ALTERNATE NAMES: None reported
LENGTH: 91 nts
PROCESS: 2'-O-methylation of rRNA
TARGET SITE(S): 18S rRNA: Am796
GENOMIC ORGANIZATION: Polycistronic gene
GENE DISRUPTION PHENOTYPE: Viable
CORRESPONDENCES IN HUMANS AND PLANTS: None reported in human Click here and see that yeast and Arabidopsis have corresponding modifications and guide snoRNAs.
PHYLOGENETIC CONSERVATION IN FUNGI: Click here to examine conservation of the snoRNA in fungal genomes using BLAST.
RNA SEQUENCE:
1 uuugaugaug auuacacucc augcuaauca ugaacguguu cgauguaaau uugaauacga 61 ugauuaaaau uguuguuuac gcuuucugaa a
YEAST GENOME DATABASE ENTRY:Click here to view the SGD entry for this snoRNA.
REFERENCES: Lowe, T. M., and S. R. Eddy. 1999. A computational screen for methylation guide snoRNAs in yeast. Science 283:1168-1171. Ghazal, G., D. Ge, J. Gervais-Bird, J. Gagnon, and S. Abou Elela. 2005. Genome-wide prediction and analysis of yeast RNase III-dependent snoRNA processing signals. Mol. Cell. Biol. 25:2981-2994.
