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Rational Design of an Orthogonal Pair of Bimolecular RNase P Ribozymes through Heterologous Assembly of Their Modular Domains.

ABSTRACT: The modular structural domains of multidomain RNA enzymes can often be dissected into separate domain RNAs and their noncovalent assembly can often reconstitute active enzymes. These properties are important to understand their basic characteristics and are useful for their application to RNA-based nanostructures. Bimolecular forms of bacterial RNase P ribozymes consisting of S-domain and C-domain RNAs are attractive as platforms for catalytic RNA nanostructures, but their S-domain/C-domain assembly was not optimized for this purpose. Through analysis and engineering of bimolecular forms of the two bacterial RNase P ribozymes, we constructed a chimeric ribozyme with improved catalytic ability and S-domain/C-domain assembly and developed a pair of bimolecular RNase P ribozymes the assembly of which was considerably orthogonal to each other.

SUBMITTER: Nozawa Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6783828 | biostudies-other | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Rational Design of an Orthogonal Pair of Bimolecular RNase P Ribozymes through Heterologous Assembly of Their Modular Domains.

Nozawa Yuri Y Hagihara Megumi M Rahman Md Sohanur MS Matsumura Shigeyoshi S Ikawa Yoshiya Y

Biology 20190831 3

The modular structural domains of multidomain RNA enzymes can often be dissected into separate domain RNAs and their noncovalent assembly can often reconstitute active enzymes. These properties are important to understand their basic characteristics and are useful for their application to RNA-based nanostructures. Bimolecular forms of bacterial RNase P ribozymes consisting of S-domain and C-domain RNAs are attractive as platforms for catalytic RNA nanostructures, but their S-domain/C-domain asse ...[more]

PMID: 31480450

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