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Wipapat Kladwang1, Fang-Chieh Chou, Rhiju Das
1Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|December 24, 2011
Resumen
Las herramientas automatizadas predijeron con precisión un nuevo elemento de estructura de ARN crucial para la función del interruptor de ribona de glicina. Este descubrimiento refina nuestra comprensión de las estructuras terciarias de ARN y la unión de ligandos.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- Biología Estructural Biología estructural.
- La bioinformática es la bioinformática.
Sus antecedentes:
- Descifrar las estructuras terciarias de ARN funcional es un desafío.
- Las herramientas automatizadas de predicción de la estructura del ARN requieren validación experimental.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para validar experimentalmente herramientas automatizadas de predicción de la estructura del ARN.
- Para investigar la estructura y la función de los riboswitches de doble glicina.
Principales métodos:
- Aplicación de cuatro herramientas de predicción (BPPalign, RMdetect, JAR3D, modelado 3D de Rosetta).
- Pruebas químicas (anhidrido N-metilizadoico, sulfato de dimetilo, etc.) en el Fusobacterium nucleatum riboswitch.
- Estudios de mutación y mapeo y experimentos de mutación/rescate.
- Análisis termodinámico de la ruptura de la estructura del ARN.
Principales resultados:
- Predicción consistente de un nuevo tallo P0 y un motivo de giro por todas las herramientas.
- Validación experimental del enlace estructurado entre aptameros.
- La alteración de la estructura hélice-junción-hélice perjudica significativamente la unión a la glicina (aumento de 120 y 6-30 veces en las constantes de disociación).
- Impacto energético cuantificado del vinculante estructurado (4.3 ± 0.5 kcal/mol).
Conclusiones:
- Las herramientas automatizadas de predicción son efectivas para identificar nuevos elementos estructurales de ARN.
- El enlazador estructurado identificado es crítico para la unión cooperativa de glicina en riboswitches.
- Estudios previos pueden haber perdido elementos funcionales debido a la truncamiento excesivo de ARN.
- Otros elementos no descubiertos en ARN funcionales pueden ser detectados utilizando herramientas de predicción automatizadas.
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