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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
卷 20, 期 9, 页码 3037-3048出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.9.3037-3048.2000
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The H/ACA small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are involved in pseudouridylation of pre-rRNAs. They usually fold into a two-domain hairpin-hinge-hairpin-tail structure, with the conserved motifs H and ACA located in the hinge and tail, respectively. Synthetic RNA transcripts and extracts from HeLa cells were used to reconstitute human U17 and other H/ACA ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) in vitro. Competition and UV crosslinking experiments showed that proteins of about 60, 29, 23, and 14 kDa interact specifically with U17 RNA. Except for U17, RNPs could be reconstituted only with full-length H/ACA snoRNAs. For U17, the 3'-terminal stem-loop followed by box ACA (U17/3'st) was sufficient to form an RNP, and U17/3'st could compete other full-length H/ACA snoRNAs for assembly. The H/ACA-like domain that constitutes the 3' moiety of human telomerase RNA (hTR), and its 3'-terminal stem-loop (hTR/3'st), also could form an RNP by binding H/ACA proteins. Hence, the 3'-terminal stem-loops of U17 and hTR have some specific features that distinguish them from other H/ACA RNAs. Antibodies that specifically recognize the human GAR1 (hGAR1) protein could immunoprecipitate H/ACA snoRNAs and hTR from HeLa cell extracts, which demonstrates that hGAR1 is a component of H/ACA snoRNPs and telomerase in vivo. Moreover, we show that in vitro-reconstituted RNPs contain hGAR1 and that binding of hGAR1 does not appear to be a prerequisite for the assembly of the other H/ACA proteins.
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