Guided tours: from precursor snoRNA to functional snoRNP

LB Weinstein, JA Steitz - Current opinion in cell biology, 1999 - Elsevier
Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) use base pairing to guide modification of conserved
nucleotides in functionally important regions of ribosomal RNA. The box C/D snoRNAs direct …

The family of box ACA small nucleolar RNAs is defined by an evolutionarily conserved secondary structure and ubiquitous sequence elements essential for RNA …

P Ganot, M Caizergues-Ferrer, T Kiss - Genes & development, 1997 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Eukaryotic cells contain a large number of small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs). A major family
of snoRNAs features a consensus ACA motif positioned 3 nucleotides from the 3'end of the …

A common core RNP structure shared between the small nucleoar box C/D RNPs and the spliceosomal U4 snRNP

NJ Watkins, V Ségault, B Charpentier, S Nottrott… - Cell, 2000 - cell.com
Abstract The box C/D snoRNAs function in directing 2′-O-methylation and/or as
chaperones in the processing of ribosomal RNA. We show here that Snu13p (15.5 kD in …

[HTML][HTML] The snoRNA box C/D motif directs nucleolar targeting and also couples snoRNA synthesis and localization

DA Samarsky, MJ Fournier, RH Singer… - The EMBO …, 1998 - embopress.org
Most small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) fall into two families, known as the box C/D and box
H/ACA snoRNAs. The various box elements are essential for snoRNA production and for …

[HTML][HTML] Sequence and structural elements of methylation guide snoRNAs essential for site‐specific ribose methylation of pre‐rRNA

Z Kiss‐László, Y Henry, T Kiss - The EMBO journal, 1998 - embopress.org
Abstract Site‐specific 2′‐O‐ribose methylation of eukaryotic rRNAs is guided by small
nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs). The methylation guide snoRNAs carry long perfect …

Conserved stem II of the box C/D motif is essential for nucleolar localization and is required, along with the 15.5 K protein, for the hierarchical assembly of the box C/D …

NJ Watkins, A Dickmanns… - Molecular and cellular …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The 5′ stem-loop of the U4 snRNA and the box C/D motif of the box C/D snoRNAs can both
be folded into a similar stem-internal loop-stem structure that binds the 15.5 K protein. The …

Small nucleolar RNAs and pre-rRNA processing in plants

JWS Brown, PJ Shaw - The Plant Cell, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Messenger RNA (mRNA) translation and thereby gene expression depend on the cell's
ability to produce vast numbers of ribosomes, the major component of the translational …

[HTML][HTML] Processing of a dicistronic small nucleolar RNA precursor by the RNA endonuclease Rnt1

G Chanfreau, G Rotondo, P Legrain… - The EMBO journal, 1998 - embopress.org
Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are intron encoded or expressed from monocistronic
independent transcription units, or, in the case of plants, from polycistronic clusters. We …

Role of the box C/D motif in localization of small nucleolar RNAs to coiled bodies and nucleoli

A Narayanan, W Speckmann, R Terns… - Molecular biology of the …, 1999 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are a large family of eukaryotic RNAs that function within
the nucleolus in the biogenesis of ribosomes. One major class of snoRNAs is the box C/D …

Seven novel methylation guide small nucleolar RNAs are processed from a common polycistronic transcript by Rat1p and RNase III in yeast

LH Qu, A Henras, YJ Lu, H Zhou, W Zhou… - … and cellular biology, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
Through a computer search of the genome of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the
coding sequences of seven different box C/D antisense small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) …