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Tipo J, Gottipati K, Slaton M, Gonzalez-Gutierrez G, Choi KH. Structure of HIV-1 RRE stem-loop II identifies two conformational states of the high-affinity Rev binding site. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4198. [PMID: 38760344 PMCID: PMC11101469 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48162-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/19/2024] Open
Abstract
During HIV infection, specific RNA-protein interaction between the Rev response element (RRE) and viral Rev protein is required for nuclear export of intron-containing viral mRNA transcripts. Rev initially binds the high-affinity site in stem-loop II, which promotes oligomerization of additional Rev proteins on RRE. Here, we present the crystal structure of RRE stem-loop II in distinct closed and open conformations. The high-affinity Rev-binding site is located within the three-way junction rather than the predicted stem IIB. The closed and open conformers differ in their non-canonical interactions within the three-way junction, and only the open conformation has the widened major groove conducive to initial Rev interaction. Rev binding assays show that RRE stem-loop II has high- and low-affinity binding sites, each of which binds a Rev dimer. We propose a binding model, wherein Rev-binding sites on RRE are sequentially created through structural rearrangements induced by Rev-RRE interactions.
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- Jerricho Tipo
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.
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Doherty EE, Karki A, Wilcox XE, Mendoza HG, Manjunath A, Matos VJ, Fisher AJ, Beal PA. ADAR activation by inducing a syn conformation at guanosine adjacent to an editing site. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 50:10857-10868. [PMID: 36243986 PMCID: PMC9638939 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Revised: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
Abstract
ADARs (adenosine deaminases acting on RNA) can be directed to sites in the transcriptome by complementary guide strands allowing for the correction of disease-causing mutations at the RNA level. However, ADARs show bias against editing adenosines with a guanosine 5′ nearest neighbor (5′-GA sites), limiting the scope of this approach. Earlier studies suggested this effect arises from a clash in the RNA minor groove involving the 2-amino group of the guanosine adjacent to an editing site. Here we show that nucleosides capable of pairing with guanosine in a syn conformation enhance editing for 5′-GA sites. We describe the crystal structure of a fragment of human ADAR2 bound to RNA bearing a G:G pair adjacent to an editing site. The two guanosines form a Gsyn:Ganti pair solving the steric problem by flipping the 2-amino group of the guanosine adjacent to the editing site into the major groove. Also, duplexes with 2′-deoxyadenosine and 3-deaza-2′-deoxyadenosine displayed increased editing efficiency, suggesting the formation of a Gsyn:AH+anti pair. This was supported by X-ray crystallography of an ADAR complex with RNA bearing a G:3-deaza dA pair. This study shows how non-Watson–Crick pairing in duplex RNA can facilitate ADAR editing enabling the design of next generation guide strands for therapeutic RNA editing.
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- Erin E Doherty
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.,Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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Heteroduplexes composed of all-DNA and all-2′-OMe RNA strands do not occur in nature, but they have found application in the development of molecular beacons and could also be used as aptamers or elements of nucleic acid-based nanostructures that will contain such structural motifs. The crystallization experiments performed have shown that the introduction of overhangs at the ends of the duplex has a great influence on the success of crystallization, as well as on the DNA:2′-OMe-RNA heteroduplex crystal packing. The molecular and crystal structure of the DNA:2′-O-methyl-RNA heteroduplex in its overhanging and blunt-ended versions was determined at 100 K using synchrotron radiation with a resolution of 1.91 and 1.55 Å, respectively. The Zn-SAD method was used to resolve the original duplex structure when molecular replacement by many existing models of duplex structures failed. Both molecules analyzed adopted a conformation close to the A-RNA double helix. The presented structures provide the first insight into this type of heteroduplexes and allowed a comparative analysis with existing nucleic acid homo- and heteroduplex structures. The results of our research expand the knowledge of the structural properties of new heteroduplexes and may be useful for future applications, such as therapies using this class of compounds.
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Wickhorst PJ, Ihmels H. Berberrubine Phosphate: A Selective Fluorescent Probe for Quadruplex DNA. Molecules 2021; 26:2566. [PMID: 33924894 PMCID: PMC8124163 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26092566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Revised: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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A phosphate-substituted, zwitterionic berberine derivative was synthesized and its binding properties with duplex DNA and G4-DNA were studied using photometric, fluorimetric and polarimetric titrations and thermal DNA denaturation experiments. The ligand binds with high affinity toward both DNA forms (Kb = 2-7 × 105 M-1) and induces a slight stabilization of G4-DNA toward thermally induced unfolding, mostly pronounced for the telomeric quadruplex 22AG. The ligand likely binds by aggregation and intercalation with ct DNA and by terminal stacking with G4-DNA. Thus, this compound represents one of the rare examples of phosphate-substituted DNA binders. In an aqueous solution, the title compound has a very weak fluorescence intensity (Φfl < 0.01) that increases significantly upon binding to G4-DNA (Φfl = 0.01). In contrast, the association with duplex DNA was not accompanied by such a strong fluorescence light-up effect (Φfl < 0.01). These different fluorimetric responses upon binding to particular DNA forms are proposed to be caused by the different binding modes and may be used for the selective fluorimetric detection of G4-DNA.
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- Department of Chemistry-Biology, University of Siegen, Center of Micro- and Nanochemistry and Engineering (Cµ), Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068 Siegen, Germany;
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Maity A, Winnerdy FR, Chen G, Phan AT. Duplexes Formed by G 4C 2 Repeats Contain Alternate Slow- and Fast-Flipping G·G Base Pairs. Biochemistry 2021; 60:1097-1107. [PMID: 33750098 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Aberrant expansion of the hexanucleotide GGGGCC (or G4C2) repeat in the human C9ORF72 gene is the most common genetic factor found behind amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. The hypothesized pathways, through which the repeat expansions contribute to the pathology, involve one or more secondary structural forms of the DNA and/or RNA sequences, such as G-quadruplexes, duplexes, and hairpins. Here, we study the structures of DNA and RNA duplexes formed by G4C2 repeats, which contain G(syn)·G(anti) base pairs flanked by either G·C or C·G base pairs. We show that duplexes formed by G4C2 repeats contain alternately two types of G·G pair contexts exhibiting different syn-anti base flipping dynamics (∼100 ms vs ∼2 ms for DNA and ∼50 ms vs ∼20 ms for RNA at 10 °C, respectively) depending on the flanking bases, with the slow-flipping G·G pairs being flanked by a guanine at the 5'-end and the fast-flipping G·G pairs being flanked by a cytosine at the 5'-end. Our findings on the structures and dynamics of G·G base pairs in DNA and RNA duplexes formed by G4C2 repeats provide a foundation for further studies of the functions and targeting of such biologically relevant motifs.
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- Arijit Maity
- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore.,NTU Institute of Structural Biology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 636921, Singapore
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore.,School of Life and Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), No. 2001 Longxiang Boulevard, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518172, P. R. China
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore.,NTU Institute of Structural Biology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 636921, Singapore
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Skinner A, Yang C, Hincks K, Wang H, Resendiz MJE. Experimental and theoretical rationalization for the base pairing abilities of inosine, guanosine, adenosine, and their corresponding 8-oxo-7,8-dihydropurine, and 8-bromopurine analogues within A-form duplexes of RNA. Biopolymers 2020; 111:e23410. [PMID: 33216981 PMCID: PMC7780609 DOI: 10.1002/bip.23410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2020] [Revised: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Inosine is an important RNA modification, furthermore RNA oxidation has gained interest due, in part, to its potential role in the development/progression of disease as well as on its impact on RNA structure and function. In this report we established the base pairing abilities of purine nucleobases G, I, A, as well as their corresponding, 8-oxo-7,8-dihydropurine (common products of oxidation at the C8-position of purines), and 8-bromopurine (as probes to explore conformational changes), derivatives, namely 8-oxoG, 8-oxoI, 8-oxoA, 8-BrG, and 8-BrI. Dodecamers of RNA were obtained using standard phosphoramidite chemistry via solid-phase synthesis, and used as models to establish the impact that each of these nucleobases have on the thermal stability of duplexes, when base pairing to canonical and noncanonical nucleobases. Thermal stabilities were obtained from thermal denaturation transition (Tm ) measurements, via circular dichroism (CD). The results were then rationalized using models of base pairs between two monomers, via density functional theory (DFT), that allowed us to better understand potential contributions from H-bonding patterns arising from distinct conformations. Overall, some of the important results indicate that: (a) an anti-I:syn-A base pair provides thermal stability, due to the absence of the exocyclic amine; (b) 8-oxoG base pairs like U, and does not induce destabilization within the duplex when compared to the pyrimidine ring; (c) a U:G wobble-pair is only stabilized by G; and (d) 8-oxoA displays an inherited base pairing promiscuity in this sequence context. Gaining a better understanding of how this oxidatively generated lesions potentially base pair with other nucleobases will be useful to predict various biological outcomes, as well as in the design of biomaterials and/or nucleotide derivatives with biological potential.
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- Austin Skinner
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Colorado DenverDenverColoradoUSA
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Colorado DenverDenverColoradoUSA
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Colorado DenverDenverColoradoUSA
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Colorado DenverDenverColoradoUSA
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Nowacka M, Fernandes H, Kiliszek A, Bernat A, Lach G, Bujnicki JM. Specific interaction of zinc finger protein Com with RNA and the crystal structure of a self-complementary RNA duplex recognized by Com. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0214481. [PMID: 31022205 PMCID: PMC6483171 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Accepted: 03/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The bacteriophage Mu Com is a small zinc finger protein that binds to its cognate mom mRNA and activates its translation. The Mom protein, in turn, elicits a chemical modification (momification) of the bacteriophage genome, rendering the DNA resistant to cleavage by bacterial restriction endonucleases, and thereby protecting it from defense mechanisms of the host. We examined the basis of specificity in Com-RNA interactions by in vitro selection and probing of RNA structure. We demonstrated that Com recognizes a sequence motif within a hairpin-loop structure of its target RNA. Our data support the model of Com interaction with mom mRNA, in which Com binds to the short hairpin structure proximal to the so-called translation inhibition structure. We also observed that Com binds its target motif weakly if it is within an RNA duplex. These results suggest that the RNA structure, in addition to its sequence, is crucial for Com to recognize its target and that RNA conformational changes may constitute another level of Mom regulation. We determined a crystal structure of a Com binding site variant designed to form an RNA duplex preferentially. Our crystal model forms a 19-mer self-complementary double helix composed of the canonical and non-canonical base pairs. The helical parameters of crystalized RNA indicate why Com may bind it more weakly than a monomeric hairpin form.
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- Martyna Nowacka
- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- * E-mail: ; (JMB)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
- * E-mail: ; (JMB)
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Kiliszek A, Blaszczyk L, Kierzek R, Rypniewski W. Stabilization of RNA hairpins using non-nucleotide linkers and circularization. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:e92. [PMID: 28334744 PMCID: PMC5449636 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2016] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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An RNA hairpin is an essential structural element of RNA. Hairpins play crucial roles in gene expression and intermolecular recognition but are also involved in the pathogenesis of some congenital diseases. Structural studies of the hairpin motifs are impeded by their thermodynamic instability, as they tend to unfold to form duplexes, especially at high concentrations required for crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. We have elaborated techniques to stabilize the RNA hairpins by linking the free ends of the RNA strand at the base of the hairpin stem. One method involves stilbene diether or hexaethylene glycol linkers and circularization by T4 RNA ligase. Another method uses click chemistry to stitch the RNA ends with a triazole linker. Both techniques are efficient and easy to perform. They should be useful in making stable, biologically relevant RNA constructs for structural studies.
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- Agnieszka Kiliszek
- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznan, Poland
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznan, Poland
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznan, Poland
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznan, Poland
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Zhou H, Kimsey IJ, Nikolova EN, Sathyamoorthy B, Grazioli G, McSally J, Bai T, Wunderlich CH, Kreutz C, Andricioaei I, Al-Hashimi HM. m(1)A and m(1)G disrupt A-RNA structure through the intrinsic instability of Hoogsteen base pairs. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2016; 23:803-10. [PMID: 27478929 PMCID: PMC5016226 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2016] [Accepted: 07/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The B-DNA double helix can dynamically accommodate G-C and A-T base pairs in either Watson-Crick or Hoogsteen configurations. Here, we show that G-C(+) (in which + indicates protonation) and A-U Hoogsteen base pairs are strongly disfavored in A-RNA. As a result,N(1)-methyladenosine and N(1)-methylguanosine, which occur in DNA as a form of alkylation damage and in RNA as post-transcriptional modifications, have dramatically different consequences. Whereas they create G-C(+) and A-T Hoogsteen base pairs in duplex DNA, thereby maintaining the structural integrity of the double helix, they block base-pairing and induce local duplex melting in RNA. These observations provide a mechanism for disrupting RNA structure through post-transcriptional modifications. The different propensities to form Hoogsteen base pairs in B-DNA and A-RNA may help cells meet the opposing requirements of maintaining genome stability, on the one hand, and of dynamically modulating the structure of the epitranscriptome, on the other.
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- Huiqing Zhou
- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina USA
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina USA
- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina USA
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Mooers BHM, Singh A. The crystal structure of an oligo(U):pre-mRNA duplex from a trypanosome RNA editing substrate. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2011; 17:1870-1883. [PMID: 21878548 PMCID: PMC3185919 DOI: 10.1261/rna.2880311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2011] [Accepted: 07/30/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Guide RNAs bind antiparallel to their target pre-mRNAs to form editing substrates in reaction cycles that insert or delete uridylates (Us) in most mitochondrial transcripts of trypanosomes. The 5' end of each guide RNA has an anchor sequence that binds to the pre-mRNA by base-pair complementarity. The template sequence in the middle of the guide RNA directs the editing reactions. The 3' ends of most guide RNAs have ∼15 contiguous Us that bind to the purine-rich unedited pre-mRNA upstream of the editing site. The resulting U-helix is rich in G·U wobble base pairs. To gain insights into the structure of the U-helix, we crystallized 8 bp of the U-helix in one editing substrate for the A6 mRNA of Trypanosoma brucei. The fragment provides three samples of the 5'-AGA-3'/5'-UUU-3' base-pair triple. The fusion of two identical U-helices head-to-head promoted crystallization. We obtained X-ray diffraction data with a resolution limit of 1.37 Å. The U-helix had low and high twist angles before and after each G·U wobble base pair; this variation was partly due to shearing of the wobble base pairs as revealed in comparisons with a crystal structure of a 16-nt RNA with all Watson-Crick base pairs. Both crystal structures had wider major grooves at the junction between the poly(U) and polypurine tracts. This junction mimics the junction between the template helix and the U-helix in RNA-editing substrates and may be a site of major groove invasion by RNA editing proteins.
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- Blaine H M Mooers
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104-5419, USA.
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Kiliszek A, Kierzek R, Krzyzosiak WJ, Rypniewski W. Crystal structures of CGG RNA repeats with implications for fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:7308-15. [PMID: 21596781 PMCID: PMC3167596 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The CGG repeats are present in the 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) of the fragile X mental retardation gene FMR1 and are associated with two diseases: fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) and fragile X syndrome (FXS). FXTAS occurs when the number of repeats is 55-200 and FXS develops when the number exceeds 200. FXTAS is an RNA-mediated disease in which the expanded CGG tracts form stable structures and sequester important RNA binding proteins. We obtained and analysed three crystal structures of double-helical CGG repeats involving unmodified and 8-Br modified guanosine residues. Despite the presence of the non-canonical base pairs, the helices retain an A-form. In the G-G pairs one guanosine is always in the syn conformation, the other is anti. There are two hydrogen bonds between the Watson-Crick edge of G(anti) and the Hoogsteen edge of G(syn): O6·N1H and N7·N2H. The G(syn)-G(anti) pair shows affinity for binding ions in the major groove. G(syn) causes local unwinding of the helix, compensated elsewhere along the duplex. CGG helical structures appear relatively stable compared with CAG and CUG tracts. This could be an important factor in the RNA's ligand binding affinity and specificity.
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- *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +48-61-8528503; Fax: +48-61-8520532;
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Kladwang W, Cordero P, Das R. A mutate-and-map strategy accurately infers the base pairs of a 35-nucleotide model RNA. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2011; 17:522-34. [PMID: 21239468 PMCID: PMC3039151 DOI: 10.1261/rna.2516311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2010] [Accepted: 12/13/2010] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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We present a rapid experimental strategy for inferring base pairs in structured RNAs via an information-rich extension of classic chemical mapping approaches. The mutate-and-map method, previously applied to a DNA/RNA helix, systematically searches for single mutations that enhance the chemical accessibility of base-pairing partners distant in sequence. To test this strategy for structured RNAs, we have carried out mutate-and-map measurements for a 35-nt hairpin, called the MedLoop RNA, embedded within an 80-nt sequence. We demonstrate the synthesis of all 105 single mutants of the MedLoop RNA sequence and present high-throughput DMS, CMCT, and SHAPE modification measurements for this library at single-nucleotide resolution. The resulting two-dimensional data reveal visually clear, punctate features corresponding to RNA base pair interactions as well as more complex features; these signals can be qualitatively rationalized by comparison to secondary structure predictions. Finally, we present an automated, sequence-blind analysis that permits the confident identification of nine of the 10 MedLoop RNA base pairs at single-nucleotide resolution, while discriminating against all 1460 false-positive base pairs. These results establish the accuracy and information content of the mutate-and-map strategy and support its feasibility for rapidly characterizing the base-pairing patterns of larger and more complex RNA systems.
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- Wipapat Kladwang
- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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