The initial uridine of primary piRNAs does not create the tenth adenine that Is the hallmark of secondary piRNAs
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Wang, WeiYoshikawa, Mayu
Han, Bo W.
Izumi, Natsuko
Tomari, Yukihide
Weng, Zhiping
Zamore, Phillip D.
UMass Chan Affiliations
Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative BiologyDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
RNA Therapeutics Institute
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Journal ArticlePublication Date
2014-12-04Keywords
AdenineAnimals
Argonaute Proteins
Bombyx
Drosophila Proteins
Drosophila melanogaster
Mice
Models, Genetic
Molecular Sequence Data
Peptide Initiation Factors
RNA, Small Interfering
Uridine
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Integrative Biology
Systems Biology
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PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) silence transposons in animal germ cells. PIWI proteins bind and amplify piRNAs via the "Ping-Pong" pathway. Because PIWI proteins cleave RNAs between target nucleotides t10 and t11-the nucleotides paired to piRNA guide positions g10 and g11-the first ten nucleotides of piRNAs participating in the Ping-Pong amplification cycle are complementary. Drosophila piRNAs bound to the PIWI protein Aubergine typically begin with uridine (1U), while piRNAs bound to Argonaute3, which are produced by Ping-Pong amplification, often have adenine at position 10 (10A). The Ping-Pong model proposes that the 10A is a consequence of 1U. We find that 10A is not caused by 1U. Instead, fly Aubergine as well as its homologs, Siwi in silkmoth and MILI in mice, have an intrinsic preference for adenine at the t1 position of their target RNAs; during Ping-Pong amplification, this t1A subsequently becomes the g10A of a piRNA bound to Argonaute3.Source
Wang W, Yoshikawa M, Han BW, Izumi N, Tomari Y, Weng Z, Zamore PD. The initial uridine of primary piRNAs does not create the tenth adenine that Is the hallmark of secondary piRNAs. Mol Cell. 2014 Dec 4;56(5):708-16. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.10.016. Epub 2014 Nov 20. PubMed PMID: 25453759; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4337030. Link to article on publisher's websiteDOI
10.1016/j.molcel.2014.10.016Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/25926PubMed ID
25453759Related Resources
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10.1016/j.molcel.2014.10.016