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ALTERNATE NAMES: Z5
LENGTH: 85 nts
PROCESS: 2'-O-methylation of rRNA
TARGET SITE(S): 25S rRNA: Gm2288
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 uuuuaugaug agauauuuau agaugacgag ucugaucauu cgugaagaca caacuauuaa 61 aauuaccauu caugccuuuc ugaag
YEAST GENOME DATABASE ENTRY:Click here to view the SGD entry for this snoRNA.
REFERENCES: Qu, L. H., A. Henras, Y. J. Lu, H. Zhou, W. X. Zhou, Y. Q. Zhu, J. Zhao, Y. Henry, M. Caizergues-Ferrer, and J. P. Bachellerie. 1999. Seven novel methylation guide small nucleolar RNAs are processed from a common polycistronic transcript by Rat1p and RNase III in yeast. Mol. Cell. Biol. 19:1144-1158. Lowe, T. M., and S. R. Eddy. 1999. A computational screen for methylation guide snoRNAs in yeast. Science 283:1168-1171.