Abstract:
:The E. coli protein StpA has RNA annealing and strand displacement activities and it promotes folding of RNAs by loosening their structures. To understand the mode of action of StpA, we analysed the relationship of its RNA chaperone activity to its RNA-binding properties. For acceleration of annealing of two short RNAs, StpA binds both molecules simultaneously, showing that annealing is promoted by crowding. StpA binds weakly to RNA with a preference for unstructured molecules. Binding of StpA to RNA is strongly dependent on the ionic strength, suggesting that the interactions are mainly electrostatic. A mutant variant of the protein, with a glycine to valine change in the nucleic-acid-binding domain, displays weaker RNA binding but higher RNA chaperone activity. This suggests that the RNA chaperone activity of StpA results from weak and transient interactions rather than from tight binding to RNA. We further discuss the role that structural disorder in proteins may play in chaperoning RNA folding, using bioinformatic sequence analysis tools, and provide evidence for the importance of conformational disorder and local structural preformation of chaperone nucleic-acid-binding sites.
journal_name
Nucleic Acids Resjournal_title
Nucleic acids researchauthors
Mayer O,Rajkowitsch L,Lorenz C,Konrat R,Schroeder Rdoi
10.1093/nar/gkl1143subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-01-01 00:00:00pages
1257-69issue
4eissn
0305-1048issn
1362-4962pii
gkl1143journal_volume
35pub_type
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