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Bulge-Forming miRNases Cleave Oncogenic miRNAs at the Central Loop Region in a Sequence-Specific Manner. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23126562. [PMID: 35743015 PMCID: PMC9224474 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23126562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2022] [Revised: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 06/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The selective degradation of disease-associated microRNA is promising for the development of new therapeutic approaches. In this study, we engineered a series of bulge-loop-forming oligonucleotides conjugated with catalytic peptide [(LeuArg)2Gly]2 (BC-miRNases) capable of recognizing and destroying oncogenic miR-17 and miR-21. The principle behind the design of BC-miRNase is the cleavage of miRNA at a three-nucleotide bulge loop that forms in the central loop region, which is essential for the biological competence of miRNA. A thorough study of mono- and bis-BC-miRNases (containing one or two catalytic peptides, respectively) revealed that: (i) the sequence of miRNA bulge loops and neighbouring motifs are of fundamental importance for efficient miRNA cleavage (i.e., motifs containing repeating pyrimidine-A bonds are more susceptible to cleavage); (ii) the incorporation of the second catalytic peptide in the same molecular scaffold increases the potency of BC-miRNase, providing a complete degradation of miR-17 within 72 h; (iii) the synergetic co-operation of BC-miRNases with RNase H accelerates the rate of miRNA catalytic cleavage by both the conjugate and the enzyme. Such synergy allows the rapid destruction of constantly emerging miRNA to maintain sufficient knockdown and achieve a desired therapeutic effect.
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Saha R, Verbanic S, Chen IA. Lipid vesicles chaperone an encapsulated RNA aptamer. Nat Commun 2018; 9:2313. [PMID: 29899431 PMCID: PMC5998061 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04783-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The organization of molecules into cells is believed to have been critical for the emergence of living systems. Early protocells likely consisted of RNA functioning inside vesicles made of simple lipids. However, little is known about how encapsulation would affect the activity and folding of RNA. Here we find that confinement of the malachite green RNA aptamer inside fatty acid vesicles increases binding affinity and locally stabilizes the bound conformation of the RNA. The vesicle effectively ‘chaperones’ the aptamer, consistent with an excluded volume mechanism due to confinement. Protocellular organization thereby leads to a direct benefit for the RNA. Coupled with previously described mechanisms by which encapsulated RNA aids membrane growth, this effect illustrates how the membrane and RNA might cooperate for mutual benefit. Encapsulation could thus increase RNA fitness and the likelihood that functional sequences would emerge during the origin of life. So far little is known about how encapsulation affects the activity and folding of RNA, which is of interest for understanding the origin of cellular life. Here the authors show that encapsulation of functional RNA in vesicles increases RNA activity and improves RNA folding through a biophysical confinement effect.
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- Ranajay Saha
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
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- Program in Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA. .,Program in Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA.
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Suga K, Tanaka S, Umakoshi H. Liposome membrane can induce self-cleavage of RNA that models the core fragments of hammerhead ribozyme. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2015; 45:55-62. [PMID: 26385703 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-015-1076-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2015] [Accepted: 08/18/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The hammerhead ribozyme (HHR) is one of smallest catalytic RNAs, composed of a catalytic core and three stems; it undergoes self-cleavage in the presence of divalent magnesium ions (Mg(2+)) or other cations. It is hypothesized that the function and metabolism of RNAs might be regulated via interaction with lipid membranes in the prebiotic world. Using synthetic RNAs that model the core fragment of hammerhead ribozyme-like assembly (HHR-a), we investigated the enhancement of the self-cleavage reaction of HHR-a induced by the liposomes, both in the absence and presence of Mg(2+). The HHR-a activity was enhanced by 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (DOPE)/1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) = 8/2 liposome with Mg(2+), while other liposomes did not so significant. In the presence of DOPE/DPPC = 8/2 liposome, the HHR-a activity was observed without Mg(2+), revealed by the conformational change of the HHR inhibitor complex induced by the interaction with the liposome. The UV resonance Raman spectroscopy analysis investigated the interaction between lipid molecules and nucleobases, suggesting that the ethanolamine group of DOPE molecules are assumed to act as monovalent cations alternative to Mg(2+), depending on the liposome membrane characteristics.
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- Keishi Suga
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyamacho, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyamacho, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyamacho, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan.
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Bernhardt HS. The RNA world hypothesis: the worst theory of the early evolution of life (except for all the others)(a). Biol Direct 2012; 7:23. [PMID: 22793875 PMCID: PMC3495036 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-7-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2012] [Accepted: 07/11/2012] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The problems associated with the RNA world hypothesis are well known. In the following I discuss some of these difficulties, some of the alternative hypotheses that have been proposed, and some of the problems with these alternative models. From a biosynthetic - as well as, arguably, evolutionary - perspective, DNA is a modified RNA, and so the chicken-and-egg dilemma of "which came first?" boils down to a choice between RNA and protein. This is not just a question of cause and effect, but also one of statistical likelihood, as the chance of two such different types of macromolecule arising simultaneously would appear unlikely. The RNA world hypothesis is an example of a 'top down' (or should it be 'present back'?) approach to early evolution: how can we simplify modern biological systems to give a plausible evolutionary pathway that preserves continuity of function? The discovery that RNA possesses catalytic ability provides a potential solution: a single macromolecule could have originally carried out both replication and catalysis. RNA - which constitutes the genome of RNA viruses, and catalyzes peptide synthesis on the ribosome - could have been both the chicken and the egg! However, the following objections have been raised to the RNA world hypothesis: (i) RNA is too complex a molecule to have arisen prebiotically; (ii) RNA is inherently unstable; (iii) catalysis is a relatively rare property of long RNA sequences only; and (iv) the catalytic repertoire of RNA is too limited. I will offer some possible responses to these objections in the light of work by our and other labs. Finally, I will critically discuss an alternative theory to the RNA world hypothesis known as 'proteins first', which holds that proteins either preceded RNA in evolution, or - at the very least - that proteins and RNA coevolved. I will argue that, while theoretically possible, such a hypothesis is probably unprovable, and that the RNA world hypothesis, although far from perfect or complete, is the best we currently have to help understand the backstory to contemporary biology.
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- Harold S Bernhardt
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, P,O, Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Müller UF, Bartel DP. Improved polymerase ribozyme efficiency on hydrophobic assemblies. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2008; 14:552-562. [PMID: 18230767 PMCID: PMC2248263 DOI: 10.1261/rna.494508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2007] [Accepted: 12/05/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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During an early step in the evolution of life, RNA served both as genome and as catalyst, according to the RNA world hypothesis. For self-replication, the RNA organisms must have contained an RNA that catalyzes RNA polymerization. As a first step toward recapitulating an RNA world in the laboratory, a polymerase ribozyme was generated previously by in vitro evolution and design. However, the efficiency of this ribozyme is about 100-fold too low for self-replication because of a low affinity of the ribozyme to its primer/template substrate. To improve the substrate interactions by colocalizing ribozyme and substrate on micelles, we attached hydrophobic anchors to both RNAs. We show here that the hydrophobic anchors led to aggregates with the expected size of the corresponding micelles. The micelle formation increased the polymerization yield of full-length products by 3- to 20-fold, depending on substrates and reaction conditions. With the best-characterized substrate, the improvement in polymerization efficiency was primarily due to reduced sequence-specific stalling on partially extended substrates. We discuss how, during the origin of life, micellar ribozyme aggregates could have acted as precursors to membrane-encapsulated life forms.
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- Ulrich F Müller
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
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Tamkovich NV, Malyshev AV, Konevets DA, Sil'nikov VN, Zenkova MA, Vlasov VV. Chemical ribonucleases: VII. Effect of positively charged RNA-binding domains and hydrophobic fragments of the conjugates based on 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane and imidazole on their ribonuclease activity. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2007; 33:251-60. [PMID: 17476986 DOI: 10.1134/s1068162007020057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The effect of the total positive charge in the RNA-binding domain of chemical ribonucleases that are conjugates of bisquaternary salts of diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane and imidazol on the cleavage of an HIV-1 RNA fragment was studied. An increase in the positive charge from +2 to +4 was shown to result in a significant growth in the ribonuclease activity. Possible mechanisms of the interactions between structural moieties of chemical ribonucleases and RNA that enable an effective catalysis of the cleavage of phosphodiester bonds are discussed.
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Kovalev N, Burakova E, Silnikov V, Zenkova M, Vlassov V. Artificial ribonucleases: from combinatorial libraries to efficient catalysts of RNA cleavage. Bioorg Chem 2006; 34:274-86. [PMID: 16889817 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2006.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2006] [Revised: 06/21/2006] [Accepted: 06/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Combinatorial libraries of small organic compounds capable of cleaving RNA were synthesized. The compounds contain benzene ring substituted with two residues of bis quaternary salt of diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO) bearing hydrophobic fragments of different length and structure, attached to DABCO at the bridge position. These compounds, lacking traditional functionalities involved in transesterification reaction, exhibit pronounced RNA cleavage activity. To identify the most active artificial ribonucleases, sublibraries and truncated libraries, containing compounds lacking one of substituents were synthesized. Analysis of ribonuclease activity of truncated libraries resulted in identification of the most active compounds, which are characterized by the presence of at least one long oligomethylene substituent.
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- N Kovalev
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, 8, Lavrentiev Ave., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
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Mironova NL, Pyshnyi DV, Stadler DV, Prokudin IV, Boutorine YI, Ivanova EM, Zenkova MA, Gross HJ, Vlassov VV. G-specific RNA-cleaving conjugates of short peptides and oligodeoxyribonucleotides. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2006; 23:591-602. [PMID: 16615805 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2006.10507084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Artificial ribonucleases, conjugates of short oligodeoxyribonucleotides and peptides built of arginine, leucine, proline, and serine, were synthesized and assessed in terms of ribonuclease activity and specificity of RNA cleavage. A specific group of the conjugates was identified that display T1-ribonuclease-like activity and cleave RNA predominantly at G-X sequences. Circular dichroism study of the structures of the most active conjugates, free peptide (LR)4G, and oligonucleotides revealed that conjugation of oligonucleotide to the peptide results in a specific peptide folding that possibly provides ribonuclease activity to the conjugate.
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- Nadezhda L Mironova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Lavrentiev Avenue 8, Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, 630090
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Hunding A, Kepes F, Lancet D, Minsky A, Norris V, Raine D, Sriram K, Root-Bernstein R. Compositional complementarity and prebiotic ecology in the origin of life. Bioessays 2006; 28:399-412. [PMID: 16547956 DOI: 10.1002/bies.20389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We hypothesize that life began not with the first self-reproducing molecule or metabolic network, but as a prebiotic ecology of co-evolving populations of macromolecular aggregates (composomes). Each composome species had a particular molecular composition resulting from molecular complementarity among environmentally available prebiotic compounds. Natural selection acted on composomal species that varied in properties and functions such as stability, catalysis, fission, fusion and selective accumulation of molecules from solution. Fission permitted molecular replication based on composition rather than linear structure, while fusion created composomal variability. Catalytic functions provided additional chemical novelty resulting eventually in autocatalytic and mutually catalytic networks within composomal species. Composomal autocatalysis and interdependence allowed the Darwinian co-evolution of content and control (metabolism). The existence of chemical interfaces within complex composomes created linear templates upon which self-reproducing molecules (such as RNA) could be synthesized, permitting the evolution of informational replication by molecular templating. Mathematical and experimental tests are proposed.
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- Axel Hunding
- Department of Chemistry, H. C. Orsted Institute C116, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Walde P. Surfactant assemblies and their various possible roles for the origin(s) of life. ORIGINS LIFE EVOL B 2006; 36:109-50. [PMID: 16642266 DOI: 10.1007/s11084-005-9004-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2005] [Accepted: 11/01/2005] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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A large number of surfactants (surface active molecules) are chemically simple compounds that can be obtained by simple chemical reactions, in some cases even under presumably prebiotic conditions. Surfactant assemblies are self-organized polymolecular aggregates of surfactants, in the simplest case micelles, vesicles, hexagonal and cubic phases. It may be that these different types of surfactant assemblies have played various, so-far underestimated important roles in the processes that led to the formation of the first living systems. Although nucleic acids are key players in the formation of cells as we know them today (RNA world hypothesis), it is still unclear how RNA could have been formed under prebiotic conditions. Surfactants with their self-organizing properties may have assisted, controlled and compartimentalized some of the chemical reactions that eventually led to the formation of molecules like RNA. Therefore, surfactants were possibly very important in prebiotic times in the sense that they may have been involved in different physical and chemical processes that finally led to a transformation of non-living matter to the first cellular form(s) of life. This hypothesis is based on four main experimental observations: (i) Surfactant aggregation can lead to cell-like compartimentation (vesicles). (ii) Surfactant assemblies can provide local reaction conditions that are very different from the bulk medium, which may lead to a dramatic change in the rate of chemical reactions and to a change in reaction product distributions. (iii) The surface properties of surfactant assemblies that may be liquid- or solid-like, charged or neutral, and the elasticity and packing density of surfactant assemblies depend on the chemical structure of the surfactants, on the presence of other molecules, and on the overall environmental conditions (e. g. temperature). This wide range of surface characteristics of surfactant assemblies may allow a control of surface-bound chemical reactions not only by the charge or hydrophobicity of the surface but also by its "softness". (iv) Chiral polymolecular assemblies (helices) may form from chiral surfactants. There are many examples that illustrate the different roles and potential roles of surfactant assemblies in different research areas outside of the field of the origin(s) of life, most importantly in investigations of contemporary living systems, in nanotechnology applications, and in the development of drug delivery systems. Concepts and ideas behind many of these applications may have relevance also in connection to the different unsolved problems in understanding the origin(s) of life.
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- Peter Walde
- ETH Zürich, Department of Materials, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Burakova EA, Silnikov VN. Molecular design of artificial ribonucleases using electrostatic interaction. NUCLEOSIDES NUCLEOTIDES & NUCLEIC ACIDS 2005; 23:915-20. [PMID: 15560081 DOI: 10.1081/ncn-200026040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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A number of small organic ribonucleases have been synthesized with rigid polycationic structures containing an aromatic framework with two residues of bis-quaternary salts of 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO) bearing various substituents. The compounds carrying positively charged groups connected via rigid linker are expected to bend the sugar-phosphate backbone and can stimulate the intramolecular phosphoester transfer reaction.
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Kuznetsova IL, Zenkova MA, Gross HJ, Vlassov VV. Enhanced RNA cleavage within bulge-loops by an artificial ribonuclease. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:1201-12. [PMID: 15731340 PMCID: PMC549568 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Cleavage of phosphodiester bonds by small ribonuclease mimics within different bulge-loops of RNA was investigated. Bulge-loops of different size (1–7 nt) and sequence composition were formed in a 3′ terminal fragment of influenza virus M2 RNA (96 nt) by hybridization of complementary oligodeoxynucleotides. Small bulges (up to 4 nt) were readily formed upon oligonucleotide hybridization, whereas hybridization of the RNA to the oligonucleotides designed to produce larger bulges resulted in formation of several alternative structures. A synthetic ribonuclease mimic displaying Pyr–Pu cleavage specificity cleaved CpA motifs located within bulges faster than similar motifs within the rest of the RNA. In the presence of 10 mM MgCl2, 75% of the cleavage products resulted from the attack of this motif. Thus, selective RNA cleavage at a single target phosphodiester bond was achieved by using bulge forming oligonucleotides and a small ribonuclease A mimic.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +7 3832 333761; Fax: +7 3832 333761;
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- Institute of Biochemistry, BiocenterAm Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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Mironova NL, Pyshnyi DV, Ivanova EM, Zenkova MA, Gross GJ, Vlasov VV. Artificial ribonucleases: oligonucleotide-peptide conjugates that cleave RNA at the GpX and PypA phosphodiester bonds. DOKL BIOCHEM BIOPHYS 2002; 385:196-200. [PMID: 12462971 DOI: 10.1023/a:1019907305751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- N L Mironova
- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Lavrent'eva 8, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
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Zenkova M, Beloglazova N, Sil'nikov V, Vlassov V, Giegé R. RNA cleavage by 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane-imidazole conjugates. Methods Enzymol 2002; 341:468-90. [PMID: 11582799 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(01)41171-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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- M Zenkova
- Laboratory of Nucleic Acids Biochemistry, Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk-90, 630090, Russia
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Stathopoulos C, Tekos A, Zarkadis IK, Drainas D. Extensive deproteinization of Dictyostelium discoideum RNase P reveals a new catalytic activity. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2001; 268:2134-40. [PMID: 11277937 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.02092.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Nuclear Dictyostelium discoideum RNase P was subjected to vigorous deproteinization procedures. After treatment with proteinase K followed by phenol extraction of samples containing D. discoideum RNase P activity, a new enzymatic activity was recovered. The proteinase K/phenol/SDS treated enzyme cleaves Schizossacharomyces pombe tRNAser (supS1), D. discoideum tRNASer and tRNALeu precursors several nucleotides upstream of the cleavage site of RNase P, liberating products with 5'-hydroxyl ends. This activity seems to be associated with one or two RNA molecules copurifying with D. discoideum RNase P activity as judged by its inhibition in the presence of micrococcal nuclease, which is in contrast to its resistance to proteinase K/phenol/SDS treatment.
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- C Stathopoulos
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
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