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Title

How Short RNAs Impact the Human Ribonuclease Dicer Activity: Putative Regulatory Feedback-Loops and Other RNA-mediated Mechanisms Controlling microRNA Processing

Authors

[ 1 ] Instytut Informatyki, Wydział Informatyki, Politechnika Poznańska | [ P ] employee

Year of publication

2016

Published in

Acta Biochimica Polonica

Journal year: 2016 | Journal volume: vol. 63 | Journal number: no. 4

Article type

scientific article

Publication language

english

Keywords
EN
  • ribonuclease Dicer
  • miRNA processing
  • regulatory RNAs
  • regulation of Dicer activity
  • regulatory feedback-loops
Abstract

EN Ribonuclease Dicer plays a pivotal role in RNA interference pathways by processing long double-stranded RNAs and single-stranded hairpin RNA precursors into small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs), respectively. While details of Dicer regulation by a variety of proteins are being elucidated, less is known about non-protein factors, e.g. RNA molecules, that may influence this enzyme’s activity. Therefore, we decided to investigate the question of whether the RNA molecules can function not only as Dicer substrates but also as its regulators. Our previous in vitro studies indicated that the activity of human Dicer can be influenced by short RNA molecules that either bind to Dicer or interact with its substrates, or both. Those studies were carried out with commercial Dicer preparations. Nevertheless, such preparations are usually not homogeneous enough to carry out more detailed RNA-binding studies. Therefore, we have established our own system for the production of human Dicer in insect cells. In this manuscript, we characterize the RNA-binding and RNA-cleavage properties of the obtained preparation. We demonstrate that Dicer can efficiently bind single-stranded RNAs that are longer than ~20-nucleotides. Consequently, we revisit possible scenarios of Dicer regulation by single-stranded RNA species ranging from ~10- to ~60-nucleotides, in the context of their binding to this enzyme. Finally, we show that siRNA/miRNA-sized RNAs may affect miRNA production either by binding to Dicer or by participating in regulatory feedback-loops. Altogether, our studies suggest a broad regulatory role of short RNAs in Dicer functioning.

Pages (from - to)

773 - 783

DOI

10.18388/abp.2016_1339

License type

CC BY (attribution alone)

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15

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1,159

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