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Oligonucleotide directed misfolding of RNA inhibits Candida albicans group I intron splicing.

ABSTRACT: RNA is becoming an important therapeutic target. Many potential RNA targets require secondary or tertiary structure for function. Examples include ribosomal RNAs, RNase P RNAs, mRNAs with untranslated regions that regulate translation, and group I and group II introns. Here, a method is described to inhibit RNA function by exploiting the propensity of RNA to adopt multiple folded states that are of similar free energy. This method, called oligonucleotide directed misfolding of RNA (ODMiR), uses short oligonucleotides to stabilize inactive structures. The ODMiR method is demonstrated with the group I intron from Candida albicans, a human pathogen. The oligonucleotides, (L)(TACCTTTC) and T(L)CT(L)AC(L)GA(L)CG(L)GC(L)C, with L denoting a locked nucleic acid residue, inhibit 50% of group I intron splicing in a transcription mixture at about 150 and 30 nM oligonucleotide concentration, respectively. Both oligonucleotides induce misfolds as determined by native gel electrophoresis and diethyl pyrocarbonate modification. The ODMiR approach provides a potential therapeutic strategy applicable to RNAs with secondary or tertiary structures required for function.

SUBMITTER: Childs JL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC123215 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Oligonucleotide directed misfolding of RNA inhibits Candida albicans group I intron splicing.

Childs Jessica L JL Disney Matthew D MD Turner Douglas H DH

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20020808 17

RNA is becoming an important therapeutic target. Many potential RNA targets require secondary or tertiary structure for function. Examples include ribosomal RNAs, RNase P RNAs, mRNAs with untranslated regions that regulate translation, and group I and group II introns. Here, a method is described to inhibit RNA function by exploiting the propensity of RNA to adopt multiple folded states that are of similar free energy. This method, called oligonucleotide directed misfolding of RNA (ODMiR), uses ...[more]

PMID: 12169671

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Project description:Group II introns are large catalytic RNAs (ribozymes) which are found in bacteria and organellar genomes of several lower eukaryotes, but are particularly prevalent within the mitochondrial genomes (mtDNA) in plants, where they reside in numerous critical genes. Their excision is therefore essential for mitochondria biogenesis and respiratory functions, and is facilitated in vivo by various protein cofactors. Typical group II introns are classified as mobile genetic elements, consisting of the self-splicing ribozyme and its intron-encoded maturase protein. A hallmark of maturases is that they are intron specific, acting as cofactors which bind their own cognate containing pre-mRNAs to facilitate splicing. However, the plant organellar introns have diverged considerably from their bacterial ancestors, such as they lack many regions which are necessary for splicing and also lost their evolutionary related maturase ORFs. In fact, only a single maturase has been retained in the mtDNA of various angiosperms: the matR gene encoded in the fourth intron of the NADH-dehydrogenase subunit 1 (nad1 intron 4). Their degeneracy and the absence of cognate ORFs suggest that the splicing of plant mitochondria introns is assisted by trans-acting cofactors. Interestingly, in addition to MatR, the nuclear genomes of angiosperms also harbor four genes (nMat 1-4), which are closely related to maturases and contain N-terminal mitochondrial localization signals. Recently, we established the roles of two of these paralogs in Arabidopsis, nMAT1 and nMAT2, in the splicing of mitochondrial introns. In addition to the nMATs, genetic screens led to the identification of other genes encoding various factors, which are required for the splicing and processing of mitochondrial introns in plants. In this review we will summarize recent data on the splicing and processing of mitochondrial introns and their implication in plant development and physiology, with a focus on maturases and their accessory splicing cofactors.

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Oligonucleotide directed misfolding of RNA inhibits Candida albicans group I intron splicing.

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Oligonucleotide directed misfolding of RNA inhibits Candida albicans group I intron splicing.

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