Temperature jump relaxation studies on the interactions between transfer RNAs with complementary anticodons. The effect of modified bases adjacent to the anticodon triplet - PubMed (original) (raw)
Temperature jump relaxation studies on the interactions between transfer RNAs with complementary anticodons. The effect of modified bases adjacent to the anticodon triplet
C Houssier et al. J Biomol Struct Dyn. 1985 Oct.
Abstract
We have used the temperature-jump relaxation technique to determine the kinetic and thermodynamic parameters for the association between the following tRNAs pairs having complementary anticodons: tRNA(Ser) with tRNA(Gly), tRNA(Cys) with tRNA(Ala) and tRNA(Trp) with tRNA(Pro). The anticodon sequence of E. coli tRNA(Ser), GGA, is complementary to the U*CC anticodon of E. coli tRNA(Gly(2] (where U* is a still unknown modified uridine base) and A37 is not modified in none of these two tRNAs. E. coli tRNA(Ala) has a VGC anticodon (V is 5-oxyacetic acid uridine) while tRNA(Cys) has the complementary GCA anticodon with a modified adenine on the 3' side, namely 2-methylthio N6-isopentenyl adenine (mS2i6A37) in E. Coli tRNA(Cys) and N6-isopentenyl adenine (i6A37) in yeast tRNA(Cys). The brewer yeast tRNA(Trp) (anticodon CmCA) differs from the wild type E. coli tRNA(Trp) (anticodon CCA) in several positions of the nucleotide sequence. Nevertheless, in the anticodon loop, only two interesting differences are present: A37 is not modified while C34 at the first anticodon position is modified into a ribose 2'-O methyl derivative (Cm). The corresponding complementary tRNA is E.coli tRNA(Pro) with the VGG anticodon. Our results indicate a dominant effect of the nature and sequence of the anticodon bases and their nearest neighbor in the anticodon loop (particularly at position 37 on the 3' side); no detectable influence of modifications in the other tRNA stems has been detected. We found a strong stabilizing effect of the methylthio group on i6A37 as compared to isopentenyl modification of the same residue. We have not been able so far to assess the effect of isopentenyl modification alone in comparison to unmodified A37. The results obtained with the complex yeast tRNA(Trp)-E.coli tRNA(Pro) also suggest that a modification of C34 to Cm34 does not significantly increase the stability of tRNA(Trp) association with its complementary anticodon in tRNA(Pro). The observations are discussed in the light of inter- and intra-strand stacking interactions among the anticodon triplets and with the purine base adjacent to them, and of possible biological implications.
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