Mechanistic insights on the folding of a large ribozyme during transcription - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 2005 May 24;44(20):7535-42.
doi: 10.1021/bi047560l.
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Mechanistic insights on the folding of a large ribozyme during transcription
Terrence Wong et al. Biochemistry. 2005.
Abstract
RNA folding during transcription resembles folding in a cellular environment. We previously investigated the folding of a large ribozyme derived from a bacterial RNase P RNA during its transcription by the Escherichia coli RNA polymerase and the effect of the elongation factor NusA. We found that transcriptional pausing at a specific site induced by NusA significantly altered the folding pathway. In this work, we compare folding during transcription by the E. coli RNA polymerase of circularly permuted variants and site-specific mutants of the RNase P ribozyme to elucidate the molecular mechanism of transcriptional pausing and RNA folding. The effect of NusA-induced pausing depends on the order of RNA synthesis and only affects local folding of the RNA. Pausing likely prevents a misfolded structure between the 5' strand of a helix and its adjacent junction located in the specificity domain and a region known to bind single-stranded RNA located in the catalytic domain. These results lead to a structural model on how transcriptional pausing affects folding of RNase P RNA. Structural rearrangements of a nascent RNA transcript enhanced by transcriptional pausing may be a general feature of RNA folding during transcription.
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