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ArticleNucleic acids research2021

Complete minicircle genome of Leptomonas pyrrhocoris reveals sources of its non-canonical mitochondrial RNA editing events.

Evgeny S Gerasimov, Anna A Gasparyan, Dmitry A Afonin, Sara L Zimmer, Natalya Kraeva, Julius Lukeš, Vyacheslav Yurchenko, Alexander Kolesnikov

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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8 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Evgeny S GerasimovFaculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
Anna A GasparyanFaculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
Dmitry A AfoninFaculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
Sara L ZimmerDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, Duluth, MN 55812, USA.
Natalya KraevaLife Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, 710 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Julius LukešInstitute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, 370 05 České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic.
Vyacheslav YurchenkoMartsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology, Tropical and Vector Borne Diseases, Sechenov University, Moscow 119435, Russia.
Alexander KolesnikovFaculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
Lomonosov Moscow State University · RUSechenov University · RUUniversity of Minnesota, Duluth · USUniversity of Ostrava · CZUniversity of South Bohemia in České Budějovice · CZ

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uridine insertion/deletion (U-indel) editing of mitochondrial mRNA, unique to the protistan class Kinetoplastea, generates canonical as well as potentially non-productive editing events. While the molecular machinery and the role of the guide (g) RNAs that provide required information for U-indel editing are well understood, little is known about the forces underlying its apparently error-prone nature. Analysis of a gRNA:mRNA pair allows the dissection of editing events in a given position of a given mitochondrial transcript. A complete gRNA dataset, paired with a fully characterized mRNA population that includes non-canonically edited transcripts, would allow such an analysis to be performed globally across the mitochondrial transcriptome. To achieve this, we have assembled 67 minicircles of the insect parasite Leptomonas pyrrhocoris, with each minicircle typically encoding one gRNA located in one of two similar-sized units of different origin. From this relatively narrow set of annotated gRNAs, we have dissected all identified mitochondrial editing events in L. pyrrhocoris, the strains of which dramatically differ in the abundance of individual minicircle classes. Our results support a model in which a multitude of editing events are driven by a limited set of gRNAs, with individual gRNAs possessing an inherent ability to guide canonical and non-canonical editing.

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Genome, ProtozoanRNA EditingPhylogenyRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA, MessengerRNA, MitochondrialTranscriptomeTrypanosomatinaRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA, MessengerRNA, Mitochondrial

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PMID33660779
PMCPMC8034629
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