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Nucleic Acids Research 2005 33(3):893-902; doi:10.1093/nar/gki234
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Published online 8 February 2005

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The p80 homology region of TEP1 is sufficient for its association with the telomerase and vault RNAs, and the vault particle

Michael J. Poderycki, Leonard H. Rome, Lea Harrington1 and Valerie A. Kickhoefer*

Department of Biological Chemistry and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1737, USA 1 Department of Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute, University of Toronto 620 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C1, Canada

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 310 794 4873; Fax: +1 310 206 5272; Email: vkick{at}mednet.ucla.edu

Received November 12, 2004. Revised January 10, 2005. Accepted January 20, 2005.

TEP1 is a protein component of two ribonucleoprotein complexes: vaults and telomerase. The vault-associated small RNA, termed vault RNA (VR), is dependent upon TEP1 for its stable association with vaults, while the association of telomerase RNA with the telomerase complex is independent of TEP1. Both of these small RNAs have been shown to interact with amino acids 1–871 of TEP1 in an indirect yeast three-hybrid assay. To understand the determinants of TEP1–RNA binding, we generated a series of TEP1 deletions and show by yeast three-hybrid assay that the entire Tetrahymena p80 homology region of TEP1 is required for its interaction with both telomerase and VRs. This region is also sufficient to target the protein to the vault particle. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays using the recombinant TEP1 RNA-binding domain (TEP1–RBD) demonstrate that it binds RNA directly, and that telomerase and VRs compete for binding. VR binds weakly to TEP1–RBD in vitro, but mutation of VR sequences predicted to disrupt helices near its central loop enhances binding. Antisense oligonucleotide-directed RNase H digestion of endogenous VR indicates that this region is largely single stranded, suggesting that TEP1 may require access to the VR central loop for efficient binding.


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