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Los coacervados de péptido-ARN como cuna para la evolución de los dominios plegados
Manas Seal1, Orit Weil-Ktorza2, Dragana Despotović3
1Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|July 29, 2022
Resumen
Los coacervados de péptido-ARN promueven la dimerización de péptidos y el plegamiento alfa-helical, lo que sugiere que estos primeros compartimentos ayudaron a la evolución de las proteínas a través de la duplicación y la fusión.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La bioquímica
- Investigación sobre el origen de la vida
- Biología estructural
Sus antecedentes:
- Los coacervados de péptido-ARN concentran biopolímeros, que potencialmente sirven como sitios para la evolución temprana de las proteínas.
- El impacto de los coacervados en la exploración de la conformación de péptidos sigue siendo en gran medida desconocido.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Investigar los efectos estructurales y dinámicos del ARN en el motivo hélice-espina-hélice (HhH) dentro de los coacervados de ARN péptido.
- Explorar el papel de los coacervados en la oligomerización de péptidos y la evolución de las estructuras de proteínas.
Principales métodos:
- Se empleó la espectroscopia de resonancia paramagnética de electrones (EPR), específicamente la resonancia doble electrón-electrón (DEER).
- Se estudiaron los péptidos HhH con etiqueta de espín individual y doble, solos y dentro de los coacervados de ARN péptido.
Principales resultados:
- Los motivos HhH forman dímeros incluso sin ARN, con una dimerización mejorada al unirse al ARN.
- Se observaron la formación de dimeros y estructuras transitorias alfa-hélices dentro de los coacervados de ARN péptido.
- Los resultados son consistentes con el pliegue (HhH) 2, una estructura formada por duplicación y fusión.
Conclusiones:
- Los coacervados de ARN-péptido facilitan la oligomerización y los cambios conformacionales de los péptidos.
- Estos coacervados pueden haber proporcionado un entorno crucial para la evolución de estructuras complejas de proteínas a través de la duplicación y la fusión.
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