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ArticleEukaryotic cell2008

Elucidating the role of C/D snoRNA in rRNA processing and modification in Trypanosoma brucei.

Sarit Barth, Boaz Shalem, Avraham Hury, Itai Dov Tkacz, Xue-Hai Liang, Shai Uliel, Inna Myslyuk, Tirza Doniger, Mali Salmon-Divon, Ron Unger and 1 more

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Article in Eukaryotic cell, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sarit BarthThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel.
Boaz Shalem
Avraham Hury
Itai Dov Tkacz
Xue-Hai Liang
Shai Uliel
Inna Myslyuk
Tirza Doniger
Mali Salmon-Divon
Ron Unger
Shulamit Michaeli
Bar-Ilan University · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most eukaryotic C/D small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) guide 2'-O methylation (Nm) on rRNA and are also involved in rRNA processing. The four core proteins that bind C/D snoRNA in Trypanosoma brucei are fibrillarin (NOP1), NOP56, NOP58, and SNU13. Silencing of NOP1 by RNA interference identified rRNA-processing and modification defects that caused lethality. Systematic mapping of 2'-O-methyls on rRNA revealed the existence of hypermethylation at certain positions of the rRNA in the bloodstream form of the parasites, suggesting that this modification may assist the parasites in coping with the major temperature changes during cycling between their insect and mammalian hosts. The rRNA-processing defects of NOP1-depleted cells suggest the involvement of C/D snoRNA in trypanosome-specific rRNA-processing events to generate the small rRNA fragments. MRP RNA, which is involved in rRNA processing, was identified in this study in one of the snoRNA gene clusters, suggesting that trypanosomes utilize a combination of unique C/D snoRNAs and conserved snoRNAs for rRNA processing.

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AnimalsArabidopsisBase SequenceBlotting, NorthernBlotting, WesternChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneComputational BiologyGene SilencingHumansMolecular Sequence DataNucleic Acid ConformationReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, ProtozoanRNA, RibosomalRNA, Small NucleolarSaccharomyces cerevisiaeChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistonefibrillarinRNA, ProtozoanRNA, RibosomalRNA, Small Nucleolar

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PMID17981991
PMCPMC2224155
OpenAlexW2097498672

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