complexes. We show that cytosine methylation in the XIST A structure strongly affects binding to the chromatin-modifying complex PRC2 in vitro. These results suggest that cytosine methylation may serve as a general strategy to regulate the function of long non-coding RNAs.
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