| Literature DB >> 16678167 |
Bin Yu1, Elisabeth J Chapman, Zhiyong Yang, James C Carrington, Xuemei Chen.
Abstract
HEN1-dependent methylation of the 3'-terminal nucleotide is a crucial step in plant microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis. Here we report that several viral RNA silencing suppressors (P1/HC-Pro, p21 and p19) inhibit miRNA methylation. These suppressors have distinct effects on different miRNAs. We also show that miRNA* is methylated in vivo in a suppressor-sensitive manner, suggesting that the viral proteins interfere with miRNA/miRNA* duplexes. p19 and p21 bind both methylated and unmethylated miRNA/miRNA* duplexes in vivo. These findings suggest miRNA/miRNA* as the in vivo substrates for the HEN1 miRNA methyltransferase and raise intriguing possibilities regarding the cellular location of miRNA methylation.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16678167 PMCID: PMC5136478 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.04.063
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN: 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124