期刊
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 365, 期 3, 页码 835-855出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.09.083
关键词
catalytic RNA; ribozyme; RNA chaperone; RNA-protein interaction; RNA structure
资金
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 37951, R01 GM067700, GM 067700, F32 GM076961, R01 GM037951, R37 GM037951, F01 GM 76961] Funding Source: Medline
The RNA-catalyzed splicing of group I and group II introns is facilitated by proteins that stabilize the active RNA structure or act as RNA chaperones to disrupt stable inactive structures that are kinetic traps in RNA folding. In Neurospora crassa and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the latter function is fulfilled by specific DEAD-box proteins, denoted CYT-19 and Mss116p, respectively. Previous studies showed that purified CYT-19 stimulates the in vitro splicing of structurally diverse group I and group Ii introns, and uses the energy of ATP binding or hydrolysis to resolve kinetic traps. Here, we purified Mss116p and show that it has RNA-dependent ATPase activity, unwinds RNA duplexes in a non-polar fashion, and promotes ATP-independent strand-annealing. Further, we show that Mss116p binds RNA non-II, intron RNAs, as well as RNA cleavage by the aI5 gamma-derived D135 ribozyme., However, Mss116p also has ATP hydrolysis-independent effects on some of these reactions, which are not shared by CYT-19 and may reflect differences in its RNA-binding properties. We also show that a non-mitochondrial DEAD-box protein, yeast Ded1p, can function almost as efficiently as CYT19 and Mss116p in splicing the yeast aI5 gamma group II intron and less efficiently in splicing the bI1 group II intron. Together, our results show that Mss116p, like CYT-19, can act broadly as an RNA chaperone to stimulate the splicing of diverse group I and group II introns, and that Ded1p also has an RNA chaperone activity that can be assayed by its effect on splicing mitochondrial introns. Nevertheless, these DEAD-box protein RNA chaperones are not completely interchangeable and appear to function in somewhat different ways, using biochemical activities that have likely been tuned by coevolution to function optimally on specific: RNA substrates. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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