Free circular introns with an unusual branchpoint in neuronal projections
UMass Chan Affiliations
RNA Therapeutics InstituteDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2019-11-07Keywords
RNARNA localization
cell biology
intron
neurons
neuroscience
rat
Cell Biology
Neuroscience and Neurobiology
Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides
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The polarized structure of axons and dendrites in neuronal cells depends in part on RNA localization. Previous studies have looked at which polyadenylated RNAs are enriched in neuronal projections or at synapses, but less is known about the distribution of non-adenylated RNAs. By physically dissecting projections from cell bodies of primary rat hippocampal neurons and sequencing total RNA, we found an unexpected set of free circular introns with a non-canonical branchpoint enriched in neuronal projections. These introns appear to be tailless lariats that escape debranching. They lack ribosome occupancy, sequence conservation, and known localization signals, and their function, if any, is not known. Nonetheless, their enrichment in projections has important implications for our understanding of the mechanisms by which RNAs reach distal compartments of asymmetric cells.Source
Elife. 2019 Nov 7;8. pii: 47809. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47809. Link to article on publisher's site
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10.7554/eLife.47809Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/41270PubMed ID
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