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Poly(A)-Specific Ribonuclease (PARN)
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- Ren, Yan-Guo (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för cell- och molekylärbiologi
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- Westhof, Eric, Professor (opponent)
- Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, UPR 9002, Strasbourg
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- ISBN 9155451942
- Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2001
- English 29 s.
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Series: Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, 1104-232X ; 677
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- Degradation of the mRNA 3'-end located poly(A) tail is an important step for mRNA decay in mammalian cells. Thus, to understand mRNA decay in detail, it is important to identify the catalytic activities involved in degrading poly(A). We identified and purified a 54-kDa polypeptide responsible for poly(A)-specific 3' exonuclease activity in calf thymus extracts. The 54-kDa polypeptide is a proteolytic fragment of the poly(A)-specific ribonuclease (PARN) 74-kDa polypeptide. PARN is a divalent metal ion dependent, poly(A)-specific, oligomeric, processive and cap interacting 3' exonuclease. An active deadenylation complex, consisting of the poly(A)-tailed RNA substrate and PARN, has been identified. The interaction with the 5'-end cap structure stimulates PARN activity and also amplifies the processivity of the deadenylation reaction. Furthermore, the cap binding site and the active site of PARN are separate from each other. To characterise the active site of PARN, we per-formed side-directed mutagenesis, Fe2+-mediated hydroxyl radical cleavage and metal ion switch experiments. We have demonstrated that the conserved acidic amino acid residues D28, E30, D292 and D382 of human PARN are essential for PARN activity and that these amino acid residues are directly involved in the co-ordination of at least two metal ions in the active site of PARN. Phosphorothioate modification on RNA substrates revealed that the pro-R oxygen atom of the scissile phosphate group interacts directly with the metal ion(s). Based on our studies, we propose a model for the action of PARN. Similarly to what has been observed for ribozymes, aminoglycoside antibiotics inhibit PARN activity, most likely by the displacement of catalytically important divalent metal ions. Among the aminoglycoside antibiotics tested, neomycin B is the most potent inhibitor. We speculate that inhibition of enzymes using similar catalytic mechanisms as PARN could be a reason for the toxic side effects caused by aminoglycoside antibiotics in clinical practice.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Biokemi och molekylärbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Cell and molecular biology
- Poly(A)-specific ribonuclease
- PARN
- deadenylation
- processive
- oligomeric
- cap interacting
- aminoglycoside
- active site
- FE2+-mediated cleavage
- metal ion switch
- Cell- och molekylärbiologi
- Cell and molecular biology
- Cell- och molekylärbiologi
- Molekylär cellbiologi
- Molecular Cellbiology
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- dok (subject category)
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