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ArticleMolecular and biochemical parasitology2007

Characterization of the Trypanosoma brucei cap hypermethylase Tgs1.

Jia-peng Ruan, Elisabetta Ullu, Christian Tschudi

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Article in Molecular and biochemical parasitology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jia-peng RuanDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University Medical School, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06536-0812, USA.
Elisabetta Ullu
Christian Tschudi
Yale University · US

Funding

RNA CAPPING IN TRYPANOSOMESR01AI043594 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI TSCHUDI, CHRISTIAN · 1998 to 2012
$4.5M
NIAID NIH HHS AI43594NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI043594
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many U-snRNAs contain a hypermodified 2,2,7-trimethylguanosine (TMG) cap structure, which is formed by post-transcriptional methylation of an m(7)G cap. At present, little is known about the maturation of U-snRNAs in trypanosomes. The current evidence is consistent with the primary transcript containing an m(7)G moiety, but it is not clear whether the conversion of m(7)G to TMG takes place in the cytoplasm or in the nucleus. To address this issue, we characterized the Trypanosoma brucei homologue of the trimethylguanosine synthase (TbTgs1), a 28kDa protein, which is mainly composed of the conserved catalytic domain and lacks a large N-terminal domain present in higher eukaryotes. A GFP fusion with TbTgs1 revealed that this protein localizes throughout the nucleoplasm, as well as in one or two dots outside the nucleolus and RNAi-mediated downregulation of TbTgs1 suggests that this protein is responsible for hypermethylation of the m(7)G cap of both snRNAs and snoRNAs.

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AnimalsCell NucleolusGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMethylationMethyltransferasesProtozoan ProteinsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsRNA CapsRNA, Small NuclearRNA, Small NucleolarTrypanosoma brucei bruceiGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMethyltransferasesProtozoan ProteinsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsRNA CapsRNA, Small NuclearRNA, Small Nucleolartrimethylguanosine synthase

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PMID17610965
PMCPMC2075351
OpenAlexW1967002086

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