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Structure and specific RNA-binding of ADAR2 double-stranded RNA-binding motifs

ŠTEFL, Richard

Basic information

Original name

Structure and specific RNA-binding of ADAR2 double-stranded RNA-binding motifs

Name in Czech

Structure and specific RNA-binding of ADAR2 double-stranded RNA-binding motifs

Authors

ŠTEFL, Richard (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)

Edition

Brno, 2006

Publisher

Masaryk University

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Audiovizuální tvorba

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/06:00018575

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords in English

NMR; protein-RNA interactions; gene regulation; structure
Změněno: 22/2/2007 14:15, prof. Mgr. Richard Štefl, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Adenosine deaminases that act on RNA (ADARs) tune and regulate gene expression. Although ADARs act mostly as nonspecific enzymes, they can recode certain genes in a highly specific manner. This results from preferential binding of the ADARs to certain RNA substrates. To understand how ADARs bind RNA, we investigated the N-terminal region of ADAR2 by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. This region is responsible for RNA binding and consists of the two double-stranded RNA-binding motifs (dsRBMs). We determined the structure of these two dsRBMs and carried out an NMR chemical shift perturbation study of the interaction of the two dsRBMs with a 71 nucleotide RNA encoding the R/G site of the GluR-B. Based on our precise identification of both the protein and RNA interaction surfaces, we built an NMR-derived model of the ADAR2 dsRBMs in complex with the R/G stem-loop RNA. We showed that each dsRBM binds a different structural element of the R/G stem-loop; dsRBM1 binds a stem capped by a pentaloop and dsRBM2 recognizes a stem containing two AC mismatches. The importance of RNA irregularities for the preferential binding by ADAR2 dsRBMs was confirmed by in vitro mutagenesis studies in both the protein and the RNA. Our structural and functional studies demonstrate that the ADAR2 dsRBMs have the ability to discriminate specific structural features of RNA suggesting their importance for the editing site selectivity.

In Czech

Adenosine deaminases that act on RNA (ADARs) tune and regulate gene expression. Although ADARs act mostly as nonspecific enzymes, they can recode certain genes in a highly specific manner. This results from preferential binding of the ADARs to certain RNA substrates. To understand how ADARs bind RNA, we investigated the N-terminal region of ADAR2 by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. This region is responsible for RNA binding and consists of the two double-stranded RNA-binding motifs (dsRBMs). We determined the structure of these two dsRBMs and carried out an NMR chemical shift perturbation study of the interaction of the two dsRBMs with a 71 nucleotide RNA encoding the R/G site of the GluR-B. Based on our precise identification of both the protein and RNA interaction surfaces, we built an NMR-derived model of the ADAR2 dsRBMs in complex with the R/G stem-loop RNA. We showed that each dsRBM binds a different structural element of the R/G stem-loop; dsRBM1 binds a stem capped by a pentaloop and dsRBM2 recognizes a stem containing two AC mismatches. The importance of RNA irregularities for the preferential binding by ADAR2 dsRBMs was confirmed by in vitro mutagenesis studies in both the protein and the RNA. Our structural and functional studies demonstrate that the ADAR2 dsRBMs have the ability to discriminate specific structural features of RNA suggesting their importance for the editing site selectivity.

Links

MSM0021622413, plan (intention)
Name: Proteiny v metabolismu a při interakci organismů s prostředím
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Proteins in metabolism and interaction of organisms with the environment