Small Cajal body specific RNA 13
SCARNA13
Identifiers
SymbolSCARNA13
RfamRF00231
Other data
RNA typeGene; snRNA; snoRNA; scaRNA;
PDB structuresPDBe
Alternative representation of the SCARNA13 consensus structure.
Representation of the SCARNA13 consensus structure.

In molecular biology, Small Cajal body specific RNA 13 (also known as scaRNA13 or U93) is a small nucleolar RNA found in Cajal bodies and believed to be involved in the pseudouridylation of U2 and U5 spliceosomal RNA.

scaRNAs are a specific class of small nucleolar RNAs that localise to the Cajal bodies and guide the modification of RNA polymerase II transcribed spliceosomal RNAs U1, U2, U4, U5 and U12.[1]

U93 is composed of two tandemly arranged box H/ACA box sequence motifs and belongs to the H/ACA box class of guide RNAs [2]. U93 is predicted to guide pseudouridylation of U2 spliceosomal snRNA residue U54 and residue U53 of snRNA U5 [2][3][4].

With a size of 252 nt (Tetraodon) and 274 nt (Echinops) it perfectly matches the expectation for a duplicated box H/ACA box snoRNA. In both Tetrapoda and teleosts it is located in a poorly characterized non-coding host gene SNHG10, downstream of the highly conserved GLRX5 gene. In contrast to SCARNA9 the two H/ACA components might be distant homologs, suggesting that this dual snoRNA arose from a tandem duplication of a canonical H/ACA snoRNA.

References

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  1. ^ Darzacq, Xavier; Jády, Beáta E.; Verheggen, Céline; Kiss, Arnold M.; Bertrand, Edouard; Kiss, Tamás (2002). "Cajal body-specific small nuclear RNAs: A novel class of 2'-O-methylation and pseudouridylation guide RNAs". The EMBO Journal. 21 (11): 2746–2756. doi:10.1093/emboj/21.11.2746. PMC 126017. PMID 12032087.
  2. ^ a b Kiss AM, Jády BE, Darzacq X, Verheggen C, Bertrand E, Kiss T (2002). "A Cajal body-specific pseudouridylation guide RNA is composed of two box H/ACA snoRNA-like domains". Nucleic Acids Res. 30 (21): 4643–9. doi:10.1093/nar/gkf592. PMC 135803. PMID 12409454.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Lestrade, Laurent; Weber, Michel J. (2006). "snoRNA-LBME-db, a comprehensive database of human H/ACA and C/D box snoRNAs". Nucleic Acids Research. 34 (Supplement 1: Database Issue): D158–D162. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.105.7552. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj002. PMC 1347365. PMID 16381836.
  4. ^ Schattner, P.; Barberan-Soler, S.; Lowe, T. M. (January 2006). "A computational screen for mammalian pseudouridylation guide H/ACA RNAs". RNA. 12 (1): 15–25. doi:10.1261/rna.2210406. PMC 1370881. PMID 16373490.
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