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Mirzakhanian A, Khoury M, Trujillo DE, Kim B, Ca D, Minehan T. DNA major versus minor groove occupancy of monomeric and dimeric crystal violet derivatives. Toward structural correlations. Bioorg Med Chem 2023; 94:117438. [PMID: 37757605 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2023.117438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Revised: 08/05/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
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Six monomeric (1a-1f) and five dimeric (2a-2e) derivatives of the triphenylmethane dye crystal violet (CV) have been prepared. Evaluation of the binding of these compounds to CT DNA by competitive fluorescent intercalator displacement (FID) assays, viscosity experiments, and UV and CD spectroscopy suggest that monomeric derivative 1a and dimeric derivative 2d likely associate with the major groove of DNA, while dimeric derivatives 2a and 2e likely associate with the minor groove of DNA. Additional evidence for the groove occupancy assignments of these derivatives was obtained from ITC experiments and from differential inhibition of DNA cleavage by the major groove binding restriction enzyme BamHI, as revealed by agarose gel electrophoresis. The data indicate that major groove ligands may be optimally constructed from dye units containing a sterically bulky 3,5-dimethyl-N,N-dimethylaniline group; furthermore, the groove-selectivity of olefin-tethered dimer 2d suggests that stereoelectronic interactions (n → π*) between the ligand and DNA are also an important design consideration in the crafting of major-groove binding ligands.
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- Aren Mirzakhanian
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330, USA.
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Díaz-Casado L, Santana AG, Gómez-Pinto I, Villacampa A, Corzana F, Jiménez-Barbero J, González C, Asensio JL. Binding-driven reactivity attenuation enables NMR identification of selective drug candidates for nucleic acid targets. Commun Chem 2022; 5:137. [PMID: 36697799 PMCID: PMC9814457 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-022-00755-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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NMR methods, and in particular ligand-based approaches, are among the most robust and reliable alternatives for binding detection and consequently, they have become highly popular in the context of hit identification and drug discovery. However, when dealing with DNA/RNA targets, these techniques face limitations that have precluded widespread application in medicinal chemistry. In order to expand the arsenal of spectroscopic tools for binding detection and to overcome the existing difficulties, herein we explore the scope and limitations of a strategy that makes use of a binding indicator previously unexploited by NMR: the perturbation of the ligand reactivity caused by complex formation. The obtained results indicate that ligand reactivity can be utilised to reveal association processes and identify the best binders within mixtures of significant complexity, providing a conceptually different reactivity-based alternative within NMR screening methods.
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- Laura Díaz-Casado
- grid.419121.e0000 0004 1761 1887Instituto de Química Orgánica (IQOG-CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- grid.419121.e0000 0004 1761 1887Instituto de Química Orgánica (IQOG-CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- grid.429036.a0000 0001 0805 7691Instituto de Química-Física Rocasolano (IQFR-CSIC), Madrid, 28006 Spain
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- grid.419121.e0000 0004 1761 1887Instituto de Química Orgánica (IQOG-CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- grid.119021.a0000 0001 2174 6969Dept. Química and Centro de Investigación en Síntesis Química, Universidad de La Rioja, 26005 La Rioja, Spain
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- grid.420175.50000 0004 0639 2420Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC-bioGUNE). Derio, 48160 Bizkaia, Spain
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- grid.429036.a0000 0001 0805 7691Instituto de Química-Física Rocasolano (IQFR-CSIC), Madrid, 28006 Spain
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- grid.419121.e0000 0004 1761 1887Instituto de Química Orgánica (IQOG-CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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Waduge P, Sati GC, Crich D, Chow CS. Use of a fluorescence assay to determine relative affinities of semisynthetic aminoglycosides to small RNAs representing bacterial and mitochondrial A sites. Bioorg Med Chem 2019; 27:115121. [PMID: 31610941 PMCID: PMC6961810 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2019.115121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Revised: 09/02/2019] [Accepted: 09/12/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The off-target binding of aminoglycosides (AGs) to the A site of human mitochondrial ribosomes in addition to bacterial ribosomes causes ototoxicity and limits their potential as antibiotics. A fluorescence assay was employed to determine relative binding affinities of classical and improved AG compounds to synthetic RNA constructs representing the bacterial and mitochondrial A sites. Results compared well with previously reported in vitro translation assays with engineered ribosomes. Therefore, the minimal RNA motifs and fluorescence assay are shown here to be useful for assessing the selectivity of new compounds.
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- Prabuddha Waduge
- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.
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Ebrahimi SB, Samanta D, Cheng HF, Nathan LI, Mirkin CA. Forced Intercalation (FIT)-Aptamers. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:13744-13748. [PMID: 31441661 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Aptamers are oligonucleotide sequences that can be evolved to bind to various analytes of interest. Here, we present a general design strategy that transduces an aptamer-target binding event into a fluorescence readout via the use of a viscosity-sensitive dye. Target binding to the aptamer leads to forced intercalation (FIT) of the dye between oligonucleotide base pairs, increasing its fluorescence by up to 20-fold. Specifically, we demonstrate that FIT-aptamers can report target presence through intramolecular conformational changes, sandwich assays, and target-templated reassociation of split-aptamers, showing that the most common aptamer-target binding modes can be coupled to a FIT-based readout. This strategy also can be used to detect the formation of a metallo-base pair within a duplexed strand and is therefore attractive for screening for metal-mediated base pairing events. Importantly, FIT-aptamers reduce false-positive signals typically associated with fluorophore-quencher based systems, quantitatively outperform FRET-based probes by providing up to 15-fold higher signal to background ratios, and allow rapid and highly sensitive target detection (nanomolar range) in complex media such as human serum. Taken together, FIT-aptamers are a new class of signaling aptamers which contain a single modification, yet can be used to detect a broad range of targets.
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Aminoglycoside antibiotics are protein synthesis inhibitors applied to treat infections caused mainly by aerobic Gram-negative bacteria. Due to their adverse side effects they are last resort antibiotics typically used to combat pathogens resistant to other drugs. Aminoglycosides target ribosomes. We describe the interactions of aminoglycoside antibiotics containing a 2-deoxystreptamine (2-DOS) ring with 16S rRNA. We review the computational studies, with a focus on molecular dynamics (MD) simulations performed on RNA models mimicking the 2-DOS aminoglycoside binding site in the small ribosomal subunit. We also briefly discuss thermodynamics of interactions of these aminoglycosides with their 16S RNA target.
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Wang Z, Kuang X, Shi J, Guo W, Liu H. Targeted delivery of geranylgeranylacetone to mitochondria by triphenylphosphonium modified nanoparticles: a promising strategy to prevent aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss. Biomater Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7bm00224f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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TPP induced and GGA loaded mitochondria-targeting nanoparticles could efficiently protect hair cells from damage.
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- Zhenjie Wang
- School of Pharmacy
- Shenyang Pharmaceutical University
- Shenyang 110016
- China
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- School of Pharmacy
- Shenyang Pharmaceutical University
- Shenyang 110016
- China
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- School of Pharmacy
- Shenyang Pharmaceutical University
- Shenyang 110016
- China
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- School of Pharmacy
- Shenyang Pharmaceutical University
- Shenyang 110016
- China
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- School of Pharmacy
- Shenyang Pharmaceutical University
- Shenyang 110016
- China
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Wu S, Mao G, Kirsebom LA. Inhibition of Bacterial RNase P RNA by Phenothiazine Derivatives. Biomolecules 2016; 6:biom6030038. [PMID: 27618117 PMCID: PMC5039424 DOI: 10.3390/biom6030038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2016] [Revised: 08/24/2016] [Accepted: 08/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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There is a need to identify novel scaffolds and targets to develop new antibiotics. Methylene blue is a phenothiazine derivative, and it has been shown to possess anti-malarial and anti-trypanosomal activities. Here, we show that different phenothiazine derivatives and pyronine G inhibited the activities of three structurally different bacterial RNase P RNAs (RPRs), including that from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with Ki values in the lower μM range. Interestingly, three antipsychotic phenothiazines (chlorpromazine, thioridazine, and trifluoperazine), which are known to have antibacterial activities, also inhibited the activity of bacterial RPRs, albeit with higher Ki values than methylene blue. Phenothiazines also affected lead(II)-induced cleavage of bacterial RPR and inhibited yeast tRNA(Phe), indicating binding of these drugs to functionally important regions. Collectively, our findings provide the first experimental data showing that long, noncoding RNAs could be targeted by different phenothiazine derivatives.
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- Shiying Wu
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Box 596, Biomedical Centre, Uppsala SE-751 24, Sweden.
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Box 596, Biomedical Centre, Uppsala SE-751 24, Sweden.
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Box 596, Biomedical Centre, Uppsala SE-751 24, Sweden.
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Yamashita S, Bergmann D, Sato A, Nomoto M, Tada Y, Humpf HU, Itami K, Hagihara S. High-throughput Assay for Quantification of Aminoglycoside–Ribosome Interaction. CHEM LETT 2016. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.160508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Bhattacharjee P, Sarkar S, Pandya P, Bhadra K. Targeting different RNA motifs by beta carboline alkaloid, harmalol: a comparative photophysical, calorimetric, and molecular docking approach. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2016; 34:2722-2740. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2015.1126694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Huang CK, Shen YL, Huang LF, Wu SJ, Yeh CH, Lu CA. The DEAD-Box RNA Helicase AtRH7/PRH75 Participates in Pre-rRNA Processing, Plant Development and Cold Tolerance in Arabidopsis. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 57:174-91. [PMID: 26637537 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcv188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2015] [Accepted: 11/18/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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DEAD-box RNA helicases belong to an RNA helicase family that plays specific roles in various RNA metabolism processes, including ribosome biogenesis, mRNA splicing, RNA export, mRNA translation and RNA decay. This study investigated a DEAD-box RNA helicase, AtRH7/PRH75, in Arabidopsis. Expression of AtRH7/PRH75 was ubiquitous; however, the levels of mRNA accumulation were increased in cell division regions and were induced by cold stress. The phenotypes of two allelic AtRH7/PRH75-knockout mutants, atrh7-2 and atrh7-3, resembled auxin-related developmental defects that were exhibited in several ribosomal protein mutants, and were more severe under cold stress. Northern blot and circular reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) analyses indicated that unprocessed 18S pre-rRNAs accumulated in the atrh7 mutants. The atrh7 mutants were hyposensitive to the antibiotic streptomycin, which targets ribosomal small subunits, suggesting that AtRH7 was also involved in ribosome assembly. In addition, the atrh7-2 and atrh7-3 mutants displayed cold hypersensitivity and decreased expression of CBF1, CBF2 and CBF3, which might be responsible for the cold intolerance. The present study indicated that AtRH7 participates in rRNA biogenesis and is also involved in plant development and cold tolerance in Arabidopsis.
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- Chun-Kai Huang
- Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taoyuan County 320, Taiwan, ROC These authors contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taoyuan County 320, Taiwan, ROC These authors contributed equally to this work
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- Graduate School of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Yuan Ze University, Jhongli City, Taoyuan County 320, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taoyuan County 320, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taoyuan County 320, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taoyuan County 320, Taiwan, ROC
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Alguacil J, Robles J, Ràfols C, Bosch E. Binding thermodynamics of paromomycin, neomycin, neomycin-dinucleotide and -diPNA conjugates to bacterial and human rRNA. J Mol Recognit 2015; 29:142-50. [DOI: 10.1002/jmr.2513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2014] [Revised: 09/18/2015] [Accepted: 09/19/2015] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Javier Alguacil
- Departament de Química Orgànica; Facultat de Química and Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB), Universitat de Barcelona; Martí i Franquès, 1-11 08028 Barcelona Spain
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- Departament de Química Orgànica; Facultat de Química and Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB), Universitat de Barcelona; Martí i Franquès, 1-11 08028 Barcelona Spain
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- Departament de Química Analítica; Facultat de Química and Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB), Universitat de Barcelona; Martí i Franquès, 1-11 08028 Barcelona Spain
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- Departament de Química Analítica; Facultat de Química and Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB), Universitat de Barcelona; Martí i Franquès, 1-11 08028 Barcelona Spain
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Choi H, Kang H, Park H. Computational Prediction of Molecular Hydration Entropy with Hybrid Scaled Particle Theory and Free-Energy Perturbation Method. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 11:4933-42. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Hwanho Choi
- Department
of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Sejong University, 209 Neungdong-ro, Kwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-747, Korea
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- Institute
for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department
of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Sejong University, 209 Neungdong-ro, Kwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-747, Korea
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Panecka J, Šponer J, Trylska J. Conformational dynamics of bacterial and human cytoplasmic models of the ribosomal A-site. Biochimie 2015; 112:96-110. [PMID: 25748164 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2015.02.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2014] [Accepted: 02/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The aminoacyl-tRNA binding site (A-site) is located in helix 44 of small ribosomal subunit. The mobile adenines 1492 and 1493 (Escherichia coli numbering), forming the A-site bulge, act as a functional switch that ensures mRNA decoding accuracy. Structural data on the oligonucleotide models mimicking the ribosomal A-site with sequences corresponding to bacterial and human cytoplasmic sites confirm that this RNA motif forms also without the ribosome context. We performed all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of these crystallographic A-site models to compare their conformational properties. We found that the human A-site bulge is more internally flexible than the bacterial one and has different base pairing preferences, which result in the overall different shapes of these bulges and cation density distributions. Also, in the human A-site model we observed repetitive destacking of A1492, while A1493 was more stably paired than in the bacterial variant. Based on the dynamics of the A-sites we suggest why aminoglycoside antibiotics, which target the bacterial A-site, have lower binding affinities and anti-translational activities toward the human variant.
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- Joanna Panecka
- Division of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland; Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Campus Bohunice, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic; Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Královopolská 135, 612 65 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Banacha 2c, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland.
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Panecka J, Havrila M, Réblová K, Šponer J, Trylska J. Role of S-turn2 in the structure, dynamics, and function of mitochondrial ribosomal A-site. A bioinformatics and molecular dynamics simulation study. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:6687-701. [PMID: 24845793 DOI: 10.1021/jp5030685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The mRNA decoding site (A-site) in the small ribosomal subunit controls fidelity of the translation process. Here, using molecular dynamics simulations and bioinformatic analyses, we investigated the structural dynamics of the human mitochondrial A-site (native and A1490G mutant) and compared it with the dynamics of the bacterial A-site. We detected and characterized a specific RNA backbone configuration, S-turn2, which occurs in the human mitochondrial but not in the bacterial A-site. Mitochondrial and bacterial A-sites show different propensities to form S-turn2 that may be caused by different base-pairing patterns of the flanking nucleotides. Also, the S-turn2 structural stability observed in the simulations supports higher accuracy and lower speed of mRNA decoding in mitochondria in comparison with bacteria. In the mitochondrial A-site, we observed collective movement of stacked nucleotides A1408·C1409·C1410, which may explain the known differences in aminoglycoside antibiotic binding affinities toward the studied A-site variants.
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- Joanna Panecka
- Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics and ∥Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw , Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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Dudek M, Romanowska J, Wituła T, Trylska J. Interactions of amikacin with the RNA model of the ribosomal A-site: computational, spectroscopic and calorimetric studies. Biochimie 2014; 102:188-202. [PMID: 24769038 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2014.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2013] [Accepted: 03/20/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Amikacin is a 2-deoxystreptamine aminoglycoside antibiotic possessing a unique l-HABA (l-(-)-γ-amino-α-hydroxybutyric acid) group and applied in the treatment of hospital-acquired infections. Amikacin influences bacterial translation by binding to the decoding region of the small ribosomal subunit that overlaps with the binding site of aminoacylated-tRNA (A-site). Here, we have characterized thermodynamics of interactions of amikacin with a 27-mer RNA oligonucleotide mimicking the aminoglycoside binding site in the bacterial ribosome. We applied isothermal titration and differential scanning calorimetries, circular dichroism and thermal denaturation experiments, as well as computer simulations. Thermal denaturation studies have shown that amikacin affects only slightly the melting temperatures of the A-site mimicking RNA model suggesting a moderate stabilization of RNA by amikacin. Isothermal titration calorimetry gives the equilibrium dissociation constants for the binding reaction between amikacin and the A-site oligonucleotide in the micromolar range with a favorable enthalpic contribution. However, for amikacin we observe a positive entropic contribution to binding, contrary to other aminoglycosides, paromomycin and ribostamycin. Circular dichroism spectra suggest that the observed increase in entropy is not caused by structural changes of RNA because amikacin binding does not destabilize the helicity of the RNA model. To investigate the origins of this positive entropy change we performed all-atom molecular dynamics simulations in explicit solvent for the 27-mer RNA oligonucleotide mimicking one A-site and the crystal structure of an RNA duplex containing two A-sites. We observed that the diversity of the conformational states of the l-HABA group sampled in the simulations of the complex was larger than for the free amikacin in explicit water. Therefore, the larger flexibility of the l-HABA group in the bound form may contribute to an increase of entropy upon binding.
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- Marta Dudek
- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland; Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland; First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Hematology, Oncology and Internal Diseases, Medical University of Warsaw, Al. Żwirki i Wigury 61, 02-091 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Hoża 69, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland; Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland.
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Reinstein O, Yoo M, Han C, Palmo T, Beckham SA, Wilce MCJ, Johnson PE. Quinine binding by the cocaine-binding aptamer. Thermodynamic and hydrodynamic analysis of high-affinity binding of an off-target ligand. Biochemistry 2013; 52:8652-62. [PMID: 24175947 DOI: 10.1021/bi4010039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The cocaine-binding aptamer is unusual in that it tightly binds molecules other than the ligand it was selected for. Here, we study the interaction of the cocaine-binding aptamer with one of these off-target ligands, quinine. Isothermal titration calorimetry was used to quantify the quinine-binding affinity and thermodynamics of a set of sequence variants of the cocaine-binding aptamer. We find that the affinity of the cocaine-binding aptamer for quinine is 30-40 times stronger than it is for cocaine. Competitive-binding studies demonstrate that both quinine and cocaine bind at the same site on the aptamer. The ligand-induced structural-switching binding mechanism of an aptamer variant that contains three base pairs in stem 1 is retained with quinine as a ligand. The short stem 1 aptamer is unfolded or loosely folded in the free form and becomes folded when bound to quinine. This folding is confirmed by NMR spectroscopy and by the short stem 1 construct having a more negative change in heat capacity of quinine binding than is seen when stem 1 has six base pairs. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) studies of the free aptamer and both the quinine- and the cocaine-bound forms show that, for the long stem 1 aptamers, the three forms display similar hydrodynamic properties, and the ab initio shape reconstruction structures are very similar. For the short stem 1 aptamer there is a greater variation among the SAXS-derived ab initio shape reconstruction structures, consistent with the changes expected with its structural-switching binding mechanism.
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- Oren Reinstein
- Department of Chemistry, York University , 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
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McCoy LS, Roberts KD, Nation RL, Thompson PE, Velkov T, Li J, Tor Y. Polymyxins and analogues bind to ribosomal RNA and interfere with eukaryotic translation in vitro. Chembiochem 2013; 14:2083-6. [PMID: 24105917 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201300496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Looking for targets: while the bactericidal activity of polymyxins is attributed to changes in membrane permeation, we show that these antibiotics can bind prokaryotic and eukaryotic A-sites, domains responsible for translational decoding. Polymyxin B, colistin and analogues also hinder eukaryotic translation in vitro. These new targets and effects might be partially responsible for the plethora of adverse effects by these potent bactericidal agents.
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- Lisa S McCoy
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 (USA) http://torgroup.ucsd.edu/
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Lu J, Zhao L, Xia A, Xia T, Qi X. Dissect conformational distribution and drug-induced population shift of prokaryotic rRNA A-site. Biochemistry 2013; 52:1651-3. [PMID: 23427980 DOI: 10.1021/bi400053s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The dynamic behavior of the rRNA A-site plays an important functional role. We have employed femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy to investigate the nature of the conformational dynamics. In the drug-free state, the A-site samples multiple distinct conformations. Drug binding shifts the population distribution in a drug-specific manner. Motions of bases on nanosecond and picosecond time scales are differentially affected by the drug binding. Our results underscore the importance of understanding the detailed dynamic picture of molecular recognition by resolving dynamics in the distinct picosecond time regime and facilitate development of antimicrobial drugs targeting dynamic RNAs.
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- Jia Lu
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The University of Texas at Dallas , Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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Kaur M, Rupasinghe CN, Klosi E, Spaller MR, Chow CS. Selection of heptapeptides that bind helix 69 of bacterial 23S ribosomal RNA. Bioorg Med Chem 2013; 21:1240-7. [PMID: 23375098 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2012.12.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2012] [Revised: 12/13/2012] [Accepted: 12/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Helix 69 of Escherichia coli 23S rRNA has important roles in specific steps of translation, such as subunit association, translocation, and ribosome recycling. An M13 phage library was used to identify peptide ligands with affinity for helix 69. One selected sequence, NQVANHQ, was shown through a bead assay to interact with helix 69. Electrospray ionization mass spectroscopy revealed an apparent dissociation constant for the amidated peptide and helix 69 in the low micromolar range. This value is comparable to that of aminoglycoside antibiotics binding to the A site of 16S rRNA or helix 69. Helix 69 variants (human) and unrelated RNAs (helix 31 or A site of 16S rRNA) showed two- to fourfold lower affinity for NQVANHQ-NH(2). These results suggest that the peptide has desirable features for development as a lead compound for novel antimicrobials.
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- Moninderpal Kaur
- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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Serpersu EH, Norris AL. Effect of protein dynamics and solvent in ligand recognition by promiscuous aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes. Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem 2012; 67:221-48. [PMID: 22794185 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-396527-1.00005-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- Engin H Serpersu
- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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Hossain M, Kabir A, Suresh Kumar G. Binding of the anticancer alkaloid sanguinarine with tRNA(phe): spectroscopic and calorimetric studies. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2012; 30:223-34. [PMID: 22702734 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2012.677774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The interaction of the natural plant alkaloid and anticancer agent sanguinarine with tRNA(phe) has been investigated by spectroscopic and calorimetric techniques. Sanguinarine iminium binds to tRNA(phe) cooperatively; alkanolamine does not bind but in presence of large tRNA(phe) concentration, a conversion from alkanolamine to iminium occurs resulting in concomitant binding of the latter. The binding affinity of the iminium to tRNA(phe) obtained from isothermal titration calorimetry was of the order of 10(5) M(-1), which is close to that evaluated from spectroscopy. The binding was driven largely by negative enthalpy and a smaller but favourable positive entropy change. The binding was dependent on the [Na(+)] concentration, but had a larger non-electrostatic contribution to the Gibbs energy. A small heat capacity value and the enthalpy-entropy compensation in the energetics of the interaction characterized the binding of the iminium form to tRNA(phe). This study confirms that the tRNA(phe) binding moiety is the iminium form of sanguinarine.
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- Maidul Hossain
- Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata, 700032, India
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Lombès T, Moumné R, Larue V, Prost E, Catala M, Lecourt T, Dardel F, Micouin L, Tisné C. Investigation of RNA-Ligand Interactions by 19F NMR Spectroscopy Using Fluorinated Probes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012; 51:9530-4. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201204083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Lombès T, Moumné R, Larue V, Prost E, Catala M, Lecourt T, Dardel F, Micouin L, Tisné C. Investigation of RNA-Ligand Interactions by 19F NMR Spectroscopy Using Fluorinated Probes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201204083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Das A, Suresh Kumar G. Probing the binding of two sugar bearing anticancer agents aristololactam-β-(D)-glucoside and daunomycin to double stranded RNA polynucleotides: a combined spectroscopic and calorimetric study. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2012; 8:1958-69. [PMID: 22596256 DOI: 10.1039/c2mb25080b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The plant alkaloid aristololactam-β-d-glucoside and the anticancer chemotherapy drug daunomycin are two sugar bearing DNA binding antibiotics. The binding of these molecules to three double stranded ribonucleic acids, poly(A)·poly(U), poly(I)·poly(C) and poly(C)·poly(G), was studied using various biophysical techniques. Absorbance and fluorescence studies revealed that these molecules bound non-cooperatively to these ds RNAs with the binding affinities of the order 10(6) for daunomycin and 10(5) M(-1) for aristololactam-β-d-glucoside. Fluorescence quenching and viscosity studies gave evidence for intercalative binding. The binding enhanced the melting temperature of poly(A)·poly(U) and poly(I)·poly(C) and the binding affinity values evaluated from the melting data were in agreement with that obtained from other techniques. Circular dichroism results suggested minor conformational perturbations of the RNA structures. The binding was characterized by negative enthalpy and positive entropy changes and the affinity constants derived from calorimetry were in agreement with that obtained from spectroscopic data. Daunomycin bound all the three RNAs stronger than aristololactam-β-d-glucoside and the binding affinity varied as poly(A)·poly(U) > poly(I)·poly(C) > poly(C)·poly(G). The temperature dependence of the enthalpy changes yielded negative values of heat capacity changes for the complexation suggesting substantial hydrophobic contribution to the binding process. Furthermore, an enthalpy-entropy compensation behavior was also seen in all systems. These results provide new insights into binding of these small molecule drugs to double stranded RNA sequences.
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- Abhi Das
- Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Division, CSIR - Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700 032, India
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Kythreoti G, Vourloumis D. A Homo sapiens cytoplasmic ribosomal decoding A-site affinity screen evaluating aminoglycoside and analogue binding. Anal Biochem 2011; 412:102-7. [PMID: 21238425 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2011.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2010] [Accepted: 01/11/2011] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The potential of aminoglycoside antibiotics to induce premature stop codon read-through in eukaryotic systems has been reported recently, inspiring the evaluation of structural alterations within the Homo sapiens cytoplasmic decoding center on ligand binding. Here we report the employment of an affinity screen capable of monitoring conformational changes of adenines 1492 and 1493 in solution. Thus, changes induced by the presence of a ligand can be directly translated to binding affinities for the eukaryotic decoding center. Binding data for the eukaryotic ribosomal decoding center can be easily obtained by this method and are in excellent agreement with previously reported values measured by alternative techniques. Furthermore, a good correlation is obtained between the experimental binding affinities and the biological activity of the compounds examined. In addition, illustrating the generality of the assay, unnatural rigid aminoglycoside analogues of potential therapeutic significance were evaluated.
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- Georgia Kythreoti
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Natural Products and Designed Molecules, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Athens, Greece
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McCoy LS, Xie Y, Tor Y. Antibiotics that target protein synthesis. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2010; 2:209-32. [DOI: 10.1002/wrna.60] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Matt T, Akbergenov R, Shcherbakov D, Böttger EC. The Ribosomal A-site: Decoding, Drug Target, and Disease. Isr J Chem 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201000003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Xie Y, Dix AV, Tor Y. Antibiotic selectivity for prokaryotic vs. eukaryotic decoding sites. Chem Commun (Camb) 2010; 46:5542-4. [PMID: 20464029 DOI: 10.1039/c0cc00423e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A FRET assembly reports antibiotic affinities to two different RNA targets. A binder was labeled with a fluorophore that acts both as an acceptor for the emissive nucleoside on the bacterial A-site and a donor fluorophore for the terminally-labeled human A-site. Unlabeled drugs were used to dissociate the labeled antibiotic.
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- Yun Xie
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA
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Chowdhury SR, Islam MM, Kumar GS. Binding of the anticancer alkaloid sanguinarine to double stranded RNAs: insights into the structural and energetics aspects. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2010; 6:1265-76. [PMID: 20442937 DOI: 10.1039/b927001a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Elucidation of the molecular aspects of small molecule-RNA complexation is of prime importance for rational RNA targeted drug design strategies. Towards this, the interaction of the cytotoxic plant alkaloid sanguinarine to three double stranded ribonucleic acids, poly (A).poly(U), poly(I).poly(C) and poly(C).poly(G) was studied using various biophysical and thermodynamic techniques. Absorbance and fluorescence studies showed that the alkaloid bound cooperatively to these RNAs with binding affinities of the order 10(4) M(-1). Fluorescence quenching and hydrodynamic studies gave evidence for intercalation of sanguinarine to these RNA duplexes. Isothermal titration calorimetric studies revealed that the binding was characterized by negative enthalpy and positive entropy changes and the affinity constants derived were in agreement with the overall binding affinity values obtained from spectroscopic data. The binding of sanguinarine stabilized the melting of poly(A). poly(U) and poly(I).poly(C) and the binding data evaluated from the melting data were in agreement with that obtained from other techniques. The overall binding affinity of sanguinarine to these double stranded RNAs varied in the order, poly(A).poly(U) > poly(I).poly(C) >> poly(C).poly(G). The temperature dependence of the enthalpy changes afforded negative values of heat capacity changes for the binding of sanguinarine to poly(A).poly(U) and poly(I).poly(C), suggesting substantial hydrophobic contribution in the binding process. Further, enthalpy-entropy compensation phenomena was also seen in poly(A).poly(U) and poly(I).poly(C) systems that correlated to the strong binding involving a multiplicity of weak noncovalent interactions compared to the weak binding with poly(C).poly(G). These results further advance our understanding on the binding of small molecules that are specific binders to double stranded RNA sequences.
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- Sebanti Roy Chowdhury
- Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (CSIR), 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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Scheunemann AE, Graham WD, Vendeix FAP, Agris PF. Binding of aminoglycoside antibiotics to helix 69 of 23S rRNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 38:3094-105. [PMID: 20110260 PMCID: PMC2875026 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp1253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Aminoglycosides antibiotics negate dissociation and recycling of the bacterial ribosome’s subunits by binding to Helix 69 (H69) of 23S rRNA. The differential binding of various aminoglycosides to the chemically synthesized terminal domains of the Escherichia coli and human H69 has been characterized using spectroscopy, calorimetry and NMR. The unmodified E. coli H69 hairpin exhibited a significantly higher affinity for neomycin B and tobramycin than for paromomycin (Kds = 0.3 ± 0.1, 0.2 ± 0.2 and 5.4 ± 1.1 µM, respectively). The binding of streptomycin was too weak to assess. In contrast to the E. coli H69, the human 28S rRNA H69 had a considerable decrease in affinity for the antibiotics, an important validation of the bacterial target. The three conserved pseudouridine modifications (Ψ1911, Ψ1915, Ψ1917) occurring in the loop of the E. coli H69 affected the dissociation constant, but not the stoichiometry for the binding of paromomycin (Kd = 2.6 ± 0.1 µM). G1906 and G1921, observed by NMR spectrometry, figured predominantly in the aminoglycoside binding to H69. The higher affinity of the E. coli H69 for neomycin B and tobramycin, as compared to paromomycin and streptomycin, indicates differences in the efficacy of the aminoglycosides.
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- Ann E Scheunemann
- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7622, USA
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Kaluzhny DN, Minyat EE. Interaction of the dimeric form of retroviral RNA with paromonycin and magnesium as revealed using 2-aminopurine fluorescence. Mol Biol 2009. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893309040141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Nudelman I, Rebibo-Sabbah A, Cherniavsky M, Belakhov V, Hainrichson M, Chen F, Schacht J, Pilch DS, Ben-Yosef T, Baasov T. Development of novel aminoglycoside (NB54) with reduced toxicity and enhanced suppression of disease-causing premature stop mutations. J Med Chem 2009; 52:2836-45. [PMID: 19309154 DOI: 10.1021/jm801640k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Nonsense mutations promote premature translational termination and represent the underlying cause of a large number of human genetic diseases. The aminoglycoside antibiotic gentamicin has the ability to allow the mammalian ribosome to read past a false-stop signal and generate full-length functional proteins. However, severe toxic side effects along with the reduced suppression efficiency at subtoxic doses limit the use of gentamicin for suppression therapy. We describe here the first systematic development of the novel aminoglycoside 2 (NB54) exhibiting superior in vitro readthrough efficiency to that of gentamicin in seven different DNA fragments derived from mutant genes carrying nonsense mutations representing the genetic diseases Usher syndrome, cystic fibrosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and Hurler syndrome. Comparative acute lethal toxicity in mice, cell toxicity, and the assessment of hair cell toxicity in cochlear explants further indicated that 2 exhibits far lower toxicity than that of gentamicin.
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- Igor Nudelman
- The Edith and Joseph Fischer Enzyme Inhibitors Laboratory, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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Lee HW, Briggs KT, Marino JP. Dissecting structural transitions in the HIV-1 dimerization initiation site RNA using 2-aminopurine fluorescence. Methods 2009; 49:118-27. [PMID: 19460437 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2009.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2009] [Revised: 05/08/2009] [Accepted: 05/12/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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A highly conserved 35 nucleotide RNA stem-loop, the dimerization initiation site (DIS), in the 5' untranslated region (UTR) of the human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) genome has been identified as the sequence primarily responsible for initiation of viral genome dimerization. The DIS initiates viral genome dimerization through a loop-loop 'kissing' interaction and is converted from an intermediate 'kissing' to a more thermodynamically stable extended duplex dimer in a conformational rearrangement that is chaperoned by the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein (NCp7). Here we describe fluorescence methods designed to probe local RNA dynamics and structural transitions associated with the DIS dimer formation and its NCp7 chaperoned structural conversion. These methods take advantage of the exquisite sensitivity of the quantum yield of the fluorescent nucleotide base analog, 2-aminopurine (2-AP), to its immediate structural and dynamic environment. The 2-AP fluorescence methods described allow a detailed kinetic and thermodynamic examination of this type of RNA-RNA interaction, as well as an analysis of the molecular mechanism of NCp7 chaperone activity.
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- Hui-Wen Lee
- Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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Aminova O, Paul DJ, Childs-Disney JL, Disney MD. Two-dimensional combinatorial screening identifies specific 6'-acylated kanamycin A- and 6'-acylated neamine-RNA hairpin interactions. Biochemistry 2009; 47:12670-9. [PMID: 18991404 DOI: 10.1021/bi8012615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Herein, we report the RNA hairpin loops from a six-nucleotide hairpin library that bind 6'-acylated kanamycin A (1) and 6'-acylated neamine (2) identified by two-dimensional combinatorial screening (2DCS). Hairpins selected to bind 1 have K(d)'s ranging from 235 to 1035 nM, with an average K(d) of 618 nM. For 2, the selected hairpins bind with K(d)'s ranging from 135 to 2300 nM, with an average K(d) of 1010 nM. The selected RNA hairpin-ligand interactions are also specific for the ligand that they were selected to bind compared with the other arrayed ligand. For example, the mixture of hairpins selected for 1 on average bind 33-fold more tightly to 1 than to 2, while the mixtures of hairpins selected for 2 on average bind 11-fold more tightly to 2 than to 1. Secondary structure prediction of the selected sequences was completed to determine the motifs that each ligand binds, and the hairpin loop preferences for 1 and 2 were computed. For 1, the preferred hairpin loops contain an adenine separated by at least two nucleotides from a cytosine, for example, ANNCNN (two-tailed p-value = 0.0010) and ANNNCN (two-tailed p-value <0.0001). For 2, the preferred hairpin loops contain both 5'GC and 5'CG steps (two-tailed p-value <0.0001). These results expand the information available on the RNA hairpin loops that bind small molecules and could prove useful for targeting RNA.
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- Olga Aminova
- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and the NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences, 657 Natural Sciences Complex, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA
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Islam MM, Pandya P, Kumar S, Kumar GS. RNA targeting through binding of small molecules: Studies on t-RNA binding by the cytotoxic protoberberine alkaloidcoralyne. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 5:244-54. [DOI: 10.1039/b816480k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ong HC, Arambula JF, Rao Ramisetty S, Baranger AM, Zimmerman SC. Molecular recognition of a thymine bulge by a high affinity, deazaguanine-based hydrogen-bonding ligand. Chem Commun (Camb) 2009:668-70. [DOI: 10.1039/b817733n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) is a biophysical technique that measures the heat evolved or absorbed during a reaction to report the enthalpy, entropy, stoichiometry of binding, and equilibrium association constant. A significant advantage of ITC over other methods is that it can be readily applied to almost any RNA-ligand complex without having to label either molecule and can be performed under a broad range of pH, temperature, and ionic concentrations. During our application of ITC to investigate the thermodynamic details of the interaction of a variety of compounds with the purine riboswitch, we have explored and optimized experimental parameters that yield the most useful and reproducible results for RNAs. In this chapter, we detail this method using the titration of an adenine-binding RNA with 2,6-diaminopurine (DAP) as a practical example. Our insights should be generally applicable to observing the interactions of a broad range of molecules with structured RNAs.
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- Sunny D Gilbert
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0215, USA
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Vaiana AC, Sanbonmatsu KY. Stochastic gating and drug-ribosome interactions. J Mol Biol 2008; 386:648-61. [PMID: 19146858 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.12.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2008] [Revised: 12/11/2008] [Accepted: 12/13/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Gentamicin is a potent antibiotic that is used in combination therapy for inhalation anthrax disease. The drug is also often used in therapy for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcusaureus. Gentamicin works by flipping a conformational switch on the ribosome, disrupting the reading head (i.e., 16S ribosomal decoding bases 1492-1493) used for decoding messenger RNA. We use explicit solvent all-atom molecular simulation to study the thermodynamics of the ribosomal decoding site and its interaction with gentamicin. The replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations used an aggregate sampling of 15 mus when summed over all replicas, allowing us to explicitly calculate the free-energy landscape, including a rigorous treatment of enthalpic and entropic effects. Here, we show that the decoding bases flip on a timescale faster than that of gentamicin binding, supporting a stochastic gating mechanism for antibiotic binding, rather than an induced-fit model where the bases only flip in the presence of a ligand. The study also allows us to explore the nonspecific binding landscape near the binding site and reveals that, rather than a two-state bound/unbound scenario, drug dissociation entails shuttling between many metastable local minima in the free-energy landscape. Special care is dedicated to validation of the obtained results, both by direct comparison to experiment and by estimation of simulation convergence.
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- Andrea C Vaiana
- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop K710, T-10, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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Genetic analysis of interactions with eukaryotic rRNA identify the mitoribosome as target in aminoglycoside ototoxicity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:20888-93. [PMID: 19104050 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811258106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Aminoglycoside ototoxicity has been related to a surprisingly large number of cellular structures and metabolic pathways. The finding that patients with mutations in mitochondrial rRNA are hypersusceptible to aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss has indicated a possible role for mitochondrial protein synthesis. To study the molecular interaction of aminoglycosides with eukaryotic ribosomes, we made use of the observation that the drug binding site is a distinct domain defined by the small subunit rRNA, and investigated drug susceptibility of bacterial hybrid ribosomes carrying various alleles of the eukaryotic decoding site. Compared to hybrid ribosomes with the A site of human cytosolic ribosomes, susceptibility of mitochondrial hybrid ribosomes to various aminoglycosides correlated with the relative cochleotoxicity of these drugs. Sequence alterations that correspond to the mitochondrial deafness mutations A1555G and C1494T increased drug-binding and rendered the ribosomal decoding site hypersusceptible to aminoglycoside-induced mistranslation and inhibition of protein synthesis. Our results provide experimental support for aminoglycoside-induced dysfunction of the mitochondrial ribosome. We propose a pathogenic mechanism in which interference of aminoglycosides with mitochondrial protein synthesis exacerbates the drugs' cochlear toxicity, playing a key role in sporadic dose-dependent and genetically inherited, aminoglycoside-induced deafness.
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Tomic TI, Moric I, Conn GL, Vasiljevic B. Aminoglycoside resistance genes sgm and kgmB protect bacterial but not yeast small ribosomal subunits in vitro despite high conservation of the rRNA A-site. Res Microbiol 2008; 159:658-62. [PMID: 18930134 PMCID: PMC2791848 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2008.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2008] [Revised: 08/14/2008] [Accepted: 09/01/2008] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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The aminoglycoside resistance genes sgm from Micromonospora zionensis and kgmB from Streptomyces tenebrarius were cloned into a yeast expression vector to test whether the encoded prokaryotic methylases can modify the 18S rRNA A-site and thus confer resistance to G-418. Despite the detectable presence of mRNAs in yeast cells, neither G-418-resistant yeast transformants nor positive western blot signals were obtained. Neither methylase was capable of methylating 40S subunits despite very high conservation of the antibiotic rRNA binding sites. However, the results provide novel insight into the action of Sgm by showing that it methylates the same site as KgmB, i.e. G1405 in 16S rRNA.
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- Tatjana Ilic Tomic
- Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Vojvode Stepe 444a, P.O. Box 23, 11010 Beograd, Serbia.
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Kaluzhny DN, Beniaminov AD, Minyat EE. 2-aminopurine fluorescence: discrimination between specific and unspecific ligand binding to the kissing-loop dimer of the HIV-1 RNA. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2008; 25:663-7. [PMID: 18399700 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2008.10507213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The fluorescent 2-aminopurine probe (2-AP) incorporated into the loop of 23-mer RNA hairpin of HIV-1 genome dimerization initiation site (DIS) was used for discrimination of specific and unspecific binding of paromomycin and spermine to the kissing loop dimer (KD) formed in solution. While both ligands stabilized the KD RNA structure, only paromomycin binding resulted in significant increase of 2-AP fluorescence. These observations suggest that the 2-AP fluorescent RNA construct might be useful for selecting ligands specifically binding the HIV-1 kissing loop RNA dimer.
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- Dmitry N Kaluzhny
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilova, 32, Moscow, 199911, Russia.
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- Jason R Thomas
- Department of Chemistry, Roger Adams Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61822, USA
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Kondo J, Hainrichson M, Nudelman I, Shallom-Shezifi D, Barbieri CM, Pilch DS, Westhof E, Baasov T. Differential selectivity of natural and synthetic aminoglycosides towards the eukaryotic and prokaryotic decoding A sites. Chembiochem 2008; 8:1700-9. [PMID: 17705310 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The lack of absolute prokaryotic selectivity of natural antibiotics is widespread and is a significant clinical problem. The use of this disadvantage of aminoglycoside antibiotics for the possible treatment of human genetic diseases is extremely challenging. Here, we have used a combination of biochemical and structural analysis to compare and contrast the molecular mechanisms of action and the structure-activity relationships of a new synthetic aminoglycoside, NB33, and a structurally similar natural aminoglycoside apramycin. The data presented herein demonstrate the general molecular principles that determine the decreased selectivity of apramycin for the prokaryotic decoding site, and the increased selectivity of NB33 for the eukaryotic decoding site. These results are therefore extremely beneficial for further research on both the design of new aminoglycoside-based antibiotics with diminished deleterious effects on humans, as well as the design of new aminoglycoside-based structures that selectively target the eukaryotic ribosome.
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- Jiro Kondo
- Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université Louis Pasteur, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS, 15 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg, France
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Ballin JD, Bharill S, Fialcowitz-White EJ, Gryczynski I, Gryczynski Z, Wilson GM. Site-specific variations in RNA folding thermodynamics visualized by 2-aminopurine fluorescence. Biochemistry 2007; 46:13948-60. [PMID: 17997580 DOI: 10.1021/bi7011977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The fluorescent base analogue 2-aminopurine (2-AP) is commonly used to study specific conformational and protein binding events involving nucleic acids. Here, combinations of steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy of 2-AP were employed to monitor conformational transitions within a model hairpin RNA from diverse structural perspectives. RNA substrates adopting stable, unambiguous secondary structures were labeled with 2-AP at an unpaired base, within the loop, or inside the base-paired stem. Steady-state fluorescence was monitored as the RNA hairpins made the transitions between folded and unfolded conformations using thermal denaturation, urea titration, and cation-mediated folding. Unstructured control RNA substrates permitted the effects of higher-order RNA structures on 2-AP fluorescence to be distinguished from stimulus-dependent changes in intrinsic 2-AP photophysics and/or interactions with adjacent residues. Thermodynamic parameters describing local conformational changes were thus resolved from multiple perspectives within the model RNA hairpin. These data provided energetic bases for construction of folding mechanisms, which varied among different folding-unfolding stimuli. Time-resolved fluorescence studies further revealed that 2-AP exhibits characteristic signatures of component fluorescence lifetimes and respective fractional contributions in different RNA structural contexts. Together, these studies demonstrate localized conformational events contributing to RNA folding and unfolding that could not be observed by approaches monitoring only global structural transitions.
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- Jeff D Ballin
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
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Bernacchi S, Freisz S, Maechling C, Spiess B, Marquet R, Dumas P, Ennifar E. Aminoglycoside binding to the HIV-1 RNA dimerization initiation site: thermodynamics and effect on the kissing-loop to duplex conversion. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:7128-39. [PMID: 17942426 PMCID: PMC2175338 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Owing to a striking, and most likely fortuitous, structural and sequence similarity with the bacterial 16 S ribosomal A site, the RNA kissing-loop complex formed by the HIV-1 genomic RNA dimerization initiation site (DIS) specifically binds 4,5-disubstituted 2-deoxystreptamine (2-DOS) aminoglycoside antibiotics. We used chemical probing, molecular modeling, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) and UV melting to investigate aminoglycoside binding to the DIS loop–loop complex. We showed that apramycin, an aminoglycoside containing a bicyclic moiety, also binds the DIS, but in a different way than 4,5-disubstituted 2-DOS aminoglycosides. The determination of thermodynamic parameters for various aminoglycosides revealed the role of the different rings in the drug–RNA interaction. Surprisingly, we found that the affinity of lividomycin and neomycin for the DIS (Kd ∼ 30 nM) is significantly higher than that obtained in the same experimental conditions for their natural target, the bacterial A site (Kd ∼ 1.6 µM). In good agreement with their respective affinity, aminoglycoside increase the melting temperature of the loop–loop interaction and also block the conversion from kissing-loop complex to extended duplex. Taken together, our data might be useful for selecting new molecules with improved specificity and affinity toward the HIV-1 DIS RNA.
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- Serena Bernacchi
- Architecture et Réactivité des ARN, UPR 9002 CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, 15 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg, France
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Hainrichson M, Nudelman I, Baasov T. Designer aminoglycosides: the race to develop improved antibiotics and compounds for the treatment of human genetic diseases. Org Biomol Chem 2007; 6:227-39. [PMID: 18174989 DOI: 10.1039/b712690p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Aminoglycosides are highly potent, broad-spectrum antibiotics that exert their bactericidal therapeutic effect by selectively binding to the decoding aminoacyl site (A-site) of the bacterial 16 S rRNA, thereby interfering with translational fidelity during protein synthesis. The appearance of bacterial strains resistant to these drugs, as well as their relative toxicity, have inspired extensive searches towards the goal of obtaining novel molecular designs with improved antibacterial activity and reduced toxicity. In the last few years, a new, aminoglycoside dependent therapeutic approach for the treatment of certain human genetic diseases has been identified. These treatments rely on the ability of certain aminoglycosides to induce mammalian ribosomes to readthrough premature stop codon mutations. This new and challenging task has introduced fresh research avenues in the field of aminoglycoside research. Recent observations and current challenges in the design of aminoglycosides with improved antibacterial activity and the treatment of human genetic diseases are discussed.
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- Mariana Hainrichson
- The Edith and Joseph Fischer Enzyme Inhibitors Laboratory, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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Shakil S, Khan R, Zarrilli R, Khan AU. Aminoglycosides versus bacteria – a description of the action, resistance mechanism, and nosocomial battleground. J Biomed Sci 2007; 15:5-14. [PMID: 17657587 DOI: 10.1007/s11373-007-9194-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2007] [Accepted: 07/06/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Since 1944, we have come a long way using aminoglycosides as antibiotics. Bacteria also have got them selected with hardier resistance mechanisms. Aminoglycosides are aminocyclitols that kill bacteria by inhibiting protein synthesis as they bind to the 16S rRNA and by disrupting the integrity of bacterial cell membrane. Aminoglycoside resistance mechanisms include: (a) the deactivation of aminoglycosides by N-acetylation, adenylylation or O-phosphorylation, (b) the reduction of the intracellular concentration of aminoglycosides by changes in outer membrane permeability, decreased inner membrane transport, active efflux, and drug trapping, (c) the alteration of the 30S ribosomal subunit target by mutation, and (d) methylation of the aminoglycoside binding site. There is an alarming increase in resistance outbreaks in hospital setting. Our review explores the molecular understanding of aminoglycoside action and resistance with an aim to minimize the spread of resistance.
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- Shazi Shakil
- Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, 202002, Aligarh, India
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Owens KN, Cunningham DE, MacDonald G, Rubel EW, Raible DW, Pujol R. Ultrastructural analysis of aminoglycoside-induced hair cell death in the zebrafish lateral line reveals an early mitochondrial response. J Comp Neurol 2007; 502:522-43. [PMID: 17394157 DOI: 10.1002/cne.21345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Loss of the mechanosensory hair cells in the auditory and vestibular organs leads to hearing and balance deficits. To investigate initial, in vivo events in aminoglycoside-induced hair cell damage, we examined hair cells from the lateral line of the zebrafish, Danio rerio. The mechanosensory lateral line is located externally on the animal and therefore allows direct manipulation and observation of hair cells. Labeling with vital dyes revealed a rapid response of hair cells to the aminoglycoside neomycin. Similarly, ultrastructural analysis revealed structural alteration among hair cells within 15 minutes of neomycin exposure. Animals exposed to a low, 25-microM concentration of neomycin exhibited hair cells with swollen mitochondria, but little other damage. Animals treated with higher concentrations of neomycin (50-200 microM) had more severe and heterogeneous cellular changes, as well as fewer hair cells. Both necrotic-like and apoptotic-like cellular damage were observed. Quantitation of the types of alterations observed indicated that mitochondrial defects appear earlier and more predominantly than other structural alterations. In vivo monitoring demonstrated that mitochondrial potential decreased following neomycin treatment. These results indicate that perturbation of the mitochondrion is an early, central event in aminoglycoside-induced damage.
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- Kelly N Owens
- VM Bloedel Hearing Research Center, Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
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Zhao C, Marino JP. Synthesis of HIV-1 Psi-site RNA sequences with site specific incorporation of the fluorescent base analog 2-aminopurine. Tetrahedron 2007; 63:3575-3584. [PMID: 18431441 DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2006.08.110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Fluorescent nucleotide base analogs can serve as sensitive probes of the local structure and chemical environment of the base within a nucleic acid sequence. A significant strength of these base analogs is their similarity in molecular constitution and chemical properties to natural bases. While chemical synthesis has afforded the ability to generate oligonucleotides in good yield with sequence-specific incorporation of fluorescent base analogs, this method is limited in practice to the synthesis of relatively small RNAs of less than ~ 80 nucleotides. Since most RNAs of biological interest are greater than 80 nucleotides in length, methods for synthesizing these larger RNAs in good yield, while maintaining the ability to site-specifically incorporate base analogs that allow for fluorescence measurements, could be of broad interest. Here we describe an approach for synthesis of large RNA molecules (>100 nt) that uses T4 RNA ligase to segmentally join a sequence fragment of an RNA, chemically synthesized with a fluorescent base analog, with the remaining unmodified portion of the RNA oligonucleotide, synthesized through in vitro transcription with T7 polymerase. This method is demonstrated through synthesis of packaging sequences (Psi-site) derived from HIV-1 genomic RNA leader sequence (~ 120 nt) with the fluorescent base analog, 2-aminopurine (2-AP), selectively incorporated into the dimerization initiation site (DIS) stem-loop sequence. Using 2-AP fluorescence, RNA conformational changes associated with the formation of non-covalent DIS mediated Psi-site dimers have been analyzed.
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- Chang Zhao
- Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute and the National Institute for Standards and Technology, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850
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Barbieri CM, Kaul M, Bozza-Hingos M, Zhao F, Tor Y, Hermann T, Pilch DS. Defining the molecular forces that determine the impact of neomycin on bacterial protein synthesis: importance of the 2'-amino functionality. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2007; 51:1760-9. [PMID: 17353247 PMCID: PMC1855527 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01267-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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2-Deoxystreptamine (2-DOS) aminoglycosides exert their antibiotic actions by binding to the A site of the 16S rRNA and interfering with bacterial protein synthesis. However, the molecular forces that govern the antitranslational activities of aminoglycosides are poorly understood. Here, we describe studies aimed at elucidating these molecular forces. In this connection, we compare the bactericidal, antitranslational, and rRNA binding properties of the 4,5-disubstituted 2-DOS aminoglycoside neomycin (Neo) and a conformationally restricted analog of Neo (CR-Neo) in which the 2'-nitrogen atom is covalently conjugated to the 5''-carbon atom. The bactericidal potency of Neo exceeds that of CR-Neo, with this enhanced antibacterial activity reflecting a correspondingly enhanced antitranslational potency. Time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy studies suggest that the enhanced antitranslational potency of Neo relative to that of CR-Neo is due to a greater extent of drug-induced reduction in the mobilities of the nucleotides at positions 1492 and 1493 of the rRNA A site. Buffer- and salt-dependent binding studies, coupled with high-resolution structural information, point to electrostatic contacts between the 2'-amino functionality of Neo and the host rRNA as being an important modulator of 1492 and 1493 base mobilities and therefore antitranslational activities.
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- Christopher M Barbieri
- UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Pharmacology, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5635, USA
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