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Interaction cloning and characterization of RoBPI, a novel protein binding to human Ro ribonucleoproteins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2000

PASCAL BOUFFARD
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry and Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec J1H 5N4, Canada
ELIE BARBAR
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry and Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec J1H 5N4, Canada
FRANCIS BRIÈRE
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry and Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec J1H 5N4, Canada
GILLES BOIRE
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry and Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec J1H 5N4, Canada
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Abstract

Human Ro ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) are autoantigenic particles of unknown function(s) that consist of a 60-kDa protein (Ro60) associated with one hY RNA (hY1–5). Using a modified yeast three-hybrid system, named RNP interaction trap assay (RITA), we cloned a novel Ro RNP-binding protein (RoBPI), based on its property to interact in vivo in yeast with an RNP complex made of recombinant Ro60 (rRo60) protein and hY5 (rhY5) RNA. RoBPI cDNA contains three conserved RNA recognition motifs (RRM) and is present as a family of isoforms differing slightly at their 5′ end. The 2.0-kb RoBPI mRNA was detected in all human tissues tested. Highly homologous cDNA sequences were found in banks of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from mice. Two-hybrid, three-hybrid, and RITA experiments respectively established that 60 kDa RoBPI did not interact in yeast with rRo60 alone, with rhY5 RNA alone, or with bait RNPs consisting of rRo60 and recombinant hY1, hY3, or hY4 RNAs. RoBPI coimmunoprecipitated with Ro RNPs from HeLa cell extracts and partially colocalized with Ro60 in nuclei of cultured cells. Because hY5 RNA and RohY5 RNPs are recent evolutionary additions seen only in primates, but RoBPI seems more conserved, their interaction may represent a gain of function for Ro RNPs. Alternatively, interaction of RohY5 RNPs with RoBPI may have no functional bearing, but may underlie some of the unique biochemical and immunological properties of these RNPs.

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© 2000 RNA Society

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