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Duszczyk, M.M. ; Zanier, K.* ; Sattler, M.

A NMR strategy to unambiguously distinguish nucleic acid hairpin and duplex conformations applied to a Xist RNA A-repeat.

Nucleic Acids Res. 36, 7068-7077 (2008)
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All RNA sequences that fold into hairpins possess the intrinsic potential to form intermolecular duplexes because of their high self-complementarity. The thermodynamically more stable duplex conformation is favored under high salt conditions and at high RNA concentrations, posing a challenging problem for structural studies of small RNA hairpin conformations. We developed and applied a novel approach to unambiguously distinguish RNA hairpin and duplex conformations for the structural analysis of a Xist RNA A-repeat. Using a combination of a quantitative HNN-COSY experiment and an optimized double isotope-filtered NOESY experiment we could define the conformation of the 26-mer A-repeat RNA. In contrast to a previous secondary structure prediction of a double hairpin structure, the NMR data show that only the first predicted hairpin is formed, while the second predicted hairpin mediates dimerization of the A-repeat by duplex formation with a second A-repeat. The strategy employed here will be generally applicable to identify and quantify populations of hairpin and duplex conformations and to define RNA folding topology from inter-and intra-molecular base-pairing patterns.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
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Schlagwörter X-CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; HYDROGEN-BONDS; SCALAR COUPLINGS; BASE-PAIRS; SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEINS; ENHANCEMENT; TRANSITIONS; DYNAMICS; SPECTRA
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0305-1048
e-ISSN 1362-4962
Zeitschrift Nucleic Acids Research
Quellenangaben Band: 36, Heft: 22, Seiten: 7068-7077 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Oxford University Press
Nichtpatentliteratur Publikationen
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Institute of Structural Biology (STB)