Both yeast W double-stranded RNA and its single-stranded form 20S RNA are linear.

AUTOR(ES)

Rodriguez-Cousiño, N

RESUMO

Most yeast strains carry a cytoplasmic double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) molecule called W, of 2.5 kb in size. We have cloned and sequenced most of W genome (1), and we proposed that W (+) strands were identical to 20S RNA, a single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) species, whose copy number is highly induced under stress conditions. Recently it was proposed that 20S RNA was circular (2). In this paper, however, we demonstrate that both W dsRNA and 20S RNA are linear. Linearity of W dsRNA is shown by the stoichiometric labelling of both strands of W with 32P-pCp and T4 RNA ligase. The last 3' end nucleotide of both strands is about 70 to 80% C and 20 to 30% A. Linearity of 20S RNA is directly demonstrated by a site-specific cleavage of 20S RNA with RNase H, using an oligodeoxynucleotide complementary to an internal site of 20S RNA. The cleavage produced not one but two RNA fragments expected from the linearity of 20S RNA.

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