ALTERNATE NAMES: None reported
LENGTH: 192 nts
PROCESS: Pseudouridine formation in rRNA
TARGET SITE(S): 18S rRNA: Y466 25S rRNA: Y2735
GENOMIC ORGANIZATION: Independent gene
GENE DISRUPTION PHENOTYPE: Viable
CORRESPONDENCES IN HUMANS AND PLANTS: Click here and see that yeast and humans have corresponding modifications and guide snoRNAs.
None reported in plants
PHYLOGENETIC CONSERVATION IN FUNGI: Click here to examine conservation of the snoRNA in fungal genomes using BLAST.
RNA SEQUENCE:
1 aacaaaauaa uuuacauucc aaggaccggu auuauuguag gggauuugug acuuucaagg 61 caacguccuc ucuacaaccg aguucgagaa uaaguacaaa uggcucuuuu uguuauucga 121 aagcuuacaa guucugguau auucuauaua cucacuuauu acuuucaagu acuucacacg 181 ggccugacau cu
YEAST GENOME DATABASE ENTRY:Click here to view the SGD entry for this snoRNA.
REFERENCES: Thompson, J. R., J. Zagorski, J. L. Woolford, and M. J. Fournier. 1988. Sequence and genetic analysis of a dispensable 189 nucleotide snRNA from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Res. 16:5587-5601. Ganot, P., M. L. Bortolin, and T. Kiss. 1997. Site-specific pseudouridine formation in preribosomal RNA is guided by small nucleolar RNAs. Cell 89:799-809. Ganot, P., M. Caizergues-Ferrer, and T. Kiss. 1997. The family of box ACA small nucleolar RNAs is defined by an evolutionarily conserved secondary structure and ubiquitous sequence elements essential for RNA accumulation. Genes Dev. 11:941-956. Balakin, A. G., L. Smith, and M. J. Fournier. 1996. The RNA world of the nucleolus: two major families of small RNAs defined by different box elements with related functions. Cell 86:823-834. Lafontaine, D. L., C. Bousquet-Antonelli, Y. Henry, M. Caizergues-Ferrer, and D. Tollervey. 1998. The box H + ACA snoRNAs carry Cbf5p, the putative rRNA pseudouridine synthase. Genes Dev. 12:527-537. Watkins, N. J., A. Gottschalk, G. Neubauer, B. Kastner, P. Fabrizio, M. Mann, and R. Luhrmann. 1998. Cbf5p, a potential pseudouridine synthase, and Nhp2p, a putative RNA-binding protein, are present together with Gar1p in all H BOX/ACA-motif snoRNPs and constitute a common bipartite structure. RNA 4:1549-1568. Henras, A., Y. Henry, C. Bousquet-Antonelli, J. Noaillac-Depeyre, J. P. Gelugne, and M. Caizergues-Ferrer. 1998. Nhp2p and Nop10p are essential for the function of H/ACA snoRNPs. EMBO J. 17:7078-7090. Schattner, P., W. A. Decatur, C. A. Davis, M. Ares, Jr., M. J. Fournier, and T. M. Lowe. 2004. Genome-wide searching for pseudouridylation guide snoRNAs: analysis of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome. Nucleic Acids Res. 32:4281-4296. Torchet, C., G. Badis, F. Devaux, G. Costanzo, M. Werner, and A. Jacquier. 2005. The complete set of H/ACA snoRNAs that guide rRNA pseudouridylations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. RNA 11:928-938.
