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Puglisi EV, Puglisi JD. Probing the conformation of human tRNA(3)(Lys) in solution by NMR. FEBS Lett 2007; 581:5307-14. [PMID: 17963705 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.10.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2007] [Revised: 10/02/2007] [Accepted: 10/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Human tRNA(3)(Lys) acts as a primer for the reverse transcription of human immunodeficiency virus genomic RNA. To form an initiation complex with genomic RNA, tRNA(3)(Lys) must reorganize its secondary structure. To provide a starting point for mechanistic studies of the formation of the initiation complex, we here present solution NMR investigations of human tRNA(3)(Lys). We use a straightforward set of NMR experiments to show that tRNA(3)(Lys) adopts a standard transfer ribonucleic acid tertiary structure in solution, and that Mg(2+) is required for this folding. The results underscore the power of NMR to reveal rapidly the conformation of RNAs.
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- Elisabetta Viani Puglisi
- Department of Structural Biology, D105A Fairchild Building, 299 Campus Drive West, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5126, USA
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Oliva R, Tramontano A, Cavallo L. Mg2+ binding and archaeosine modification stabilize the G15 C48 Levitt base pair in tRNAs. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2007; 13:1427-36. [PMID: 17652139 PMCID: PMC1950755 DOI: 10.1261/rna.574407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The G15-C48 Levitt base pair, located at a crucial position in the core of canonical tRNAs, assumes a reverse Watson-Crick (RWC) geometry. By means of bioinformatics analysis and quantum mechanics calculations we show here that such a geometry is moderately more stable than an alternative bifurcated trans geometry, involving the guanine Watson-Crick face and the cytosine keto group, which we have also found in known RNA structures. However we also demonstrate that the RWC geometry can take advantage of additional stabilizing effects such as metal binding or post-transcriptional chemical modification. One of the few strong metal binding sites characterized for cytosolic tRNAs is localized on G15, and a domain-specific complex modification known as archaeosine is widespread at position 15 in archaeal tRNAs. We have found that both the bound Mg2+ ion and the archaeosine modification induce an analogous electron density redistribution, which results in an effective stabilization of the RWC geometry. Metal binding and chemical modification thus play an interchangeable role in stabilizing the G15-C48 correct geometry. Interestingly, these different but convergent strategies are selectively adopted in the different life domains.
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- Romina Oliva
- Dipartimento di Scienze Applicate, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Naples, Italy.
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Probing the interaction between N1,N4-dibenzylputrescine and tRNA through 15N NMR: biological implications. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(99)00238-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Auffinger P, Westhof E. Singly and bifurcated hydrogen-bonded base-pairs in tRNA anticodon hairpins and ribozymes. J Mol Biol 1999; 292:467-83. [PMID: 10497015 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The tRNA anticodon loops always comprise seven nucleotides and is involved in many recognition processes with proteins and RNA fragments. We have investigated the nature and the possible interactions between the first (32) and last (38) residues of the loop on the basis of the available sequences and crystal structures. The data demonstrate the conservation of a bifurcated hydrogen bond interaction between residues 32 and 38, located at the stem/loop junction. This interaction leads to the formation of a non-canonical base-pair which is preserved in the known crystal structures of tRNA/synthetase complexes. Among the tRNA and tDNA sequences, 93 % of the 32.38 oppositions can be assigned to two families of isosteric base-pairs, one with a large (86 %) and the other with a much smaller (7 %) population. The remainder (7 %) of the oppositions have been assigned to a third family due to the lack of evidence for assigning them into the first two sets. In all families, the Y32.R38 base-pairs are not isosteric upon reversal (like the sheared G.A or wobble G.U pairs), explaining the strong conservation of a pyrimidine at position 32. Thus, the 32.38 interaction extends the sequence signature of the anticodon loop beyond the conserved U-turn at position 33 and the usually modified purine at position 37. A comparison with other loops containing both a singly hydrogen-bonded base-pair and a U-turn suggests that the 32.38 pair could be involved in the formation of a base triple with a residue in a ribosomal RNA component. It is also observed that two crystal structures of ribozymes (hammerhead and leadzyme) present similar base-pairs at the cleavage site.
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- P Auffinger
- Modélisations et Simulations des Acides Nucléiques, UPR 9002, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, 15 rue René Descartes, Strasbourg Cedex, 67084, France
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Transfer RNA molecules are involved in a variety of biological processes, implying complex recognition events with proteins and other RNAs. From a structural point of view, tRNAs constitute a reference system for studying RNA folding and architecture. A deeper understanding of their structural and functional properties will derive from our ability to model accurately their dynamical behavior. We present the first dynamical model of a fully neutralized and solvated tRNA molecule over a 500-ps time scale. Starting from the crystallographic structure of yeast tRNA(Asp), the 75-nucleotide molecule was modeled with 8055 water molecules and 74 NH4+ counterions, using the AMBER4.1 program and the particle mesh Ewald (PME) method for the treatment of long-range electrostatic interactions. The calculations led to a dynamically stable model of the tRNA molecule. During the simulation, all secondary and tertiary base pairs are maintained while a certain lability of base triples in the tRNA core is observed. This lability was interpreted as resulting from intrinsic factors associated with the "weaker" hydrogen bonding patterns seen in these base triples and from an altered ionic environment of the tRNA molecule. Calculated thermal factors are used to compare the dynamics of the tRNA in solution and in the crystal. The present molecular dynamics simulation of a complex and highly charged nucleic acid molecule attests to the fact that simulation methods are now able to investigate not only the dynamics of proteins, but also that of large RNA molecules. Thus they also provide a basis for further investigations on the structural and functional effects of chemical and posttranscriptionally modified nucleotides as well as on ionic environmental effects.
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- P Auffinger
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Modélisations et Simulations des Acides Nucléiques, UPR 9002, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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Hayashi I, Kawai G, Watanabe K. Higher-order structure and thermal instability of bovine mitochondrial tRNASerUGA investigated by proton NMR spectroscopy. J Mol Biol 1998; 284:57-69. [PMID: 9811542 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Although mammalian mitochondrial serine-specific tRNA with the anticodon UGA (tRNASerUGA) appears to possess an almost normal cloverleaf secondary structure, it exhibits an extraordinarily low melting temperature (tm). An in vitro tRNASerUGA transcript without modified nucleosides had an even lower tm and slightly less hyperchromicity, but its tertiary structure was apparently very similar to that of the native counterpart judging from its aminoacylation activity and the body of experimental evidence so far obtained for canonical tRNAs. The transcript was therefore used to investigate the higher-order structure and thermal instability of tRNASerUGA. 1H-NMR analysis of the transcript showed that it takes a nearly L-shaped tertiary structure with similar tertiary base-pairings to those found in yeast tRNAPhe, which is representative of canonical tRNAs. However, magnesium ion titration revealed that Mg2+ affected the chemical shifts of the tRNASerUGA transcript differently than those of canonical tRNAs so far studied; the former was less sensitive toward Mg2+, especially in the D-arm region. This observation was confirmed by NMR analysis with paramagnetic manganese ion titration. Hill plots derived from the CD spectral changes caused by titration with Mg2+ suggested that the tRNASerUGA transcript had fewer Mg2+ binding sites than those of yeast tRNAPhe as well as its transcript, a finding that was consistent with the NMR data. We thus surmise that the thermal instability of both the transcript and tRNASerUGA itself originated from a reduction in the number of the divalent ion binding sites within the tRNA molecule. These results suggest a new type of thermal instability for mitochondrial tRNA.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Pairing
- Binding Sites
- Cattle
- Circular Dichroism
- Codon
- Magnesium/chemistry
- Magnesium/pharmacology
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/methods
- Manganese/chemistry
- Manganese/pharmacology
- Models, Molecular
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- RNA/chemistry
- RNA/drug effects
- RNA/genetics
- RNA, Mitochondrial
- RNA, Transfer, Phe/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer, Ser/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer, Ser/drug effects
- RNA, Transfer, Ser/metabolism
- Reproducibility of Results
- Temperature
- Transcription, Genetic
- Tritium
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Affiliation(s)
- I Hayashi
- Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8656, Japan
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Agris PF, Brown SC. Systems for the NMR study of modified nucleoside-dependent, metal-ion induced conformational changes in nucleic acids. Methods Enzymol 1995; 261:270-99. [PMID: 8569499 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(95)61014-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- P F Agris
- Department of Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695, USA
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Choi BS, Redfield AG. NMR study of nitrogen-15-labeled Escherichia coli valine transfer RNA. Biochemistry 1992; 31:12799-802. [PMID: 1463750 DOI: 10.1021/bi00166a013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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1,3-15N-Labeled uracil was synthesized chemically and used to prepare labeled Escherichia coli tRNA(Val) biosynthetically. 500-MHz measurements of 15N and proton chemical shift were obtained, for all uridine and uridine-related bases, by heteronuclear multiple-quantum coherence spectroscopy. All the uracil NH group resonances were assigned and were in agreement with previous proton-only assignments. The temperature dependence of intensities of resonances was used to infer the relative stability of parts of the molecule. The acceptor stem was the least thermally stable structural feature, while the anticodon and T loop were relatively more stable.
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- B S Choi
- Graduate Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254
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Chu WC, Horowitz J. Fluorine-19 NMR studies of the thermal unfolding of 5-fluorouracil-substituted Escherichia coli valine transfer RNA. FEBS Lett 1991; 295:159-62. [PMID: 1765149 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(91)81408-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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19F NMR spectroscopy was used to monitor the thermal unfolding of E. coli tRNAVal labeled by incorporation of 5-fluorouracil (FUra). With rising temperatures, resonances in the 19F NMR spectrum of (FUra)tRNAVal gradually shift towards the central region of the spectrum and merge into a single broad peak above 85 degrees C. FU55 and FU12 are the first to shift, beginning at temperatures below 40 degrees C, which suggests that the initial steps of thermal denaturation of tRNAVal involve disruption of the tertiary interactions between the D- and T-arms. The acceptor stem and the FU64-G50 wobble base pair in the T-stem are particularly stable to thermal denaturation. A temperature-dependent splitting of the 19F resonance assigned to FU64, at temperatures above 40 degrees C, suggests that the T-arm of (FUra)tRNAVal exists in two conformations in slow exchange on the NMR time scale.
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- W C Chu
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Iowa State University, Ames 50011
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Wu JJ, Marshall AG. 500-MHz proton NMR evidence for two solution structures of the common arm base-paired segment of wheat germ 5S ribosomal RNA. Biochemistry 1990; 29:1722-30. [PMID: 2331462 DOI: 10.1021/bi00459a009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The base-pair protons of the common arm duplex fragment of wheat germ (Triticum aestivum) ribosomal 5S RNA have been identified and assigned by means of 500-MHz proton NMR spectroscopy. The two previously reported extra base pairs within the fragment [Li et al. (1987) Biochemistry 26, 1578-1585] are now explained by the presence of two distinct solution structures of the common arm fragment (and its corresponding base-paired segment in intact 5S rRNA). The present conclusions are supported by one- and two-dimensional proton homonuclear Overhauser enhancements in H2O and by temperature variation and Mg2+ titration of the downfield 1H NMR spectrum. The difference between the two conformers is most likely due to difference in helical tightness. Some additional amino proton resonances have also been assigned.
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- J J Wu
- Department of Biochemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210
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Van de Ven FJ, Hilbers CW. Nucleic acids and nuclear magnetic resonance. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1988; 178:1-38. [PMID: 3060357 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1988.tb14425.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- F J Van de Ven
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Flanagan JM, Jacobson KB. Effect of zinc ions on tRNA structure: imino proton NMR spectroscopy. Biochemistry 1988; 27:5778-85. [PMID: 3052585 DOI: 10.1021/bi00415a057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The structure of tRNA in solution was explored by NMR spectroscopy to evaluate the effect of divalent cations, especially zinc, which has a profound effect on the chromatographic behaviour of tRNAs in certain systems. The divalent ions Mg2+ and Zn2+ have specific effects on the imino proton region of the 1H NMR spectrum of valine transfer RNA (tRNA(Val] of Escherichia coli and of phenylalanine transfer RNA (tRNA(Phe] of yeast. The dependence of the imino proton spectra of the two tRNAs was examined as a function of Zn2+ concentration. In both tRNAs the tertiary base pair (G-15).(C-48) was markedly affected by Zn2+ (shifted downfield possibly by as much as 0.4 ppm); this is the terminal base pair in the augmented dihydrouridine helix (D-helix). Base pair (U-8).(A-14) in yeast tRNA(Phe) or (s4U-8).(A-14) in tRNA1(Val), which are stacked on (G-15).(C-48), was not affected by Zn2+, except when 1-2 Mg2+ ions per tRNA were also present. Another imino proton that may be affected by Zn2+ in both tRNAs is that of the tertiary base pair (G-19).(C-46). The assignment of this resonance in yeast tRNA(Phe) is tentative since it is located in the region of highly overlapping resonances between 12.6 and 12.3 ppm. This base pair helps to anchor the D-loop to the T psi C loop.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- J M Flanagan
- University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tennessee 37831
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Wells BD, Lakowicz JR. Intensity and anisotropy decays of the Wye base of yeast tRNA(Phe) as measured by frequency-domain fluorometry. Biophys Chem 1987; 26:39-43. [PMID: 3647800 DOI: 10.1016/0301-4622(87)80005-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The intensity and anisotropy decays of Wye base fluorescence from yeast tRNA(Phe) were determined by frequency-domain fluorometry. The intensity decay is at least a double exponential in the presence and absence of Mg2+, but the multi-exponential character of the decay is more pronounced in the absence of Mg2+. The anisotropy decay displays components due to overall tRNA rotational diffusion and to local torsional motions. The amplitude of the local motion is decreased 2-fold by the presence of Mg2+. The results are broadly consistent with a more homogeneous environment for the Wye base in the presence of Mg2+.
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Hyde EI. Imino proton NMR assignments and ion-binding studies on Escherichia coli tRNA3Gly. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1986; 155:57-68. [PMID: 2419133 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1986.tb09458.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The imino region of the proton NMR spectrum of Escherichia coli tRNA3Gly has been assigned mainly by sequential nuclear Overhauser effects between neighbouring base pairs and by comparison of assignments of other tRNAs. The effects of magnesium, spermine and temperature on the 1H and 31P NMR spectra of this tRNA were studied. Both ions affect resonances close to the G15 . C48 tertiary base pair and in the ribosylthymine loop. The magnesium studies indicate the presence of an altered tRNA conformer at low magnesium concentrations in equilibrium with the high magnesium form. The temperature studies show that the A7 . U66 imino proton (from a secondary base pair) melts before some of the tertiary hydrogen bonds and that the anticodon stem does not melt sequentially from the ends. Correlation of the ion effects in the 1H and 31P NMR spectra has led to the tentative assignment of two 31P resonances not assigned in the comparable 31P NMR spectrum of yeast tRNAPhe. 31P NMR spectra of E. coli tRNA3Gly lack resolved peaks corresponding to peaks C and F in the spectra of E. coli tRNAPhe and yeast tRNAPhe. In the latter tRNAs these peaks have been assigned to phosphate groups in the anticodon loop. Ion binding E. coli tRNA3Gly and E. coli tRNAPhe had different effects on their 1H NMR spectra which may reflect further differences in their charge distribution and conformation.
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