Toor Navtej, Rajashankar Kanagalaghatta, Keating Kevin S, Pyle Anna Marie
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, 266 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2008 Nov;15(11):1221-2. doi: 10.1038/nsmb.1509. Epub 2008 Oct 26.
Free group II introns are infectious retroelements that can bind and insert themselves into RNA and DNA molecules via reverse splicing. Here we report the 3.4-A crystal structure of a complex between an oligonucleotide target substrate and a group IIC intron, as well as the refined free intron structure. The structure of the complex reveals the conformation of motifs involved in exon recognition by group II introns.
游离的II组内含子是可感染的逆转录元件,能够通过反向剪接结合并插入到RNA和DNA分子中。在此,我们报道了寡核苷酸靶底物与IIC组内含子之间复合物的3.4埃晶体结构,以及精制后的游离内含子结构。该复合物的结构揭示了II组内含子识别外显子所涉及的基序构象。