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ArticleNature communications2024

2.7 Å cryo-EM structure of human telomerase H/ACA ribonucleoprotein.

George E Ghanim, Zala Sekne, Sebastian Balch, Anne-Marie M van Roon, Thi Hoang Duong Nguyen

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Biogenesis and Regulation of Telomerase during Development and Cancer.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2026
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  9. RNA Triple Helices: From Structures and Mechanisms to Therapeutic Targets.International journal of biological sciences · 2026
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  10. Interprotomer communication and functional asymmetry in H/ACA snoRNPs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

George E Ghanim *MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3341-3122
Zala Sekne *MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK.
Sebastian BalchMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK.
Anne-Marie M van RoonMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK.
Thi Hoang Duong NguyenMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK. knguyen@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-2180-3430
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

RCUK | Medical Research Council (MRC) MC_UP_1201/19UKRI-Medical Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) enzyme that extends telomeric repeats at eukaryotic chromosome ends to counterbalance telomere loss caused by incomplete genome replication. Human telomerase is comprised of two distinct functional lobes tethered by telomerase RNA (hTR): a catalytic core, responsible for DNA extension; and a Hinge and ACA (H/ACA) box RNP, responsible for telomerase biogenesis. H/ACA RNPs also have a general role in pseudouridylation of spliceosomal and ribosomal RNAs, which is critical for the biogenesis of the spliceosome and ribosome. Much of our structural understanding of eukaryotic H/ACA RNPs comes from structures of the human telomerase H/ACA RNP. Here we report a 2.7 Å cryo-electron microscopy structure of the telomerase H/ACA RNP. The significant improvement in resolution over previous 3.3 Å to 8.2 Å structures allows us to uncover new molecular interactions within the H/ACA RNP. Many disease mutations are mapped to these interaction sites. The structure also reveals unprecedented insights into a region critical for pseudouridylation in canonical H/ACA RNPs. Together, our work advances understanding of telomerase-related disease mutations and the mechanism of pseudouridylation by eukaryotic H/ACA RNPs.

Indexed as

RibonucleoproteinsTelomeraseCryoelectron MicroscopyHumansRibonucleoproteins, Small NucleolarRNARNA, RibosomalRibonucleoproteinsRibonucleoproteins, Small NucleolarRNARNA, RibosomalTelomerase

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PMID38272871
PMCPMC10811338
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