Binding of oligonucleotides to a viral hairpin forming RNA triplexes with parallel G*G•C triplets

AUTOR(ES)

Carmona, Pedro

FONTE

Oxford University Press

RESUMO

Infrared and UV spectroscopies have been used to study the assembly of a hairpin nucleotide sequence (nucleotides 3–30) of the 5′ non-coding region of the hepatitis C virus RNA (5′-GGCGGGGAUUAUCCCCGCUGUGAGGCGG-3′) with a RNA 20mer ligand (5′-CCGCCUCACAAAGGUGGGGU-3′) in the presence of magnesium ion and spermidine. The resulting complex involves two helical structural domains: the first one is an intermolecular duplex stem at the bottom of the target hairpin and the second one is a parallel triplex generated by the intramolecular hairpin duplex and the ligand. Infrared spectroscopy shows that N-type sugars are exclusively present in the complex. This is the first case of formation of a RNA parallel triplex with purine motif and shows that this type of targeting RNA strands to viral RNA duplexes can be used as an alternative to antisense oligonucleotides or ribozymes.

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