| Small Cajal body specific RNA 20 | |
|---|---|
 Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of SCARNA20 | |
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | SCARNA20 |
| Rfam | RF00601 |
| Other data | |
| RNA type | Gene; snRNA; snoRNA; scaRNA |
| Domain(s) | Eukaryota |
| GO | GO:0006396 GO:0015030 GO:0005730 |
| SO | SO:0000275 |
| PDB structures | PDBe |
In molecular biology, Small Cajal body specific RNA 20 (also known as scaRNA20 or ACA66) is a small nucleolar RNA found in Cajal bodies and believed to be involved in the pseudouridylation of U12 minor spliceosomal RNA.
scaRNAs are a specific class of small nucleolar RNAs that localise to the Cajal bodies and guide the modification of RNA polymerase II transcribed spliceosomal RNAs U1, U2, U4, U5 and U12.[1]
ACA66 (SCARNA20) is a member of the H/ACA box class of snoRNAs that guide the sites of modification of uridines to pseudouridines. This snoRNA was identified by computational screening and its expression in mouse experimentally verified by Northern blot and primer extension analysis.[2] ACA66 is predicted to guide the pseudouridylation of residue U28 in U12 snRNA.[3]
References
- ↑ Darzacq X, Jády BE, Verheggen C, Kiss AM, Bertrand E, Kiss T (June 2002). "Cajal body-specific small nuclear RNAs: a novel class of 2′-O-methylation and pseudouridylation guide RNAs". The EMBO Journal. 21 (11): 2746–2756. doi:10.1093/emboj/21.11.2746. PMC 126017. PMID 12032087.
- ↑ Schattner P, Barberan-Soler S, Lowe TM (January 2006). "A computational screen for mammalian pseudouridylation guide H/ACA RNAs". RNA. 12 (1): 15–25. doi:10.1261/rna.2210406. PMC 1370881. PMID 16373490.
- ↑ Lestrade L, Weber MJ (January 2006). "snoRNA-LBME-db, a comprehensive database of human H/ACA and C/D box snoRNAs". Nucleic Acids Research. 34 (Database issue): D158–162. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.105.7552. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj002. PMC 1347365. PMID 16381836.