Muth G W, Hennelly S P, Hill W E
Department of Chemistry, The University of Montana, Missoula 59812, USA.
RNA. 1999 Jul;5(7):856-64. doi: 10.1017/s1355838299990143.
Positioning rRNA within the ribosome remains a challenging problem. Such positioning is critical to understanding ribosome function, as various rRNA regions interact to form suitable binding sites for ligands, such as tRNA and mRNA. We have used phenanthroline, a chemical nuclease, as a proximity probe, to help elucidate the regions of rRNA that are near neighbors of the stem-loop structure centering at nt 790 in the 16S rRNA of the Escherichia coli 30S ribosomal subunit. Using phenanthroline covalently attached to a DNA oligomer complementary to nt 787-795, we found that nt 582-584, 693-694, 787-790, and 795-797 were cleaved robustly and must lie within about 15 A of the tethered site at the 5' end of the DNA oligomer, which is adjacent to nt 795 of 16S rRNA.
将核糖体RNA(rRNA)定位在核糖体内部仍然是一个具有挑战性的问题。这种定位对于理解核糖体功能至关重要,因为各种rRNA区域相互作用形成适合配体(如转运RNA(tRNA)和信使RNA(mRNA))结合的位点。我们使用了邻菲罗啉,一种化学核酸酶,作为邻近探针,以帮助阐明在大肠杆菌30S核糖体亚基的16S rRNA中以核苷酸790为中心的茎环结构附近的rRNA区域。使用与核苷酸787 - 795互补的DNA寡聚物共价连接的邻菲罗啉,我们发现核苷酸582 - 584、693 - 694、787 - 790和795 - 797被强烈切割,并且必定位于与DNA寡聚物5'端连接位点相邻的大约15埃范围内,该连接位点与16S rRNA的核苷酸795相邻。