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中国学者Cell子刊揭示基因组“暗物质”中环状RNA新分子
【字体: 大 中 小 】 时间:2013年09月30日 来源:中科院
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Molecular Cell发表了中科院生物化学与细胞生物学研究所陈玲玲组与计算生物学所杨力组的最新合作研究论文,发现来源于基因内含子区域的环形RNA新分子,揭示其成环机制及在基因转录调控中的重要功能。
原文摘要:
Circular Intronic Long Noncoding RNAs
We describe the identification and characterization of circular intronic long noncoding RNAs in human cells, which accumulate owing to a failure in debranching. The formation of such circular intronic RNAs (ciRNAs) can be recapitulated using expression vectors, and their processing depends on a consensus motif containing a 7 nt GU-rich element near the 5 splice site and an 11 nt C-rich element close to the branchpoint site. In addition, we show that ciRNAs are abundant in the nucleus and have little enrichment for microRNA target sites. Importantly, knockdown of ciRNAs led to the reduced expression of their parent genes. One abundant such RNA, ci-ankrd52, largely accumulates to its sites of transcription, associates with elongation Pol II machinery, and acts as a positive regulator of Pol II transcription. This study thus suggests a cis-regulatory role of noncoding intronic transcripts on their parent coding genes.