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ArticleRNA (New York, N.Y.)2020

Folding heterogeneity in the essential human telomerase RNA three-way junction.

Christina Palka, Nicholas M Forino, Jendrik Hentschel, Rhiju Das, Michael D Stone

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Article in RNA (New York, N.Y.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Advances in understanding telomerase assembly.Biochemical Society transactions · 2023
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  9. Telomerase structural biology comes of age.Current opinion in structural biology · 2022
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  14. A structurally conserved human andProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Christina Palka *Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.
Nicholas M Forino *Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.
Jendrik HentschelDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.
Rhiju DasBiophysics Program, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
Michael D StoneDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.

Funding

Next-generation computational/chemical methods for complex RNA structuresR35GM122579 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Rhiju Das · 2017 to 2026
$7.2M
Structure and dynamics of the Tetrahymena telomerase ribonucleoproteinR01GM095850 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI STONE, MICHAEL D · 2011 to 2023
$4.4M
Training Program/Molecular/Cell/Developmental BiologyT32GM008646 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI STROME, SUSAN · 1999 to 2018
$3.7M
Training Program in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental BiologyT32GM133391 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI Needhi Bhalla · 2019 to 2026
$3.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095850NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122579NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008646NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM133391
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Telomeres safeguard the genome by suppressing illicit DNA damage responses at chromosome termini. To compensate for incomplete DNA replication at telomeres, most continually dividing cells, including many cancers, express the telomerase ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex. Telomerase maintains telomere length by catalyzing de novo synthesis of short DNA repeats using an internal telomerase RNA (TR) template. TRs from diverse species harbor structurally conserved domains that contribute to RNP biogenesis and function. In vertebrate TRs, the conserved regions 4 and 5 (CR4/5) fold into a three-way junction (TWJ) that binds directly to the telomerase catalytic protein subunit and is required for telomerase function. We have analyzed the structural properties of the human TR (hTR) CR4/5 domain using a combination of in vitro chemical mapping, secondary structural modeling, and single-molecule structural analysis. Our data suggest the essential P6.1 stem-loop within CR4/5 is not stably folded in the absence of the telomerase reverse transcriptase in vitro. Rather, the hTR CR4/5 domain adopts a heterogeneous ensemble of conformations. Finally, single-molecule FRET measurements of CR4/5 and a mutant designed to stabilize the P6.1 stem demonstrate that TERT binding selects for a structural conformation of CR4/5 that is not the dominant state of the TERT-free in vitro RNA ensemble.

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RNA FoldingBinding SitesHumansModels, MolecularProtein BindingRNATelomeraseRNATelomerasetelomerase RNATERT protein, humanRNA foldingsingle-molecule FRETstructure modelingtelomerase

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PMID32817241
PMCPMC7668248

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