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J Biol Chem, Vol. 273, Issue 21, 13255-13263, May 22, 1998
Rrp6p, the Yeast Homologue of the Human PM-Scl 100-kDa
Autoantigen, Is Essential for Efficient 5.8 S rRNA 3' End
Formation*
Michael W.
Briggs,
Karina T. D.
Burkard, and
J. Scott
Butler
From the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of
Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry,
Rochester, New York 14618
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ABSTRACT |
The eukaryotic 25 S, 18 S, and 5.8 S rRNAs are
synthesized as a single transcript with two internal transcribed
spacers (ITS1 and ITS2), which are removed by endo- and
exoribonucleolytic steps to produce mature rRNA. Genetic selection for
suppressors of a polyadenylation defect yielded two cold-sensitive
alleles of a gene that we named RRP6 (ribosomal
RNA processing). Molecular cloning of
RRP6 revealed its homology to a 100-kDa human, nucleolar PM-Scl autoantigen and to Escherichia coli RNase D, a
3'-5' exoribonuclease. Recessive mutations in rrp6 result
in the accumulation of a novel 5.8 S rRNA processing intermediate,
called 5.8 S*, which has normal 5' ends, but retains ~30 nucleotides
of ITS2. Pulse-chase analysis of 5.8 S rRNA processing in an
rrp6- strain revealed a precursor-product relationship
between 5.8 S* and 5.8 S rRNAs, suggesting that Rrp6p plays a role in
the removal of the last 30 nucleotides of ITS2 from 5.8 S precursors. A
portion of 5.8 S* rRNA assembles into 60 S ribosomes which form
polyribosomes, suggesting that they function in protein synthesis.
These findings indicate that Rrp6p plays a role in 5.8 S rRNA 3' end
formation, and they identify a functional intermediate in the rRNA
processing pathway.
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INTRODUCTION |
The maturation of the three major classes of eukaryotic RNA
(mRNA, rRNA, and tRNA) requires extensive processing events,
including endonucleolytic and exonucleolytic cleavages, intron removal, and exon splicing, as well as nucleotide additions and removals exemplified by polyadenylation and editing. Three of the four eukaryotic rRNAs are synthesized as a single precursor RNA and must
undergo a complex series of processing events to produce mature 18 S,
5.8 S, and 25 S rRNAs. Central to this process is the removal of the
two internal transcribed spacers
(ITS)1 that separate 18 S
from 5.8 S (ITS1) and 5.8 S from 25 S (ITS2) (Fig.
1). In the yeast Saccharomyces
cerevisiae, the removal of ITS1, which is coupled to the removal
of the 5' external transcribed spacer, features a series of cleavage
events requiring proteins, small nucleolar RNAs and the
ribonucleoprotein RNase MRP (reviewed in Refs. 1 and 2). Cleavage
within ITS1 separates 20 S RNA from 27 S RNA. 20 S RNA is processed in
the cytoplasm to form mature 18 S rRNA, while 27 S RNA is processed by
two alternative pathways. Some 15% of 27 S undergoes cleavage at a
site that appears to correspond to the 5' end of the long form of 5.8 S
rRNA, while RNase MRP, in conjunction with Rrp5p cleaves the remaining
27 S molecules, which then undergo 5'-3' exonucleolytic processing to
generate the 5' end of the short form of 5.8 S (3-6).
The events required for processing of ITS2 remain less well
characterized than those for ITS1. After processing by alternative pathways during the latter stages of ITS1 removal, both types of 27 S
rRNAs undergo cleavages within ITS2 that separate 25 S molecules, with
either mature or extended 5' ends, from 5.8 S precursors (7 SL and 7 SS) with 3' extensions. These 3'
extensions must be removed to produce mature 5.8 SL and 5.8 SS rRNAs. Recessive mutations in the S. cerevisiae
RRP4 gene result in the accumulation of 3' extended forms of 5.8 S
rRNA suggesting a role for Rrp4p in 5.8 S rRNA 3' end processing.
Indeed, immunoprecipitates of Rrp4p demonstrated 3'-5' riboexonuclease
activity in vitro (7). More extensive analysis of Rrp4p
immunoprecipitates revealed the existence of Rrp4p in a multisubunit
complex, called the exosome (8). In addition to Rrp4p, the exosome
contains three 3'-5' riboexonucleases required for efficient
maturation of 5.8 S rRNA 3' ends. Each of these enzymes show strong
homology to 3'-5' riboexonucleases found in Escherichia
coli.
In this report, we present the identification and characterization of
RRP6, the product of which plays a role in the proper 3' end
processing of 5.8 S rRNA. Mutations in RRP6 result in the accumulation of 3' extended 5.8 S rRNAs. RRP6 encodes a
protein highly homologous to the human PM-Scl 100-kDa autoantigen, as well as proteins of unknown function from Caenorhabditis
elegans and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Each of these
eukaryotic proteins share homology in their central domains with the
E. coli 3'-5' exoribonuclease RNase D, suggesting the
conservation of some RNase D function from bacteria to humans.
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EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES |
Strains, Media, and Genetic Techniques--
The experiments
reported here were performed using the yeast strains described in Table
I. The suppressor isolation has been described by Briggs and Butler (9).
Yeast strains were grown in either YEPD or synthetic complete medium
(10) lacking uracil (to maintain plasmids). Genetic techniques were
performed as described (10, 11). Transformation of yeast was performed
as described by (12). E. coli strain DH5 was used for all
recombinant DNA manipulations.
Plasmids and Oligonucleotides--
The plasmids and
deoxyoligonucleotides utilized in this study are described in Table
II. Restriction enzymes were purchased from Life Technologies, Inc., Promega, or New England Biolabs, and
digestions were performed as per manufacturers' instructions. Double-stranded DNA probe templates were prepared by diethylaminoethyl paper purification from 1% agarose gels and radiolabeled by random hexamer priming with 5'-[ -32P]deoxyCTP (NEN Life
Science Products, 3000 Ci/mmol) and the Klenow fragment of DNA
polymerase (Boehringer Mannheim), according to the manufacturer's
instructions. Deoxyoligonucleotide probes (25 pmol; Oligos Etc., Inc.)
were radiolabeled by incubation for 60 min at 37 °C in 15-µl
reactions containing 50 mM Tris-Cl, pH 7.5, 10 mM MgCl2, 5 mM dithiothreitol with
1 unit of T4 polynucleotide kinase (Life Technologies, Inc.) and 50 µCi of 5'-[ -32P]ATP (NEN Life Science Products, 6000 Ci/mmol). Unincorporated nucleotides were removed from probes by
chromatography on Sephadex G-25.
Molecular Cloning of RRP6--
Twenty µg of library DNA (9)
were transformed into strain 1BC1 (Table I), and transformants were
selected on URA plates at 25 °C for 36 h, after
which the plates were incubated at 14 °C until putative
RRP6-containing complementing plasmid-bearing strains grew
above background levels. One colony out of approximately 100,000 transformants displayed reproducible complementation of the
cold-sensitive phenotype after rescue of the plasmid from yeast cells
and retransformation into 1BC1. The apparent low number of
RRP6 transformants is likely due to its tight centromere
linkage, since E. coli colony blot hybridization experiments
indicate that its representation in the library is similar to other
genes (9). A 3.5-kilobase RRP6-specific
XbaI/EcoRI fragment was cloned into the same
sites in YIplac211 (13) to produce pUNC9. CEN15 was removed
from pUNC9 by digestion with XbaI and BglII,
filling in the 5' overhangs with the Klenow fragment DNA polymerase and
ligation of the plasmid with T4 DNA ligase to produce p10dXB. Analysis of the linkage between rrp6-1 and UNC733 was
carried out by transformation of ABC1-2D with p10dXB linearized with
BamHI.
RNA Analyses--
Total RNA was prepared and Northern analysis
carried out as described previously (14). Levels of specific RNAs were
quantitated by storage PhosphorImager analysis (Molecular Dynamics) and
normalized to 5 S rRNA levels, which were quantitated by FluorImager
analysis (Molecular Dynamics) of ethidium bromide-stained gels or by
storage PhosphorImager analysis after hybridization of
5'-32P-labeled deoxyoligonucleotide probes to 5.8 S rRNA or
to the RNA polymerase III-transcribed ScR1 (Table II).
For analyses of small rRNA transcripts, 3 µg of total RNA were
separated on a 12% polyacrylamide, 8 M urea gel, and RNAs
were transferred to GeneScreen membranes (DuPont) by electroblotting at 10 V for 16 h at 4 °C. Hybridizations were performed
at 42 °C as described previously (14) except that formamide was
omitted when oligonucleotide probes were used. Length determinations of 5.8 S* rRNA were made by linear regression from a semilog plot of the
mobilities of 7 S, 5.8 S, and 5 S rRNA as a function of their known
lengths.
Primer extension analysis of 5.8 S rRNA was performed as described
(15). Polyribosomes were prepared and analyzed as described (16).
DNA Sequence Analyses--
The accession numbers of the
nucleotide and protein sequences analyzed in this study are as follows:
Rrp6p, Z74909; Homo sapiens, Q01780; S. pombe,
Q10146; C. elegans, P34607; E. coli, P09155;
Haemophilus influenza, P44442. Sequence data derived from
complementing plasmid pC114 were compared with the yeast genome
sequence data base using the BLAST program at the National Center for
Biotechnology Information2
and the Stanford Genome Resource Data
Base.3 Pairwise comparisons
of Rrp6p and proteins from other species were made using BESTFIT, and
the protein sequences were aligned using Pileup and MSAShade. Putative
nuclear localization signals were determined using the Psort
program.
Construction and Analysis of a rrp6 Null Allele--
The
URA3 portion of pUNC9 was deleted by digestion with
AatII and NarI, followed by filling the
overhanging ends with the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase and
subsequent ligation to produce pUN9d4. URA3 was removed from
pJJ244 (17) with BamHI and PvuII and inserted
into BamHI/EcoRV-digested pBR322 to produce
pBRU2. The internal BglII fragment of RRP6 in
pUN9d4 was replaced with the BamHI fragment containing
URA3 from pBRU2 to produce pdRRP6F. Disruption of
chromosomal RRP6 was carried out by digestion of pdRRP6F
with BamHI and PvuII to liberate
rrp6::URA3 followed by transformation of the
digestion mixture into a diploid made by crossing T481 and T581 (Table
I). Disruptants were selected on synthetic complete URA
plates at 30 °C. Disruption of RRP6 was verified by PCR
using primers flanking the RRP6 BglII sites (Table II, Fig.
6).
Pulse-Chase Analysis of 5.8 S rRNA Processing--
Cultures of
BPO2 and BPO2-12F (Table I) were grown at 30 °C in synthetic
complete glucose medium supplemented with uracil (20 mg/ml) to an
A600 of 1.7. Cells were harvested by
centrifugation, resuspended in 5 ml of fresh medium lacking uracil and
labeled for 3 min by the addition of 50 µCi of
[5,6-3H] uracil/ml (NEN Life Science Products, 39 Ci/mmol). Following the initial pulse labeling, the radioactive
precursor was chased for up to 1 h by the addition of unlabeled
uracil at a final concentration of 300 µg/ml. At various times,
samples were taken, the cells collected by centrifugation and frozen in
dry ice. Total RNA was isolated from yeast cells as described (14).
Small RNAs were separated by electrophoresis on 6% polyacrylamide gels
containing 7.5 M urea in 50 mM Tris borate (pH
8.3). Gels were fixed in 30% methanol, 10% acetic acid for 1 h,
incubated in EN3HANCE (NEN Life Science Products) for
1 h and washed with water for 20 min. The gels were then dried and
subjected to autoradiography. Quantitation of the amount of
[5,6-3H]uracil incorporated into specific RNAs was
determined by cutting the appropriate bands from the dried gels and
determining the amount of radioactivity present by scintillation
counting.
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RESULTS |
Isolation of rrp6 Mutations as Suppressors of a Polyadenylation
Defect--
Pseudoreversion analysis of the pap1-1
temperature sensitive mutation in S. cerevisiae was carried
out to identify gene products that play roles in the mechanism or
function of polyadenylation (9). We isolated five independent
suppressors that exhibited a cold-sensitive growth phenotype at
14 °C from an initial population of about 5,000 spontaneously
arising pseudorevertants that allowed growth of a pap1-1
strain at the restrictive temperature of 30 °C (Table
III). Two of the five cold-sensitive
suppressor strains isolated represented alleles of the RRP6
complementation group (previously named PDS1) (9). Tetrad
analysis after sporulation of a diploid homozygous for
pap1-1 and rrp6-1 demonstrated independent, 2:2
segregation of both the cold-sensitive and suppressor phenotypes indicating that the rrp6-1 mutation occurred in a
single-copy nuclear gene, extragenic to pap1-1. Normal
growth at low temperature of a diploid heterozygous for
rrp6-1 or rrp6-2 indicated that these mutations
are recessive, suggesting loss of function mutations. Delineation of
the mechanism of suppression of pap1-1 by alleles of
rrp6 will be presented elsewhere.
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Table III
Growth phenotypes of isogenic sets of RRP6 and rrp6 strains
Growth phenotypes were determined by incubation on YEPD or synthetic
complete, URA plates at the indicated temperatures.
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Molecular Cloning and Sequence Analysis of RRP6--
The
recessivity of the rrp6-1 cold-sensitive phenotype allowed
us to clone the wild-type gene by complementation. We transformed an
rrp6-1 strain with a yeast centromere-based genomic library (9), and isolated one plasmid that conferred wild-type growth at
14 °C (pC114, Fig. 2). Plasmid rescue
and retransformation confirmed plasmid linkage to complementation.
Sequence determination of the ends of the pC114 insert and comparison
with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) data base mapped
the insert to chromosome XV. We performed a number of deletions to
isolate the complementing open reading frame and found that
complementation required the presence of a previously uncharacterized
open reading frame, UNC733 (SCYOR001W, GenBankTM accession
no. Z74909). For linkage analysis of rrp6-1 and
UNC733, we targeted integration of an UNC733,URA3
plasmid (p10dXB; Fig. 2) into the chromosomal UNC733 locus
in an rrp6-1,ura3-52 strain. This strain was crossed to an
RRP6,ura3-52 strain, the resultant diploid was sporulated, and the progeny were analyzed. All cold-sensitive progeny were URA+ (36/36) and all URA spores were
cold-resistant (25/25), thus demonstrating tight linkage of
rrp6-1 to the UNC733,URA3 plasmid. Furthermore,
we constructed a strain with YIpRRP6 integrated at RRP6,
which lost the integrated plasmid spontaneously in the absence of
selection, probably due to the presence of CEN15 on the
plasmid. Half of the resultant URA isolates demonstrated
normal growth at 14 °C, suggesting that homologous recombination
between the chromosomal rrp6-1 and the plasmid-borne
UNC733 had removed the chromosomal lesion. Taken together,
these data indicate that the previously cloned, but hitherto
uncharacterized gene UNC733 is allelic to rrp6-1
and will hereafter be referred to as RRP6.

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Fig. 2.
Complementation analysis of subclones of the
RRP6 region. A, schematic representation of the
RRP6 locus on chromosome XV (Bg,
BglII; X, XbaI; K,
KpnI; E, EcoRI). Plasmids containing
the indicated genomic fragments were transformed into an
rrp6-1 strain, and complementation was determined by the
ability of the transformants to grow on synthetic complete dextrose,
URA plates at 14 °C and 25 °C.
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The RRP6 open reading frame encodes a polypeptide with a
predicted mass of 84,038 Da and an isoelectric point of 7.14. The sequence is relatively rich in leucine (11%), serine (9%), and lysine
(8%), but a search for patterns found in the PROSITE Dictionary of
Protein Sites and Patterns revealed no motifs in common with other
characterized proteins. Comparison of the sequence with the Swissprot
data base revealed significant homology to the human nucleolar PM-Scl
100-kDa autoantigen (18, 19), E. coli and H. influenza RNases D (20, 21), as well as to predicted proteins from
S. pombe and C. elegans (22). Figure 3
illustrates the alignment of the Rrp6p
sequence with these sequences and shows a consensus sequence which
serves to illustrate the regions of greatest homology among these
polypeptides. BESTFIT analysis using a gap weight of 3.0 and a length
weight of 0.1 revealed Rrp6p to be most closely related to the proteins
from S. pombe (32% identity, 57% similarity), H. sapiens (32% identity, 52% similarity), and C. elegans (19% identity, 42% similarity). Rrp6p is also
homologous, over a smaller region, to RNase D from E. coli
(24% identity, 45% similarity) and H. influenza (22%
identity, 48% similarity). The greatest region of homology among these
proteins lies between amino acids 280 and 640 of Rrp6p within which lie
six stretches of amino acids conserved in both sequence and relative
position among all these species. These primary sequence homologies
suggest the possibility that this core region represents the
conservation of protein function among these organisms. Indeed, Hidden
Markov computer modeling of E. coli endo- and
exoribonucleases recently suggested that RRP6 and PM-Scl
100-kDa are members of a family of structurally related proteins
including RNase D and the 3'-5' deoxyriboexonuclease domains of DNA
polymerases I (23). Domains I, III, and V indicated in Fig. 3 contain,
respectively, motifs homologous to the ExoI, ExoII, and ExoIII domains
shown to be essential for the two metal ligand mechanism of catalysis
required for the 3'-5' deoxyriboexonuclease activity of DNA polymerase I (24). Putative nuclear localization signals are found in the C-terminal portions of the eukaryotic proteins (Fig. 3).
Immunofluorescence experiments have shown that human PM-Scl 100 kDa
exists in the nucleus and the nucleolus (25), but no characterization
of the function of the protein has been reported.

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Fig. 3.
Amino acid sequence of Rrp6p and comparison
with the amino acid sequences of homologues from other organisms.
The sequences were aligned using the Pileup program. The consensus
sequence was defined as positions where all (uppercase) or
3/4 (lowercase) sequences have identical amino acids.
The boxed areas labeled I-VI indicate regions of
greatest homology shared among all of the sequences. The
boxes on individual sequences indicate the positions of
putative nuclear localization signals. The GenBank accession numbers
are as follows: Rrp6, Z74909; H. sapiens, Q01780 (18, 19);
S. pombe, Q10146; C. elegans, P34607 (22);
E. coli, P09155 (20); H. influenza, P44442
(21).
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The rrp6-1 Mutation Causes the Accumulation of a 3' Extended 5.8 S
rRNA Processing Intermediate--
In light of the striking homology
between Rrp6p and a known nucleolar protein, we reasoned that
rrp6-1 might cause a defect in some aspect of rRNA
processing or ribosome biogenesis. Northern analysis of total cellular
RNA from normal, rrp6-1, and rrp6-1 cells
harboring the complementing plasmid YCpRRP6 revealed no obvious defects
in the processing of the large rRNA precursors (data not shown).
However, Northern blot analysis of total RNA separated on a
polyacrylamide gel, using an oligonucleotide probe complementary to an
internal portion of 5.8 S rRNA (o5.8S in Table II), revealed the
accumulation of a novel 5.8 S rRNA intermediate in rrp6-1
strains (Fig. 4A). This
intermediate (labeled 5.8S* in Fig. 4) is a doublet ~30
nucleotides longer than mature 5.8 S rRNA, and accounts for half of the
5.8 S rRNA in rrp6-1 strains. As expected, the presence of
the complementing plasmid, YCpRRP6, reduces the accumulation of 5.8 S*
by 95%, suggesting semidominance of rrp6-1 over
RRP6. To determine if 5.8 S* represents a 5' or 3' extension
of mature 5.8 S rRNA, we probed the same Northern blot with
random-primed probes complementary to portions of ITS1 or ITS2 (Fig. 4,
B and C, respectively). The ITS2 probe, but not the ITS1 probe, hybridized to 5.8 S*, suggesting that this molecule carries an extension at its 3' end.

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Fig. 4.
Analysis of 5.8 S rRNA lengths in
RRP6 (A364A) and rrp6-1 (ABC1-2D)
strains. Total RNA from indicated strains was separated on a 12%
denaturing gel and analyzed by Northern blotting with probes specific
for regions including or surrounding 5.8 S rRNA (bottom).
A, o5.8S is complementary to positions +48 through +24 of
5.8 S rRNA, where +1 represents the mature 5' end of the "5.8 S S"
form. The positions of precursor rRNA intermediates are indicated at
the left. B, the ITS1 probe is complementary to
the last 8 nucleotides of 18 S rRNA, the entire ITS1 region, and the
first 19 nucleotides of 5.8 S rRNA. C, the ITS2 probe is
complementary to the last 23 nucleotides of 5.8 S rRNA, all of ITS2,
and 194 nucleotides of 25 S rRNA.
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If 5.8 S* rRNA accumulates solely due to a defect in 3' end processing,
then analysis of steady-state 5.8 S rRNA 5' ends should reveal no
differences between RRP6 and rrp6-1 strains.
Indeed, primer extension analysis of the 5' ends of 5.8 S rRNAs
from the normal and rrp6-1 strains revealed no significant
differences in the pattern or amounts of the short (5.8S S)
and long (5.8S L) forms of 5.8 S rRNAs found in normal cells
(Fig. 5; Refs. 26 and 27). The detection
of primer extension products ending at the A2 cleavage site in ITS1
(corresponding to the 27 S A2 precursor; see schematic in Fig. 1) with
RNAs from normal and rrp6-1 strains indicates that reverse
transcriptase was able to transcribe past the mature 5' ends of 5.8 S
rRNA to the 5' end found in pre-5.8 S rRNAs. Since we detected no
rrp6-1-specific 5'-extended intermediates, we conclude that
the rrp6-1 mutation causes a defect in 5.8 S rRNA 3' end
processing.

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Fig. 5.
Primer extension analysis of the 5' end
points of mature 5.8 S rRNA in RRP6 (A364A) and
rrp6-1 (ABC1-2D) strains. RNA samples used in the
experiments shown in Fig. 4 were hybridized to
5'-32P-labeled o5.8S and analyzed by primer extension with
M-MLV reverse transcriptase as described under "Experimental
Procedures." Indicated to the right are the positions of
the input oligonucleotide (o5.8S), the reverse transcription product
ending at the two normal 5' ends of mature 5.8 S rRNA (5.8S
L and S) and at the 5' end of the 27 S A2 pre-rRNA
(27S). The positions of pBR322-MspI-digested
molecular length markers is shown at the left of the
figure.
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We assessed the impact of a chromosomal deletion of RRP6 by
replacing a 1.2-kilobase BglII fragment of RRP6
with URA3 on a plasmid, followed by allelic exchange of
chromosomal RRP6 with rrp6::URA3 in a
diploid homozygous for ura3-52. PCR analysis of DNA from
this diploid using primers adjacent to the insertion junctions of
RRP6 and URA3 verified disruption of one copy of RRP6 (Fig. 6, A and
B). Tetrad analysis after sporulation of this diploid
revealed that disruption of RRP6 leads to a slow growth at
30 °C and an inability to grow at 37 °C, indicating that the RRP6 plays an important role in cell viability. Since the
disruption did not lead to inviability we verified that the
URA+ progeny indeed carried the disrupted
rrp6::URA3 allele (Fig. 6, A and
B). Analysis of 5.8 S rRNA from the disruptants showed a
similar ratio of 5.8 S to 5.8 S* seen in a rrp6-1 strain,
suggesting that rrp6-1 confers a null phenotype with
respect to 5.8 S rRNA processing (Fig. 6C).

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Fig. 6.
Characterization of
rrp6::URA3 disruptants. A, diagram of
the RRP6 locus before and after disruption with
URA3 (Bg, BglII). oRRP6-2 and
oRRP6-3 indicate approximate hybridization positions and orientations
of the two oligonucleotide primers used to verify disruption of
RRP6 by PCR. B, PCR products generated from
genomic DNA isolated from strains with the indicated genotypes as well
as from progeny from an ascospore derived from sporulation of TT45dR5.
Values to the left of the figure indicate the lengths of HindIII markers. C, Northern blot detection of
5.8 S rRNAs in normal and rrp6-1 strains compared with
those from the ascospore progeny analyzed in B.
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Rrp6p Defects Block the Major Pathway of 5.8 S rRNA
Processing--
The results presented above cannot distinguish between
a role for Rrp6p in normal 5.8 S 3' end formation, or a role in
destroying 5.8 S rRNA molecules with improperly processed 3' ends. The
former model predicts that 5.8 S* rRNA should appear before 5.8 S rRNA, thereby slowing its rate of formation compared with that in normal cells. To test this, we analyzed 5.8 S rRNA processing by pulse-chase labeling with [3H]uracil in normal and
rrp6::URA3 cells. The results, shown in Fig.
7, illustrate two interesting aspects of
5.8 S rRNA processing in mutant cells. First, the rate and extent of
formation of total 5.8 S (5.8 S + 5.8 S*) is similar in normal and
rrp6::URA3 cells. Second, the rates of formation
of 5.8 S and 5.8 S* are vastly different in the two strains. In
rrp6::URA3 cells, 5.8 S rRNA appears at
one-twentieth the rate in normal cells. Importantly, 5.8 S* formation
precedes that of 5.8 S rRNA in rrp6::URA3 cells and 5.8 S* levels fall as 5.8 S levels begin to rise. These findings suggest that 5.8 S* rRNA is an intermediate in the major pathway leading to the production of mature 5.8 S rRNA.

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Fig. 7.
Pulse-chase analysis of small RNA
synthesis in RRP6 and rrp6::URA3
cells. A, autoradiograph of polyacrylamide gel
electrophoretic analysis of small RNAs pulse labeled for 3 min with
[5,6-3H]uracil and chased for the indicated lengths of
time with an excess of unlabeled uracil. The labels to the
right of the autoradiograph indicate the identity of each of
the major small RNAs labeled. B, graphic representation of
the rates of production and loss of the 5.8 S rRNA species monitored in
A. The data were collected by cutting out the appropriate
bands from the gel displayed in A and counting the
radioactivity in a scintillation counter.
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Assembly of 5.8 S* rRNA into Active 60 S Ribosomes--
The
viability and incomplete loss of 5.8 S rRNA 3' end formation displayed
by the rrp6::URA3 disruptant could result from partial Rrp6p function or from activity produced from a duplicate copy
of Rrp6p. However, a search of the open reading frames in the S. cerevisiae genome data base revealed no significant matches to the
Rrp6p amino acid sequence other than Rrp6p itself. Partial Rrp6p
activity from the rrp6::URA3 disruptant seems
unlikely since it would result from a polypeptide with only 39 amino
acids of Rrp6p. Finally, rrp6::URA3 cells grow
surprisingly well considering that they produce mature 5.8 S rRNA
20-fold more slowly than normal cells. This led us to consider whether
5.8 S* rRNA may function in ribosomes, thereby accounting for the
viability of rrp6::URA3 cells. Accordingly, we
assessed the ability of 5.8 S* to assemble into 60 S ribosomal subunits
and polyribosomes. Total RNA samples prepared from fractions of
rrp6-1 and rrp6-1,YCpRRP6 polyribosomal gradients were analyzed by Northern blotting. Hybridization of o5.8S to
samples derived from rrp6-1 cells revealed a distribution of 5.8 S* rRNA across the polyribosomal gradient identical to that for
normal 5.8 S rRNA (Fig. 8). On the other
hand, 7 S pre-5.8 S rRNA assembles into 60 S ribosomes, but does not
form polyribosomes, consistent with previous findings (28). These
results suggest that some portion of 5.8 S* rRNA assembles into active
60 S subunits and may account in part for the ability of
rrp6- strains to survive despite slow production of mature
5.8 S rRNA.

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Fig. 8.
Polyribosome analysis of extracts from
rrp6-1 strains carrying the complementing plasmid YCpRRP6
or the control plasmid YCplac33. A, Northern blot analysis
of the distribution of 5.8 S rRNA forms on polyribosomal gradients.
RNAs were prepared from the rrp6-1 polyribosomal
fractionations depicted in B, separated by denaturing
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and transferred to a membrane. The
position and amount of 5.8 S rRNA were determined by Northern blotting
with radiolabeled o5.8S and subsequent storage PhosphorImager analysis.
B, polyribosome gradient tracings from rrp6-1
strains. Polyribosomal extracts were prepared from the indicated
strains and fractionated over 15-50% sucrose density gradients for UV
analysis (the orientation of the respective profiles is from
right to left). The positions of the 80 S
monosomes, 60 S and 40 S ribosomal subunits, and halfmer polyribosomes
are indicated.
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The fact that rrp6 cells produce 5.8 S* 20-fold faster than
5.8 S rRNA, yet accumulate similar amounts of the two molecules at
steady state, indicates the loss of a significant fraction the 5.8 S*
rRNA synthesized. The appearance of equal amounts of 5.8 S* and 5.8 S
rRNA in all polyribosome and ribosomal subunit fractions suggests that
5.8 S* rRNA may be lost prior to, or during, ribosomal subunit
assembly. Indeed, absorbance profiles from these gradients reveal a
decrease in the amount of 80 S and free 60 S ribosomal subunits,
consistent with a defect in 60 S assembly (Fig. 8B).
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DISCUSSION |
The experiments described here provide evidence that
RRP6 encodes a protein essential for efficient 3' end
formation of 5.8 S rRNA. Recessive mutations in this gene cause a block
in 5.8 S rRNA processing, resulting in the accumulation of 5.8 S
molecules with normal 5' ends but with ~30-nucleotide extensions at
their 3' ends. The homologies among Rrp6p, the human nucleolar PM-Scl 100 kDa autoantigen, and the E. coli 3'-5' exoribonuclease
RNase D suggest that RRP6 may encode a nuclear and/or
nucleolar exoribonuclease that plays a direct role in 5.8 S 3' end
formation. Moreover, RNase D shows greater similarity to Rrp6p, PM-Scl
100 kDa, and predicted proteins from C. elegans and S. pombe than it does to any of the other four E. coli
exoribonucleases, suggesting conservation of a specific RNase D
function from bacteria to humans.
RNase D exhibits a non-processive 3'-5' exoribonuclease activity
in vitro and may play a role in 3' end processing of tRNAs in E. coli (29, 30). Considering the similarity between
Rrp6p and RNase D, we looked in rrp6 mutants for evidence of
defects in tRNA processing, but observed no changes in the pattern of tRNATyr nor tRNALeu3 precursors (data not
shown). These results indicate that rrp6 defects differ from
those caused by a mutation in the RNA component of RNase P, which
results in the accumulation of a similarly 3' extended form of 5.8 S
rRNA, but which also causes defects in tRNA processing (31).
Loss of Rrp6p activity causes a 20-fold decrease in the rate of
production of mature 5.8 S rRNA (Fig. 7B), suggesting that it plays an important role in the major pathway of 5.8 S rRNA 3' end
processing. Recently, Mitchell et al. (8) identified and
characterized a complex named the exosome, containing three or possibly
four 3'-5' riboexonucleases required for efficient 5.8 S 3' end
processing activity (8). Rrp6p is distinct from the proteins found in
the exosome, yet our findings suggest that full 5.8 S rRNA processing
activity by the exosome may require Rrp6p activity. Whether Rrp6p
exists in a complex distinct from the exosome, or is a weakly
associated subunit remains to be determined. Each of the exosomal
riboexonucleases are required for cell growth, while Rrp6p is only
required for growth at elevated temperature. The viability of
rrp6 strains may result from the accumulation of 5.8 S* and
its apparent ability to assemble into functional 60 S subunits.
Rrp6p shows strong similarity to PM-Scl 100 kDa, a protein to which
autoantibodies are found in patients suffering from polymyositis, scleroderma, and an overlap of these two diseases (18, 32, 33).
Immunofluorescence studies using autoantibodies to PM-Scl 100 kDa
indicated that the human protein resides mostly in the nucleolus, with
the remainder spread throughout the rest of the nucleus (34, 35).
Immunoprecipitation experiments indicated that PM-Scl 100 kDa exists in
large complexes containing 11-16 other proteins, but no small RNAs
(35, 36). The cold-sensitive phenotype of rrp6-1 cells, as
well as its semidominance over RRP6 is consistent with
function of Rrp6p in a multisubunit complex. Whether Rrp6p acts alone,
in concert with the exosome, or as part of a separate complex is
currently under investigation.
We embarked on these studies in an effort to shed light on poly(A)
function in yeast. The observation that mutations producing specialized
ribosomes can suppress a polyadenylation defect is reminiscent of the
effects of ski and mak mutations on the stability and translation of poly(A) killer RNAs, as well as the
ability of dcp1, mrt, xrn1 and
spb mutations to suppress poly(A)-binding protein defects
(37-42). However, we have found that loss of function mutations in
XRN1, as well as in genes such as SPB2(RPL46) and
RPL16B that increase the ratio of 40 S to 60 S
ribosomes, do not suppress pap1-1
(43).4 Instead, our
unpublished results suggest that RRP6 may act at an early
step in mRNA biogenesis by limiting the levels of slowly, or
improperly processed precursor mRNAs.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
We thank Lasse Lindahl for providing plasmids
and for helpful discussions, and Terry Platt and the members of our
laboratory for comments on the manuscript.
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FOOTNOTES |
*
This work was supported by United States Public Health
Service Predoctoral Training Grant 5-T32-AI070362 (to M. W. B.) and National Science Foundation Grants MCB-931664 and MCB-9603893 (to J. S. B.).The costs of publication of this
article were defrayed in part by the
payment of page charges. The article
must therefore be hereby marked
"advertisement" in
accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section
1734 solely to indicate this fact.
The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBankTM/EMBL Data Bank with accession number(s) Z74909.
To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Microbiology
and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and
Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 672, Rochester, NY 14618. Tel.:
716-275-7921; Fax: 716-473-9573; E-mail:
btlr{at}uhura.cc.rochester.edu.
1
The abbreviations used are: ITS, internal
transcribed spacer; PCR, polymerase chain reaction.
2
The BLAST program is available via the World
Wide Web (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Recipon/bs_seq.html).
3
The Stanford Genome Resource Data Base is
available via the World Wide Web
(http://genome-www.stanford.edu).
4
M. W. Briggs, K. T. D. Burkard,
and J. S. Butler, unpublished results.
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D. Ursic, K. Chinchilla, J. S. Finkel, and M. R. Culbertson
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P. Mitchell, E. Petfalski, R. Houalla, A. Podtelejnikov, M. Mann, and D. Tollervey
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B. Das, J. S. Butler, and F. Sherman
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R. Raijmakers, W. V. Egberts, W. J. van Venrooij, and G. J. M. Pruijn
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J. Kufel, C. Allmang, E. Petfalski, J. Beggs, and D. Tollervey
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C. C. Oliveira, F. A. Gonzales, and N. I. T. Zanchin
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N. A. Eppens, A. W. Faber, M. Rondaij, R. S. Jahangir, S. van Hemert, J. C. Vos, J. Venema, and H. A. Raue
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X.-F. Yang, C. J. Wu, L. Chen, E. P. Alyea, C. Canning, P. Kantoff, R. J. Soiffer, G. Dranoff, and J. Ritz
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J. A. Chekanova, J. A. Dutko, I. S. Mian, and D. A. Belostotsky
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T. Hirose and J. A. Steitz
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T. Shobuike, K. Tatebayashi, T. Tani, S. Sugano, and H. Ikeda
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D. L. J. Lafontaine and D. Tollervey
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B. Das, Z. Guo, P. Russo, P. Chartrand, and F. Sherman
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C. Allmang, P. Mitchell, E. Petfalski, and D. Tollervey
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A. van Hoof, P. Lennertz, and R. Parker
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K. T. D. Burkard and J. S. Butler
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D. Kressler, P. Linder, and J. de la Cruz
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C. Allmang, E. Petfalski, A. Podtelejnikov, M. Mann, D. Tollervey, and P. Mitchell
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J. Zhao, L. Hyman, and C. Moore
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C. Magrath and L. E. Hyman
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J. H.-N. Ho and A. W. Johnson
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N. I. T. Zanchin and D. S. Goldfarb
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T. Savino, R Bastos, E Jansen, and D Hernandez-Verdun
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R. Brouwer, C. Allmang, R. Raijmakers, Y. van Aarssen, W. V. Egberts, E. Petfalski, W. J. van Venrooij, D. Tollervey, and G. J. M. Pruijn
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T. Hirose and J. A. Steitz
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