ArticleThe EMBO journal1997
Clusters of multiple different small nucleolar RNA genes in plants are expressed as and processed from polycistronic pre-snoRNAs.
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- Small Nucleolar RNAs: Biological Functions and Diseases.MedComm · 2025Review
- TIGR-Tas: A family of modular RNA-guided DNA-targeting systems in prokaryotes and their viruses.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- The regulatory roles of small nucleolar RNAs within their host locus.RNA biology · 2024Review
- Small and intermediate size structural RNAs in the unicellular parasiteMicrobial genomics · 2022Article
- Emerging Functions for snoRNAs and snoRNA-Derived Fragments.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Profiling of RNA ribose methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana.Nucleic acids research · 2021Article
- Conservation of Archaeal C/D Box sRNA-Guided RNA Modifications.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Review
- The Arabidopsis 2'-O-Ribose-Methylation and Pseudouridylation Landscape of rRNA in Comparison to Human and Yeast.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
- The Existence and Localization of Nuclear snoRNAs inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Plant snRNP Biogenesis: A Perspective from the Nucleolus and Cajal Bodies.Frontiers in plant science · 2017Review
- Transcriptional regulation of snRNAs and its significance for plant development.Journal of plant research · 2017Review
- Intron Lariat RNA Inhibits MicroRNA Biogenesis by Sequestering the Dicing Complex in Arabidopsis.PLoS genetics · 2016Article
- Computational prediction and validation of C/D, H/ACA and Eh_U3 snoRNAs of Entamoeba histolytica.BMC genomics · 2012Article
- Arabidopsis thaliana XRN2 is required for primary cleavage in the pre-ribosomal RNA.Nucleic acids research · 2010Article
- Plant U13 orthologues and orphan snoRNAs identified by RNomics of RNA from Arabidopsis nucleoli.Nucleic acids research · 2010Article
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- A novel class of developmentally regulated noncoding RNAs in Leishmania.Eukaryotic cell · 2006Article
- TargetIdentifier: a webserver for identifying full-length cDNAs from EST sequences.Nucleic acids research · 2005Article
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Abstract
Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are involved in many aspects of rRNA processing and maturation. In animals and yeast, a large number of snoRNAs are encoded within introns of protein-coding genes. These introns contain only single snoRNA genes and their processing involves exonucleolytic release of the snoRNA from debranched intron lariats. In contrast, some U14 genes in plants are found in small clusters and are expressed polycistronically. An examination of U14 flanking sequences in maize has identified four additional snoRNA genes which are closely linked to the U14 genes. The presence of seven and five snoRNA genes respectively on 2.05 and 0.97 kb maize genomic fragments further emphasizes the novel organization of plant snoRNA genes as clusters of multiple different genes encoding both box C/D and box H/ACA snoRNAs. The plant snoRNA gene clusters are transcribed as a polycistronic pre-snoRNA transcript from an upstream promoter. The lack of exon sequences between the genes suggests that processing of polycistronic pre-snoRNAs involves endonucleolytic activity. Consistent with this, U14 snoRNAs can be processed from both non-intronic and intronic transcripts in tobacco protoplasts such that processing is splicing independent.
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