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BIOCHIMIE
Volume 138, Issue -, Pages 32-42Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2017.04.001
Keywords
Peptide nucleic acid; 23S ribosomal RNA; Helix 69; RNA hairpin; Cell-free translation; Bacterial growth inhibition
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- Polish National Science Centre [OPUS DEC-2012/05/B/NZ1/00035, SYMFONIA DEC-2014/12/W/ST5/00589, UMO-2013/08/A/NZ1/00866]
- CeNT BST
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A fragment of 23S ribosomal RNA (nucleotides 1906-1924 in E. coli), termed Helix 69, forms a hairpin that is essential for ribosome function. Helix 69 forms a conformationally flexible inter-subunit connection with helix 44 of 16S ribosomal RNA, and the nucleotide A1913 of Helix 69 influences decoding accuracy. Nucleotides U1911 and U1917 are post-transcriptionally modified with pseudouridines (psi) and U1915 with 3-methyl-psi. We investigated Helix 69 as a target for a complementary synthetic oligonucleotide - peptide nucleic acid (PNA). We determined thermodynamic properties of Helix 69 and its complexes with PNA and tested the performance of PNA targeted at Helix 69 in inhibiting translation in cell-free extracts and growth of E. coli cells. First, we examined the interactions of a PNA oligomer complementary to the G1907-A1919 fragment of Helix 69 with the sequences corresponding to human and bacterial species (with or without pseudouridine modifications). PNA invades the Helix 69 hairpin creating stable complexes and PNA binding to the pseudouridylated bacterial sequence is stronger than to Helix 69 without any modifications. Second, we confirmed the binding of PNA to 23S rRNA and 70S ribosomes. Third, we verified the efficiency of translation inhibition of these PNA oligomers in the cell-free translation/transcription E. coil system, which were in a similar range as tetracycline. Next, we confirmed that PNA conjugated to the (KFF)(3)K transporter peptide inhibited E. coli growth in micromolar concentrations. Overall, targeting Helix 69 with PHA or other sequence-specific oligomers could be a promising way to inhibit bacterial translation. (c) 2017 Elsevier B.V. and Societe Francaise de Biochimie et Biologie Moleculaire (SFBBM). All rights reserved.
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