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Small Cajal body specific RNA 6
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of SCARNA6
Identifiers
SymbolSCARNA6
Alt. SymbolsU88
RfamRF00478
Other data
RNA typeGene; snRNA; snoRNA; scaRNA
Domain(s)Eukaryota
GOGO:0006396 GO:0005730
SOSO:0000275
PDB structuresPDBe

Small Cajal body specific RNA 6 (also known as SCARNA6 or U88) is a small nucleolar RNA found in Cajal bodies and believed to be involved in the pseudouridylation (isomerisation of uridine to pseudouridine) of 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

U88 is found associated with both fibrillarin and Gar1p and co-localises with coilin in Cajal bodies. It is an unusual guide RNA in that it is composed of both H/ACA box and a C/D box conserved domains. It is predicted to guide 2'-O-methylation of residue U41 of the U5 snRNA.

U88 is also closely related to other human snoRNAs scaRNA U87 and a mouse homologue MBI-46. In the human genome both U88 and U87 scaRNAs share the same host gene.

References

  1. ^ Darzacq X, Jády BE, Verheggen C, Kiss AM, Bertrand E, Kiss T (June 2002). "Cajal body-specific small nuclear RNAs: a novel class of 2'-O-methylation and pseudouridylation guide RNAs". The EMBO Journal. 21 (11): 2746–56. doi:10.1093/emboj/21.11.2746. PMC 126017. PMID 12032087.
  2. Hüttenhofer A, Kiefmann M, Meier-Ewert S, O'Brien J, Lehrach H, Bachellerie JP, Brosius J (June 2001). "RNomics: an experimental approach that identifies 201 candidates for novel, small, non-messenger RNAs in mouse". The EMBO Journal. 20 (11): 2943–53. doi:10.1093/emboj/20.11.2943. PMC 125495. PMID 11387227.
  3. Lestrade L, Weber MJ (January 2006). "snoRNA-LBME-db, a comprehensive database of human H/ACA and C/D box snoRNAs". Nucleic Acids Research. 34 (Database issue): D158-62. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.105.7552. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj002. PMC 1347365. PMID 16381836.

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