Crowding Promotes the Switch from Hairpin to Pseudoknot Conformation in Human Telomerase RNA

Details Crowding Promotes the Switch from Hairpin to Pseudoknot Conformation in Human Telomerase RNA Crowding Promotes the Switch from Hairpin to Pseudoknot Conformation in Human Telomerase RNA

2011-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/1108.1775v1

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133 (31), pp 11858--11861

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

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Scientific paper

10.1021/ja2035128

Formation of a pseudoknot in the conserved RNA core domain in the ribonucleoprotein human telomerase is required for function. In vitro experiments show that the pseudoknot (PK) is in equilibrium with an extended hairpin (HP) structure. We use molecular simulations of a coarse-grained model, which reproduces most of the salient features of the experimental melting profiles of PK and HP, to show that crowding enhances the stability of PK relative to HP in the wild type and in a mutant associated with dyskeratosis congenita. In monodisperse suspensions, small crowding particles increase the stability of compact structures to a greater extent than larger crowders. If the sizes of crowders in a binary mixture are smaller than the unfolded RNA, the increase in melting temperature due to the two components is additive. In a ternary mixture of crowders that are larger than the unfolded RNA, which mimics the composition of ribosome, large enzyme complexes and proteins in E. coli, the marginal increase in stability is entirely determined by the smallest component. We predict that crowding can restore partially telomerase activity in mutants, which dramatically decrease the PK stability.

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