DIFFERENT TARGET-SITE SPECIFICITIES OF THE HAIRPIN RIBOZYME IN CIS AND TRANS CLEAVAGES

被引:5
作者
FUJITANI, K [1 ]
SASAKITOZAWA, N [1 ]
KIKUCHI, Y [1 ]
机构
[1] MITSUBISHI KASEI INST LIFE SCI, 11 MINAMIOOYA, MACHIDA, TOKYO 194, JAPAN
来源
FEBS LETTERS | 1993年 / 331卷 / 1-2期
关键词
CATALYTIC RNA; SATELLITE RNA; TOBACCO RINGSPOT VIRUS; ARABIS MOSAIC VIRUS; CHICORY YELLOW MOTTLE VIRUS;
D O I
10.1016/0014-5793(93)80316-M
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The hairpin ribozyme cleaves a phosphodiester bond at the 5' side of a 5'GUC3' sequence of an RNA with high efficiency. An RNA having a 5'GUA3' sequence instead of the GUC sequence is a poor substrate for this ribozyme. Here, we show that this is indeed so in a trans-acting ribozyme system, but in a cis-acting ribozyme system this ribozyme cleaves the 5' side of a GUA sequence as efficiently as the wild-type cleaves the GUC sequence. One base substitution in the ribozyme also affected the target-site specificity in the cis-acting system.
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页码:155 / 158
页数:4
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