PMID: 7538669May 9, 1995Paper

Catalytically critical nucleotide in domain 5 of a group II intron

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
C L PeeblesJ S Franzen

Abstract

Domain 5 (D5) is a small hairpin structure within group II introns. A bimolecular assay system depends on binding by D5 to an intron substrate for self-splicing activity. In this study, mutations in D5 identify two among six nearly invariant nucleotides as being critical for 5' splice junction hydrolysis but unimportant for binding. A mutation at another site in D5 blocks binding. Thus, mutations can distinguish two D5 functions: substrate binding and catalysis. The secondary structure of D5 may resemble helix I formed by the U2 and U6 small nuclear RNAs in the eukaryotic spliceosome. Our results support a revision of the previously proposed correspondence between D5 and helix I on the basis of the critical trinucleotide 5'-AGC-3' present in both. We suggest that this trinucleotide plays a similar role in promoting the chemical reactions for both splicing systems.

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