The tetranucleotide UCAY directs the specific recognition of RNA by the Nova K-homology 3 domain. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The Nova family of proteins are target antigens in the autoimmune disorder paraneoplastic opsoclonus-myoclonus ataxia and contain K-homology (KH)-type RNA binding domains. The Nova-1 protein has recently been shown to regulate alternative splicing of the alpha2 glycine receptor subunit pre-mRNA by binding to an intronic element containing repeats of the tetranucleotide UCAU. Here, we have used selection-amplification to demonstrate that the KH3 domain of Nova recognizes a single UCAY element in the context of a 20-base hairpin RNA; the UCAY tetranucleotide is optimally presented as a loop element of the hairpin scaffold and requires protein residues C-terminal to the previously defined KH domain. These results suggest that KH domains in general recognize tetranucleotide motifs and that biological RNA targets of KH domains may use either RNA secondary structure or repeated sequence elements to achieve high affinity and specificity of protein binding.

publication date

  • May 23, 2000

Research

keywords

  • Antigens, Neoplasm
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins
  • Oligoribonucleotides
  • RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
  • RNA-Binding Proteins
  • Ribonucleoproteins

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC18503

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0034705034

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.090553997

PubMed ID

  • 10811881

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 97

issue

  • 11