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Programmable sequence-specific click-labeling of RNA using archaeal box C/D RNP methyltransferases.


ABSTRACT: Biophysical and mechanistic investigation of RNA function requires site-specific incorporation of spectroscopic and chemical probes, which is difficult to achieve using current technologies. We have in vitro reconstituted a functional box C/D small ribonucleoprotein RNA 2'-O-methyltransferase (C/D RNP) from the thermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi and demonstrated its ability to transfer a prop-2-ynyl group from a synthetic cofactor analog to a series of preselected target sites in model tRNA and pre-mRNA molecules. Target selection of the RNP was programmed by changing a dodecanucleotide guide sequence in a 64-nt C/D guide RNA leading to efficient derivatization of three out of four new targets in each RNA substrate. We also show that the transferred terminal alkyne can be further appended with a fluorophore using a bioorthogonal azide-alkyne 1,3-cycloaddition (click) reaction. The described approach for the first time permits synthetically tunable sequence-specific labeling of RNA with single-nucleotide precision.

SUBMITTER: Tomkuviene M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3413156 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Programmable sequence-specific click-labeling of RNA using archaeal box C/D RNP methyltransferases.

Tomkuviene Migle M   Clouet-d'Orval Béatrice B   Cerniauskas Ignas I   Weinhold Elmar E   Klimasauskas Saulius S  

Nucleic acids research 20120507 14


Biophysical and mechanistic investigation of RNA function requires site-specific incorporation of spectroscopic and chemical probes, which is difficult to achieve using current technologies. We have in vitro reconstituted a functional box C/D small ribonucleoprotein RNA 2'-O-methyltransferase (C/D RNP) from the thermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi and demonstrated its ability to transfer a prop-2-ynyl group from a synthetic cofactor analog to a series of preselected target sites in model tRNA  ...[more]

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