Small Cajal body specific RNA 15

Small Cajal body specific RNA 15
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of SCARNA15
Identifiers
Symbol SCARNA15
Alt. Symbols snoACA45
Rfam RF00426
Other data
RNA type Gene; snRNA; snoRNA; scaRNA
Domain(s) Eukaryota
GO 0006396 0015030 0005730
SO 0000275

Small Cajal body specific RNA 15 (also known as SCARNA15 or ACA45) is a small nucleolar RNA found in Cajal bodies and believed to be involved in the pseudouridylation (isomerisation of uridine to pseudouridine) of U1 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]

ACA45 belongs to the H/ACA box class of guide RNAs as it has the predicted hairpin-hinge-hairpin-tail structure, the conserved H/ACA-box motifs and is found associated with GAR1.[2] ACA45 is predicted to guide the pseudouridylation of residue U37 of the U2 spliceosomal snRNA.[3]

It has been shown that human ACA45 can be processed into a 21 nucleotides long mature miRNA by the RNAse III family endoribonuclease dicer.[4] This snoRNA product has previously been identified as mmu-miR-1839[5] and was shown to be processed independent of the other miRNA generating endoribonuclease drosha.[6]

References

  1. Darzacq, Xavier; Jády, Beáta E.; Verheggen, Céline; Kiss, Arnold M.; Bertrand, Edouard; Kiss, Tamás (2002). "Cajal body-specific small nuclear RNAs: A novel class of 2'-O-methylation and pseudouridylation guide RNAs". The EMBO Journal 21 (11): 2746–2756. doi:10.1093/emboj/21.11.2746. PMC 126017. PMID 12032087.
  2. Kiss, Arnold M.; Jády, Beáta E.; Bertrand, Edouard; Kiss, Tamás (2004). "Human Box H/ACA Pseudouridylation Guide RNA Machinery". Molecular and Cellular Biology 24 (13): 5797–5807. doi:10.1128/MCB.24.13.5797-5807.2004. PMC 480876. PMID 15199136.
  3. Lestrade, Laurent; Weber, Michel J. (2006). "snoRNA-LBME-db, a comprehensive database of human H/ACA and C/D box snoRNAs". Nucleic Acids Research 34 (Supplement 1: Database Issue): D158–D162. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj002. PMC 1347365. PMID 16381836. CiteSeerX: 10.1.1.105.7552.
  4. Ender, C.; Krek, A.; Friedländer, M.; Beitzinger, M.; Weinmann, L.; Chen, W.; Pfeffer, S.; Rajewsky, N.; Meister, G. (2008). "A human snoRNA with microRNA-like functions". Molecular Cell 32 (4): 519–528. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2008.10.017. PMID 19026782.
  5. "mmu-miR-1839". MiRBase.
  6. Babiarz, J.; Ruby, J.; Wang, Y.; Bartel, D.; Blelloch, R. (2008). "Mouse ES cells express endogenous shRNAs, siRNAs, and other Microprocessor-independent, Dicer-dependent small RNAs". Genes & Development 22 (20): 2773–2785. doi:10.1101/gad.1705308. PMC 2569885. PMID 18923076.

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