The RNA moiety of chick embryo 5-methylcytosine- DNA glycosylase targets DNA demethylation.
AUTOR(ES)
Jost, J P
RESUMO
We have previously shown that DNA demethylation by chick embryo 5-methylcytosine (5-MeC)-DNA glycosylase needs both protein and RNA. RNA from enzyme purified by SDS-PAGE was isolated and cloned. The clones have an insert ranging from 240 to 670 bp and contained on average one CpG per 14 bases. All six clones tested had different sequences and did not have any sequence homology with any other known RNA. RNase-inactivated 5-MeC-DNA glycosylase regained enzyme activity when incubated with recombinant RNA. However, when recombinant RNA was incubated with the DNA substrate alone there was no demethylation activity. Short sequences complementary to the labeled DNA substrate are present in the recombinant RNA. Small synthetic oligoribonucleotides (11 bases long) complementary to the region of methylated CpGs of the hemimethylated double-stranded DNA substrate restore the activity of the RNase-inactivated 5-MeC-DNA glycosylase. The corresponding oligodeoxyribonucleotide or the oligoribonucleotide complementary to the non-methylated strand of the same DNA substrate are inactive when incubated in the complementation test. A minimum of 4 bases complementary to the CpG target sequence are necessary for reactivation of RNase-treated 5-MeC-DNA glycosylase. Complementation with double-stranded oligoribonucleotides does not restore 5-MeC-DNA glycosylase activity. An excess of targeting oligoribonucleotides cannot change the preferential substrate specificity of the enzyme for hemimethylated double-stranded DNA.
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