Publication Date:
1998-04-16
Description:
In the magnesium ion-dependent folding of the Tetrahymena ribozyme, a kinetic intermediate accumulates in which the P4-P6 domain is formed, but the P3-P7 domain is not. The kinetic barriers to P3-P7 formation were investigated with the use of in vitro selection to identify mutant RNA molecules in which the folding rate of the P3-P7 domain was increased. The critical mutations disrupt native tertiary interactions within the P4-P6 domain and increase the rate of P3-P7 formation by destabilizing a kinetically trapped intermediate. Hence, kinetic traps stabilized by native interactions, and not simply by mispaired nonnative structures, can present a substantial barrier to RNA folding.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Treiber, D K -- Rook, M S -- Zarrinkar, P P -- Williamson, J R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Mar 20;279(5358):1943-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, MB33, Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9506945" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Binding Sites
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Kinetics
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Magnesium/metabolism
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Models, Molecular
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Mutation
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*Nucleic Acid Conformation
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RNA, Catalytic/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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Tetrahymena/chemistry
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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