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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 102, Issue 38, Pages 13392-13397Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0506662102
Keywords
ribozyme; RNA crystallography; tRNA processing
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R37 GM034527, GM 34527, R01 GM034527] Funding Source: Medline
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The x-ray crystal structure of a 417-nt ribonuclease P RNA from Bacilius stearothermophilus was solved to 3.3-angstrom resolution. This RNA enzyme is constructed from a number of coaxially stacked helical domains joined together by local and long-range interactions. These helical domains are arranged to forma remarkably flat surface, which is implicated by a wealth of biochemical data in the binding and cleavage of the precursors of transfer RNA substrate. Previous photoaffinity crosslinking data are used to position the substrate on the crystal structure and to identify the chemically active site of the ribozyme. This site is located in a highly conserved core structure formed by intricately interlaced long-range interactions between interhelical sequences.
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