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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 41, Issue 18, Pages 5799-5806Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi020042v
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- NCRR NIH HHS [RR-01633] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM-52348] Funding Source: Medline
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We have explored the linkage of monovalent and divalent ion binding in the folding of the P4-P6 domain of Tetrahymena thermophila ribozyme by examining the Mg2+-induced folding and the urea-induced denaturation of the folded state as a function of Na+ under equilibrium folding conditions using hydroxyl radical footprinting. These studies allowed a thermodynamic examination of eight discrete protection sites within P4-P6 that are involved in several tertiary structure contacts. Monovalent ions compete with Mg2+ ions in mediating P4-P6 folding. The urea denaturation isotherms demonstrated DeltaDeltaG values of > 2 kcal mol(-1) in experiments conducted in 10 versus 200 mM NaCl at a constant 10 mM MgCl2. However, the individual-site isotherms reported by footprinting revealed that larger than average changes in DeltaG values were localized to specific sites within the Mg2+-rich A-bulge. The competitive effects of monovalent ions were less when K+ rather than Na+ was the monovalent cation present. This result indicates the importance of the specific K+ binding sites that are associated with AA-platform structures to P4-P6 folding and stability. These site-specific footprinting data provide quantitative and site-specific measurements of the ion-linked stability for P4-P6 that are interpreted with respect to crystallographic data.
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