PROSITE documentation PDOC51327Dicer double-stranded RNA-binding fold domain profile
RNA interference (RNAi) is an ancient gene-silencing process that plays a fundamental role in diverse eukaryotic functions including viral defense, chromatin remodeling, genome rearrangement, developmental timing, brain morphogenesis, and stem cell maintenance. All RNAi pathways require the multidomain ribonuclease Dicer, which initiates RNAi by cleaving double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) substrates into small fragments ~25 nuleotides in length. A typical eukaryotic Dicer consists of a helicase domain (see <PDOC51192>), a domain of unknown function, and a PAZ domain (see <PDOC50821>) at the amino (N)-terminus as well as two ribonuclease III domains (see <PDOC00448>) and a dsRNA-binding domain (dsRBD) (see <PDOC50137>) at the carboxy (C)-terminus. The domain of unknown function of ~100 amino acids is predicted to adopt the canonical α-β-β-β-α-fold found in all dsRBDs [1,2,3,4].
The profile we developed covers the entire Dicer dsRNA-binding fold domain.
Last update:August 2007 / First entry.
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| 1 | Authors | MacRae I.J. Zhou K. Li F. Repic A. Brooks A.N. Cande W.Z. Adams P.D. Doudna J.A. |
| Title | Structural basis for double-stranded RNA processing by Dicer. | |
| Source | Science 311:195-198(2006). | |
| PubMed ID | 16410517 | |
| DOI | 10.1126/science.1121638 |
| 2 | Authors | Dlakic M. |
| Title | DUF283 domain of Dicer proteins has a double-stranded RNA-binding fold. | |
| Source | Bioinformatics 22:2711-2714(2006). | |
| PubMed ID | 16954143 | |
| DOI | 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl468 |
| 3 | Authors | Bateman A. Finn R.D. |
| Title | SCOOP: a simple method for identification of novel protein superfamily relationships. | |
| Source | Bioinformatics 23:809-814(2007). | |
| PubMed ID | 17277330 | |
| DOI | 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm034 |
| 4 | Authors | Ye X. Paroo Z. Liu Q. |
| Title | Functional anatomy of the Drosophila microRNA-generating enzyme. | |
| Source | J. Biol. Chem. 0:0-0(2007). | |
| PubMed ID | 17666393 | |
| DOI | 10.1074/jbc.M705208200 |
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