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Dimerization of ADAR2 is mediated by the double-stranded RNA binding domain.

ABSTRACT: Members of the family of adenosine deaminases acting on RNA (ADARs) can catalyze the hydrolytic deamination of adenosine to inosine and thereby change the sequence of specific mRNAs with highly double-stranded structures. The ADARs all contain one or more repeats of the double-stranded RNA binding motif (DRBM). By both in vitro and in vivo assays, we show that the DRBMs of rat ADAR2 are necessary and sufficient for dimerization of the enzyme. Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) demonstrates that ADAR2 also exists as dimers in living mammalian cells and that mutation of DRBM1 lowers the dimerization affinity while mutation of DRBM2 does not. Nonetheless, the editing efficiency of the GluR2 Q/R site depends on a functional DRBM2. The ADAR2 DRBMs thus serve differential roles in RNA dimerization and GluR2 Q/R editing, and we propose a model for RNA editing that incorporates the new findings.

SUBMITTER: Poulsen H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1484439 | biostudies-other | 2006 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Dimerization of ADAR2 is mediated by the double-stranded RNA binding domain.

Poulsen Hanne H Jorgensen Rasmus R Heding Anders A Nielsen Finn C FC Bonven Bjarne B Egebjerg Jan J

RNA (New York, N.Y.) 20060508 7

Members of the family of adenosine deaminases acting on RNA (ADARs) can catalyze the hydrolytic deamination of adenosine to inosine and thereby change the sequence of specific mRNAs with highly double-stranded structures. The ADARs all contain one or more repeats of the double-stranded RNA binding motif (DRBM). By both in vitro and in vivo assays, we show that the DRBMs of rat ADAR2 are necessary and sufficient for dimerization of the enzyme. Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) demo ...[more]

PMID: 16682559

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