Zhelkovsky Alexander, Helmling Steffen, Bohm Andrew, Moore Claire
Tufts University School of Medicine and Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA.
RNA. 2004 Apr;10(4):558-64. doi: 10.1261/rna.5238704.
The eukaryotic poly(A) polymerase (PAP) is responsible for the posttranscriptional extension of mRNA 3' ends by the addition of a poly(A) tract. The recently published three-dimensional structures of yeast and bovine PAPs have made a more directed biochemical analysis of this enzyme possible. Based on these structures, the middle domain of PAP was predicted to interact with ATP. However, in this study, we show that mutations of conserved residues in this domain of yeast PAP, Pap1, do not affect interaction with ATP, but instead disrupt the interaction with RNA and affect the enzyme's ability to process substrate lacking 2' hydroxyls at the 3' end. These results are most consistent with a model in which the middle domain of PAP interacts directly with the recently extended RNA and pyrophosphate byproduct.
真核生物多聚腺苷酸聚合酶(PAP)负责通过添加多聚腺苷酸尾在转录后延伸mRNA的3'末端。最近发表的酵母和牛PAP的三维结构使得对该酶进行更有针对性的生化分析成为可能。基于这些结构,预测PAP的中间结构域与ATP相互作用。然而,在本研究中,我们表明酵母PAP(Pap1)该结构域中保守残基的突变并不影响与ATP的相互作用,而是破坏与RNA的相互作用,并影响该酶处理3'末端缺乏2'羟基底物的能力。这些结果与一个模型最为一致,在该模型中,PAP的中间结构域直接与最近延伸的RNA和焦磷酸副产物相互作用。