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Fabien Darfeuille1, Andrey Arzumanov, Sergei Gryaznov
1Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U386, Université Victor Segalen, 33076 Bordeaux Cédex, France.
Abstract:
A hairpin RNA aptamer has been identified by in vitro selection against the transactivation-responsive element (TAR) of HIV-1. A nuclease-resistant N3' --> P5' phosphoramidate isosequential analog of this aptamer also folds as a hairpin and forms with TAR a loop-loop "kissing" complex with a binding constant in the low nanomolar range as demonstrated by electrophoretic mobility-shift assays and surface plasmon resonance experiments. The key structural determinants, which contribute to the stability of the RNA aptamer-TAR complex, loop complementarity and the GA residues closing the aptamer loop, remain crucial for the N3' --> P5' aptamer-TAR complex. Moreover, the N3' --> P5' phosphoramidate aptamer specifically interferes with the binding of a peptide derived from the transactivator protein (Tat) peptide to TAR and selectively inhibits the Tat-mediated transcription in an in vitro assay, which marks this nuclease-resistant aptamer as a relevant candidate for experiments in cells.
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