1scl
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THE SARCIN-RICIN LOOP, A MODULAR RNA
Overview
The sarcin/ricin loop is a highly conserved sequence found in the RNA of, all large ribosomal subunits. The cytotoxins alpha-sarcin and ricin both, inactivate ribosomes by cleaving a single bond in that loop. Once it has, been attacked, ribosomes no longer interact with elongation factors, properly, and translation stops. We have determined the conformation of, the sarcin/ricin loop by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy using E73, a, 29-nucleotide RNA that has the sarcin/ricin loop sequence and that is, sensitive to both toxins in vitro. The sarcin/ricin loop has a compact, structure that contains several purine.purine base pairs, a GAGA, tetraloop, and a bulged guanosine adjacent to a reverse Hoogsteen A.U, pair. It is stabilized by an unusual set of cross-strand base-stacking, interactions and imino proton to phosphate oxygen hydrogen bonds. In, addition to having interesting structural features, this model explains, many of the biochemical observations made about the loop's structure and, its reactivity with cytotoxins, and it sheds light on the loop's, interactions with elongation factors.
About this Structure
1SCL is a Protein complex structure of sequences from Rattus norvegicus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
The conformation of the sarcin/ricin loop from 28S ribosomal RNA., Szewczak AA, Moore PB, Chang YL, Wool IG, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1993 Oct 15;90(20):9581-5. PMID:8415744
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