Small Cajal body specific RNA 8
| Small Cajal body specific RNA 8 | |
|---|---|
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| Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of SCARNA8 | |
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | SCARNA8 |
| Alt. Symbols | U92 |
| Rfam | RF00286 |
| Other data | |
| RNA type | Gene; snRNA; snoRNA; scaRNA |
| Domain(s) | Eukaryota |
| GO | 0006396 0015030 0005730 |
| SO | 0000275 |
Small Cajal body specific RNA 8 (also known as SCARNA8 or U92) is a small nucleolar RNA found in Cajal bodies and believed to be involved in the pseudouridylation (isomerisation of uridine to pseudouridine) of U2 spliceosomal RNA.
scaRNAs are a specific class of small nucleolar RNAs that localise to the Cajal bodies and guide the modification of RNA polymerase II transcribed spliceosomal RNAs U1, U2, U4, U5 and U12.[1]
U92 belong to the H/ACA box class of guide RNAs as it has the predicted hairpin-hinge-hairpin-tail structure, conserved H/ACA-box motifs and is found associated with GAR1.[1] It is predicted to guide the pseudouridylation of residues U44 in U2 snRNA.[1] This snoRNA is related to the mouse H/ACA box snoRNA MBI-57.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 Darzacq, Xavier; Jády, Beáta E.; Verheggen, Céline; Kiss, Arnold M.; Bertrand, Edouard; Kiss, Tamás (2002). "Cajal body-specific small nuclear RNAs: A novel class of 2'-O-methylation and pseudouridylation guide RNAs". The EMBO Journal 21 (11): 2746–2756. doi:10.1093/emboj/21.11.2746. PMC 126017. PMID 12032087.
- ↑ Lestrade, Laurent; Weber, Michel J. (2006). "snoRNA-LBME-db, a comprehensive database of human H/ACA and C/D box snoRNAs". Nucleic Acids Research 34 (Supplement 1: Database Issue): D158–D162. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj002. PMC 1347365. PMID 16381836. CiteSeerX: 10
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