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Spring-Connell AM, Evich M, Germann MW. NMR Structure Determination for Oligonucleotides. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 72:7.28.1-7.28.39. [PMID: 29927124 DOI: 10.1002/cpnc.48] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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NMR spectroscopy is a versatile tool for determining the structure and dynamics of nucleic acids under solution conditions. In this unit, we provide an overview and detail of the experiments and methods used in our laboratory to determine the structure of oligonucleotides at natural abundance, thus limiting our approach to 1 H, 13 C, and 31 P NMR techniques. Isotopic labeling is heavily used in RNA NMR studies, however, labeling of DNA is still less common and, if modified nucleotides are investigated, is exceptionally expensive or not feasible. Each method described here is extensively documented and annotated with tips and observations to facilitate their application. Sections are devoted to sample preparation, NMR experiments and setup, resonance assignment, structure generation protocols, evaluation, tips that may be useful, and software sources. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.,Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
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Evich M, Spring-Connell AM, Storici F, Germann MW. Structural Impact of Single Ribonucleotide Residues in DNA. Chembiochem 2016; 17:1968-1977. [PMID: 27504600 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201600385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Single ribonucleotide intrusions represent the most common nonstandard nucleotide type found incorporated in genomic DNA, yet little is known of their structural impact. This lesion incurs genomic instability in addition to affecting the physical properties of the DNA. To probe for structural and dynamic effects of single ribonucleotides in various sequence contexts-AxC, CxG, and GxC, where x=rG or dG-we report the structures of three single-ribonucleotide-containing DNA duplexes and the corresponding DNA controls. The lesion subtly and locally perturbs the structure asymmetrically on the 3' side of the lesion in both the riboguanosine-containing and the complementary strand of the duplex. The perturbations are mainly restricted to the sugar and phosphodiester backbone. The ribose and 3'-downstream deoxyribose units are predominately in N-type conformation; backbone torsion angles ϵ and/or ζ of the ribonucleotide or upstream deoxyribonucleotide are affected. Depending on the flanking sequences, the C2'-OH group forms hydrogen bonds with the backbone, 3'-neighboring base, and/or sugar. Interestingly, even in similar purine-rG-pyrimidine environments (A-rG-C and G-rG-C), a riboguanosine unit affects DNA in a distinct manner and manifests different hydrogen bonds, which makes generalizations difficult.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marina Evich
- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Department of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA.
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Guilbert C, James TL. Docking to RNA via root-mean-square-deviation-driven energy minimization with flexible ligands and flexible targets. J Chem Inf Model 2008; 48:1257-68. [PMID: 18510306 DOI: 10.1021/ci8000327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Structure-based drug design is now well-established for proteins as a key first step in the lengthy process of developing new drugs. In many ways, RNA may be a better target to treat disease than a protein because it is upstream in the translation pathway, so inhibiting a single mRNA molecule could prevent the production of thousands of protein gene products. Virtual screening is often the starting point for structure-based drug design. However, computational docking of a small molecule to RNA seems to be more challenging than that to protein due to the higher intrinsic flexibility and highly charged structure of RNA. Previous attempts at docking to RNA showed the need for a new approach. We present here a novel algorithm using molecular simulation techniques to account for both nucleic acid and ligand flexibility. In this approach, with both the ligand and the receptor permitted some flexibility, they can bind one another via an induced fit, as the flexible ligand probes the surface of the receptor. A possible ligand can explore a low-energy path at the surface of the receptor by carrying out energy minimization with root-mean-square-distance constraints. Our procedure was tested on 57 RNA complexes (33 crystal and 24 NMR structures); this is the largest data set to date to reproduce experimental RNA binding poses. With our procedure, the lowest-energy conformations reproduced the experimental binding poses within an atomic root-mean-square deviation of 2.5 A for 74% of tested complexes.
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- Christophe Guilbert
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158-2517, USA
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Structure of a TrmA-RNA complex: A consensus RNA fold contributes to substrate selectivity and catalysis in m5U methyltransferases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:6876-81. [PMID: 18451029 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802247105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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TrmA catalyzes S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet)-dependent methylation of U54 in most tRNAs. We solved the structure of the Escherichia coli 5-methyluridine (m(5)U) 54 tRNA methyltransferase (MTase) TrmA in a covalent complex with a 19-nt T arm analog to 2.4-A resolution. Mutation of the TrmA catalytic base Glu-358 to Gln arrested catalysis and allowed isolation of the covalent TrmA-RNA complex for crystallization. The protein-RNA interface includes 6 nt of the T loop and two proximal base pairs of the stem. U54 is flipped out of the loop into the active site. A58 occupies the space of the everted U54 and is part of a collinear base stack G53-A58-G57-C56-U55. The RNA fold is different from T loop conformations in unbound tRNA or T arm analogs, but nearly identical to the fold of the RNA loop bound at the active site of the m(5)U MTase RumA. In both enzymes, this consensus fold presents the target U and the following two bases to a conserved binding groove on the protein. Outside of this fold, the RumA and TrmA substrates have completely different structures and protein interfaces. Loop residues other than the target U54 make more than half of their hydrogen bonds to the protein via sugar-phosphate moieties, accounting, in part, for the broad consensus sequence for TrmA substrates.
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Tonelli M, Ulyanov NB, Billeci TM, Karwowski B, Guga P, Stec WJ, James TL. Dynamic NMR structures of [Rp]- and [Sp]-phosphorothioated DNA-RNA hybrids: is flexibility required for RNase H recognition? Biophys J 2004; 85:2525-38. [PMID: 14507715 PMCID: PMC1303476 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74675-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Chemically modified DNA oligonucleotides have been crucial to the development of antisense therapeutics. High-resolution structural studies of pharmaceutically relevant derivatives have been limited to only a few molecules. We have used NMR to elucidate the structure in solution of two DNA-RNA hybrids with the sequence d(CCTATAATCC).r(GGAUUAUAGG). The two hybrids contain an unmodified RNA target strand, whereas the DNA strand contains one of two different stereoregular sugar-phosphate backbone linkages at each nucleotide: 1), [Rp]-phosphorothioate or 2), [Sp]-phosphorothioate. Homonuclear two-dimensional spectroscopy afforded nearly complete nonlabile proton assignments. Distance bounds, calculated from the nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) crosspeak intensities via a complete relaxation matrix approach with the program MARDIGRAS, were used to restrain the structure of the two hybrids during simulations of molecular dynamics. Analysis of restrained molecular dynamics trajectories suggests that both hybrids are flexible, requiring the use of molecular dynamics with time-averaged restraints (MDtar) to generate ensembles of structures capable of satisfying the NMR data. In particular, the deoxyribose sugars of the DNA strand show strong evidence of repuckering. Furthermore, deoxyribose sugar repuckering is accompanied by increased flexibility of overall helical geometry. These observations, together with the analysis of the crystal structure of a hybrid duplex in complex with ribonuclease H (RNase H), suggested that this flexibility may be required for recognition by RNase H.
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- Marco Tonelli
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-2280 USA
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Martini S, Bonechi C, Corbini G, Donati A, Rossi C. Solution structure of rifaximin and its synthetic derivative rifaximin OR determined by experimental NMR and theoretical simulation methods. Bioorg Med Chem 2004; 12:2163-72. [PMID: 15080916 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2004.02.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2003] [Accepted: 02/20/2004] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The solution structure of rifaximin and its derivative rifaximin OR (open ring) was determined by combining NMR experimental results, theoretical simulation of two-dimensional NMR spectra by complete relaxation matrix analysis (corma), and molecular dynamics calculations. In this study the structural rearrangements due to the opening of the aliphatic chain of rifaximin after the reduction process to form rifaximin OR were investigated. Close spatial proximity of CH(3)(14) and H28b protons detected by 2D-ROESY spectrum of rifaximin OR, which was not present in rifaximin and the down-field shift of CH(3)(34) protons in rifaximin OR (1)H spectrum were crucial to understand the structural modifications, which occurred within the system. The aliphatic chain of rifaximin OR was found to be no longer symmetrical with respect to the aromatic moiety. Although no dramatic structural rearrangements were detected, the aliphatic chain moved toward CH(3)(14), causing a reduction of the aromatic shielding contribution in particular on CH(3)(34).
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- Silvia Martini
- Department of Chemical and Biosystem Sciences, University of Siena, Via Aldo Moro, 2-53100 Siena, Italy.
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Nobles KN, Yarian CS, Liu G, Guenther RH, Agris PF. Highly conserved modified nucleosides influence Mg2+-dependent tRNA folding. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:4751-60. [PMID: 12409466 PMCID: PMC135809 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Transfer RNA structure involves complex folding interactions of the TPsiC domain with the D domain. However, the role of the highly conserved nucleoside modifications in the TPsiC domain, rT54, Psi55 and m5C49, in tertiary folding is not understood. To determine whether these modified nucleosides have a role in tRNA folding, the association of variously modified yeast tRNA(Phe) T-half molecules (nucleosides 40-72) with the corresponding unmodified D-half molecule (nucleosides 1-30) was detected and quantified using a native polyacrylamide gel mobility shift assay. Mg2+ was required for formation and maintenance of all complexes. The modified T-half folding interactions with the D-half resulted in K(d)s (rT54 = 6 +/- 2, m5C49 = 11 +/- 2, Psi55 = 14 +/- 5, and rT54,Psi55 = 11 +/- 3 microM) significantly lower than that of the unmodified T-half (40 +/- 10 microM). However, the global folds of the unmodified and modified complexes were comparable to each other and to that of an unmodified yeast tRNA(Phe) and native yeast tRNA(Phe), as determined by lead cleavage patterns at U17 and nucleoside substitutions disrupting the Levitt base pair. Thus, conserved modifications of tRNA's TPsiC domain enhanced the affinity between the two half-molecules without altering the global conformation indicating an enhanced stability to the complex and/or an altered folding pathway.
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MESH Headings
- Base Sequence
- Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay
- Hydrogen Bonding
- Lead/pharmacology
- Magnesium/pharmacology
- Models, Molecular
- Nucleic Acid Conformation/drug effects
- Nucleosides/chemistry
- Nucleosides/metabolism
- RNA Stability/drug effects
- RNA, Fungal/chemistry
- RNA, Fungal/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/metabolism
- RNA, Transfer, Phe/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer, Phe/genetics
- RNA, Transfer, Phe/metabolism
- Ribonuclease T1/metabolism
- Thermodynamics
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- Kelly N Nobles
- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, 128 Polk Hall, PO Box 7622, Raleigh, NC 27695-7622, USA
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Tonelli M, Peters RJ, James TL, Agard DA. The solution structure of the viral binding domain of Tva, the cellular receptor for subgroup A avian leukosis and sarcoma virus. FEBS Lett 2001; 509:161-8. [PMID: 11768384 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)03086-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The cellular receptor for subgroup A avian leukosis and sarcoma virus (ALSV-A) is Tva, which contains a motif related to repeats in the low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) ligand binding repeat (LBr) and which is necessary for viral entry. As observed with LBr repeats of LDLR, the 47 residue LBr domain of Tva (sTva47) requires calcium during oxidative folding to form the correct disulfide bonds, and calcium enhances the structure of correctly oxidized sTva47, as well as its ability to bind the viral envelope protein (Env). However, solution nuclear magnetic resonance studies indicate that, even in the presence of excess calcium, sTva47 exists in an ensemble of conformations. Nonetheless, as reported here, the structure of the predominant sTva47 solution conformer closely resembles that of other LBr repeats, with identical S-S binding topology and octahedral calcium coordination. The location of W48 and other critical residues on the surface suggests a region of the molecule necessary for Env binding and to mediate post-binding events important for ALSV-A cell entry.
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- M Tonelli
- The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
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