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CATALYTIC RNA
Volume 120, Issue -, Pages 1-23Publisher
ELSEVIER ACADEMIC PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-381286-5.00001-9
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM087721] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM087721] Funding Source: Medline
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The hammerhead ribozyme has long been considered a prototype for understanding RNA catalysis, but discrepancies between the earlier crystal structures of a minimal hammerhead self-cleaving motif and various biochemical investigations frustrated attempt to understand hammerhead ribozyme catalysis in terms of structure. With the discovery that a tertiary contact distal from the ribozyme's active site greatly enhances its catalytic prowess, and the emergence of new corresponding crystal structures of full-length hammerhead ribozymes, a unified understanding of catalysis in terms of the structure is now possible. A mechanism in which the invariant residue G12 functions as a general base, and the 2'-OH moiety of the invariant G8, itself forming a tertiary base pair with the invariant C3, is the general acid, appears consistent with both the crystal structure and biochemical experimental results. Originally discovered in the context of plant satellite RNA viruses, the hammerhead more recently has been found embedded in the 3'-untranslated region of mature mammalian mRNAs, suggesting additional biological roles in genetic regulation.
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