Nucleic Acids Research, 2000, Vol. 28, No. 5 1045-1052
© 2000 Oxford University Press
A novel RNA-binding protein from Triturus carnifex identified by RNA-ligand screening with the newt hammerhead ribozyme
1Foundation for Research and Technology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, PO Box 1527, GR-711 10 Heraklion/Crete, Greece and 2Laboratorio di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo, Universitá degli Studi di Pisa, via Carducci 13, I-56010 Ghezzano, Pisa, Italy
The newt hammerhead ribozyme is transcribed from Satellite 2 DNA, which consists of tandemly repeated units of 330 bp. However, different transcripts are synthesized in different tissues. In all somatic tissues and in testes, dimeric and multimeric RNA transcripts are generated which, to some extent, self-cleave into monomers at the hammerhead domain. In ovaries, primarily a distinct monomeric unit is formed by transcription, which retains an intact hammerhead self-cleavage site. The ovarian monomeric RNA associates to form a 12S complex with proteins that are poorly characterised so far. In this work we identified NORA, a protein that binds the ovarian form of the newt ribozyme. We show that the newt ribozyme binds to the Escherichia coli-expressed protein, as well as to a protein of identical size that is found exclusively in newt ovaries. Also NORA mRNA was detectable only in ovary, but in neither somatic tissues nor testes. The tissue-specific expression of NORA is analogous to the ovary-specific transcription of the newt ribozyme. Although NORA was identified by its ability to bind to the newt ribozyme in the presence of a vast excess of carrier RNA, it was able to interact with certain other RNA probes. This novel RNA-binding protein does not contain any motif characteristic for RNA-binding proteins or any other known protein domain, but it shares a striking similarity with a rat resiniferatoxin-binding protein.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Foundation for Research and Technology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, PO Box 1527, GR-711 10 Heraklion/Crete, Greece. Tel: +30 81 394 366; Fax: +30 81 394 408; Email: denti@imbb.forth.gr
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