RNA approaches the B-form in stacked single strand dinucleotide contexts - PubMed (original) (raw)
RNA approaches the B-form in stacked single strand dinucleotide contexts
Ada Sedova et al. Biopolymers. 2016 Feb.
Abstract
Duplex RNA adopts an A-form structure, while duplex DNA interconverts between the A- and B-forms depending on the environment. The C2'-endo sugar pucker seen in B-form DNA can occur infrequently in ribose sugars as well, but RNA is not understood to assume B-form conformations. Through analysis of over 45,000 stacked single strand dinucleotide (SSD) crystal structure conformations, this study demonstrates that RNA is capable of adopting a wide conformational range between the canonical A- and B-forms at the localized SSD level, including many B-form-like conformations. It does so through C2'-endo ribose conformations in one or both nucleotides, and B-form-like neighboring base stacking patterns. As chemical reactions on nucleic acids involve localized changes in chemical bonds, the understanding of how enzymes distinguish between DNA and RNA nucleotides is altered by the energetic accessibility of these rare B-form-like RNA SSD conformations. The existence of these conformations also has direct implications in parametrization of molecular mechanics energy functions used extensively to model nucleic acid behavior., 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Biopolymers 105: 65-82, 2016.
Keywords: A-form; RMSD; crystal structure survey; nucleic acid structure; sugar pucker.
© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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