Cloning, characterization and subcellular localization of a Trypanosoma cruzi argonaute protein defining a new subfamily distinctive of trypanosomatids

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Maria R Garcia SilvaAlfonso Cayota

Abstract

Over the last years an expanding family of small non-coding RNAs (sRNA) has been identified in eukaryotic genomes which behave as sequence-specific triggers for mRNA degradation, translation repression, heterochromatin formation and genome stability. To achieve their effectors functions, sRNAs associate with members of the Argonaute protein family. Argonaute proteins are segregated into three paralogous groups: the AGO-like subfamily, the PIWI-like subfamily, and the WAGO subfamily (for Worm specific AGO). Detailed phylogenetic analysis of the small RNA-related machinery components revealed that they can be traced back to the common ancestor of eukaryotes. However, this machinery seems to be lost or excessively simplified in some unicellular organisms such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Trypanosoma cruzi, Leishmania major and Plasmodium falciparum which are unable to utilize dsRNA to trigger degradation of target RNAs. We reported here a unique ORF encoding for an AGO/PIWI protein in T. cruzi which was expressed in all stages of its life cycle at the transcript as well as the protein level. Database search for remote homologues, revealed the presence of a divergent PAZ domain adjacent to the well supported PIWI domain. Our result...Continue Reading

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