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Jeong Ho Chang1,3, Xinfu Jiao2,3, Kunitoshi Chiba1, ChanSeok Oh2, Charles E Martin2, Megerditch Kiledjian2,* & Liang Tong1,*
1Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. 2Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA. 3These authors contributed equally to this work.
*Correspondence should be addressed to Liang Tong or Megerditch Kiledjian.
Abstract
Recent studies showed that Rai1 is a crucial component of the mRNA 5′-end-capping quality-control mechanism in yeast. The yeast genome encodes a weak homolog of Rai1, Ydr370C, but little is known about this protein. Here we report the crystal structures of Ydr370C from Kluyveromyces lactis and the first biochemical and functional studies on this protein. The overall structure of Ydr370C is similar to Rai1. Ydr370C has robust decapping activity on RNAs with unmethylated caps, but it has no detectable pyrophosphohydrolase activity. Unexpectedly, Ydr370C also possesses distributive, 5′-3′ exoRNase activity, and we propose the name Dxo1 for this new eukaryotic enzyme with both decapping and exonuclease activities. Studies of yeast in which both Dxo1 and Rai1 are disrupted reveal that mRNAs with incomplete caps are produced even under normal growth conditions, in sharp contrast to current understanding of the capping process.
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