Nop53p, an essential nucleolar protein that interacts with Nop17p and Nip7p, is required for pre-rRNA processing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
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Authors: | Granato Daniela C Gonzales Fernando A Luz Juliana S Cassiola Flávia Machado-Santelli Glaucia M Oliveira Carla C |
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Institution: | Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry Institute, University of S?o Paulo, Brazil. |
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Abstract: | In eukaryotes, pre-rRNA processing depends on a large number of nonribosomal trans-acting factors that form large and intriguingly organized complexes. A novel nucleolar protein, Nop53p, was isolated by using Nop17p as bait in the yeast two-hybrid system. Nop53p also interacts with a second nucleolar protein, Nip7p. A carbon source-conditional strain with the NOP53 coding sequence under the control of the GAL1 promoter did not grow in glucose-containing medium, showing the phenotype of an essential gene. Under nonpermissive conditions, the conditional mutant strain showed rRNA biosynthesis defects, leading to an accumulation of the 27S and 7S pre-rRNAs and depletion of the mature 25S and 5.8S mature rRNAs. Nop53p did not interact with any of the exosome subunits in the yeast two-hybrid system, but its depletion affects the exosome function. In pull-down assays, protein A-tagged Nop53p coprecipitated the 27S and 7S pre-rRNAs, and His-Nop53p also bound directly 5.8S rRNA in vitro, which is consistent with a role for Nop53p in pre-rRNA processing. |
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