Extensive 5'-Surveillance Guards Against Non-Canonical NAD-Caps of Nuclear mRNAs in Yeast
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ABSTRACT: The ubiquitous redox coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) acts as a noncanonical cap structure on prokaryotic and eukaryotic ribonucleic acids. Here we find that in budding yeast, NAD-RNAs are abundant (>1400 species), short (<170 nt), and mostly correspond to mRNA 5′-ends. The modification percentage of transcripts is low (<5%). NAD incorporation occurs mainly during transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II, which uses distinct promoters with a YAAG core motif for this purpose. Most NAD-RNAs are 3′-truncated. At least three decapping enzymes, Rai1, Dxo1, and Npy1, guard against NAD-RNA at different cellular locations, targeting overlapping transcript populations. NAD-mRNAs are not translatable in vitro. Our work indicates that in budding yeast, most of the NAD incorporation into RNA seems to be disadvantageous to the cell, which has evolved a diverse surveillance machinery to prematurely terminate, decap and reject NAD-RNAs.
ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PROVIDER: GSE146368 | GEO | 2020/04/28
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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