Examination of Factors Affecting Site-Directed RNA Editing by the MS2-ADAR1 Deaminase System

Overview

Journal Genes (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Date 2023 Aug 26

PMID 37628635

Authors

Md Thoufic Anam Azad

Umme Qulsum

Toshifumi Tsukahara

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Abstract

Adenosine deaminases acting on RNA (ADARs) have double-stranded RNA binding domains and a deaminase domain (DD). We used the MS2 system and specific guide RNAs to direct ADAR1-DD to target adenosines in the mRNA encoding-enhanced green fluorescence protein. Using this system in transfected HEK-293 cells, we evaluated the effects of changing the length and position of the guide RNA on the efficiency of conversion of amber (TAG) and ochre (TAA) stop codons to tryptophan (TGG) in the target. Guide RNAs of 19, 21 and 23 nt were positioned upstream and downstream of the MS2-RNA, providing a total of six guide RNAs. The upstream guide RNAs were more functionally effective than the downstream guide RNAs, with the following hierarchy of efficiency: 21 nt > 23 nt > 19 nt. The highest editing efficiency was 16.6%. Off-target editing was not detected in the guide RNA complementary region but was detected 50 nt downstream of the target. The editing efficiency was proportional to the amount of transfected deaminase but inversely proportional to the amount of the transfected guide RNA. Our results suggest that specific RNA editing requires precise optimization of the ratio of enzyme, guide RNA, and target RNA.

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