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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 141, Issue 4, Pages 1430-1434Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b11384
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- Intramural research program of the NHLBI
- CIT
- NCI
- NHLBI
- NIDDK
- NIH [U54 GM103297, GM42561]
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [ZIAHL001048] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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NMR has provided a wealth of structural and dynamical information for RNA molecules of up to similar to 50 nucleotides, but its application to larger RNAs has been hampered in part by difficulties establishing global structural features. A potential solution involves measurement of NMR perturbations after site-specific paramagnetic labeling. Although the approach works well for proteins, the inability to place the label at specific sites has prevented its application to larger RNAs transcribed in vitro. Here, we present a strategy in which RNA loop residues are modified to promote binding to a paramagnetically tagged reporter protein. Lanthanide-induced pseudocontact shifts are demonstrated for a 232-nucleotide RNA bound to tagged derivatives of the spliceosomal U1A RNA-binding domain. Further, the method is validated with a 36-nucleotide RNA for which measured NMR values agreed with predictions based on the previously known protein and RNA structures. The ability to readily insert U1A binding sites into ubiquitous hairpin and/or loop structures should make this approach broadly applicable for the atomic-level study of large RNAs.
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