NDLI: Effects of local mRNA structure on posttranscriptional gene silencing

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Author	Rudnick, Stephen I. Swaminathan, Jyothishmathi Marina, Sumaroka Liebhaber, Stephen Gewirtz, Alan M.
Abstract	Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (AONs) and short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) effect posttranscriptional gene silencing (PTGS) by hybridizing to an mRNA and then directing its cleavage. To understand the constraints that mRNA structure imposes on AON- vs. siRNA-mediated PTGS, AON- and siRNA-mediated cleavage of defined mRNA structures was monitored in Drosophila embryo whole-cell lysates. We observed that AON-directed cleavage was ≈3-fold faster than cleavage with a siRNA directed to the same target site. Furthermore, and unexpectedly, AON-mediated cleavage was found to be much less fastidious with respect to target sequence accessibility, as measured by the presence of unpaired nucleotides, than a corresponding siRNA. Nonetheless, in vivo, siRNAs silenced their mRNA target at least 2-fold more efficiently than the corresponding AON. These seemingly contradictory results suggested that additional, as yet undefined factors play an important role in regulating PTGS efficiency in vivo. We used a well defined RNA-binding protein, αCP, and its corresponding high-affinity RNA-binding site to explore this hypothesis. We found that prebound αCP effectively blocked AON-mediated cleavage of the RNA-binding site compared with cleavage of the site in the absence of αCP. We conclude that higher-order structures formed by RNA and bound proteins play an important role in determining the efficiency of AON-directed PTGS. We hypothesize that strategies aimed at removing RNA-binding proteins might significantly improve AON-mediated PTGS in vivo.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0805781105
Ending Page	13792
Page Count	6
Starting Page	13787
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00278424
e-ISSN	10916490
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Issue Number	37
Volume Number	105
Language	English
Publisher	National Academy of Sciences
Publisher Date	2008-09-16
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	National Academy of Sciences
Subject Keyword	General Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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