Investigation of Catalysis by Bacterial RNase P Via LNA and Other Modifications at the Scissile Phosphodiester

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2009 Oct 2

PMID 19793868

Citations 2

Authors

Simona Cuzic-Feltens

Michael H W Weber

Roland K Hartmann

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Abstract

We analyzed cleavage of precursor tRNAs with an LNA, 2'-OCH(3), 2'-H or 2'-F modification at the canonical (c(0)) site by bacterial RNase P. We infer that the major function of the 2'-substituent at nt -1 during substrate ground state binding is to accept an H-bond. Cleavage of the LNA substrate at the c(0) site by Escherichia coli RNase P RNA demonstrated that the transition state for cleavage can in principle be achieved with a locked C3' -endo ribose and without the H-bond donor function of the 2'-substituent. LNA and 2'-OCH(3) suppressed processing at the major aberrant m(-)(1) site; instead, the m(+1) (nt +1/+2) site was utilized. For the LNA variant, parallel pathways leading to cleavage at the c(0) and m(+1) sites had different pH profiles, with a higher Mg(2+) requirement for c(0) versus m(+1) cleavage. The strong catalytic defect for LNA and 2'-OCH(3) supports a model where the extra methylene (LNA) or methyl group (2'-OCH(3)) causes a steric interference with a nearby bound catalytic Mg(2+) during its recoordination on the way to the transition state for cleavage. The presence of the protein cofactor suppressed the ground state binding defects, but not the catalytic defects.

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