Polynucleotide phosphorylase

Polynucleotide Phosphorylase (PNPase) is a bifunctional enzyme with a phosphorolytic 3' to 5' exoribonuclease activity and a 3'-terminal oligonucleotide polymerase activity. That is, it dismantles the RNA chain starting at the 3' end and working toward the 5' end. It also synthesizes long, highly heteropolymeric tails in vivo. It accounts for all of the observed residual polyadenylation in strains of Escherichia coli missing the normal polyadenylation enzyme. Discovered by Marianne Grunberg-Manago working in Severo Ochoa's lab in 1955, the RNA-polymerization activity of PNPase was initially believed to be responsible for DNA-dependent synthesis of messenger RNA, a notion that was disproven by the late 1950s.

It is involved in mRNA processing and degradation in bacteria, plants, and animals.

In humans, the enzyme is encoded by the PNPT1 gene. In its active form, the protein forms a ring structure consisting of three PNPase molecules. Each PNPase molecule consists of two RNase PH domains, an S1 RNA binding domain and a K-homology domain. The protein is present in bacteria and in the chloroplasts and mitochondria of some eukaryotic cells. In eukaryotes and archaea, a structurally and evolutionary related complex exists, called the exosome complex.

The same abbreviation (PNPase) is also used for another, otherwise unrelated enzyme, Purine nucleoside phosphorylase.

Human PNPase I

Identifiers

Symbol

PNPASE

Alt. symbols

PNPase, OLD35, old-35

Other data

Chr. 2 p15

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References

^ Symmons MF, Jones GH, Luisi BF (November 2000). "A duplicated fold is the structural basis for polynucleotide phosphorylase catalytic activity, processivity, and regulation". Structure. 8 (11): 1215–26. doi:10.1016/S0969-2126(00)00521-9. PMID 11080643.
^ Yehudai-Resheff S, Hirsh M, Schuster G (August 2001). "Polynucleotide phosphorylase functions as both an exonuclease and a poly(A) polymerase in spinach chloroplasts". Molecular and Cellular Biology. 21 (16): 5408–16. doi:10.1128/MCB.21.16.5408-5416.2001. PMC 87263. PMID 11463823.
Grunberg-Manago M, Ortiz PJ, Ochoa S (April 1956). "Enzymic synthesis of polynucleotides. I. Polynucleotide phosphorylase of azotobacter vinelandii". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 20 (1): 269–85. doi:10.1016/0006-3002(56)90286-4. PMID 13315374.
Furth JJ, Hurwitz J, Anders M (August 1962). "The role of deoxyribonucleic acid in ribonucleic acid synthesis. I. The purification and properties of ribonucleic acid polymerase" (PDF). The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 237 (8): 2611–9. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(19)73796-X. PMID 13895983.
Yehudai-Resheff S, Zimmer SL, Komine Y, Stern DB (March 2007). "Integration of chloroplast nucleic acid metabolism into the phosphate deprivation response in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii". The Plant Cell. 19 (3): 1023–38. doi:10.1105/tpc.106.045427. PMC 1867357. PMID 17351118.
Sarkar D, Fisher PB (May 2006). "Human polynucleotide phosphorylase (hPNPase old-35): an RNA degradation enzyme with pleiotrophic biological effects" (PDF). Cell Cycle. 5 (10): 1080–4. doi:10.4161/cc.5.10.2741. PMID 16687933. S2CID 42371805.
^ Schilders G, van Dijk E, Raijmakers R, Pruijn GJ (2006). Cell and molecular biology of the exosome: how to make or break an RNA. International Review of Cytology. Vol. 251. pp. 159–208. doi:10.1016/S0074-7696(06)51005-8. ISBN 9780123646552. PMID 16939780.

External links

Polynucleotide+Phosphorylase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Transferases: phosphorus-containing groups (EC 2.7)

2.7.1-2.7.4:
phosphotransferase/kinase
(PO₄)

2.7.1: OH acceptor	Hexo- Gluco- Fructo- Hepatic Galacto- Phosphofructo- 1 Liver Muscle Platelet 2 Riboflavin Shikimate Thymidine ADP-thymidine NAD Glycerol Pantothenate Mevalonate Pyruvate Deoxycytidine PFP Diacylglycerol Phosphoinositide 3 Class I PI 3 Class II PI 3 Sphingosine Glucose-1,6-bisphosphate synthase
2.7.2: COOH acceptor	Phosphoglycerate Aspartate kinase
2.7.3: N acceptor	Creatine
2.7.4: PO₄ acceptor	Phosphomevalonate Adenylate Nucleoside-diphosphate Uridylate Guanylate Thiamine-diphosphate

2.7.6: diphosphotransferase
(P₂O₇)

2.7.7: nucleotidyltransferase
(PO₄-nucleoside)

Polymerase

DNA polymerase

DNA-directed DNA polymerase

I/A

Taq

II/B

Pfu

III/C

IV/X

TDT

V/Y

RNA-directed DNA polymerase

Reverse transcriptase

Telomerase

RNA polymerase

Template-directed

RNA-dependent RNA polymerase

Polyadenylation

PAP

PNPase

Phosphorolytic
3' to 5' exoribonuclease

Nucleotidyltransferase

Guanylyltransferase

mRNA capping enzyme

Other

2.7.8: miscellaneous

Phosphatidyltransferases	CDP-diacylglycerol—glycerol-3-phosphate 3-phosphatidyltransferase CDP-diacylglycerol—serine O-phosphatidyltransferase CDP-diacylglycerol—inositol 3-phosphatidyltransferase CDP-diacylglycerol—choline O-phosphatidyltransferase
Glycosyl-1-phosphotransferase	N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate transferase

2.7.10-2.7.13: protein kinase
(PO₄; protein acceptor)

2.7.10: protein-tyrosine	see tyrosine kinases
2.7.11: protein-serine/threonine	see serine/threonine-specific protein kinases
2.7.12: protein-dual-specificity	see serine/threonine-specific protein kinases
2.7.13: protein-histidine	Protein-histidine pros-kinase Protein-histidine tele-kinase Histidine kinase

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