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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 279, Issue 7, 5100-5109, February 13, 2004

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Small Nucleolar RNA Clusters in Trypanosomatid Leptomonas collosoma

GENOME ORGANIZATION, EXPRESSION STUDIES, AND THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF SEQUENCES PRESENT UPSTREAM FROM THE FIRST REPEATED CLUSTER^*

Xue-hai Liang, Avivit Ochaion, Yu-xin Xu, Qing Liu, and Shulamit Michaeli

From the Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel

Trypanosomatid small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) genes are clustered in the genome. snoRNAs are transcribed polycistronically and processed into mature RNAs. In this study, we characterized four snoRNA clusters in Leptomonas collosoma. All of the clusters analyzed carry both C/D and H/ACA RNAs. The H/ACA RNAs are composed of a single hairpin, a structure typical to trypanosome and archaea guide RNAs. Using deletion and mutational analysis of a tagged C/D snoRNA situated within the snoRNA cluster, we identified 10-nucleotide flanking sequences that are essential for processing snoRNA from its precursor. Chromosome walk was performed on a snoRNA cluster, and a sequence of 700 bp was identified between the first repeat and the upstream open reading frame. Cloning of this sequence in an episome vector enhanced the expression of a tagged snoRNA gene in an orientation-dependent manner. However, continuous transcript spanning of this region was detected in steady-state RNA, suggesting that snoRNA transcription also originates from an upstream-long polycistronic transcriptional unit. The 700-bp fragment may therefore represent an example of many more elements to be discovered that enhance transcription along the chromosome, especially when transcription from the upstream gene is reduced or when enhanced transcription is needed.

Received for publication, July 29, 2003

^* This work was supported by a grant from the Israel Ministry of Health and by a research grant from an International Research Scholar grant (to S. M.) from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

Present address: Dept. of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.

To whom correspondence should be addressed: Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900 Israel. Tel.: 972-3-5318068; Fax: 972-3-5351824; E-mail: michaes{at}mail.biu.ac.il.

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