Skip to main content
Vai all'homepage della Commissione europea (si apre in una nuova finestra)
italiano it
CORDIS - Risultati della ricerca dell’UE
CORDIS
Contenuto archiviato il 2024-04-30

Searching for novel catalytic rnas and splicing systems in modern genomes

Obiettivo



Research objectives and content
This project aims to identify novel active RNAs among the products encoded in contemporary genomes. By active RNA, I mean both RNAs that catalyse reactions on their own or with the help of cofactors, and RNAs with catalytic activity that depends on the presence of proteins such as those involved in protein-assisted splicing systems.
Except for RNase P, all currently known catalytic RNAs get involved into auto-circularization processes which facilitate their survival, replication and/or integration into other DNA or RNA molecules: selection for self-circularization should constitute a general route for recovering molecules that catalyze transesterification. I have set up an in vitro selection protocol devised to isolate among a genome the sequences encoding for molecules able to self-circularize. The same procedure could also be carried out sing cellular extracts, which might allow to detect the products of any reconstitutable splicing system.
Training content (objective, benefit and expected impact)
I will join Dr Smith's laboratory to learn how to prepare and manipulate splicing competent extracts. My plans are to use this stategy to investigate the genomes of a number of bacterial and archaebacterial species living in extreme environments, as well as the genomes of primitive eucaryotes such as diplomonadida which infect mammalian cells. Links with industry / industrial relevance (22)

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

Programma(i)

Argomento(i)

Invito a presentare proposte

Dati non disponibili

Meccanismo di finanziamento

RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships)

Coordinatore

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Contributo UE
Nessun dato
Indirizzo
80,Tennis Court Road, 80
CB2 1GA CAMBRIDGE
Regno Unito
Costo totale
Nessun dato

Partecipanti (1)