Thomas Sydney P, Kim Eunji, Kim Jin-Soo, Raines Ronald T
Graduate Program in Cellular & Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1525 Linden Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.
Center for Genome Engineering, Institute for Basic Science , Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea.
Biochemistry. 2016 Nov 22;55(46):6359-6362. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b01003. Epub 2016 Nov 8.
Ribonuclease inhibitor (RNH1) is a cytosolic protein that binds with femtomolar affinity to human ribonuclease 1 (RNase 1) and homologous secretory ribonucleases. RNH1 contains 32 cysteine residues and has been implicated as an antioxidant. Here, we use CRISPR-Cas9 to knock out RNH1 in HeLa cells. We find that cellular RNH1 affords marked protection from the lethal ribonucleolytic activity of RNase 1 but not from oxidants. We conclude that RNH1 protects cytosolic RNA from invading ribonucleases.
核糖核酸酶抑制剂(RNH1)是一种胞质蛋白,它以飞摩尔亲和力与人核糖核酸酶1(RNase 1)及同源分泌型核糖核酸酶结合。RNH1含有32个半胱氨酸残基,并被认为具有抗氧化作用。在此,我们使用CRISPR-Cas9敲除HeLa细胞中的RNH1。我们发现,细胞内的RNH1能显著保护细胞免受RNase 1致死性核糖核酸酶活性的影响,但不能保护细胞免受氧化剂的影响。我们得出结论,RNH1可保护胞质RNA免受入侵核糖核酸酶的破坏。