RNA recognition site of PP7 coat protein

AUTOR(ES)

Lim, Francis

FONTE

Oxford University Press

RESUMO

The coat proteins of different single-strand RNA phages use a common protein tertiary structural framework to recognize different RNA hairpins and thus offer a natural model for understanding the molecular basis of RNA-binding specificity. Here we describe the RNA structural requirements for binding to the coat protein of bacteriophage PP7, an RNA phage of Pseudomonas. Its recognition specificity differs substantially from those of the coat proteins of its previously characterized relatives such as the coliphages MS2 and Qβ. Using designed variants of the wild-type RNA, and selection of binding-competent sequences from random RNA sequence libraries (i.e. SELEX) we find that tight binding to PP7 coat protein is favored by the existence of an 8 bp hairpin with a bulged purine on its 5′ side separated by 4 bp from a 6 nt loop having the sequence Pu-U-A-G/U-G-Pu. However, another structural class possessing only some of these features is capable of binding almost as tightly.

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