SPLICED LEADER-ASSOCIATED RNA OF TRYPANOSOMES - SEQUENCE CONSERVATIONAND ASSOCIATION WITH PROTEIN-COMPONENTS COMMON TO TRANS-SPLICEOSOMAL RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS
Z. Palfi et al., SPLICED LEADER-ASSOCIATED RNA OF TRYPANOSOMES - SEQUENCE CONSERVATIONAND ASSOCIATION WITH PROTEIN-COMPONENTS COMMON TO TRANS-SPLICEOSOMAL RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, The Journal of biological chemistry, 269(48), 1994, pp. 30620-30625
A spliced leader-associated (SLA) RNA recently identified in Trypanoso
ma brucei has been proposed as a U5 RNA analog in trans-splicing, base
d on in vivo psoralen cross-linking to the spliced leader (SL) RNA and
a short stretch of homology to a conserved U5 RNA sequence. Here we s
how that the SLA RNA is in the form of an RNP containing common protei
ns that also occur in the known trans-spliceosomal snRNPs of T. brucei
, the SL, U2, and U4/U6 snRNPs. Therefore the SLA RNP is a member of a
larger family of related RNPs. The immunoprecipitation of the SLA RNA
by antibodies against common proteins does not require an association
between the SLA RNA and the SL RNP. To identify sequences of potentia
l functional importance and to establish a secondary structure model,
we have sequenced the SLA RNA and cloned its gene from a related trypa
nosomatid, Leptomonas seymouri. A sequence comparison between the T. b
rucei and L. seymouri SLA RNAs reveals that the U5-homologous sequence
element is not conserved.