Cleavage of tRNA with imidazole and spermine imidazole constructs: a new approach for probing RNA structure.
AUTOR(ES)
Vlassov, V V
RESUMO
Hydrolysis of RNA in imidazole buffer and by spermine-imidazole conjugates has been investigated. The RNA models were yeast tRNA(Asp) and a transcript derived from the 3'-terminal sequence of tobacco mosaic virus RNA representing a minihelix capable of being enzymatically aminoacylated with histidine. Imidazole buffer and spermine-imidazole conjugates in the presence of free imidazole cleave phosphodiester bonds in the folded RNAs in a specific fashion. Imidazole buffer induces cleavages preferentially in single-stranded regions because nucleotides in these regions have more conformational freedom and can assume more easily the geometry needed for formation of the hydrolysis intermediate state. Spermine-imidazole constructs supplemented with free imidazole cleave tRNA(Asp) within single-stranded regions after pyrimidine residues with a marked preference for pyrimidine-A sequences. Hydrolysis patterns suggest a cleavage mechanism involving an attack by the imidazole residue of the electrostatically bound spermine-imidazole and by free imidazole at the most accessible single-stranded regions of the RNA. Cleavages in a viral RNA fragment recapitulating a tRNA-like domain were found in agreement with the model of this molecule that accounts for its functional properties, thus illustrating the potential of the imidazole-derived reagents as structural probes for solution mapping of RNAs. The cleavage reactions are simple to perform, provide information reflecting the state of the ribose-phosphate backbone of RNA and can be used for mapping single- and double-stranded regions in RNAs.
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