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Pseudouridines on Trypanosoma brucei spliceosomal small nuclear RNAs and their implication for RNA and protein interactions

Nucleic Acids Research, ISSN: 1362-4962, Vol: 47, Issue: 14, Page: 7633-7647
2019
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The parasite Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of sleeping sickness, cycles between an insect and a mammalian host. Here, we investigated the presence of pseudouridines (s) on the spliceosomal small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs), which may enable growth at the very different temperatures characterizing the two hosts. To this end, we performed the first high-throughput mapping of spliceosomal snRNA s by small RNA-seq. The analysis revealed 42 s on T. brucei snRNAs, which is the highest number reported so far. We show that a trypanosome protein analogous to human protein WDR79, is essential for guiding on snRNAs but not on rRNAs. snoRNA species implicated in snRNA pseudouridylation were identified by a genome-wide approach based on ligation of RNAs following in vivo UV cross-linking. snRNA s are guided by single hairpin snoRNAs, also implicated in rRNA modification. Depletion of such guiding snoRNA by RNAi compromised the guided modification on snRNA and reduced parasite growth at elevated temperatures. We further demonstrate that strengthens U4/U6 RNA–RNA and U2B"/U2A’ proteins-U2 snRNA interaction at elevated temperatures. The existence of single hairpin RNAs that modify both the spliceosome and ribosome RNAs is unique for these parasites, and may be related to their ability to cycle between their two hosts that differ in temperature.

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Rajan, K Shanmugha; Doniger, Tirza; Cohen-Chalamish, Smadar; Chen, Dana; Semo, Oz; Aryal, Saurav; Glick Saar, Efrat; Chikne, Vaibhav; Gerber, Doron; Unger, Ron; Tschudi, Christian; Michaeli, Shulamit

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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