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ArticleRNA (New York, N.Y.)2008

On the role of a conserved, potentially helix-breaking residue in the tRNA-binding alpha-helix of archaeal CCA-adding enzymes.

Hyundae D Cho, Vanita D Sood, David Baker, Alan M Weiner

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Article in RNA (New York, N.Y.), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hyundae D ChoDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-7350, USA.
Vanita D Sood
David Baker
Alan M Weiner
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Protein-Protein InteractionsR01GM059224 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI BAKER, DAVID · 1999 to 2009
$1.8M
THE CCA-ADDING ENZYME (tRNA NUCLEOTIDYL TRANSFERASE)R01GM059804 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI WEINER, ALAN M · 1999 to 2006
$1.7M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS GM059224NIGMS NIH HHS GM059804NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059224NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059804
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Archaeal class I CCA-adding enzymes use a ribonucleoprotein template to build and repair the universally conserved 3'-terminal CCA sequence of the acceptor stem of all tRNAs. A wealth of structural and biochemical data indicate that the Archaeoglobus fulgidus CCA-adding enzyme binds primarily to the tRNA acceptor stem through a long, highly conserved alpha-helix that lies nearly parallel to the acceptor stem and makes many contacts with its sugar-phosphate backbone. Although the geometry of this alpha-helix is nearly ideal in all available cocrystal structures, the helix contains a highly conserved, potentially helix-breaking proline or glycine near the N terminus. We performed a mutational analysis to dissect the role of this residue in CCA-addition activity. We found that the phylogenetically permissible P295G mutant and the phylogenetically absent P295T had little effect on CCA addition, whereas P295A and P295S progressively interfered with CCA addition (C74>C75>A76 addition). We also examined the effects of these mutations on tRNA binding and the kinetics of CCA addition, and performed a computational analysis using Rosetta Design to better understand the role of P295 in nucleotide transfer. Our data indicate that CCA-adding activity does not correlate with the stability of the pre-addition cocrystal structures visualized by X-ray crystallography. Rather, the data are consistent with a transient conformational change involving P295 of the tRNA-binding alpha-helix during or between one or more steps in CCA addition.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SubstitutionArchaeoglobus fulgidusComputer SimulationCrystallography, X-RayModels, MolecularMutagenesisNucleic Acid ConformationProtein Structure, SecondaryProtein Structure, TertiaryRNA NucleotidyltransferasesRNA, TransferSoftwareRNA NucleotidyltransferasesRNA, TransfertRNA nucleotidyltransferase

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PMID18495940
PMCPMC2441987
OpenAlexW2103244831

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