Small Cajal body specific RNA 8
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Small Cajal body specific RNA 8 (also known as SCARNA8 or U92) is a small nucleolar RNA found in Cajal bodies and believed to be involved in the pseudouridylation (isomerisation of uridine to pseudouridine) of U2 spliceosomal RNA.
scaRNAs are a specific class of small nucleolar RNAs that localise to the Cajal bodies and guide the modification of RNA polymerase II transcribed spliceosomal RNAs U1, U2, U4, U5 and U12[1]
U92 belong to the H/ACA box class of guide RNAs as it has the predicted hairpin-hinge-hairpin-tail structure, conserved H/ACA-box motifs and is found associated with GAR1 [1]. Its is predicted to guide the pseudouridylation of residues U44 in U2 snRNA [1]. This snoRNA is related to the mouse H/ACA box snoRNA MBI-57[2].
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- ^ a b c Darzacq, X; Jady BE, Verheggen C, Kiss AM, Bertrand E, Kiss T (2002). "Cajal body-specific small nuclear RNAs: a novel class of 2'-O-methylation and pseudouridylation guide RNAs". EMBO J. 21: 2746–2756. doi:. PMID 12032087.
- ^ Lestrade L, Weber MJ (2006). "snoRNA-LBME-db, a comprehensive database of human H/ACA and C/D box snoRNAs". Nucleic Acids Res. 34 (Database issue): D158–62. doi:. PMID 16381836.
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