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At the silent mating-type interval of fission yeast, the RNA interference (RNAi) machinery cooperates with cenH, a DNA element homologous to centromeric repeats, to initiate heterochromatin formation. However, in RNAi mutants, heterochromatin assembly can still occur at low efficiency. Here, we report that Atf1 and Pcr1, two ATF/CREB family proteins, act in a parallel mechanism to the RNAi pathway for heterochromatin nucleation. Deletion of atf1 or pcr1 alone has little effect on silencing at the mating-type region, but when combined with RNAi mutants, double mutants fail to nucleate heterochromatin assembly. Moreover, deletion of atf1 or pcr1 in combination with cenH deletion causes loss of silencing and heterochromatin formation. Furthermore, Atf1 and Pcr1 bind to the mating-type region and target histone H3 lysine-9 methylation and the Swi6 protein essential for heterochromatin assembly. These analyses link ATF/CREB family proteins, involved in cellular response to environmental stresses, to nucleation of constitutive heterochromatin. 相似文献
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Hammond SM Boettcher S Caudy AA Kobayashi R Hannon GJ 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2001,293(5532):1146-1150
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RNA干涉原理及其应用 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
RNA干涉是指外源dsRNA引发生物体内的基因的同源序列降解,从而表现出的基因转录后的沉默现象,它与植物中的共抑制和真菌中的基因压制可能具有相同的作用机制。在这一过程中,需要eIF2c类似蛋白因子、RNA螺旋酶、RNA依赖性RNA多聚酶、核糖核酸酶、ATP和转膜蛋白参与。RNA干涉可以用于功能基因组学研究,也可用于克服转基因生物的基因沉默现象,使外源基因在遗传改良生物中能更好地表达,还用于基因治疗,抑制有害基因的表达等。 相似文献
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RNA干涉(RNA interference,RNA1)是由双链RNA导入而引起的转录后基因沉默,它可以作为一种有力的工具在多种有机体中抑制特异性基因的表达。文章简要介绍了RNA干涉的发现史、作用机制、特点及该项技术的用途。RNA1的作用机制可以分为起始阶段和效应阶段。双链RNA被Dicer消化成siRNAs(small interfermg RNAs),进一步形成RNA诱导沉默复合物(RNA-mduced silencmg complex,or RISC),在siRNAs的引导下切割靶mRNA。RNAi技术在疾病的基因治疗、功能基因组学及细胞信号通路分析等力面具有广阔的应用前景。 相似文献
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Hall IM Shankaranarayana GD Noma K Ayoub N Cohen A Grewal SI 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2002,297(5590):2232-2237
The higher-order assembly of chromatin imposes structural organization on the genetic information of eukaryotes and is thought to be largely determined by posttranslational modification of histone tails. Here, we study a 20-kilobase silent domain at the mating-type region of fission yeast as a model for heterochromatin formation. We find that, although histone H3 methylated at lysine 9 (H3 Lys9) directly recruits heterochromatin protein Swi6/HP1, the critical determinant for H3 Lys9 methylation to spread in cis and to be inherited through mitosis and meiosis is Swi6 itself. We demonstrate that a centromere-homologous repeat (cenH) present at the silent mating-type region is sufficient for heterochromatin formation at an ectopic site, and that its repressive capacity is mediated by components of the RNA interference (RNAi) machinery. Moreover, cenH and the RNAi machinery cooperate to nucleate heterochromatin assembly at the endogenous mat locus but are dispensable for its subsequent inheritance. This work defines sequential requirements for the initiation and propagation of regional heterochromatic domains. 相似文献
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Zofall M Yamanaka S Reyes-Turcu FE Zhang K Rubin C Grewal SI 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2012,335(6064):96-100
Facultative heterochromatin that changes during cellular differentiation coordinates regulated gene expression, but its assembly is poorly understood. Here, we describe facultative heterochromatin islands in fission yeast and show that their formation at meiotic genes requires factors that eliminate meiotic messenger RNAs (mRNAs) during vegetative growth. Blocking production of meiotic mRNA or loss of RNA elimination factors, including Mmi1 and Red1 proteins, abolishes heterochromatin islands. RNA elimination machinery is enriched at meiotic loci and interacts with Clr4/SUV39h, a methyltransferase involved in heterochromatin assembly. Heterochromatin islands disassemble in response to nutritional signals that induce sexual differentiation. This process involves the antisilencing factor Epe1, the loss of which causes dramatic increase in heterochromatic loci. Our analyses uncover unexpected regulatory roles for mRNA-processing factors that assemble dynamic heterochromatin to modulate gene expression. 相似文献
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Characterization of the piRNA complex from rat testes 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Lau NC Seto AG Kim J Kuramochi-Miyagawa S Nakano T Bartel DP Kingston RE 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2006,313(5785):363-367
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The expression of short hairpin RNAs in several organisms silences gene expression by targeted mRNA degradation. This RNA interference (RNAi) pathway can also affect the genome, as DNA methylation arises at loci homologous to the target RNA in plants. We demonstrate in fission yeast that expression of a synthetic hairpin RNA is sufficient to silence the homologous locus in trans and causes the assembly of a patch of silent Swi6 chromatin with cohesin. This requires components of the RNAi machinery and Clr4 histone methyltransferase for small interfering RNA generation. A similar process represses several meiotic genes through nearby retrotransposon long terminal repeats (LTRs). These analyses directly implicate interspersed LTRs in regulating gene expression during cellular differentiation. 相似文献
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Increasingly complex networks of small RNAs act through RNA-interference (RNAi) pathways to regulate gene expression, to mediate antiviral responses, to organize chromosomal domains, and to restrain the spread of selfish genetic elements. Historically, RNAi has been defined as a response to double-stranded RNA. However, some small RNA species may not arise from double-stranded RNA precursors. Yet, like microRNAs and small interfering RNAs, such species guide Argonaute proteins to silencing targets through complementary base-pairing. Silencing can be achieved by corecruitment of accessory factors or through the activity of Argonaute itself, which often has endonucleolytic activity. As a specific and adaptive regulatory system, RNAi is used throughout eukarya, which indicates a long evolutionary history. A likely function of RNAi throughout that history is to protect the genome from both pathogenic and parasitic invaders. 相似文献
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Kato H Goto DB Martienssen RA Urano T Furukawa K Murakami Y 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2005,309(5733):467-469
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《农业科学学报》2016,(11)
Rice stripe virus(RSV) often causes severe rice yield loss in temperate regions of East Asia. Although the correlation of small interfering RNAs(si RNAs) with transgenic virus resistance of plants using RNA interference(RNAi) is known for decades, no systematical research has been done on the profiling of si RNAs from a genomic scale. Our research is aiming to systematically study the RNAi impact in RSV-resistant transgenic rice, which was generated by introducing an inverted repeat construct that targets RSV nucleocapsid protein(NCP) gene. In this paper, three independent RSV-retsistant transgenic rice lines were generated, their stable integration of the T-DNA fragment and the expression of si RNAs were confirmed by Southern blotting and Northern blotting analyses, and the majority of si RNAs were in lengths of 21, 22, and 24 nucleotides(nt), which have validated a connection between the presence of the RSV NCP homologous si RNAs and the RSV resistance in those transgenic rice lines. In one of these transgenic lines(T4-B1), the T-DNA fragment was found to have been inserted at chromosome 1 of the rice genome, substituting the rice genome fragment from 32 158 773 to 32 158 787 nt. Bioinformatics analysis of small RNA-Seq data on the T4-B1 line also confirmed the large population of NCP-derived si RNAs in transgenic plants, and the RSV-infected library(T4-B1-V) possessed more si RNAs than its mock inoculated libraries(T4-B1-VF), these results indicating the inverted repeat construct and RSV could introduce abundance of si RNAs in transgenic rice. Moreover, a varied expression level of specific si RNAs was found among different segments of the NCP gene template, about 47% of NCP-derived si RNAs reads aligned with the fragment from 594 to 832 nt(239 nt in length) in NCP gene(969 nt in length) in the T4-B1-V, indicating a potential usage of hotspot regions for RNAi silencing in future research. In conclusion, as the first study to address the si RNA profile in RSV-resistant transgenic plant using next generation sequencing(NGS) technique, we confirmed that the massive abundance of si RNA derived from the inverted repeat of NCP is the major reason for RSV-resistance. 相似文献