I-PpoI, the Endonuclease Encoded by the Group I Intron PpLSU3, Is Expressed from an RNA Polymerase I Transcript

AUTOR(ES)

Lin, Jue

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

PpLSU3, a mobile group I intron in the rRNA genes of Physarum polycephalum, also can home into yeast chromosomal ribosomal DNA (rDNA) (D. E. Muscarella and V. M. Vogt, Mol. Cell. Biol. 13:1023–1033, 1993). By integrating PpLSU3 into the rDNA copies of a yeast strain temperature sensitive for RNA polymerase I, we have shown that the I-PpoI homing endonuclease encoded by PpLSU3 is expressed from an RNA polymerase I transcript. We have also developed a method to integrate mutant forms of PpLSU3 as well as the Tetrahymena intron TtLSU1 into rDNA, by expressing I-PpoI in trans. Analysis of I-PpoI expression levels in these mutants, along with subcellular fractionation of intron RNA, strongly suggests that the full-length excised intron RNA, but not RNAs that are further cleaved, serves as or gives rise to the mRNA.

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