PMID: 8614639Apr 1, 1996Paper

An RNA fragment consisting of the P7 and P9.0 stems and the 3'-terminal guanosine of the Tetrahymena group I intron

Nucleic Acids Research
S WatanabeS Yokoyama

Abstract

On the basis of the nucleotide sequence of Tetrahymena group I intron, we constructed a 31 residue RNA that has the P7 stem and the 3'-terminal guanosine residue (3'-G) with a putative stem-loop structure (P9.0) intervening between them. For this model RNA (P7/P9.0/G), four residues around the guanosine binding site (GBS) in the P7 stem were found to exhibit much lower sensitivities to ribonuclease V1 than those of a variant RNA having adenosine in place of the 3'-G, suggesting that the 3'-G contacts around the GBS. NMR analyses of the imino proton resonances of the P7/P9.0/G RNA indicated that the base pairing in the GBS is retained on the interaction with the 3'-G, and that the two base pairs of the putative P9.0 stem-loop are definitely formed. Comparison of the RNA with its variants with either A (3'-A) or a deletion in place of the 3'-G suggested that the stability of the P9.0 stem-loop is affected by the GBS-3'-G interaction. The melting temperatures of the P9.0 stem-loop were determined from the UV absorbances of these RNAs, which quantitatively indicated that the P9.0 stem-loop is significantly stabilized by the interaction of the GBS with the 3'-G, rather than the 3'-A, and also by direct interaction with divalent cati...Continue Reading

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