PMID: 9545425Apr 18, 1998Paper

Visualizing metal-ion-binding sites in group I introns by iron(II)-mediated Fenton reactions

Chemistry & Biology
C BerensW Hillen

Abstract

Most catalytic RNAs depend on divalent metal ions for folding and catalysis. A thorough structure-function analysis of catalytic RNA therefore requires the identification of the metal-ion-binding sites. Here, we probed the binding sites using Fenton chemistry, which makes use of the ability of Fe2+ to functionally or structurally replace Mg2+ at ion-binding sites and to generate short-lived and highly reactive hydroxyl radicals that can cleave nucleic acid and protein backbones in spatial proximity of these ion-binding sites. Incubation of group I intron RNA with Fe2+, sodium ascorbate and hydrogen peroxide yields distinctly cleaved regions that occur only in the correctly folded RNA in the presence of Mg2+ and can be competed by additional Mg2+, suggesting that Fe2+ and Mg2+ interact with the same sites. Cleaved regions in the catalytic core are conserved for three different group I introns, and there is good correlation between metal-ion-binding sites determined using our method and those determined using other techniques. In a model of the T4 phage-derived td intron, cleaved regions separated in the secondary structure come together in three-dimensional space to form several metal-ion-binding pockets. In contrast to structur...Continue Reading

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