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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 50, Issue 9, Pages 1429-1431Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi102057m
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- National Institutes of Health [GM070503]
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The RNA recognition motif (RRM) is a prevalent class of RNA binding domains. Although a number of RRM/RNA structures have been determined, thermodynamic analyses are relatively uncommon. Here, we use isothermal titration calorimetry to characterize single-stranded (ss)RNA binding by four representative RRM-containing proteins: (i) U2AF(65), (ii) SXL, (iii) TIA-1, and (iv) PAB. In all cases, ssRNA binding is accompanied by remarkably large favorable enthalpy changes (-30 to -60 kcal mol(-1)) and unfavorable entropy changes. Alterations of key RRM residues and binding sites indicate that under the nearly physiological conditions of these studies, large thermodynamic changes represent a signature of specific ssRNA recognition by RRMs.
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