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DEAD-box proteins can completely separate an RNA duplex using a single ATP.


ABSTRACT: DEAD-box proteins are ubiquitous in RNA metabolism and use ATP to mediate RNA conformational changes. These proteins have been suggested to use a fundamentally different mechanism from the related DNA and RNA helicases, generating local strand separation while remaining tethered through additional interactions with structured RNAs and RNA-protein (RNP) complexes. Here, we provide a critical test of this model by measuring the number of ATP molecules hydrolyzed by DEAD-box proteins as they separate short RNA helices characteristic of structured RNAs (6-11 bp). We show that the DEAD-box protein CYT-19 can achieve complete strand separation using a single ATP, and that 2 related proteins, Mss116p and Ded1p, display similar behavior. Under some conditions, considerably <1 ATP is hydrolyzed per separation event, even though strand separation is strongly dependent on ATP and is not supported by the nucleotide analog AMP-PNP. Thus, ATP strongly enhances strand separation activity even without being hydrolyzed, most likely by eliciting or stabilizing a protein conformation that promotes strand separation, and AMP-PNP does not mimic ATP in this regard. Together, our results show that DEAD-box proteins can disrupt short duplexes by using a single cycle of ATP-dependent conformational changes, strongly supporting and extending models in which DEAD-box proteins perform local rearrangements while remaining tethered to their target RNAs or RNP complexes. This mechanism may underlie the functions of DEAD-box proteins by allowing them to generate local rearrangements without disrupting the global structures of their targets.

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2629298 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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DEAD-box proteins can completely separate an RNA duplex using a single ATP.

Chen Yingfeng Y   Potratz Jeffrey P JP   Tijerina Pilar P   Del Campo Mark M   Lambowitz Alan M AM   Russell Rick R  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20081216 51


DEAD-box proteins are ubiquitous in RNA metabolism and use ATP to mediate RNA conformational changes. These proteins have been suggested to use a fundamentally different mechanism from the related DNA and RNA helicases, generating local strand separation while remaining tethered through additional interactions with structured RNAs and RNA-protein (RNP) complexes. Here, we provide a critical test of this model by measuring the number of ATP molecules hydrolyzed by DEAD-box proteins as they separa  ...[more]

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