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Small Interfering RNAs Targeting a Chromatin-Associated RNA Induce Its Transcriptional Silencing in Human Cells

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Transcriptional gene silencing by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) has been widely described in various species, including plants and yeast. In mammals, its extent remains somewhat debated. Previous studies showed that siRNAs targeting gene promoters could induce the silencing of the targeted promoter, although the involvement of off-target mechanisms was also suggested. Here, by using nascent RNA capture and RNA polymerase II chromatin immunoprecipitation, we show that siRNAs targeting a chromatin-associated noncoding RNA induced its transcriptional silencing. Deletion of the sequence targeted by one of these siRNAs on the two alleles by genome editing further showed that this silencing was due to base-pairing of the siRNA to the target. Moreover, by using cells with heterozygous deletion of the target sequence, we showed that only the wild-type allele, but not the deleted allele, was silenced by the siRNA, indicating that transcriptional silencing occurred only in cis. Finally, we demonstrated that both Ago1 and Ago2 are involved in this transcriptional silencing. Altogether, our data demonstrate that siRNAs targeting a chromatin-associated RNA at a distance from its promoter induce its transcriptional silencing. Our results thus extend the possible repertoire of endogenous or exogenous interfering RNAs.
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hal-04276747 , version 1 (17-11-2023)

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Julien Ouvrard, Lisa Muniz, Estelle Nicolas, Didier Trouche. Small Interfering RNAs Targeting a Chromatin-Associated RNA Induce Its Transcriptional Silencing in Human Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2022, 42 (12), pp.e00271-22. ⟨10.1128/mcb.00271-22⟩. ⟨hal-04276747⟩
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