通过13C NMR放松研究的与VTS1p-SAM域结合的SRE-RNA动态的变化
Florian C Oberstrass1, Frédéric H-T Allain, Sapna Ravindranathan
1Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|August 14, 2008
概括
蛋白质结合改变了RNA的动态,使运动变得更加均. 观察到某些部位的灵活性增加,而其他部位的刚性增加,同时在蛋白质的结合口袋中出现了令人惊的缓慢的集体运动.
科学领域:
- 生物化学 生物化学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 结构生物学 结构生物学
背景情况:
- 蛋白质-RNA相互作用对于生物过程至关重要.
- RNA动态显著影响蛋白质结合和功能.
- 有限的研究量化了蛋白质相互作用后RNA的运动变化.
研究的目的:
- 量化研究蛋白质结合时RNA动态 (pico-nanosecond到微-毫秒时间尺度) 的变化.
- 描述VTS1p-SAM域相互作用对SRE-RNA动态的影响.
- 研究RNA动态,蛋白质结合和热力学之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 定量 (13)C NMR放松研究.
- 对13C放松率的无模型形式主义分析.
- 在自由状态和与蛋白质结合的状态中充分利用 (13)C/(15) N-标记的SRE-RNA.
主要成果:
- 在自由RNA的茎和环区域之间观察到明显的运动差异.
- 蛋白质结合导致了更均的RNA运动.
- 在芳香碳中增加灵活性,在结合时在异构碳中增加刚性.
- 在蛋白质结合口袋中的缓慢集体RNA运动的证据.
结论:
- 蛋白质结合使RNA动态均质化,改变不同区域的灵活性.
- 在约束时观察到的增强动态挑战了普遍运动限制的概念.
- 从增加的RNA运动中获得的 entropy可能有利于结合的自由能量.
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