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Retrozymes are a unique family of non-autonomous retrotransposons with hammerhead
ribozymes that propagate in plants through circular RNAs
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Cervera A
; Urbina D
; de la Peña M
Genome Biol
2016[Jun]; 17
(1
): 135
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BACKGROUND: Catalytic RNAs, or ribozymes, are regarded as fossils of a prebiotic
RNA world that have remained in the genomes of modern organisms. The simplest
ribozymes are the small self-cleaving RNAs, like the hammerhead ribozyme, which
have been historically considered biological oddities restricted to some RNA
pathogens. Recent data, however, indicate that small self-cleaving ribozymes are
widespread in genomes, although their functions are still unknown. RESULTS: We
reveal that hammerhead ribozyme sequences in plant genomes form part of a new
family of small non-autonomous retrotransposons with hammerhead ribozymes,
referred to as retrozymes. These elements contain two long terminal repeats of
approximately 350 bp, each harbouring a hammerhead ribozyme that delimitates a
variable region of 600-1000 bp with no coding capacity. Retrozymes are actively
transcribed, which gives rise to heterogeneous linear and circular RNAs that
accumulate differentially depending on the tissue or developmental stage of the
plant. Genomic and transcriptomic retrozyme sequences are highly heterogeneous
and share almost no sequence homology among species except the hammerhead
ribozyme motif and two small conserved domains typical of Ty3-gypsy long terminal
repeat retrotransposons. Moreover, we detected the presence of RNAs of both
retrozyme polarities, which suggests events of independent RNA-RNA rolling-circle
replication and evolution, similarly to that of infectious circular RNAs like
viroids and viral satellite RNAs. CONCLUSIONS: Our work reveals that circular
RNAs with hammerhead ribozymes are frequently occurring molecules in plant and,
most likely, metazoan transcriptomes, which explains the ubiquity of these
genomic ribozymes and suggests a feasible source for the emergence of circular
RNA plant pathogens.