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Circular DNA and DNA/RNA hybrid molecules as scaffolds for ricin inhibitor design.


ABSTRACT: Ricin Toxin A-chain (RTA) catalyzes the hydrolytic depurination of A4324, the first adenosine of the GAGA tetra-loop portion of 28S eukaryotic ribosomal RNA. Truncated stem-loop versions of the 28S rRNA are RTA substrates. Here, we investigate circular DNA and DNA/RNA hybrid GAGA sequence oligonucleotides as minimal substrates and inhibitor scaffolds for RTA catalysis. Closing the 5'- and 3'-ends of a d(GAGA) tetraloop creates a substrate with 92-fold more activity with RTA (kcat/Km) than that for the d(GAGA) linear form. Circular substrates have catalytic rates (kcat) comparable to and exceeding those of RNA and DNA stem-loop substrates, respectively. RTA inhibition into the nanomolar range has been achieved by introducing an N-benzyl-hydroxypyrrolidine (N-Bn) transition state analogue at the RTA depurination site in a circular GAGA motif. The RNA/DNA hybrid oligonucleotide cyclic GdAGA provides a new scaffold for RTA inhibitor design, and cyclic G(N-Bn)GA is the smallest tight-binding RTA inhibitor (Ki = 70 nM). The design of such molecules that lack the base-paired stem-loop architecture opens new chemical synthetic approaches to RTA inhibition.

SUBMITTER: Sturm MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2518448 | biostudies-literature | 2007 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Circular DNA and DNA/RNA hybrid molecules as scaffolds for ricin inhibitor design.

Sturm Matthew B MB   Roday Setu S   Schramm Vern L VL  

Journal of the American Chemical Society 20070407 17


Ricin Toxin A-chain (RTA) catalyzes the hydrolytic depurination of A4324, the first adenosine of the GAGA tetra-loop portion of 28S eukaryotic ribosomal RNA. Truncated stem-loop versions of the 28S rRNA are RTA substrates. Here, we investigate circular DNA and DNA/RNA hybrid GAGA sequence oligonucleotides as minimal substrates and inhibitor scaffolds for RTA catalysis. Closing the 5'- and 3'-ends of a d(GAGA) tetraloop creates a substrate with 92-fold more activity with RTA (kcat/Km) than that f  ...[more]

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