Dual Coding Potential of a 2',5'-branched Ribonucleotide in DNA

Overview

Journal RNA

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2018 Oct 27

PMID 30361268

Authors

Jessica Doring

Thomas Hurek

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Abstract

Branchpoints in RNA templates are highly mutagenic, but it is not known yet whether this also applies to branchpoints in DNA templates. Here, we report how nucleic acid polymerases replicate a 2',5'-branched DNA (bDNA) molecule. We constructed long-chained bDNA templates containing a branch guanosine and T7 promoters at both arms by splinted ligation. Quantitative real-time PCR analysis was used to investigate whether a branchpoint blocks DNA synthesis from the two arms in the same manner. We find that the blocking effect of a branchpoint is arm-specific. DNA synthesis from the 2'-arm is more than 20,000-fold decreased, whereas from the 3'-arm only 15-fold. Our sequence analysis of full-length nucleic acid generated by Taq DNA polymerase, Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase, and T7 RNA polymerase from the 2'-arm of bDNA shows that the branched guanine has a dual coding potential and can base-pair with cytosine and guanine. We find that branchpoint templating is influenced by the type of the surrounding nucleic acid and is probably modulated by polymerase and RNase H active sites. We show that the branchpoint bypass by the polymerases from the 3'-arm of bDNA is predominantly error-free, indicating that bDNA is not as highly mutagenic as 2',5'-branched RNA.

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