スーパーヘリカスを用いて共転写RNAの折り畳みを模倣する
Boyang Hua1, Subrata Panja2, Yanbo Wang1
1Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry , Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , Baltimore , Maryland 21205 , United States.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|August 1, 2018
まとめ
研究者達は 転写中のRNAの折りたたみについて 研究するために 新しいin vitroシステムを開発しました この方法は,RNAの折り畳みダイナミクスとリアルタイムプロセス中の潜在的な誤折り畳みに関する洞察を明らかにします.
科学分野:
- 分子生物学
- 生物化学
- 構造生物学
背景:
- 転写中のRNAの折り畳みは,ユニークな生化学的機能を持つ中間物質を生成する.
- 配写RNAの折り畳みを理解することは,遺伝子発現の調節を解読する上で極めて重要です.
研究 の 目的:
- コトランスクリプションRNAの折り畳みをインビトロで真似するための人工最小限のシステムを設計し,実装する.
- 合成される時にRNAの折り畳みのリアルタイムの構成動態を調査する.
主な方法:
- 設計されたヘリケース (Rep-X) を利用してDNAを解き放ち,ベクトル折りたたみのためのプリシンセスされたRNA分子を放出しました.
- 折り畳みダイナミクスを監視するために,光でラベル付けられたRNAを用いた単分子光共振エネルギー伝送 (smFRET) を採用した.
- オライザ・サティヴァのトリスター・リボ酵素の折り畳み経路を分析した.
主要な成果:
- 処女ベクトル折り合いの過程で,二次および三次折り合いの明確なサインが観察されました.
- メイドンベクトル三次折り合いの移行はMg2+誘発の再折り合いに比べて速いが,誤折り合いの感受性が高かった.
- 誤折りの原因として,代替二次構造の連続的形成を特定した.
結論:
- この新しい in vitro システムは,コトランスクリプションによる RNA 折り畳みを効果的に模倣し,折り畳み動力学とダイナミクスの洞察を提供します.
- ベクトル式折り畳みは誤折りやすいので,正確な折り畳み経路の重要性を強調します.
- このアッセイは,リボスイッチ機能とRNA-タンパク質組成を含む他の運動制御RNAプロセスを研究するのに適用できます.
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