FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Evolutionary and functional insights into the Ski2-like helicase family in Archaea: a comparison of Thermococcales ASH-Ski2 and Hel308 activities BT AF Batista, Manon Langendijk-Genevaux, Petra Kwapisz, Marta Canal, Isabelle Phung, Duy Khanh Plassart, Laura Capeyrou, Régine Moalic, Yann Jebbar, Mohamed Flament, Didier Fichant, Gwennaele Bouvier, Marie Clouet-d’Orval, Béatrice AS 1:1;2:2;3:1;4:1;5:1;6:1;7:1;8:3;9:3;10:4;11:2;12:1;13:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:PDG-REM-BEEP-LMEE;11:;12:;13:; C1 MCD, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse , UT3, Toulouse, France LMGM, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse , UT3, Toulouse, France Univ Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, UMR6197 Biologie et Ecologie des Ecosystèmes marins Profonds , F-29280 Plouzané, France Univ Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, UMR6197 Biologie et Ecologie des Ecosystèmes marins Profonds , F-29280 Plouzané, France C2 UNIV TOULOUSE, FRANCE UNIV TOULOUSE, FRANCE UBO, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-REM-BEEP-LMEE UM BEEP-LM2E IN WOS Ifremer UMR WOS Cotutelle UMR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-univ-france TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00883/99491/109558.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00883/99491/109559.zip LA English DT Article AB RNA helicases perform essential housekeeping and regulatory functions in all domains of life by binding and unwinding RNA molecules. The Ski2-like proteins are primordial helicases that play an active role in eukaryotic RNA homeostasis pathways, with multiple homologs having specialized functions. The significance of the expansion and diversity of Ski2-like proteins in Archaea, the third domain of life, has not yet been established. Here, by studying the phylogenetic diversity of Ski2-like helicases among archaeal genomes and the enzymatic activities of those in Thermococcales, we provide further evidence of the function of this protein family in archaeal metabolism of nucleic acids. We show that, in the course of evolution, ASH-Ski2 and Hel308-Ski2, the two main groups of Ski2-like proteins, have diverged in their biological functions. Whereas Hel308 has been shown to mainly act on DNA, we show that ASH-Ski2, previously described to be associated with the 5′-3′ aRNase J exonuclease, acts on RNA by supporting an efficient annealing activity, but also an RNA unwinding with a 3′-5′ polarity. To gain insights into the function of Ski2, we also analyse the transcriptome of Thermococcus barophilus ΔASH-Ski2 mutant strain and provide evidence of the importance of ASH-Ski2 in cellular metabolism pathways related to translation. PY 2024 PD JAN SO Nar Genomics And Bioinformatics SN 2631-9268 PU Oxford University Press (OUP) VL 6 IS 1 UT 001186356800001 DI 10.1093/nargab/lqae026 ID 99491 ER EF