Potential coexistence of both bacterial and eukaryotic small RNA biogenesis and functional related protein homologs in Archaea

Yan Li; Xiuying Liu; Li Huang; Huishan Guo; Xiu-Jie Wang

doi:10.1016/S1673-8527(09)60069-2

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Potential coexistence of both bacterial and eukaryotic small RNA biogenesis and functional related protein homologs in Archaea

doi: 10.1016/S1673-8527(09)60069-2

Yan Li^{a, d, #},
Xiuying Liu^{b, d, #},
Li Huang^c,
Huishan Guo^a,
Xiu-Jie Wang^b

a
State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
b
State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
c
State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
d
Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

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Corresponding author: E-mail address: guohs@im.ac.cn (Huishan Guo); E-mail address: xjwang@genetics.ac.cn (Xiu-Jie Wang)
Received Date: 2010-04-30
Accepted Date: 2010-06-16
Rev Recd Date: 2010-06-12

Available Online: 2010-09-01

Publish Date: 2010-08-20

Abstract

Abstract

RNA silencing plays crucial roles in both bacteria and eukaryotes, yet its machinery appears to differ in these two kingdoms. A couple of Argonaute protein homologs have been reported in some archaeal species in recent years. As Argonaute protein is the key component of eukaryotic RNA silencing pathways, such findings suggested the possibility of existence of eukaryotic RNA silencing like pathways in Archaea, which present the life forms between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. To further explore such hypothesis, we systematically screened 71 fully sequenced archaeal genomes, and identified some proteins containing homologous regions to the functional domains of eukaryotic RNA silencing pathway key proteins. The phylogenetic relationships of these proteins were analyzed. The conserved functional amino acids between archaeal and eukaryotic Piwi domains suggested their functional similarity. Our results provide new clues to the evolution of RNA silencing pathways.
- Archaea,
- small RNA,
- RNA silencing,
- Piwi,
- RNase III

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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