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Ojha M, Vogt J, Das NK, Redmond E, Singh K, Banna HA, Sadat T, Koirala D. Structure of saguaro cactus virus 3' translational enhancer mimics 5' cap for eIF4E binding. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2313677121. [PMID: 38241435 PMCID: PMC10823258 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2313677121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024] Open
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The genomes of several plant viruses contain RNA structures at their 3' ends called cap-independent translation enhancers (CITEs) that bind the host protein factors such as mRNA 5' cap-binding protein eIF4E for promoting cap-independent genome translation. However, the structural basis of such 5' cap-binding protein recognition by the uncapped RNA remains largely unknown. Here, we have determined the crystal structure of a 3' CITE, panicum mosaic virus-like translation enhancer (PTE) from the saguaro cactus virus (SCV), using a Fab crystallization chaperone. The PTE RNA folds into a three-way junction architecture with a pseudoknot between the purine-rich R domain and pyrimidine-rich Y domain, which organizes the overall structure to protrude out a specific guanine nucleotide, G18, from the R domain that comprises a major interaction site for the eIF4E binding. The superimposable crystal structures of the wild-type, G18A, G18C, and G18U mutants suggest that the PTE scaffold is preorganized with the flipped-out G18 ready to dock into the eIF4E 5' cap-binding pocket. The binding studies with wheat and human eIF4Es using gel electrophoresis and isothermal titration calorimetry, and molecular docking computation for the PTE-eIF4E complex demonstrated that the PTE structure essentially mimics the mRNA 5' cap for eIF4E binding. Such 5' cap mimicry by the uncapped and structured viral RNA highlights how viruses can exploit RNA structures to mimic the host protein-binding partners and bypass the canonical mechanisms for their genome translation, providing opportunities for a better understanding of virus-host interactions and non-canonical translation mechanisms found in many pathogenic RNA viruses.
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- Manju Ojha
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD21250
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD21250
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD21250
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD21250
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD21250
- HHMI, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD21250
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD21250
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD21250
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD21250
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Truniger V, Pechar GS, Aranda MA. Advances in Understanding the Mechanism of Cap-Independent Cucurbit Aphid-Borne Yellows Virus Protein Synthesis. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:17598. [PMID: 38139425 PMCID: PMC10744285 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242417598] [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: 10/30/2023] [Revised: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/09/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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Non-canonical translation mechanisms have been described for many viral RNAs. In the case of several plant viruses, their protein synthesis is controlled by RNA elements in their genomic 3'-ends that are able to enhance cap-independent translation (3'-CITE). The proposed general mechanism of 3'-CITEs includes their binding to eukaryotic translation initiation factors (eIFs) that reach the 5'-end and AUG start codon through 5'-3'-UTR-interactions. It was previously shown that cucurbit aphid-borne yellows virus (CABYV) has a 3'-CITE, which varies in sequence and structure depending on the phylogenetic group to which the isolate belongs, possibly as a result of adaptation to the different geographical regions. In this work, the cap-independent translation mechanisms of two CABYV 3'-CITEs belonging to the Mediterranean (CMTE) and Asian (CXTE) groups, respectively, were studied. In vivo cap-independent translation assays show that these 3'-CITEs require the presence of the CABYV short genomic 5'-UTR with at least 40% adenines in cis and an accessible 5'-end for its activity. Additionally, they suggest that the eIF4E-independent CABYV 3'-CITE activities may not require either eIF4A or the eIF4F complex, but may depend on eIF4G and PABP. By pulling down host proteins using RNA baits containing both 5'- and 3'-CABYV-UTRs, 80 RNA binding proteins were identified. These interacted preferentially with either CMTE, CXTE, or both. One of these proteins, specifically interacting with the RNA containing CMTE, was HSP70.2. Preliminary results suggested that HSP70.2 may be involved in CMTE- but not CXTE-mediated cap-independent translation activity.
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- Verónica Truniger
- Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CEBAS-CSIC), 30100 Murcia, Spain; (G.S.P.); (M.A.A.)
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Lewicka A, Roman C, Jones S, Disare M, Rice P, Piccirilli J. Crystal structure of a cap-independent translation enhancer RNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2023; 51:8891-8907. [PMID: 37548413 PMCID: PMC10484670 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Revised: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/08/2023] Open
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In eukaryotic messenger RNAs, the 5' cap structure binds to the translation initiation factor 4E to facilitate early stages of translation. Although many plant viruses lack the 5' cap structure, some contain cap-independent translation elements (CITEs) in their 3' untranslated region. The PTE (Panicum mosaic virus translation element) class of CITEs contains a G-rich asymmetric bulge and a C-rich helical junction that were proposed to interact via formation of a pseudoknot. SHAPE analysis of PTE homologs reveals a highly reactive guanosine residue within the G-rich region proposed to mediate eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) recognition. Here we have obtained the crystal structure of the PTE from Pea enation mosaic virus 2 (PEMV2) RNA in complex with our structural chaperone, Fab BL3-6. The structure reveals that the G-rich and C-rich regions interact through a complex network of interactions distinct from those expected for a pseudoknot. The motif, which contains a short parallel duplex, provides a structural mechanism for how the guanosine is extruded from the core stack to enable eIF4E recognition. Homologous PTE elements harbor a G-rich bulge and a three-way junction and exhibit covariation at crucial positions, suggesting that the PEMV2 tertiary architecture is conserved among these homologs.
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- Anna Lewicka
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Tants JN, Schlundt A. Advances, Applications, and Perspectives in Small-Angle X-ray Scattering of RNA. Chembiochem 2023; 24:e202300110. [PMID: 37466350 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202300110] [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: 02/10/2023] [Revised: 04/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/20/2023]
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RNAs exhibit a plethora of functions far beyond transmitting genetic information. Often, RNA functions are entailed in their structure, be it as a regulatory switch, protein binding site, or providing catalytic activity. Structural information is a prerequisite for a full understanding of RNA-regulatory mechanisms. Owing to the inherent dynamics, size, and instability of RNA, its structure determination remains challenging. Methods such as NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, and cryo-electron microscopy can provide high-resolution structures; however, their limitations make structure determination, even for small RNAs, cumbersome, if at all possible. Although at a low resolution, small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) has proven valuable in advancing structure determination of RNAs as a complementary method, which is also applicable to large-sized RNAs. Here, we review the technological and methodological advancements of RNA SAXS. We provide examples of the powerful inclusion of SAXS in structural biology and discuss possible future applications to large RNAs.
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- Jan-Niklas Tants
- Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Molecular Biosciences and Biomagnetic Resonance Centre (BMRZ), Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Molecular Biosciences and Biomagnetic Resonance Centre (BMRZ), Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany
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Deng J, Fang X, Huang L, Li S, Xu L, Ye K, Zhang J, Zhang K, Zhang QC. RNA structure determination: From 2D to 3D. FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 3:727-737. [PMID: 38933295 PMCID: PMC11197651 DOI: 10.1016/j.fmre.2023.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2023] [Revised: 06/04/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2024] Open
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RNA molecules serve a wide range of functions that are closely linked to their structures. The basic structural units of RNA consist of single- and double-stranded regions. In order to carry out advanced functions such as catalysis and ligand binding, certain types of RNAs can adopt higher-order structures. The analysis of RNA structures has progressed alongside advancements in structural biology techniques, but it comes with its own set of challenges and corresponding solutions. In this review, we will discuss recent advances in RNA structure analysis techniques, including structural probing methods, X-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance, cryo-electron microscopy, and small-angle X-ray scattering. Often, a combination of multiple techniques is employed for the integrated analysis of RNA structures. We also survey important RNA structures that have been recently determined using various techniques.
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- Jie Deng
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for RNA Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510120, China
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- Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for RNA Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510120, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Cellular Dynamics and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China
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- Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology & Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Beijing 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Cellular Dynamics and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology & Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Beijing 100084, China
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Bera S, Ilyas M, Mikkelsen AA, Simon AE. Conserved Structure Associated with Different 3′CITEs Is Important for Translation of Umbraviruses. Viruses 2023; 15:v15030638. [PMID: 36992347 PMCID: PMC10051134 DOI: 10.3390/v15030638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2022] [Revised: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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The cap-independent translation of plus-strand RNA plant viruses frequently depends on 3′ structures to attract translation initiation factors that bind ribosomal subunits or bind directly to ribosomes. Umbraviruses are excellent models for studying 3′ cap-independent translation enhancers (3′CITEs), as umbraviruses can have different 3′CITEs in the central region of their lengthy 3′UTRs, and most also have a particular 3′CITE (the T-shaped structure or 3′TSS) near their 3′ ends. We discovered a novel hairpin just upstream of the centrally located (known or putative) 3′CITEs in all 14 umbraviruses. These CITE-associated structures (CASs) have conserved sequences in their apical loops and at the stem base and adjacent positions. In 11 umbraviruses, CASs are preceded by two small hairpins joined by a putative kissing loop interaction (KL). Converting the conserved 6-nt apical loop to a GNRA tetraloop in opium poppy mosaic virus (OPMV) and pea enation mosaic virus 2 (PEMV2) enhanced translation of genomic (g)RNA, but not subgenomic (sg)RNA reporter constructs, and significantly repressed virus accumulation in Nicotiana benthamiana. Other alterations throughout OPMV CAS also repressed virus accumulation and only enhanced sgRNA reporter translation, while mutations in the lower stem repressed gRNA reporter translation. Similar mutations in the PEMV2 CAS also repressed accumulation but did not significantly affect gRNA or sgRNA reporter translation, with the exception of deletion of the entire hairpin, which only reduced translation of the gRNA reporter. OPMV CAS mutations had little effect on the downstream BTE 3′CITE or upstream KL element, while PEMV2 CAS mutations significantly altered KL structures. These results introduce an additional element associated with different 3′CITEs that differentially affect the structure and translation of different umbraviruses.
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Identification of Novel 5' and 3' Translation Enhancers in Umbravirus-Like Coat Protein-Deficient RNA Replicons. J Virol 2022; 96:e0173621. [PMID: 35297668 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01736-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Translation of plant plus-strand RNA viral genomes that lack a 5' cap frequently requires the use of cap-independent translation enhancers (CITEs) located in or near the 3' untranslated region (UTR). 3'CITEs are grouped based on secondary structure and ability to interact with different translation initiation factors or ribosomal subunits, which assemble a complex at the 3' end that is nearly always transferred to the 5' end via a long-distance kissing-loop interaction between sequences in the 3'CITE and 5' hairpins. We report here the identification of a novel 3'CITE in coat protein-deficient RNA replicons that are related to umbraviruses. Umbra-like associated RNAs (ulaRNAs), such as citrus yellow vein-associated virus (CYVaV), are a new type of subviral RNA that do not encode movement proteins, coat proteins, or silencing suppressors but can independently replicate using their encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. An extended hairpin structure containing multiple internal loops in the 3' UTR of CYVaV is strongly conserved in the most closely related ulaRNAs and structurally resembles an I-shaped structure (ISS) 3'CITE. However, unlike ISS, the CYVaV structure binds to eIF4G and no long-distance interaction is discernible between the CYVaV ISS-like structure and sequences at or near the 5' end. We also report that the ∼30-nucleotide (nt) 5' terminal hairpin of CYVaV and related ulaRNAs can enhance translation of reporter constructs when associated with either the CYVaV 3'CITE or the 3'CITEs of umbravirus pea enation mosaic virus (PEMV2) and even independent of a 3'CITE. These findings introduce a new type of 3'CITE and provide the first information on translation of ulaRNAs. IMPORTANCE Umbra-like associated RNAs (ulaRNAs) are a recently discovered type of subviral RNA that use their encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase for replication but do not encode any coat proteins, movement proteins, or silencing suppressors yet can be found in plants in the absence of any discernible helper virus. We report the first analysis of their translation using class 2 ulaRNA citrus yellow vein-associated virus (CYVaV). CYVaV uses a novel eIF4G-binding I-shaped structure as its 3' cap-independent translation enhancer (3'CITE), which does not connect with the 5' end by a long-distance RNA:RNA interaction that is typical of 3'CITEs. ulaRNA 5' terminal hairpins can also enhance translation in association with cognate 3'CITEs or those of related ulaRNAs and, to a lesser extent, with 3'CITEs of umbraviruses, or even independent of a 3'CITE. These findings introduce a new type of 3'CITE and provide the first information on translation of ulaRNAs.
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Fang X, Gallego J, Wang YX. Deriving RNA topological structure from SAXS. Methods Enzymol 2022; 677:479-529. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2022.08.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Translation of Plant RNA Viruses. Viruses 2021; 13:v13122499. [PMID: 34960768 PMCID: PMC8708638 DOI: 10.3390/v13122499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2021] [Revised: 12/01/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Plant RNA viruses encode essential viral proteins that depend on the host translation machinery for their expression. However, genomic RNAs of most plant RNA viruses lack the classical characteristics of eukaryotic cellular mRNAs, such as mono-cistron, 5′ cap structure, and 3′ polyadenylation. To adapt and utilize the eukaryotic translation machinery, plant RNA viruses have evolved a variety of translation strategies such as cap-independent translation, translation recoding on initiation and termination sites, and post-translation processes. This review focuses on advances in cap-independent translation and translation recoding in plant viruses.
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Sorokin II, Vassilenko KS, Terenin IM, Kalinina NO, Agol VI, Dmitriev SE. Non-Canonical Translation Initiation Mechanisms Employed by Eukaryotic Viral mRNAs. BIOCHEMISTRY. BIOKHIMIIA 2021; 86:1060-1094. [PMID: 34565312 PMCID: PMC8436584 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297921090042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Revised: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Viruses exploit the translation machinery of an infected cell to synthesize their proteins. Therefore, viral mRNAs have to compete for ribosomes and translation factors with cellular mRNAs. To succeed, eukaryotic viruses adopt multiple strategies. One is to circumvent the need for m7G-cap through alternative instruments for ribosome recruitment. These include internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs), which make translation independent of the free 5' end, or cap-independent translational enhancers (CITEs), which promote initiation at the uncapped 5' end, even if located in 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs). Even if a virus uses the canonical cap-dependent ribosome recruitment, it can still perturb conventional ribosomal scanning and start codon selection. The pressure for genome compression often gives rise to internal and overlapping open reading frames. Their translation is initiated through specific mechanisms, such as leaky scanning, 43S sliding, shunting, or coupled termination-reinitiation. Deviations from the canonical initiation reduce the dependence of viral mRNAs on translation initiation factors, thereby providing resistance to antiviral mechanisms and cellular stress responses. Moreover, viruses can gain advantage in a competition for the translational machinery by inactivating individual translational factors and/or replacing them with viral counterparts. Certain viruses even create specialized intracellular "translation factories", which spatially isolate the sites of their protein synthesis from cellular antiviral systems, and increase availability of translational components. However, these virus-specific mechanisms may become the Achilles' heel of a viral life cycle. Thus, better understanding of the unconventional mechanisms of viral mRNA translation initiation provides valuable insight for developing new approaches to antiviral therapy.
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- Ivan I Sorokin
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia
- Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia
- Research Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, 141701, Russia
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- Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia
- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117997, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia
- Institute of Poliomyelitis, Chumakov Center for Research and Development of Immunobiological Products, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 108819, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia.
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia
- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia
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Lee SJ, Kim Y, Kim TW, Yang C, Thamilselvan K, Jeong H, Hyun J, Ihee H. Reversible molecular motional switch based on circular photoactive protein oligomers exhibits unexpected photo-induced contraction. CELL REPORTS. PHYSICAL SCIENCE 2021; 2:100512. [PMID: 35509376 PMCID: PMC9062587 DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Molecular switches alterable between two stable states by environmental stimuli, such as light and temperature, offer the potential for controlling biological functions. Here, we report a circular photoswitchable protein complex made of multiple protein molecules that can rapidly and reversibly switch with significant conformational changes. The structural and photochromic properties of photoactive yellow protein (PYP) are harnessed to construct circular oligomer PYPs (coPYPs) of desired sizes. Considering the light-induced N-terminal protrusion of monomer PYP, we expected coPYPs would expand upon irradiation, but time-resolved X-ray scattering data reveal that the late intermediate has a pronounced light-induced contraction motion. This work not only provides an approach to engineering a novel protein-based molecular switch based on circular oligomers of well-known protein units but also demonstrates the importance of characterizing the structural dynamics of designed molecular switches.
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- Sang Jin Lee
- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- These authors contributed equally
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- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- These authors contributed equally
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- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Research Equipment, Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do 28119, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Research Equipment, Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do 28119, Republic of Korea
- Molecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- Lead contact
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Opium Poppy Mosaic Virus Has an Xrn-Resistant, Translated Subgenomic RNA and a BTE 3' CITE. J Virol 2021; 95:JVI.02109-20. [PMID: 33597210 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02109-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Opium poppy mosaic virus (OPMV) is a recently discovered umbravirus in the family Tombusviridae OPMV has a plus-sense genomic RNA (gRNA) of 4,241 nucleotides (nt) from which replication protein p35 and p35 extension product p98, the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), are expressed. Movement proteins p27 (long distance) and p28 (cell to cell) are expressed from a 1,440-nt subgenomic RNA (sgRNA2). A highly conserved structure was identified just upstream from the sgRNA2 transcription start site in all umbraviruses, which includes a carmovirus consensus sequence, denoting generation by an RdRp-mediated mechanism. OPMV also has a second sgRNA of 1,554 nt (sgRNA1) that starts just downstream of a canonical exoribonuclease-resistant sequence (xrRNAD). sgRNA1 codes for a 30-kDa protein in vitro that is in frame with p28 and cannot be synthesized in other umbraviruses. Eliminating sgRNA1 or truncating the p30 open reading frame (ORF) without affecting p28 substantially reduced accumulation of OPMV gRNA, suggesting a functional role for the protein. The 652-nt 3' untranslated region of OPMV contains two 3' cap-independent translation enhancers (3' CITEs), a T-shaped structure (TSS) near its 3' end, and a Barley yellow dwarf virus-like translation element (BTE) in the central region. Only the BTE is functional in luciferase reporter constructs containing gRNA or sgRNA2 5' sequences in vivo, which differs from how umbravirus 3' CITEs were used in a previous study. Similarly to most 3' CITEs, the OPMV BTE links to the 5' end via a long-distance RNA-RNA interaction. Analysis of 14 BTEs revealed additional conserved sequences and structural features beyond the previously identified 17-nt conserved sequence.IMPORTANCE Opium poppy mosaic virus (OPMV) is an umbravirus in the family Tombusviridae We determined that OPMV accumulates two similarly sized subgenomic RNAs (sgRNAs), with the smaller known to code for proteins expressed from overlapping open reading frames. The slightly larger sgRNA1 has a 5' end just upstream from a previously predicted xrRNAD site, identifying this sgRNA as an unusually long product produced by exoribonuclease trimming. Although four umbraviruses have similar predicted xrRNAD sites, only sgRNA1 of OPMV can code for a protein that is an extension product of umbravirus ORF4. Inability to generate the sgRNA or translate this protein was associated with reduced gRNA accumulation in vivo We also characterized the OPMV BTE structure, a 3' cap-independent translation enhancer (3' CITE). Comparisons of 13 BTEs with the OPMV BTE revealed additional stretches of sequence similarity beyond the 17-nt signature sequence, as well as conserved structural features not previously recognized in these 3' CITEs.
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Advanced approaches for elucidating structures of large RNAs using NMR spectroscopy and complementary methods. Methods 2020; 183:93-107. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2020.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2019] [Revised: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Boyd PS, Brown JB, Brown JD, Catazaro J, Chaudry I, Ding P, Dong X, Marchant J, O’Hern CT, Singh K, Swanson C, Summers MF, Yasin S. NMR Studies of Retroviral Genome Packaging. Viruses 2020; 12:v12101115. [PMID: 33008123 PMCID: PMC7599994 DOI: 10.3390/v12101115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2020] [Revised: 09/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Nearly all retroviruses selectively package two copies of their unspliced RNA genomes from a cellular milieu that contains a substantial excess of non-viral and spliced viral RNAs. Over the past four decades, combinations of genetic experiments, phylogenetic analyses, nucleotide accessibility mapping, in silico RNA structure predictions, and biophysical experiments were employed to understand how retroviral genomes are selected for packaging. Genetic studies provided early clues regarding the protein and RNA elements required for packaging, and nucleotide accessibility mapping experiments provided insights into the secondary structures of functionally important elements in the genome. Three-dimensional structural determinants of packaging were primarily derived by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. A key advantage of NMR, relative to other methods for determining biomolecular structure (such as X-ray crystallography), is that it is well suited for studies of conformationally dynamic and heterogeneous systems—a hallmark of the retrovirus packaging machinery. Here, we review advances in understanding of the structures, dynamics, and interactions of the proteins and RNA elements involved in retroviral genome selection and packaging that are facilitated by NMR.
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Delhommel F, Gabel F, Sattler M. Current approaches for integrating solution NMR spectroscopy and small-angle scattering to study the structure and dynamics of biomolecular complexes. J Mol Biol 2020; 432:2890-2912. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2020.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Viruses must co-opt the cellular translation machinery to produce progeny virions. Eukaryotic viruses have evolved a variety of ways to manipulate the cellular translation apparatus, in many cases using elegant RNA-centred strategies. Viral RNAs can alter or control every phase of protein synthesis and have diverse targets, mechanisms and structures. In addition, as cells attempt to limit infection by downregulating translation, some of these viral RNAs enable the virus to overcome this response or even take advantage of it to promote viral translation over cellular translation. In this Review, we present important examples of viral RNA-based strategies to exploit the cellular translation machinery. We describe what is understood of the structures and mechanisms of diverse viral RNA elements that alter or regulate translation, the advantages that are conferred to the virus and some of the major unknowns that provide motivation for further exploration. Eukaryotic viruses have evolved a variety of ways to manipulate the cellular translation apparatus. In this Review, Jaafar and Kieft present important examples of viral RNA-based strategies to exploit the cellular translation machinery.
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- Zane A Jaafar
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA. .,RNA Bioscience Initiative, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
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Oliver RC, Rolband LA, Hutchinson-Lundy AM, Afonin KA, Krueger JK. Small-Angle Scattering as a Structural Probe for Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles (NANPs) in a Dynamic Solution Environment. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2019; 9:E681. [PMID: 31052508 PMCID: PMC6566709 DOI: 10.3390/nano9050681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2019] [Revised: 04/16/2019] [Accepted: 04/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Nucleic acid-based technologies are an emerging research focus area for pharmacological and biological studies because they are biocompatible and can be designed to produce a variety of scaffolds at the nanometer scale. The use of nucleic acids (ribonucleic acid (RNA) and/or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)) as building materials in programming the assemblies and their further functionalization has recently established a new exciting field of RNA and DNA nanotechnology, which have both already produced a variety of different functional nanostructures and nanodevices. It is evident that the resultant architectures require detailed structural and functional characterization and that a variety of technical approaches must be employed to promote the development of the emerging fields. Small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering (SAS) are structural characterization techniques that are well placed to determine the conformation of nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) under varying solution conditions, thus allowing for the optimization of their design. SAS experiments provide information on the overall shapes and particle dimensions of macromolecules and are ideal for following conformational changes of the molecular ensemble as it behaves in solution. In addition, the inherent differences in the neutron scattering of nucleic acids, lipids, and proteins, as well as the different neutron scattering properties of the isotopes of hydrogen, combined with the ability to uniformly label biological macromolecules with deuterium, allow one to characterize the conformations and relative dispositions of the individual components within an assembly of biomolecules. This article will review the application of SAS methods and provide a summary of their successful utilization in the emerging field of NANP technology to date, as well as share our vision on its use in complementing a broad suite of structural characterization tools with some simulated results that have never been shared before.
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- Ryan C Oliver
- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA.
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- UNC Charlotte Chemistry Department, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.
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- UNC Charlotte Chemistry Department, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.
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Zhang H, Keane SC. Advances that facilitate the study of large RNA structure and dynamics by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2019; 10:e1541. [PMID: 31025514 PMCID: PMC7169810 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2018] [Revised: 01/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The characterization of functional yet nonprotein coding (nc) RNAs has expanded the role of RNA in the cell from a passive player in the central dogma of molecular biology to an active regulator of gene expression. The misregulation of ncRNA function has been linked with a variety of diseases and disorders ranging from cancers to neurodegeneration. However, a detailed molecular understanding of how ncRNAs function has been limited; due, in part, to the difficulties associated with obtaining high-resolution structures of large RNAs. Tertiary structure determination of RNA as a whole is hampered by various technical challenges, all of which are exacerbated as the size of the RNA increases. Namely, RNAs tend to be highly flexible and dynamic molecules, which are difficult to crystallize. Biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy offers a viable alternative to determining the structure of large RNA molecules that do not readily crystallize, but is itself hindered by some technical limitations. Recently, a series of advancements have allowed the biomolecular NMR field to overcome, at least in part, some of these limitations. These advances include improvements in sample preparation strategies as well as methodological improvements. Together, these innovations pave the way for the study of ever larger RNA molecules that have important biological function. This article is categorized under: RNA Structure and Dynamics > RNA Structure, Dynamics, and Chemistry Regulatory RNAs/RNAi/Riboswitches > Regulatory RNAs RNA Structure and Dynamics > Influence of RNA Structure in Biological Systems.
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- Huaqun Zhang
- Biophysics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Biophysics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Kraft JJ, Peterson MS, Cho SK, Wang Z, Hui A, Rakotondrafara AM, Treder K, Miller CL, Miller WA. The 3' Untranslated Region of a Plant Viral RNA Directs Efficient Cap-Independent Translation in Plant and Mammalian Systems. Pathogens 2019; 8:E28. [PMID: 30823456 PMCID: PMC6471432 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens8010028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2019] [Revised: 02/03/2019] [Accepted: 02/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Many plant viral RNA genomes lack a 5' cap, and instead are translated via a cap-independent translation element (CITE) in the 3' untranslated region (UTR). The panicum mosaic virus-like CITE (PTE), found in many plant viral RNAs, binds and requires the cap-binding translation initiation factor eIF4E to facilitate translation. eIF4E is structurally conserved between plants and animals, so we tested cap-independent translation efficiency of PTEs of nine plant viruses in plant and mammalian systems. The PTE from thin paspalum asymptomatic virus (TPAV) facilitated efficient cap-independent translation in wheat germ extract, rabbit reticulocyte lysate, HeLa cell lysate, and in oat and mammalian (BHK) cells. Human eIF4E bound the TPAV PTE but not a PTE that did not stimulate cap-independent translation in mammalian extracts or cells. Selective 2'-hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension (SHAPE) footprinting revealed that both human and wheat eIF4E protected the conserved guanosine (G)-rich domain in the TPAV PTE pseudoknot. The central G plays a key role, as it was found to be required for translation and protection from SHAPE modification by eIF4E. These results provide insight on how plant viruses gain access to the host's translational machinery, an essential step in infection, and raise the possibility that similar PTE-like mechanisms may exist in mRNAs of mammals or their viruses.
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- Jelena J Kraft
- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
- Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory Vaccine Center 2009, 954 Gatewood Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA.
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
- Dura-Line, 1355 Carden Farm Dr., Clinton, TN 37716, USA.
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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- Interdepartmental Plant Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostic and Biochemistry, Bonin Research Center, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute⁻National Research Institute, 76-009 Bonin, Poland.
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- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
- Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
- Interdepartmental Plant Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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Al-Allaf FA, Abduljaleel Z, Athar M, Taher MM, Khan W, Mehmet H, Colakogullari M, Apostolidou S, Bigger B, Waddington S, Coutelle C, Themis M, Al-Ahdal MN, Al-Mohanna FA, Al-Hassnan ZN, Bouazzaoui A. Modifying inter-cistronic sequence significantly enhances IRES dependent second gene expression in bicistronic vector: Construction of optimised cassette for gene therapy of familial hypercholesterolemia. Noncoding RNA Res 2018; 4:1-14. [PMID: 30891532 PMCID: PMC6404380 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncrna.2018.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Revised: 11/21/2018] [Accepted: 11/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Internal ribosome entry site (IRES) sequences have become a valuable tool in the construction of gene transfer and therapeutic vectors for multi-cistronic gene expression from a single mRNA transcript. The optimal conditions for effective use of this sequence to construct a functional expression vector are not precisely defined but it is generally assumed that the internal ribosome entry site dependent expression of the second gene in such as cassette is less efficient than the cap-dependent expression of the first gene. Mainly tailoring inter-cistronic sequence significantly enhances IRES dependent second gene expression in bicistronic vector further in construction of optimised cassette for gene therapy of familial hypercholesterolemia. We tailored the size of the inter-cistronic spacer sequence at the 5′ region of the internal ribosome entry site sequence using sequential deletions and demonstrated that the expression of the 3′ gene can be significantly increased to similar levels as the cap-dependent expression of the 5’ gene. Maximum expression efficiency of the downstream gene was obtained when the spacer is composed of 18–141 base pairs. In this case a single mRNA transcriptional unit containing both the first and the second Cistron was detected. Whilst constructs with spacer sequences of 216 bp or longer generate a single transcriptional unit containing only the first Cistron. This suggests that long spacers may affect transcription termination. When the spacer is 188 bp, both transcripts were produced simultaneously in most transfected cells, while a fraction of them expressed only the first but not the second gene. Expression analyses of vectors containing optimised cassettes clearly confirm that efficiency of gene transfer and biological activity of the expressed transgenic proteins in the transduced cells can be achieved. Furthermore, Computational analysis was carried out by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to determine the most emerges as viable containing specific binding site and bridging of 5′ and 3′ ends involving direct RNA-RNA contacts and RNA-protein interactions. These results provide a mechanistic basis for translation stimulation and RNA resembling for the synergistic stimulation of cap-dependent translation.
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- Faisal A Al-Allaf
- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, P.O. Box 715, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia.,Science and Technology Unit, Umm Al-Qura University, P.O. Box 715, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia.,Molecular Diagnostics Unit, Department of Laboratory and Blood Bank, King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia.,Gene Therapy Research Group, Department of Molecular and Cell Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.,Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Division of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, P.O. Box 715, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia.,Science and Technology Unit, Umm Al-Qura University, P.O. Box 715, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, P.O. Box 715, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia.,Science and Technology Unit, Umm Al-Qura University, P.O. Box 715, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, P.O. Box 715, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia.,Science and Technology Unit, Umm Al-Qura University, P.O. Box 715, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Basic Sciences, College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, PO Box 3124, Riyadh, 11426, Saudi Arabia
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- Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Division of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Division of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Division of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Gene Therapy Research Group, Department of Molecular and Cell Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Gene Therapy Research Group, Department of Molecular and Cell Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Gene Therapy Research Group, Department of Molecular and Cell Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Gene Therapy Research Group, Department of Molecular and Cell Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Infection and Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Cell Biology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Medical Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, P.O. Box 715, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia.,Science and Technology Unit, Umm Al-Qura University, P.O. Box 715, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia
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Liu Y, Holmstrom E, Yu P, Tan K, Zuo X, Nesbitt DJ, Sousa R, Stagno JR, Wang YX. Incorporation of isotopic, fluorescent, and heavy-atom-modified nucleotides into RNAs by position-selective labeling of RNA. Nat Protoc 2018; 13:987-1005. [PMID: 29651055 DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2018.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Site-specific incorporation of labeled nucleotides is an extremely useful synthetic tool for many structural studies (e.g., NMR, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), and X-ray crystallography) of RNA. However, specific-position-labeled RNAs >60 nt are not commercially available on a milligram scale. Position-selective labeling of RNA (PLOR) has been applied to prepare large RNAs labeled at desired positions, and all the required reagents are commercially available. Here, we present a step-by-step protocol for the solid-liquid hybrid phase method PLOR to synthesize 71-nt RNA samples with three different modification applications, containing (i) a 13C15N-labeled segment; (ii) discrete residues modified with Cy3, Cy5, or biotin; or (iii) two iodo-U residues. The flexible procedure enables a wide range of downstream biophysical analyses using precisely localized functionalized nucleotides. All three RNAs were obtained in <2 d, excluding time for preparing reagents and optimizing experimental conditions. With optimization, the protocol can be applied to other RNAs with various labeling schemes, such as ligation of segmentally labeled fragments.
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- Yu Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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- Structural Biology Center, Department of Biosciences, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA
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- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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Zhang K, Keane SC, Su Z, Irobalieva RN, Chen M, Van V, Sciandra CA, Marchant J, Heng X, Schmid MF, Case DA, Ludtke SJ, Summers MF, Chiu W. Structure of the 30 kDa HIV-1 RNA Dimerization Signal by a Hybrid Cryo-EM, NMR, and Molecular Dynamics Approach. Structure 2018; 26:490-498.e3. [PMID: 29398526 PMCID: PMC5842133 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2018.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2017] [Revised: 11/12/2017] [Accepted: 01/03/2018] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy are routinely used to determine structures of macromolecules with molecular weights over 65 and under 25 kDa, respectively. We combined these techniques to study a 30 kDa HIV-1 dimer initiation site RNA ([DIS]2; 47 nt/strand). A 9 Å cryo-EM map clearly shows major groove features of the double helix and a right-handed superhelical twist. Simulated cryo-EM maps generated from time-averaged molecular dynamics trajectories (10 ns) exhibited levels of detail similar to those in the experimental maps, suggesting internal structural flexibility limits the cryo-EM resolution. Simultaneous inclusion of the cryo-EM map and 2H-edited NMR-derived distance restraints during structure refinement generates a structure consistent with both datasets and supporting a flipped-out base within a conserved purine-rich bulge. Our findings demonstrate the power of combining global and local structural information from these techniques for structure determination of modest-sized RNAs.
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- Kaiming Zhang
- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
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- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
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- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Le MT, Kasprzak WK, Shapiro BA, Simon AE. Combined single molecule experimental and computational approaches for understanding the unfolding pathway of a viral translation enhancer that participates in a conformational switch. RNA Biol 2017; 14:1466-1472. [PMID: 28548627 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2017.1325069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
How plus-strand [+]RNA virus genomes transition from translation templates to replication templates is a matter of much speculation. We have previously proposed that, for Turnip crinkle virus, binding of the encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) to the 3'UTR of the [+]RNA template promotes a regional wide-spread conformational switch to an alternative structure that disassembles the cap-independent translation enhancer (CITE) in the 3'UTR. The active 3'CITE folds into a tRNA-like T-shaped structure (TSS) that binds to 80S ribosomes and 60S subunits in the P-site. In this Point-of-View, we discuss the history of our research on the TSS and our recent report combining coarse level single molecule force spectroscopy (optical tweezers) with fine-grain computer simulations of this experimental process and biochemical approaches to obtain a detailed understanding of how RdRp binding in the TSS vicinity might lead to an extensive rearrangement of the RNA structure.
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- My-Tra Le
- a Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics , University of Maryland - College Park , College Park , MD , USA
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- b Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research , Frederick , MD , USA
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- c RNA Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute , Frederick , MD , USA
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- a Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics , University of Maryland - College Park , College Park , MD , USA
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Bhandari YR, Fan L, Fang X, Zaki GF, Stahlberg EA, Jiang W, Schwieters CD, Stagno JR, Wang YX. Topological Structure Determination of RNA Using Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering. J Mol Biol 2017; 429:3635-3649. [PMID: 28918093 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2017.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2017] [Revised: 09/06/2017] [Accepted: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Knowledge of RNA three-dimensional topological structures provides important insight into the relationship between RNA structural components and function. It is often likely that near-complete sets of biochemical and biophysical data containing structural restraints are not available, but one still wants to obtain knowledge about approximate topological folding of RNA. In this regard, general methods for determining such topological structures with minimum readily available restraints are lacking. Naked RNAs are difficult to crystallize and NMR spectroscopy is generally limited to small RNA fragments. By nature, sequence determines structure and all interactions that drive folding are self-contained within sequence. Nevertheless, there is little apparent correlation between primary sequences and three-dimensional folding unless supplemented with experimental or phylogenetic data. Thus, there is an acute need for a robust high-throughput method that can rapidly determine topological structures of RNAs guided by some experimental data. We present here a novel method (RS3D) that can assimilate the RNA secondary structure information, small-angle X-ray scattering data, and any readily available tertiary contact information to determine the topological fold of RNA. Conformations are firstly sampled at glob level where each glob represents a nucleotide. Best-ranked glob models can be further refined against solvent accessibility data, if available, and then converted to explicit all-atom coordinates for refinement against SAXS data using the Xplor-NIH program. RS3D is widely applicable to a variety of RNA folding architectures currently present in the structure database. Furthermore, we demonstrate applicability and feasibility of the program to derive low-resolution topological structures of relatively large multi-domain RNAs.
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- Yuba R Bhandari
- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, United States.
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- Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Frederick, MD 21702, United States
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- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, United States
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- Data Science and Information Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, United States
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- Data Science and Information Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, United States
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, United States
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- Office of Intramural Research, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
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- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, United States
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- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, United States; NCI Small Angle X-ray Scattering Core Facility, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, United States.
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Rajamäki ML, Xi D, Sikorskaite-Gudziuniene S, Valkonen JPT, Whitham SA. Differential Requirement of the Ribosomal Protein S6 and Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinase for Plant-Virus Accumulation and Interaction of S6 Kinase with Potyviral VPg. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2017; 30:374-384. [PMID: 28437137 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-06-16-0122-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Ribosomal protein S6 (RPS6) is an indispensable plant protein regulated, in part, by ribosomal protein S6 kinase (S6K) which, in turn, is a key regulator of plant responses to stresses and developmental cues. Increased expression of RPS6 was detected in Nicotiana benthamiana during infection by diverse plant viruses. Silencing of the RPS6 and S6K genes in N. benthamiana affected accumulation of Cucumber mosaic virus, Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV), and Potato virus A (PVA) in contrast to Turnip crinkle virus and Tobacco mosaic virus. In addition, the viral genome-linked protein (VPg) of TuMV and PVA interacted with S6K in plant cells, as detected by bimolecular fluorescence complementation assay. The VPg-S6K interaction was detected in cytoplasm, nucleus, and nucleolus, whereas the green fluorescent protein-tagged S6K alone showed cytoplasmic localization only. These results demonstrate that the requirement for RPS6 and S6K differs for diverse plant viruses with different translation initiation strategies and suggest that potyviral VPg-S6K interaction may affect S6K functions in both the cytoplasm and the nucleus.
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- Minna-Liisa Rajamäki
- 1 Department of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 27, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- 2 College of Life Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, China; and
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- 1 Department of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 27, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- 3 Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011, U.S.A
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Le MT, Kasprzak WK, Kim T, Gao F, Young MYL, Yuan X, Shapiro BA, Seog J, Simon AE. Folding behavior of a T-shaped, ribosome-binding translation enhancer implicated in a wide-spread conformational switch. eLife 2017; 6:e22883. [PMID: 28186489 PMCID: PMC5336357 DOI: 10.7554/elife.22883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2016] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Turnip crinkle virus contains a T-shaped, ribosome-binding, translation enhancer (TSS) in its 3'UTR that serves as a hub for interactions throughout the region. The viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) causes the TSS/surrounding region to undergo a conformational shift postulated to inhibit translation. Using optical tweezers (OT) and steered molecular dynamic simulations (SMD), we found that the unusual stability of pseudoknotted element H4a/Ψ3 required five upstream adenylates, and H4a/Ψ3 was necessary for cooperative association of two other hairpins (H5/H4b) in Mg2+. SMD recapitulated the TSS unfolding order in the absence of Mg2+, showed dependence of the resistance to pulling on the 3D orientation and gave structural insights into the measured contour lengths of the TSS structure elements. Adenylate mutations eliminated one-site RdRp binding to the 3'UTR, suggesting that RdRp binding to the adenylates disrupts H4a/Ψ3, leading to loss of H5/H4b interaction and promoting a conformational switch interrupting translation and promoting replication.
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- My-Tra Le
- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
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- Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, United States
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- RNA Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
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- RNA Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
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Cantara WA, Olson ED, Musier-Forsyth K. Analysis of RNA structure using small-angle X-ray scattering. Methods 2017; 113:46-55. [PMID: 27777026 PMCID: PMC5253320 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2016.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2016] [Revised: 10/10/2016] [Accepted: 10/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In addition to their role in correctly attaching specific amino acids to cognate tRNAs, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRS) have been found to possess many alternative functions and often bind to and act on other nucleic acids. In contrast to the well-defined 3D structure of tRNA, the structures of many of the other RNAs recognized by aaRSs have not been solved. Despite advances in the use of X-ray crystallography (XRC), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) for structural characterization of biomolecules, significant challenges to solving RNA structures still exist. Recently, small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) has been increasingly employed to characterize the 3D structures of RNAs and RNA-protein complexes. SAXS is capable of providing low-resolution tertiary structure information under physiological conditions and with less intensive sample preparation and data analysis requirements than XRC, NMR and cryo-EM. In this article, we describe best practices involved in the process of RNA and RNA-protein sample preparation, SAXS data collection, data analysis, and structural model building.
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- William A Cantara
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Retrovirus Research, and Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Retrovirus Research, and Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Retrovirus Research, and Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States.
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Miras M, Miller WA, Truniger V, Aranda MA. Non-canonical Translation in Plant RNA Viruses. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:494. [PMID: 28428795 PMCID: PMC5382211 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Accepted: 03/21/2017] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Viral protein synthesis is completely dependent upon the host cell's translational machinery. Canonical translation of host mRNAs depends on structural elements such as the 5' cap structure and/or the 3' poly(A) tail of the mRNAs. Although many viral mRNAs are devoid of one or both of these structures, they can still translate efficiently using non-canonical mechanisms. Here, we review the tools utilized by positive-sense single-stranded (+ss) RNA plant viruses to initiate non-canonical translation, focusing on cis-acting sequences present in viral mRNAs. We highlight how these elements may interact with host translation factors and speculate on their contribution for achieving translational control. We also describe other translation strategies used by plant viruses to optimize the usage of the coding capacity of their very compact genomes, including leaky scanning initiation, ribosomal frameshifting and stop-codon readthrough. Finally, future research perspectives on the unusual translational strategies of +ssRNA viruses are discussed, including parallelisms between viral and host mRNAs mechanisms of translation, particularly for host mRNAs which are translated under stress conditions.
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- Manuel Miras
- Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura - CSICMurcia, Spain
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State UniversityAmes, IA, USA
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- Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura - CSICMurcia, Spain
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- Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura - CSICMurcia, Spain
- *Correspondence: Miguel A. Aranda
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Truniger V, Miras M, Aranda MA. Structural and Functional Diversity of Plant Virus 3'-Cap-Independent Translation Enhancers (3'-CITEs). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:2047. [PMID: 29238357 PMCID: PMC5712577 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Most of the positive-strand RNA plant viruses lack the 5'-cap and/or the poly(A)-tail that act synergistically to stimulate canonical translation of cellular mRNAs. However, they have RNA elements in the 5'- or 3'-untranslated regions of their RNAs that are required for their cap-independent translation. Cap-independent translation enhancers (CITEs) have been identified in the genomic 3'-end of viruses belonging to the family Tombusviridae and the genus Luteovirus. Seven classes of 3'-CITEs have been described to date based on their different RNA structures. They generally control the efficient formation of the translation initiation complex by varying mechanisms. Some 3'-CITEs bind eukaryotic translation initiation factors, others ribosomal subunits, bridging these to the 5'-end by different mechanisms, often long-distance RNA-RNA interactions. As previously proposed and recently found in one case in nature, 3'-CITEs are functionally independent elements that are transferable through recombination between viral genomes, leading to potential advantages for virus multiplication. In this review, the knowledge on 3'-CITEs and their functioning is updated. We also suggest that there is local structural conservation in the regions interacting with eIF4E of 3'-CITEs belonging to different classes.
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Filbin ME, Kieft JS. Linking Α to Ω: diverse and dynamic RNA-based mechanisms to regulate gene expression by 5'-to-3' communication. F1000Res 2016; 5. [PMID: 27610229 PMCID: PMC4995689 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.7913.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Communication between the 5′ and 3′ ends of a eukaryotic messenger RNA (mRNA) or viral genomic RNA is a ubiquitous and important strategy used to regulate gene expression. Although the canonical interaction between initiation factor proteins at the 5′ end of an mRNA and proteins bound to the polyadenylate tail at the 3′ end is well known, in fact there are many other strategies used in diverse ways. These strategies can involve “non-canonical” proteins, RNA structures, and direct RNA-RNA base-pairing between distal elements to achieve 5′-to-3′ communication. Likewise, the communication induced by these interactions influences a variety of processes linked to the use and fate of the RNA that contains them. Recent studies are revealing how dynamic these interactions are, possibly changing in response to cellular conditions or to link various phases of the mRNA’s life, from translation to decay. Thus, 5′-to-3′ communication is about more than just making a closed circle; the RNA elements and associated proteins are key players in controlling gene expression at the post-transcriptional level.
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- Megan E Filbin
- Department of Chemistry, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, 80217, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, 80045, USA
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Jan E, Mohr I, Walsh D. A Cap-to-Tail Guide to mRNA Translation Strategies in Virus-Infected Cells. Annu Rev Virol 2016; 3:283-307. [PMID: 27501262 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-virology-100114-055014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Although viruses require cellular functions to replicate, their absolute dependence upon the host translation machinery to produce polypeptides indispensable for their reproduction is most conspicuous. Despite their incredible diversity, the mRNAs produced by all viruses must engage cellular ribosomes. This has proven to be anything but a passive process and has revealed a remarkable array of tactics for rapidly subverting control over and dominating cellular regulatory pathways that influence translation initiation, elongation, and termination. Besides enforcing viral mRNA translation, these processes profoundly impact host cell-intrinsic immune defenses at the ready to deny foreign mRNA access to ribosomes and block protein synthesis. Finally, genome size constraints have driven the evolution of resourceful strategies for maximizing viral coding capacity. Here, we review the amazing strategies that work to regulate translation in virus-infected cells, highlighting both virus-specific tactics and the tremendous insight they provide into fundamental translational control mechanisms in health and disease.
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- Eric Jan
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada;
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- Department of Microbiology and New York University Cancer Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016;
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- Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611;
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Liu Y, Yu P, Dyba M, Sousa R, Stagno JR, Wang YX. Applications of PLOR in labeling large RNAs at specific sites. Methods 2016; 103:4-10. [PMID: 27033177 PMCID: PMC10802919 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2016.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2016] [Revised: 03/15/2016] [Accepted: 03/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Incorporation of modified or labeled nucleotides at specific sites in RNAs is critical for gaining insights into the structure and function of RNAs. Preparation of site-specifically labeled large RNAs in amounts suitable for structural or functional studies is extremely difficult using current methodologies. The position-selective labeling of RNA, PLOR, is a recently developed method that makes such syntheses possible. PLOR allows incorporation of various probes, including (2)D/(13)C/(15)N-isotopic labels, Cy3/Cy5/Alexa488/Alexa555 fluorescent dyes, biotin and other chemical groups, into specific positions in long RNAs. Here, we describe in detail the use of PLOR to label RNAs at specific segment(s) or discrete sites.
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- Yu Liu
- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
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- Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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Chemo-enzymatic labeling for rapid assignment of RNA molecules. Methods 2016; 103:11-7. [PMID: 27090003 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2016.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2015] [Revised: 03/17/2016] [Accepted: 03/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Even though Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the few techniques capable of determining atomic resolution structures of RNA, it is constrained by two major problems of chemical shift overlap of resonances and rapid signal loss due to line broadening. Emerging tools to tackle these problems include synthesis of atom specifically labeled or chemically modified nucleotides. Herein we review the synthesis of these nucleotides, the design and production of appropriate RNA samples, and the application and analysis of the NMR experiments that take advantage of these labels.
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Cornilescu G, Didychuk AL, Rodgers ML, Michael LA, Burke JE, Montemayor EJ, Hoskins AA, Butcher SE. Structural Analysis of Multi-Helical RNAs by NMR-SAXS/WAXS: Application to the U4/U6 di-snRNA. J Mol Biol 2016; 428:777-789. [PMID: 26655855 PMCID: PMC4790120 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.11.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2015] [Revised: 11/25/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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NMR and SAXS (small-angle X-ray scattering)/WAXS (wide-angle X-ray scattering) are highly complementary approaches for the analysis of RNA structure in solution. Here we describe an efficient NMR-SAXS/WAXS approach for structural investigation of multi-helical RNAs. We illustrate this approach by determining the overall fold of a 92-nt 3-helix junction from the U4/U6 di-snRNA. The U4/U6 di-snRNA is conserved in eukaryotes and is part of the U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP, a large ribonucleoprotein complex that comprises a major subunit of the assembled spliceosome. Helical orientations can be determined by X-ray scattering data alone, but the addition of NMR RDC (residual dipolar coupling) restraints improves the structure models. RDCs were measured in two different external alignment media and also by magnetic susceptibility anisotropy. The resulting alignment tensors are collinear, which is a previously noted problem for nucleic acids. Including WAXS data in the calculations produces models with significantly better fits to the scattering data. In solution, the U4/U6 di-snRNA forms a 3-helix junction with a planar Y-shaped structure and has no detectable tertiary interactions. Single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer data support the observed topology. A comparison with the recently determined cryo-electron microscopy structure of the U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP illustrates how proteins scaffold the RNA and dramatically alter the geometry of the U4/U6 3-helix junction.
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- Gabriel Cornilescu
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
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The tRNA Elbow in Structure, Recognition and Evolution. Life (Basel) 2016; 6:life6010003. [PMID: 26771646 PMCID: PMC4810234 DOI: 10.3390/life6010003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2015] [Revised: 01/04/2016] [Accepted: 01/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Prominent in the L-shaped three-dimensional structure of tRNAs is the "elbow" where their two orthogonal helical stacks meet. It has a conserved structure arising from the interaction of the terminal loops of the D- and T-stem-loops, and presents to solution a flat face of a tertiary base pair between the D- and T-loops. In addition to the ribosome, which interacts with the elbow in all three of its tRNA binding sites, several cellular RNAs and many proteins are known to recognize the elbow. At least three classes of non-coding RNAs, namely 23S rRNA, ribonuclease P, and the T-box riboswitches, recognize the tRNA elbow employing an identical structural motif consisting of two interdigitated T-loops. In contrast, structural solutions to tRNA-elbow recognition by proteins are varied. Some enzymes responsible for post-transcriptional tRNA modification even disrupt the elbow structure in order to access their substrate nucleotides. The evolutionary origin of the elbow is mysterious, but, because it does not explicitly participate in the flow of genetic information, it has been proposed to be a late innovation. Regardless, it is biologically essential. Even some viruses that hijack the cellular machinery using tRNA decoys have convergently evolved near-perfect mimics of the tRNA elbow.
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Knowledge of RNA secondary structure is often sufficient to identify relationships between the structure of RNA and processing pathways, and the design of therapeutics. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) can identify types of nucleotide base pairs and the sequence, thus limiting possible secondary structures. Because NMR experiments, like chemical mapping, are performed in solution, not in single crystals, experiments can be initiated as soon as the biomolecule is expressed and purified. This chapter summarizes NMR methods that permit rapid identification of RNA secondary structure, information that can be used as supplements to chemical mapping, and/or as preliminary steps required for 3D structure determination. The primary aim is to provide guidelines to enable a researcher with minimal knowledge of NMR to quickly extract secondary structure information from basic datasets. Instrumental and sample considerations that can maximize data quality are discussed along with some details for optimal data acquisition and processing parameters. Approaches for identifying base pair types in both unlabeled and isotopically labeled RNA are covered. Common problems, such as missing signals and overlaps, and approaches to address them are considered. Programs under development for merging NMR data with structure prediction algorithms are briefly discussed.
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- Scott D Kennedy
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA.
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Longhini AP, LeBlanc RM, Becette O, Salguero C, Wunderlich CH, Johnson BA, D'Souza VM, Kreutz C, Dayie TK. Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of site-specific isotopically labeled nucleotides for use in NMR resonance assignment, dynamics and structural characterizations. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 44:e52. [PMID: 26657632 PMCID: PMC4824079 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Stable isotope labeling is central to NMR studies of nucleic acids. Development of methods that incorporate labels at specific atomic positions within each nucleotide promises to expand the size range of RNAs that can be studied by NMR. Using recombinantly expressed enzymes and chemically synthesized ribose and nucleobase, we have developed an inexpensive, rapid chemo-enzymatic method to label ATP and GTP site specifically and in high yields of up to 90%. We incorporated these nucleotides into RNAs with sizes ranging from 27 to 59 nucleotides using in vitro transcription: A-Site (27 nt), the iron responsive elements (29 nt), a fluoride riboswitch from Bacillus anthracis (48 nt), and a frame-shifting element from a human corona virus (59 nt). Finally, we showcase the improvement in spectral quality arising from reduced crowding and narrowed linewidths, and accurate analysis of NMR relaxation dispersion (CPMG) and TROSY-based CEST experiments to measure μs-ms time scale motions, and an improved NOESY strategy for resonance assignment. Applications of this selective labeling technology promises to reduce difficulties associated with chemical shift overlap and rapid signal decay that have made it challenging to study the structure and dynamics of large RNAs beyond the 50 nt median size found in the PDB.
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- Andrew P Longhini
- Center for Biomolecular Structure and Organization, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USAfi
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- Center for Biomolecular Structure and Organization, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USAfi
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- Center for Biomolecular Structure and Organization, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USAfi
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck (CMBI), University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Structural Biology Initiative, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY 10031, USA One Moon Scientific, Inc., 839 Grant Avenue, Westfield, NJ 07090-2322, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck (CMBI), University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Center for Biomolecular Structure and Organization, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USAfi
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Chen JL, Bellaousov S, Tubbs JD, Kennedy SD, Lopez MJ, Mathews DH, Turner DH. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance-Assisted Prediction of Secondary Structure for RNA: Incorporation of Direction-Dependent Chemical Shift Constraints. Biochemistry 2015; 54:6769-82. [PMID: 26451676 PMCID: PMC4666457 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Knowledge
of RNA
structure is necessary to determine structure–function relationships
and to facilitate design of potential therapeutics.
RNA secondary structure prediction can be improved by applying constraints
from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments to a dynamic programming
algorithm. Imino proton walks from NOESY spectra reveal double-stranded
regions. Chemical shifts of protons in GH1, UH3, and UH5 of GU pairs,
UH3, UH5, and AH2 of AU pairs, and GH1 of GC pairs were analyzed to
identify constraints for the 5′ to 3′ directionality
of base pairs in helices. The 5′ to 3′ directionality
constraints were incorporated into an NMR-assisted prediction of secondary
structure (NAPSS-CS) program. When it was tested on 18 structures,
including nine pseudoknots, the sensitivity and positive predictive
value were improved relative to those of three unrestrained programs.
The prediction accuracy for the pseudoknots improved the most. The
program also facilitates assignment of chemical shifts to individual
nucleotides, a necessary step for determining three-dimensional structure.
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- Jonathan L Chen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester , Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry , Rochester, New York 14642, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester , Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry , Rochester, New York 14642, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester , Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry , Rochester, New York 14642, United States.,Center for RNA Biology, University of Rochester , Rochester, New York 14642, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester , Rochester, New York 14627, United States.,Center for RNA Biology, University of Rochester , Rochester, New York 14642, United States
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Kakar S, Fang X, Lubkowska L, Zhou YN, Shaw GX, Wang YX, Jin DJ, Kashlev M, Ji X. Allosteric Activation of Bacterial Swi2/Snf2 (Switch/Sucrose Non-fermentable) Protein RapA by RNA Polymerase: BIOCHEMICAL AND STRUCTURAL STUDIES. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:23656-69. [PMID: 26272746 PMCID: PMC4583045 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.618801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2014] [Revised: 07/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Members of the Swi2/Snf2 (switch/sucrose non-fermentable) family depend on their ATPase activity to mobilize nucleic acid-protein complexes for gene expression. In bacteria, RapA is an RNA polymerase (RNAP)-associated Swi2/Snf2 protein that mediates RNAP recycling during transcription. It is known that the ATPase activity of RapA is stimulated by its interaction with RNAP. It is not known, however, how the RapA-RNAP interaction activates the enzyme. Previously, we determined the crystal structure of RapA. The structure revealed the dynamic nature of its N-terminal domain (Ntd), which prompted us to elucidate the solution structure and activity of both the full-length protein and its Ntd-truncated mutant (RapAΔN). Here, we report the ATPase activity of RapA and RapAΔN in the absence or presence of RNAP and the solution structures of RapA and RapAΔN either ligand-free or in complex with RNAP. Determined by small-angle x-ray scattering, the solution structures reveal a new conformation of RapA, define the binding mode and binding site of RapA on RNAP, and show that the binding sites of RapA and σ(70) on the surface of RNAP largely overlap. We conclude that the ATPase activity of RapA is inhibited by its Ntd but stimulated by RNAP in an allosteric fashion and that the conformational changes of RapA and its interaction with RNAP are essential for RNAP recycling. These and previous findings outline the functional cycle of RapA, which increases our understanding of the mechanism and regulation of Swi2/Snf2 proteins in general and of RapA in particular. The new structural information also leads to a hypothetical model of RapA in complex with RNAP immobilized during transcription.
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- Smita Kakar
- From the Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory
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- Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702
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- Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702
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- From the Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory
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- Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702
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- Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702
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- From the Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory,
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Liu Y, Holmstrom E, Zhang J, Yu P, Wang J, Dyba MA, Chen D, Ying J, Lockett S, Nesbitt DJ, Ferré-D'Amaré AR, Sousa R, Stagno JR, Wang YX. Synthesis and applications of RNAs with position-selective labelling and mosaic composition. Nature 2015; 522:368-72. [PMID: 25938715 PMCID: PMC4800989 DOI: 10.1038/nature14352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2014] [Accepted: 02/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Knowledge of the structure and dynamics of RNA molecules is critical to understanding their many biological functions. Furthermore, synthetic RNAs have applications as therapeutics and molecular sensors. Both research and technological applications of RNA would be dramatically enhanced by methods that enable incorporation of modified or labelled nucleotides into specifically designated positions or regions of RNA. However, the synthesis of tens of milligrams of such RNAs using existing methods has been impossible. Here we develop a hybrid solid-liquid phase transcription method and automated robotic platform for the synthesis of RNAs with position-selective labelling. We demonstrate its use by successfully preparing various isotope- or fluorescently labelled versions of the 71-nucleotide aptamer domain of an adenine riboswitch for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy or single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer, respectively. Those RNAs include molecules that were selectively isotope-labelled in specific loops, linkers, a helix, several discrete positions, or a single internal position, as well as RNA molecules that were fluorescently labelled in and near kissing loops. These selectively labelled RNAs have the same fold as those transcribed using conventional methods, but they greatly simplify the interpretation of NMR spectra. The single-position isotope- and fluorescently labelled RNA samples reveal multiple conformational states of the adenine riboswitch. Lastly, we describe a robotic platform and the operation that automates this technology. Our selective labelling method may be useful for studying RNA structure and dynamics and for making RNA sensors for a variety of applications including cell-biological studies, substance detection, and disease diagnostics.
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- Yu Liu
- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- Biochemistry and Biophysics Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Optical Microscopy and Analysis Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Optical Microscopy and Analysis Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- Biochemistry and Biophysics Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA
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- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction Section, Structural Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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Gong Z, Schwieters CD, Tang C. Conjoined use of EM and NMR in RNA structure refinement. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0120445. [PMID: 25798848 PMCID: PMC4370883 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2014] [Accepted: 01/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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More than 40% of the RNA structures have been determined using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique. NMR mainly provides local structural information of protons and works most effectively on relatively small biomacromolecules. Hence structural characterization of large RNAs can be difficult for NMR alone. Electron microscopy (EM) provides global shape information of macromolecules at nanometer resolution, which should be complementary to NMR for RNA structure determination. Here we developed a new energy term in Xplor-NIH against the density map obtained by EM. We conjointly used NMR and map restraints for the structure refinement of three RNA systems — U2/U6 small-nuclear RNA, genome-packing motif (ΨCD)2 from Moloney murine leukemia virus, and ribosome-binding element from turnip crinkle virus. In all three systems, we showed that the incorporation of a map restraint, either experimental or generated from known PDB structure, greatly improves structural precision and accuracy. Importantly, our method does not rely on an initial model assembled from RNA duplexes, and allows full torsional freedom for each nucleotide in the torsion angle simulated annealing refinement. As increasing number of macromolecules can be characterized by both NMR and EM, the marriage between the two techniques would enable better characterization of RNA three-dimensional structures.
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- Zhou Gong
- CAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, National Magnetic Resonance Center at Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province 430071, China
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- Division of Computational Bioscience, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Building 12A, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States of America
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, National Magnetic Resonance Center at Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province 430071, China
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Small-angle X-ray scattering: a bridge between RNA secondary structures and three-dimensional topological structures. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2015; 30:147-160. [PMID: 25765781 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2014] [Revised: 02/17/2015] [Accepted: 02/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Whereas the structures of small to medium-sized well folded RNA molecules often can be determined by either X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy, obtaining structural information for large RNAs using experimental, computational, or combined approaches remains a major interest and challenge. RNA is very sensitive to small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) due to high electron density along phosphate-sugar backbones, whose scattering contribution dominates SAXS intensity. For this reason, SAXS is particularly useful in obtaining global RNA structural information that outlines backbone topologies and, therefore, molecular envelopes. Such information is extremely valuable in bridging the gap between the secondary structures and three-dimensional topological structures of RNA molecules, particularly those that have proven difficult to study using other structure-determination methods. Here we review published results of RNA topological structures derived from SAXS data or in combination with other experimental data, as well as details on RNA sample preparation for SAXS experiments.
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Newburn LR, White KA. Cis-acting RNA elements in positive-strand RNA plant virus genomes. Virology 2015; 479-480:434-43. [PMID: 25759098 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2015.02.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2014] [Revised: 01/19/2015] [Accepted: 02/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Positive-strand RNA viruses are the most common type of plant virus. Many aspects of the reproductive cycle of this group of viruses have been studied over the years and this has led to the accumulation of a significant amount of insightful information. In particular, the identification and characterization of cis-acting RNA elements within these viral genomes have revealed important roles in many fundamental viral processes such as virus disassembly, translation, genome replication, subgenomic mRNA transcription, and packaging. These functional cis-acting RNA elements include primary sequences, secondary and tertiary structures, as well as long-range RNA-RNA interactions, and they typically function by interacting with viral or host proteins. This review provides a general overview and update on some of the many roles played by cis-acting RNA elements in positive-strand RNA plant viruses.
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- Laura R Newburn
- Department of Biology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
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- Department of Biology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3.
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Carmovirus is a genus of small, single-stranded, positive-strand RNA viruses in the Tombusviridae. One member of the carmoviruses, Turnip crinkle virus (TCV), has been used extensively as a model for examining the structure and function of RNA elements in 3'UTR as well as in other regions of the virus. Using a variety of genetic, biochemical and computational methods, a structure for the TCV 3'UTR has emerged where secondary structures and tertiary interactions combine to adopt higher order 3-D structures including an internal, ribosome-binding tRNA-shaped configuration that functions as a 3' cap-independent translation enhancer (3'CITE). The TCV 3'CITE also serves as a scaffold for non-canonical interactions throughout the 3'UTR and extending into the upstream open reading frame, interactions that are significantly disrupted upon binding by the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Long-distance interactions that connect elements in the 3'UTR with both the 5' end and the internal ribosome recoding site suggest that 3'UTR of carmoviruses are intimately involved in multiple functions in the virus life cycle. Although carmoviruses share very similar genome organizations, lengths of 5' and 3'UTRs, and structural features at the 3' end, the similarity rapidly breaks down the further removed from the 3' terminus revealing different 3'CITEs and unique virus-specific structural features. This review summarizes 20 years of work dissecting the structure and function of the 3'UTR of TCV and other carmoviruses. The astonishing structural complexity of the 3'UTRs of these simple carmoviruses provides lessons that are likely applicable to many other plant and animal RNA viruses.
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- Anne E Simon
- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD 20742, United States.
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Deforges J, Locker N, Sargueil B. mRNAs that specifically interact with eukaryotic ribosomal subunits. Biochimie 2014; 114:48-57. [PMID: 25530261 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2014.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2014] [Accepted: 12/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The accuracy of start codon selection is determined by the translation initiation process. In prokaryotes the initiation step on most mRNAs relies on recruitment of the small ribosomal subunit onto the initiation codon by base pairing between the mRNA and the 16S rRNA. Eukaryotes have evolved a complex molecular machinery involving at least 11 initiation factors, and mRNAs do not directly recruit the small ribosomal subunit. Instead the initiation complex is recruited to the 5' end of the mRNA through a complex protein network including eIF4E that interacts with the 5' cap structure and poly-A binding protein that interacts with the 3'end. However, some viral and cellular mRNAs are able to escape this pathway by internal recruitment of one or several components of the translation machinery. Here we review those eukaryotic mRNAs that have been reported to directly recruit the 40S ribosomal subunit internally. In the well characterized cases of viral IRESes, a specific RNA structure is involved in this process, and in addition to recruitment of the ribosome, the mRNA also manipulates the ribosome structure to stimulate the first translocation step. We also review recently described IRES/ribosome interactions in cases where the molecular mechanism leading to translation initiation has yet to be described. Finally we evaluate the possibility that mRNA may recruit the 40S ribosomal subunit through base pairing with the 18S rRNA.
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- Jules Deforges
- CNRS UMR8015, laboratoire de cristallographie et RMN biologiques, France; Université Paris Descartes, 4 avenue de l'observatoire, Paris Cedex 06, 75270, France
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- University of Surrey, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, School of Biosciences and Medicine, Guildford, United Kingdom
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- CNRS UMR8015, laboratoire de cristallographie et RMN biologiques, France; Université Paris Descartes, 4 avenue de l'observatoire, Paris Cedex 06, 75270, France.
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Cantara WA, Olson ED, Musier-Forsyth K. Progress and outlook in structural biology of large viral RNAs. Virus Res 2014; 193:24-38. [PMID: 24956407 PMCID: PMC4252365 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2014] [Revised: 06/11/2014] [Accepted: 06/12/2014] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The field of viral molecular biology has reached a precipice for which pioneering studies on the structure of viral RNAs are beginning to bridge the gap. It has become clear that viral genomic RNAs are not simply carriers of hereditary information, but rather are active players in many critical stages during replication. Indeed, functions such as cap-independent translation initiation mechanisms are, in some cases, primarily driven by RNA structural determinants. Other stages including reverse transcription initiation in retroviruses, nuclear export and viral packaging are specifically dependent on the proper 3-dimensional folding of multiple RNA domains to recruit necessary viral and host factors required for activity. Furthermore, a large-scale conformational change within the 5'-untranslated region of HIV-1 has been proposed to regulate the temporal switch between viral protein synthesis and packaging. These RNA-dependent functions are necessary for replication of many human disease-causing viruses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-associated coronavirus, West Nile virus, and HIV-1. The potential for antiviral development is currently hindered by a poor understanding of RNA-driven molecular mechanisms, resulting from a lack of structural information on large RNAs and ribonucleoprotein complexes. Herein, we describe the recent progress that has been made on characterizing these large RNAs and provide brief descriptions of the techniques that will be at the forefront of future advances. Ongoing and future work will contribute to a more complete understanding of the lifecycles of retroviruses and RNA viruses and potentially lead to novel antiviral strategies.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Retrovirus Research, Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
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Structural studies of a double-stranded RNA from trypanosome RNA editing by small-angle X-ray scattering. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1240:165-89. [PMID: 25352145 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1896-6_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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We used small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) to evaluate the solution structure of a double-stranded RNA with 32 base pairs. We wanted to compare the solution structure to the crystal structure to assess the impact of the crystal lattice on the overall conformation of the RNA. The RNA was designed to self-anneal and form a head-to-head fusion of two identical mRNA/oligo(U) tail domains (the U-helix) from a trypanosome RNA editing substrate formed by the annealing of a guide RNA to a pre-edited mRNA. This substrate is from the U insertion/deletion RNA editing system of trypanosomes. Each strand in the fusion RNA had 16 purines from the pre-mRNA followed by 16 uracils (Us) from the U-tail at the 3' end of the guide RNA. The strands were designed to form a double helix with blunt ends, but each strand had the potential to form hairpins and single-stranded RNA helices. Hairpins could form by the 3' oligouridylate tract folding back to hybridize with the 5' oligopurine tract and forming an intervening loop. Single-stranded helices could form by the stacking of bases in the polypurine tract. Some of the 16 Us 3' to the polypurine tract may have been unstacked and in random coils. Our SAXS studies showed that the RNA formed a mix of single-stranded structures in the absence of MgCl2. In the presence of MgCl2 at concentrations similar to those in the crystal, the solution structure was consistent with the double-stranded, blunt-ended structure, in agreement with the crystal structure. Here we describe the preparation of RNA samples, data collection with an in-house SAXS instrument designed for biological samples, and the processing and modeling of the scattering data.
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Nicholson BL, White KA. Functional long-range RNA-RNA interactions in positive-strand RNA viruses. Nat Rev Microbiol 2014; 12:493-504. [PMID: 24931042 PMCID: PMC7097572 DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Long-range RNA–RNA interactions, many of which span several thousands of nucleotides, have been discovered within the genomes of positive-strand RNA viruses. These interactions mediate fundamental viral processes, including translation, replication and transcription. In certain plant viruses that have uncapped, non-polyadenylated RNA genomes, translation initiation is facilitated by 3′ cap-independent translational enhancers (3′ CITEs) that are located in or near to their 3′ UTRs. These RNA elements function by binding to either the ribosome-recruiting eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4F (eIF4F) complex or ribosomal subunits, and they enhance translation initiation by engaging the 5′ end of the genome via a 5′-to-3′ RNA-based bridge. The activities of the internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs) in the 5′ UTRs of various viruses are modulated by RNA-based interactions between the IRESs and elements near to the 3′ ends of their genomes. In several plant viruses, translational recoding events, including ribosomal frameshifting and stop codon readthrough, have been found to rely on long-range RNA–RNA interactions. Multiple 5′-to-3′ base-pairing interactions facilitate genome circularization in flaviviruses, which has been proposed to reposition the 5′-bound RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) to the initiation site of negative-strand synthesis at the 3′ terminus. The long-distance interaction between two cis-acting replication elements in tombusviruses generates a bipartite RNA platform for the assembly of the replicase complex and repositions the internally bound RdRp to the 3′ terminus. Tombusviruses also rely on several long-range interactions that mediate the premature termination of the RdRp during negative-strand synthesis that leads to transcription of subgenomic mRNAs (sgmRNAs). In a coronavirus, an exceptionally long-range interaction, which spans ∼26,000 nucleotides, promotes polymerase repriming during the discontinuous template synthesis step of sgmRNA-N transcription. A challenge for the future will be to determine how these long-range interactions are integrated and regulated in the complex context of viral RNA genomes.
Long-range intragenomic RNA–RNA interactions in the genomes of positive-strand RNA viruses involve direct nucleotide base pairing and can span distances of thousands of nucleotides. In this Review, Nicholson and White discuss recent insights into the structure and function of these genomic features and highlight their diverse roles in the gene expression and genome replication of positive-strand RNA viruses. Positive-strand RNA viruses are important human, animal and plant pathogens that are defined by their single-stranded positive-sense RNA genomes. In recent years, it has become increasingly evident that interactions that occur between distantly positioned RNA sequences within these genomes can mediate important viral activities. These long-range intragenomic RNA–RNA interactions involve direct nucleotide base pairing and can span distances of thousands of nucleotides. In this Review, we discuss recent insights into the structure and function of these intriguing genomic features and highlight their diverse roles in the gene expression and genome replication of positive-strand RNA viruses.
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- Beth L Nicholson
- Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
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Göbl C, Madl T, Simon B, Sattler M. NMR approaches for structural analysis of multidomain proteins and complexes in solution. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2014; 80:26-63. [PMID: 24924266 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2014.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2014] [Accepted: 05/14/2014] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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NMR spectroscopy is a key method for studying the structure and dynamics of (large) multidomain proteins and complexes in solution. It plays a unique role in integrated structural biology approaches as especially information about conformational dynamics can be readily obtained at residue resolution. Here, we review NMR techniques for such studies focusing on state-of-the-art tools and practical aspects. An efficient approach for determining the quaternary structure of multidomain complexes starts from the structures of individual domains or subunits. The arrangement of the domains/subunits within the complex is then defined based on NMR measurements that provide information about the domain interfaces combined with (long-range) distance and orientational restraints. Aspects discussed include sample preparation, specific isotope labeling and spin labeling; determination of binding interfaces and domain/subunit arrangements from chemical shift perturbations (CSP), nuclear Overhauser effects (NOEs), isotope editing/filtering, cross-saturation, and differential line broadening; and based on paramagnetic relaxation enhancements (PRE) using covalent and soluble spin labels. Finally, the utility of complementary methods such as small-angle X-ray or neutron scattering (SAXS, SANS), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) or fluorescence spectroscopy techniques is discussed. The applications of NMR techniques are illustrated with studies of challenging (high molecular weight) protein complexes.
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- Christoph Göbl
- Biomolecular NMR and Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich at Department Chemie, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
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- Biomolecular NMR and Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich at Department Chemie, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany; Institute of Structural Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany; Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Biomolecular NMR and Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich at Department Chemie, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany; Institute of Structural Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany.
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Hennig J, Sattler M. The dynamic duo: combining NMR and small angle scattering in structural biology. Protein Sci 2014; 23:669-82. [PMID: 24687405 DOI: 10.1002/pro.2467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2014] [Revised: 03/25/2014] [Accepted: 03/28/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Structural biology provides essential information for elucidating molecular mechanisms that underlie biological function. Advances in hardware, sample preparation, experimental methods, and computational approaches now enable structural analysis of protein complexes with increasing complexity that more closely represent biologically entities in the cellular environment. Integrated multidisciplinary approaches are required to overcome limitations of individual methods and take advantage of complementary aspects provided by different structural biology techniques. Although X-ray crystallography remains the method of choice for structural analysis of large complexes, crystallization of flexible systems is often difficult and does typically not provide insights into conformational dynamics present in solution. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) is well-suited to study dynamics at picosecond to second time scales, and to map binding interfaces even of large systems at residue resolution but suffers from poor sensitivity with increasing molecular weight. Small angle scattering (SAS) methods provide low resolution information in solution and can characterize dynamics and conformational equilibria complementary to crystallography and NMR. The combination of NMR, crystallography, and SAS is, thus, very useful for analysis of the structure and conformational dynamics of (large) protein complexes in solution. In high molecular weight systems, where NMR data are often sparse, SAS provides additional structural information and can differentiate between NMR-derived models. Scattering data can also validate the solution conformation of a crystal structure and indicate the presence of conformational equilibria. Here, we review current state-of-the-art approaches for combining NMR, crystallography, and SAS data to characterize protein complexes in solution.
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Affiliation(s)
- Janosch Hennig
- Institute of Structural Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstr.1, D-85764, Neuherberg, Germany; Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich at Chair Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, Department Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85747, Garching, Germany
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