Small nucleolar RNA SNORD66

Small nucleolar RNA SNORD66
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of SNORD66
Identifiers
Symbol SNORD66
Alt. Symbols snoHBII-142
Rfam RF00572
Other data
RNA type Gene; snRNA; snoRNA; C/D-box
Domain(s) Eukaryota
GO 0006396 0005730
SO 0000593

SNORD66 (also known as HBII-142) is a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) molecule which functions in the modification of other small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs). This type of modifying RNA is usually located in the nucleolus of the eukaryotic cell which is a major site of snRNA biogenesis. It is known as a small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) and also often referred to as a guide RNA.

HBII-142 belongs to the C/D box class of snoRNAs which contain the conserved sequence motifs known as the C box (UGAUGA) and the D box (CUGA). Most of the members of the box C/D family function in directing site-specific 2'-O-methylation of substrate RNAs.[1]

HBII-142 is the human orthologue of the mouse MBII-142 snoRNA[2] and is predicted to guide 2'O-ribose methylation of 18S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) at residue C1272.[3]

An experiment that looked at 22 different non-small-cell lung cancer tissues found that SNORD33, SNORD66 and SNORD76 were over-expressed relative to matched noncancerous lung tissues.[4]

References

  1. Galardi, S.; Fatica, A.; Bachi, A.; Scaloni, A.; Presutti, C.; Bozzoni, I. (October 2002). "Purified Box C/D snoRNPs Are Able to Reproduce Site-Specific 2'-O-Methylation of Target RNA in Vitro". Molecular and Cellular Biology 22 (19): 6663–6668. doi:10.1128/MCB.22.19.6663-6668.2002. PMC 134041. PMID 12215523.
  2. Huttenhofer, Alexander; Kiefmann, Martin; Meier-Ewert, Sebastian; O'Brien, John; Lehrach, Hans; Bachellerie, Jean-Pierre; Brosius, Jürgen (1 June 2001). "RNomics: an experimental approach that identifies 201 candidates for novel, small, non-messenger RNAs in mouse". The EMBO Journal 20 (11): 2943–2953. doi:10.1093/emboj/20.11.2943. PMC 125495. PMID 11387227.
  3. 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: 10.1.1.105.7552.
  4. Liao, Jipei; Yu, Lei; Mei, Yuping; Guarnera, Maria; Shen, Jun; Li, Ruiyun; Liu, Zhenqiu; Jiang, Feng (2010). "Small nucleolar RNA signatures as biomarkers for non-small-cell lung cancer". Molecular Cancer 9: 198. doi:10.1186/1476-4598-9-198. PMC 2919450. PMID 20663213.

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