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Mutagenesis of the hairpin ribozyme.
Extensive in vitro mutagenesis studies have been performed on the hairpin ribozyme and substrate in an effort to refine the overall secondary structure of the molecule and provide further insight into what elements are essential for activity. A secondary structure consisting of four helices and five loop regions remains the basic model as originally proposed. Two helices, helix 1 and 2, form be...
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Evidence that hairpin ribozymes function in the absence of bivalent cation cofactors suggests that active site nucleobases might participate directly in catalytic chemistry. We have adopted an abasic ribozyme rescue strategy to begin to dissect the roles of specific nucleobases in hairpin ribozyme activity. Loss of one active site nucleobase, G8, could be compensated by providing certain nucleo...
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Studies involving ribozyme-directed inactivation of targeted RNA molecules have met with mixed success, making clear the importance of methods to measure and optimize ribozyme activity within cells. The interpretation of biochemical assays for determining ribozyme activity in the cellular environment have been complicated by recent results indicating that hammerhead and hairpin ribozymes can cl...
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Recent studies of the hairpin ribozyme have revealed a distinct catalytic mechanism for this small RNA motif. Inner-sphere coordinated metal ions are not required, as the inert metal ion complex cobalt hexammine promotes catalysis. Detailed kinetic analyses have defined rates of individual steps in the catalytic cycle. Functional group modification, NMR studies of subdomains and cross-linking e...
متن کاملFolding and catalysis by the hairpin ribozyme.
The hairpin ribozyme undergoes a site-specific transesterification cleavage of the phosphodiester backbone. The natural form of the ribozyme is a four-way helical junction, where two arms contain unpaired loops. This folds by pairwise coaxial stacking of helical arms, and a rotation into an antiparallel conformation in which there is close association between the loops. This probably generates ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0305-1048,1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/22.6.1096