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Estructura cryo-EM del espliceosoma inmediatamente después de la ramificación
Wojciech P Galej1, Max E Wilkinson1, Sebastian M Fica1
1MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
Nature
|July 27, 2016
Resumen
El espliceosoma
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biología molecular
- Biología estructural
- La bioquímica
Sus antecedentes:
- El empalme del ARN mensajero precursor (pre-ARNm) es un proceso biológico fundamental.
- El empalme incluye dos pasos catalíticos que forman un intermediario lariato-intrón.
- El espliceosoma, una gran máquina molecular, orquesta este proceso.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para aclarar la dinámica estructural del spliceosome inmediatamente después de la formación del lariat.
- Para visualizar la arquitectura molecular del spliceosome en una etapa intermedia clave del empalme.
Principales métodos:
- Para determinar la estructura se empleó la crio-microscopía electrónica (crio-EM).
- Se obtuvieron datos estructurales de alta resolución (3,8 Å) para el complejo del espliceosoma.
Principales resultados:
- La estructura revela el sitio de unión 5' escindido pero cerca del sitio catalítico Mg2+.
- El 5'-fosfato del intrón está vinculado a la adenosina de la rama.
- Las interacciones específicas que involucran U2/U6 snRNA, U5 snRNA y factores de empalme (Isy1, Yju2, Cwc25) estabilizan el intermediario lariat.
- El 5'-exón está posicionado para la ligadura posterior.
Conclusiones:
- La estructura cryo-EM proporciona una visión sin precedentes de la conformación del espliceosoma después de la formación del lariato.
- Esta estructura aclara la base molecular para estabilizar el intermedio lariat y posiciona los componentes para el segundo paso de empalme.
- Los hallazgos sugieren un mecanismo para la remodelación de intrones antes de la exonligación.
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