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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 17, Issue 10, Pages 1401-1411Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2006.06.009
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- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1202641] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The binding modes and structural determinants of the noncovalent complexes formed by aminoglycoside antibiotics with conserved domains of the HIV-1 packaging signal (psi-RNA) were investigated using electrospray ionization (ESI) Fourier transform mass spectrometry (FTMS). The location of the aminoglycoside binding sites on the different stemloop structures was revealed by characteristic coverage gaps in the ion series obtained by sustained off-resonance irradiation collision induced dissociation (SORI-CID) of the antibiotic-RNA assemblies. The site positions were confirmed using mutants that eliminated salient structural features of the psi-RNA domains. The effects of the mutations on the binding properties of the different substrates served to validate the position of the aminoglycoside site on the wild-type structures. Additional information was provided by docking experiments performed on the different aminoglycoside-stemloop complexes. The results have shown that, in the absence of features disrupting the regular A-helix of the double-stranded stem, aminoglycosides tend to bind in an area situated between the upper stem and the loop regions, as demonstrated for stemloop SL3. The presence of a tandem wobbles motif in SL4 modifies the regular geometry of the upper stem, which does not affect the general site location, but greatly increases its solution binding affinity compared with SL3. The platform motif in SL2 locates the binding site in the stem midsection and confers upon this stemloop an intermediate affinity toward aminoglycosides. In SL3 and SL4, the extensive overlap of the antibiotic site with the region used to bind the nucleocapsid (NC) protein provides the basis for a competition mechanism that could explain the aminoglycoside inhibition of the NC-SL3 and NC-SL4 assemblies. In contrast, the minimal overlap between the aminoglycoside and the NC sites in SL2 accounts for the absence of inhibition of the NC-SL2 complex.
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