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NATURE
Volume 421, Issue 6924, Pages 760-764Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature01386
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RNase P is the only endonuclease responsible for processing the 5' end of transfer RNA by cleaving a precursor and leading to tRNA maturation(1,2). It contains an RNA component and a protein component and has been identified in all organisms. It was one of the first catalytic RNAs identified(3) nd the first that acts as a multiple-turnover enzyme in vivo. RNase P and the ribosome are so far the only two ribozymes known to be conserved in all kingdoms of life. The RNA component of bacterial RNase P can catalyse pre-tRNA cleavage in the absence of the RNase P protein in vitro and consists of two domains: a specificity domain and a catalytic domain(4,5). Here we report a 3.15-Angstrom resolution crystal structure of the 154-nucleotide specificity domain of Bacillus subtilis RNase P. The structure reveals the architecture of this domain, the interactions that maintain the overall fold of the molecule, a large non-helical but well-structured module that is conserved in all RNase P RNA, and the regions that are involved in interactions with the substrate.
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