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Grimpe B. Deoxyribozymes and bioinformatics: complementary tools to investigate axon regeneration. Cell Tissue Res 2011; 349:181-200. [PMID: 22190188 PMCID: PMC7087747 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-011-1291-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2011] [Accepted: 11/17/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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For over 100 years, scientists have tried to understand the mechanisms that lead to the axonal growth seen during development or the lack thereof during regeneration failure after spinal cord injury (SCI). Deoxyribozyme technology as a potential therapeutic to treat SCIs or other insults to the brain, combined with a bioinformatics approach to comprehend the complex protein-protein interactions that occur after such trauma, is the focus of this review. The reader will be provided with information on the selection process of deoxyribozymes and their catalytic sequences, on the mechanism of target digestion, on modifications, on cellular uptake and on therapeutic applications and deoxyribozymes are compared with ribozymes, siRNAs and antisense technology. This gives the reader the necessary knowledge to decide which technology is adequate for the problem at hand and to design a relevant agent. Bioinformatics helps to identify not only key players in the complex processes that occur after SCI but also novel or less-well investigated molecules against which new knockdown agents can be generated. These two tools used synergistically should facilitate the pursuit of a treatment for insults to the central nervous system.
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- Barbara Grimpe
- Applied Neurobiology, Department of Neurology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Lee GH, Lim HK, Hah SS. Preparation of 5'-Azido-5'-Deoxyguanosine and Its Efficiency for Click Chemistry. B KOREAN CHEM SOC 2011. [DOI: 10.5012/bkcs.2011.32.10.3767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Zhang L, Sun L, Cui Z, Gottlieb RL, Zhang B. 5'-sulfhydryl-modified RNA: initiator synthesis, in vitro transcription, and enzymatic incorporation. Bioconjug Chem 2001; 12:939-48. [PMID: 11716685 DOI: 10.1021/bc015504g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The detailed syntheses of the sulfhydryl-modified guanosine monophosphates 5'-deoxy-5'-thioguanosine-5'-monophosphorothioate (GSMP), O-[omega-sulfhydryl-tetra(ethylene glycol)]-O-(5'-guanosine) monophosphate (5'-HS-PEG4-GMP), and O-[omega-sulfhydryl-di(ethylene glycol)]-O-(5'-guanosine) monophosphate (5'-HS-PEG2-GMP) are reported. Transcription reactions employing GSMP, 5'-HS-PEG4-GMP, or 5'-HS-PEG2-GMP as the initiator nucleotide for T7 RNA polymerase introduce a thiol group at the 5'-end of RNA. The efficiency of thiol incorporation at the 5'-terminus of modified RNA compounds was assayed with three different thiol-reactive biotinylated reagents followed by streptavidin gel-shift methods. The transcription efficiency with various ratios of GTP to 5'-HS-PEG2-GMP was explored by reaction with a sulfhydryl-reactive maleimide-conjugated protein. This is an efficient method to incorporate enzymatically a thiol group into the 5'-end of RNA.
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- L Zhang
- Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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Zhang B, Cui Z, Sun L. Synthesis of 5'-deoxy-5'-thioguanosine-5'-monophosphorothioate and its incorporation into RNA 5'-termini. Org Lett 2001; 3:275-8. [PMID: 11430053 DOI: 10.1021/ol006916s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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[figure: see text] 5'-Deoxy-5'-thioguanosine-5'-monophosphorothioate (GSMP) was synthesized in four steps with 35% overall yield. GSMP serves as a good substrate for in vitro transcription with T7 RNA polymerase to yield 5'-GSMP-RNA, which was converted to 5'-HS-RNA by dephosphorylation with alkaline phosphatase. The thiol-reactive agents can be efficiently introduced into the 5'-terminus of RNA.
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- B Zhang
- Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA.
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In this review I will outline several chemogenetic approaches used to determine the chemical basis of large ribozyme function and structure. The term chemogenetics was first used to describe site-specific functional group modification experiments in the analysis of DNA-protein interactions. Within the past few years equivalent experiments have been performed on large catalytic RNAs using both single-site substitution and interference mapping techniques with nucleotide analogues. While functional group mutagenesis is an important aspect of a chemogenetic approach, chemical correlates to genetic revertants and suppressors must also be realized for the genetic analogy to be intellectually valid and experimentally useful. Several examples of functional group revertants and suppressors have now been obtained within the Tetrahymena group I ribozyme. These experiments define an ensemble of tertiary hydrogen bonds that have made it possible to construct a detailed model of the ribozyme catalytic core. The model includes a functionally important monovalent metal ion binding site, a wobble-wobble receptor motif for helix-helix packing interactions, and a minor groove triple helix.
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- S A Strobel
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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Torres RA, Bruice TC. The Mechanism of Phosphodiester Hydrolysis: Near In-line Attack Conformations in the Hammerhead Ribozyme. J Am Chem Soc 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/ja993094p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Rhonda A. Torres
- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106
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Samarsky DA, Ferbeyre G, Bertrand E, Singer RH, Cedergren R, Fournier MJ. A small nucleolar RNA:ribozyme hybrid cleaves a nucleolar RNA target in vivo with near-perfect efficiency. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:6609-14. [PMID: 10359759 PMCID: PMC21962 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.12.6609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A hammerhead ribozyme has been localized to the yeast nucleolus by using the U3 small nucleolar RNA as a carrier. The hybrid small nucleolar RNA:ribozyme, designated a "snorbozyme," is metabolically stable and cleaves a target U3 RNA with nearly 100% efficiency in vivo. This is the most efficient in vivo cleavage reported for a trans-acting ribozyme. A key advantage of the model substrate featured is that a stable, trimmed cleavage product accumulates. This property allows accurate kinetic measurements of authentic cleavage in vivo. The system offers new avenues for developing effective ribozymes for research and therapeutic applications.
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- D A Samarsky
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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Citti L, Eckstein F, Capecchi B, Mariani L, Nevischi S, Poggi A, Rainaldi G. Transient transfection of a synthetic hammerhead ribozyme targeted against human MGMT gene to cells in culture potentiates the genotoxicity of the alkylation damage induced by mitozolomide. ANTISENSE & NUCLEIC ACID DRUG DEVELOPMENT 1999; 9:125-33. [PMID: 10355819 DOI: 10.1089/oli.1.1999.9.125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Unmodified and chemically modified forms of a synthetic hammerhead ribozyme with the mRNA of methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene as substrate were characterized for their in vitro and in vivo activities. The unmodified ribozyme efficiently cleaved in vitro a short synthetic substrate, and it was rapidly degraded in fetal bovine serum (FBS). The introduction of phosphorothioates and the substitution of uridine with thymidine at probable nuclease-sensitive sites slightly increased the nuclease resistance of the ribozyme. Conversely, pyrimidine nucleoside substitution with 2'NH2 and 2'F nucleosides strongly enhanced nuclease resistance. The in vivo activity was determined by measuring the genotoxicity induced by the alkylating drug mitozolomide, the damage of which is repaired by MGMT enzyme. CHO/47 cells, temporarily depleted of the MGMT protein, were first transfected with the various synthetic ribozymes and subsequently treated with mitozolomide. At equivalent concentration of the drug, the induction of sister chromatid exchanges was higher in ribozyme-transfected than in untransfected cells, indicating that the synthetic ribozymes potentiated the genotoxicity of mitozolomide. Moreover, the concomitant occurrence of messenger RNA reduction in ribozyme-transfected cells indicated that the inhibition of MGMT resynthesis was the basis of the enhanced genotoxicity.
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- L Citti
- Genetica e Biochimica Tossicologica, Istituto di Mutagenesi e Differenziamento, CNR, Pisa, Italy
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Famulok M, Jenne A. Catalysis Based on Nucleic Acid Structures. IMPLEMENTATION AND REDESIGN OF CATALYTIC FUNCTION IN BIOPOLYMERS 1999. [DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48990-8_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Ribozymes are being increasingly used for the sequence-specific inhibition of gene expression by the cleavage of mRNAs encoding proteins of interest. However, particular attention must be paid to the following points: the identification of regions on the mRNA accessible to the ribozyme; the delivery of ribozymes to cells by either exogenous or endogenous delivery; colocalization of the ribozyme with the target RNA in the cell; and differentiation between closely related sequences. This field is advancing rapidly, and results obtained with transgenic animals demonstrate the power of this strategy for the inhibition of gene expression.
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- B Bramlage
- Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin, Göttingen, Germany
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Torres RA, Bruice TC. Molecular dynamics study displays near in-line attack conformations in the hammerhead ribozyme self-cleavage reaction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:11077-82. [PMID: 9736692 PMCID: PMC21598 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.19.11077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We have performed molecular dynamics (MD) calculations by using one of the recently solved crystal structures of a hammerhead ribozyme. By rotating the alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, and zeta torsion angles of the phosphate linkage of residue 17, the nucleobase at the cleavage site was slightly rotated out of the active site toward the solution. Unconstrained MD simulations exceeding 1 ns were performed on this starting structure solvated in water with explicit counter ions and two Mg2+ ions at the active site. Our results reveal that near attack conformations consistently were formed in the simulation. These near attack conformations are characterized by assumption of the 2'-hydroxyl to a near in-line position for attack on the -O-(PO2-)-O- phosphorous. Also during the time course of the MD study, one Mg2+ moved immediately to associate with a pro-R phosphate oxygen in the conserved core region, and the second Mg2+ remained associated with the pro-R oxygen on the phosphate linkage undergoing hydrolysis. These results are in accord with a one-metal ion mechanism of catalysis and give insight into the possible roles of many of the conserved residues in the ribozyme.
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- R A Torres
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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Murray JB, Terwey DP, Maloney L, Karpeisky A, Usman N, Beigelman L, Scott WG. The structural basis of hammerhead ribozyme self-cleavage. Cell 1998; 92:665-73. [PMID: 9506521 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81134-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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We have captured an 8.7 A conformational change that takes place in the cleavage site of the hammerhead ribozyme during self-cleavage, using X-ray crystallography combined with physical and chemical trapping techniques. This rearrangement brings the hammerhead ribozyme from the ground state into a conformation that is poised to form the transition state geometry required for hammerhead RNA self-cleavage. Use of a 5'-C-methylated ribose adjacent to the cleavage site permits this ordinarily transient conformational change to be kinetically trapped and observed crystallographically after initiating the hammerhead ribozyme reaction in the crystal. Cleavage of the corresponding unmodified hammerhead ribozyme in the crystal under otherwise identical conditions is faster than in solution, indicating that we have indeed trapped a catalytically relevant intermediate form of this RNA enzyme.
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- J B Murray
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA
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Birikh KR, Heaton PA, Eckstein F. The structure, function and application of the hammerhead ribozyme. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1997; 245:1-16. [PMID: 9128718 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.t01-3-00001.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 224] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The hammerhead ribozyme is one of the smallest ribozymes known and catalyses the site-specific hydrolysis of a phosphodiester bond. This small ribozyme is of interest for two reasons. It offers a convenient system to study the structure/function relationship of a nucleotide sequence, and is a potential vehicle for the inhibition of gene expression. The first part of the review summarizes the sequence requirements of the hammerhead, its three-dimensional structure and the proposed mechanism, in addition to ribozyme specificity and turnover. The second part of the review focuses on the in vivo application of the ribozyme. The processes involved in designing ribozymes for efficient cleavage in vivo are described, together with possible delivery strategies.
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- K R Birikh
- Max-Planck-Institut für experimentelle Medizin, Göttingen, Germany
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Brion P, Westhof E. Hierarchy and dynamics of RNA folding. ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE 1997; 26:113-37. [PMID: 9241415 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.26.1.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 405] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The evidence showing that the self-assembly of complex RNAs occurs in discrete transitions, each relating to the folding of sub-systems of increasing size and complexity starting from a state with most of the secondary structure, is reviewed. The reciprocal influence of the concentration of magnesium ions and nucleotide mutations on tertiary structure is analyzed. Several observations demonstrate that detrimental mutations can be rescued by high magnesium concentrations, while stabilizing mutations lead to a lesser dependence on magnesium ion concentration. Recent data point to the central controlling and monitoring roles of RNA-binding proteins that can bind to the different folding stages, either before full establishment of the secondary structure or at the molten globule state before the cooperative transition to the final three-dimensional structure.
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- P Brion
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 9002, Strasbourg, France
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