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Mol Cell Biol. 1987 August; 7(8): 2899-2913

Structural analysis of the human U3 ribonucleoprotein particle reveal a conserved sequence available for base pairing with pre-rRNA.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.

ABSTRACT

The human U3 ribonucleoprotein (RNP) has been analyzed to determine its protein constituents, sites of protein-RNA interaction, and RNA secondary structure. By using anti-U3 RNP antibodies and extracts prepared from HeLa cells labeled in vivo, the RNP was found to contain four nonphosphorylated proteins of 36, 30, 13, and 12.5 kilodaltons and two phosphorylated proteins of 74 and 59 kilodaltons. U3 nucleotides 72-90, 106-121, 154-166, and 190-217 must contain sites that interact with proteins since these regions are immunoprecipitated after treatment of the RNP with RNase A or T1. The secondary structure was probed with specific nucleases and by chemical modification with single-strand-specific reagents that block subsequent reverse transcription. Regions that are single stranded (and therefore potentially able to interact with a substrate RNA) include an evolutionarily conserved sequence at nucleotides 104-112 and nonconserved sequences at nucleotides 65-74, 80-84, and 88-93. Nucleotides 159-168 do not appear to be highly accessible, thus making it unlikely that this U3 sequence base pairs with sequences near the 5.8S rRNA-internal transcribed spacer II junction, as previously proposed. Alternative functions of the U3 RNP are discussed, including the possibility that U3 may participate in a processing event near the 3' end of 28S rRNA.

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