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Processed Small RNAs in Archaea and BHB Elements

Sarah J. Berkemer, Christian Höner zu Siederdissen, Fabian Amman, Axel Wintsche, Sebastian Will, Ivo L. Hofacker, Sonja J. Prohaska, Peter F. Stadler

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GCB, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2015): e18

Abstract


Bulge-helix-bulge (BHB) elements guide the enzymatic splicing machinery that in Archaea excises introns from tRNAs, rRNAs from their primary precursor, and accounts for the assembly of piece-wise encoded tRNAs. This processing pathway renders the intronic sequences as circularized RNA species. Although Archaeal transcriptomes harbor a large number of circular small RNAs, it remains unknown whether most or all of them are produced through BHB-dependent splicing. We therefore conduct a genome-wide survey of BHB-elements of a phylogenetically diverse set of Archaeal species and complement this approach by searching for BHB-like structures in the vicinity of circularized transcripts. We find that besides tRNA introns, the majority of box C/D snoRNAs is associated with BHB elements. Not all circularized sRNAs, however, can be explained by BHB elements, suggesting that there is a least one other mechanism of RNA circularization at work in Archaea. Pattern search methods were unable, however, to indentify common sequence and/or secondary structure features that could be characteristic for such a mechanism.

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