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The guide sRNA sequence determines the activity level of box C/D RNPs.
Graziadei, Andrea Gabel, Frank Kirkpatrick, John
Graziadei, Andrea
Gabel, Frank
Kirkpatrick, John
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2020-03-23
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2'-O-rRNA methylation, which is essential in eukaryotes and archaea, is catalysed by the Box C/D RNP complex in an RNA-guided manner. Despite the conservation of the methylation sites, the abundance of site-specific modifications shows variability across species and tissues, suggesting that rRNA methylation may provide a means of controlling gene expression. As all Box C/D RNPs are thought to adopt a similar structure, it remains unclear how the methylation efficiency is regulated. Here, we provide the first structural evidence that, in the context of the Box C/D RNP, the affinity of the catalytic module fibrillarin for the substrate-guide helix is dependent on the RNA sequence outside the methylation site, thus providing a mechanism by which both the substrate and guide RNA sequences determine the degree of methylation. To reach this result, we develop an iterative structure-calculation protocol that exploits the power of integrative structural biology to characterize conformational ensembles.
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Elife. 2020 Mar 23;9. pii: 50027. doi: 10.7554/eLife.50027.
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