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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 45, Issue 15, Pages 9149-9163Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx547
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [31571335, 31630015, 91440201]
- Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology [2014CB910102]
- NIH [TR01 GM104962-01]
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We have undertaken a systematic structural study of Thermus thermophilus Argonaute (TtAgo) ternary complexes containing single-base bulges positioned either within the seed segment of the guide or target strands and at the cleavage site. Our studies establish that single-base bulges 7T8, 5A6 and 4A5 on the guide strand are stacked-into the duplex, with conformational changes localized to the bulge site, thereby having minimal impact on the cleavage site. By contrast, single-base bulges 6'U7' and 6'A7' on the target strand are looped-out of the duplex, with the resulting conformational transitions shifting the cleavable phosphate by one step. We observe a stable alignment for the looped-out 6'N7' bulge base, which stacks on the unpaired first base of the guide strand, with the looped-out alignment facilitated by weakened Watson-Crick and reversed non-canonical flanking pairs. These structural studies are complemented by cleavage assays that independently monitor the impact of bulges on TtAgo-mediated cleavage reaction.
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