'Hairpin' catalytic RNA model: evidence for helices and sequence requirement for substrate RNA.

AUTOR(ES)

Hampel, A

RESUMO

We have identified the catalytic domain within the sequence of the negative strand of the satellite RNA of tobacco ringspot virus. Minimum energy RNA folding calculations predict a two dimensional model with four major helical regions which are supported by mutagenesis experiments. This model for the catalytic complex consists of a 50 base catalytic RNA and a 14 base substrate RNA folded together in a type of hairpin two dimensional structure. Part of the recognition region between the catalyst and substrate is two helices of 6 bases and 4 bases respectively. Catalytic activity remains when the bases in these two helices are changed but base pairing is maintained. Thus an appropriately engineered 'hairpin' catalyst is capable of cleaving heterologous RNA.

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