ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025
Neurodevelopmental disorder-linked Argonaute mutations permit delayed RISC formation and unusual shortening of miRNAs by 3'→5' trimming.
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- Structural basis for RISC assembly of human Argonaute2.Molecular cell · 2026Article
- From chromatin to proteostasis: multilevel gene regulation in Mendelian diseases.Frontiers in epigenetics and epigenomics · 2026Review
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Mutations in Argonaute proteins (AGOs) cause Argonaute syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD), yet the underlying molecular mechanism remains unclear. We determined cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of wild-type (WT) AGO1 and the recurrent, severe causative ΔF180 mutant. AGO1(ΔF180) unexpectedly rearranges the hydrophobic core of the L1 domain to preserve the overall RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISC) architecture and recognize guide RNAs similarly to WT. Functionally, the mutant binds target RNAs like WT but more frequently retains passenger strands, implicating a defect in RISC assembly. Biochemical assays of ΔF180 and L190P mutants revealed normal duplex loading but impaired passenger ejection, exposing guide 3' ends to 3'→5' exonucleases and generating abnormally short ~11-nucleotide RNAs. In cells, AGO1(ΔF180), AGO1(G199S), and corresponding AGO2 mutants likewise produced truncated guides. Together, these findings support a model in which defective passenger ejection underlies the pathology of AGO-associated NDDs by rendering microRNAs bound to AGO syndrome mutants susceptible to aberrant 3' trimming.
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