RNA folding causes secondary structure rearrangement

AUTOR(ES)

Wu, Ming

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The secondary structure of the P5abc subdomain (a 56-nt RNA) of the Tetrahymena thermophila group I intron ribozyme has been determined by NMR. Its base pairing in aqueous solution in the absence of magnesium ions is significantly different from the RNA in a crystal but is consistent with thermodynamic predictions. On addition of magnesium ions, the RNA folds into a tertiary structure with greatly changed base pairing consistent with the crystal structure: three Watson–Crick base pairs, three G⋅U base pairs, and an extra-stable tetraloop are lost. The common assumption that RNA folds by first forming secondary structure and then forming tertiary interactions from the unpaired bases is not always correct.

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